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> I highly recommend using some of the automated tools, such as the ansible playbook[0] to help you out maintaining the server

You forgot to link the Ansible playbook you're talking about :)

You can find a few paintings scanned in high quality here: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/art-camera

Rembrandt's self-portrait is one of my favourites: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait/-gHQe8...

A few years ago I was on a tram reading one of these alphabet books on philosophy, made especially for the students like myself who didn't pay attention in class and needed to learn the main concepts and authors quickly before the test. A homeless person sat in front of me, and seeing me reading that book, suggested me a book by a French philosopher named Émile Bréhier [1]. The book in question was Histoire de la Philosophie, translated in English, and covers all the way from the Pre-Socratics to the modern philosophy at the time of the author (circa 1930 IIRC).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier

France will begin labeling electronics with repairability ratings in January

https://www.gsmarena.com/france_will_begin_labeling_electron...

I've been looking for that for the last couple of days and couldn't find much. Great resources linked as comments. I had found that one myself: https://github.com/mishig25/3d-posenet

Is only English supported at this stage? There is no mention about other languages in the FAQ or checkout page so I'd assume so.

What are the best practices/choices today when choosing your DNS servers when it comes to privacy?

Great work, the videos on the landing page are stunning! I'd love to give it a try with my own tracks if there was an option to log in without Google as others have also suggested. Is the name a tribute to Mr. Mescudi?

Amazing work! The creator is now followed by Mr. Doob on Twitter, the creator of Three.js. That's a great accolade!

I'm not too familiar with P2P technology but it seems that it's possible to set up vpn or onion routing between peers to avoid that.

Would the founder of vegan restaurant be considered a social entrepreneur? As by growing their business, more people will consume non meat-based food, and in fine help reduce climate change.

Defining the boundaries of social entrepreneurship would require a whole separate thread.

A quote from Terence McKenna, a renowned advocate for the responsible use of psychedelic plants:

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

The psychedelic experience can be much more intense to process and integrate afterward than the substances you mentioned.

Navigation does not work. What does it do with Google Sheets?

Thanks for making and sharing this, it looks very promising. I'm gonna try integrate it

Any good book recommendations on Shannon or the history of the information theory?

They're having a livestream today https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/event/register?id=265&res...

I do :) I'm not sure if this is a workaround or it got fixed already but I managed to avoid the crash by quickly tapping on another tab on startup

After a full year of only working with React, I started working on a few projects a couple of days ago with Vanilla JS only and it is refreshing. It feels like writing Haiku poems.

I have never heard of geekrings before, I love it! I can see that included in my morning web routine. Bookmarked!

Hey everyone!

I’d like to show you SOCCA, the first project I’m releasing. It is a text-only chat application, centered around philosophical discussions. It aspires to be a platform where people from all backgrounds and horizons can meet up for a few minutes to learn new things, share ideas and challenge their beliefs (although that latter part might be the most idealistic part of the pitch).

It is quite straightforward:

1. You either go with the Discussion of the Day, i.e. a pre-selected question to discuss, or choose among 50+ topics (an account is required for the latter)

2. You are matched with a random person with whom you can exchange around the question discussed, and share your experience

3. You can also vote for the questions that you’d like to discuss next. A new question is selected every few days, based on the votes received. All the questions and their description are also released under CC0 (in the public domain).

On the technical side:

- The front end is all made with React. I initially started the project without any JS framework in 2019, but in the meantime I started to learn React and decided to remake what I had thus far with it, to get practice.

- On the backend, it is a Node application hosted on a DO droplet. Socket.IO is used to provide the real-time discussions, although I’d like to refactor it at some point using ws, which is allegedly faster than Socket.IO. I’m using MongoDB to store the relevant information but I’m leveraging Redis as much as I can for the data that is constantly changing, and to get sticky sessions.

At the moment there is no “Connect with” / “Add as a Friend” feature. I understand that people might want to keep chatting with the person when they got a good match and enjoyed the discussion, but I wanted to try with the “randomised only” approach first. That being said, I wrote the backend with the “Connect with” feature in mind, so that can be quickly deployed if there’s any interest.

I’m looking forward to hearing what you think, and if you have any questions and suggestions, I’d be happy to answer.