A VPS, a reverse proxy, a password manager, and a DNS zone full of forgotten history. The autonomous stack begins to take shape.
    • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Terrible posting etiquette though. Not a peep out of OP or any rationale.

      Is this a bot? Someone promoting their blog? Spam? Click bait?

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Is ambitiousslab@feddit.uk also the author of the blog?

        A blurb about the article is nice and helps to convince people to click on the article, but it isn’t necessary. From what I can tell, ambitiousslab seems to be sharing things that they find interesting and doesn’t follow the pattern of the usual bot spam we deal with

        • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          1 month ago

          No idea because they failed to mention it.

          Spam isn’t just automated spam bots posting. It’s unsolicited, unexplained content. A “hey, I found this interesting because X” goes a long way towards humanising things like this but YMMV.

          • ambitiousslab@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Hi, I’m choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there’s a lot of overlap in the comments.

            I’m sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I’ve updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it’s ok but if there are any problems I’m happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.

            I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn’t even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn’t state I wasn’t the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn’t build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.

            I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the “why” they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.

            I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here. Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I’m available for the next few hours.

            • localghost@lemmy.todayEnglish
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              1 month ago

              Hey I appreciate you posting this. I enjoy reading through people’s thought processes when doing stuff like this to see if there’s anything I can do better. Wouldn’t have known about this author otherwise, cheers

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Well, I’m willing to give a person the benefit of the doubt. OP might be in a timezone where it’s night time, work time, who knows. But yeah, some interaction would be nice. OP does seem to have credentials tho: https://tarakiyee.com/author/

      • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Terrible posting etiquette

        Agreed!

        Though it’s very widespread, sharing a link without a word of comment is as obnoxious as those people who send you emails with no text or subject and only an attachment.

        I feel less alone knowing that someone else also hates this practice.