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Best way to add a blog to an existing, static website?
  • They do. The issue is that I already have a static site. I don't want Jekyll or Hugo to overwrite those. I suppose I can choose which sections I push to Gitlab Pages. Maybe one of those would work in that case.

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  • I exported a Wordpress site as a static site and have been hosting that on Gitlab. I'd like to start updating the blog again and I'm wondering how to go about it.

    For the blog, I've been adding/coding the entries manually, which I still prefer to using Wordpress. Now I have someone who needs to take over the blog and I need something more simple for them.

    I've looked into DropInBlog ( https://dropinblog.com ) but it's way beyond our budget, so I've been thinking to either:

    • Give them git access and let them add a text file and image to a special directory when they want to post. Then I can have a script run a few times per hour which converts that into a blog post. I'd also need to update the blog index with my own code.

    • Let them use something RSS based with a nice interface and scrape that to generate the blog. Mastodon is one option, as is Wordpress. Ideally the blog they maintain would not be accessible to others on the web though. I don't want to split our SEO presence.

    Does anyone have a better suggestion? The website doesn't use a framework like Jekyll or any of those. It's just HTML, CSS and JS.

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    What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
  • Thanks. I’m happy enough with Navidrome but if I can try ASA in parallel I might give it a try sometime.

    I really like the turntable effect in the Navidrome web app, though :)

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    What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
  • Thanks for clarifying. I might be sent to uninstall that other package in that case. It’s all working nicely anyway. Appreciate it, thanks again for your help!

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    What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
  • That looks quick to get going

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    What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
  • You’re right. It’s just that the package to installed is called docker-compose (if I remember right. I’m on mobile now). So the command to install was: apt install docker-compose, and the command was: docker compose. Thanks man.

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    What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
  • I got Navidrome working on the local network quickly with docker compose thanks to this video: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=7V5UUJlSknY

    Once I forwarded the right port on my router I was also able to access the music from the web. Thanks for the recommendation, I'm very happy!

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  • I've tried a few options over the years, including SMB and NFS, XBMC as well as HTML with javascript I found online.

    I don't have a large collection of music (fewer than 100 albums), so hand coding things was actually one of the quicker options to setup. That's despite then hassle of hand coding the URL to each FLAC file as well as the album art. But sometimes the javascript doesn't handle large collections of FLAC and each implementation I tried had different quirks so I've sunk a lot of time into that in other ways without a satisfactory result.

    I've heard of Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, Roon and Servio. I just need something that's simple to set up and access. I don't need fancy features beyond the ability to play the music with a pleasant UI that can be accessed from the web (HTTP, not HTTPS). I'd be running this from a Raspberry Pi 3B which already has the lighttpd server running.

    I'm also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

    Any recommendations for an uncomplicated way to approach to doing this?

    Edit: Thanks so much for the helpful and enthusiastic comments! I tried Navidrome and had it up and running in ten minutes thanks to this tutorial video: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=7V5UUJlSknY

    I had to install docker-compose on the RPi. Then I got an error which turned out to be because I also needed a separate docker daemon which I installed following these instructions: https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/raspberry-pi-docker

    In just 10+ minutes I had my music collection accessible from all my devices - thanks again!

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    Why limit immigration?
  • Oh dear. I've just seen your comment history. I don't think we'll be agreeing on much. Good luck.

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    Why limit immigration?
  • You can only laugh from a place of privilege. Please educated yourself on the Indian Act and progress with existing treaties. Your comment is at odds with the reality in Canada.

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    Why limit immigration?
  • The irony of a nation of colonial land thieves complaining about immigration …

    Canadians should settle their debts with First Nations and honour their treaties, like good immigrants before judging others.

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  • People are laughing at the loss of money, but they got what they paid for: influence. They’ve successfully agitated our societies and swayed our politics. They might not care about the money.

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    Recommend a podcast where the hosts first language isn't English
  • Oh, this is wonderful. I've just subscribed. Thank you!

    I like DW and used to follow the Inside Europe podcast, but they had a lot of British and Irish people presenting the shows which sort of dampened the feeling of escapism I had been enjoying.

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    Recommend a podcast where the hosts first language isn't English
  • I'm not interested in the languages themselves. Just looking for different mindsets and temperaments. By different perspectives I don't mean different politics (although that would be a symptom) but maybe varied worldviews on life.

    There's a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky on how different cultures see the world very differently based on their language. I would ideally like to hear from the people she is talking about, especially indigenous people, but in English. https://www.ted.com/dubbing/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?audio=en&language=en

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    What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend?
  • I agree with all that and I don't blame you for leaving there if that's the experience you had. I do think even the best moderation will have bias. It's also a thankless job. I've done it before on Facebook and the amount of work it takes to resolve a conflict it a bit crazy for an unpaid gig. The medium of text isn't well suited to it unless you're retired or something and have lots of free time. And that's also the people who in good faith genuinely feel they've been wronged for not being given carte blanche in the group.

    Automoderation can be helpful in detecting patterns and alleviating work from the moderators so they can spend time with their families* etc. I would say to anyone who is frustrated by that to think of it from the moderators perspective: "if I'm still in the automod queue, they must be really under pressure". That kind of empathy online would make the role of moderator a bit more appealing to someone like myself, at least.

    I agree with you about federation. It seems to be a really good solution, although it's in its infancy and discoverability and accessibility are still an issue.

    • the reason I left those platforms and moderation was because it began taking away quality time with my family. Before I quit completely, I had to make fast moderation decisions because there were so many users relative to moderators. I'm sure I made plenty of bad decisions.
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    Recommend a podcast where the hosts first language isn't English
  • Thanks for asking. The podcast would need to be in English, yes. I'm actually open to all topics except Anglo culture and politics. So, anything from Europe, Africa, Asia, Baltics etc.

    Topics could be art, environment / nature, culture, sustainability, mythology, degrowth, decolonisation, cooperative businesses, music and entertainment, local news, books and literature, languages (explored through English), local community and climate.

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    What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend?
  • Maybe I don’t frequent enough to notice that happening.

    At least he has made the code freely available for others to host their own instance with their own moderation rules/style.

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  • I’ve subscribed to both based on the background info you gave so thank you again. I do find those histories a bit bleak, having grown up in the (relatively distant) aftermath of it. But if those voices are represented then I think I’d be interested.

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    What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend?
  • That sounds like an exaggeration to me, but the place is healthier than most. Maybe he’s banning the right people.

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  • I’m interested in different perspectives so I’d like to avoid USA, GB etc.

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    The email said: "Technology updates, such as Google Chrome's plans to deprecate third-party cookies in 2024, are changing the ways you reach audiences and measure results. Build a strong foundation for measuring your ads with the Google tag. Delaying could impact the performance of your ads and features, such as remarketing and conversion measurement."

    Now I see that they've changed their minds[1] and so I wonder if I need to do anything with my website.

    1: https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/news/google-makes-a-u-turn-wont-deprecate-third-party-cookies/

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    I’m interested in helping friends tell the difference between fact and fiction, truth and hearsay and general stuff like that that gives peace of mind that they can defend themselves from gaslighting, makes life easier to live, and harder to be taken advantage of by propaganda. Just a few examples.

    Bonus points if it’s free. I see one on coursera that runs for four hours per week for several months which works out at roughly over €100 https://www.coursera.org/specializations/logic-critical-thinking-duke

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    I’ve just rewatched Prometheus and at the end the lead character has said “I don't want go to back to where we came from. I want to go where they came from.” Herself and David then take off.

    In the follow up movie (Covenant), they end up in another uninhabited place. I can barely remember the movie but was so disappointed by this given I had even expecting something different since 2012 😂

    I don’t plan on rewatching Covenant. Can anyone explain that apparent disconnect I have?

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    bbbprograms.org Vesync Voluntarily Discontinues Certain HEPA Air Purifiers Claims

    Following a National Advertising Division (NAD) challenge, Vesync Co. voluntarily discontinued certain claims for its HEPA air purifiers.

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    I'm used to seeing articles about AI being used for either highly scientific uses or for generating semi-entertaining nonsense. For a personal business involving managing appointments, documenting meetings, tracking payments etc, can AI help with any of that? Other things include undertaking CPD training, occasional advertising as well as maintaining a website from time-to-time.

    The people I know who don't think AI has any use for them belong in this category and work in the area of mental health, yoga teaching / training, nursing and massage therapy.

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    I’m open to both online services as well as self hosting. But I’d like it to be low-maintenance.

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    As per your guidelines here https://lemmy.world/post/4505404 I'd like to request to care for this sub.

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    I was walking along and suddenly my character starts coughing violently. Vision starts to fade and she collapses to the ground, dead. There's no text to tell me what happened.

    I'm at Lorenz SysTech Spire now but it happened earlier in the game too.

    Edit: I figured it out. There's gas coming from the doorway I was beside. The previous time I'm not sure what happened. Maybe my energy just got too low. I thought the health bar was a battery bar for the torch :)

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    He said something about how some people consider time and enemy, or a thief of life. But he himself (Picard) sees time as an old friend.

    Anybody know the episode or full quote? I’ve searched but the newer series, Picard, is cluttering the results.

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