Hi I'm Phil 👋, I'm a software engineer, and I maintain an open source push notification tool called ntfy. I'm also German 🇩🇪, and a big fan of 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸, and a dad of two 👦👧
Great writeup thank you. May I just say that tmyour original plan was both ambitious and a little insane. And even the current cost and infrastructure is bonkers IMHO.
I do hope you're getting donations to help with the cost. Good luck.
My instance is on the other end of the spectrum: I pay $6/month for it on digitalocean. It has 1G of RAM. It crashes every now and then, likely because of the RAM and OOM killer. But it's only for me and a few ntfy fans, so it's quite different.
I do cover the costs yes, through donations and the paid plans.
It's definitely fun to do some things, but others are daunting indeed. I do, however, learn a lot. I have learned a lot that I was able to reuse elsewhere. All that is priceless.
Thanks. I don't work on it full time, no. It's a side gig project I've been doing for a year and a half. I recently added paid plans to get a little side income, but it's not really taken off. Likely because the free tier is too generous hehe.
I have noticed that I use it less myself. I think honestly though, at least for me, that it is 90% related to the clunky and awkward UI of ChatGPT. If it was easy to natively type the prompt in the browser bar I'd use it much more.
Plus, the annoying text scrolling thingy ... Just show me the answer already, hehe.
Thank you for contributing to the magic of the old school internet.
My question: How does one get to write an RFC? Do you have to become part of a certain group, or just be known in certain circles, or do you just start writing and then submit it somewhere? If I had a great idea that I think should become an RFC, what is the process to make this a reality?
Install Debian Stable on a SSD, most likely via debootstrap from the Ubuntu system
What an interesting way to install a new system. I've only ever done that for image building purposes. Why would you do that instead of just installing it from a flash drive?
Also: it sounds like you're manually installing things. I would suggest Ansible or something similar, so that reinstalling isn't so brittle and manual.
Related question: is "Hot" super buggy? I am on 0.18.0, but I still often see really really really old posts (1 year old, 2 years old) sprinkled in with new stuff, and I often see clusters of 5-10 posts of a single community grouped together.
I have to pay extra attention to the post age because of this.
There are plenty of instances that copy the original content. As an instance owner that runs a only a single project specific community, I should be able to decide what content is available on my domain, and what isn't. Don't you think?
Aside from the questionable content, there is also legal issues around it that I'd rather not deal with.
There is no way to exclude individual communities. The post URLs are generic, like /post/1234. From nginx or other proxies, I cannot tell what community they belong to. I would love to have my own be searchable, but not at the price of tainting my project's reputation.
Due to the nature of the default robots.txt and the meta tags in Lemmy, search engines will index even non-local communities. This leads to results that are undesirable, such as unrelated/undesirable content being associated with your instance.
As of today, lemmy-ui does not allow hiding non-local (or any) communities from Google and other search engines. If you, like me, do not want your instance to be associated with other content, you can add a custom robots.txt and response headers to avoid indexing.
Hello friends 👋, it's that time again. A new ntfy release has landed. This one is pretty cool!
For those who don't know, ntfy is a a tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone from any script or server using a simple HTTP PUT/POST requests. It's 100% open source and self-hostable, and has an Android app and a web app. You can use ntfy like this (more in the docs). This will send a notification to your phone:
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curl -d "Backup on $(hostname) complete" ntfy.sh/mytopic
I host free and open version on ntfy.sh, but you can host your own of course.
🔥 What's new? With this release, the ntfy web app now contains a progressive web app (PWA) with Web Push support, which means you'll be able to install the ntfy web app on your desktop or phone similar to a native app (even on iOS! 🥳). Ins
Request for testing: The next ntfy server release will contain a progressive web app (PWA) with Web Push support, which means you'll be able to install the ntfy web app on your desktop or phone similar to a native app (even on iOS! 🥳), and get basic push notification support (without any battery drain).
Installing the PWA gives ntfy web its own launcher (e.g. shortcut on Windows, app on macOS, launcher shortcut on Linux, home screen icon on iOS, and launcher icon on Android), a standalone window, push notifications, and an app badge with the unread notification count.
Testing instructions: The (hopefully) production ready version of the PWA is currently deployed on https://staging.ntfy.sh/app -- Install instructi
I use ntfy (on another instance) + healthchecks.io to wake me up at night when ntfy.sh is down (crazy inception, right?). It's the "poor man's PagerDuty" if you will. It works amazingly.
Here's how I set it up:
I signed up healthchecks.io (free plan) and configured a project for "ntfy.sh" with a "ntfy" integration, i.e. publish to ntfy.example.com/<secret> with max priority
I have two different hosts execute small "integration ntfy.sh tests" and only ping healthchecks.io if they succeed. If they don't healthchecks.io will publish to ntfy.example.com/<secret>
In the ntfy Android app, I subscribe to ntfy.example.com/<secret>, enable "Keep alerting on highest priority", and make it override DND (do not disturb) for this topic.
Now when ntfy.sh goes down, the integration tests in the cronjobs will fail, and so healthchecks.io will not be pinged, which will trigger it to publish to `ntfy.example.com/<se