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I tried Baikal but Radicale was much easier to use and set up. It’s been solid for the last two years for me. That said I try to avoid self hosted services written in Python, espec…

Yep, comes from “soyboy”, a pejorative for more feminine men. The term came about from soybeans having phytoestrogen.

Politicians don't have the right to be on a private website. They already have official channels to communicate. Twitter has every right to ban Putin, or Trump, or Duterte, etc.

The fact of the matter is that the US is laid out in a way that cars are necessary for most places. Even if you actually get people to vote and participate in their local politics,…

* The UI is nice to have * You get features like issues, project wiki, etc * You can still collaborate/handle PRs easily with other people I selfhost for the above and just to have…

I wouldn't say it's terrible but prometheus & grafana have a learning curve for sure. It's a question of do you want a pull-based architecture (prometheus) or a push-based one (inf…

I've been using apple maps for probably 3 years now and for driving it's great. Both for local navigation and driving from the east coast to ~michigan/illinois. My family still swe…

Who is “we”? It’s not surprising or creepy that people focus on what they actually can control. None of us realistically can change the fact that America is built around roads. Not…

I can’t speak for everyone but I make enough money that messing around with e-mail spam is not worth it, when I’d rather be playing my instruments or whatever. I do my email throug…

I don't think the average router would be able to run much of anything, not to mention how insecure the average router is since people don't update them. Mastodon is very resource …

To my eyes this is way harder to read than traditional notation, which really isn't hard to learn and works well for most music (and non-12TET music). It's hard to see if a note is…

If this concerns you so deeply then write to your representatives to enact legislation. The kid did nothing wrong as it stands now since anyone can look up that data apparently. I …

Comparing a trivial Maintaining a 5k+ LoC java/c#/go/rust/crystal codebase is orders of magnitude simpler than standard ruby. Sorbet/RBS bridge that gap now, but are a pita to use …

Crystal has local variables. I didn't mean to imply that ruby & crystal are 1:1 drop-in replacements, but there are a great many similarities. Enough for me as a ruby/rails dev to …

What semantics is crystal lacking? Obviously it's not a 1:1 replacement as the ecosystem is different, gem management (shards) is different, etc. Crystal also has union types and c…

There essentially already is a statically typed ruby: Crystal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)

No. The parent comment’s viewpoint is fine, whereas your absolutist viewpoint is not helpful. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are what you make of them. There’s nothing to “present” i…

I find it interesting that snapchat still is used by young people and not really by older people. I remember using it about 10 years ago in highschool, and then college, before I k…

"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names" Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names…

Cube 2: Sauerbraten is fun and it uses very little resources. The game and engine are open source. Other than that I can’t really think of anything other than good clones like Open…

The question here is: so what? Valve makes a lot of money from the steam store. They’re not going anywhere. There are competitors like gog games that sell them without DRM. You dow…

It’s a pretty famous quote and he’s correct. Steam has DRM aspects but is pretty seamless. It is entirely way more work to look for cracked games and download those than to just bu…

I assume that these projects took time and effort, but the finished results look to me like a half-baked render, like someone just forgot to finish the job. I'm not a fan of much o…

The exterior of the Notre Dame du Haut is simplistic, not beautiful (although the slope of the roof is nice). The interior design is striking in its layout, but overall both are ug…

All of 'em. All of them will be safe. AI generated content is devoid of meaning and randomly generating some pictures isn't indicative of anything to me. Human works of creativity …