Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

But I’m being a bit hyperbolic here. I’m not as paranoid as I’m portraying myself… I just don’t have any motivation to click this particular risky link.

Why risk it?

As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

This could actually be a study on phishing lol
Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn’t noticed because they probably don’t actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it’s not causing problematic network traffic.\

I doubt it, but I’m still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

I self host for the same reason I’m not clicking some random link: distrust lol

Do you have to back up everything off site?

Maybe there are just a few critical files you need a disaster recovery plan for, and the rest is just covered by your raidz

We’re gonna go ahead and merge the gardening community with this one 😌

Self hosting a tree

It can be a few things.

It could be remote workspaces like GitHub codespaces.

But it could also be simpler: vscode is a web app, the native app you install is just an electron wrapper around the web app; so you can host it on a server an use it in the browser.

Kinda.
Ignoring the pedantic take that nearly every website is a saas.
And the slightly less pedantic take that every interactive website is a saas

If your website is an app that does a thing that a user wants, it’s a saas.
Your website just does mpeg to gif transcoding? That’s a saas. Online text editor? SaaS. Online tamagotchi? SaaS.

If it doesn’t scale to the number of users who want or need to use it, then it’s not a very good SaaS. But SaaS it is.

What makes it “working”, is that the Software part of Software as a Service, is available as a Service.

The service doesn’t have to scale to a million users. It’s still a SaaS if it has one customer with like 4 users.

Is this a pedantic argument? Yes.
Are you starting a pedantic fight about the specific definition of SaaS? Also yes.

Lol they don’t need scaling and redundancy to work. They just need scaling and redundancy to avoid being sued into oblivion when they lose all their customer data.

As a full time AI hater, I fully believe that some code-specialized AI can write and maybe even deploy a full stack program, with basic input forms and CRUD, which is all you need to be a “saas”.

It’s gonna suck, and be unmaintainable, and insecure, and fragile. But I bet it could do it and it’d work for a little while.

I hope this is satire 😭

For a long time we’ve said it’s important to separate semantics and presentation (eg html vs css).

I’ve always wondered why we never followed our own advice when creating new programming languages. Let the IDE present whatever TF you want, and in the background it’s simply building an Abstract Syntax Tree and serializing that to a file in whatever serialization format it prefers.

I’ve dreamed of making my own data-flow language that follows that principle, but I have neither the knowledge of compilers nor the free time to try.

He exposed himself as a poser especially as a bash programmer

I need to know 😭

It’s such a stupid joke that I prefer to interpret it like this:

He discovered that he is the source of the woke mind virus, and then he forcefully lobotomized himself.

The confusion is an affectation they’re putting on because the execution of the joke is just so poor.

I especially love that he didn’t say where he was running rm -rf and I like to believe it’s from root, so he lobotomized himself.

I kinda wish it included the dates on these. Not having them makes me a bit dubious

I have a withings scale and it’s great so far.
Like you, I had a Fitbit one, and I find it sucked and was very unreliable.

It’s worth noting that there is a withings home assistant integration

I think a lot of people here aren’t looking at this in the right way:

They don’t have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.

I’ve been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.