At home, I use Blocky to proxy DNS4EU, with the addition of Steven Black’s hosts file to deny known adware and malware domains.
I’m very tempted to turn this into a public service for people who don’t know how to do this themselves.
Anyone interested?
I am playing with deploying this to Hetzner. Just getting familiar with it right now by migrating existing stuff from DigitalOcean, but it’s going well so far.
Looks like nixos-infect works pretty well for replacing Debian with NixOS, so I’ll be going with that.
@samir I used a NixOS minimal ISO and this guide:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide
Installation finished fine I think, but the VM is not booting, stuck on "Booting from Hard Disk..." message from BIOS.
@rysiek Ah, classic Linux-on-VM problems.
I haven’t used Proxmox, so I am not sure what the problem could be, but I do hope you figure it out.
@samir thanks. Each time I try to dive into this I end up in some Reddit thread with five solutions that don't work, half of them from a year ago but marked as "deprecated". 🤷♀️
Kinda wild that official docs don't provide a reliable procedure of installing NixOS on a VM.
@ireneista @samir yeah, I really want to like NixOS, and I really want to play with it, but it doesn't make sense for me until there is a path for me to use it in my work. And the state of documentation means that path is still not there.
Sigh. Oh well. 
"Community" is this interesting notion. A word that is all too often too easily and hand-wavingly applied, without a clear conception of what it entails and the different expectations people have wrt their own role, commitments, and level of participation.
A group of people must give meaning to the word explicitly, to be able to form the community they want and need, and can subsequently uphold, sustain, and evolve it. This is almost never addressed properly, and where due attention to governance is given, the nature of the (usually top-down) governance model is such, that they only work up to a certain scale without getting serious issues around power dynamics. You see large-scale orgs getting into drama's or move into very formal governance, adopting models from the corporate world.
https://coding.social focuses on formation of overarching chaordic organization that fits smaller organizational structures, like communities, at healthy sustainable scales.
Yes, that is a nice way of phrasing it, which aligns with Social experience design (SX) and Hedonic peer production.
The underlying philosophy is based on the acknowledgement of the importance of self-interest in collaborative arrangements. The the notion that it is okay to pursue self-interested motives when participating with others, because this leads to the highest *intrinsic* motivation to participate.
Participation is literally a value investment then, in hopes of getting even more value in return.
Another important aspect is stating to others what ones self-interests are, so that reciprocal participation becomes easier, and also - most crucially, I suppose - there's clarity on commitments and mutual expectations.
I think lack of 'expectation management' is a big flaw that keeps FOSS from becoming more sustainable, for instance. FOSS is just software + software freedoms. SX places SOSS as its sustainable delivery pipeline:
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems
I see. You talk about a particular framing. I refer to a generic philosophy concept. It forms a core principle of SX methodology: the Mindfulness principle. Mindful of own needs and relations to others.
In FOSS circles we are often so frustrated at the sudden splintering of a community, or a huge drama break out, or just a burnt out volunteer suddenly and silently disappearing from the scene. Even mundane friction between 'users' (a word to avoid) and devs, where one finds the other privileged, or overly demanding. All examples of expectation mismatches.
Self-interests are indicative of Needs.
Self-interested participants are Stakeholders.
Or they may be, and that is up to a good approach to figure out. Best done timely, before any issues arise.
For example in FOSS, the devs usually don't see themself as a stakeholder. They often only talk about 'users'. But did they start a project as hobby, or to earn a living? What do they want? Where do they wanna go?
samir, a terminally deprecated method
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