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IanTwenty

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  • Best Practices for Encrypted Search

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  • This is overkill but reminds me of

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

    ...where operations (including search) can be carried out on data that remains encrypted throughout.

    Sounds like you only need encryption at rest however. So can you keep tickets in memory for searching perhaps?

  • This Week in GNOME #233 Editing Events

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  • Self-Host Weekly #155: One Hundred Million

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  • MarkStack looks ideal for publishing docs for family

    https://github.com/KineticEnforcer/MarkStack

    Fast, minimal static site generator that transforms markdown into searchable documentation sites. Built to run anywhere, even on a Raspberry Pi.

  • Where to start with backups?

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  • A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

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  • The EFF have a page on this, setting out the threats:

    https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca

    ...which is mostly a link to:

    https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf

    ...whose summary reads as follows.

    The “anti-­‐circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. The law was ostensibly intended to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-­‐piracy protections added to copyrighted works.[1] In practice, the anti-­‐circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities. As a result, the DMCA has become a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:

    The DMCA Chills Free Expression and Scientific Research.

    Experience with section 1201 demonstrates that it is being used to stifle free speech and scientific research. The lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journalists, publishers, scientists, students, programmers, and members of the public.

    The DMCA Jeopardizes Fair Use.

    By banning all acts of circumvention, and all technologies and tools that can be used for circumvention, the DMCA grants to copyright owners the power to unilaterally eliminate the public’s fair use rights. Already, the movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers’ ability to make legitimate, personal-­‐use copies of movies they have purchased.

    The DMCA Impedes Competition and Innovation.

    Rather than focusing on pirates, some have wielded the DMCA to hinder legitimate competitors. For example, the DMCA has been used to block aftermarket competition in laser printer toner cartridges, garage door openers, videogame console accessories, and computer maintenance1 services. Similarly, Apple has used the DMCA to tie its iPhone devices to Apple’s own software and services.

  • Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is

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  • Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is

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  • They link to Chandler (monica vNext) which is an now an archived repo however I think dev work has moved to main branch in Monica repo? So possibly misunderstanding...

  • How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io

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  • It would be good to know how these figures compare to e.g. pypi, npm.

  • Flatpak program (FreeCAD) running itself as superuser?

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  • Looks like this long-standing issue affecting all flatpaks run under MATE/marco:

    https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301

    Applications launched under Firejail and Flatpak include "(as superuser)" in their window's title even though they're not actually being ran as root.

  • Culture Workers in the Fediverse

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  • Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

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  • It turns out however that the developers of virglrenderer also don’t want to have to run a VM to run and test their project and thus added vtest, which uses a unix socket to transport the commands from the mesa Venus driver to virglrenderer.

    It also turns out that I’m not the first one who noticed this, and there is some glue code which allows Podman to make use of virgl.

    Nice if podman and flatpak both gain from this work in future.

  • Really useful vim tricks you've probably never seen - Bread on Penguins

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  • Newpipe {mob) or Freetube let you watch without sign in?

  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • Why different DEs for laptop/desktop may I ask?

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  • This might be obvious but it could be caching? Use a tool like dig to check if it's really updated. Not had a problem with duckdns, works good.

  • Selfhosting with a seven year old

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  • Hedy is an open source programming language that is broken into levels for easy learning. As you progress the language gains more capabilities, so they are never overwhelmed with too much

    In contrast to block based languages like scratch its goal is to leave students ready to switch to Python by the end.

    Each level has small tasks to complete so you can tackle it piece by piece and get a sense of progression.

    https://hedy.org/

  • Selfhosting with a seven year old

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  • Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things

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  • It's become somewhat of a trend over the last several months for new projects to describe themselves as 'modern'. Not only is this not a helpful descriptor (What is 'modern'? Is the design modern? The codebase?), but a good portion of the time it's simply not true.

    I keep seeing 'blazing/blazingly fast' everywhere too, with a rocket or such emoji

  • Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

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  • Self-hosting anything that is deemed "content" openly on the web in 2025 is a battle of attrition between you and forces who are able to buy tens of thousands of proxies to ruin your service for data they can resell.

    This is depressing. Profoundly depressing.

    Sigh

  • Amber the programming language compiled to Bash, 0.5.1 release

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  • Thanks for that, makes sense. I like that Amber gives the ability to code more defensively/robustly where appropriate but can also get out the way if you just need to run a bunch of BASH raw.