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Re:Twitter blocks links to Signal messenger on Monday February 17, 2025 @08:13AM (#43078642)
exactly. Once we stop treating TwiX like a public good but rather like the private website of a a gaming cheater with a lot of guests, things would be more obvious, wouldn't it?
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:23AM (#42735635)
yes it does. The world is full of 'another's.
Re:Blogs rot. Wikis wait on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:25AM (#42573282)
frankly I find rot quite appealing.

Rotting produces compost, fertiliser. And at the same time makes way for new things. Great, isn't it?

Re:Creating a social photo frame from scratch on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:51AM (#42254973)
another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.
There's this earthquake phrase in past tense:

> We felt like we had agency.

Re:Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @07:36AM (#41913275)
in german law it's even impossible to transfer copyright (Urheberrecht). There is but one way: inheriting. What can be transferred though is usage right - licensing.
Re:Show HN I made a git rebase TUI editor on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:39AM (#41836577)
how is your tea different from https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/teash/?
Re:FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users? on Saturday October 12, 2024 @11:05AM (#41819621)
is the user base shrinking or why should we?

IMO pulsating, vivid stability is more important than growth.

glimpsed into it, looks fancy but find it apologetic. IMO it's double-standards to campaign against "the next datacenter from being built" without reducing personal usage and demand.

Individual frugality is the precondition for collective degrowth, both practically and morally. Otherwise you just open business opportunities for datacenter growth.

IMO both should be pursued, make one and don't omit the other.

Re:Convert Markdown files to RSS feed on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:52PM (#41384241)
I have some like this http://rec.mro.name/podcasts/zuendfunk/broadcasts.atom (and .rss, too) which plays the audio nicely e.g. in https://miniflux.app but I remember having trouble with iTunes on MacOS and the Apple podcast iOS app.

But his is mostly try-and-error and merely no specs. Apple doesn't talk about atom AFAIK.

Racket is interesting, I'm into Ocaml, but create those feeds via https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/branch/...

Re:Convert Markdown files to RSS feed on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:15AM (#41345802)
100% includes iTunes or Podcatchers in general where I hardly find documentation for but would be interested for (my) https://mro.name/radio-privatkopie/

Can you give me a pointer how to write the Atom podcast feed?

Re:Convert Markdown files to RSS feed on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @08:20AM (#41299374)
The "Why RSS" doesn't mention why instead of RFC4287 Atom.
Re:Examples of Great URL Design (2023) on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:57AM (#41244685)
… and Aaron Swartz's "Building for Users: Designing URLs" https://codeberg.org/mro/ProgrammableWebSwartz2013/src/branc...
> And yet, no matter how you look at it, this can’t just be a simple coincidence.

why not?

for curiosity - what wisdom do you intend to draw from visualising relations of single gut bacteria? Or is it grains of sand in the sea? How many of them will you zoom into? Maybe clustering may make things feasible.
My mother can't. And she doesn't mind.
I always acted as if there were no such thing as private data on github. Maybe even the internet as a whole.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:25AM (#41003470)
heavy clouds this morning.

Maybe time to reconsider how solid a ground clouds are.

Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:12AM (#41003297)
What do card houses do for a living?
but nginx or caddy can't run CGIs, they want scalability to the billions.

Disclaimer: I build a personal social web server https://seppo.social like that on top of shared (apache) hosting requiring no root privileges to install and run.

Or with a few lines of sh you can turn many cli tools to web services like https://qr.mro.name/

which is great for human scale! Don't serve billions and burn the planet doing so.
Wonderful! Lucky she, has a space to put it unmonetarized and under her (parents) agency and responsibility.

I host a youth computer club and help at holiday camps and see this a lot. Some elementary school kids (girls mostly) love to write.

All you need is to leave all the distracting tech aside (No tools! No frameworks! No cms/ssg! No autocomplete) and have a space without advertising or TOS where the results can be show to friends & family. Some also love to draw with https://twilightedge.com/mac/pikopixel/ on our raspis.

Re:Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @06:53AM (#40726997)
that's not what I am talking about.

I talk about that today it's not allowed to abolish democracy which - believe it or not - was allowed and happened 1933.

See e.g. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_9.html

Re:Software Friction on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:01AM (#40716764)
…it may have a different name, though…
Re:Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:36AM (#40716539)
we germans learn in history lessons at school what can happen once a democratic process abolishes enough fundamental rights.
Re:Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:09AM (#40716324)
difficult balancing act. Having a legislative body throwing fundamental rights out of the window isn't appealing either.
Re:Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:59AM (#40716244)
I mean e.g. the safe harbour scandal that EUGH nullified after a 10-year legal struggle. Was violating EU core values. That's as close to unconsitutional as one may get not having one. Then came privacy shield, another 10-year legal fight and groundhog day. You get the idea.
Re:Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:16AM (#40715944)
I wonder how it can be legal to repeatedly undermine constitution and push or vote for later high-court-nullified laws and be allowed to repeat as if nothing was wrong with that. Like drunk driving forever. We ban counter-constitutional activities outside parliament and authorities. Why not inside?

I am much for 3-strikes here.

Re:What does it feel like to read RSS feeds? on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:00AM (#40623001)
is survivorship bias a bias towards surviving? I'd take that as a starting point every day.

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