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  • canpolat@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPlex for books?
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    9 months ago

    I know you said “self hosted”, but if you are interested in an Android app, Google Play Books does most of what you want, I think. You can upload your books, and read them on any device (with offline capabilities). But this is the Self Hosted community, so I will show myself out.



  • I think single account ActivityPub implementations are addressing a weakness of the Fediverse: one’s identity (handle, username) is tied to an instance they have no control over. If that instance shuts down users lose everything. With a single account instance, you take that control back. And since it doesn’t need to scale the architecture can be much simpler and can be deployed to much cheaper infrastructure.

    The demo was not straightforward, though. And I didn’t quite get how a user can follow Mastodon users, for example.









  • I don’t work much with Linux systems these days, but I would vote for $ sudo over #. Two reasons:

    1. It’s easy to overlook the prompt. That part is basically “some characters before the actual command”, so I don’t normally pay attention it.
    2. # is also used for comments. I think it would be confusing to use the same character for two widely different things.




  • I was upset when Reader was killed. But looking back and seeing what Google has become over time, I think it was for the best. Now we have entire companies that only do one thing: RSS, and they are good at it. If Reader was still a thing, I’m afraid it would have extinguished RSS.

    Names matter, and Reader told everyone that it was for reading when it could have been for so much more. “If Google made the iPod,” he says, “they would have called it the Google Hardware MP3 Player For Music, you know?”

    This is funny, but I think Reader was a good name. At least it reflected what I want to do with the product.







  • In this conference talk, Evans explains some of the most important concepts related to Domain-Driven Design while taking a critical look at how we traditionally think about models. Suggests asking “which model would be more useful to solve this problem” instead of relying on our understanding of objects “in real world”. He also emphasizes the importance of communication with domain experts an use of ubiquitous language.



  • I don’t think what you say contradicts with what I said. If we separate “identity providers” from “content hosts” a person could easily go get as many accounts as they like (just like getting many gmail accounts) and then use them to log in to any content networks they are interested in. I didn’t suggest that everyone should have their own instances of anything.