these comics are well known for their alt text

It’s title text, or in web comic circles, hover text. The linked comic’s alt is simply Lisp Cycles.

I use mpv with yt-dlp.

Guess what, you can run Vim inside Emacs inside Vim inside Emacs now!

:q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ

if I sent you a private message, is that viewable in plain text by not just the instance owner we’re both on

Yes.

other federated instances too?

Not by design, but instances can misbehave.

private messaging over AP

Private is misleading here: for messaging to be private, no third party should be able to read the messages. In practice, this usually requires end-to-end encryption.

I’ve been using disroot.org for a few years and it does what I expect. Recently I started a maddy.email server on a VPS and it’s easier than I thought.

doesn’t collect my data and its [sic] secure as well

To quote cock.li,

How can I trust you?

You can’t. Cock.li doesn’t parse your E-mail to provide you with targeted ads, nor does cock.li read E-mail contents unless it’s for a legal court order. However, it is 100% possible for me to read E-mail, and IMAP/SMTP doesn’t provide user-side/client-side encryption, so you’re just going to have to take my word for it. Any encryption implementation would still technically allow me to read E-mail, too. This was true for Lavabit as well – while your E-mail was stored encrypted (only if you were a paid member, which most people forget), E-mail could still technically be intercepted while being received / sent (SMTP), or while being read by your mail client (IMAP). For privacy, we recommend encrypting your E-mails using PGP using a mail client add-on like Enigmail, or downloading your mail locally with POP and regularly deleting your mail from our server.

We use Maddy, which is pretty easy to set up.

isync can be used for archiving IMAP into maildir format, which is readable by all MUAs.

Its market share defeats the point of self-hosting.

If you have a static IPv6 address you can host your own authoritative DNS locally and use it for IPv4.

I use Liferea, which

• Discovers web feeds from web page’s alternate link
• Embeds WebKit to render HTML in full
• Supports RSS comments
• Has configurable enclosure handler, so I can open YouTube in mpv

Remember when Reddit was the free software alternative?

beat so fire me be rolling in my grave

I think group is to be implemented in Mastodon soon™. Qoto’s fork already did, and some other microblogging implementations like GNU Social and Frendica had supported such feature since before Mastodon (the software) even existed.

My taste is mainstream enough that I just go with Wikipedia from artists I already know, and once a year, the Grammys.

• Flare: best hack and slash RPG
• Hedgewars: best coffee break
• Neverputt (from Neverball): also coffee break but peaceful
• SuperTuxKart: fun racing game if you have a controller
• Extreme Tux Racer: relaxing skiing
• Xonotic: most popular fast-paced FPS
• Red Eclipse: similar, but parkour!

there is an easy way to give each container it’s own IP so you don’t have to worry about port conflicts

I solve this by running services on the same OS and give them Unix sockets but I’m probably unhinged.

Is it an aggregator? How about directly subscribing to web feeds?

inb4 phones remove charging ports

Is it that difficult to get a phone with a headphone jack nowadays tho?

I use a web feed reader (Liferea) and open videos in mpv. Actually I usually open PeerTube videos in the browser to give it a thumb up and possibly help with delivery, but mpv can play them too.