Let’s not forget Forgejo, a fork of Gitea. Self-hosted. It’s CodeBerg’s backend.

Sorry about the delay.

1. Install Rethink Firewall and follow instructions to configure it;
2. In “Apps” set Gboard to “Isolate”;
3. Add two domain rules for the two Tenor domains as “Trust”.

That’s all.

Gboard with every connection blocked through Rethink Firewall except for “media.tenor.com” and “tenor.googleapis.com” (because GIFs are cool).

I will never really know whether it really protects my privacy or if Google has other means to exfiltrate my data, but from Rethink logs it seems to be working. Unfortunately I have never found any keyboard as good as Gboard, so I would say this a risk I am personally willing to take for the convenience of a great keyboard. What would you say?

In my very limited experience, when this happens the filesystem can (and will) still be mounted as read-only.

Well… if you want the very minimum necessary to play piano, I’ve written this tool to do it with just a MIDI keyboard and a modern browser.

http://tools.fabioiotti.com/midi-synth/index.html https://github.com/bruce965/midi-synth

On AWS they have something called “bursting”. Basically they will let you use 100% of your vCPU, but not all the time. If you use it constantly they start to throttle you. That’s explicitly stated when you rent an EC2 instance (which is their VPS). Perhaps your provider is doing something similar.

That’s interesting. I wanted to try it not long ago, and downloaded a random build which didn’t complete installation unfortunately. I’m not a good at searching I guess 😅 How did you distinguish it from the others?

EDIT: found it here.

What’s special about this build in particular?

I’m glad it’s working! Yeah, right after posting that message I also noticed they forked it with a new name.

I suppose in a well configured Docker or Kubernetes environment this doesn’t matter that much. Also, in Kubernetes, “secrets” can be passed as read-only files.

I see. I’ve never used it but it sounds like a good suggestion :)

It’s an application that runs in the background and applies all sorts of filters and effects to your sound before it goes to the speakers. It’s actually quite cool, it can upgrade a crappy set of speakers/headphones to a mediocre one by applying the right adjustments.

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

I haven’t checked, but I assume PulseEffects must have a module to convert stereo to mono.