Labor have a vested interest in keeping property prices high as they themselves are all landlords.
This is the dumbest theory that only a child would believe.
Australians have a vested interest in keeping property prices high. Everyone owns property, not just Labor candidates.
No it doesn’t. Our tax system works the same way. It doesn’t lead to overzealous deduction denial because people are worried about getting it wrong.
Its an efficient and transparent approach.
Labor are a party of and for Landlords.
Bullshit.
It was only 8 years ago Labor campaigned on removing capital gains tax discounts which would’ve been a huge kick up the ass for landlords.
They lost that election in spectacular fashion.
This is the right way to make laws and rules.
It’s the same way we do tax - self compliance. You self report but if you’re caught breaking the rules then you face punishments.
If the administration just made a list of who’s effected, it would be perpetually incomplete. This way, everyone is effected.
They can’t just unilaterally decide that your self assessment is “wrong” without explanation. Also their decisions about who is effected are public, and can be relied on by others to self assess.
When I first became aware of this project I was pretty dismissive.
I’m very happy to admit in this case that the project has come further than I thought it would.
Their FAQ says they have 8, paid, full time devs and resources for something like 18 months. IDK how much it really takes to get a browser off the ground but they’ve got something, at least.
I’m looking forward to their Alpha release in 2026, and really hope they can achieve that.
The project needs money from somewhere.
Are there any restrictions on a FOSS instance? Is there a pay wall?
I’m been trying to stand up a zulip instance. It’s working but I haven’t used it much. I want a feature complete jitsi instance to go with it and that’s only partially implemented right now.
That said, zulip does seem like the best option for me presently.
Haven’t tried revolt.
Mattermost seems to be perpetually entangled but being disentangled from some other suite. Confusing and frustrating.
I haven’t tried rocket chat for 5 years or so. I think last time I read about it people were complaining that the FOSS plan is very limited.
Theres heaps of hosted nextcloud services. Those users wouldn’t know.
Do you really think someone is going to set up a MITM attack for the dozen people who visit this blog?
LOL. On the scale of risky things I’ve done today, visiting this guy’s http website barely rates a mention.
Someone posts about something they’ve learned and the best you can do is dump on them about whatever thing in order to demonstrate to everyone your superior knowledge.
Everyone starts somewhere.
Adding to what everyone else has already said, you want sync and backup.
Sync to a central location and backup from there.
For sync, you want syncthing or nextcloud. I would lean towards syncthing for media. If you had a million files in a complex folder structure and a dozen users with different access requirements and instant sync and collision protection is important then nextcloud might be the go. Otherwise syncthing is much more manageable.
My recommendation with syncthing, which is not obvious, is to set up a single hub which each client syncs with. By default you end up with a mesh where everything is connected to everything. It’s very difficult to manage with a lot of folders and devices. Turn off discovery and input the server / hub details manually.
For backup, if you have a lot of media you want deduplication. If yesterday’s backup included ABC and today’s is ABCD you only want to transfer D. This is similar to an incremental backup, but the subtle difference is that with deduplication the most recent backup is the “full backup” with the “diffs” going backwards in time, allowing you to purge old backups. I like borgmatic but there are others.
I would also consider carefully exactly what is worth backing up on what service. I don’t backup movies and tv series at all.
My final recommendation is, it’s critically important to test deploying your backups regularly.
Sure but thats an angular app, and you already know how to manage its environment.
People self host all sorts of things, with dozens of services in their home server.
They dont need to know how to manage the environment for these services because docker “makes everything so easy”.
I dont really understand the problem with that?
Everyone is a script kiddy outside of their specific domain.
I may know loads about python but nothing about database management or proxies or Linux. If docker can abstract a lot of the complexities away and present a unified way you configure and manage them, where’s the bad?
Not really.
Both docker and ufw edit iptables rules.
If you instruct docker to expose a port, it will do so.
If you instruct ufw to block a port, it will only do so if you haven’t explicitly exposed that port in docker.
Its a common gotcha but it’s not really a shortcoming of docker.
There’s a use case for this but who knows how big this niche is, and ultimately that’s what will determine success or failure.
I do use nextcloud for my small consultancy team but I dislike it immensely, mostly due to personal preferences.
I think I pretty much just don’t like having one platform that does everything. I want to self host my own cloud, I don’t want to self host a thing that provides a cloud.
Additionally, and this really is just a personal preference, I dislike php projects almost as much as Java.
Primarily I use nextcloud’s file sync. This aspect is IMO extremely well implemented. It seems to work very reliably.
We do use contacts and calendars. If there were good alternatives I would switch to them but sabreDav et al lacks a good UI. I’m aware you can disable this functionality in nextcloud.
Anything else that can potentially be integrated is better hosted separately IMO.
I don’t have ADHD (at least I don’t really think I do) but it’s very relatable to me too.
As in most things I’m sure ADHD exacerbates this, but I think it’s also just part of life in a modern era.
I only have so much brain power to spend in a given day. I’m sure everyone is the same, neuro divergent or normative. Some tasks are burn through more brain power than others.
I have lots of ideas about things I ought to do, but ultimately I just don’t have the bandwidth.
IIRC one of the reasons they discontinued support for android was because the other fork exists.
Sorry I don’t really understand what your argument actually is.
Since the dawn of writing, legislators (kings / politicians) have laid down the rules. Regulators (police, tax office) have enforced the rules. And courts decide whether the rules have actually been broken and what the penalties ought to be.
In the vast majority of self assessment situations, it’s very obvious how the law applies to ones situation, there is very little doubt. You just follow the rules and face penalties for breaches.
In those few situations which are unclear, you generally have a range of options:
Finally, most legislation relating to corporate behavior has safe harbor clauses. That is, where someone has acted reasonably, taken reasonable steps, and made a good-faith attempt to interpret and apply the rules correctly, the regulator won’t penalise them even if they’re found to have breached the rules.
That is to say penalties are usually only applied where there’s a breach, and there’s no scope to argue that it was a reasonable error.
This is a fair and transparent structure with which to ensure the rules are applied fairly to everyone. It’s very robust, tolerant of edge cases, and the most efficient compliance structure we have.
I don’t really know what an alternative would be? If you want a regulator to publish a list of which apps / companies are effected in what way, that’s just nuts. The antithesis of modern democratic economic regulation.