@AFKBRBChocolate Interesting, thanks for the reply. I don’t mean that trust is a bad thing. When I was younger I could never get my head around how decisions were made. It just never occurred to me that there could be other factors in how decisions were made - both at a personal and commercial level - other than finding the cheapest/best stuff.

@AFKBRBChocolate The way I think about it is the currency of business is trust, not aptitude.

@Jedi Agreed! Am I on Mastodon or Lemmy when I read and replied to this thread? Doesn’t matter :D

@asklemmy

@DeadNinja I hate that I laughed at that “Agree?” hahaha

@privacy

This is not about software licensing nor the spirit of FOSS.

There’s some inconsistent messaging that’s genuinely confusing me. I’ve shared an anecdote below (from a time when I was developing open source software) in the interest of generating discussion to clear it up for me and perhaps others, too. I don’t mean to imply I know what is happening right here.

@pop @fediverse

Ha nice analogy. Might steal it if that’s ok! :)

Reminds me of a place I used to work at. Small place; 10 people. I started as a sysadmin but later started programming. They encouraged me; “yes we suck at this we need help!” so I kept going. But as the work became more involved and I needed a bit of co-operation from their side, it was torture. They didn’t “suck” at it, they just didn’t respect or bother themselves with that kind of work.

@Ghostalmedia @fediverse

Dev publishes unreadable website:

“Some developers are bad at CSS and design/CSS (like me)”

Implying some innate incapacity.
Same dev:

“Or these people could learn Rust and contribute to the existing project.”
https://lemmy.ml/comment/8855579

Man I just don’t get it. There’s a kind of wilful ignorance here or something? It’s jarring. All due respect for what’s been made but this attitude… I’m not offended or have disdain, just dumbfounded at the messaging.

@Ghostalmedia
@fediverse

@CoderSupreme The founder of StackOverflow went on to work on Discourse (https://discourse.org). There’s actually an ActivityPub plugin available nowadays, so apparently people can contribute from whatever fediverse server they’re coming from. For example see Go Bridge (https://forum.golangbridge.org)

@programming

@Zaktor There is some influence. Two things that come to mind:

* default post length limit (500 characters)
* how the server renders “Page” ActivityPub objects (e.g. Lemmy posts)

For example, many comments made in this thread could not be made from a Mastodon server. All Lemmy posts show as just a title and link with a blank body. These application behaviours have a direct influence on what types of conversations take place by people from Mastodon servers.

@fediverse

> Why is Mastodon being treated as a monolithic entity?

Oh the usual: makes a batter headline.

I guess I’m spreading toxicity by replying to a post from a Mastodon app…? Or something?

@fediverse @finkrat

@becha @selfhosted Sure I’d be happy to talk about it there!

@onlinepersona @fediverse Haha good question! They’re light on details (“we moved to Wordpress”)
and after testing it seems like it’s not even working :(

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Here’s a wordpress blog that is available via activitypub: https://solarbird.net/blog
We can address it like so: @solarbird.net
We can’t see the posts on Lemmy (doesn’t support ad-hoc fetching of ActivityPub Notes)
but in a Mastodon web UI: https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/27/kosa-again-yes-again/

pf/opnsense essentially provide web interfaces to the underlying
FreeBSD OS tooling. In this case I’m running plain OpenBSD. That means
configuring the system is mainly done by reading and writing text
files and doing stuff at the command line. There’s a whole bunch of
reasons why some people prefer one way or the other or even mix things
up a bit. My recommendation is, if you’re interested, have a go
administering a system without a web interface and see how you feel!
@Edgarallenpwn @selfhosted

> The garbage out there today is too much.

For sure. I’m hoping that with much cheaper and more reliable hardware
that we have now, it makes it easier for indivduals and small groups
to run services that could only be run by big dysfunctional companies.
Fingers crossed!
@jjlinux @selfhosted

@jjlinux Hahaha no way that’s awesome

@selfhosted

@1couchpotato Nope, this one is https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003378019857.html

@selfhosted

For starting out, Building a Router from the OpenBSD FAQ is helpful: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

@MigratingtoLemmy @selfhosted

@czardestructo For the CPU Intel says 7.5W: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81071/intel-celeron-processor-n2830-1m-cache-up-to-2-41-ghz.html
So all up I’m guessing under 10W. I don’t know how much other components affect the power usage, though. And I’m about 200km away from where it is installed! Hoping someone more expert in hardware could chime in here :)

@selfhosted

Because blinking lights give me goo goo ga ga

@Smc87 @selfhosted

This one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003378019857.html

Halfway through writing a follow-up blog post detailing set up, internals, etc. Should be available soon if you’re interested :)

@alvaro @selfhosted