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I tried self hosting Pixelfed but gave up because it wouldn't work. I'm used to Docker containers that are able to just start up by themselves, but the guide didn't work for me. Maybe it's time to try again.

The Chief Product Officer has left the company too

Ah yes let's fire the people that can fix the problem

I've been using and recommending Unifi Protect for friends. It's self-hosted and your video data is saved locally. The cameras require the Unifi Protect NVR or Cloud Key. For friends that are not overly technical, I've found it's quite easy for them to understand and use, while avoiding subscriptions.

One place it would be useful is if you are worried about somebody breaking into your home and stealing your computer. Don't store the key on the home computer, instead store it on a cloud server. The home computer connects to the cloud server, authenticates itself with some secret, then if the cloud server authorizes, it can return the decryption key.

Then if your computer gets stolen or seized, it'll connect via a different IP and the cloud server can deny access or even wipe the encryption key.

this doesn't protect against all risks, but it has its uses.

Example: https://www.ogselfhosting.com/index.php/2023/12/25/tang-clevis-for-a-luks-encrypted-debian-server

Unfortunately, unscrupulous companies can build shadow profiles that bypass cookie and storage based isolation techniques like this.

Your browser gives off a lot of information. See here for some of the information they can use: https://amiunique.org

You're best off blocking things with uBlock Origin vs something that just isolates.

This is a good idea. It's a lot easier to incentivize a maintainer who is already familiar with a project and invested in it with some money than it is to get a person who is unfamiliar with a project.

How much you should donate and how likely they are to agree depends on how complex your request is, whether they feel it fits in with the project for other people, and how busy they are.

No, the cable isn't going to implement the protocol. You need endpoints that are able to talk that protocol. That might be done with a firmware update or require new hardware.

I just saw this one mention endurain, a fitness tracker. I've been looking for something to self host data about my health, fitness, etc. Has anyone tried this or anything else in the self-hosted or open source fitness space?

Those countries are Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.

I think I ignored a lot of signs and indications under the feeling that well "I'm promo tracked to the next level and I worked hard so I'll ignore it." My partner told me to talk to somebody, friends said I worked hard. But then slowly my motivation to work at my job decreased. I delivered less, I made up excuses, I stop caring about projects when I used to really care. Which was a huge difference because I used to be a top tier developer every year.

But the big part was my personal life. After work I was tired and not motivated, even though I would barely do any work. loosing interest in hobbies was a big indication. Going to the gym, but not really pushing myself, etc. I think there's some parallels with depression, but I never felt like I had that because I kept getting out of bed doing things.

I had a friend deacribe their experience and I just started thinking yeah I feel the same way. I finally had a health issue/mental breakdown that caused me to go to the doctor and pursue FMLA leave which is giving me partial pay to just focus on myself, focus on friends, and talk to a therapist. I don't know what I'll do when it ends. Probably won't go back to the company.

Weirdly, a lot of my friends in the big tech industry have hit a breaking point and are leaving or on leaves.

I'm recovering from burnout after working at a big tech company for 10 years. I think this article tries to focus on how just giving people the right work will prevent burnout, but I think the causes are very complex and vary for different people. But it's important to catch it before it's bad. For me, I had difficult to please managers, or projects that went nowhere, or passion projects that were not invested in, or lack of strong non-work relationships, or even just looking at the company I worked at slowly lose all culture and turn into something that started to abuse customers and focus on profits.