upliftedduck

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upliftedduck,

You could try code-server? I use it daily to edit my markdown files.

github.com/coder/code-server

How to access external NextCloud datafolder

So, i have a NextCloud instance running, with the data directory binded to a folder on my storage. Now, when ik want to list or edit the contents of this folder directly from Nautilus or the terminal, I get a permission denied message. Obviously i do not have sufficent rights. How do i give myself permissions to at least view...

upliftedduck,

That may well be a better idea, thanks. But one of the things i would like to do, besides view the contents of the folder, is rsync the directory to another storage, which brings up the permissions issue again

upliftedduck,

Thanks for the explanation. Would that break nextcloud if i changed the owner of the folder?

upliftedduck,

I hadn’t thought of the database issue, thanks! I am afraid though that changing the ownership of the folder might break things though? Love the --reference option by the way

upliftedduck,

Thanks, I went with the suggested webdav route, this is fine for now.

upliftedduck,

This is indeed what i settled for now, thanks

upliftedduck,

I went with the suggested mount as webdav, and this works out fine for me, thanks

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.

These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.

Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.

Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.

Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.

(EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)

By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.

Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.

And for a time, it worked.

But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.

And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.

My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?

Do we really want to search every single website on the web?

Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?

Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?

At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?

And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?

@degoogle

upliftedduck,

I remember a time when you could be a paper magazine every other week with curated lists of link on various topics. There were ads, but just paper ads :)

upliftedduck,

Thanx, i will check out yt-dlp

upliftedduck,

great, looks promising, i’ll keep an eye on it as well! Problem for me seems to be invidious not creating a valid rss feed for playlists. I managed to setup yt-dl to watch a youtube playlist (these are valid), but not for invidious.

my plan was: add video to invidious playlist > trigger ytdl to download video from the watched playlist > sync video to phone > add directory to antennapod.

upliftedduck,

I use Markor on android, plus a self-hosted instance of codeserver for editing online. Synced via syncthing. Sometimes i use Obsidian with the same synced folder.

upliftedduck,

Moe Memos is a pretty nice self-hosted solution as well. memos.moe

upliftedduck,

I'm using a pixel 6a with GrapheneOs

upliftedduck,

Not using the esim, but i am interested to know as well

Self hosted web based note application

Is there a self hosted web based note app similar to Obsidian or Joplin? I've tried Trilium and its ether above my pay grade in terms of knowledge, or I've set it up wrong. I'm mostly looking for something that has support for folders or a tree structure, markdown or simple text based and all accessible buy web browser....

upliftedduck,

I use code-server as well. For the mobile part i use syncthing to sync all the files to my mobile, then edit locally with Markor markdown android app.

What do you mean by version control, is this something you manage with code-server, or do you have a git repo running?

upliftedduck,

That's interesting, it never crossed my mind that I could run git on my phone. But I think I want to look for a way to auto commit every day on my code-server instance, not sure if that's possible at all. Drafting app looks nice, I'll have a try

upliftedduck,

Ik blijf zo veel mogelijk op lemmy, maar het zal nog wel een tijdje duren voordat ik alles wat ik voorheen op reddit vond ook hier vindt...

upliftedduck,

I use PiGallery 2. Very lightweight and doesn't mess with my existing folderstructure. I use syncthing to upload photos from my phone to a folder on my server.

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