

The US directly made China as economically powerful as it currently is.


The US directly made China as economically powerful as it currently is.


No, the logistic problem Google “solved” in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.
This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it’s beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won. It will be very difficult to unseat them.


Well, hobbyist projects are surely not the only pillar of the open source systems
Your hunch is correct, they are, because the differentiator between open source and walled garden projects is freedom, and freedom will spontaneously generate projects based on an unfulfilled need. A paid market by itself will not.
In my early days of programming (late 80s), I was copying code from books and magazines. Then came windows and mac, and these were far less friendly to devs, and became more and more so.
Most of these tools were born of need and want, not because any infrastructure existed to pay them. Look at the list of apps in frdroid; most are very obviously solving a problem unique to the dev.
And there is one more thing to account for: for all the apps and scripts you see in a public code repo, there are many times more than that living on someone’s HDD that will never see the public eye.
The point you’ve ignored in your article is that this is simply the split free market creates. We’ve had this issue since the invention of transmissible ideas.
Fair enough, thanks for taking the time.
With respect, help me out here…
I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting images, text, layouts, etc. My uses are mostly cleaning up metadata and unwanted elements so they render correctly in more environments. I use pdftk and imagemagick for this, generally.
Is bentopdf just a nice GUI for tools like these?
I’m struggling to understand what part of bentopdf is “self-hosted”.
Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…
Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.


Synching fork has been passed to a new maintainer for a couple months now. The new github is https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android.
If you were using the old catfriend1 version, update your fdroid version and the source will switch over.
This is all out in the open and is resolved, there have been several app updates since then.


My god…
The internet is truly just TV from the 60s and 70s again.
Now we have to wade through several decades of advocacy by health organizations to get these removed, etc.
Fucking humans. Capable of such beauty… And abhorrent baseness.


We would need to know your DNS query path and whether you are querying from inside or outside your private IP space. If you are querying against public servers, then that is completely public.
I registered mydomain.com as my primary router’s domain
Routers don’t typically deal with dns except to forward requests upstream or hand out server addresses as dhcp options. Can you elaborate what you mean by your “primary router’s domain”?
I had some friction with Jessie to stretch and a little again from bookworm to Trixie. Nothing I couldn’t solve, but there are still a few edge cases that aren’t handled.


All foods come from somewhere, this is unnecessary offence at nothing.


This is fine, but k8s is already a big ask for homelab and self hosting. And kamal requires a basic fluency in ruby, which is… not the most intuitive interpreter. I say this coming from years of managing chef.


When they bought Sun, they:


Calling it “disobedience” is a clear indication that following the big corporations is considered “normal”.
Stop thinking like that.
It’s YOUR INFORMATION. You can be harmed by its abuse and you already know this.
I do not “disobey” anyone by self-hosting. The information belongs to ME. I alone have rights to its access and control. If google doesn’t like it, they can fuck off.

A minimum of 4 disks can be used with raidz2, but I understand if you want the stripe efficiency.


Like others here, I use open street maps data, but I’ve found comaps to be the best frontend to it. I can approach the navigation functionality of google maps with it.


There aren’t really a preponderance of client applications that will work with my TV remote. I did kodi for years a decade ago and asking someone to pass the wireless keyboard is a pain in the ass.
The real issue is that my wife sometimes likes to watch her streaming services, so I can’t just tell her to use what is effectively a web browser for this.
At the moment, I heavily filter what the TV can access outside its subnet and that seems to be the best compromise.
I believe the joke is that Nintendo are aggressively litigious.


Not really. We have had access to ml for a while and google used ml to blur license plates in streetview for a long time now. It’s just pattern recognition with reinforcement.
Neural learning has been around since 2004-ish.
Amazing, thank you! I’ve had the same issue, otherwise I love CWA. Especially with Kobo integration.