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amin, 3 months ago to random

Hey, Fedi admins, go right now and check to make sure that you have caps/limits set on your Object Storage provider so they just stop serving you images instead of charging you $3,000 because some random person in Europe decided to scrape your instance.

Re: https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/111937646419975910

This is a really tragic tale (I hope they can get the charge reversed) but right at this moment I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.

amin, 1 month ago to random

I'm proud to announce the launch of the public beta for Clew, my independent web search engine! 🎉🎉🎉

Try Clew: https://clew.se
Add to your browser: https://clew.se/add/

Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.

Many features are yet to come. If you'd like to support Clew's development and server costs, you can donate to its Liberapay team: https://liberapay.com/Clew/

Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!

amin, 1 month ago to random

Public notice that I will be boycotting any software project that includes “AI-powered” features.

Boost to join in.

amin, 1 month ago to random

If you're upset about the StackOverflow/OpenAI partnership deal, might I suggest looking into Codidact? They're an open source Q&A network founded by alienated StackExchange mods.

https://www.codidact.com/

amin, 23 days ago to random

I've been loving Manu's People and Blogs series, but one thing that has caught my eye is how much some people are paying to run their blogs. Sometimes, it's much more than I can afford and, I suspect, more than many beginning bloggers are willing or able to shell out.

So, for you wonderful, creative beginning bloggers, I’ve done some research and put together this guide to blogging on a budget.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/blogging-on-a-budget/

If you have recommendations I'd love to add them to this post, just let me know.

#100DaysToOffload 20/100

amin, 3 months ago to random

Hey, authors and terminal nerds! Interested in writing a Guest Article for tty1? I've just published full guidelines to that process:

https://tty1.blog/guest-authors/

Feel free to message me here to ask questions before sending in your proposal, too. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! (boosts welcome)

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https://tty1.blog is a blog about the Linux terminal.

amin, 7 months ago to random

Okay buddies, here's the deal:

Reply with a picture of your bike (include alt text!) => I'll think you're a pretty cool person

amin, 4 months ago to random

Today's xkcd is pretty funny: https://xkcd.com/2888/

amin, 2 months ago to random

Had a thought. Let me know if it's just sleep dep talking.

We've all heard the "I don't have anything to hide" argument against needing privacy protection, right? Well, there's another thing to think about: solidarity.

Sure, maybe you don't have anything to hide. But some people do. Some people have really good reasons for needing to keep things about their identities or activities private, sometimes going as far as being a safety issue.

When you use technology that doesn't respect your privacy, you're empowering those companies and making it more difficult for privacy-respecting technology to survive, causing actual harm to people who need that privacy.

Needs a little more thought, but I wanted to say it. Maybe I'll write up a blog post or something, I don't know.

amin, 4 months ago to random

A fun CSS snippet I just worked out:

@media print {
	a::after {
		content: " <"attr(href)">"
	}
}

When you've got this and go to print out a website, it puts the target URL of any links in <> after the link text. Pretty cool!

I've added it to https://benjaminhollon.com so you can try it out; just open the page and press "print" in your browser's controls; the preview should show what I'm talking about.

I'm considering whether to add this to readable.css. At the least, I wanna do some changes to the styling to have it be plain black on white when printing, to save ink and look nicer. Maybe widen the column to fit the page.

Thoughts are very welcome.

amin, 5 months ago to random

My youngest brother expressed an interest in the terminal earlier today, so I spent a good while teaching him some basics (set back a little by the fact that he's on MacOS and some things aren't behaving how I'm used to).

He's a dog person, so I'm not surprised that the first line to go in his brand new .zshrc is alias dog="cat"

amin, 18 days ago to random

Photo backup from my iPhone to my Linux computer has long been a source of frustration for me.

Up till now, my efforts had been mainly focused on cloud backup (to self-hosted services), but now I have a nice, offline solution.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/syncing-my-photos-from-ios-using-ifuse-and-rsync/

#100DaysToOffload 21/100

amin, 5 months ago to random

Hey, got ranting about some depressing stuff in a thread and now am feeling a little down. Which got me thinking; there's so much darkness in the world, but let's try to counteract it.

Could we do some sharing of poetry/stories/photos/etc. that are uplifting and bring smiles to people's faces? That would make me (and, I suspect, some others) oh so happy. Let's use the #SomethingUplifting tag; I'll post one in a moment and a couple more after I get a good night's rest.

Boosts are appreciated, as are your own posts to the tag.

amin, 4 months ago to random

I finally finished setting up the domain for my search engine! The placeholder site (including my current mockup of the landing page) is live: https://clew.se

I'll be writing up a blog post about this as soon as I can find some time. If you have questions you want answered in that post, let me know! :D

amin, 6 months ago to random

For people doing Advent of Code, I have a Private Leaderboard of Fediverse people you're welcome to join!

Join code is 382566-472d5a9a.

amin, 3 months ago to random

I've had this Debian install for 150 days as of today! 🎉

amin, 25 days ago to random

Well I worked out a way to back up my photos from my phone directly to my computer. Of course, in the process I accidentally deleted all the photos on my phone with a ill-advised rm -r, but at least the ones deleted are backed up to my computer? 🫠

amin, 3 months ago to superbowl

I'm enjoying watching as the "Super Bowl" and "Superb Owl" posters of Fedi fight for control over the #superbowl hashtag much more than I'd have enjoyed watching the game itself. This is hilarious.

amin, 1 month ago to random

Is it just me or should it be really easy to provide cheap, high-quality static site hosting with unlimited sites on custom domains/subdomains?

I kinda wanna start up a service where people can get that for, like, $12/yr. It wouldn't make me much money, sure, but it would prove a point.

hm. I was saying that as a joke but now I'm seriously considering it. If I were to start up something like that, is there anything here who'd be interested? Would probably need at least a couple dozen people to make it financially stable.

amin, 3 months ago to random

Why aren't we using a thirteen-month calendar? The year divides almost perfectly into 28-day months. Dedicate the leftover day (or two days in leap years) to reflection and optimizing your workflow at the end of the year.

There'd be an even number of 7-day weeks in each month. There's be an even number of days in each month. The 1-2 odd days at the end of the year are usually part of "the holidays" anyway.

I kinda wanna design this and try using it for my personal stuff. Might be confusing to use alongside my class schedule, but then again it might not.

amin, 1 month ago to random

2,105 searches have been performed on Clew by non-bots in the last 24 hours. :Clew:

Wow. This is the most attention a project launch of mine has ever received. Y'all rock. I hope you like the direction this project goes in.

amin, 2 months ago to random

Uh oh, my Framework Laptop is all of a sudden failing to post and flashing a diagnostic code with the power LED…

That’s really rough, I don’t have any way to fix anything while here in CR? Any tips?

amin, 5 months ago to random

I'm happy to announce that I have finally added a blogroll to my site!

Here's the blogroll: https://benjaminhollon.com/blogroll/

Here's my article announcing it and explaining the selection criteria: https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/announcing-my-blogroll/

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#100DaysToOffload 3/100

amin, 1 month ago to random

With a beautiful logo designed by the one, the only, the amazing @joel, I think Clew is almost ready to go into a public beta! 🎉

Just a few final touches to make.

amin, 16 days ago to random

The web is changing. (Nobody denies that, of course.) The biggest changes revolve around money. (And that, as well, is not exactly surprising.)

The impetus of these changes is a shift in perspective by major web companies and media sources—a perspective that is not yet shared by their audiences.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/the-great-paywall/

#100DaysToOffload 23/100