I think Obsidian and Logseq are helping to change this.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been running alternative Discord clients for years (Webcord, discord-screenaudio, and now Vesktop/Vencord) and haven’t encountered any issues or bans. By far, the most polished and well integrated is Vesktop/Vencord. I don’t consider my Discord account worth risking either, but given that I’ve yet to see a verifiable report of someone losing access to Discord for using an alternate client (even the ones that enable Nitro subscription features), I think I’m pretty safe.

Personally, I’d say risk it for the biscuit. There are some hacky workarounds but all of them are annoying to set up and finicky. As for alternative platforms, I’m not sure…

Gas fees, fees to convert to fiat, electricity bills for miners / initial investment for stakers… No matter how you frame it, there are still associated fees. Might as well use the standard we have at the moment.

Unrelated, but I would have preferred a stolen, watermarked Getty Images photo rather an an AI-generated one. Fits the pirate vibe better to have blatantly and unabashedly stolen something than to indirectly do so with plausible deniability.

Pardon me, but would this not interfere with partners’ ability to host services via 99% of Linux-based servers?

Depending on your threat model, your best bet would probably be to purchase a burner phone at Walmart or something with cash. Then only use the phone for verification purposes.

I know this isn’t an answer to your question, but - ViMusic has a radio function? Where?

I’ve heard (but not been able to verify) that it’s less secure, somehow. Although I would imagine the containerization would, somehow, mitigate this.

I’ve been trying Bazzite out for a few days, and it’s really neat. Coming from a standard distro, I like the idea that I can install pretty much anything with the combo of Flatpak, AppImages, and Distrobox. I was unable to install DaVinci Resolve on the Fedora Distrobox however, and the lack of Snaps - although I much prefer Flatpaks or AppImages - kinda sucks because it would be nice to have the Snap for Flutter…

Does HTMX count for Web 1.0?

This reminded me that I wanted to look into open source alternatives to Bionic Reader…

Marxists in authoritarian left

Which Marxists are you referring to? You’ll find a lot (likely the majority) of socialists and communists in the bottom left corner. Put a picture of Stalin up there and rewrite it as either “Tankies” or “Stalinists” and you’ll be much more accurate.

I’ve no idea what you’re referring to aside from maybe the Intel ME, but there may be a way to flash coreboot on it.

I’ve seen a lot of descriptions of Tailscale but still have no idea what exactly it does. I get that it uses Wireguard, but what differentiates it from a typical VPN setup? NAT traversal?

Do you happen to have a Matrix or Discord server set up to talk about development? I’d love to help out if I can.

Went to check out the source code for the front-end and see if there was anything I could help out with… Saw it was made with Angular.

oh no

(Congrats on integrating Fedi into it!)

I use GrapheneOS. It is unable to access the Internet entirely.

I use it alongside SwiftKey (with Internet access disabled). It’s a godsend in Termux.

Have you looked into either Obsidian or Logseq?

Obsidian is not open source, but uses Markdown for notes just like Logseq. Very popular overall.

Thanks for the in-depth response! I definitely understand choosing Python for a fledgling project like this and trying to attract a developer community.

As for my musing about C and Python, I wasn’t really talking about Cython or anything like that; I actually meant that I figured the specific code in the Python standard library and various frameworks for server applications were written under the hood with C and heavily optimized.