Holy shit, microplastics are defined as fragments smaller than 5mm??? I thought it’s way smaller, 5mm is big enough to see with your naked eye!

What’s a sane, dynamically typed language?

Not to rub it in, but in my forties could be read as almost the entirety of the modern web was developed during my adulthood.

This level of effort is probably geared more towards those who create the torrents, not those who consume them.

This is the approach I use, not sure if it’ll work for your use case but I can assure you it works for at least a few users. It’s all sort of manual set up but from your comments it sounds like you’re just doing this for friends and family and not on an enterprise level. I admire your efforts!

First off, I have a purelymail account on which I set up domains and accounts for each user. I have mine set up so user1@anydomain.com all goes to the user1 mailbox (and user2@anydomain.com goes to the user2 inbox regardless of domain, etc.) but you can set up some pretty complex routing if you want - and if you know a bit of sieve there’s even that. Purelymail handles the actual email sending/receiving so I’m putting a lot of trust in them, but it seems like they have a good track record and I don’t think I could do better on my own. Plus they’re dirt cheap. My big concern with email is always deliverability. Anyway, you’ll see this is all set up in such a way that I’m using purelymail now, but I’m not tied down to them.

Second, I use this image (linking to the repo and not the docker hub version so you can inspect the Docker file for opsec reasons. In my set up I build it from source because I have a couple modifications) which is a dovecot IMAP server + getmail. This is python getmail not go-getmail and not fetchmail. The repo itself has some pretty straightforward instructions but the way it works is basically that users inside the docker container each map to a mail directory. So each user’s credentials is actually a Linux username and password within the container. I have mine set up so it’s like user1, user2, etc. (which confused my users initially because automatic set up forms are never set up this way) but you could set it up however you need. Then, there’s a Cron set up to run getmail which you have to configure yourself within a cron.d folder that you mount on the container. For mine I have it configured to use POP3 so that when it gets stuff off purelymail it’s automatically deleted.

Finally, you just set up your mail clients to use this IMAP server and purelymail’s SMTP but if you know how to set up a forwarder you can always have it relay through purelymail. Purelymail even has the ability to relay emails to your SMTP server.

You could check out Frappe Drive (and Frappe, the framework it’s built on, it’s pretty awesome). They aren’t accepting contributions at the moment but I’m sure that’ll change once it’s out of beta like with the other frappe apps. There’s also Raven messenger also built on Frappe and you can use the two together (but without any real integration between the two yet, but that’s on the roadmap on the Raven side).

I’ve spent a lot of time researching alternatives and NextCloud is the only one that does everything it does in one place. I’ve dug into the code a lot to find places to make it work faster and came out confused and mostly empty. It’s also federated, and I think it’s the only FOSS file sharing platform that is. It’'s a very mature application so you’ll be hard pressed to find features that are missing, but also to find things that could be further optimized without ripping out major chunks of the application which are likely interconnected with other major chunks of the application. For my personal use NextCloud instance I’ve resorted to just completely deleting the database and installing everything fresh between major versions, then just rescanning my local folder.

Well if you’re not doing anything wrong why try to hide it at all?

/S

80 episodes an hour? That’s gotta be a typo, right?

Depends how you define malware. Technically speaking, EGS’s spyware behaviour is disclosed in long format legalese just vaguely enough that they can turn around and say “well, you did accept the terms of service”…

To some it comes easy. To others, the ways of the heart are an enigma.

I know someone with a fat one they use for smoothies and shakes.

Hot tip: isup.me also redirects to it

Current AI’s ability to augment coding is no joke. I had ChatGPT (not even the latest one) write me a prosody plugin in Lua for some Jitsi integrations I was working on. It got it almost right, but I had to go in and compare its work with other prosody plugins to see where it went wrong. But see, at that point the only thing I knew about prosody was how to install plugins for it. Now I have a good understanding of how it works and also how it works with Jitsi based mostly on ChatGPT’s code and explanations. This all happened over the course of maybe two hours whereas if I just did it by myself I’d probably be banging my head all day cause prosody’s docs are passable but its documentation with regards to Jitsi’s usage of it is non existent.

They definitely have a place in creative work. As an engine not a driver. For example, when writing songs I use them to help me try and rephrase things or find different words to convey what I want. I’ve also used them to give me ideas for variations to explore on game mechanics, or generate sample data with a loose set of parameters, or create some reference material for drawing. But every time I’ve used them they have pretty much never gotten it right the first time. Always there’s revisions, always there’s at least some massaging I have to do on my part to make it coherent. And why wouldn’t there be? If I could write a prompt so precise that it gave me something exact, I would need to already know precisely what I want and maybe wouldn’t even need the AI at all. For creative stuff at least, it has to make some garbage otherwise it’s not really creating enough variation to be useful.

Makes me ponder that old bit of wisdom. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

"owned" til someone upstream squeezes us harder / we do stupid shit that loses us customers and we go out of business

Isn't this basically what Overwatch was in it's heydey?

What’s the first IP and third?

Thanks, this is very helpful!

Well, my Ubuntu server is already running a whole bunch of things so I don’t want to take it down and rebuild it on a different OS.