Edit: I thought Revolt wasn’t open source, not sure what I had it mixed up with.

Well, that’s Plex gone from my server, then. I had switched to Jellyfin, anyway, but it was mostly “still there”.

No more.

Running the stuff on someone else’s computer still requires a dedicated team for “something serious”, unless you stuff everything in specific “serverless” platforms, in which case you’re still paying for admins, just not yours.

I don’t think “they should”, but if you’re willing / able to at least make a decent description of what it would entail, how it would work, and how it would benefit users, and possibly contribute in some other way, it might happen!

(It’ll take more than a sentence and a half from the sidelines, I think)

Exactly! As far as I’m concerned, robots.txt should be enough: I tell your bot to stay the hell away, or not, and your bot obeys. What it scrapes for doesn’t matter, IMO.

We don’t need more standards and rules for assholes to ignore, we need assholes to adhere to the rules.

And then there’s Discourse as well, to make it even more confusing. 🤣

I’ve heard of that, yeah, but I’m still not convinced a web page and chat mix well. They’re different in pace. That might just be me, though. 😁

I don’t know about decentralized, nor am I convinced that it should be, you’re responding to something on one page, I don’t think “decentralized” adds value here.

If you really insist on that, there’s several people who tack a fediverse thread onto a post. Mastodon, is seen often, I personally added a GoToSocial thread fetcher to my blog, I assume Lemmy could work as well.

As for non-decentralized but open, there’s Comments as someone already mentioned, and I’m personally using Isso, which presents itself as a drop-in replacement for Disqus.

Matrix is a chat protocol, not a comment system. You might shoehorn it into that role, but it’s never going to fit well, IMO.

Neil doesn’t need a chatbot with sparkles for that, he’s plenty capable to take absolute piss himself. 😁

A fair amount of drama is exactly their fault. Mozilla chose to increase management pay and fire people, Mozilla chose to flirt with ai, Mozilla bought an ad firm, and so on. It’s not like someone was holding a knife to their throat.

In Dutch, we have the similar “zoals de award is, vertrouwt hij zijn gasten” (roughly “the way the innkeeper is, is how he trusts his guests (to be)”).

I mean, yeah, this is pretty easy to toss into my backpack.

I have a slightly bigger board (a Lily58 that I built earlier) that lives permanently at the office. I occasionally use the regular laptop keyboard, just to keep that bit of muscle memory, and switching is usually pretty easy.

Full size boards look weirdly big, though. 😂

Wow, some people will just not hear about living without their ISO enter, huh? 😉

I believe they’re absolutely not street legal in the UK, nor in the EU. Those were never “ridiculous sized trucks” Walhalla to begin with (although I see more Rams than I care to, these days), so there’s roughly zero chance those things will become mainstream here.

Heck, we have rain here, that’s enough of a wankpanzer repellant.

Actually, it’s not that expensive in the grand scheme of things, I’d say about €65-ish. That’s the PCBs (the electronics prints that you solder the rest onto), controllers, switches, keycaps (both relatively expensive because they’re low-profile) and batteries. The schematics are open source. If you want to start cheaper, build something with MX type switches, rather than Choc switches, you can find both switches and caps quite cheap. Or, if you don’t want to play “hunt the part on Ali express”, there’s companies that sell pre-collected (and sometimes even pre-built) kits.

It takes getting used to, of course, but at least for me, it quickly became second nature. So no, I don’t miss having more keys, in fact, having a num pad right under my right hand (rather than having to move my hand and arm to the right) is quicker as I don’t have to find the right spot twice.

As for quicker… I type about as fast on this as I used to on a regular board, but this is more about ergonomics and comfort than about raw speed.

For what it’s worth: I’m a developer-gone-sysadmin, so I spend a decent amount thinking and/or cursing computers, typing is only part of the job. Plenty of IP addresses, though, so I get my numbers in. There’s some documentation and blogging as well, so long form text.

Because the Sweep is based on the Ferris, which was designed by someone who is a bit of a Rust but, apparently. For the Sweep, it was given a broom, of course.

The tech might be the same, but the models can certainly differ, and something that is trained on US-centric data gives US-centric results, which may not always be desirable.

Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…