hertg

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https://youtu.be/3RS_zzG91Ds

Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but zola is great. It's a static site generator in a single binary, and it includes RSS feed generation. Been using it for my blog for a while.

getzola.org

"A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called 'interpassivity': the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity. The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any sort of subjectively assumed belief. It is impossible to conceive of fascism or Stalinism without propaganda - capitalism can proceed perfectly well, in some ways better, without anyone making a case for it."

-- Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher

Oh, I see. I'm on the Sync Plus plan, back when I started using it, there was no $4 option, and no specified vault limit. Sorry for the confusion.

I use Obsidian and pay for Sync. You are not limited to one vault, I have multiple vaults synced, don't know where you got that information?

Can recommend doing this, vault is E2E encrypted and the people behind Obsidian seem decent. They are very much opposed to taking VC money and the growth at all cost mindset. See the blog of their CEO to get a vibe check: https://stephango.com/

not sure about wallabag, but disroot.org offers a few selfhosted services.

I've been thinking about building a small association in Switzerland with the goal of providing selfhosted services to people that don't have the means/technical literacy to do it themselves. Not sure about it yet, the management aspect of it might be too complicated for me, but your post leds me to believe that this could actually be a decent way of using my skills to do something good.

Yeah, I have not once seen anything of value in their "alternatives", they always show the weirdest shit that has nothing in common with the other. It's been in my Kagi block list from the very beginning, I don't miss those results one bit.

Great video on the defects of the "they go low, we go high" strategy, in case you've never seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbab8aP4_A

If you want to find solutions online, stop using Google.

Sometimes I post stuff to my blog about things that I could not find a satisfying solution to and where I had to figure one out myself. I post those things because I want it to be discoverable by the next person who is searching for it.

I did a quick test, and my posts don't show up anywhere on Google. I can find them via Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and even Bing. But Google doesn't show my stuff, even when hitting specific keywords that only my post talks about. And if my site even shows up, it is only about +6 months after I posted.

Even tried their search console thing, it doesn't report any issues with my site. So it must be the lack of ads, cookies, and AI generated content which makes Google suspicious of it.

So, If you are an engineer looking for solutions to your problems online, just stop using Google. It's become so utterly useless, it's ridiculous. Of course you will miss all the cool AI features and scam ads, but there's always some drawbacks.

Reposting my post from Mastodon yesterday, it felt relevant. https://infosec.exchange/@hertg/112989703628721677

There are some QoL perks when you watch downloaded youtube videos through a selfhosted media server (e.g. jellyfin). Video watch progress is saved, and you can watch on all your devices (desktop, mobile, tv).

Sometimes I'll watch something on my mobile while preparing food, and then I'll switch to the TV when I'm done cooking, mid-video. This works seamless with that set up.

Or automate it with ytdl-sub, see my comment here.

Genau, wenn sich das Wachstum vom Ressourcen Verbrauch entkoppeln liesse, nennt man das "absolute decoupling", sprich Wachstum steigt, aber Ressourcenverbrauch sinkt. Das ist aber ziemlich sicher unmöglich. Dann gibt es noch das "relative decoupling", was bedeutet dass der Ressourcenverbrauch weniger stark ansteigt als das Wirtschaftswachstum. Das bringt aber nichts, weil es im best-case die Klimakatastrophe nur verzögert.

Es gibt keine Hinweise darauf dass absolute decoupling möglich ist. Neoliberale oder "Grün(liberal)e" denken aber dass wir das irgendwie schaffen, und nennen es dann "Green Growth". Das ist aber bullshit. Aus deren Sicht lügen sie damit nicht, sie glauben den Scheiss wirklich. Und irgendwelche Tech-Bros versichern ihnen auch immer wieder dass wir das schaffen mit "AI" und "Innovation". Die Annahme basiert aber komplett auf Vibes und Hoffnung, und nicht auf Fakten.

Das traurigen an der ganzen Sache ist, dass du eigentlich keine Partei wählen kannst die das Problem im Kern angehen will, und versuchen will eine Wirtschaft zu schaffen die ohne unlimitiertes Wachstum auskommen kann. Das imperativ ist als gegeben akzeptiert. In der Schweiz sind z.B. die "Jungen Grünen" die einzigen, welche das Thema Teil ihres Programms macht. Bei den letzten Wahlen erreichten sie 0 Sitze im Nationalrat.