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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Yeah ! Except in the dev/code realm… They seem very aggressive to each other, specially if you whisper something like: Rust is safer than C !

    I don’t really get it, but I find It very pleasant to read when passionate people write a whole essay I don’t even understand 1/10 of what they are writing… However, there seems some heated negativity in that community !





  • Yeah individually your data is approximately worth 200$/year (that’s a real estimation I read somewhere, not something I spit out of my ass).

    So yeah not much worth you’re right. But if you stop being selfish for a moment and think as a community and take that portion for 1 billion people on earth, how much is that worth? Yeah you guessed it… It’s a huge amount of money ^^ !

    So stop thinking only for your self and start to think how we are all involved in this shit and should fight back as much as possible…


  • Ohhhh ! Docker container are awesome. If you have an old spare laptop lying around (or you know someone who has) give it a try it’s fantastic ! It similar to a virtual machine but different ! It solves the big issue virtual machine have: fast, portability, lightweight, memory efficient… It shares the underling OS !

    I have a 10 years old laptop which is going strong with over 21 docker containers which couldn’t be possible with VMs ! You can host any imaginable service (if available as docker image) in seconds, behind a reverse proxy and access it through your LAN (or externally over a Wireguard connection).

    Let’s take a media workflow example, if you want to get rid of something like YouTube music, spotify, deezer… and maintain your music library and own your music:

    You can self-host:

    • Navidrome to maintain your music library
    • MeTube to download YouTube music (yt-dlp frontend)

    Install NewPipe (Hope you’re on Android :s) and HTTP-shortcuts to glue everything together ! HTTP-shortcuts allow to communicate with your self-hosted MeTube service via POST/GET requests and send directly your files to your MeTube instance via NewPiped. You can than have a background script on your server which: Removes and changes the pesky YouTube metadata, send your files to your Navidrome service !

    This is a rather “complex” workflow but just to say it’s possible. Sure depending your skills with your OS it will take some time to get accustomed to docker containers and the like ! It took me approximately 1 year to really get accustomed to all this new workflow (and get the hang of linux), but now it’s only a matter of minutes !







  • I mean… My Mac M1 doesn’t allow right-click create a new file. 😮‍💨 ! Also, if I recall correctly, there is a similar thing that made me go crazy on Gnome DE.

    Nowadays, people hate to get everything neatly separated in a nice and well ordered directory structure. They throw everything in the same directory and use the find/search function, for what it’s worth.






  • Debian as a server is fine and probably the best ! However as a daily drive OS I don’t think it’s the best choice.

    I have always seen Debian as server distro and that’s probably what they meant ?

    I have debian as my server distro since the beginning of my Linux journey (NEVER failed me !) However I can’t see how Debian as daily drive is a good idea. Sure they try to catch up with testing repo for those who wan’t a more up to date distro, but it’s seems harder to keep up when something breaks along the way.

    That’s where Arch and derivatives shine, if something goes wrong it’s fixed in a few days.


  • I think what happens to me is that I completely lack discipline about structure and will often decide to re-organize things.

    Haha ! Same boat here !

    One slightly more stable system I’ve had for my own code is to use the Issues tracker as a sort of documentation storage system.

    That’s a very nice tip, thank you ! That’s something I will explore.

    Thanks for sharing. :) I hope you don’t mind me saying this but it’s nice to see commits like “Just a commit test”. I also have these as part of learning git.

    Yeah that’s a bit embarrassing 🫠 ! Was playing around with some script to convert Obsidian markdown links to GitHub flavored markdown. Because a comment is necessary to push the commit I have always no idea what to put in there xDD.

    Sorry I couldn’t help you out more and hope you will find a workflow that works for you ! 👍