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preya2k··on MiniDisc Hacking
Page is completely unreadable for me, too. What a stupid idea.
preya2k··on Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
It is designed to be a server application, so it'd be very difficult to offer a desktop-like app experience, that's easier to install.
preya2k··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Only thing missing from Vaultwarden is SSO/Oauth. There’s a PR for it that’s been open for years. I’ve lost hope that it’ll ever land.
preya2k··on Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
This one: https://summit2023.matrixmeetup.de/conference/talk/AXGMEA/

Don’t think there’s a live stream. But there might be a recording afterwards.

preya2k··on Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Looking forward to your talk tomorrow in Berlin.
preya2k··on Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Once more, Kudos to Arathorn/Matthew (the head of Matrix/Element) taking the time to answer most Hacker News comments, as he mostly does for all Matrix-related HN threads.

It's really nice to see him answer in a calm and mostly objective tone while people are blaming him for shortcomings and problems of all the different Matrix-related software projects. Admitting to failures and problems that Matrix definitely has, while still defending the overall project and giving insight into the status of MSCs/projects is admirable.

Thank you Matthew. I wish you an endless amount of patience for the future.

preya2k··on OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud
Small correction: 7950X3D is Zen 4, not Zen 5
preya2k··on First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service
JPEG-XL is a fantastic format but it has a big marketing/naming problem. I think the the lack of popularity/adoption is in big parts due to the confusing name.
preya2k··on The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
Yes, I’m aware. Yet I’m not entirely sure of the consequences: Does that mean, that dMLS and “regular” MLS could potentially still be interoperable (given they use the same Application layer protocol)?
preya2k··on The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
Beware that even though Matrix is supporting MLS, currently it's incompatible with the completely decentralized character of Matrix. MLS in its current shape relies on a centralized component – which is not a part of the Matrix protocol.
preya2k··on Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
For me, I really enjoy how basic it is. I’ve never missed any of these things for my simple single-host scenarios.
preya2k··on A Quick Overview of Matrix
I'm beginning to doubt whether Matrix can actually succeed. It's a great idea, and there are great people involved, but there's just so many different problems/features that it's still lacking. And the progress is painstakingly slow. I really want them to succeed and I still try to get everyone on board and evangelize all my clients to join Matrix – but the truth is, I'm loosing hope.

Example: About a year ago, "Threads" went out of Beta and the feature is pretty much still unusable, because Notifications get stuck all the time. Even though there was a lot of progress to fix this – it's still not up to par with other Messengers.

preya2k··on Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action
I don't understand why this requires Vercel. This could just be hosted on GitHub pages instead.
preya2k··on Comparison site for digital analytics tools
Would be nice if this dataset was open sourced and the community could add more candidates.
preya2k··on Comparison site for digital analytics tools
Depending on the size of your site both GA or Matomo might be overkill. Both of them are huge systems. If you’re just running your private site both of them are mostly „too much“ and you’re never gonna use more than 20% of their features.

There’s much more lightweight solutions out there that also collect much less data.

One option which I couldn’t find on this site is „Umami“ - which is what I use now for most of my private sites and small clients.

preya2k··on The Framework Laptop 13
Two M.2 slots, two slots for 5G/WiFi and 4 RAM Slots? You're aware we're talking about a 13 inch device here, right? No way this fits into the 13 chassis.
preya2k··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
The native Sony software will only support 720p resolution. So gphoto2 still offers better resolution.

"Shooting over USB" is not a requirement to use this. The camera only needs to be able to output the preview stream via USB, which works with most cameras.

preya2k··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
You need to dial in the fps. It's a little bit of work to try different parameters and might not work for every camera. But with most cameras I was able to get the latency below 300ms which should work for most use cases.
preya2k··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Or save yourself the cost and latency of the HDMI grabber and use it via gphoto2/v4l2 if you don't mind a little command line action. https://girishjoshi.io/post/using-dslr-camera-as-webcam-on-l...
preya2k··on Show HN: Algora – Paid open-source contributions
I’ve been looking for something like this forever. Unfortunately all existing platforms are extremely shady and deal in Crypto/Blockchain. Please stay away from this and focus on what you’re doing now. I hope you’ll be successful with this project!
preya2k··on Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
Is there an OSS way to use vector tiles, without using Mapbox?
preya2k··on Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps
Please fix the website and disable the horrible horizontal scrolling on mobile devices due to the overflowing code sections.
preya2k··on Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
Thanks for the links! It is very interesting, but I', not sure how/if what kind of influence this has on Matrix. Just because they were born out of a shady company, doesn't invalidate the project. Heck, we're using software (Disassemblers) that are maintained by the NSA (Ghidra) these days. Since they are open source (just like Matrix and Element) we can still be pretty sure that they're not doing anything shady.
preya2k··on Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
Got a source for that third claim of yours?
preya2k··on Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?
There's a public demo deployment available here: https://ocis.owncloud.com/
preya2k··on Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?
It only does a fraction of what Nextcloud does: Files and (optionally) Cloud Office (via Collabora). These two functions work very well. Reliable, fast and at a fraction of the ressource usage compared to Nextcloud. I hope OCIS will open up to Plugins/Apps like Nextcloud, so we can get Groupware and other Apps on it as well.
preya2k··on Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?
I hope it will stay this way for you. Still, the project has a ton of open issues and bugs, which haven't been addressed in months or years. You will encounter them sooner or later, if you use it for longer periods of time.
preya2k··on Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?
Don't expect too much from Nextcloud – it will not be a 1:1 replacement for commercial services from Google, Microsoft, etc.

Prepare to spend much time debugging, configuring, reading tickets, etc. If you only want files and Cloud office, consider using alternatives like Seafile[1] or the new OwnCloud rewrite in Go called OCIS[2], which are MUCH more stable than Nextcloud.

[1]: https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ [2]: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis

preya2k··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2023
I think your title and your description may already show a little problem: You say you're lookin for a GA alternative, but what if GA was never the right tool for your use case, to begin with? Your use case description is pretty minimal:

> "I would like to see visitor numbers at times of day and probably a few more things in the future."

GA is a very complex tool, that often is complete overkill for small sites. So when you ask for GA alternatives, you will probably hear Matomo as a suggestion – but this also is in the same area of complexity as GA and would probably not be a good fit for your project (and it wouldn't solve your cookie problem without proper configuration).

So maybe a better question would be "What analytics tool should I use for project XYZ?"

If you want a minimal approach, take a look at Umami (https://umami.is/), which is about as minimal as it gets (when talking about frontend JS analytics tools).

preya2k··on Self-Hosting and HomeLab Walkthrough
Honest question (slightly unrelated): Why use k8s for this use case? In my naive understanding, k8s is useful when services need to dynamically scale up/down. But in a HomeLab there will probably never be more than one instance required, right?
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