Comment by drewg123 on July 25, 2019

> I met Linus at the Linux BOF at the 1994 Boston USENIX. Very ironically, I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD. It sounds like a cheap shot, but please hear me out: > >I was sysadmin'ing a university stats department at the time, and NFS use was very important. I had been trying to use Linux on 486's, but performance of xdvi (with NFS mounted fonts) was abysmal. A 486 would take minutes to render the same page that a wimpy DECStation could render in a second. From tcpdump, I figured out it was because Linux did not do any sort of NFS caching at the time, and xdvi wandered around font files one byte at a time. > >I asked Linus at the BOF when they planned to implement NFS. He told me NFS was unimportant, nobody used it, and so on. > >I then attended the FreeBSD BOF where a clean shaven guy in a collared shirt was giving a power point presentation. I asked about NFS there, and was told it should work fine. When I got home from the conference, I switched the 486 to FreeBSD, and it worked just fine. > >I eventually did OS research on FreeBSD, was one of a few people to port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha, and I now do kernel performance work for a large CDN, where we run FreeBSD.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.

> This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > >📬 Help / Discussions > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21064022

> Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites. > > I recently released version 0.2 with the following features: > > Improved RSS compatibility > > RSS compatibility was terrible at 0.1.x due to some bugs - should now work with most valid Atom / RSS feeds. > > Receive likes & reposts > > Hatsu now receives likes and retweets for local posts and outputs them via a mastodon-compatible API. > > New comment component > > KKna is a new comment component (also written by me) that has Hatsu preset that automatically infer URL. > > You can check the integration instructions in the documentation: > > https://hatsu.cli.rs/users/backfeed-based-on-kkna.html > > (It's still unstable) > > Nix Package > > Are you using NixOS / Nix? I am, so I packaged it into NUR and Nixpkgs. > > There is no documentation on this at the moment, I will update it later.

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20097432

> Unbelievable...

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9961019

> Hello Lemmy! Yesterday I released the first version of an alternative frontend for Threads: Shoelace. It allows for fetching posts and profiles from Threads without the need of any browser-side JavaScript. It's written in Rust, and powered by the spools library, which was co-developed between me and my girlfriend. Here's a quick preview: > > !A screenshot of Shoelace's homepage, showing the logo on top, the title "Shoelace", the subtitle "an alternative frontend for Threads", an input bar with the tooltip "Jump to a profile...", and at the bottom three links: "hub", "donate", and "v0.1". > > !Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Shoelace, showing three posts: One showcasing columns on the official Threads frontend, another congratulating himself for 1.2M+ downloads in his company's new AI software, and the glimpse of a post related to the "metaverse" > !Post by münecat on Shoelace, announcing the release of a video essay criticizing the field of evolutionary psychology > > The official public instance (at least for now) is located at https://shoelace.mint.lgbt/, if y'all wanna try it out. There's also instructions to deploy it inside the docs you can find in the README. Hope y'all enjoy it!

> https://social.coop/@shauna/112503558995533544 > If you want to follow along with Ghost's attempts to implement ActivityPub they are surprisingly hilarious

feddit.de has been giving "Server error" for some time but I read that the server is still working when using a Lemmy app. Tried the Photon front-end today and choosing feddit.de as instance.

• Example post from All : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12459995
• Example (German) post from Local, 3 hours ago : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12475331

My question (I'm just curious, I have no account on feddit.de) is : Can an alternative front-end on their server co-exist with the other server software ? I guess it would be a matter of installing Photon and then point nginx configuration to that. Or am I missing something crucial ?