I know some basic Rust (currently at chapter 9) and a little bit of JavaScript.

I’m trying to work with headless CMSs and that requires some understanding on how APIs work…

Even tho I wouldn’t want to stick with JS, I don’t really want to dig into frameworks and dependency hells.

But I like the concept and I need to build a site that grabs some data from an external api, so a headless cms would be my choice to grab the data and structure them there in order to be rendered later in something like a static site generator (I’m quite good at Hugo). Or will learn some basic React and try to build a template on my own there…

I think essentially I would like to achieve something like this

Thank you for your answer!

Yes I’ve considered using Hugo data sources, but handling all events in one single data file is not really a good way to manage data because Hugo can’t programmatically generate content pages from a single data file sadly… Also again, even if I make a script able to do this, I don’t think you can modify content when already created without handling single posts individually.

I could generate a “list of events” but not individual pages from it and not an RSS feed for posts which I would need for newsletters etc…

The thing with CSV is that I kinda lost track of where the actual updated data is, so I’m keeping that updated too, yeah I know I’m a mess.

All the stuff cited is needed for one single job essentially: contacts, newsletter, events… Which is gathering self published and externally published events and sending them to a list of chosen emails + some integration with social medias.

I’m not a webdev and I thought I could solve this much more easily, but I think doing this correctly would involve using at least an headless CMS + something that is able to grab data from external APIs + some JS framework for building the frontend.

Or relying on a ready full CMS like Ghost or WordPress + theme and hosting on a VPS, which honestly is what I’m leaning towards…

I want to avoid JS if possible as I had terrible coding experiences with it, I know some Rust but webdev in rust is not really a good option from what I’ve learned.

What do you think?

Crypto - wall street on steroids Bitcoin - an actual alternative to the collapsing monetary economy

That doesn’t take into account privacy coins like monero, which have different purposes, but most crypto is bullshit.

Didn’t think about the 2 machines thing. But yeah it looks definitely easier than setting a transparent proxy… But I guess all of this has to be on the same network, I cannot use an external server to which I connect to via wan because at that point the connections would be already need to be unproxied going out right?

But can’t your setup be done on the same machine with a firewall?

Yes DNS and pihole were never thought as content filtering tools

I need to block IPs and unauthorized connections that are not http/https as well, I know about DNS filtering but it’s not what I am trying to achieve.

Yes please

Any suggestions on the how?

It looks really complicated, very different from Linux! I cannot understand properly all the sandboxing thing… But I guess it’s years of development and policies enforcement… Now I can see why Android it’s much more closed compared to a normal Linux distro, I guess this provides a lot of security but less customization. I also have to understand the role of the device manager in all of this. Is there any Linux distro that behaves similarly?

Why so much effort into securing it? Isn’t the Linux behaviour with users etc enough?

Yes it’s more something like that, making certain type of content a lot less accessible.

I think it’s all a problem of time: if we have more time to carefully think about what we are doing on our devices, we usually make better choices.

We need better tools to give us more time to actually evaluate and decide.

I’ll make an example: I installed an android device manager which let me set a block timer for each new installed app, that means that whenever I install something new I will have some time to reflect on whether I actually need that new app or not, and most often than not, the answer is no.

I’m actually curious on Rust, i don’t like how dispersive can be JavaScript, i prefer to build smaller, maybe uglier things, but that work and are nicely stable, scalable and can be integrated on multiple different platforms. Also i love that almost everything runs on Cargo and i don’t have to choose between 100 things that essentially cover the same target. I also think the Discord idea is quite good, i just want to find someone who is on my same level to grow / build cool things toghether, or small projects on which i can actively partecipate, there’s also an association near me that promotes opensource projects and give free code lessons, i might give it a try as well and see if i meet someone there. I’m gonna give it another try before deciding of giving up, i think it is deserved.

And how you deal with that, how do you choose what to do and what not to do?

Honestly when i first got into coding i liked the fact it could give me jobs i could do from every part of the world, that is still on demand and that gave a certain freedom on how you approach technology and customize it to make it your own, i always liked to tinker around with computer and i even have a small home server i use for several stuff. I loved how useful internet was to find informations otherwise unreachable and share stuff without censorship woth everyone, as i said i love the story of the cypherpunk movement, i see bitcoin as a real solution to our obsolete economy, and i thought i would have liked to have a role into changing this shitty system paradigms, my target was to work with lightining network or similar protocols maybe one day. However i feel like i’m changing lately and i’m lacking human interactions so much, there’s no point in building something toghether if there’s no emotions to share with others before, during and after the process. Maybe it’s just how i’m made, but i cannot stick to it, i just get super depressed and i see no point in doing it. Maybe i’m just lazy i don’t know, but it is like that.

Adding the fact that sometimes i feel like technology controls me, and not the opposite despite all the efforts i make, feels just super wrong and not how i want to live.

I’m studying webdevelopment so i’ve had the opportunity to work only on simple stuff so far, but it already feels super overwhelming, sometimes i get lost just in setting up my coding environment, just to realize it will only be one of many i’ll need to learn how to work with.

Our need to survive will always lead us to make a true change. Climate engineering and terraforling can surely be a way but it’s not enough for now, we need an immediate solution to deal with the current problems, we need to understand the technologies we have now and what we can do with them.

Work on solutions, with your own studies, your own work, collaborate and build.

Mate believe me i’m thorn between the exact same feelings…

It’s hard to find a balance in an unbalanced world, a world that is demanding us to work hard to fix important problems and to create new and different possibilities.

At the same time a lot of us are just needing social interactions to the point they are starving: a lot of people of my generation grew up with technology ( the specific capitalist kind of technology that wanna keep you glued to the screen even if it’s hurting you) and are really in the need of some real human contact.

Finding a balance is incredibily hard, there’s this will of finding truth: true actions, true relationships, true help.

But at the same time the actions required to find solutions could take us a lot of time, mental and phisical resources…

But from as i see it now, i feel good if i can live one good day with the people i love even if rarely, than living with the consciousness i’ve never even tried to do something to change the world and create a better future for me and for them.

That’s exactly us that could push and work to make those changes happen, you have more power than you realize. And that’s probably OUR responsability to make those changes happen, because we all know fossil-fuels companies won’t decide to stop selling their resources after their saw some of their most proficuos years (just look the datas for 2022, it was the most profitable year for them).

Come on guys, it’s our turn to remedy to this disaster and to make the world a better place!

We can totally do it. Let’s work togheter and let’s work hard, there’s nothing more beautiful than to think of possible solutions that would make us all live better.