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Using a phone is simpler if all you have on you is your phone, which was my use case when my bank hadn't offloaded their wallet app to gpay. That, and having the phone already in hand for customer/loyalty cards.

So yes, it's handy. Jot handy enough to use gpay for it, of course, but handy nonetheless.

Keep an eye on [Asahi Linux](https://asahilinux.org/), then. A cursory glance shows Me support not being complete yet, but I assume it will be in time (and the missing stuff may or may not be a show stopper for you).

"Swipe right" doesn't do anything for me (Fennec on Android).

I've been running it on my NAS-slash-homeserver for... 5 or 6 years now, I think. Root on a single SSD, data on a few HDDs in RAID1. It's been great so far. My desktops are all btrfs too, and the integration between OpenSUSE's package manager and btrfs snapshots has been useful more than once.

Not sure about "all", but apart from that article being more pissy than strictly necessary, RAID1 can now, in fact survive losing ore than one disk. That is, provided you use RAID1C3 or C4 (which keeps 3 or 4 copies, rather than the default 2). Also, not really sure how RAID1 not surviving >1 disk failure is a slight against btrfs, I think most filesystems would have issues there...

As for the rest of the article — the tone rubs me the wrong way, and somehow considering a FS shit because you couldn't be bothered to use the correct commands (the scrub vs balance ranty bit) doesn't instill confidence in me that the article is written in good faith.

I believe the writer's biggest hangup/footgunnage with btrfs is still there: it's not zfs. Ymmv.

This used to be my go-to Flexbox reference, but Josh' guide supplanted it.

For a static site, you could use a stand-alone server like webmentiond[1]. Seems like that'd integrate similarly to what you're running now, but under your own control. There's also webmention.io[2] if you really don't want to self-host.

As for spam, the flow involves the receiver checking the sender to see if there's actually a link, before the mention is accepted. I think that is more effort than the average spammer is going to put in, although it's not 100%. Then again, neither are comments on somebody else's site.

[1]: https://webmentiond.org/ [2]: https://webmention.io/

The entire problem would be solved, mostly, if more sites would support and use webmentions by default. That way we don't need centralized hubs, we don't need to have a gazillion sites polling HN/Reddit/etc either. Just a simple ping from A to B, indicating a link.

Or am I missing something obvious here?

To be fair, a DE does quote a bit more than just "showing wallpaper and few windows". If that's your only use, switch to something like Window Maker or maybe something even more sparse.

If it works for you, why would you be doing it wrong?

How is this different from just using different DNS settings on your OS?

Nice writeup, and at the core not too different from what I'm doing myself (albeit with the server at home, not colo'd, and the specs are far more modest).

The only thing I'd change in your workflow, perhaps, is switching from docker CLI commands to docker-compose. That'd make things a lot more reproducible and easy to read, and if you group relevant containers into a compose file, they're also automagically networked together, which is handy.

Your "trick" of grouping TCP ports by the hundreds is something I might steal, I've been using $lastport+1 for a while and now there's a bit of guesswork involved whenever I need to do things that don't go through the proxy. Then again, that's not often, so I might leave it.

Or, if that is not sufficient, one of the increasing number of ethical and/or self-hosted services, like Plausible? There is no need whatsoever to ship this kind of data to an outside party.

In this case it's certainly going to cost them some revenue, not to mention the EU might slap them with a nice GDPR fine for leaking PII.

Being open and making clear that you understood you goofed would be total opposite of the Streisand effect - where you'd try to _silence_ discourse with the unintended effect of amplifying it.

Right now, the issue is being downplayed, much to the chagrin of an increasingly knowledgeable set of computer users.

I believe Discourse was planning things but decided to scrap them. The person behind PixelFed (a federated Instagram-like platform) hinted at a [forum platform](https://mastodon.social/@dansup/105425592966902917), but I have no idea if there's any progress on that.

And of course, there's [Lemmy](https://lemmy.ml/), which is kinda like Reddit, but federated.

To be fair, AdGuard Home is an open source project under GPL, so there's that.

To be fair, it is possible to download the drivers without the experience bullshit.

On the company's copier, of course. You don't want to have to pay for something like that yourself, like some pleb, do you?

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if it actually _was_ a ton.

This is not so much a ux problem as an "marketeers gonna marketeer" problem. It happened before with blog comments, it happens now with "social" media, it'll happen with whatever comes next. If it's remotely exploitable for personal gain, there's going to be people exploiting it.

> I really don't understand those artists and writers you mention. Why on earth would they not use their own platform to present their content?

Ease of use. Plenty of folks don't have the skills to set things up and keep them humming along, nor do they have the funds to play someone else to do it for them. So they hand over a bit of control in exchange for a platform that's set up and kept up to date.

You may argue that they're giving up too much control, and I'd agree with you, but that's not how most (non-technical) users see things.

After peeking at that BP My Home Plugin - wouldn't your use case also be covered by Nextcloud with a sprinkling of apps? There's a very capable RSS reader available, notes apps, calendar with CalDAV support, address book with CarDAV support, and so on. Depending on what you're actually trying to set up, that might work better than trying to shoehorn functionality into a blogging platform.

But then by RSS, which makes it a web thing, which sure sounds like a blog.

Which, to the general public, doesn't matter one iota.

Luckily, there's other platforms that, apart from giving you more options wrt your database backend, embrace newer PHP practices and versions a whole lot quicker.

I wonder how much of a difference that would make - after the gdpr is effective, if I ask them to, they'll have to delete their data on me, regardless of whether I have or had an active account in the then-past.

> No other security agents in the world require you to take off your shoes, or do anything more than a standard leg pat down

False. At least when flying from Schiphol (Amsterdam) you'll be taking off your shoes and you'll go through an X-ray. Not sure about other airports but it wouldn't surprise me if this was a European thing instead of just a Dutch thing - I can't recall if they required it in Spain as well.

As for Alfred replacement... How about [Albert](https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert)?

Could it be that this semi just isn't meant for those in-city hauls, but more for the longer-range highway hauls?

The latter.