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ptman··on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
Maybe put the git repos on radicle?
ptman··on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
Room addresses/aliases (like #matrix:matrix.org) must point to a single room (in fact, they point to a room version, so when rooms are upgraded, addresses must be pointed towards the new room). But for communities, a better way to organize the rooms would be spaces. Spaces can be joined. Spaces can contain rooms and other spaces. Like discord "servers" (guilds), but more flexible.
ptman··on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
In my case matrix with bridges allows me to ignore many separate apps: whatsapp,telegram,slack,irc,...
ptman··on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
nothing, but people these days expect more from chat
ptman··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
It both still has problems and has been improving for all of its existence. It's been working for my usecases for years
ptman··on Pandas 3.0
3.0 is the perfect place to break compat
ptman··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
They have equipment in > 300 locations. How much per location? More than a rack cabinet?
ptman··on European Alternatives
OpenDesk isn't mentioned. That seems like one of the most complete alternatives to goole workspace
ptman··on Go 1.26 Interactive Tour
How would you dup := make([]int, 0, len(slice)) then?
ptman··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://paul.totterman.name
ptman··on Changes to Android Open Source Project
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
ptman··on Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification
- "quantum mechanics are so hard to reason about since I have no senses where that plays a part"

- "oh, so you have no sense of smell?"

ptman··on Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt
It's hard with nix to end up with a system without first having a config for that system
ptman··on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
Use matrix instead. Or zulip. Or xmpp. Or IRC
ptman··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
nftables is configured like that https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Simple_rul...
ptman··on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
That's the decision. Do you know the reasoning?
ptman··on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
https://lwn.net/Articles/1038358/
ptman··on Heroku Support for .NET 10
There are several https://gist.github.com/ptman/1b9e3a992e6c8aeecc86b5f1fd1c5f...
ptman··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
Before SNI every https site needed a dedicated IP address. As https got more popular SNI was introduced
ptman··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
There's also https://cryptpad.fr/ - https://cryptpad.org/ - https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
ptman··on Derek Sivers's database and web apps
Postgrest/supabase, prest or similar
ptman··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
https://gist.github.com/ptman/1b9e3a992e6c8aeecc86b5f1fd1c5f... is this a decent starting point?
ptman··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
Stalwart does have limits that postfix doesn't though. https://stalw.art/compare/
ptman··on Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control"
“The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens,” commented Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer.
ptman··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
Isn't Ryzen AI (Strix Point?) using similar non-upgradeable LPDDR?
ptman··on SystemD Service Hardening
It would be nice to be possible to do the hardening of services via allowlisting instead. E.g. AllowNothing=true and then start adding what is allowed to make the service function.
ptman··on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
There is a plan for hosting gitea on gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
ptman··on ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol
Isn't radicle quite similar? https://radicle.xyz/
ptman··on Go 1.25 Release Notes
Interactive tour of new features: https://antonz.org/go-1-25/
ptman··on Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels
80% of UK’s waste oil would only power 0.6% of its flights

Using synthetic e-fuel for all USA domestic flights would use 85% of USA’s electricity generated.

Powering UK flights on plant-based biofuels would use >50% of its agricultural land

2⃣ UK waste oil is already spoken for, used in soap, cosmetics etc.

But it’s far short of what would be needed anyway.

Instead we will import ‘waste’ from places like Malaysia, which also happens to be a major palm oil producer (worse than diesel for warming).

3⃣ Synthetic e-fuels use lots of electricity.

Using renewables doesn’t make it ok.

That’s because, until we fully decarbonise, it diverts renewables from reducing the burning of gas & oil, worsening climate change.

4⃣ UK Gov isn’t pushing crop-based bio-fuels, but other nations are, like Singapore.

These have high emissions, because they lead to forest destruction. They also threaten food shortages, with warming already hitting crop yields—and ecosystem collapse.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/sioldridge.bsky.social/post/3luwjfr...

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