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We're going to try to keep the pressure up over the coming weeks - and once sytest is at 100% coverage (and we're not missing any big features which sytest doesn't cover yet) we'll be declaring a 1.0 :)

Wonderful news!

Hi all!

Recently, I've been thinking about how to handle my dotfiles again.

I've used chezmoi for a while, and while it's good, I've been wanting something a little lighter.

The simplicity of having my $HOME be a git repository was attractive, but I ran into issues. Specifically, many command line tools I use such as fzf and ripgrep have a feature to automatically ignore in their search results any files which are ignored by a gitignore. This meant I had to either turn this feature off (not ideal) or they wouldn't work any more. Also, the terminal prompt I use also showed I was within a git repository all the time, which was annoying.

Does anyone have an wisdom they'd like to share? If I can't get the $HOME as a git repository working the way I'd like, I may check out GNU Stow, which seems to be the next most lightweight option.

Thanks!

I ask because development has been non-existent for most of this year, particularly since February, since when almost all commits have been related to their P2P/Pinecone stuff.

Obviously I think P2P Matrix is really cool but... I thought their aim was to make Dendrite a Synapse replacement? It's nowhere near that right now and it doesn't look like they're working towards that direction any more.

Hi all, I was looking to buy RGB lights, particularly something like the Philips Hue Light bar.

Aside from it being very expensive and requiring a hub for its "smart" features, as far as I can tell the software used to control it isn't open source.

I know OpenRGB exists but I'd prefer a manufacturer that supports open source software, if that exists. Any other recommendations welcome! Thanks

Currently all my photos/videos are all stored in iCloud. I want to move these to my Nextcloud instance.

The Nextcloud iOS app does have a feature to automatically transfer an entire iCloud library to Nextcloud, but it's broken right now (and has been for several months, see this issue). Unfortunately it doesn't look like the iOS app developers are going to fix this any time soon.

Instead, I downloaded my photos/videos from privacy.apple.com, and I now have them all in archives. But their structure is all all over the place. I don't think I can use a hacked-together script to convert them to a sane folder/file structure because nothing is dated.

For example, I would want a simple structure like /{year}/{month}/{day}/{images}. But the iCloud archive's format is something like /Photos/{images}. Nothing is dated.

Any ideas about what I could do? It looks like my only options are just to have all my old photos in an esoteric folder/file structure, and have new photos/videos properly sorted. But that isn't ideal.

The only other option is to hold out hope that Apple eventually add an option, as they recently added a way to transfer to Google Photos. But I am not expecting them to add support for Nextcloud.

I swear this is impossible. I've tried every smoke I can find online and can't get any to be consistent.

Which smoke do you use?

The Signal Server repository hasn't been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting.

To me, this is unforgivable behaviour. Signal always positioned themselves as "open source", and the Server itself is under the best license for server software (AGPLv3 -- which raises questions about the legality of this situation).

Signal's whole approach to open source has constantly been underwhelming to say the least. Their budget-Apple attitude (secrecy, i.e. "we can never engage the community directly", "we will never merge/accept PRs", etc) has lead to its logical conclusion here, I guess. I have been somewhat of a "Signal apologist" thus far (I almost always defend them & I think a lot of criticism they get it very unfair) but yeah I'm over Signal now.

As of late, invidious has become pretty much unusable for me. All the instances either don't work or are very slow, and as nobody knows Crystal more and more bugs keep cropping up (e.g. right now search is broken on all instances).

Are there any alternatives? I know of FreeTube but its client is Electron which is a no-go for me. I also know of youtube-dl, but I'm more interested in a website I can use to watch YouTube while proxied.

Hi all,

Soon I'll be upgrading my server. I want to make sure the data stored on it is safe, so I've spent some time planning the storage. Here's the current plan.

I'll buy 2x3TB HDDs and put them in RAID 1, using ZFS (the snapshots will be what I use for backups). I'll have another HDD in the server which will store the snapshots as backups.

Finally, I'll have the ZFS snapshots sent to my personal PC as well, which will be in a remote location to the server.

As I understand it, that should check all the 3-2-1 boxes. I'm covered if either of the main hard drives fail, or if either of the backups fail, or if some other damage happens to the server.

Does this all make sense? Any feedback or advice is much appreciated. Feel free to ask questions, also. Thanks.

(I've also posted this on Reddit, but decided to post here too).