/tech/ — Technology

>>3msxknhc52c2q
this, https://whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/ is really good at is hosted on comicfury

what rss aggregators do we like and or use

>>3mv2sqx2k4k2z
i havent found a replacement for feeddemon that i like more but that's unfortunate because it was abandoned like 10+ years ago and has this annoying bug where occasionally the only way to clear out a feed is to resubscribe to it

I'm using freshrss it seems pretty good. provides its own web frontend but you can hook it to any app

liferea

I like browsing internet archive sometimes. There's a lot of cute art, software, manuals for software, etc. I like looking through art books a lot so anywhere there might be uploads of those is somewhere thats easy to enjoy browsing for me.

>>3mtnluoan7t2p
reading books in the form of free download pdf's. archiving my favorite youtube videos with obs playback record to watch when the internet is down. listening to music through homemade vlc playlists and folders. playing old flashgames on flashpoint. makes me feel like an oldskool websurfer. also looking at photographs of motorcycle mods and then fooling around in secondlife when im after a lil bit of the social interaction. then writing stories in notepad and dressing them up wit fonts and margins in libre office.

go down rabbit holes and find interesting art, music, writing pieces, games, vns, et cetera. engage with them earnestly and wholeheartedly. flood ur brain with experiential joys. truthfully, i think just being curious is enough to make good use out of a computer. and not necessarily just being curious online! i've discovered many cool sites and projects by looking up things from the real world and seeing how far i can go. drunk pig on youtube dot com is pretty good too.

>>3mtr6ppqwjs2h
have you read autopraxis? oh my god, i could rave about it for hours

honestly... not a lot (;´Д`)
i find mainstream social media completely exhausting these days ... i used to just let it hypnotize me with instagram reels and, idk. i cant do it anymore. it makes me depressed

bsky doesn't make me feel suuuper bad but, it does kind of feel like a waste of time? its not so different from all social media in that sense. im very project oriented these days. most of what i enjoy doing isnt strictly on the internet but rather just getting engrossed in acquiring new skills and using them productively

second life is still a lot of fun - i enjoy building in there. its a bit of a brain suck though. but maybe im just too productivity oriented.

https://lobste.rs/ is one of my favorite sites recently. i enjoy reading hacker news (woke)

also ive been making more of an effort to collect rss feeds in a reader. its actually a lot of fun

>>3mu6srtfiuv2h
it really is a skill worth cultivating these days. to be able to know enough things about things to actually have something to grab ahold of in the vast flood of information we are used to but not usually capable of making sense of without for example algorithmic feeds or radio algorithms or god forbid, advertising.

this is my web sight https://quasivoid.net/

it is generated from a set of gemtext sources using a perl script https://git.sr.ht/~kestrel/quasivoid.net/tree/master/item/suffer.pl and an awk script https://git.sr.ht/~kestrel/quasivoid.net/tree/master/item/gem2html.awk

there are a lot like it but this one is mine

>>3mt7nv7vjtx2c
>>3mt7q3n3arc2y
＼(＾o＾)／ i'm glad you like it. it means a lot since the site is about a place that's really special to me.

>>3mt7sl3jlei2r
waa himawari.fun is actually where i first learned about irc and atchan!! i'm really glad i roamed far enough to make my way here. ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

>>3mtbfc2lzva2k
AWW! i love your sites a lot - i think they're really charming ヽ(´∇`)ノ

>>3mt7sl3jlei2r
i like your themes on himawari.fun both the home page and the rika page a lot it has a very pleasant digital footprint

>>3mtarc7az3r2l
Nice slugcat ascii art. Melita licking her paw devilishly is cute picture

>>3mt7bybesti22
this is also very nice. i would sit and feed the geese

https://boogiepop.nekoweb.org/ispy/ i played around on nekoweb for a while but was too shy to really put any pages up aside from this one. sorry that it loads slow the images are huge! i was using nekowebs free bandwidth for all it was worth!! i had an evening with my friends playing through the haunted house one on call with the music playing once and it was cute.

https://possession.moe/ my actual website is here. it is unfinished. i want to put more fun stuff and words and links out on here when i have more actual stuff to offer. i have fun browsing them and other peoples personal websites and just keeping someones page open as a background companion while im working near the computer. if you have little moving pictures or noises on your website i like looking at it

i also host a private mastodon instance for me and my husband to use together instead of twitter/etc and i learned how to do that and do any web hosting at all from mala's vps tutorial linked up there (*^ーﾟ)b however i did a bad job because i was learning so i want to redo it all with more robust cybersecurity and backend.

>>3mu62awevq32h
I love your websites! They're both very cute

block button + get good at ignoring stuff + dont engage with stuff/people that make you mad on purpose

i think minor opsec hygiene is good, but also - its kinda like if that wall falls it doesn't un-fall. so i personally dont really want to rely on it.

i think a lot of it has to be personal practice like kai said - blocking/ignoring but also just accepting shit is going to happen. not that i'm victim-blaming or anything but you really, really gotta set boundaries with friends, acquaintances, audience

this is why i mostly prefer being a lurker, even though its getting harder and harder to do these days.

besides blocking and setting boundaries, i also think its important to realize that no one is just "themselves" online. being online inherently means constructing a digital ghost version of your real self, an idealized image generated from the accumulation of posts, images, interests, etc. built up under a screenname or visage. this doesn't mean "treat everyone online as a phantom against whom all actions are consequenceless" but it does mean "accept an inherent gulf between the person you are and how others see you online". i don't wanna victim blame either but i feel like trying too hard to bridge that gap is where it's easy to stumble into becoming a spectacle for hate mobs.

I've been here probably too long and this will just get to you at some point. Wherever you go - online is the same as offline - you wear one kind of mask or another, you're bringing the part of you that's the best fit you can manage to the venue. Like this, you go to work, you're you, but you're not gonna say the same stuff you would if you were just with your friends.

So I'd say probably just keep a few things to your physical life you don't bring with you online, something that'll ground you. Something that won't be effected by the internet basically no matter what. When it gets too much to bear here, you can go for a walk or watch birds or something that'll be a comforting thing to you.

The other thing is that you might wanna accept that if you're here long enough, the ambient radiation of the net will sorta just. Cook your brain some. It's okay. People who are not Online won't understand and that's okay too. Some paranoia, anxiety, brainworms come with the territory.

Basic security is like locking the door on your car. Honestly it's just best practices. It won't stop someone who wants in from getting in but it raises the barrier of entry and can buy you some time so it's just good internet hygiene.

And other than that there's just some getting used to that it can be a hostile environment and some people will take shots at you. You don't have to get into arguments, you don't have to answer questions you don't want to. If people become hostile based on rumors and won't listen to you (for example) trying to get them to stick around is a lost cause. So sometimes the bridge will burn and it's not you who did it. Set boundaries and keep them.

being heavyhanded on what kind of things you really want to see is like so important. it gives you so much extra mental hp whenever something that bothers you appears in front of your eyes. like blocking people obviously but also utilising blacklists and muted words helps to reduce the amount of shit you see. even people who post "correct" things i agree with if its about topics that exhaust me why would i want to see that when i could just be enjoying some funny picture or cute girls

sites like tumblr and bsky are so good for me because i have so much control over who i follow and that way i can curate my dash to be only fun art and porn and vn things and memes. the setting that only my followers can comment on my stuff on bsky is a godsent. ill unfollow anyone including my friends if they post things i dont want to see and thats the right approach. i dont fully relate about the way most people complain about their social media/internet experiences since ive set up an environment where i see little of the things i dont want to and it makes me feel like other people just havent been able to take the similar steps i have taken or theyre spending too much time on sites that give algorithmic feeds and all the bullshit drama and bigoted stuff get boosted to create the perfect doomscrolling feedback loop

not that i still dont occasionaly get burnt out and need a break from everything but thats part of it just knowing when its time to take a step back from the noise and focus on just dming with your friends for the time being. thats what touching grass means to me i guess

so yeah ultimately its just true that after a while especially if youre somehow visible online you kinda just get used to the chaos and thats life i suppose. but you dont need to resign yourself to just accepting negative things either, its worth putting the time to optimizing the enjoyment you get out of the internet because its still a wonderful place full of amazing art and people

delete system32

hit my modem with a hammer till the outer plastic shell cracks and then pour beer into it

>>3mt6h6fetbz2z

Is setting the nginx config to only listen on 443 and 80 (redirects to https) different than what you're describing?

>>3mt7qgqeh7s2y
no you need something external like iptables / pf (personal recommendation is ufw if debian). this sits over your nginx. otherwise your ports will all be open on the internet.

also if you are connecting over ssh make sure to open that port as well so you dont lock yourself out (;ﾟДﾟ)

>>3mt7qgqeh7s2y
yes; especially if you are running more stuff you are going to end up with several to dozens of services that need to bind to known ports, but not necessarily be bound to your world-facing interface. eg if you set up something like a feddy instance, or movienight, or whatever, they are designed to have a reverse proxy (like nginx) sitting in front of their local http ports which nginx itself connects to, and people in the outside world should -not- be able to connect to.

you can set up these services to bind only to your local interface and use netstat to see all open ports on your system, but this gets hairy and touchy because you are configuring a bunch of different software separately. more importantly, the firewall prevents accidents or misbehaving software from exposing things that shouldn't be exposed. netstat -an | grep LISTEN may yield some surprises

>>3mqsjqzebx22v
probably not the ideal solution but Google Photos' search function is pretty good at image recognition.

Sintel's image atlas application (https://github.com/Sin-tel/image_atlas/) is really good at grouping images with visual similarities, but it doesn't have any text search functionality...

i'm looking for a way to visualize my movie file hoard as a grid of movie posters without having to use streaming apps like plex or jellyfin.... if anyone has any pointers let me know

>>3mqsjqzebx22v
i use "everything"; you can search entire hard drive(s) very quickly with it

im curious how you guys keep samples (likke music samples) organized, struggling so bad because i cant figure out a way thats intuitive to me... messy messy messy >,>

>>3mqx47wkzye2x
everything changed my life lol. it's hard to remember suffering through window search for so long

wiby.me is kind of like this already since all the sites are human vetted but i wish this kind of stuff existed more broadly...

these two sites have partially filled that void for me

https://marginalia-search.com/explore
https://susam.net/wander/

marginalia search especially is fantastic. although that hole in my heart can't really be fully filled, the entirety of the internet being that way was what made it so special for me as a child, but we'll forever be relegated to relative obscurity now.

i use kagi for search. its a paid search engine. i find its marginally better than any free one. not sold on those small web search engines but it's a nice idea

collaborative directories
human-curated & organized by topic
https://www.webjamboree.net/ - 10k+ sites (open submissions, searchable)
https://url.town/ - 800+ sites (submissions limited to a specific community, searchable)
https://ooh.directory/ - 2k+ blogs (open submissions, searchable)
https://neato.directory/ - new & pretty barren (open submissions)

tiny search engines
smaller engines don't have the resources to crawl as much of the net as google, so they stuggle as direct competitors. i think they're at their best when they embrace their limited scope and focus on serving really specific communities or needs
https://lieu.cblgh.org/about - searches sites that are members of a particular webring
https://fee.cool/code/mold-net/ - searches sites from lists of bookmarks
https://neocities.org/search - searches sites hosted on neocities.org

directories by individuals
these are my favorite. can be hit or miss, but finding one curated by someone with similar tastes & interests hits so hard
https://bukmark.club/ - directory of personal sites with link directory pages
https://waywardweb.org/ - same as above but linked together by a webring

>>3mrfxrij6n323
i think you should absolutely make your net directory! it's worth it to start with whatever you have. you can make a webpage that's just a list of all the links in your browser bookmarks, put it online, and go from there. make it more complicated later, if you want. for a personal wiki-style site, look into https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ or for a multi-user wiki, look into https://www.dokuwiki.org/

i read https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-matters back when it was published, and following that advice changed my relationship to the internet for the better. it's easier to ignore all the bullshit when i have a nice collection of stuff i actually like to look at online. the net feels more connected when you make yourself a part of that network

>>3mriafz57h42t
i have my own directory https:/toxxy.neocities.org/directory i think it's important for each site to link to lots of other sites to keep the web interconnected

i became a regular user of obsidian the past week or so - i prefer it over focuswriter now. Altho, I prob wont dip toes into the depth it has to offer - it has been nice to just let me make notes and i feel I can be a bit messy. I like hydrus/obsidian for similar reasons - guis over a designated area of yum

>>3mqjbohzgtk2e
I've been using Allusion (https://github.com/RafaUC/Allusion), which means doing all the tagging manually... my tags definitely aren't comprehensive but going through the process has illuminated my thought processes behind saving pictures, and come up with a structured way of analysing pictures. I'm kind of proud of this so I'm taking this opportunity to talk about it.

The parent categories I use for tagging: Genre & Aesthetics, Subject matter, Medium, Layout, Reference, IP.

Genre & Aesthetics: this is the most abstract category, grouping things by iconography and semiotics associated with a particular style or feeling. Eg, "Sword & Sorcery" includes both photos of replica armors, and illustrations of fantasy

Subject Matter: particular articles that can be identified. Images with blood & gore, character design/specific costumes, animes, architecture and vehicles.

Medium: materials & context used to create the image, whether it is photography, physical paints, plastic models or screenshots from movies & shows.

Layout: compositional tools used in the image - diagrams, posters, collages, comic pages, or "Mise-en-scène"

Reference: Similar to subject matter, this category contains specific things like anatomy and "for study" images

IP: tags for source works being referenced

Often I'll try and trawl my library and tag things instead of wasting time on less productive pastimes... but it is very time consuming, and I'm constantly revising the way I tag things anyway, meaning I have to go over the same stuff and revise it...

>>3mqqoxeuh7s2v
its a unique challenge since tagging is likely taste driven on some level - you have to make it fit you like a glove working locally - ive been mostly thinking abt it like this - if I add something to my 'library' i just need to tag it in a way that A) lets me quickly bring up cleanly and B) be able to review the set if it was from a set - but recently, since im going thru the labor of adding lots of shit - im starting to question if I really need all the shit - so im starting to filter more strictly what I let in - so becomes more scrutinized curation to inform my art practice. Im also using this local borrur tagging system just to archive my own art cuz i am so fucking bad at that since forever.

Parabolic has been a huge help with downloading stuff ever since Cobalt now consistently throws errors for youtube downloads. https://github.com/nickvisionapps/parabolic

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