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«There is no such thing as full decentralization»

There's always an axis that centralizes: identity, connectivity, discovery, or cost. The useful question isn't "is it decentralized?", it's which of these it sacrificed, and what that costs you the day that point breaks.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/603e4e90/there-is-no-such-thing-as-full-decentralization/

#Web #Fediverso #ActivityPub #XMPP #OrgSocial #IndieWeb #Nostr

«Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)»

Let's build a bulletin board with no account, no sign-up, and no single server behind it. By the time we finish, we'll have accidentally reinvented two technologies that already existed: FidoNet (1984) and Nostr.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/4c4e1b40/building-a-decentralized-bulletin-board-and-accidentally-reinventing-nostr/

#Web #Fediverso #ActivityPub #Algoritmo #IndieWeb #Nostr

Search Kagi from inside Emacs, in a clean buffer, no browser and no JavaScript. It reuses your web session (no paid Search API needed) by reading the JSON from Kagi's internal endpoint.

Move with n/p, open in EWW with RET, and optionally route your eww searches through Kagi.

https://git.andros.dev/andros/kagi-search.el

#emacs #kagi

«htmx and Django LiveView, side by side»

If you use htmx and are considering migrating to Django LiveView, this is for you: not an exhaustive comparison, but a run-through of the most common cases and how each one solves them.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/94d14a9e/htmx-and-django-liveview-side-by-side/

#Web #Python #Django #Htmx #DjangoChannels #DjangoLiveView

«How I organize my Emacs configuration»

I'm not sharing my Emacs configuration, just the way I keep it organized: vanilla Emacs, no framework, no literate Org approach, one file per area of responsibility.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/dc7db35a/how-i-organize-my-emacs-configuration/

#Emacs

What's new on Org Social?

- Org Social Mirror: a read-only REST API that mirrors the profiles and posts published on the Org Social relay. It is useful for developers who want to create their own clients or applications that interact with Org Social data. The API is available at https://mirror.org-social.org/ and the documentation can be found at https://git.andros.dev/org-social/mirror
- Mastodon/ActivityPub Integration: Now you can follow Mastodon users from Org Social.

```
#+FOLLOW: https://relay.org-social.org/bridge/activitypub/@Mastodon@mastodon.social/
```

- Website updated with documentation and tutorials for developers and users. Check it out at https://org-social.org/
- iOS app has been updated with bug fixes and performance improvements: It is now in maintenance mode.
- The code was migrated from GitHub to Forgejo (self-hosted Git service) to ensure the long-term availability of the project: https://git.andros.dev/org-social/

#emacs #orgmode #orgsocial

I redesigned the Django LiveView website. I hope you like it!

https://django-liveview.andros.dev

#python #django #djangoliveview #liveview

«A year of Org Social, my social network»

https://en.andros.dev/blog/5fcf45a2/a-year-of-org-social-my-social-network/

#Emacs #OrgMode #OrgSocial

I'm sharing an Elfeed-inspired reader for the Finger protocol, right inside Emacs.

- Browse a list of finger accounts
- Preview each .plan asynchronously
- Follow user@host links from one profile to the next without leaving the buffer

https://git.andros.dev/andros/efinger.el

#Emacs #OpenSource #Finger

I decided to release my personal #finger server: little-finger

https://git.andros.dev/andros/little-finger

«I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI»

talk transmits character by character, and an LLM streams token by token; turns out they were made for each other.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/

#Linux #Terminal #AI

«talk: the P2P chat from 1983 that a VPN brought back to life»

Before the internet, people could already chat; talk is not dead, it just runs quietly through a VPN now.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/03a4ffb9/talk-the-p2p-chat-from-1983-that-a-vpn-brought-back-to-life/

#Linux #SmallWeb

One comma-separated list is enough for someone to conclude the article was written by a LLM. The list of tells grows every month, and the torches come out at the first sign of careful prose. And if the author stays quiet, silence means guilt. I keep seeing "AI slop" in the comments on my articles. I'm tempted to slap a "100% AI" label on every post just for the peace of mind, because this is wearing me down.

Finger never had a search engine, so I made one: crossed-fingers

An aggregator that collects .plan files and indexes them for text searching.

$ finger help@crossed-fingers.andros.dev

#finger #smallnet #tildeverse

«Finger: the 1971 social network that never died»

It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971; no accounts, no algorithm, no central server, just a plain text file you control.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/

#Gemini #IndieWeb #OpenSource #Python #Linux #OrgSocial

Self-hosted alternatives to GitHub mentioned in the Hacker News thread:

• Forgejo: forgejo.org (a fork of Gitea, the most recommended)
• Gitea: gitea.com
• GitLab CE: Self-hosted Community Edition
• Fossil: fossil-scm.org (not Git, all in one binary)
• Radicle: radicle.dev (decentralized, P2P)

#git #github #selfhost #opensoftware

#Git is already decentralized; moving from #GitHub to another centralized platform won't prevent similar problems.

The problem was never Microsoft or AI. You need to change the model, trade ease of use and free access for ownership and reliability; think long-term. Large open-source projects haven't been affected by this event. You don't need as many resources; you have it easier.

Today is a good day to reread the article I published a couple of days ago, given what was happening with GitHub.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/e83e9103/i-closed-pull-requests-and-issues-on-my-projects-and-im-happier/

#github #git

Después de 8 meses de trabajo codo con codo con Laura, la traductora, tengo el placer de anunciar la versión en español de la web de Org Mode 🎉

Han sido meses de discutir terminología, pulir matices y revisar página por página.

👉 https://orgmode.org/es/index.html

Gracias, Laura. Esto es tan tuyo como mío. Y gracias a Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92 ), mantenedor de Org Mode, por sus revisiones.

#OrgMode #Emacs #SoftwareLibre #Traducción #Español #FOSS

«Elpher: my tweaks for better Gemini browsing in Emacs»

Elpher is the Gemini browser for Emacs, and it works wonderfully; its integration with GNU's editor is sublime.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/b18ae804/elpher-my-tweaks-for-better-gemini-browsing-in-emacs/

#Emacs #Gemini