I use Munin for monitoring and XMPP for alerts via go-sendxmpp. That way I just configure munin like this:

contact.admin.command go-sendxmpp -u [bot_username] --password [bot_password] [contact]

And that sends me messages to my main XMPP account whenever my servers breach a limit.

Ahhh, sorry to hear it :(

I should have play with dollies as a kid instead of computers

Probably we’d all be happier :)

So, that probably means I will try Jami again one more time and then just switch to Snikket.

Good luck! I hope it goes well

I can highly recommend feed2exec. It’s super flexible and lets you easily do anything off the back of an RSS feed item. This way you can abstract away the matrix side and write a minimal matrix plugin to send to matrix rooms, or you can generate static html pages to self-host, or anything else you want within the same framework.

I use it to:

• Save RSS feed entries as plain-text files, so I can read them in less
• Download podcasts, running a pass of ffmpeg over each to reduce file size
• Watch releases of open source projects and add a task in taskwarrior for me to review and/or update them

I never tried deploying Jami, as I settled on XMPP for this use-case. But, let us know how it goes if you do try it! I haven’t seen many review it before so I’d be interested to hear your experience.

neither are encrypted, so don’t use them for anything sensitive

I run XMPP - just wanted to say that all major XMPP clients (the ones I’m thinking of are Conversations, Monal, Dino and Gajim, among others) encrypt-by-default, you have to actively go out of your way to disable it per contact.

• Álfarann - Patty Gurdy
• Sea Of Years - Local Natives
• Brooklyn Police Station - Foxygen
• Pipe Dreams - Caroline Rose
• Boşluk Ve Sonsuzluk - Gaye Su Akyol

Thank you so much! Of course, no worries if you drop it at any time.

Ah, the AI crawlers have screwed everything up again :( I’m sorry that it’s so difficult. Anyway, no pressure.

would a RSS feed for the last post be enough for the feed to have the text and the remaning be just a link

Yeah, that would be enough for me! Or even a separate feed with just the latest article. I’m pretty sure my feed reader would notice a change to the existing entry and download it again when it updated to be just the link, although I’m sure I could filter that out.

I’ve seen a few of your posts around on the fedi and they’ve always made me think, so thank you for sharing! Would you consider a full-text RSS feed by any chance? I’d love to add your blog to my reading list.

I’ve checked out Gemini a couple of times and find it a fun project.

In my opinion though, we gain more by participating in the wider web. There are a plethora of small web websites out there - it’s only difficult to find them. Blogrolls/blogrings and dedicated search engines like Marginalia help with this.

This also lets everyone have a more granular definition of what’s important to them: lack of javascript, minimal page size, lack of styling, full-text RSS feeds, compatibility with text-mode browsers etc. Everyone can pick and choose what they value without having to hash out agreement over the spec.

I have a lot of search shortcuts configured in Firefox, and find vertical search is a good way of avoiding google.

• Wikipedia, Wikidata: for factual things, finding links to homepages of brands or well-known venues, macros of ingredients.
• Wiktionary: for definitions.
• OpenStreetMap: for physical locations, to get opening hours or websites of physical shops.
• OpenStreetMap Wiki, PostmarketOS Wiki, Debian Wiki, Guile Mailing List Archives: if you can find a wiki, forum or mailing list dedicated to your special interest, then searching these directly can be pretty good.
• Lemmy: for recommendations, general opinions, looking for negative opinions about services before I try them.
• Podcast Index: I used to use Apple Podcast’s website to find the canonical RSS feed for a podcast, but someone on Lemmy pointed me to this website, which is more independent.
• Marginalia: for recipes, especially with the no javascript filter enabled, just by typing in the names of some ingredients I want to use, I’ll find all sorts of weird and wonderful webpages with nice recipes on.
• Repology: to look for software packages.

And then, for general searches, I normally start off with Marginalia, followed by SearXNG, followed by DuckDuckGo if desperate.

Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It’s been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.

Hi, I’m choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there’s a lot of overlap in the comments.

I’m sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I’ve updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it’s ok but if there are any problems I’m happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.

I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn’t even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn’t state I wasn’t the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn’t build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.

I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the “why” they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.

I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here! Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I’m available for the next few hours.

No, I won’t. If it was cheaper, I’d consider it.

My partner plays games on steam and uses my old gaming PC, running Bazzite and unfortunately with an nvidia GPU. Some games like The Last of Us II has lots of graphical glitches and we have to play around with the steam launch settings a lot.

It’d be awesome to buy a plug-and-play solution as I never know when there are issues with our PC whether it’s to do with our specific setup, or the game’s linux support in general.

As it stands we’ll probably look to get an AMD GPU when we can afford it. Which I think will be in quite a while.

For me it comes down to trust, since the distro maintainers have root on your system. You’d better trust their competence and alignment with your values!

I think they can use remote attestation on the mobile device to prove that it’s a physical device. They do that through Google Play Services or whatever the equivalent is on iOS. So, for instance, scanning the QR code on a custom ROM like lineage or GrapheneOS doesn’t work.

Did you know about !nebula@lemmy.world already? Ideally I prefer not splitting the community, unless you feel there’s an unsolvable problem with moderation or focus or something like that.

Because they’re probably doing ok, and they don’t want to think about how much is out of their control, and how easily they could be in the same situation.

The idea that success is just down to hard work is comforting, because they think “if I just keep working hard then I’ll be ok”, and “I’m deserving of this lifestyle”. It also lets them not feel any guilt or spend time thinking about those less fortunate - they can simply say “well it must be their fault”.

I use taskwarrior for this. For example:

task add recur:monthly due:eom wait:due-3weeks clean mesh filter
task add recur:quarterly due:eoq wait:due-3weeks replace charcoal filter

There are quite a few web frontends to it too, although I haven’t tried these out so not sure which to recommend.

Thanks for the comment, for me the article doesn’t show that explanation about EOTs and I didn’t really look into it. It certainly adds some caveats to the good news story!

The trustees have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of the employees, but of course reality could differ. According to companies house, there are 5 officers of which 2 are the founders mentioned in the article. Apparently, EOTs are the most common form of employee ownership in the UK and encouraged by the government.

There is some risk of abuse it seems, it would definitely certainly be nicer if the employees directly owned the shares.