Deekshith Allamaneni @dsoft@mastodon.technology

#Gitlab plans to delete all repositories that have no commits in over an year 🥺
Of course they have the freedom to do what keeps their business going but I am glad I did not migrate to it. Thinking of #SelfHosted #Gitea instance for the future.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy

Did we hug #HackerNews to death?

It seems to be down today

Is your old computer unbearably slow? Replacing the Hard disk with SSD is usually a quick and cheap way to upgrade it ⚡

Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/02/repurposing-android.html

Did not try that yet but that is interesting. Long time ago I ran a web server on Android (Moto G1) using some app on Play Store and that was fast for static sites. May be we can host a static blog or something. It's a shame to throw away those well running old phones.

#android #ewaste #selfhosted #selfhosting

Raspberry Pis are out of stock from a long time now. I was trying to place a back order and it estimates to be shipped in one year (5/9/2023) 😕
I need to find an alternative soon to keep running my self hosted Nextcloud instance if the current one dies. One died last month but luckily I had a spare.

#selfhosting #raspberrypi #homeserver #nextcloud

I love how FairEmail's privacy policy is organized.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md#summary-of-shared-data

Fun demo of what's doable in modern terminals:
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

Wish #k9mail shows better email previews instead of raw HTML

I had to change all ".txt" files in a directory to ".md" so did this:

$ for txtFile in $(find . -type f -name '*.txt' -print); do mv "$txtFile" "${txtFile%.*}.md" ; done

#bash #commandline #linux #unix

#Google is banning all call recording apps from #Android Play Store 😕

> The Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-kill-third-party-call-recording-apps-android/

Welcome to all the new folks joining #Fediverse 🤗

#ElonMusk investing billions in Twitter instead of starting a cheap #Mastodon instance is a missed opportunity.
Remember hoards of normies installed #Signal app last year because of his tweets

#ClassQuiz: An open source quiz platform (like Kahoot!) made by @Mawoka

I like it and would use it for my house parties next time!

Check it out: https://classquiz.mawoka.eu

It is a new project so let the author know if you have any feedback and possibly help them fix it: https://github.com/mawoka-myblock/ClassQuiz

@Mawoka actively contributes to other open source projects so any support is welcome (Boosts, Github stars,…) 😊

Written in: #svelte, #python

#opensource #foss #kahoot #github

I heard a friend saying their project's JIRAs disappeared. May be this is what happened:

Atlassian: Our team ran a script to delete legacy data from a deprecated service. Instead of deleting the data the script erroneously deleted sites, and connected products, users...

#jira #atlassian

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/atlassian_update-on-cloud-outage-impacting-400-customers-activity-6919683542054543361-eJVn

Android 13 brings runtime permissions to notifications. Which means apps cannot send notifications without user's approval.

This means additional work as a developer but like it as a user. Hope this will reduce the notification spam.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/changes/notification-permission

#android #android13 #androidDev

Disappearing messages should be the default for all messengers 💬. Most chat history has no reason to live a forever just like it is normal talking to people on phone or real life without recording the conversation 🔏
#privacy #surveillance #dataprivacy #WhatsApp #signal #matrix #data

Open source 'protestware' harms Open Source
#opensource

https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source