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28 votes
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Personal offer: Do you have a website-based project you've been wanting to do but worried about cost and design?
I'm a web designer and web host. I've basically been doing this for almost 30 years - I registered my first domain back in 1996, and I've had my own dedicated server(s) since 2002. I've gone back...
I'm a web designer and web host. I've basically been doing this for almost 30 years - I registered my first domain back in 1996, and I've had my own dedicated server(s) since 2002.
I've gone back to starting up a business to do design and hosting, and so I'd like to get my business out there a bit, so that is a motivation for this; but also, I have long supported hosting projects that I believed in. The longest project I've hosted has been the Simutrans community - since 2002, I have hosted most of the resources used by the community, including being the primary source for most downloads of the game for a number of years.
One thing that makes me different from most webhosts? I believe in quality, speedy, secure hosting. You can get budget hosting on overloaded servers with support that doesn't care about you. That's not what I do. For my paid customers, I charge a bit more, but that's because I make sure that the sites run as quickly as possible.
I primarily host WordPress-based sites, and I use Divi on most of those because while it's pretty easy for non-techie people to understand how to make minor changes for those that want/need to do that, it's powerful and allows me to design websites for businesses.
I'm writing this post to offer hosting and help for up to six projects that people want to work on.
What I will provide:
- Website running WordPress+Divi
- Help using Divi
- Some design help, possibly a complete design, but at least some help with design ideas
- If your project doesn't use WordPress+Divi, I'd still consider hosting you. The server is a shared server environment, meaning PHP apps - a LAMP environment, essentially
What I will not provide:
- A domain name. But they are cheap through https://Namecheap.com/. And you wouldn't need one initially as I can set you up with a development subdomain on na1.site. (And if you were happy with a subdomain, I'd certainly allow that to be permanent)
For how long? Indefinitely. I'd say permanently, but you can't predict the future. That said, as long as I'm around and you still want the hosting service. Again, I've hosted the Simutrans project for more than twenty years. So I've been around and will be.
Questions? Lemme know. Interested? Lemme know.
I'm trying to keep this relatively short, so please, if you do have questions, please do ask.
34 votes -
Protect your site with a DOOM CAPTCHA
36 votes -
Building a slow web
23 votes -
Digg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era
36 votes -
Do something cool on the web and offer it to the world
21 votes -
Twilio denies breach following leak of alleged Steam 2FA codes
18 votes -
Dark Visitors got a new free plan
6 votes -
FBI Denver warns of online file converter scam
27 votes -
Anubis works
35 votes -
CSS Naked Day
23 votes -
A summary of my bot defence systems
11 votes -
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
121 votes -
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
40 votes -
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
39 votes -
Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2)
We recently did a Kagi trial giveaway, and I have since received another email from Kagi with 3 additional trial codes. I'm assuming other Kagi subscribers also received the same thing (I got my...
We recently did a Kagi trial giveaway, and I have since received another email from Kagi with 3 additional trial codes. I'm assuming other Kagi subscribers also received the same thing (I got my email on February 25 with the subject line "A treat from us"), so I figure we're due for another giveaway topic.
As before, if you would like an invite, please request it in a comment.
If you have invites to give, please PM them to requesters, then reply to their comment so that other givers will know they've been sent one and don't double up.
50 votes -
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut
11 votes -
The lo-fi art and human tools era
10 votes -
The iPad’s “sweet” solution
18 votes -
Pocket Casts’ web player is now available to all
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To those who have been trying out Kagi: what do you think of it?
It’s been about a month and a half since our big Kagi trial giveaway, which means most people are probably about halfway through their trial periods, so I figured we were due for a follow-up. To...
It’s been about a month and a half since our big Kagi trial giveaway, which means most people are probably about halfway through their trial periods, so I figured we were due for a follow-up.
To those who started using it recently, what are your thoughts?
What do you like and dislike about Kagi?
Do you think you will continue your subscription past the end of the trial?
Note: I’m not affiliated with Kagi in any way besides being a happy customer myself. I’m asking this entirely out of curiosity.
54 votes -
A Reykjavík building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation
14 votes -
The 88x31 GIF Collection
64 votes -
Kagi search introduces Privacy Pass authentication
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[SOLVED] How can I hide streams from my YouTube subscriptions page?
Picture explanation: https://i.horizon.pics/tWovRax4kh.jpg When I view my subscriptions page on YouTube, half the "videos" are recordings of completed streams, often 2+ hours in length. I'm not...
Picture explanation:
https://i.horizon.pics/tWovRax4kh.jpg
When I view my subscriptions page on YouTube, half the "videos" are recordings of completed streams, often 2+ hours in length. I'm not interested in watching these. For me, they're just pollution in the feed.
Apparently, a lot of the channels I subscribe to, whose videos I enjoy watching, also stream on YouTube a lot.
Second Wind is probably the channel I'm most hung up about. I like their normal videos, and don't want to unsubscribe from their channel, but jesus they stream two or three times a day.
(Also, it's annoying that when I view a YouTube channel, I can visit their videos page or their streams page separately. Why can't I have this same separation on my own subscriptions page?)
(Also also, I already use an extension to hide shorts (among other things), but it unfortunately does not have a feature for hiding streams.)
Fancy bullet point summary:
- I want to hide recorded streams from my subscriptions page
- I don't care as much about hiding active livestreams, because those don't pollute my subscriptions page nearly as much
- I do not want to unsubscribe from any of the channels I follow. That is not an option
- I'm willing to stop using
youtube.com
in favor of an alternative client (web, desktop, etc) if that client supports hiding recorded streams from actual videos - I'm willing to install a browser extension that can solve this problem (but I can't find one for Firefox)
Ninja edit:
While writing up this topic, I actually found my own solution. The browser extension I mentioned earlier has an "advanced blocking" feature that takes a JavaScript function as input. The extension's GitHub page has an issue, with a comment, with some code to hide streamed videos on the subscriptions page.
However, that code didn't work when I tried it. Thankfully, I just needed to check for
videoRenderer
instead ofgridVideoRenderer
.Here's the updated code:
(video, objectType) => { // Only videos on the Subscription page if ( objectType === "videoRenderer" ) { if ( video.hasOwnProperty("badges") && video.badges.includes("live") ) { return true; } if ( video.hasOwnProperty("publishTimeText") && video.publishTimeText.indexOf("Streamed") != -1 ) { return true; } } return false; }
I have no idea what the consequences of checking against
videoRenderer
instead ofgridVideoRenderer
might be, and right now I'm too lazy to find out. This works well enough for now.(The "consequence" might be that streams are hidden from the related/recommended videos in the sidebar of a video page? I actually hide that sidebar, so I wouldn't know. Oh, and they'll probably be hidden from a channel's streams feed.)
It isn't a perfect solution though. Streams that are "scheduled" still show up on the subscriptions page. However, I think channels can set streams and videos as scheduled? So blocking one without the other would be more complicated?
I welcome any feedback or improvements on the code.
15 votes - I want to hide recorded streams from my subscriptions page
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Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous free tier?
23 votes -
Nepenthes: a tarpit intended to catch AI web crawlers
33 votes -
US Federal Trade Commission takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security for its website hosting services
19 votes -
Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers
22 votes -
HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
23 votes -
Ctrl-c ten year anniversary and the issue of Ctrl-ZINE to go with it
14 votes -
Anyone interested in trying out Kagi?
Edit: I have sent my link to three different people and I am out. Assuming they sign up. However, a lot of people also have invite links that commented. I guess a system would be for the...
Edit: I have sent my link to three different people and I am out. Assuming they sign up. However, a lot of people also have invite links that commented. I guess a system would be for the invite-giver to reply to the comment of the invite-receiver to keep track?
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I received a link during Thanksgiving that lets me invite several people to a free trial of Kagi.
I tried convincing friends to try it out but most of them were not even interested in a free trial to a paid search engine.
If any of you are interested, please let me know.
I'll give you my link in private and you can register yourself to the free trial.
Posting just in case people are on the same boat as me.
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Also, I hope it's appropriate to start a topic on this?
Let me know if this is frowned upon.58 votes -
Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit
15 votes -
Kagi Small Web
39 votes -
Tom Merritt's opinion on if Mozilla should join Chromium
10 votes -
You should have a website
37 votes -
United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly
79 votes -
Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums like Reddit
30 votes -
Kagi Translate
24 votes -
We can have a different web
41 votes -
Vivaldi 7.0 has been released
24 votes -
Big changes are coming to ArchiveBox!
10 votes -
Call for submissions for a new CSS logo
10 votes -
HTML for people
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Are DAOs still a thing?
Early last year, there were some rather heady predictions within my company about the potential/future of decentralized autonomous organizations. (That a DAO would be running a real company, that...
Early last year, there were some rather heady predictions within my company about the potential/future of decentralized autonomous organizations. (That a DAO would be running a real company, that a DAO would play an important role in an election somewhere, etc.) They have not come true. From my perspective, the same generally seems to be the case for nearly all Web3 components.
That led me to wonder, though - are DAOs still a thing? Is there quiet potential there and the hype machine has simply moved on to LLMs... or was hype all there ever was?
Have any of you seen any actual uses of a DAO? I would love to hear about it if so.
16 votes -
The Net is a forest. It has fires. (2013)
14 votes -
Russian dark web marketplace admins indicted after arrest in Miami
8 votes -
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
23 votes -
iOS 18 adds new "Distraction Control" feature for Safari, similar to temporary element blocking with uBlock Origin
11 votes -
Webcam recommendations?
Hey there, Title is pretty self-explanatory, looking for some web camera recommendations, USB obviously1, good price to value, higher quality the better, microphone not required, but appreciated....
Hey there,
Title is pretty self-explanatory, looking for some web camera recommendations, USB obviously1, good price to value, higher quality the better, microphone not required, but appreciated.
1 Don't need any MDR-26/SDR-26/CameraLink connectors, or Game Boy Camera recommendations here /s
15 votes