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I've been thinking about something like this for a while, wondering if it could be a decentralized alternative to social media timelines. I really like the idea of having a /now page with a short public status that you could share with friends and which can be less work to update than writing an entire blog post.

That being said, the "standard" you defined could have been bit more specific in my opinion. If I have multiple friends with /now pages, I would like to read them all in one place. For this RSS would work nicely, maybe with a separate feed from your blog. If you don't want RSS, maybe making the /now page a uniform text-based format would have been better?

Just an opinion on this.

We have Moodle in your university and the reading material is provided in it. It is terrible to read, because the lines of text span the full width of the screen and the formatting is broken in a lot of cases.

Before Moodle we used to get nicely formatted PDF's (made with Latex I pressume). This might sound like a nitpick, but if you are spending hours reading the material over and over it is a pretty serious drawback. I don't undesrtand how moodle does not have a decent reader mode builtin. Also, I have always been the learning type that prints out the PDF and the draws, underlines, writes in it while reading it. Dunno, reading on screen just doesnt work for me that well.

I agree with you, but stuck with wezterm for some time now for it's non-GPU related features. Specifically the font configuration with fallbacks and configurable font features such as ligatures and glyph variations is nice. I use a tiling window manager and a terminal multiplexer, so I have no use for terminal tabs/splits/panes. I wish there was something as "simple" as alacritty, but with nicer font rendering.

Have always used nginx, but I'm interested in the newer alternatives out there like caddy, traefik or envoy.

Is there a up-to-date comparison somewhere? Any personal experiences? Would be interested to hear if there are any reasons to switch. Performance has not been an issue for me, but there might be other good reasons.

Fizzygum 5 years ago

Not a good first impression if the homepage of a web framework does not have https in 2021

Does anyone have first-hand experience with the pinephone as daily driver? I'm thinking about getting it, but I'm worried I wont be able to do my usual stuff, including using things like Signal or WhatsApp.

Would be very interesting to hear some practital experiences!

Don't know much about stereograms, two general questions:

a) Is it possilbe to render color images this way? b) Is it possible to have the random dots not change all the time? E.g. When I don't move in this example, I dont see the need to draw new random dots. Also when moving sideways e.g. would it be possible to keep the dots where they are, relative to the world?