Fascinating read, I should definitely also make way more use of sqlite for little side projects.
Thanks for the link!

While a full ‘deletion’ of such an issue is certainly unfortunate, I can kind of see how it gets to such a decision point.

You’re creating some software in the open, decide to ping some communities on reddit/lemmy and all of a sudden it seems like a disgruntled brigade is breaking down your door while you just wanted to show them the garden.

What for us looks like earnest sleuthing can feel like abuse/harassment from the other side simply due to the asymmetrical nature of the internet.

Would have probably still preferred a closed issue instead, but having a couple ‘niche-successful’ repos on github myself - I can at least certainly empathise.

It might get a little simpler to host and busier to play again in the not too distant future if the announced free fanmade re-release works out!

Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.

Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely, like the above-mentioned Mineclonia).

Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.

The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.

So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn also only allow you to play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.

It’s good but it’s also been bought out by, at least to me, an ‘unknown’ early this year. Since then, there’s been a couple outages though nothing too drastic. New owner also promised to only make changes that are ‘thoughtful and focused on making your experience better’ but I am still cautiously eyeing other options since then - I’ve learned never to trust those words by new owners.

It might turn out to be something different - but just in case it does log you out after a system restart (but maybe not after network disconnect) it would probably have something to do with kwallet (the key ring which has your credentials) not unlocking correctly.

If that’s the case this or this might be further pointers to look into.

I’ve been exclusively reading my fiction books (all epubs) on Readest and absolutely love it. Recently I also started using it for my nonfiction books and articles (mostly pdf) as an experiment, and it’s workable but a little more rough around the edges still.

You can highlight and annotate, and export all annotations for a book once you are done, for which I have set up a small pipeline to directly import them into my reference management software.

It works pretty well with local storage (though I don’t believe it does ‘auto-imports’ of new files by default) and I’ve additionally been using their free hosted offering to sync my book progress. It’s neat and free up to 500mb of books, but you’re right that I would also prefer a byo storage solution, perhaps in the future.

The paid upgrades are mostly for AI stuff and translations which I don’t really concern myself with.

Been seeing the posts pop up recently and I really like the look of your software, bookmarked for future jrnl integration possibilities.

But what a missed opportunity to not have a Journiv Ahead in your second headline :)

Open source/selfhost projects 100% keep track of how many people star a repo, what MRs are submitted, and even usage/install data.

I feel it is important to make a distinction here, though:

GitHub, the for-profit, non-FOSS, Microsoft-owned platform keeps track of the ‘stars of a repo’, not the open-source self-host projects themselves. Somebody hosts their repo forge on Codeberg, sr.ht, their own infrastructure or even GitLab? There’s generally very little to no algorithmic number-crunching involved. Same for MR/PRs.

Additionally - from my knowledge - very few fully FOSS programs have extensive usage/install telemetry, and even fewer opt-out versions. Tracking which couldn’t be disabled I’ve essentially never heard of in that space, because every time someone does go in that direction the public reaction is usually very strong (see e.g. Audacity).

Interesting, so Metal3 is basically kubernetes-managed baremetal nodes?

Over the last years I’ve cobbled together a nice Ansible-driven IaC setup, which provisions Incus and Docker on various machines. It’s always the ‘first mile’ that gets me struggling with completely reproducible bare-metal machines. How do I first provision them without too much manual interference?

Ansible gets me there partly, but I would still like to have e.g. the root file system running on btrfs which I’ve found hard to accomplish with just these tools when first provisioning a new machine.

The fact that even bios is only 720p makes me think @Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de in the other answer may be on the right track.

You don’t have an amazing amount of time, so perhaps eliminating variables one by one may make sense before digging through the bios downgrade rabbit hole.

1. By trying a less bespoke distro it may be possible to eliminate distro doubts quicker. Try mint or fedora, see if they scale correctly in Live mode, and if they do, perhaps also when installed?
2. otherwise, do you have a different monitor to exclude that variable as well?
3. if other distros work, it’s unlikely to be a bios issue. If they don’t, which seems likely from the description, then you can follow the firmware discussion and return your efforts to bazzite

This will take a little more upfront time but may save you some in the long run

Edit: also, the CPU should have integrated graphics, right? You can prob eliminate another variable just by trying to boot into a distro once without the GPU connected. if everything suddenly works, you are closer to the cause, if not you’ve at least eliminated the gpu

When I was stumbling on some of his output it unfortunately felt very click-baity, always playing on your FOMO if you didn’t set up/download/buy the next best thing until the other next best thing in the video after.

In other words, I think he’s cool to check out to get to know of a thing, but to get a deeper level of understanding how a thing works I would recommend written materials. There are good caddy/nginx tutorials out there, but a linux networking book will get your understanding further yet.

If it has to be video, I would at least recommend a little more slowed down, long-form content like Learn Linux TV.

I’ve been using NetBird for quite a while now. It has grown from an experiment in connecting to the server without exposing it to quite a stable setup that I make use of every day, and even got my partner and some of my family to use. That is the hosted offering, however, not me self hosting my own server component.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been eyeing pangolin though. It just seems like such an upgrade concerning identity and SSO - but equally a complete overhaul of my infrastructure and a steep learning curve.

I am itching to get it running but would probably have to approach it step-by-step, and roll it out pretty slowly, while transferring the existing services.

That’s a pretty crazy use of Lua if I may say so.

It is possible to craft continue-like logic in lua, however, with (out of all things) goto statements.

For example, I have the following code in my dotfiles:

	for _, lang in pairs(loopvar) do
		if condition then
			goto continue
		end
		<do whatever the loop actually does>
		::continue::
	end

Of course the continue could be called anything. Really felt uncomfortable resorting to this way but it is possible :-)

Can you expand on that?

I was running a tiny bit of garrsymod many years ago and didn’t know there were any RCEs. Unfortunately I can’t find any news reports talking about it either at a quick glance?

https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd ?

No worries, mostly thought I’d point it out to others reading who might be a little confused by the close naming scheme and don’t know exactly what tool provides which functions.

(And since I love incus but think for most people atm IncusOS is not the right choice)

You’re completely right, and my opinion hasn’t changed they are an awful transphobic person that posted heinous transphobic bullshit.

Since a moderator thankfully deleted the comments already I didn’t want to make anybody have to read their contents again, was my thinking.

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I had the same thought and am fairly confused by the outrage.

Isn’t the whole joke that as soon as we sit down to nerd out on Linux that we put on our frilly socks? There’s even the whole unixsocks comm dedicated to it. And it always felt good in a throwback to the 90s ‘outcast geek’ community without all the cis dude-by-default baggage bit of in-joking. Welcoming all our brothers and sisters by highlighting just how much they are part of our community.

What does OP think the image suggests I wonder?