I'm thinking of replacing my Nest #doorbell.
Wants:
Doorbell that rings (mine loses power and doesn't ring the bell)
Camera I can check on my phone
Wired, maybe PoE
Secure (not something controlled by a corp so probably #SelfHosting)
I have a couple ideas, but want to know what the #HiveMind thinks.
Edit to include self hosting.
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I recently migrated my Lenovo laptop to Ubuntu Linux.
Under Windows I could use "Lenovo Vantage" to set a battery charging limit to 60%, which I did whenever I used the notebook stationary. Only while traveling I had it charge to 100%.
Now my question is: Is there a tool I can use under Linux to also only charge up to a certain percentage and then keep it there?
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A few years ago at a Broadway show …
STAFF: Pardon the interruption, but is there a doctor in the house?
ME: (looks eagerly at my wife)
WIFE: (whispers) A MEDICAL doctor, dipshit. I don’t think someone needs emergency career guidance.
ME: … they might.
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Trump Rips Zohran Mamdani, Threatens to Withhold NYC Funding
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Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from New York City if the new mayor — be it Zohran Mamdani, or anyone else — doesn't "behave themselves."Joe DePaolo (Mediaite)
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Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.
> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
mögen das
Justine Smithies und Amber mögen das.
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The CDN's bandwidth usage would be tiny, because it's PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
It is as if the "old magic" has got lost in a sea of "cloud" and "node" and "react" and the like.
Putting files of text on a webserver, and hosting it, is so old fashioned, so ancient, that it is almost inconceivable.
I had multiple Serious Discussions with people in $lastjob over them having some big stack of JS libraries in the client side for downloading a file. I mean, it's the web. It's *designed* for downloading files...
(Also, the number of times I've had to explain how HTTP(S) works is just... *sigh*).
The fedi Slashdot effect?
Far less of a challenge if your page doesn't require 50-odd http requests, 30 megabytes of images, numerous database lookups, with no caching.
honestly, even with all of the above a website can still load fast.
It's almost always third party garbage. Be it analytics scripts or wordpress plugins. Or ten different "cdn" hostnames.
last time my blog was on the front page of HN my server was using 1% of 1 vCPU and like 128 MB of RAM.
And had a load average of like 0.01.
I remember somebody running a blog and trying to get it to go viral on Fedi as a stress test. “Break me, you cowards!” were his exact words, as I recall. It was indeed boosted quite a lot. Probably every instance in the Fediverse hit his server to generate a preview, not to mention all the human visitors.
At no point in this experiment did his server ever get even remotely close to overload.
Modern computers are *incredibly* fast…as long as you program them with care.
@neil
I don't *aim* to break my blog, but I toot links to it all the time and don't worry about it.
(But, in any case, the worst that can happen is that it doesn't work for a while!)
Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens
If frontend aspires to be a profession -- something we do for others, not just ourselves -- then we need a culture that can use statistical methods for measuring quality and reject the marketing that dominates the React discourse.Alex Russell
I'm somewhat envious of people who have ISPs good enough for this. I assume this means you must have a fixed-IP service?
I know some ways around floating IPs, but they seem to all involve cloud services of some kind. And there's a firewall appliance to get through.
So, I have a VPS instead. Probably going to do colocation later. I miss access to the hardware, to be sure.
Also manageable by various services e.g.
I have never used these guys, just aware of this kind of service.
@kel @TerryHancock A fair number of the decent DNS registrars offer this, for example, Mythic Beasts
mythic-beasts.com/support/api/…
Your talking via the Mastodon service running on a VM in a converted garage over AAISP BTW.
@wishy @kel @TerryHancock
Same here. A Mastodon instance on an old Intel NUC in the same rack as the webserver.
super mario bush cloud.png
Although I no longer have my own machines on the net I do use a very simple content system - text files that get processed into HTML via a tool called HUGO.
No SQL database, not a mountain of javascript, not a lot of CSS. Easy to move the entire website to a new host or new domain name in a few minutes. Back the whole thing up into a single .zip or .tar file.
Very fast to generate into a hierarchy to give to a web server, very fast to load into a user's browser.
Reminds me of once I was negotiating a contract.
The other side said about one of my terms: "No lawyer would ever allow that!".
I pulled out my California state bar card and said "well, I beg to differ."
you are lucky to have a decent ISP at least, but yeah it makes me sad to think that there’s all this noise and crap about just putting up a web page.
Webdev has become poisoned by its own ignorance and bullshit.
@mattl I'll be the first to agree that our site is - by choice - incredibly simple. It has no functionality which might demand a framework.
But I can well imagine that, for other use cases, the approach that I've taken would not make much sense.
Even if you did need dynamic content, there are ways to do it efficiently. A Rust program using a compile-time template engine will spit out HTML pretty fast, for example.
I mean I kind of get it. DNS kind of sucks for some people. As in, unless you're part of an established cloud or CDN, simply connecting to a website can be slow. Like I used to host a hand coded html/css only site and on some networks it would be quite slow to connect, even if much bulkier sites loaded quickly.
I don't know how to explain in technical terms, but this is an effect I have actually felt.
I used to run a web server in my home, on a 486 connected by dialup. It was not fast by any means, but it worked.
Now imagine how fast that website would be on a modern Ryzen box connected to gigabit fiber.
“Your website cannot be in your home”, my foot! Your average Joe now has exactly the same amount of computing power and upstream bandwidth as a data center server, if not more. There is basically nothing stopping him from running a website in his garage.
I blame progress.
20 years ago, my dialup ISP ( I think it was plus.net, before they were bought out) gave me 100 megabytes of web space. I could write some html and FTP it up, and it could be seen by anyone who cares to look.
I used it for all sorts of odd jobs. I put a copy of my CD and DVD library (titles, not content) up there so anyone wanting to buy me one could check I didn't already have it. And a copy of my wishlist (platform-agnostic, unlike eg. an Amazon one). 1/2
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I have a feeling the cloud/cdn people have done a way too good job on marketing.
Part of it is valid. Stuff like video streaming has such a huge variability in bandwidth that it's difficult to self-host unless you are pretty damn large. But for pretty much anything else you can usually just host it yourself on a fairly easily purchased link, but people just.... don't.
Even at work, where we actually regularly _test_ that we can run without a CDN, we don't normally.
Web1.0+
Simple code, no bloat, allied to un-dreamed-of-in-90s bandwidth and processing power.
How #fediverse!
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After bombing Iran and torturing trans kids, Trump still thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
This photo of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo tells us a different story.
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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✨ New blog post: “Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot”
Switching to Linux. Self-hosting. Fossifying my phone.
I thought the old internet was gone — turns out, it just needed a reboot.
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#OldInternet #OpenWeb #FOSS #Linux #DigitalReboot
📟 Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot
✨ New blog post: “Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot” Switching to Linux. Self-hosting. Fossifying my phone. I thought the old internet was gone — turns out, it just needed a reboot. #OldInternet #OpenWeb #FOSS #Linux #DigitalRebootLaura Hargreaves 👩💻 (Laura Hargreaves)
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@stella IKEA is the largest logging company in the world, responsible for the destruction of thousands of ecosystsems , illigal logging and colonisation all around the world.
Their actions in Sapmí and Romania alone would land them in the Hague, this is Pinkwashing of ecocide, genocide and colonialism
FUCK IKEA, NO CORPOS AT PRIDE
I used to mow our lawn every fortnight, like my Dad did, when we didn't have the sheep on it.
Since about 10 years here, I just do it 3x a year - once just before spring, once in summer after the spring flowers and clover die back, and once in winter.
And every day I look out at our messy unkempt lawn, I get a small but vital boost of joy in the day.
Not only is it a lot less stupid work, its much better for the environment - we have a family of bumblebees now under our front door, they are so cute I see them buzzing around every day - and we have a group of birds who visit regularly to poke around in the ground. I'm sure there will be 100s of other species making their home there too.
Just down the road, a farmer has switched an entire field over to "bee flowers" . He'll be rotating 1 paddock every year as usual, but has specifically focused on using insect-friendly mixes, instead of the more common plain nitrogen-fixing plants.
If you want the planet to survive, do what you can, with what you have. Radical change needs small steps as well as big ones. Stop mowing the lawn, & let the life back in.
Hypolite Petovan mag das.
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"Du bist im Bett."
"Aber ich wäre fast aufgestanden."
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Dear Fedi friends,
I just published a blog post with the links to all the versions of my Fedi promo video - so that they can be easily found in one place: news.elenarossini.com/a-video-…
Direct links:
#English: videos.elenarossini.com/w/64Vu…
#français: videos.elenarossini.com/w/hxzy…
#italiano: videos.elenarossini.com/w/peti…
A routine reminder that there are subtitles in 14 languages thanks to wonderful Fedi volunteers. Adding more today. Credits: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
More versions coming soon! ✨ 🚀
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with itElena Rossini
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.Special thanks to:
@[url=https://mamot.fr/users/sknob]sknob[/url] for help with the French translation
Tarcísio Surdi @[url=https://bolha.one/users/tarcisiosurdi]Tarcísio Surdi ⁂[/url] for the Portuguese Brazilian translation
Jan Dytrych @[url=https://social.dytrych.cloud/users/jan]Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦[/url] for the Czech translation
Claudio Brugnoni for help with the Italian translation
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can't get the english link to load on my S25+
Managed to view it via the YT link.
suggesting they learn more about the #fediverse and getting off MAGA tech (my term for Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Apple) is awesome.
@jackgangi thank you! ❤️
Maybe I should resurrect my deactivated Instagram and LinkedIn accounts for a few days to share the video 🙃
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Phanpy: Eine minimalistische Alternative zur Mastodon-Weboberfläche
Phanpy bietet eine minimalistische Weboberfläche für Mastodon. Mit reduziertem Design, klarer Thread-Darstellung und praktischen Funktionen richtet sich der Client an alle, die beim Lesen und Schreiben Wert auf Übersicht legen.
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@zeitverschreib [friendica] Funktioniert das tatsächlich gut mit Friendica?
/cc @GNU/Linux.ch
Mir fällt gerade nichts ein, das bisher Probleme gemacht hätte. Klar, Abstimmungen gehen auf Friendica nicht, aber das liegt nicht am Client.
Hamiller Friendica mag das.
@zeitverschreib [friendica] Klar, das mit den Abstimmungen liegt an Friendica selbst. Dann werde ich das mal bei Gelegenheit ausprobieren.
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A reminder that it was never about following the law and being documented—it was always about banning non-white immigration, period.
Elon Musk, an white undocumented immigrant, can destroy the Govt & he's praised. A brown immigrant and US citizen can get elected to NYC Mayor & he's a danger. smh
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#KLINGBEIL streicht Seenotrettung sämtliche Mittel!
Klingbeil #SPD arbeitet unerlässlich daran die Partei einstelligen zu machen, ich finde das macht er gut !!
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Bundesregierung streicht Gelder für Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer
Das Auswärtige Amt stellt seine finanzielle Unterstützung für die zivile Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer ein. Politiker und Hilfsorganisationen kritisieren die Entscheidung.tagesschau.de
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Selbst schuld!
(Das Bild ist schon verkauft. :3)
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*blows the dust off their Fedi account, coughs as dust billows into the air*
Well hi there friend! You may not remember me, but I'm Bwee! I'm a fluffy blue dragon and I love you!!! That's all you need to know, really!
So, I'm back. It's been a really long time, and I'm so sorry for making you worry if I did. I'm okay. I'm just not good at managing my time and certain things have fallen by the wayside as a result. But I aim to fix that, starting with being around here again!!
I hope you've been doing well. I've missed you so much!!
Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day, night, or evening, whatever it happens to be for you!!
💙💙💙
Hank G ☑️ mag das.
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yay! now we celebrate 
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Rhythm Heaven: Dragon Dance
Based off the Sumo Brothers in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.That minigame is dope, PLAY IT!Also Charizard master race.YouTube
I'm glad to see you're doing alright. I don't think I've spoken with you in almost a year.
Did you manage to stay off the cancer sticks?
@eviljackcarver Yeah, it's been a long time!!
Sadly I relapsed a couple of months ago and haven't managed to kick the habit again quite yet :/ I'll get there!
❤️
Well HI there, @Bwee!!😍 Good to see you around, friend. I was thinking about you just yesterday, hoping that you were doing okay, wherever you were.🙏♥️
I assumed that you were probably taking care of life stuff that needed to be prioritized, which we will need to do from time to time.🫂 How're you feeling this summer, if you don't mind me asking?
🍊
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