Who remembers the original Neko.exe for Windows 95? I do, and it’s still running around on the TV computer in the living room.

Neko is the Japanese word for cat, by the way.

Yup. This is like Windows 11 for smaller screens. Pretty, but useless. Fuck.

Really? Eww, what a pity. But not surprising.

Edit:

What this new design potentially sacrifices in contrast and immediate readability, it arguably gains in aesthetics.

Man, fuck that shit. Form follows function, but instead they are doing what Apple and Windows 10/11 have done: make it ✨pretty✨ instead of fucking readable and actually usable.

Fuck background blur in particular. I want stark contrasts so shit is easy to read under any conditions.

I’m too old for this shit.

I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there’s no automatic backups, and there’s no tech support, and it can’t possibly be as cheap. I’m fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.

I’m still a huge DH fan. It’s just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there’s an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We’ve all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I’m trying to cover some scenarios here.

Private chat - how’s that different from using Signal or such? I am actually selfhosting a Mattermost server.

For family, I don’t need anonymous, or zero knowledge, or short lived, or all those buzzwords you had.

Again, I fail to see the use case.

This sounds cool but I don’t understand the use case. When would you use this? For what? With whom?

The Github pages of these projects seem excited about the features but I didn’t see the purpose.

What’s the elevator pitch?

Thank you. It makes sense that the demo shows ALL the features and I wouldn’t need to use all. It’s probably better for my OCD to skip this tool :)

Is it lovingly aimed at grease monkeys or also at normie vehicle owners?

I took a look at the demo site and felt a bit overwhelmed.

Wow, that does seem really useful! So clever to use Home Assistant, and nfc tags. Plus, it’s plain csv when you need the data.

Just to the left of Demimoore.

TLDR = no answer is given in the article.

That sounds awfully complicated for home use.

Zero trust, but you have to use Amazon AWS, Cloudflare, and make your own Telegram bot? And have the domain itself managed by Cloudflare.

Sounds like a lot of trust right there… Would love to be proven wrong.

Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.

Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.

That’s a good idea, didn’t know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?

You know you are right, and I’ve tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn’t happen just then. I don’t know yet what causes it, I can only assume it’s one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.

I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what’s at the top when it happens.

Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.

Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.

I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what’s causing it. I’m running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there’s nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.

thank you! 🤩