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  • Release FreshRSS 1.26.0

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  • As someone who's been using ttrss for decades but would be open to trying something new, what would you say is FreshRSS' killer feature (and missing killer feature) compared to ttrss?

    (Not trying to start a flame war, ttrss feels like a finished project, which is not a bad thing, but I think it's healthy to wish for more innovation in this space)

  • The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

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  • This is Microsoft enshittifying the platform they acquired to squeeze more revenue. But this is totally fine, because as user hostile and evil as the Microsoft corporation measurably is, they made a cute jpg few years ago about loving opensource or something (yeah, I know, those are different things, but I'm calling out their PR bullshit and the usual bootlickers)

  • Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming

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  • I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

    I'm sure many did, but I'm also pretty sure it's easy to draw a line between code assistance and LLM-infused code generation.

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes

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  • I think you should give Trilium(Next) Notes a try:

    • it has the hierarchical notes structure that you are familiar with in obsidian
    • it has better ways of keeping things organized (attributes can be values or references, can be shared and inherited, which provides a flexible framework for having notes "types" as templates that can be extended, e.g. people vs. colleagues, businesses vs. companies, etc)
    • it has the concept of note hoisting (which lets you focus on a note and its sub-notes, so other projects/spaces don't come in the way of autocomplete and placing references), and workspaces that builds further on top of that
    • it can be used standalone (local client/offline-only, like obsidian) but coupling it with a remote-server opens more interesting use-cases (synching, sharing notes with others by public URLs, one-user/multi-client editing) which gives the best of both worlds (local-first/online-first) and lets you access your personal notes on devices you don't necessarily own (which obsidian doesn't). The mobile app story isn't great (it's a PWA with limited offline capabilities at the moment), but isn't worse than the alternatives either (I can't really work and think long form on a handheld, no matter the editor experience, but perhaps that's just me).

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes

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  • You need to list out your requirements. What do you want to do? Where do you need your data? Do you care about open source? Self-hosting? Do you have an idea how your content will be organized? Will you ever need to tap into it as data? Etc

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes

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  • Have you tried trilium notes? Not as hyped and polished, but does extraordinarily well IME.

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes

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  • I didn't like obsidian's lacking in attributes structuring/typing and the fact that it cannot serve over a web UI (for wherever you cannot install the heavy client or just to share notes via URL), and found trilium notes to be doing that perfectly, and much much more. Highly recommend.

  • PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!)

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  • I won't say that FreeCAD has a good UX, but it helps a lot NOT to look at it as a CAD software, but as a collection of specialized engineering tools, organized into workspaces, haphazardly put together.

    First thing you need to know is which workspace you'll need, and FreeCAD does a terrible job at explaining you that (the concept of workspaces isn't self explanatory) AND describing what each and every one of them does. Some of which should just be disabled by default because of how fringe, unpolished or unreliable they are.

    Once you've got that part cleared, you can learn the primitives and the jargon (what's a body, solid, part, mesh, element, …), not great, but fair. Then, you have to learn, for every workbench, what their workflow is (e.g. create a body, create a sketch, apply transformations ; Create an analysis, define material, define loads, add a mesh, add solver, add equations, run solver, add results, tweak the pipeline so it renders, show results), and yep, FreeCAD won't hold your hand for any of that, you'll have to wear your explorer hat and navigate from frustration to incomprehension until it accidentally works.

    But then, if you can get over that, you'll end-up with a tool that's more powerful and versatile than anything else, including dandy commercial offerings. It still blows my mind that nowadays anyone in their garage can do for free what not so long ago would require a full engineering curriculum and corporate sponsorship to acquire licenses. My hope is that FreeCAD would gain the same kind of visibility that Blender enjoys, with sufficient funds for a small dev team and a great product manager.

  • A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

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  • , and this is just the beginning.It's bad omen to criticize an opensource project, I know, but in my eyes Matrix is a big technical and organizational failure, for not having succeeded in stabilizing the protocol after a whole decade of unsuccessful explorations, and for having its leadership consistently fail to define clear goals and steer the project towards them (just get it done and working well before trying to make it "peer to peer" or "in the metaverse").

    If this is the electroshock that Matrix needs to reconsider its design and directions? good for them. If that kills them? Well too bad, but it's not like they are the only cool kid in town.

  • databag: A tiny selfhosted federated messenger for the decentralized web.

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  • It says it's federated. When you are your own provider, e2ee doesn't matter nearly as much (you probably have a bunch of personal files, backups, services running on the same box anyway).

    Edit: I would gladly take constructive comments with the downvotes. For a moment I thought we were on "selfhosted", where "you are your own provider" should resonate in with most

  • Another good reason not to open port 22

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  • Or, you know, just use key auth only and fail2ban. Putting sshd behind another port only buys you a little time.

  • What types of services are you not willing to self-host?

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  • And so damn easy to self-host in general. Ejabberd is batteries included down to offering stun/turn for audio/video calls, Erlang is just unrivaled when it comes to hot reloading so updates are effectively zero-downtime (unsurprising considering all the business critical environments it's deployed).

    At first (and especially because I went with Matrix originally) I wouldn't think of self hosting all my instant messaging, but in retrospect, ejabberd is one of the easiest services I've got to maintain. I highly recommend everyone to give it a shot, especially to all the matrix refugees to whom it was a surprise/disappointment.

  • Your favorite "next-gen" matrix server

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  • For me it's ejabberd, I gave up on Matrix, it was too stressful and expe/ansive to sysadmin.