A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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  • With “better solution as of today” I meant more a viable solution as of today. And I don’t see any.

    I completely agree that some in-built, more convenient monetization would be great. But… That’d immediately make them a whole different business. Now they need to handle money for people and become a payment provider. That’d probably require them to change their legal form. They need to hire people to manage that money. They get liable for it. And where money is involved there are disagreements and lawsuits. So they need an additional customer service. Probably also a proper legal team. All those people want a salary, so they have to make profit to pay them.

    I think it’s a nice idea, but it would turn Peertube from a nice project that’s made by some programmers for us, the people, into a business halfway alike YouTube. And we already have YouTube. The nice thing about Peertube is that it’s about freedom and the content and less annoying business things involved.

    And that’s often the case with smaller projects. Now the programmers do the thing they’re good at: program the software. If we make them do something else, that’s gonna be at the cost of the project. They’ll become managers and can’t attend to the thing they’re good at and what we’d like them to do.

    Feel free to come up with a solution. I’d like to hear it. Because I’d also like to see some bigger Youtubers on Peertube. And they won’t come if they have to spend money on servers, instead of earning money.







  • Depends on your job and where you live. In the big city you generally don’t need a car. Same if you have an office job. But I wouldn’t want my colleagues to drive me around every day if I were a craftsman or sth like that…

    Theory examn takes quite some practice. You got to repeat those questions over and over again for weeks. You’ve probably not put enough effort in. Get that computer program and simulate examns until you’re able to comfortably do it. If you can’t do it, maybe those summer camp driving schools are more your thing. You’ll practice together with other people for like 2 weeks straight. It ain’t cheap, though.

    If you’re from a different country, maybe my advice doesn’t apply. Ultimately I think not everyone needs a drivers license.










  • Yeah. Their documentation is a bit “lacking” so to say… it’s practically nonexistent.

    They follow the usual procedure, though. So if you already set up 10 webservices on your server, you will know what to do. They documented a few special things like how to hook the appservices. But also that took me some trial and error.

    I believe it’s more for developers at this point. And people with a lot of expertise. That may change. And it already works well for the basic stuff. But i’m not sure if I’d recommend it unless it’s a special case like this.


  • To add on “the first programs” written in assembler: You’ll find they have some structure to them. As they’ve been written by humans. You can recognize the conditions, loops, … And they’ve grouped similar code together… A compiler does none of that. It’ll be happy to make a complete mess, re-organize it, combine chunks, do away with loops and other stuff if it can be done more efficiently another way. It’ll be more optimal (ideally) but generally unrecognizable to the human eye what happens in that code. And it might be one big pile of instructions, jumping around arbitrarily without any subdivision into chunks that would be logical to go together.



  • Not sure if that’s true. I’ve ran a Synapse Matrix server on a SBC before and it worked. Just for a few users though. I don’t know if it breaks if you have like 300 people using that…

    You could use conduit.rs as a server. That runs on a few tens of megabytes of RAM. Not a whopping gigabyte. At least that’s what I’m using now. It’s still missing a few features, though.