I dream of a pure information protocol. Kinda like RSS, but… More.

• allow any piece of information (news article, DM, sensor reading,…) to be wrapped in a standard format
• subscribe to any number of source directly or indirectly (e.g. through a self-hosted relay server)
• allow networks to define default data sources (e.g. get sensor data from machines as soon as you are connected to corporate networks
• make the data declare what UI elements are required,
• but allow clients to display them however the fuck they want
• allow user to assign priorities statically or programmatically to any source, and to filter, sort, categorize based on it

Essentially: I want “the feed” from universes like The Expanse

It probably contained Linux

If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04

That’s still eugenics, just as side effect

I’m actually hosting it public-facing, because in theory, gaining access to the VM and the vault shoult be unproblematic - since the vault is only decrypted client-side

Agreed.

You can also selfhost bitwarden/vaultwarden for even better privacy.

Computer Science (at a rather “prestigious” university for CS, for that matter, at least as far as that’s a thing here). Not in the US though, and none of the three universities I’ve studied at had mandatory attendance, for anything (exception: seminars, where attending talks by your fellow students was mandatory). As a result, I’ve never seen any prof take attendance.

A lot of comments on this post say that attendance was called esp. for freshmen classes, but frankly, I don’t see how that would even have been possible here, with sometimes 500+ students in a lecture hall.

In regards to assignments, at least in my experience, studying the lecture material and consulting it while solving the exercises was usually the fastest way to understand them and get them done.

Hi, I have been to lectures fewer than 10 times throughout my entire master’s. No AI, no textbooks, just lecture slides and doing the (ungraded) weekly assignments.

It probably wasn’t a smart idea (incl. for my social life), but it also wasn’t hard to do.

No, mate. I don’t need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.

“My product does x”. Right now, x could be:

• help you scam people
• provide a meditation partner
• help you learn how to code in Cobol
• give travel tips
• …

What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer “it helps you make money”, that does not explain anything.

I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.

Ah, my bad then! I didn’t see a repo linked in the post or on the site. That’s great, then!

Cool idea. But since it doesn’t seem to be open source and self-hostable, I won’t trust it.

FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail

Pimsleur. It’s very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.

Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.

I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.

I’m currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn’t only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.

Nice. My partner has a Proxmox setup, so we’ve adapted the Nix config to spin up new VMs of any machine with a single command.

NixOS :)

Maybe I should have clarified that liking bare-metal does not imply disliking abstraction

Containers != services.

I don’t think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.

Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that’s not what I said.

I would say I’m pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them…

They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

“The cloud” is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of “basements”, but still.

OK, but I’d rather be the expert.

And I have no troubling spinning up new services, fast. Currently sitting at around ~30 Internet-facing services, 0 docker containers, and reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.