I tried Baikal but Radicale was much easier to use and set up. It’s been solid for the last two years for me.
That said I try to avoid self hosted services written in Python, especially if they use Django. I’ve had nothing but issues dockerizing them. I just want a static binary ideally.
I did not use the term in this context. I've never even heard of this until people pointing this out today. I just meant it as in bloated software. I don't live in America and English is not my first language.
Where did I say that politicians have the right to stay on a private website? Yes, Twitter has the right to ban people. As do restaurants not serve certain people. But if a restaurant decides to not serve Jews let's say, I will obviously condemn them.
If you believe in free speech you should have absolutely condemned Twitter when they banned the president.
> if a restaurant decides to not serve Jews I will obviously condemn them.
They'll have serious legal problems pretty quickly for doing something so illegal.
> If you believe in free speech you should have absolutely condemned Twitter when they banned the president.
I believe in free speech and property rights. Which means if Twitter decides someone can't be on Twitter anymore due to their actions then that's their right. And if Twitter's new ownership makes some different decisions on who's allowed to be on Twitter, that's also their right.
I find this comparison strange. Yes, a restaurant should not be allowed to not serve Jews. But they should be allowed to not serve _a_ Jew, if the Jew in question breaks their rule of conduct. Like the case with Trump and Twitter.
I wouldn't say it's terrible but prometheus & grafana have a learning curve for sure.
It's a question of do you want a pull-based architecture (prometheus) or a push-based one (influxdb). Grafana is just a frontend that supports either, although influx also has its own frontend.
I've been using apple maps for probably 3 years now and for driving it's great. Both for local navigation and driving from the east coast to ~michigan/illinois. My family still swears by Waze, though.
The only thing I hate is it uses yelp for the reviews of places. Want to read more reviews or view pictures of a new place? Too bad, you need to install the yelp app... So I'll use google to look up places and then put the address into apple maps.
"We" is our society and laws and common discussion topics and social mores, etc.
Let's keep on using the "creepy" adjective here, because I think I applies especially to this comment, even more than the prior one.
Who sets the laws for how buildings are built and whether we have to drive or not? Local communities (at least in the US). So people can get involved, change what is legal and not legal to build, and advocate for it on the local level.
That's what I have been doing for the last five or so years. And what I find realt creepy about the experience is how people will go out of their way to criticize others for small, meaningless actions like reducing single waste plastic, but go ballistic at the idea that we should allow some people to live in a way that doesn't force them to drive every single day and for every trip out of the house.
> People drive not because they want to, but because they have to.
If that is the case, then why don't they make their voices heard? I certainly don't hear anybody voicing that when we do have a chance to allow communities to be built that don't force driving. Instead I head person after person after person demanding that housing and mixed use communities be banned.
At one of the meetings I was at, trying to advocate for a mixed use building, some commenter mentioned an aside of having all single use drinking containers have a tax. None, not a single one, of the board members expressed enthusiasm for this mixed use building that, as a single building, would have far bigger impact than banning all single use cups in the city. But boy did the board take up the idea of taxing single use containers, and not two years later we have a $0.25 charge when you get a to go cup at a coffee shop, but we still have a huuuuuuuuuge fight over every single bit of environment saving buildings.
> Criticizing that is a highly privileged take.
That's utter BS, and a commonly used dodge by people who don't want any change. Of course we can criticize a system, particularly as we change it. Saying that it's "privileged" to point out that people are forced to drive, which is what I said, is utter nonsense. And frankly, extremely creepy.
People are really creepy about cars. They will excuse them, apologize for them, ignore all the damage they do, and even criticize people that point out these massive flaws, before people will admit that maybe we should st least let some people live without them.
The fact of the matter is that the US is laid out in a way that cars are necessary for most places. Even if you actually get people to vote and participate in their local politics, that does not change how things are already laid out. It's not going to magically fix neighborhoods being 10-20 mins driving away from grocery stores and businesses.
I -want- to reduce car usage, but I'm also realistic.
"If that is the case, then why don't they make their voices heard?"
Some people do. See strong towns for example. Yeah, there's also NIMBY-ism. Turns out people working minimum wage jobs (who have to commute because they can't afford to live downtown) don't have as much time or energy to participate in local politics as well-off folks. But let's keep on blaming people!!
Also, I'm not sure if you understand what creepy means. Even if your points may be correct, I'm disinclined to engage with someone who calls everyone who doesn't exactly agree with them "creepy".
I can’t speak for everyone but I make enough money that messing around with e-mail spam is not worth it, when I’d rather be playing my instruments or whatever.
I do my email through my registrar (gandi) so I don’t have to worry about free email going away, but before that I paid for zoho.
Basically the reason I selfhost is to save time, not to have to muck around. Luckily I knew ansible from work so it wasn’t that much work in the beginning to set that up for my services.
I don't think the average router would be able to run much of anything, not to mention how insecure the average router is since people don't update them.
Mastodon is very resource heavy, I couldn't get it to run on a raspberry pi 3b. Pleroma is an alternative to mastodon that is very light on resources, I'd recommend that personally.
I can easily run Pleroma on 1G VPS and Pi3s; the heaviest part is the Postgres server, which can itself be tuned to be pretty light. It relies on PG's native JSON data type which is cool. I run a couple instances and poked around with it for a few hours. I'd love to see SQLite support in Pleroma given that it allegedly has JSON now; there is a 2 year old ticket on their GitLab [1] mentioning it tho I've not spiked in to see if it's 100% plausible to port. Pleroma is written with Elixir that has a DB abstraction library that supports SQLite, I was just looking into it this week.
Even if SQLite JSON isn't sufficient it could be realized with string columns for now, and indeed SQLite is recommended by Library of Congress for archival storage and used by iPhone so I think it's a solid way to expand Pleroma even if native JSON is not sufficient.
If anyone wants to pay me to do this as open source I'd jump, contact in bio. I don't know Elixir yet but am motivated and have 15+ years of dev experience in all kinds of systems, and experience in the adjacent parts.
It's a ruby application. Take all the background processes to build timelines, trending hashtags, etc and it adds up. Perhaps a single-user instance might do with less, but still...
To my eyes this is way harder to read than traditional notation, which really isn't hard to learn and works well for most music (and non-12TET music). It's hard to see if a note is on a line or just above/under it.
Same. Maybe it's my bias from having played piano for going on 25 years, but this notation is just irritating to look at, and has way more ambiguity than the standard system to my eyes. It also seems like it's less compact, which is a _huge_ problem. If you ever look at older ürtexts and the like, music notation is traditionally very dense to save paper and engraving costs. I don't think anything that makes music less dense is going to fly in the industry.
That said I try to avoid self hosted services written in Python, especially if they use Django. I’ve had nothing but issues dockerizing them. I just want a static binary ideally.