Yeah the intro read as weird to me. If you’re writing for a programming crowd there’s no need to explain all that, and anyway the rest of the article wasn’t about the stack/heap distinction.

I think once Forgejo gets ActivityPub integration working it will really help for migration. I know federated platforms like Mastodon struggled with adoption because I think a lot of folks struggled to wrap their heads around the fact that there’s no “default instance” and they have to choose their own instance, but hopefully for a programming crowd that won’t be an issue. It would massively help with the “well I could move to a different website but there’s no obvious second choice I can move to” issue; you can just head to any Forgejo instance and interact with any other federated instance.

Simply make everything an array of bytes

Why ZFS?

I think in general people start out in VMs and advance to containers. If you are already using containers stick with it, otherwise you are taking a step back.

Interesting perspective—I had thought that running an entire VM would be more difficult, but I’ve never used virtualisation for server stuff, only ever used VMs with a GUI VM manager on my personal computer. Thanks for the input.

I think you should open a Forgejo issue requesting a cache size limit option. It seems like quite a big problem if bots can fill up your hard drive like this without you setting a limit on all data used by Forgejo (when, for single-user instances, you probably only want to limit archive size or size of any data the public can create, not the size of your own repos)

Codeberg Pages. Neocities.

Surveil the surveillors

I’m not really sure what people mean by Rust being a headache/weird/hard/etc honestly. It was a learning curve but nothing crazy, and I’ve come to really like the ways Rust works—it makes my life way easier in the long run to be able to solve problems at compile time so I don’t have to debug undefined behaviour at runtime. But to each their own of course—if another language works for you then it works for you.

Yeah tbh I’m not sure what the reason for using a systems programming language other than either Rust or C would be. Rust by default for safety (and it’s as performant as any other systems language), C if you either need to work with an existing C codebase or want to be able to more easily do unsafe stuff. Or if you need to compile quickly. I’m sure the other languages have their benefits but not to the extent where I would both want to learn it and have use cases for it where I would choose that language over Rust or C for a project.

Agreed. I don’t find it misleading; it’s showing a gui frontend, which makes more sense for a screenshot as it’s a more interesting screenshot than a screenshot of your terminal.

You’ve not made it clear what exactly it is you want. Nextcloud or syncthing are good for syncing personal files. If you want to make server backups, they’re not gonna be the way.

If you want to automate backups, you could just use a cronjob to make a tarball and rsync it?

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker

Rather I think what we should wish for is that they be unnecessary, or at least it be unnecessary for them to be as fleshed out as they are. I’ve found a lot of FOSS communities to be quite casually misogynistic—you could just say to ignore it and focus on the code, but it most certainly makes it harder to focus on the code when the community is subtly hostile towards you. If you think CoCs are unnecessary even for large projects then it’s probably because you’re not one of the demographics affected by the problems that led to CoCs proliferating. Once a project has enough of a community around it I think a CoC is reasonable enough in the current culture.

It depends on what media you’re consuming? Nearly all the media I consume is text based and works without JS. It’s usually available as plain HTML files or markdown files or similar, or in an ebook format like epub or pdf that I can download and read with zathura.

For audio-visual content it’s harder yeah. FreeTube and yt-dlp are working for me with Mullvad VPN as of time of writing. Some invidious instances are still working too. But I hardly ever watch YouTube—I think you may find that you miss YT much less than you’d expect, and if Google makes you pick between privacy and YouTube, you should pick privacy.

I see, that’s interesting. Well glad that it’s not hard to switch away from systemd on Debian for those who want it—although I still think if you don’t want systemd you should just pick another distro, given that the Debian installer doesn’t let you pick another init.

On Debian you can use both sysvinit and openrc

Huh really? Then why does Devuan exist? (I don’t use Debian for context)

I use Alpine for servers because I like its simplicity. Not in terms of computational power requirements, just in terms of user experience.

Alpine is an interesting choice for hosting

I’d say servers are one of the main uses of Alpine, second to containers. It would be a much more unusual choice for a desktop OS.

Alpine already uses OpenRC. There’s no option to use systemd with Alpine.

Popular alternatives include runit (which Void uses), OpenRC (Gentoo and Alpine), s6, sysVinit, dinit. The suckless people have also written some suckless inits—I think one of them’s called sinit.

So what are the alternatives that work with both Alpine and Debian?

None. On Alpine you can only use OpenRC and on Debian you can only use systemd. Most distros don’t let you change out the init system. If you want systemdless Debian look into Devuan.

Judging from this post, I would say you should not be looking to change out your init system as, no disrespect intended, but you really don’t seem to know what you’re talking about. You don’t even know what init systems your operating systems (Alpine and Debian) are using, let alone the details of different init systems.

Some people have strong opinions about init systems. They are nerds with reasons behind those opinions. You don’t seem to have many reasons and you don’t seem to be particularly invested in the debate. I would say it’s not worth your time to change operating system (which is what you would need to do to change your init) just because you heard vaguely that systemd is bad. If you reach a point where init system matters to you, then you won’t need to be asking the questions you’re asking in the OP.

I wouldn’t know about professionally as I don’t work in the industry, but anecdotally a lot of young people I see use LLMs for everything. Meanwhile in the FOSS community online I see very little of AI/LLMs. I think it’s a cultural thing that will vary depending on what circle of people you’re looking at.