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As an engineer and self-hosting and self-coding enthusiast, I would agree with a lot of the points. I have spent most of my life in IT advocating for decentralization and democrati…

Madblog allows you to run a federated blog from an Obsidian vault, a git clone or your Nextcloud Notes. Now that support for author replies and reactions has been added, you can al…

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You know that you are dealing with a fascist scumbag the moment you hear "terrorist", "antifa" and "law and order" in the same phrase. Flock is a disgrace for the industry, and thi…

I don't get it. If you hate Windows just use Linux, BSD or whatever. I'm sick of all the "Windows 11 sucks" folks that yet keep using Windows. Just boot your laptop from a Linux IS…

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Or just use the Surfingkeys extension - it has a bit of a steep learning curve to customize it, but it's worth every piece of effort.

My advice is to build such solutions around open products like Signal, XMPP or Matrix if possible. Or even Telegram. On top of providing a better developer experience compared to M…

As the developer of a GPS tracking app that relies a lot on OpenStreetMap, I've faced many of these problems myself. A couple of learned lessons/insights: - I avoid relying on any …

The irony of watching this 2017 TED video in 2025, and find out that my NoScript extension reports half a dozen of JS trackers and ads providers on this page - including Google, do…

Of course, I'm not saying that one size fits all. There are cases like media apps, camera apps, videogames, terminal emulators, clipboard managers etc. that won't become Web apps a…

All the features you mentioned can also be achieved by a well developed PWA. Of course, minus the widgets or some deeper system integration (like controlling phone calls etc.)

It doesn't sound like anything that a PWA (paired with some a sync mechanism like Websockets) can't solve. And with WebAssembly the convergence is even more compelling.

I'd assume that self-hosting is not an option for this user? Otherwise the alternatives would be pretty much a nobrainer for me: Microsoft Office 365 -> Nextcloud Bitwarden -> self…

This got me genuinely interested - until I cloned the project and saw the docker-compose file. Minio + Celery + 4-5 services just for the main app + Keycloak? I'm sorry, but this i…

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It depends on how much Firefox enshittifies. If it's just about removing some telemetry configuration from upstream, then a couple of downstream patches will still do the job. If, …