I like it! And an impressive lack of javascript, too! :D At first I just assumed that the slide-in animation would be done by some javascript library. The CSS animation is nicely done.

I’m definitely a fan of avoiding huge frameworks.

One complaint I have about plain old JS and HTML, though, is that you end up writing a lot of HTML components as just strings. Plain strings of text that is supposed to be valid HTML, but you’re not going to get any help with formatting, linting, or even just syntax highlighting when a lot of your code is literally just a big string. The example of Web Components in this post even shows that.

It mentions developer experience vs. user experience as a nod to this, and the “every HTML components is just a big old javascript string” problem is one I always run into early on with my hobby projects, which makes me decide to use a small UI framework pretty quickly. My favorite is Mithril. It’s tiny and does basically what you want React to do, without being React. You write these nested Javascript functions that get turned into HTML. So there’s no extra loader step, and it plays nicely with Typescript.

The only one I’ve tried before is Wekan. I’m not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you’re needing, though. There’s read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license

It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.

Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan

Wow, yeah I also haven’t heard of that one and I check in on mobile Linux projects pretty often.

Same here. I’m the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it’s down, that’s how I know it’s down.

I prefer phrasing it differently, though. “With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint.”

One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.

Thanks, this is a great explanation. I’ll try doing &> /dev/null & tomorrow. I’d like to find the simplest version of this for recommending to other people.

Thanks for the suggestion; I tried both of these things and they do hide the output, but it doesn’t make the post-receive script actually exit early. So git push still takes a while to finish.

I think this might have worked, except the ssh key I’m using for git has a password on it. So it does return to the terminal right away, but the git push command in the background is stuck waiting for me to type my password.

Software developer. A bunch of software companies (maybe most of them now?) are insisting that programmers start using AI.

Eh, I think that can go either way. Their level of skepticism seems to depend on their congregation, and more specifically, the culture that has taken off within their congregation. The religious people around me are Mormon, Evangelical, and Catholic. Anecdotally, the Mormons and Evangelicals are pretty pro-AI, with the most religious ones also being the most hyped about it. Every Catholic I know is indifferent to AI. The same was true for cryptocurrency a few years ago.

I’m being required to use AI at work, and the first thing that jumped out at me was how often it says, “You’re right!” That is like a drug for a narcissist.

In case anyone is wondering why Elon Musk is in there, this is from seven months ago, before they broke up.

This really highlights how the U.S. media is completely captured by Trump apologism. They’re acting like he’s a great statesman because of the current Gaza ceasefire, when

1. He was posting insane shit like this just a few months ago, acting like the U.S. and Israel were going to take over Gaza and turn it into a resort town with golden statues of himself, and
2. He asked Netanyahu to delay this very same ceasefire deal when Biden had it in place a year ago, because he wanted to take the credit for himself.

edit: Bah, I thought this was the fediverse_vs_disinfo community, I should have kept my comment more AI-focused.

There’s a photo of the back of the case here, which describes how to use it: https://immich.store/products/immich-retro

So it sounds like it’s a bootable Linux image, with Immich already set up on it.

I love the fact that they produced an installation DVD.

I do suspect that is part of the appeal for many people. They talk about productivity, they talk about automating tasks so they can do other things, but really, it’s a subordinate that never pushes back against you. And some people have always wanted that, especially when they’re an average person who would never get to have that otherwise.

That is interesting, I hadn’t heard of that.

I’m posting this because it’s a great example of how LLMs do not actually have their own thoughts, or any sort of awareness of what is actually happening in a conversation.

It also shows how completely useless it is to have a “conversation” with someone who is just in agreeability mode the whole time (a.k.a. “maximizing engagement mode”) – offering up none of their own thoughts, but just continually prompting you to keep talking. And honestly, some people act that way too. And other kinds of people crave a conversation partner who acts that way, because it makes them the center of attention. It makes you feel interesting when the other person is endlessly saying, “You’re right! Go on.”

Unfortunately, I’m not sure about that. Plenty of people who use ChatGPT end up thinking that it is sentient and has its own thoughts, but that’s because they don’t realize how much they are having to drive the conversation.

I was definitely surprised by the new form factor – I kind of thought that a headphone jack would be a selling point that they would try to stick to.

They alluded to it on their blog:

Yes, economies of scale mean we had to make some tough choices about certain features from the FLX1, but the result is a sleeker, more modern device that truly represents our vision.

I feel like this is a difficult situation that many Linux products find themselves in. The core audience wants ports and practicality like a Thinkpad, but there’s a much larger audience of people who want it to be thinner and have a big screen. And I still want that audience to have a Linux phone for them.

I’m still tempted to get one. I’m going to dig up my old Sony Xperia phone and install the latest Sailfish OS version on it, and try using that as my daily phone for a while. But I still think I’ll end up getting a Furilabs phone at some point.

Also if you type “bluetooth” it will suggest “Bluetooth File Sharing” above “Bluetooth.” That second one is the one you want for connecting to a speaker.

This irks me every day.