jonathan

@jonathan@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog options.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t actually care about Wordpress, my point was Joomla is a bad recommendation in this context (a WordPress refugee looking for different blog software). Joomla (and Drupal) is a bad recommendation when there are better and more focused tools available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

  Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog options.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wordpress.org homepage uses the word “blog” (along with “publishing platform”), it does not use the term CMS. Joomla.org uses CMS and has zero mentions of “blog”.

  Wordpress.com is even more stark, mentioning the word “blog” 33 times. Joomla.com again, zero mentions of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog options.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Joomla is a CMS, I wouldn’t recommend it in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the vitriol against Ubisoft (I’m not commenting on how justified it is), obviously they need to do something to counter it. The anti-woke crowd are an incredibly noisy minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t do it, but if I did, I would consider apologetically offering the machine translation inline with my post. Why put the burden on them to do it if you want it to be read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting SSH Authentication Mechanism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Orgs commonly need idp, fuck managing ssh key auth for hundreds of engineers.

  This isn’t aimed at individuals or self-hosters, though you can if you find it interesting enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pi-hole and pi-vpn with own domain name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stick with it for now, just be aware they need to make money at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pi-hole and pi-vpn with own domain name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hesitant to promote vc-funded software, but Tailscale would probably the simplest setup for VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosted podcast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Irish person who swears a lot here (to the point of being reprimanded by US-based HR at work), you’re taking a massive risk saying “cunt” in a professional setting. Getting fired rather than reprimanded seems pretty harsh though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck me, tell me someone else has risen to effective project lead since then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see anything about a backdoor at the link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic's Claude Code tool had a bug that 'bricked' some systems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can just do a reinstall to fix something then it’s not ‘bricked’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally started off by doing that lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a lot of text for saying “unless you can predict all the specific ways a bad thing could happen, I think putting all your eggs in one basket is fine.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said I don’t trust them to not fuck up, not that it’s something that should ordinarily be expected. Additionally, especially considering how the rule of law in their jurisdiction is going recently I wouldn’t assume it will always be this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your registrar (the place you buy your domains) are where you update your nameservers. If Cloudflare have locked you out then you won’t be able to change them. Other standard registrars will have far less cause, legitimate or not, to lock or disable your account, since they don’t host/proxy your content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t buy domains from Cloudflare from a risk mitigation perspective. At work I direct six figures of budget their way annually, but as a free-tier customer in my personal life I don’t trust them not to fuck up at some point and lock my account. If I register my domain elsewhere I can bring myself back online by moving the nameservers. If it’s registered at Cloudflare I’m fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The CEO is problematic and right wing, for examples see the most recent paragraphs in his career section on Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon spent 20 years being unprofitable on purpose. You think they don’t have long term strategies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the old bait and switch, they had to have this feature to build initial trust in ebooks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Days Gone Remastered announced coming to PC as a $10 DLC in April⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they do it like they did with Horizon Zero Dawn so we end up with both editions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Oracle Cloud exec Don Johnson takes over as Docker's new CEO | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many have moved to or added the GitHub registry. It’s still a corporate controlled registry, but Microsoft are far more likely (and able) to eat the cost for developer goodwill.

  I’ve got a registry running on my homelab that I haven’t quite moved fully over to yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed's first plateau in progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a PHP fan but it scales better than Python or Ruby (Mastodon) does. I think Dan is a cowboy of an engineer, but blaming performance on his stack choice is a bad take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important News - Geoblocking of the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to avoid potential issues because this is a common misconception, Ireland is not in the UK. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The timing of this makes me think the new US admin cut the UK off from previous access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get lemmy to not crop images?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just curious because I’m thinking about self-hosting, if you self-host an instance why are you not posting from your account there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still in the middle of a K8s migration. It’s overkill for a home user, but I want the upskilling.

  I’ve got a QNAP NAS with self-managed linux for storage, and a MS-01 with an RTX A2000 for compute. They’re connected over 10Gb SFP+. I’m more than half way done, especially considering I mostly know what I’m doing now.

  I still need to figure out the idiomatically right way to schedule pods with their storage, but I got GPU workloads going recently. Next up is migrate the last of the docker-compose from the storage node.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Valve Is Bringing Steam Branding To Everything: PC Hardware, Games, Netcafes, And More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The timing of this tells me we should expect some hardware partnership announcements at CES in January.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Devs Reveal The Game Is Releasing Earlier Than Expected⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  February 4th.