amolith

amolith, 14 days ago to random

#Playne desktop is very nice, but rather inconvenient. I might back the new Kickstarter and see how it is on mobile :bunthink:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krishs/playne

amolith, 21 days ago to random

The Kickstarter for Run Your Own Mail Server, by @mwl, was fully funded within an hour of launch and is almost at 900% :meowOpenMouth:

Run Your Own Mail Server is "a book for the hard-core Unix sysadmin, by a fellow hard-core sysadmin with decades of experience running small mail servers."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server/

From the description:

Running your own mail server is not only an act of defiance against some of the largest exploitative companies in history. It is not a mere education in protocols. Email is essential to modern industrial society. By running your own email, you seize control of your communications. You can tune your email to fit your needs, rather than accepting the defaults imposed by a company that exploits you without a speck of consideration for any of your issues. You own it. Running your own email requires only freely available tools, a server, and some knowledge. This book will give you that knowledge.

jschauma, 4 months ago to sysadmin

Hey Fediverse! The Spring semester is about to start, and I'll be teaching System Administration again:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/

Topics covered include: basic operating system & filesystem concepts, software installation & package management, config management, automation, tools development, TCP/IP networking, common services, system security.

All lectures are online as free videos; if you'd like to follow along, here's the playlist for Week 1:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDadzdouM0VCV7tjurqM8FHY6APK9wvJl

#SysAdmin #SRE #DevOps

popey, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

[Poll] I'm thinking of doing a live stream or two next week while I work on personal projects, fix some software, and write some documents. 📺

Where would you watch it if you like that kind of thing (actively or passively)? 🤔

Thoughts and votes are welcome. 🙏

amolith, 2 months ago to ShareYourMusic

This might end up being a bad idea :akko_woozy:
https://sr.ht/~amolith/willow/#collaboration

#Willow

amolith, 2 months ago to random

@snikket_im has officially launched their XMPP hosting platform :flan_cheer: This one subscription gets you a personal XMPP server for yourself, your family, and some friends! :flan_smile:
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-hosting-launched/

"…it became increasingly clear that, as easy as we make self-hosting, it’s always going to require skills or time that people don’t have. If we want everyone to be a part of this network, we can’t expect them all to learn Linux, SSH and system administration!"

#XMPP #Snikket

amolith, 2 months ago to random

Dev-focused tools that solve generic problems exclusively working with either GitHub or GitLab repos is really saddening. The software development world does not revolve exclusively around these two platforms. It is entirely possible to build most of these awesome tools in platform-agnostic ways. The creators choose not to because it's easier and they don't care about those platforms, even though they end up excluding large swathes of the software development ecosystem.

amolith, 3 months ago to random

Using a chopstick to hold my hair up was much easier than expected :blobcatcomfaww:

My first attempt yesterday held for an hour while walking around the house until I took it out. Third try today held from 13:00 until I took it out at 16:30. I was even getting in and out of my truck repeatedly and the chopstick, sticking out above my head, caught against the top of the truck door a couple times. Everything stayed in place though :neofox_comfy:

Buying like 5 sticks meant for holding your hair up seems much more worthwhile than buying, losing, and rebuying hairbands every year or so, especially when the chopstick/bun was much more comfortable than a ponytail :bunthink:

amolith, 3 months ago to accessibility

What's the easiest way to get up and running with a screen reader? :bunthink:

I want to try putting on a blindfold and using #Willow exclusively through a screen reader to test its accessibility

#accessibility #a11y #askfedi

amolith, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone have any UX design articles/books/courses they could recommend? I'm working on an open source project ( #willow), and second to functionality, I want to ensure it has a really pleasant and intuitive UX story :bunthink:

Boosts appreciated 🔁

popey, 4 months ago to random

I am in a pub which has existed for quite some time, yet unfathomably, doesn’t exist on open street map. Is there a quick and dirty way I can add it to the database? I don’t want to have to survey the land and measure the thickness of walls and such. I just wanna say “hey, there’s a pub here, not empty space!”

amolith, 4 months ago to random

Some pictures and videos I took two weeks ago at the January 13th National March on Washington for Palestine. This was my first time participating in a protest and I was kind of worried it would get ugly, but it was thankfully very peaceful.

For those on platforms that might truncate the list of media, there are six images and three videos in total. If you don't see that many, open the post on my instance to view them.

The second-to-last image shows large white creatures hoisted above the crowd. They had papier-mâché heads held up with sticks and sheets to serve as wings, also held up with sticks. As we were dispersing that evening, I caught up to one of that group and asked what they were. The person said they were supposed to be doves, but their execution was somewhat lacking :neofox_3c:

#FreePalestine

amolith, 4 months ago to random

Well this is interesting. Copied from the Habitica wiki:
https://habitica.fandom.com/wiki/To_Do%27s#Spelling_of_To_Do's

In Habitica, the plural of "To Do" is "To Do's" - with an apostrophe even though apostrophes are generally not used for plurals. This is a relatively recent change; before mid-June 2020, the official spelling was "To-Do" and "To-Dos".

The change to "To Do's" was to improve accessibility for visually impaired people. Screen reader software does not correctly pronounce "To Dos" or "To-Dos", making it sound more like "to does" or "to-DOS" with a short "o" (as in "MS-DOS"). This caused confusion for people using screen readers. Changing the plural to "To Do's" caused screen readers to pronounce it correctly.

Technically, from a grammatical perspective, using an apostrophe for a plural isn't "correct" but there is some variation to that rule for cases in which plurals are unrecognizable without an apostrophe. Examples of this can be found in internet resources such as Unusual plurals. Regardless of any potential grammatical arguments against this practice, accessibility is important and using "To Do's" makes Habitica more pleasant for people who use screen readers.

amolith, 5 months ago to random

A friend of mine is working on the Watt-Wise Game Jam, a challenge to build low-energy games.
https://wattwise.games

"Build delightful games that use as little energy per second as possible in order to make games and computing more sustainable, and to discover new directions for software aesthetics."

There's both an IRC channel and a bridged Discord server
ircs://irc.libera.chat/#wattwise.games
https://discord.gg/g2ZzxDs5

#WattWise #GameJam #WattWiseGameJam

amolith, 5 months ago to random

I can use the @bitwarden to sign into the @bitwarden :blobfoxcomfycomputer:

amolith, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

> Enjoy thousands of shows ad-free … some shows may have ads

So … let me get this straight … I would be paying to not hear ads … and I would still hear ads … ? :neofox_what:

amolith, 5 months ago to random

I implemented a custom database schema migration system in #Willow the other day, so another iteration of the desktop frontend might come next :aichanpeek:
https://git.sr.ht/~amolith/willow/commit/0675278fe25fc72234f82d5309f2fd718af8a551

I wanted to make sure I did this part right, so I hired a very good and extremely experienced friend of mine to teach me about migrations. He used a project he's currently developing in private as an example and gave me permission to use it in my source code (properly attributed to him ofc). If you need any help with projects in at least Go, maybe reach out to him for a consultation :neofox:
https://github.com/whereswaldon/

amolith, 5 months ago to random

I implemented migrations in #Willow the other day, so another iteration of the desktop frontend might come next :aichanpeek:
https://git.sr.ht/~amolith/willow/commit/0675278fe25fc72234f82d5309f2fd718af8a551

steph, 5 months ago to random

Beep boop

amolith, 5 months ago to random

Google should do more stuff like Project Sunroof tbh. I think it's a genuinely good use of the fuck-ton of data they have about the world
https://sunroof.withgoogle.com

It just sucks that solar is still so expensive :akko_sad:

amolith, 5 months ago to random

#Willow will always be free software, but it's hard to anticipate the future. I may want to switch to a different Free (FSF-approved) and Open Source (OSI-approved) licence in the future. To allow this relicensing within those FOSS limits and without requiring me to contact every historical contributor for their consent at the time of re-license, I'm going to ask contributors to sign a Fiduciary Licence Agreement, or an FLA. It's sort of like giving me advance consent to license your work under a different free and open source licence should that become necessary in the future.

https://sr.ht/~amolith/willow/#paperwork

The FLA was originally created by the FSFE. KDE has required its contributors to sign their FLA since 2008; theirs transfers contributor copyrights to the FSFE, so at any time, the FSFE can work with KDE to relicense any contribution to something more appropriate, but still within those FOSS limits.