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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Thanks for raising awareness of FOSS Discord alternatives. Revolt certainly is the best looking of all of them.

    Last time I looked into this, Revolt’s voice and video chat was “unsupported” for self-hosting while they were working on a complete rewrite. Is this still the case?

    The other big FOSS Discord alternative is Synapse-Matrix with the Element X client, but no clue how far along voice and video is over there either.

    Then there’s Mattermost, which is more work-oriented and has voice and screen share, but no video calls.

    I should host some of this stuff to try it out.





















  • GitOps + Renovate

    Gives you:

    • automation of updates
    • smart notification of updates that are below a certain confidence that it won’t break stuff
    • rollback: simply git revert
    • the whole shebang

    Some stacks that work well with GitOps are:

    • k8s + Flux or ArgoCD
    • Nix(OS)

    Mixing them is a LOT of complexity though. Just pick whichever you are most comfortable with. If you want a declarative immutable OS just for running k8s, check Talos Linux.

    If you don’t want to deal with GitOps, Nix or k8s, and you don’t need recent versions, just run Debian and set a cronjob for auto updates. Then only deal with potential breaking changes just once every 5(?) years or thereabouts.