Cool to see that not only the product but also an organization is planned. 8 full-time employees is an ambitious goal. Do you have plans for financing other than donations?
Good luck running your mail server in your basement :) You will be able to receive most mail that is sent to you, but sending without being sent to spam or rejected is trickier, and I don't think sending reliably is possible at all from a residential network.
Where it started VS where it ended though. You're looking at the end of the journey not the start of it. It was completely possible to run your own email server 20-25 years ago and diminished after that slowly with the advent of Hotmail/Gmail.
Similarly IRC was run for the longest time by federated servers from peoples basements. It only really started to diminish at all with the advent of Slack.
I'm in the same situation as the author and I cannot agree more with this statement:
> The Framework is… a pretty good laptop! Frankly, for the first model from a brand new company, Framework did an astounding job of feeling like your everyday consumer electronics seller. Pre-ordering opened up quick, shipped soon thereafter, and there weren’t any hiccups.
I was definitely impressed of how well everything worked, from shipping the laptop to build quality. It is a very fun device to use.
In case the author reads here:
> I sure wish Framework provided fwupd support! I have yet to update my BIOS because I’d prefer to use fwupd rather than create a mess with my bootloader.
There is an image for the most recent BIOS upgrade in LVFS-Testing [1].
I toyed with a similar setup recently and I had the problem that I, too, would have rules depend on a "docker build"-step (like `docker-image` in your example). Usually `make` would stop building the dependency for non-PHONY targets if it finds the correct file but in this case it obviously cannot find anything.
I tried `touch`ing hidden files for each step and then add those as a dependency but that is not very elegant. Do you have this problem at all?
As far as I can see, they "embraced" their own protocol and now "extend" it by building open source products on top[1]. Would love to see Microsoft do that kind of "extend". :)
Completely off-topic, but: TIL arstechnica has ""vim keybindings"" (j/k) for navigating their comments. It's always fascinating when my muscle memory discovers all the places where j/k works for scrolling.
I can't see the article because it redirects to (through?) a blacklisted tracking domain: https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers.
Super strange UX. But I guess this will become more prevalent with trackers, to avoid being a "3rd party" provider.
The Digital Markets Act [1] was just passed in the EU. It does exactly that. Enforce interoperability for "gatekeepers". I think Twitter is not quite big enough, yet, though.
I run several bridges from my home. With End-to-Bridge Encryption enabled this gives you about the same security guarantees as E2EE with a second device added (Signal Desktop, etc). With Beeper you can do the same, IIRC.
Their value proposition then hinges on how good their clients can aggregate conversations and different chat networks, I guess.
