This is just a guess, but I’d imagine that happens because the websites use JavaScript to load the actual content of the page, but Lemmy is just parsing the HTML that is returned.

Also, I really doubt you’d have much luck convincing website authors to completely change their architecture just to get previews to work on Lemmy.

As someone who is currently hiring: Anything

Beyond that it depends on what you know and what kind of work you want to do.

Hey, this might be something I’m interested in, but I’m not sure because there aren’t many details in your readme.

Some questions I’d suggest you answer in the readme:

[Edit: after looking through the code quickly, some of my questions probably don’t male sense because this seems to be an alerting style monitoring tool, not a observability style monitoring tool. Answering my own questions for others that are curious:]

What does it monitor?

[Disk space and CPU use]

What is the interface? Web? It does compare itself to grafana, so maybe. TUI? Maybe that’s what makes it more light weight?

[It doesn’t have one, it sends telegram messages when alarm thresholds(?) are hit.]

Does it only work on Debian? If not, are there deps that are required that are installed as dependencies of the deb?

[Looks like it should work anywhere, the ‘watchers’ use the nix crate and read procfs, so I assume that means it should work anywhere without depending on anything besides the Linux kernel.]

Is there history or is it real time only?

[Realtime only, well I guess there’s the telegram history.]

What does it look like? (Honestly, a screenshot could possibly answer most of these questions and a whole lot more.)

[It doesn’t look like anything. There’s no screenshot because there’s nothing to screenshot.]

[edit: To be clear, I assume the part that OP is not sure if it’s satire or not is “or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.”] The emphasis in

Firefox is worse than Chrome

is in the original. To me that clearly implies that they are of the opinion that in general Google & Chrome are worse on privacy than Mozilla & Firefox. The comment at the end is just tongue in cheek snark alluding to the fact that in this particular case google did better for privacy in Chrome than Mozilla in Firefox.

or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

Definitely satire, the context from earlier:

2. Firefox is worse than Chrome in their implementation of ad snitching, because Chrome enables it only after user consent.

Unless you’re working with people who are too smart, then sometimes the code only explains the how. Why did the log processor have thousands of lines about Hilbert Curves? I never could figure it out even after talking with the person that wrote it.

I am still interested to know the details of how they came to this decision. Why Signal instead of Matrix.

AFAIK, signal doesn’t federate, There is no “signal server-to-server” protocol. When people say “The Signal Protocol”, they are talking about a cryptographic protocol, not a network protocol.

As for why they wouldn’t use Matrix, I would assume it’s just too heavy of a protocol for the scale they operate at. IIRC, Matrix isn’t just a chat protocol. It’s a multi-peer cryptographic state synchronization protocol. Chat is (was?) just the first “easy” application they were going to apply it to. (Now I’m curious if they still have plans for that at some point.) They’ve been making great strides in improving the efficiency, at least in the client-server API (I haven’t been paying attention to the server-server API at all), but it’s still going to be a heck of a lot more compute heavy than whatever custom API they’re providing.

As others have said, it’s quite good on privacy. For the truly paranoid, IIRC you can even self-host the sync server.

From the security perspective of privacy, do make sure to use a good password for the Mozilla account, the account password is also the encryption key for the E2E encryption.

It supports them already, there just aren’t any provided by default. They’re called Bookmark Keywords: https://github.com/jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks

I’d suggest not importing all of them from that list though, there’s a crap load, just pick the ones you want and put them in manually.

Assuming you meant de-federate, there are a few listed on https://fedipact.online/ that seem to be lemmy instances.

Woah, this would be huge if this works.

Though, I’m almost more excited about the idea of native task locals variables. I came real close to trying to add that to tokio myself.

Meh. Now I’m a dyed in the wool Linux zealot, but this list is crap.

1. Everything you need, nothing you don’t

Phoey, even the description for this point talks about how much Valve had to build to make the deck possible.

2. Better performance, lighter overheads
   Windows is a pretty bloated OS

Honestly don’t know enough about Windows to say anything on this one definitively. I still doubt it though…

3. A hidden desktop experience
   You never need to use it if you don’t want to

This has nothing to do with windows vs linux, Valve just did a good job on their ‘not-desktop’ side of things.

4. Never worry about drivers

Do the windows consoles not come with drivers installed? Also, can you point out where I can download all the Linux drivers from Valve without exacting them from a full OS recovery image? (Actually kinda honestly asking on that last one. Or have they just upstreamed everything already?)

5. Modify it to your heart’s content
   Linux puts tools in your hands

This is a choice that Valve made. They absolutely could have given this thing secure boot that only lets you run official software with no hooks for mods. I was tangentially involved with doing exactly this for the SmartThings Hub V3, it’s not particularly hard.

Preferring private spaces doesn’t mean being “pro car”. I very much prefer private spaces, but still overall prefer public transit. That just means I spring for a private roomette on amtrak even when it’s a non-overnight 8 hour trip to Chicago.

You can only do that with Firefox Developer, can’t you? And IIRC, they self uninstall after a week or something, don’t they?

Oh, I’m confident(-ish) in my ability to review the code, but as I understand it I have no way to guarantee that the code that’s on github is the code that AMO installs. Plus updates are automatic, so I have no way to ensure that something malicious won’t be added anyway.

I keep thinking about installing this, but the required permissions seem a bit excessive:

This add-on needs to:

• Input data to the clipboard
• Access your data for all websites

Anyone know if the ‘All Access’ permission is really required for what this is doing? It just feels wrong. There isn’t some sort of “Control Navigation for These Domains” that it could request for each enabled site or something is there?

I think people are just all outraged-out these days. (Well, at least for this…) The years and years of outrage about locked phones didn’t get any of the old manufacturers to change their ways and when the option of the pixel showed up, people who care about this were just tired and settled for just voting with their wallet. Or at least that was my experience.

I so, so wish this were a real option, but sadly the software support just really isn’t there yet.

For that to become reality I think it would either need a ‘Proton for Android Apps’ or some sort of killer app that I can’t even imagine.

I am dismayed at the current scenario of basically nothing but the pixels being supported for rooting (not the fault of the community). Also a bit saddened by how easily everyone has accepted it.

Serious question, what the the community not accepting it look like?

Technically neither of these are donations, but:

I subscribe to Firefox VPN, and don’t actually even use it, just because I want to support them in a way where money could possibly towards FF dev and not just the Mozilla foundation (which can’t fun Mozilla corp work AFAIK).

I also have a supporter subscription at https://neocities.org because I support his ideals. Plus I get dirt cheap, easy to use static hosting out of the deal.

Edit: Oh, I guess humble bundle purchases might count, I do at least slide the sliders to make sure the charities get most of the money.

Edit 2: Oh and the Calyx Institute, that’s actually a proper donation to a registered nonprofit. With my $400/year donation I get a 4G hotspot with actually unlimited data. (They also have a $500/year for an unlimited 5G hotspot, I just haven’t felt the need to upgrade since they started offering that.) I also use CalyxOS, so it’s nice to feel like I’m supporting that.