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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-22 at 17:35

hey #fediverse what is the current #activitypub server that provides features similar to #mastodon or #pleroma that uses the fewest resources? Is there anything there that is good for single user instances?

I'm aware of GoToSocial and Honk but wondering what else is there.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-07 at 18:44

After Zuck & Friends recent hatespeech, I guess it is time to put even more efforts into #decentralization

Pity I dislike how expensive and chatty #activitypub protocol is. Maybe it is time for me to get back into some #SecureScuttlebutt #SSB development.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 18:35

searching for reviews of an app on YouTube is yielding a lot of auto-generated videos that are just text-to-voice AI bullshit. Guess YouTube is also dead.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 17:21

When I wrote that post, my blog was SSG generated by Pollen (which is ultimately running on the #Racket runtime). That was a great system and it served me well for years, but it had its shortcomings and eventually I decided to replace it with something simpler. I went with a dynamic #Lua site.

The new system is good old CGI based scripts written in #Lua using a #SQLite file as source of truth. About 1169 lines for the whole CMS including my #IndieAuth #Micropub and my #MetaWeblog endpoint.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 17:19

Seeing many posts about

[#]Lua

[#]programming

language on my feeds and socials recently. Very often the comments on these posts tend to fall into the same rants and misunderstandings. In 2021 I wrote about it in:

https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html

That is a good read for anyone puzzling about Lua.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 16:56

If at some point Apple becomes more obnoxious about AI (am not happy with Apple intelligence at all), I will look into maybe going back to either Linux or Haiku or even NetBSD.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 16:55

If at some point Apple becomes more obnoxious about AI (am not happy with Apple intelligence at all), I will look into maybe going back to either Linux or Haiku or even NetBSD.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 16:55

The only app that done this right is BBEdit. They have AI worksheets if you want, but it is up to you to configure and use them. They have no nagging screen and it is not on your face. Which is why I am keeping it as my main editor.

Gonna slowly switch away from Github for new projects. Tired of SaaS managed by others, will go towards self-hosted Fossil SCM cause that is good enough for me.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 16:55

I'm literally slowly switching away from products cause they keep shipping this bs and keep trying to make me use it. They never offer a "switch off AI forever" toggle, they have stupid dark patterns such as "decide later" which is a coward option.

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Written by SoapDog on 2025-01-06 at 16:54

So tired of AI being forced into every single product I use. I don't want these features. I never used them, I have no desire to use them.

If you want to ship AI on a product, please make it opt-in. Don't keep nagging me to use whatever bullshit feature you came up with cause AI hype is high.

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-08-15 at 13:12

really tired of LLM and AI bullshittery. It is the new snake oil. It will code for you, it will make art for you, it will write for you, it will make music for you. Shit, I don't want anyone to do those things for me, I want to do those things by myself.

LLM and AI is the death of the aura.

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-06-11 at 16:20

Melon Husk saying he'll create a phone because he's salty with Apple made me vomit a bit.

I'm not a fan of Apple recent AI moves, but that doesn't mean I'd trust a known fuckup to be the gardener of a new and better garden.

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-06-04 at 13:29

For those wanting to add #Google web search to #Firefox, here is a little blog post showing how to use keywords and bookmarks to perform searches from the address bar:

https://andregarzia.com/2024/06/adding-google-web-search-to-firefox.html

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-05-25 at 11:49

Add-on approved for #firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feed-and-blogroll-discovery/

Use it to grab feeds for your native or web readers. Skip corporate feed algorithms.

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-05-23 at 13:48

After reading this blog post by @joshbetz:

https://josh.blog/2024/05/blogrolls

I added a #blogroll to my website and also created a #WebExtension to surface RSS, Atom, and Blogroll links from the sites you visit.

More info at:

https://andregarzia.com/2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery.html

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Written by SoapDog on 2024-05-07 at 16:37

Now that #Apple released a bunch new #iPad iterations and the new M4 chip there will be an avalanche of comments "oh if this device was not neutered I'd get it" and "just run macOS already" and so on.

I wrote this two years ago and it is still relevant:

https://andregarzia.com/2022/06/about-ipads-and-developers.html

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