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This seems like an ideal thing to integrate with Apprise https://github.com/caronc/apprise

https://0ver.org/ will need an update!

Completely fair and accurate, but I think I didn't make my intention clear in my original post. I don't think the binding force of security is ever really militarily based. I don't think the only reason Irish airspace isn't inundated with threats is because of an agreement with the UK. I think internationally the overwhelming binding force of security is mutual agreement be it through trade arrangements, potential economic disruptions of being ostracized by the international community, etc etc.

This always seems like such an important caveat that is rarely included in these lines of thought - Assuming they're worried about being invaded.

Thankfully, most countries are not in a position where they're even slightly concerned about a physical invasion. We have almost universally decided that invasion/conquest is a morally bad thing to engage in, so to my mind the continued effort to expand military forces implies an intention to break this agreed upon moral standing or at the least a lack of commitment to the stance.

There are allegedly 20 aircraft in the Irish Air Corps [1] and I sure hope we're in advanced enough stage of society that we're not solely reliant on those to protect ourselves!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Air_Corps

I've recently been focusing on self hosting what I can, and while looking for a simple straightforward, federated blogging platform I came across this and Plume as options. After a lot of effort trying to install Plume, I tried Writefreely and had just as many issues. I persevered and made a PR or two to try minorly improve the self hosting setup with my limited skills but it was a heavy amount of work compared to many other self hosted platforms.

I never managed to get federation working (which I presume is down to a misconfiguration on my part), images not being hostable seems like a bizarre feature to leave out as they are present on almost all blogs, and most recently I really dislike the thought process behind the micropayments from their blog about six months ago [0]. I would also echo what x4e said in their comment [1].

I stand corrected on any of these issues as I am very inexperienced with self hosting and it was about a year ago and projects do change, but from my experience, Writefreely wasn't what it said on the tin.

[0]: https://write.as/blog/monetize-your-writing-with-micropaymen...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801870

This is something I've been trying to work on recently. My current work is very piecemeal and after spending months trying to simplify processes and make generic tools/systems, I realized that using one current tool that will do 80% of the job now as opposed to spending two weeks to make a bespoke tool that may never be used again (at least without modification) is a far better option.

I think that accepting that some things are going to be bespoke or if not they will have limitations and just moving on with them is a key skill to develop.

Agree wholeheartedly with the concept of this but the content is dangerously close to the style of discussion the author doesn't like about tech!

The concept is great. One major thing stopping me from trying this out though is ease of putting something I see to within the CMS (which I am feeling like conceptualizing as?). A browser extension would go a long way towards helping this.

A separate point since I see you're interested in YC and similar startup culture, I know this was made as a deep dive, pretty detailed explanation of using Trove, but some small details can be skipped over because when you've got the benefit of both visual and auditory media, people can jump to answers far quicker than you can say them. e.g. explaining the concept of your top Troves. It's readily understandable without explanation (maybe even without a mention as people see it in the hotspot of the page as you scroll!) and at least personally, I prefer to see things and interpret them in videos as if I was scrolling through the page myself.

Love the concept and design of the site. Would be great to have a way to see what the experience would be like without having to sign up though. That's usually my first interaction with similar sites to decide if it's "worth" signing up for an account.