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on the other hand, there are some of us that really dislike Bazel. Try compiling something for ARM and then realising you can't find a build of the build tool for ARM... That was a special level of pain.

Tools commonly available in distros are typically much easier to use for outsiders.

I think the parent's point is still valid, though? It's unfortunate to assume that use of Linux implies big budget. Of course we know it has a lot of hobbyists too.

I don't think the GP is talking about what DaVinci is, but what the *plugin* does. I find myself in the same shoes as the GP here. Maybe I'm not the target market of course but I was just curious.

That's certainly not true of everyone. We don't all go to Costa and etc...

Except not knowing about btrees for MySQL will likely mean you don't understand how to write good indices.

Disagreed. As a newcomer to Grafana, some features were hidden because of privileges and I was super confused about how to do them. Being disabled with a tooltip saying 'Not available for your user. Contact your administrator.' would have massively helped me rather than going on a wild goose chase.

I noticed this just recently — DuckDuckGo failed me and then I fell back to google eventually and noticed that the footer showed the village we live in (tiny) which really shocked me/creeped me out. We're not even on a static IP anymore but a dynamic IP... Noteworthy is that Android by default has an option to 'enhance location accuracy' and it says it sends data back to Google. I consider myself fairly savvy about taming an Android phone but unfortunately this is not one I was aware of. I disabled that on my partner's phone, which is where I suspect the leak came from (they also use Google Maps occasionally; I suspected that probably feeds the information in as well).

Since avoiding using these things, IP location seems to be inaccurate as it should be again.

hCaptcha is awful at this. You can request an 'accessibility cookie' by typing in an email address but for me it denied me with a generic error.

I contacted support, they asked me for IP and browser details. I responded and they gave me suggestions like using a VPN or rebooting the modem to pick up a new dynamic IP. :/

Thank you! The SRCF is incredibly useful. Long may it continue.

With apps like OsmAnd and Organic Maps, I can download the map for the entire country and navigate off it. Highly recommended — both on F-Droid.

I am a big fan, but I also find this situation and the response to be a bit disappointing.

I highly respect Martijn and the effort he has poured into pmOS and Pine64 and surrounding projects. Without wanting to make other important people feel left out, I consider him an absolute legend and the fact that he has felt compelled to write this blog post (and, unfortunately, to leave) is massively concerning.

I think it's very possible that there has been no malice here and it's all just an accident of one thing leading to another, but something has gone awry here and I think it would be nice to hear what Pine intend to do to put it right, or to know that there is such a plan at all.

> As for the reason why Pinebook Pro doesn’t ship with a bootloader on SPI – it isn’t caused by favoritism for a particular group of developers or disregard for good ideas, but rather something more trivial. Namerly, a functional Tow-Boot build for the Pinebook Pro wasn’t available at the time of manufacture and shipping.

One particular point I want to make: I'm willing to believe Pine about the above, but it's too late to hear about this after crucial people have been miffed. This seems to indicate that communication with the various projects has not been good. This seems like a crucial thing to improve on to prevent this recurring.

I don't have enough knowledge of the situation and am incapable of making any judgements as to what is really going on, but I sincerely hope that Pine will consider this situation carefully and whether something can be done to put things right again.

I really wish to see Pine and their hardware do well and flourish. That was never going to be easy, but it will be even less easy with the loss of people like Martijn.

NetGuard is on-device, can't get much more 'self-hosted' than that. Can PiHole filter per-app though? I wouldn't have thought so. NG can and it's the main reason I use it.

That's because when Gitea was early in development, it would have been not usable enough to develop itself (the Gitea people have a post somewhere explaining about it; how too-early dogfooding can actually make things worse as you try to implement 'urgent' features in a rushed manner rather than taking the time to do it right).

Sibling has already provided the tracking issue for getting off it; as far as I remember it's close now :-)

Unfortunately it's not fully-fledged enough to work properly with all CI configs. I had trouble with some conditions but also I note that it doesn't seem to implement reusable workflows yet. It's also a bit fiddly to set up so you don't run into API rate limits.

I think that people who are interested in having resilience should write their GHA CI config for act and then be happily surprised when it works on GitHub too. Or write them as something more portable (Earthfiles are interesting, but a bit clunky when I tried) that can also be executed locally — having the GitHub-specific stuff just be a very light wrapper to 'call into' the portable scripts.

I got bitten by this. It's one of the worst things to leave a taste in my mouth for a while :/. They could have at least put out a patch release of the install CD but afaik it was still shipping with the broken version months later (which was a pity when I needed a live CD that was... safe to use... on my filesystem).

Both search and chat export features exist for rooms in Element and have done so for a while.

Not to say it's flawless to retrieve information (and personally I would like to see an archival-type client / tempted to make one), but it would be wrong to say it doesn't exist! :)

There's Syncthing for Android if you look in F-Droid, at least. Plus a fork with some Android specific tweaks

This is not (always) true.

Maddy comes with a lot of the 'good stuff' like DKIM and DMARC ready to be used, whereas setting that up yourself with Postfix was a pain (from my experience a few years ago) and probably meant you didn't bother.

I've had better deliverability, especially to Gmail and Microsoft, since using Maddy, probably for this reason.

Now, of course, I must admit that self-hosted e-mail seems like it will always inevitably run into a blocklist problem, usually because of IP neighbours. But personally, I've managed to avoid that in the last year that I've been running Maddy -- main exception is I had to fill in Microsoft's silly form to get unblocked at the start (but I've had to do this for every deployment I've ever done).

Historically, you didn't need an account to use Repl.it. It used to be one of the best sites to go to for this kind of thing.

After they added the account requirement and seeing this blog post, I think I'll have to change my opinion about them.

I have to admit I'm not up to speed on the current events, but this article is something that no company or organisation should be proud to have hosted on their website.

It just seems so cocky and immature. I don't think it's a good look for Freenode. Normally I would have thought Freenode is a respectable organisation, this article gives me a very different feel.

UnifiedPush is something that's looking to address this.

Thank you! A lot of people seem totally incapable of grasping the fact that it's more of a tax rather than a loan. I'm glad it's not just me who has remarked this — I've been very unsuccessful in explaining it to people who shudder at it and treat it as any other loan...

Moore's law has stopped, and not every developer's workstation is 'fast'.

If you pop in to #voip-tester:librepush.net I may be able to lend an ear at least.

You won't be the first (nor the last, though if I can have the chance to improve that at some point I would love to) person to have struggled with it.

You definitely can make it work with Let's Encrypt, that shouldn't disturb anything.

Setting up STUN and TURN is a real pain, though, if you run into any issues.

It's like they're speaking a completely different language..

I just yesterday set up fetchmail[1] to fetch e-mail from yahoo over POP and deposit them in a self-hosted mailbox (for my partner's longstanding Yahoo e-mail address). It may be worth a look; it can fetch from IMAP or POP and spit them out to LMTP or SMTP. (N.B. it didn't work with IMAP on Yahoo for me, but using POP was no problem).

edit: Perhaps my /etc/fetchmailrc file can be a useful starting point for someone[2].

[1]: https://www.fetchmail.info/

[2]: https://hastebin.com/raw/ororunutev

This is interesting and unexpected news.