Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…

…I have no words.

They can’t even do a coup without fucking half of it up.

From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.

When the enshittification comes (when, not if, they’ll have to drag their feet to move somewhere else again. All their followers will have to follow them again. Had they moved to a proper open solution, they could’ve stayed there indefinitely.

It’s not just about Bluesky" not being the proper and pure solution", it’s about this being a temporary measure at best, and people don’t seem to realize that.

Simple, the position doesn’t require technical insight. At all. It should, but it doesn’t.

If I understand this document correctly, it would mean that the entire connection somehow gets routed through Meta’s servers. I can fully understand the reluctance of other parties, including Signal, to do that, and I wonder how this is actually compliant with the DMA.

So they either keep Signal around and be able to talk to you, or they don’t. They don’t need to stop using WA to use Signal.

If they don’t want to do that, it’d mean that you would have to keep WA around for the one or two contacts you have there (and only there), which is somewhat comparable, actually, if you disregard the “but meta is short for metastasis, actually” bit.

Which one of the two it ends up being is between you and your contacts.

AKA Betteridge’s law of headlines.

Ehh, I’m fairly sure it’s not. It certainly wasn’t in the past. When do you believe that changed?

Never mind, you were talking about OO, not LO, my bad.

If you mean a (read-only) web interface, there’s also cgit and gitweb.

I mean, it’s your party and if Gitea works for you, that’s great. It still is a bigger piece of software than what you need (or at least what you’ve told so far), it’s up to you to determine if you’re fine with that.

i don’t want wordpress.

Me neither, but a lot of folks do (or at least think they do), and if this makes it an approachable gateway into the larger fediverse for them, I’m all for it.

They can always switch to something better, later.

Ze zitten er nog allemaal aan. Beste wensen!

Please tell me this is a joke. Are they really that blatant, and if so, why are they still not forbidden?

The town’s name ‘Neuf’, meaning new in French

I’m fairly sure neuf means “nine”, and nouveau {or nouvelle, depending) means new.

Edit: I was apparently also fairly wrong about this. Learned something today!

Cornish Zen, I think.

That’s almost correct. They have the Halcyon Kyria coming later this year, which will be preassembled.

Apart from that, I doubt any split KB is going to warrant getting CE certified, as far as I know that’s quite an elaborate and costly procedure.

I’ll skip the usual NPC monologue about how a moka pot does not make espresso, period, because the grind and pressure and process are completely different and that’s OK… Well, damn, still monologued. 🤣

Anyway, I have a Bambino (which is the absolute low end of things I’d consider) and a moka pot, they’re both fun and make decent coffee, but the moka pot is a lot more forgiving than the espresso machine. The amounts of time I got really bad coffee out of the moka pot vs out of the espresso machine are not even close.

That’s an interesting approach, this might just make a better fit than what I’ve been doing so far!

I’ve never taken apart a Topre board, but looking at this video video, I’d say it was doable. Fiddly, maybe, but then again, so is opening up every switch on an MX board, too. Take your time, be gentle, pay close attention to what you’re doing… You’re probably going to be fine.