I found a pretty cool 80kb docker image that is just a copy of busybox httpd, which makes creating a docker image out of static files very simple.[0]
Readit Newsheavensteeth commented on Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
heavensteeth commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra
I tried Podman on my messing around VPS but quickly reverted to rootless Docker.
The straw that broke the camels back was a bug in `podman compose` that funnily enough was fixed two hours ago[1]; if `service1` has a `depends_on` on `service2`, bringing down `service1` will unconditionally bring down `service2`, even if other services also depend on it. So if two separate services depend on a database, killing one of them will kill the database too.
Another incompatibility with Docker I experienced was raised in 2020 and fixed a few months ago[2]; you couldn't pass URLs to `build:` to automatically pull and build images. The patch for this turned out to be a few lines long.
I'm sure Podman will be great once all of these bugs are ironed out, but for me, it's not quite there yet.
[1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/pull/1283
[2]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/127
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It isn't - using cards, with fees, is cheaper than cash. I realized that when shops started to refuse cash (even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash). The argument? Cash is too expensive.
> even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash
this is not true as it is not what "legal tender" means. Legal tender is something that the government must accept as payment, not private enterprise.
> Businesses don’t have to accept cash.[0]
> There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.[1]
[0]: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...
heavensteeth commented on Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/rdrd
The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601...
If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me.
> Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.
> In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse. Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.
The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the legalisation of pornography specifically as the cause of decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise? Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled, surveilled society caused men unrest?
Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.
> Taking an extra two hours per passenger on average, that’s 1.725 billion hours, or $83 billion cost to the economy just for extra time wasted for domestic passengers.
That seems really wrong to me?
1. Business flyers are getting paid for the day, wherever they are. Whether they spend an extra hour in the office or at an airport is orthogonal to them getting paid. They may be producing less output which in turn decreases GDP, but that's its own can of worms and also not what this is trying to calculate anyway.
2. Leisure flyers, naturally, fly when either their business is closed or they've taken time off. So again, whether they leave at 2AM or 4AM, they're not getting paid for that day.
I don't think the layman would end up with any more money in their pocket were they to leave 2 hours later for their flights.
heavensteeth commented on PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles panamaplaylists.com/... · Posted by u/aadillpickle
So the lesson is that one must become ultra-normie in music taste before one becomes a founder? I'm waiting for the PG essay to explain this.
Mass appeal has mass appeal, apparently.
heavensteeth commented on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl
I was reflecting on the whole chat apps and protocols the other day and felt we might just have trapped ourselves artificially.
If I want to casually keep in touch with a friend, I am supposed to have the following options:
- SMS/RCS: no need for an app but is controlled
- WhatsApp: no good to many reasons
- Signal: how can you believe it is not controlled once it becomes the mandatory app in the US Gov.
- Matrix: great but you need to self host a server, create accounts, etc.
- SimpleX: very interesting, but centralised and I feel it might just be the next Signal. Might be a solution since you can exit at some point by self hosting a server and I guess have alternative implementations.
- Delta chat: great but I guess email fall into the mass surveillance target.
Now most people do not have crazy security requirements and just want to be able to send a simple text message to a friend and be notified instantly without participating in mass surveillance. So why even using a formal Chat app that will be target by a regulation like Chat Control or kicked out of the App store?
Something like Gotify [0] or ntfy [1] are almost enough for most users. It has the whole free from Google and Apple push notification system figured out. You would just need to modify a bit the app to exchange keys with a QR code for individual topics (that you would use as contact or groups).
In a way we just need MQTT servers, a client with reliable push notifications and a manual key exchange mechanism. That would be really hard for govs to target.
- [0] https://gotify.net/
- [1] https://ntfy.sh/
> - Signal: how can you believe it is not controlled once it becomes the mandatory app in the US Gov.
cryptography?
heavensteeth commented on How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers wsj.com/business/media/ho... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
personally i havent watched tv or listened to the radio on my own accord in many years because there are too many ads. i like the idea of not being able to choose the content im engaging in but it feels like 70% ads and 30% content
No profiles, usernames, or followers
No likes, trending topics, or algorithms
No ads, no data collection
Just anonymous thoughts from people around the world. Curious to see how it evolves and what kind of conversations happen when metrics are removed.
Oh, yes, you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656840