My name is Jess. I build and manage servers for both work and fun. I also occasionally make music.

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  • That video was… something…

    Anyway I love Immich. It’s definitely been on a stable release for a bit, but I think they’re just trying to get the word out. A lot of people seem to think it’s still in alpha.

    Personally, I’ve been running the same Immich server for years now, rolling all the way up to the current release and I’ve never had any data loss. I just had to read the patch notes and adjust my docker compose accordingly a couple times.

    It’s well worth paying for that supporter badge, btw. I’ve easily gotten more than $100 value out of it.














  • First off, this page references quite a few bills passed, some of which I like and some of which make me concerned, but let’s focus on AB-1043. You can find the text of the actual bill here.

    Here’s the more relevant excerpt:

    1798.501.
     (a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:
    (1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
    (2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:
    (A) Under 13 years of age.
    (B) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
    © At least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.
    (D) At least 18 years of age.
    (3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.

    Basically OSes will have to have a prompt during setup that asks for age/birthdate to determine the legal age category they user fits in.

    Then the OS has to provide some sort of API that provides that category to apps/websites that request it so they can gate content/features appropriately.

    IMO this doesn’t seem that bad. It’s basically taking the “I solemnly swear I’m over 18” checkbox away from websites and just requiring it once OS wide (or at least per user account).

    I particularly like the specification of #3 requiring only the minimum info required to comply be sent and nothing more.

    This actually seems like an attempt to curb all the ID collecting privacy nightmares that are happening lately with poorer implementations.






  • This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.

    I’ve been periodically checking in with Revolt Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:

    1. Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
    2. Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they’re not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.

    I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.

    Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.