Toots for denschub@schub.social account

Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-02-04 at 18:31

would y'all be interested in a blog post about Mozilla's approach to hot-fixing websites (aka "Web Compatibility interventions"), i.e. how they work, what we do, why we do it, etc?

If yes, any particular questions you have?

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-02-04 at 15:20

if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.

like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.

but you need to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?

can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?

now is the time to take inventory and build backups.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-02-03 at 08:54

"I can't register for the Illuminati" and other bug reports that are waiting for my team on monday morning

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-30 at 20:00

okay, I finally switched my self-hosted mastodon to glitch.

why? because I had to wall-of-text someone via private mention, because it's me, and I like writing long texts.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-29 at 20:57

i'm now hosting https://linkding.link for myself - primarily because the project name is just perfect. (it's german and literally translates to "link-thing")

also, thanks for making me aware of that, @jer (via https://fnordig.de/2025/01/21/my-default-apps-of-early-2025/)

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-27 at 23:15

also yes, OF COURSE that font is PragmataPro. thanks for asking.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-27 at 23:10

my current overengineering project involved writing a hacky Python script to generate, layout, and print 24 * 2 * 2 labels with a data matrix code on a label printer.

and yes, I hate everything now, thanks for asking.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-22 at 18:27

current status: debugging why a multiplayer game that's supposed to do p2p networking has massive lag when playing "online", but no lag when tunneling everything via wireguard over exactly the same routes.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-21 at 15:34

I can appreciate tech people posting Nazi apologies publicly on social media. Makes it easy for me and everyone else to know who to avoid. :)

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-17 at 19:40

Okay, I'll say it: hosting resource-efficient services should not require you to pay for a closed-source "pro" product. Yes, I'm talking to you, @element and @matrix.

https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/

My single-user Synapse deployment is using half a gig of memory. To many who try to self-host everything they need on a 2GiB RAM VM, this is already a complete non-starter.

You're wasting a crap-ton of resources, you're hindering adopting, and hindering real decentralization.

I expected better from you.

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-17 at 01:00

this really was not supposed to be a competition on who can have the worst take

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2025-01-12 at 17:38

living alone most of the time sure has its perks.

this message is typed on my new cherry mx blue switches that are very very clicky and also very very satisfying (much more so than the "silent clicky" switches I had previously)

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Written by Dennis Schubert on 2024-12-31 at 04:42

important information to all my followers: according to a hackernews user, I'm a phony! please unfollow and don't spread my lies any further, thank you. :8bitheart:

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