I don't use radicle yet, but from what I understand I don't see how it would change anything connectivity wise for your team. If you have private repos you self host in a company server, radicle would behave exactly the same. You would still not want it exposed publicly and would still need the VPN.

If anything, you could be less safe since a miss configuration would mean Radicle publishing, and potentially many others seeding, your private repos.

It is rare, very rare, to find anything like this with Mercurial support. Same for services.

Recommend you follow the 321 backup strategy. Adopted to modern times I would say it is broadly:

• Have your data in more than 1 place
• Use more than one provider
• One of your types of backups should be physical media like an external hard drive.

From what you described if apple was to wipe your data[1] you would be completely out of luck.. for example if something deletes data in your Mac and then that deletion gets synced... For the most part syncing data is not a backup.

Lastly, recommend you try to put all your critical data in one folder, or identify folders with critical data and prioritize backup of those first while you figure out the rest.

[1] Not only can a deletion "sync" from your mac, but there can be any number of issues.. like a bad update to a file. There is also the possibility, no matter how small, that apple could wipe your data. Over time you always see news of "company X deleted entire set of data for user/company Y".

I think we will need a few more lawsuits such as Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its virtual assistant, Siri, recorded users' conversations without their consent before this is no longer treated as confirmation bias or people been paranoid.

My wife used to tell me that her adds would change after discussing something and at first I did not believe her, but it just kept happening again, and again. It reached the point that we would put our phones away, discuss something and there is no change in ads about the topic. If we had our phones near adds would change.This would happen on things that we would not see adds for normally. For example we would discuss a trip to a place we have never been and she would start seeing adds about the destination after that.

In many, if not most, startups and small companies titles don't mean much. You have to do more than you were usually hired for.

Try and learn as much as you can as fast as you can and then either ask for more money or look for another job.

As long as the environment is not bad, it may be a good learning experience. When I compare my startup years to some of my co-workers who never worked at a startup I was able to learn a lot more than them. Many of my co-workers have only worked at large companies so they were never exposed to a wide range of tasks because in larger companies jobs are far more segregated and specialized.

I think in general we just need more people.. There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.

I like the idea, but wonder if a lemmy community may have been just as good. The main friction I think many of us will have is "one more place to go to". Also, I think the founders likely should step up to create content initially otherwise you run into

• New user visits
• Nothing here to see.. I like the idea; will bookmark to check later
• Later never comes and the person just forgets about the project

In my opinion the founders need to create some, even if minimal, value for new users until there is a critical mass.

The issue is that anyone who looks objectively at the technology knows that AI / LLMs can't replace knowledge workers in a large set of tasks, yet you see week after week.. month after month the pattern

• Some new company says going to replace x% of employees with AI...
• X weeks / months later... said company reports the attempt was a failure and are having to hire people back

It is as the thought of saving the money of firing all those people is too much to resist for "top management".

You would think after the first batch of companies go through the same, other companies would learn, yet I just keep seeing the same happen again and again.

There is also the potential backslash. Specially if "management" is dumb enough to try and present firing hundreds / thousands of people like a a good thing.. for example Duolingo's case

Take a look at Restic Not the easiest, but so far as proven to be reliable and performant

Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my workforce. I didn’t do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted record revenue growth, have strong free cash flow and are adding an unprecedented number of customers around the world.

And since we are doing so great let's fire 20% of our workforce because obviously they were not a factor in our success. Besides what could possibly go wrong firing 1/5 of our company. Is not like there is lots of tribal knowledge that AI won't be able to figure out.

I have been using Vivaldi for about half a year and so far it is working well for me. Originally moved to it due to it's privacy features, but finding other areas quite useful too such as workspaces

I think the ideal would be not how to make it "like Reddit", but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit.. One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (![email protected]) and 18.9K (![email protected]). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.

I use it to track everything..

Quick notes knowledgebase Follow up (personal and work)

The great thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is. The bad thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is.. 😀

I have seen may people comment, or outright leave, Obsidian because because there was too much to learn.. or too many plugins to explore..

Personally, I only look for plugins if I need something specific. Don't see the point of trying random plugins. Is like spending time finding solutions to a problem you may not have..

Also, I work on tech and many documents are in markdown. Obsidian makes it easier to read those. Specially the collapse / expand functionality is really great for exploring large docs.. as long as the creators properly used sections (basically # for level 1, ## for level 2..and so on)

You did not have CloudFlare, or an equivalent, to help against the attacks? If you don't want a service there are some opensource solutions that should help minimize AI traffic

Quick observation. I think would be helpful to have a login button somewhere instead of one having to get all the way down to a topic. Also, what if I wanted to see everything new for a category instead for a single topic? Anything like that supported yet?

Are you writing anywhere about how you are doing this? Tech stack, team members, etc..

New project submissions, such as https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Submit_Project, should be behind login. Otherwise, eventually, you will get lots of spam registrations.

Lastly, when I see this "The Libre Community" makes me think that this would be even nicer if it was for all creators.. think solopreneurs who may be trying to create a SAAS. Those are a group of people who may be primarily consumers of open source, but they can provide great feedback and also be early adopters of anyone trying to create a new open source software.

The github page mentions a few things this doesn't have which syncthing does, how about anything this has which syncthing does not have? Basically to answer why should anyone consider this instead of syncthing?

And post as much disinformation as they want without "censorship".

it's not a sprint, but a marathon. Rest, recharge and then come back.. For example you could do posts in Lemmy of summary of an article in your site or just put link to article in your site, once things are moving.

Copyright law only has teeth when it’s owned by corporations,

100%. It is funny how any individual can be sued for copying a handful, of pretty much anything copyrighted, yet these AI companies copy literally thousands upon thousands of copyrighted materials.

cleanroom reimplementing technique does still seem to create a derivative product

Will likely have to wait for a case to go to trial, but in theory at least, it is possible these clean room implementations may pass a legal challenge. The youtube video I was watching about this topic had phoenix technologies as an example (for those of us old enough to remember what that company was). In their case it was even more so; they took a commercial piece of software and reverse engineered. If that is possible, then doing similar to an open source software may be considered legal, but again we probably won't know until something like this comes to courts. Different countries may also treat this differently so we will have to wait and see.

The “good” news is this is pretty rare these days.

Sadly yes. But even those that don't make money, or much money, must feel demoralized when someone steals their code.

1 of which is off-site (in a safety deposit box, for example)

A potential compromise these days may be a block storage service. Safety deposit box is good, but because of it's inconvenience people are very likely to do it seldom, which defeats the purpose.