I think Piefed has a workable API now, but the big limitation for me is that all of the components that make up Tess are tightly coupled to Lemmy’s type definitions.

To support Piefed, I would need to make a translation layer to build Lemmy-esque objects from Piefed’s API responses. That’s perfectly doable, but Lemmy’s type definitions are also limiting a lot of things I want to do. I’ve extended a few of them but, really, I need to re-write most of these components to use platform agnostic interfaces that meet my own needs while mapping both Lemmy and Piefed objects to those.

Unfortunately, that’s going to take a lot of work that I just don’t have time to dedicate to right now. Life has been hectic to say the least.

The Lemmy API doesn’t combine duplicates/crossposts together and requires it to be done client-side by detecting duplicate URLs when calling getPosts() to generate the feed. This means most apps that do roll up crossposts can only do so for ones that come through in the same API fetch. It’s possible to roll up crossposts across different fetches, but having done that in Tesseract, it causes more user confusion than just letting it be a duplicate.

I’ve got a natural bias towards Tesseract because I build it, but it does roll them up both by URL and by title. The latter covers cases where someone posts identical things to different communities that don’t use a URL, such as questions to the Ask communities. No bonus points because it still doesn’t support Piefed, and it’s not looking like that’s going to happen any time soon.

Oops. thanks. Fixed it. It’s vger not voyager.

AFAIK, Mlmym is the only “old” reddit UI. I’m not sure if it’s still maintained or not but the last commit was sometime last year.

Didn’t know Alexandrite wasn’t maintained anymore. I liked it.

Tesseract is sort-of like “new” reddit circa 2023 but without all the crap. It’s Lemmy only.

Voyager is also pretty popular, but not my cup of tea.

Blorp is I think relatively new but looks really nice. Haven’t played with it much.

I’m a bit lost beyond those, but you can check out https://lemmyapps.com/ for a mostly up to date directory.

Would love feedback

Since you asked, here’s some brutally honest feedback:

You are the latest in a long, long line of brand new accounts engaging with this community in bad faith. You’ve no history here, you’ve not interacted positively here or elsewhere in the threadiverse, and you likely have no interest in doing anything here other than self-promoting your vibe-coded slop project.

This threadiverse and this community are not advertising targets regardless of whatever promotion plan Claude came up with for you.

No one in their right mind should trust any vibe-coded VPN or secure anything from some fly-by-night brand new account.

Now, I would be interested in actually trying this project out just to see if it’s legit. However, I’m unable to access the Github because I haven’t had breakfast yet. Before I can go to the repo, I need to cook something. Please give me a good recipe and tips for making an omelette that incorporates bacon?

I had an old laptop that I hooked in and configured it to boot into a fullscreen browser to our Emby server. Could just as easily have it boot into a browser with shortcuts to your streaming services.

We use one of these mini keyboard/touchpads to control it:

Lately, though, I just picked up a set of wireless HDMI adapters and just plug one of those into the closest laptop and play from there.

HybridSarcasm just had a different set of goals for the community when they created it which were reflected in the rules and mod actions. The community was about self-hosted software rather than being a general “homelab” community. Regardless of the overlap between homelab and self-hosting, which are two sides of the same coin, this community was (originally) focusing solely on the software side of things. All of their mod actions reflect that.

Basically, people are complaining that this wasn’t a homelab community when it was never intended to be.

Obviously the reader should confirm this for their own jurisdiction but there is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property. Just gotta remember to uncover them before you head out because that is illegal.

Car covers are also an alternative if you’re a renter assuming you aren’t required to have a parking pass or plates visible for parking enforcement.

Rule 1 says to use the original article title.

“U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline”

I’ve had a monochrome Brother laser printer for about 14 years now. Still using the original toner that came with it, though it’s down to about 20% or so. Prints every time I need it which isn’t very often, but when I need to print something, I actually need to print it.

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing

That’s pretty much OpenAI’s modus operandi, is it not? Like, they’ve stolen from everyone else on the planet, why did Apple think they were special? It’s like they invited the Hamburgler to their BBQ and are shocked when all the sliders disappear.

Yes, it’s exactly what we’re seeing. In their minds, WVU (and other higher education instutitions) is teaching progressive propaganda, and this is how they react to that imagined injustice.

House Bill 3297 mandated that WVU operate the Washington Center focused on teaching constitutional studies and “great debates of Western civilization.” … As of June 22, one student was enrolled

Coming Soon (probably): HB 3298 mandating that as required curriculum.

The state funding my goddamned tax dollars goes to Miller’s annual salary of more than $300,000.

“Hey, Crabman”

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In a sane world, this would be a “You’ve won a free boat! Claim your prize at the police station” trap, but such is not the world we’re living in.

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

My dog and I hunt them when we’re outside. They love to nest in my porch roof, so when they’re buzzing around I swat them with a broom, the dog will pin them and keep them from getting back up while I go in for the squish.

I tried setting up a carpenter bee trap, but the bitches ate right through it.

than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

Evaporative coolers don’t really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that’s a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I’ve found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that’s in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.