8by3

Ha, fair. The home page is a global feed of all users, limited to one post per day per user.

One of many potential solutions to an alternative to todays social media – like substack, but without the shitty sides of social media.

Indeed,

Thats part of the premise, we don't need to invent new technologies when email/rss are already self curated / federated.

The missing piece is discovery.

Which is why in addition to allowing you to aggregate internal/external feeds into one place, each instance also shares each external feed its users have subscribed too, and each user can share who they read (like a blog roll).

Or just use https://tuhat.net,

>> 1K organic users in the last three months, ,with no marketing budget, and no VC funding.

- Chronological feed of local posts + external RSS feeds in one place

- Email newsletters / RSS

- Journaling feature

- Book log / reviews

- No Algorithms

- No like button

Opensource if you want to spin up your own instance.

AFAIK the netflix CDN boxes all run -current (they used to at least), so is the main pfsense release.

-current is definitely ok for production

They've actually just done that, your limit automatically gets increased if all your domains are secured.

Happy deSec user, use them for all my domains. Had quick thoughtful replies from Peter if I had any questions.

Really? I thought they mostly just bought other peoples companies, and a large number don't do anything at all - they inherit.

I refuse to give my data, to yet another company trying to control and centralize the internet. For their "Free" service.

Instead, I pay money to run a VM with DDOS protection on vultr, to guard my infrastructure I run on prem. Use Acme.sh / lets encrypt for certs. Use bunny.net for CDN which also has some basic protections.

I'd create a long form writing platform because short form, leads to banalities like these. We don't need another twitter, we need people to think about whats important in life, to go outside and live it.

I'd call it https://tuhat.net, and keep it clean.

I couldn't pass their age requirement check so...

Clicked this only because I thought it was about the superhuman skills, its not.

Any site that requires an account just to read users freely created public content should be boycotted.

They are cool, man they've grown. I used that when there were ~20 VM's on there. Its a great project but think its only physically in Amsterdam which is why I ended up moving back to vultr, as they have many more options.

I've always gone with Vultr (vultr.com) for BSD VMs, its properly supported by them and while I've never hard verified this, they seem like a nice smaller player. Like they have offered Open/Free BSD VM's for > 10 years, kind of nice.

Nice, I also have an office in my backyard. Although its a ~100 year old brick structure that was originally staff quarters. Had to put a new roof on it, run power, fibre and install AC. Now its my office / data centre (yes I put a rack in a room I sit in...)

https://tuhat.net/@sbr/p/big-tech-sucks

The rack warms it in the winter so I don't need any extra cooling, and I run the AC in the summer.

Looking for people and projects who are building alternatives to the big is better status quo. Bootstrapped, community driven, people sized. Both tech and non tech alike. Ideally put details in survey, otherwise respond here.

Seems electric cars produce the same or sometimes more non combustion particulates than ICE cars, eg. bits of road and tire that are flung into the air while driving.

So EVs are better than ICE for air quality, but fewer cars even better.

Might find .xyz domains are more likely to be marked as spam, and people may be unlikely to want to use one. Its short to write but long to say / not common.

I could be wrong but I think very few will be enticed by the domain alone or at all.

Personally if I was building an email platform, I wouldn't rely on a third party email API as its part of your core thing, I'd run my own email stack, would give you so much more control / flexibility and be cost effective.

I'm pretty happy with fastmail for my email and use mailpace for transaction stuff from apps, although I did run my own mail servers for about 10 years.

Depending on your ability to influence, I've done all of the following in my last roles (now working solo so don't have these problems)

- Pick a day to be 100% meeting free, agree with team / other teams to do same, block out your calendar - Lighter version of above, put focus blocks in your calendar. Try and setup some routine where you do creative stuff in the morning, comms in the afternoon or similar

- Work strict fixed hours, 8-5, no fiddling (eg. doing some 2 hour thing in the middle of the day). Having boundaries makes it easier to switch on / off and to say no to working longer.

- Turn off all notifications, setup personal / team SLAs to get back to dependent parties. Slack etc are supposed to be async, not, I will always stop everything to answer your question

- Have proper support / incident processes. eg. a support rota so that each week its one persons responsibility to monitor the team channel. This means for that week the rest of the team can focus

- The above also bleeds into having good wikis / team docs so people can self serve, instead of asking for help

I wrote an article touching on this a while ago, will dig it out and post. The idea is the solution to remote work fatigue is better communication.

Just posted the article I wrote here https://blog.8by3.com/p/stop-interrupting-me

A positive alternative to "no ai" badges

Would would want to chlorinate the resulting water, these filters are only going to remove large particulates.

Clay/sand water filters have been in use for a long time, some from the roman period are still in use.

While I don't love the article, its wording and the rather pompous "/notes$ cat working-with-ai.md" gimmick ... oh you know what cat does?

I agree with part of the thesis, a lot of the skill set (not the people management bit) of being a team lead is like working with LLM agents. Purely in a technical sense. Having a plan of overall direction, guiding agents that go off track, overseeing progress and maintaining the high level direction of whos doing what and whats upcoming. Also sometimes learning from a agent/team member and sometimes correcting really dumb ideas.

No, you don't need to rewrite the app in newest JS framework, just use postgres and be happy.

Whenever I see anything today that is a game that wants me to answer a question, my first thought is I am working for free to train a model.

I don't always know what or why but I am pretty sure that's what is happening.

I built https://kilta.io for this exact kind of problem, how do I find people near me with similar interests.

But its new and not venture backed so building the required network is slow.

Short of that try meetup.com, there are often indiehacker type events. I just don't like how meetup works, the cost, etc.

The really annoying ones are substack as it often wants you to sign in to access even free full text posts.

I had a similar idea on https://tuhat.net/

You can browse it on your ereader and any post can be downloaded as epub. Also for people who serialize books and put them in a collection, you can get the whole collection as a single epub.

I've been thinking about turning your /reading list into one as well but not got ten round to it.

Rands argument is that the following actions will also water mark their hand written text.

Synthesis Proofreading Translation Summarization Critique

It may just be a misreading but say you asked for a review of the text and it silently water marked it as its own. Guess source control to review changes is the solution.

Needed a new way to train models so people could figure out what they are eating? Got to love conning people into doing free labour by making it a game.

We don't have time anymore for A or B, we need to do both things now. End the fossil fuel industry and change our diets. If we don't radically decrease emissions by ~2030 we are ensuring +2C by ~2050. And +2C is going to be fugly.

We've already passed +1.5C, 2030 is in four years, less even.

https://tuhat.net/@sbr/p/change-for-the-climate

already posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268214