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Show HN: Matrix] Homeservers Setup and Maintenance

5 points·by rakshazi·vor 5 Jahren·1 comments

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rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Actually, Jitsi is the only one, but it used only in case of group calls, so I can't complain. 1:1 calls handled without any 3rdParty
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
ansible-console is a treasure! I wish I saw that article years ago...
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I started https://etke.cc service not long ago.

Tech stack: ansible (automatization), docker (simplify deployments and maintenance), matrix (protocol) and golang (internal tools)

The idea of the service is to provide painless setup of matrix homeservers with huge customization options (not listed on website, otherwise it will be 3 desktop-screens-form in size), because if you went your matrix hs you must suffer :D and I'm trying to make it as simple as possible for newcomers to matrix world.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Welcome to modern web
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
https://matrix.org is a good one
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
if you are "non-technical" user - yes. but if you can install LineageOS (or any other custom rom you prefer) - no.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Well, my current project is good example: https://etke.cc

Try to apply AMP to it and see the difference...
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
The ironic part of AMP is that it's heavely relies on js. External js.

For example, you have a lightweight website with size of 140kb for everything (html, CSS, js, images) without AMP. It works blazing fast and you get 100/100 scores on any website speed meter.

But it was not enough for google, because you don't use their super-duper AMP tech.

You known what? Your website doubles in size when you implement AMP, because you must load several additional scripts to make AMP work, and not only size increases, load time (from click on your website link till full render) will increase too, because additional js processing to make AMP work.

The only benefit was preloading and heavely caching by Google, so user feels like website shows instantly.

I "optimized" several lightweight websites with AMP and every time I had exactly one thought in mind - that's useless stuff adds more problems than benefits, except mobile search ranking.

Thanks God now AMP is not mandatory to be in google mobile search top
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Google tries to kill RSS for a long time, that's it.

TBH, I understand why - using RSS you don't need "help" from Google to decide what you want to see and what don't want.

As for myself, after I installed Miniflux I removed accounts on reddit and other "content sources", because I simply read 99% of content through RSS and as someone already mentioned here in comments, RSS reader is the most used app on my phone now.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Hi there, still waiting for news from one of your guys (vaivars).

I hope that comment will reach him and finally I will get a response about matrix social/oidc auth...
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
> If we're advocating for using paper bags over plastic bags, that means we're advocating for way more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Not exactly. The point is not to use paper bag, but to use durable/persistent bag from any material (even plastic) as long as you can.

For example, I almost never use one-time plastic bags, because I have backpack, so when I go to a grocery store, all the things placed into the backpack.

In such case (from energy perspective) it's easier to peoduce 1 backpack (32l) for several years of daily use instead of paper/plastic/etc ONE-TIME bag.

Unfortunately, that approach doesn't work with other things. For example, it's impossible to buy yogurt not in one-time plastic package and we didn't find a "mass market" solution to that problem. Same goes for any other ONE-TIME package
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Anywhere. Yes, there are "whois guard" services, but that's actually email relays (like aliases). You must provide your identity information (name, surname, other passport/id data, address, etc.) to buy a domain name.

Any "privacy-oriented" registrar just hides that information from whois records, but you still share it to registrar, so in case of government requests or data leak your PII will be exposed.

There is no anonymity in internet, only pseudoanonymity.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
You can't anonymously hold a domain in any *TLD. Yes, even in freenom's TLDs (you're not a domain holder with free domains)
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I wish content makers migrate to PeerTube instead of YouTube...
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
there is a coil.com as example of such subscription and it even integrated in imgur, twitch and some other services.

Never used it, tho. I prefer reading HN comments instead of articles, because news nowadays is huge longrid with only ~10% of usable information in it. I'm not ready to pay $10 for such thing, IMO.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Hi,

https://etke.cc developer is here. As the guy who setups matrix servers for customers I can tell you that a lot of information in topic link is a lie or controversial.

Example: Matrix is not extendable - seems the author didn't read any basic guide of Matrix protocol - you can and SHOULD extend it if you develop any new primitives and/or events. Even naming convention of matrix events encourages you to do that.
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I built entire service [0], because I wanted to chat in matrix (protocol [1]). It's quite hard to selfhost it properly, so I ended with lots of automatization, based on open source stack.

Now I can setup a homeserver in ~20 minutes with lots of additions and customizations.

[0] https://etke.cc

[1] https://matrix.org
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Oh, I played it and loosed on multiple check boxes level.

Fun game, was smiling and crying during gameplay
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
1. Opened website

2. Got a banner with some offer on 80% of my screen

3. Closed website

I like modern web /s
rakshazi
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
https://ariadne.space/about - she's pretty cool