Skip Navigation

Novi Sad

@ Novocirab @feddit.org

Posts
8
Comments
69
Joined
9 mo. ago

If you're interested in (co-)moderating any of the communities created by me, you're welcome to message me.

I also have the account @[email protected]. Furthermore, I own the account @[email protected], which I hope to make a small bot out of in the future.

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

    Jump

  • Self hosted DNS

    Jump

  • FUTOs VM setup alternative for newbies

    Jump

  • Keep organizing and slowly things will get better

  • FUTOs VM setup alternative for newbies

    Jump

  • My thoughts on GPL vs. permissive licenses

    Jump

  • With permissive licenses, companies can co-opt the fruit of volunteer labour to build a proprietary fork. With sufficient resources, they can bring that fork to wide adoption, leading users and potential contributors away from the free ecosystem. This is why I vastly prefer copyleft licenses, either GPL 3.0 or AGPL 3.0, and preferentially AGPL, given how many things nowadays run as web services. Always remember: The GPL is what gave us OpenWrt.

    Also in contributing, I strongly prefer projects under a copyleft license. That's because of this:

    People who contribute to the development of a program released with a permissive license must be aware that the program could become proprietary at any time. For example, when a company hires the original team of developers.

    https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/licensing/#copyleft-vs.-permissive

  • unix like operating system lovers @sh.itjust.works
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    Tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973) found in a storage room at the University of Utah – potentially the only complete copy

    discuss.systems /@ricci/115504720054699983

  • 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.

    Jump

  • Why the fuck is Ticketmaster allowed to be this awful?

    Jump

  • Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

    You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

  • What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database?

    Jump

  • SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.

    So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn't online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.

    I don't know exactly what happens then; I'm facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^

  • How Ruby Went Off the Rails

    Jump

  • That sounds good, thank you.

  • How Ruby Went Off the Rails

    Jump

  • In general, is it worth to make an account to read on this website?

  • what debian compatible IRC client should I use now that hexchat is dead?

    Jump

  • Konversation is pretty nice

  • Need text editor advice

    Jump

  • +1 for Kate

  • Printers for Linux

    Jump

  • +1 for used Brother models. Mine is a MFC 27XX YY, which has decent Linux support and accepts third-party toner without complaints.

  • Plex or Jellyfin for my Raspberry Pi?

    Jump

  • Yeah, unless one happens to have one of the beefier Raspi 4 or Raspi 5 variants (which, of course, would be an overpriced choice if their sole purpose is to be a home server). To give specific recommendation for cost-effective beefier home server hardware: Used Thin Clients. For example, Dell T530 Wyse (or T520, or T540, or the 6x0 series).

  • Piped? Invidious? Anything else? Which frontend should I link for YouTube content that respects privacy, like XCancel for Twitter links?

    Jump

  • Non plus ultra: Download the video and then upload to whichever PeerTube instance you use. At least if you're confident enough that this won't cause you legal trouble (e.g. cases like "fair use" should be safe).

    FreeTube has a neat function to download comfortably (but make sure to pick an option with both audio and video).

  • Piped? Invidious? Anything else? Which frontend should I link for YouTube content that respects privacy, like XCancel for Twitter links?

    Jump

  • I LOVE Freetube, but can it be linked to?

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

    Jump
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    Software taking the principle of Track-Me-Not and AdNauseam further?

  • Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

    Jump

  • I think nothing stands in the way of doing this on local metal, as far as technology goes. Something similar has already been achieved for personal photo sorting, e.g. https://ente.io/

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

    jacobin.com /2025/09/therapy-artificial-intelligence-data-privacy

  • Being a "middle" user is the most difficult

    Jump

  • A few months ago I wrote out some recommendations around the same theme here. Extracts:

    A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

    Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven’t use Fish yet, but it’s said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

    Also, I hugely recommend reading at least one book about Linux. I'm now almost through with the O’Reilly book “Classic Shell Scripting” by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). Despite the fact that it's 20 years old, it helped me hugely – primarily with the shell and its commands, but also with understanding things like file structure.

    It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one’s just starting out, the book “Learning the Unix Operating System” may be better.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    YSK that you can often get higher-quality information in your searches by searching specifically for PDF files. You do this by appending "filetype:pdf" to your query

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results on DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through a user script

    greasyfork.org /en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - Please sign it!

    www.change.org /p/bring-the-affinity-suite-to-linux-affinityonlinux
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Novi Sad @feddit.org

    The German university KIT provides almost 30 free and open-source privacy-friendly Android apps. Example: A QR Scanner

    secuso.aifb.kit.edu /english/105.php