At work we’re migrating from Google Chat to Slack, and there’s a bunch of things I already miss. There’s a lot of strange UI issues in Slack that aren’t an issue in any other competing products.

The thing with age verification is that it’s a legal requirement, so they’re all going to have to do it.

Running an online service with a lot of users is very expensive, too. All these proprietary services eventually realise that they need revenue in order to continue operating. That’s one of the reasons why decentralized, federated services are the way to go - everyone runs their own small community, so there’s no one company or person that has to cover an enormous bill.

I really don’t understand how a chat app for gamers became so big in the software development community. It’s such a poor choice, especially for support. Nothing is indexed in search engines, and people can’t see messages unless they join. I’ve even seen some projects use Discord for bug tracking. It’s woefully inadequate for that.

Open source is the way. It always amuses me when people move from one proprietary system to a different one, since the new one always ends up having the same issues.

This just sounds like using the same password on every site. Am I missing something?

Passkeys have to be unique per site so that you can revoke one without having to change something on every other site.

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Yeah it’s definitely not as good as countries where university/college is fully covered by the government, but it’s also better than plenty of other countries too.

A lot of people in Australia just keep living with their parents while they go to university.

For a VPN for torrents, make sure you use one that supports port forwarding. AirVPN is a good choice. If you’re okay with Docker, gluetun is a good choice - you create a Gluetun container for the VPN, then any other Docker containers (torrent client, whatever) can use the VPN. It avoids having to use the VPN for everything.

Bitwarden lets you store passkeys in its vault, which I think is what you’re asking for? It’s mentioned in the post too.

I have some passkeys in my Bitwarden, and my Bitwarden account is protected with a USB + NFC Yubikey.

The experience is inconsistent across phone platforms at the moment, but it works great on computers. On Android, it currently only lets you use a password manager if the passkey is your primary credential for logging into the site. Android doesn’t support passkeys from password managers for 2FA yet.

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Thanks for the clarification.

Glad I went to university in Australia where “really expensive” isn’t a problem for domestic students.

For citizens, the government subsidizes it and pays 50-80% of the cost depending on the course (higher priority areas have better coverage). The remaining cost can be covered by an interest-free loan through the government (called HECS-HELP), and you only have to start paying off the loan once you earn more than AU$70k/year, which removes a lot of the stress. The repayments are automatically withheld by your employer as tax, the same way they withhold income tax.

(even though there’s no interest, the loan is indexed for inflation once per year)

GNU’s not UNIX

COM solved all this stuff over 30 years ago. When you’re making breaking changes to an interface, you create a new one while still keeping the old one around (at least for a while). Both interfaces are shipped with the same DLL. Software written for the old interface continues to work, while newer software can take advantage of the extra features in the new interface.

You can do something kinda similar in Linux with sonames, like libfoo.so.1, libfoo.so.2, etc. but there’s still a bunch of use cases where you need to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and they’re entirely separate libraries vs the COM approach where both interfaces are in a single library.

Modern software keeps poorly reinventing the same concept. Software like Home Assistant has breaking changes between releases because they don’t have a consistent interface.

Depends on where you are in the world. In Australia it’s common to use what we call “flake” (gummy shark). It’s boneless, very mild in taste, and holds together well (doesn’t fall apart while eating it)

I’ve already got solar panels on my roof. Originally they fully covered our usage, but my wife and I have two EVs now (a BMW iX and an i4) and charge them at home, so we’re back to having to pay the electricity company.

I’ve got 1:1 net metering (grandfathered into an old plan) so don’t need batteries.

Makes sense! 30W is great for your system. My home server has an older 10Gbps NIC that uses an Aquantia AQC107 chip, which has poor support for ASPM and prevents the CPU from entering lower C states. I’ve been considering swapping it out for something newer (like an AQC113), I just need to work out whether it’s actually worth it.

Mine used to cost $0 in electricity since I’ve got solar panels, but we’ve got two EVs now (my wife has a BMW iX and I’ve got an i4) so we’re back to having to pay the electricity company again.

Creating a cluster could help me self host more websites I create as I want to move away from using hosting services

Just jeep an eye on electricity prices. This is probably not an issue with a phone server, but for me, hosting at home with a decent server PC costs more per month just in electricity compared to using a cheap VPS. Continuous draw of 50W 24/7 is ~37kWh per month which can cost $15 or more in California.

I do still host some things at home, but all my sites are on VPSes. The enterprise hardware and fast, data center grade internet connection is worth it for me. Some of my VPSes are only $40/year.

A friend is running Linux, Nginx, Hermes Agent, and a few other things on her old phone. Definitely doable! It’s a decent idea - very small form factor, phones have pretty powerful CPUs, and a lot of people have an old phone they’re not doing anything with.

I’m not sure about the Note, but the Samsung Galaxy S series phones have an option to limit charging to 85%.

Cycling the battery is a good idea too though. I used to do that with a wall mounted tablet and a smart plug, until I swapped it for a Lenovo tablet that has this as a built-in feature