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Creator here. Feel free to ask me anything.

yeah, I'm using https://f5bot.com/

DokuWiki lead dev here. I agree, it's an amusing read, even though I certainly do not agree with many of the mentioned issues ;-)

I saw the headline and thought HackerNews is now showing ads. But it's an editor called "ad".

Ah Americans... thinking everyone's walls are just plaster board on studs. I don't know what OP's situation is, but adding a cable to my walls would require machinery to cut a channel into the brickwork.

Yes. I also have a "random blog post" button which I like to hit from time to time. It's nice to see where I was years ago and what was going on in my life back then. (my blog spans more than 20 years by now)

pet peeve: your blog has no RSS feed

FYI the code has been updated to use sigwait instead.

You probably can. I never used OBS, but it's probably a bit more than a 20kb binary though ;-)

True. If something goes wrong this will just crash. But to be fair, the only error handling I could think of would probably just exit with a vague error message... Pull requests to make it more robust welcome anyway!

I'm not sure what you are referring to. What's the proprietary solution you're suggesting here?

I have a big 49" wide screen monitor and sharing my screen in Google Meet was cumbersome because you can only share a window or the whole screen, but not a screen region.

So I wrote a small tool that uses the xrandr extension to mirror an area to a virtual monitor which then can be shared.

See my blog post for some more details: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2024-10/11-introducing_clips...

I created a issue at https://github.com/splitbrain/blogrng/issues/3 but until its implemented maybe use something like https://fetchrss.com/json

First time I heard someone asking for that. But I do indeed have that for my own blog and love it: https://www.splitbrain.org/

And if you're into random blog post, be sure to check out my project https://indieblog.page/

This should have a bookmarklet... This seems to work: javascript:window.location.href='https://ful.co/'+window.location.href

I'm using it basically since Google Reader died. It's reliable and has everything I want. Its one of the few apps I am happily paying for. They often have Black Friday deals, if you want to save a little.

pet peeve: this blog seems not to have an RSS feed.

I wish you'd written the introduction in the readme yourself instead of letting a LLM do it for you. "utilizes", "significant challenge facing", "disrupts workflows" and then several repeats of the same information... all tell tale signs.

There are still awesome blogs by real people out there. Here is one way to discover them, one post at a time: https://indieblog.page

Ah the memories. I wrote my own net send receiver (eg. a winpopup without the sending capabilities) back in the days: https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/popupmessage

IIRC it was used briefly in the hospital I worked at as a way to send messages to specific workstations.

I wish there were pictures. I am having a hard time imagining what "apartment in a train station" actually means.

The first version of https://indieblog.page/ took about a weekend.

My pastebin with line commenting https://commie.io/ was also a weekend project.

Heck even the first version of DokuWiki was done on a weekend, but that one still isn't done...

Hmm, I can't find any information what content is actually distributed by the box. Is this just an "empty" server?

The article mentions them:

  Following completion of the sale transaction, YNV will retain a portfolio of international businesses and other non-Russian assets, including four early-stage technology businesses and other assets: 
  
  * Nebius AI, an AI cloud platform that is one of the largest providers of GPU capacity in Europe; 
  * Toloka AI, a data solutions partner for GenAI and Large Language Model development; 
  * Avride, one of the leading developers of self-driving technologies;
  * TripleTen, an EdTech service that equips people with in-demand tech skills;
  * our data center located in Finland; and 
  * minority investments in other technology businesses.

From what I understand, this means basically that they are selling search and associated services that are mostly popular in Russia to some Russian consortium. Bringing Yandex under complete Russian control, without influence from western shareholders.

Those western shareholders (YNV) get a bunch of money and the above AI related subsidaries located outside of Russia.

Wait. I'm confused. Google Groups was still interfacing with the Usenet? In a way that one could post to Usenet via Google Groups? I never knew that! I thought they were only hosting a read-only archive based on what they acquired with DejaNews. And I seem to recall a post about that having been discontinued... So this was somehow secretly all still alive? Damn.

It's not 100% clear if OP wanted two-communication, eg. display replies as comments. His title seems to imply one-way communication only. That is super simple to implement.

Simplest solution is to use something like https://mastofeed.org/ which automatically posts your RSS feed to Mastodon.

Of course you can also do it yourself. Posting to an existing mastodon account is just a single HTTP call with an API key: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#create

Not exactly the same, but the spirit is similar: https://indieblog.page/

Also https://indieblog.page/ to randomly jump to a post from any of the mentioned personal blogs from that post plus many many more. (close to 3500 personal blogs)

As a first time home owner I fully agree. I set up a wiki and document everything.

It's roughly organized by room. General Utilities have their own pages. Drawings, Photos, Invoices all get uploaded there. My wife writes down where which plants got planted in the garden and how they need to maintained.

My hope is that this not only helps us when trying to remember where we put those cables or when an inspection is due but will also make selling in the far future a bit easier. And of course future owners will hopefully thank us.

I love the pico version! Especially the rear view option is super useful! Now I wish to see the same for all the various ESP* dev boards out there.