- stevenicrworking on a hybrid done with you quick website launches ( https://betterwebgroup.com/quicklaunch-start/ ) to help people get started - using some tutorials and guidance for ai writing your text copy. more than half baked now, testing on the 1st!
- I've installed fresh matrix about 8 times or so, got it to work 3 of those times. I started looking for how to do a fresh install earlier this year (matrix/synapse element) and I have no idea which docs to use,
It was bad enough before that I had to detour to random places to find workarounds for things like how nginx does it's thing differently than the matrix docs I was reading at the time.. but now with the newer element that makes it easy to not find a self hosting way - to main docs being listed as archived or old -
I'd enjoy installing it fresh with someone from matrix watching the process just to see what a slog it is - and then watch someone try to get some addins running like admin and moderation.
wordpress is a one click install via softalicious and similar on most cpanel 10$ and up hosts.. you can one click add a decent free chat plugin if you are on a VPS.
If matrix was that simple to setup, lots of people would be using it.
- So glad you posted this comment. Exact thoughts here and you saved me from exploring / wasting time.
- I am wishing I had tags for past chats, and the sections of them. Would be much faster to find with searching and other small ui tweaks.
- I sometimes wonder the firm defintion(s) of 'public social media'
If you post a blog on blogspot or similar it seems the point is to be public. (there could be settings there to make some things non public, I don't remember or know what is current)
If you post on a network that requires login to see the posts, is that public? (is twitter / tumbler / fbook all indexed via google / available without login?)
If you post on a social network inside a group that requires approval to join, but is free - is that public?
If you post something behind a paywall, is that public?
If someone shares a photo of you that you DMed a person using a social network..
Snapchat makes things disappear, whatsapp advertises that even they can't see your bad behavior.
Did you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in these places?
One could argue that stolen photos, texts, books, movies that are posted on a social network are now public.
And then I think about the number of people who don't understand what is public and what can be seen by others, and I feel that our apps and hardware should bear some responsibility to remind people that tapping like or making a comment may feel intimate / 1 to 1, but you may be questioned one day very publicly about why you were voting for one kind of thing while giving thumbs up and praise comments to twinks from your official account.
Then I wonder what kind of hybrid social systems will be a thing in the future - some sort of encrypted 1 to 1 and 1 to groups thing.
It's not just stories like this, but companies scraping tinder profiles and sharing the pictures and such..
People's expectation of privacy and the horrors of that not being a thing will likely cause more and more migrations into privacy proxy identity avatar agents;
which will likely lead to less data for the big companies where the data knowledge is the gold.
- I remember a post on HN years ago where someone posted a thing that told us all sorts of stuff about our current browser,
I think it even included if your computer was on a desk or moving / shaking, I really want to re-find that.
I know many things have changed with browsers auto sending data, some things are more private and many things are less private.
Someone collab with me on a couple of blog posts about then vs now and examples of what could be inferred by combing data.
- True story:
People (or bots) using cloudflare ips to probe for exploited files.
I block the cloudflare cidr they are coming from.
Website backup (wordpress using updraft free) - fails.
Logs show failure to connect to updraft's web site.
I lookup the website's dns and see cloudflare ips.
Those ips are in the CIDR I blocked.
I temp undo the block, run the updraft backup, and go back to blocking millions of cloudflare ips.
Scratching my head on why updraft needs to connect to it's home site to run a backup, and why a better failure notice was not presented.
- I wish every product like this had giant warnings on the box, in the online listing, etc.
I bought a robot vac (after owning an early roomba for some time) - Opened it up, ready to use it - instructions said download the app to make it work.
It's back in it's box somewhere around here and never used.
- Didn't CF CEO post in March 2019 that they were going to start working with govts on suggestions for how to implement laws that would get them to block things people didn't like?
- a recent few shorts / scroll to see them: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1RY5RYlgymrW3mZVmJOVUOnF...
tldr: fights, and watch someone buy the entire shelf at walmart in one transaction.
- With food trucks I've learned that rules, regulations, construction costs may be bigger factors.
In most cases if you attach 50 grand worth of stuff to a building and can't pay your rent one month you may be legally required to leave most of your equipment with the landlord, and could be required to pay for additional construction.
Many landlords require certain insurances you can bypass with your truck. The public can't sue the building owner for things.
Inspections are also easier to handle with smaller places to tidy up, and everyone in your restaurant can see an inspector coming before they get inside.
Also if you get a bad inspection or bad reviews, just put a new wrap on your truck and it's not like a bad reputation for a specific building is set in.
- I've been seeing that housing supply / demand and pricing is complicated by many other factors beyond population. It can less or more obvious depending on location.
I've watched one of my favorite cities housing go crazy because of many factors including investors buying up properties for airbnb, developers focusing on catering to the coming influx of higher paid amazon / oracle people, and so many betting on those future increases that everything else goes up.
Adding to that, becoming a popular place for people to buy a second (or third / fourth home) - whether it's for a temporary move, to shelter their kids going to college who have chosen here instead of Chicago, trying a lower tax place to move with remote work being easier post 2020, etc..
Good point about new construction costing more, and that in itself has many factors. and depending on exactly when things were purchased making big differences.
With the limited supply of builders, most are choosing to build more expensive places.
Sadly even if we made this place less attractive for people to move to, many of the properties wouldn't go on the market, many would just hold on to the property as a stable investment.
So population numbers are not the primary weight in the supply / demand equation in many places is something I have been learning.
- great job showing this, inspiring!
I want this not for typing all the letters and numbers, but just the keyboard shortcuts to play Empire Earth V4 VR
- until that fantasy materializes maybe enough typing for an Age of Empires type game without being stuck at a full keyboard,
something like this maybe the perfect in-between ps4 controller and full keyboard for many things.
- There is need for this.
Pricing - is this monthly fee? I can't tell. (and I don't do monthly fees as a 99% rule)
If this were my project I would have a $79 get your broad checkbox done, one time fee. Extra addons available and update notifications of your choosing, once a year? once a month? I would select twice a year and give you kudos for noticing Maryland has new laws starting next week, Virginia add new regs in July and..
I don't think anyone is excited to "Start Your Compliance Journey Today" -
get compliant in under 10 minutes with a doc that is pre-formatted for your workflow
/ website builder to paste in the builder you use without Word formatting fluff screwing with WP / etc -
I would partner with: isn't there a couple of places that have on demand lawyers for each state like an upwork kind of select by price and availability?
If any of your customers also need to be Hipaa compliant I would like to be included in a receipt email they get ;)
I think many people don't know GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, COPPA, CalOPPA, and PIPEDA. from letters of various gov's and such.
maybe a block with 'doing business in Europe - we got your GDPR and blah required policy covered' another block with 'have a website or app in the USA - you have to have a privacy policy by fed law.. any forms or logins? lets up get your Coppa and other policies covered.
Get visitors from Cal, Tx, Va or XX YY? add these state specific and sign up for notifications of new rules for states that you do business in.
Don't want to deal with Cal, or X Y or Z laws? get our 'block visitors from this and that State' website script for free with an email.
Like the 'how it works' section, make the first two clickable or add buttons to get started / see plans.
More thoughts but short on time this afternoon.
Developer plan? I know people who maintain 20 websites - I might spend $200 to get a custom page for each one, if it was more I'd want an affiliate system that did not depend on cookies where I can send clients to get a new one each year.
- for me the sweet spot would be toggle on / off / delay X #of minutes for mentions, replies, all the things (each thing individually)..
this way some channels I would set to notify of all the things once every 2 hours, unless @mentioned
Some channels would be once every 4 hours.
- In order to accomplish that working, you'd have to legally mandate parents put the blockers on their kids devices.
Similar things exist that block based upon lists and content keywords and such.
Most parents do not want to block stuff from their kids or they would be.
If thousands of them demanded that devices came with blockers then the market would provide such devices.
Many moons ago you could argue parents did not know what the youngins would find on the internet. Today's parents definitely know, and most do nothing to restrict access.
- Thanks for the suggestion, I am looking at it now - for some reason my first scan of the first page about it found on DDG I was convinced it was a non-self-hosted 'service' only.
Then a downloads page (which I clicked to wonder if it was 'you need a client to interact with our cloud service' kind of page.. seems to point to self hosting as an option - so I will give this a go.
I recently gave a presentation for another biz about chat community options. During the research I stumbled upon rocket chat with a totally grown up look and feel quite shockingly, and found trillian.im as possible self host contenders.
There were a couple others but some things in my features matrix made them less likely as a replacement for matrix as an option for those needs.
I'm still hopeful for matrix to become easier to deploy and easier to use, as it has real potential.
One reason wordpress got so popular is it's famous 5 minute install; and that was doing it manually.
Any noob can rent a $10 shared host, login to cpanel (or other panel these days) and click a button that installs wordpress, it's needed DB, creates the admin and emails you the details. Up an running in seconds.
somebody get matrix to run via one click with softalicious / fantistico like abilities please!
Of course wordpress benefits from lots of paid addons (for hundreds of developers not just wp/automattic) and a healthy 'pay for development ecosystem' - but most of that grew from the ease of install (and at the time lots of fancy free themes that were subsidized from many groups with different reasons).
With matrix I wish there was a chart of wanted features / fixes and people could escrow vote with dollars for things and they get released to everyone.
I think I group funded a feature for rocket chat years ago with options via bug county source? Something like that.
I also think Matrix would be better as a no federated self hosted install and connect some sort of bridge on a different server if someone wants to connect the federated stuff - less complaints and support issues with being bogged down.
The agony of trying to install has made me find other things to do so I can avoid having to do it this weekend, and I should of redone it last weekend. sigh.
- I am about to embark on my 8th attempt to install matrix / synapse / element in a fresh debian box.
I have succeeded 3 times to varying degrees (never got the extra things added like better moderation or custom stickers I think it was) -
I just did a quick ddg search to see if there are current docs on doing this setup.
Last time I remember running into docs that said these are old docs being archived, but no new docs available.
I spent a number of days in the chat trying to hone in on the small errors in homeserver yaml and going back and forth trying to get nginx or caddy to do that basic things it needs to.
I'm sure there were other weird things.
My quick scans of the search results and stuff on element saying its old, use pro element (with no links to pro element, which I finally found, - now has me out trying to learn how to use Kubernates or whatever - so another detour to other places to learn things before getting to 'is it possible to install this thing on current debian today'.
before I can even get to seeing if the install info is updated or complete these days.
I'd love it if someone that writes docs there could watch somebody try to install this thing, and all the going back and forth and searches and 20 different websites and tutorials from so many different places to do things to make it work.
It's worth it, but it's a lot of moving parts to get started,
and the moderation - that was 10 times easier with RealChat system Eugene released to the world 22 years ago.
Still there's nothing better self hosted that I have found.
- Makes me want to revisit my (started, but not posted) screenshots and videos of trying to install matrix / element following the random directions / docs.
- OMG - this is it! thank you SO much!
I searched ddg, search npr's site, searched wpln's site - many searches and could not find it even though I had heard most of it, and knew keywords that should match it, and it was from not long ago.
This is well done, wish it had a 'share starting at 2:23' option like YT does.
thanks again!