Didn't knew that sudo had a website with a... somewhat interesting logo: https://www.sudo.ws/

Wow, is it related to the "make me a sandwich" XKCD?

https://xkcd.com/149/

You do realize the answer is right there: https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/

(and the old logo) ;)

I missed that, thanks!

That's a nice project, I'm interested to take a look at the source code if you publish it!

Published a first version of my code, feel free to try out and contribute: https://github.com/philippdubach/rss-swipr

https://l3m.in - Main website, (for now) in french

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ - Small rants in txt (fr & english content)

https://links.l3m.in/en/ - List of saved interesting links

Trying to rebuild my website (php mvc built a decade ago) using Django. I want to be able to update any page content, upload and display images, have multiple blog instances. I do a lot of django-cms by day, but it's too much for a small personal website, so I started to create a (tiny, foss) CMS based on Django, django-prose-editor for the content, and some new apps (for now, Page & Blog).

The site isn't even online, but for now I'm starting to think about the next steps (seo-related things to implement, generalize app functions to handle not only blog but other (hypothetical) apps as well, improve code quality and repo readability, separate apps from the website so anyone can add them to their django website if they want to). It's a lot of work for something no one will ever use, but I must at least try to make it clean and discoverable :)

I, too, am selfhosting some projects on an old computer. And the fact that you can "hear internet" (with the fans going on) is really cool (unless you're trying to sleep while being scrapped).

There is in fact an effort to make a desktop application!

Source (& releases): https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop

Topic on penpot forum: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-desktop-road-to-1-0/72...

https://penpot.app/ you don't have to download it at all :)

Thanks for the information, but I was talking about the advantage of local usability.

> If it were as effortless as I described, they would reach a much larger number of users

Almost certainly not. If you need this kind of tool, you'll either self-host it, use the hosted version or use Figma. There are no comparable offline-only alternatives. What users are they using exactly?

Oh I suscribed to a bot on the fediverse that posts screenshots from this live!

Here's the url: https://puntarella.party/@NamibDesertBot

+1 - Weasyprint is an excellent tool to make pdf from html content, and we're using it at work (with django) to export various documents.

Yeah the AI solve a problem created by the company that made the AI because their algorithms are biased to display websites containing content written for them instead of content written for humans :/

> Personal experience however shows me that when I look at a recipe site I will first have to skip through the entire backstory to the recipe and then try to parse it inbetween annoying ads in a bloated wordpress page

That's when money comes into view. People were putting time and effort to offer something for free, then some companies told them they could actually earn money from their content. So they put on ads because who don't like some money for already-done work?

Then the same companies told them that they will make less money, and if they wanted to still earn the same amount as before, they will need to put more ads, and to have more visits (so invest heavily in seo).

Those people had already organized themselves (or stopped updating their websites), and had created companies to handle money generated from their websites. In order to keep the companies sustainable, they needed to add more ads on the websites.

Then some people thought that maybe they could buy the companies making the recipes website, and put a bunch more ads to earn even more money.

I think you're thinking about those websites owned by big companies whose only goal is to make money, but author is writing about real websites made by real people who don't show ads on websites they made because they care about their visitors, and not about making money.

Semi related, but a decent search engine like Kagi has been a dramatically better experience than "searching" with an LLM. The web is full of corporate interests now, but you can filter that out and still get a pretty good experience.

It always starts with people doing real positive-sum work and then grifters and parasites come along and ruin it.

We could make advertising illegal: https://simone.org/advertising/

The thing is you can’t regulate word of mouth. It just pushes the money underground, where it can’t be taxed. People will still be paid to promote things, they’ll just pass it off as their own opinion, and it’ll be more insidious. Like it or not, at least advertising now often is clearly advertising. Not always, but often.

Some organization prohibit advertising doing their elections. Best idea ever. USA should try it. Saves a lot money and annoying ads.

Or just let this LLM mania run to its conclusion, and we'll end up with two webs, one for profit for AI by AI and one where people put their shit for themselves (and don't really care what others think about it, or if they remix it, or ...).

There are already a lot of initiatives following this logic (like the small web movement, the indieweb, gemini/gopher protocols...), but the problem here is that people are using the web, not those projects. Even the fediverse is growing slowly, while it's using the web.

Sounds like that could be a fun idea for a new search engine/search engine function, only show results of websites without ads/and or paywalls. Sounds like a really run way to experience the passion part of the internet. Could be hard to implement as I would guess with any level of popularity it would quickly end up with people trying to turn such sites into sales funnels.