This looks kind of cool. It’s written in Go. License is LGPL3, kind of a weird choice, but whatever. I’m not crazy about the name “Sriracha” but I guess you’ve got call it something. I might give it a try. I haven’t understood why so many forums are written in PHP.

I’m happy with say 3 hz, fast enough to not be too annoying when flipping pages while reading. It’s fine to not be good for video. What I really want is a 16 inch or so e-reader though.

That is a video of a much smaller monitor. It does show reasonably responsive refresh. Do you have one of the 25.3 inch monitor described in the article?

What is the refresh time? They carefully avoid mentioning that. There’s a comparable Pimoroni monitor whose refresh takes 14 seconds so I’d call it a static display rather than a computer monitor.

governments

Be careful what you ask for :(.

Contract workers for Meta, TikTok, Google, and more are forming a global group to fight for better working conditions.

Try Reddit also, the moderators there don’t even get paid :(.

p2p solution for opensource projects

That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)

The difficult part is not the software or even the hosting. It’s more about the network effects and the ability to let users monetize uploads, which in turn creates vast potential for abuse and fraud, which in turn has to be addressed by burning stupendous resources. At a certain point people stop wanting exposure or “making a difference” for their own sake, and instead want to get paid in genuine coin of the realm.

The main value of youtube for many of us is the enormous video collection, which is impractical for anyone else to duplicate. Need to fix an old washing machine (I did, recently)? Type in the make and model and there’s an instructional vid. It’s unfortunate that Google has exclusive control over such a resource, but here we are.

50GB of flac = maybe 20GB of Vorbis amirite? Is that 450GB of flac in your screen shot? It would fit on a 256gb phone even without an SD card. A 512GB card is quite affordable these days. Just make sure to buy a phone with a slot, and think of it as next level degoogling ;).

Yeah I know there’s lots of music in the world but who wants to listen to all of it on a moment’s notice anyway?

Can’t understand why this is interesting, as phones now have a lot of storage space, even the ones that don’t have SD card slots. Just store the music that interests you directly on the phone.

Article is from 2018. Someone must have pasted the url from hacker news where the same story was dug up recently.

I guess 4chan is still down?

I haven’t looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I’ve been wanting to merge.

The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter’s link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It’s written in PHP and it’s big and complicated.

They’ve done that on and off for ages, and the ones being offered with Ubuntu here are mostly pretty expensive or else not so interesting. I’ve been content to buy older Thinkpads and self-install Debian for my past several laptops. I was somewhat tempted by recent Ideapad Yogas but resisted, and since then, prices have gone up, whether due to tariffs or whatever else.

Mozilla propaganda. It’s not just about individually identifiable data. Privacy means not giving the bad guys ANY data, whether or not it points at any individual.

This is spammy and AI-style long winded. I didn’t read much. A shorter version without the advertising would be more useful.

The usual way to stay mostly private is just set up a corporation and bill through it. Here in California the annual fees are enough to be annoying but in other states they are very low. I once played with the idea of offering “company as a service” that would do everything for you online, but meh.

How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?

It’s possible for a while but there is a whack-a-mole game if you’re doing anything they would care about. So you will have to keep moving it around. VPS forums will have some info.