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davidpaulyoungon Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform

You can have hosted Nextcloud on Hetzner, with Headscale, email server, Vaultwarden, and Wordpress on European infrastructure (Hetzner) individually installed just for you from Federated Computer today for $19/month unlimited user accounts. I use it every day. Human support, too...!

davidpaulyoungon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Why not just self-host Gitea? CI/CD, runners, all included. Freedom. Don't have the time do keep it going and safe? No worries, folks like https://federated.computer do that.

davidpaulyoungon SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding

Use only open-source SaaS with the option to self-host.

davidpaulyoungon Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

Use an open source system. You can choose to back up to a self-hosted version, too. https://federated.computer.

davidpaulyoungon Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

People who trust Zoom, also trust Facebook. Jitsi runs highly optimized on a number of great platforms such as https://federated.computer.

davidpaulyoungon Not Using Zoom

https://federated.computer...includes Jitsi and Matrix...per domain...

davidpaulyoungon The advent of Linux distro in the cloud

There's a new type of company building a userland in the cloud for individuals, teams, businesses. Maybe this is how Linux on the desktop happens? With a cloud backend?

davidpaulyoungon The Federated App Problem

We're offering this at Federated Computer: https://federated.computer. Nextcloud, Jitsi, Matrix/Element, all domain level services, all private.

davidpaulyoungon Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere

Just like the old Joyent "Slingshot". https://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/03/23/slingshot

davidpaulyoungon Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

I don't think "euthanasia" is an ancient greek word. It is a modern neo-logism from the 17th century with the meaning of "easy death".

davidpaulyoungon Escape from Creek Fire

Correct.

davidpaulyoungon Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

Where are Solaris containers in the "history"?

davidpaulyoungon [dead]

Oh, simple. It's a cult. People like cults. Peace.

davidpaulyoungon Carthago delenda est

It was uttered because the practice Carthage of sacrificing children to Baal was horrific to Cato... (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/21/carthaginian...)

davidpaulyoungon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

"like FreeBSD". I was hoping Bryan would turn to unikernels. :)

davidpaulyoungon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

The truth is that Joyent bought TextDrive. At Joyent we were developing a big RoR app. TextDrive did great hosting. Jason and I decided to merge.

davidpaulyoungon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

It's true.

davidpaulyoungon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

That's correct. :)

davidpaulyoungon Joyent Public Cloud EOL

Good memories! https://davidpaulyoung.com/2016/06/17/a-brief-history-of-joy...

davidpaulyoungon When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

The same happens when listening to a singing performance. Citation not offered.

davidpaulyoungon Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible

Before ingesting Nietzsche, please first understand Plato.

davidpaulyoungon Controversial New Milk Shakes Up Big Dairy

Jersey, Guernsey cows produce milk that only has the A2 protein naturally. No screening required. http://www.honeymoonbrands.com/milk and https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/a1-milk-a2-m...