If you're seeing this comment, it means outgoing federation is back online!
How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up
This is a followup to my introduction of BlogOnLemmy, a simple blog frontend. If you haven't seen it, no need because I will be explaining how it works and how you can run your own BlogOnLemmy for free.
Leveraging the Federation
Having a platform to connect your content to likeminded people is invaluable. The Fediverse achieves this in a platform agnostic way, so in theory it shouldn't matter which platform we use. But platform have different userbases that interact with posts in different ways. I've always preferred the forum variety, where communities form and discussion is encouraged.
My posts are shared as original content on Lemmy, and that's who it's meant for. Choosing for a traditional blog style to make a more palatable platform for a wider audience, and in this way also promoting Lemmy.
Constraints
Starting off I did not want the upkeep of another federated instance. Not every new thing that is deployed on the Fediverse needs to
'The best anti-virus is common sense [current year]' - was a meme more than decade ago and is still true. Linux is not safer than any other OS.
The reason why people think otherwise is because statistically, when bad actors release malware it's made for the OS with the largest market share. Which for computers, is still Windows by a landslide.
Friend bought one and brought him a high capacity sd I wasn't using, to my surprise it genuinely didn't have a slot for it.
Looks just like my brother's cat! Shea meet Spock.
Joeri Verbeeck - Begin
Almost 10 years ago at 17, Joeri found himself in a horrifying blind spot accident. After being dragged 600m by a truck he lost an arm, an eye and most part of his other hand. Pulling through as a symbol of strength and perserverance, he's managed to have a positive influence over road safety in Belgium. Having hiphop influences and a good support group, he decided to release a single to 'Begin' his musical career.
Today marks the release of his music video, a project of passion with amazing production quality. As a friend, I've decided to share his story and debut with an international audience. Don't worry, as it's rapped in a West-Flemish dialect, even the overwhelming majority of my country doesn't understand a word. Either way, I've translated the lyrics if you're curious.
::: spoiler Joeri Verbeeck - Begin [Translated lyrics]
(Actually they don't know how I... [feel])
I don't know how to Begin
Just words in sentences
But the shit I've been through
You couldn't even mak
Farmers find them frequently plowing their field over here in Belgium. Against experts advice they often leave them by the side of the road so they can continue their work. There have been countless stories of tourists trying to take them home followed by the bomb squad clearing part of an airport.
On the 65th birthday of the monarch, a website is launched to ask him a direct question
Questions need to be recorded in video form; either in Dutch, French, or German.
I've noticed that a more detailed writeup is warranted! So I'll be working on that.
CORS is enabled on lemmy, you have to send the 'Origin' header in order to get the Access-Control headers. Which allows cross-origin for simple requests. No added headers, cookies or other data. So all API calls are made in JS by your browser.
With a global shortage of nearly five million cybersecurity professionals, Women4Cyber Belgium is promoting gender inclusion to fill the gap and diversify the industry.
Despite a growing global demand for cybersecurity expertise, with 97 people falling victim to cybercrimes every minute globally, women are still significantly underrepresented in the cybersecurity field.
There is a huge demand for employees: over 800,000 new trained cybersecurity professionals are needed in Europe alone and there is a global shortage of nearly five million cybersecurity workers. Women will need to play a bigger role in this sector as life increasingly moves online and the real-world consequences of cybercrime become graver.
Currently, women occupy a slim share of the workforce in this emerging field, both in Europe and internationally. In the EU, 56% of organisations reported that none of their cybersecurity employees were women. According to the latest statistics, just 22% of the global cybersecurity workforce is made up of women.
Recognising this disparity, which is increasingly pressing against the backdrop of companies' growing hiring needs and a shortage of cy
Good question, it's a design choice. Being attached to my name I had no interest in needing to moderate which comments should and shouldn't be showing up under my name. There is a direct link to the posts on lemmy where they can be interacted with.
A second concern is XSS, with my own content I have no worries.
The open web and API's are designed for this purpose, and don't think any instance would ever follow reddit and close up theirs.
I'm all for donating to your instance owner, altough I'd be surprised if any would mind their API being used this way. Giving credit where credit is due.
Exactly, in this case the actual post is this one and posted it here as a x-post.
Edit: I own my instance, but you don't have to own one in order to deploy this blog frontend.
This is in it's simplest form a blog frontend for Lemmy indeed!
I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the kind words!
That requires the running and maintenance of a federated instance, which is not easy or cheap. Doing it like this allows anyone to make a BlogOnLemmy by serving but a single webpage, no extra server cost at all.
I sepperate the hosting of the content and the page itself. With a website you do need to still be serving a html page, because it has no backend the page can be served by GitHub for example.
In theory you don't have to touch the website anymore, so you use Lemmy as your markdown frontend.
A constraint like this ensures someone can host their BlogOnLemmy without paying for anything like hosting space or running the instance themselves.
Feel free to use the code in any way you like, and enjoy your trip!
BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API
Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog
Features
- Linked to a user using Lemmy’s API, no authentication
- Host content on any instance
- Category filters: Set one or more community as the categories
- Easy to adapt to your profile
- One page constraint
- Anchor navigation and permalinks
- Responsive
- Dark / Light mode
- No cookies or tracking
- Interactive “about me”
- No backend: serving a single lightweight page that can be hosted anywhere, including GitHub
- HTML, CSS and ES6 JavaScript. That's it.
TODO
- Possible compatibility issues with older iOS devices. Let me know if you encounter an issue! I'll be cleaning up the code in the meantime.
- The only class not written by me is the markdown-html translation layer for which I'm using snarkdown. It does so using regex queries. As to not completely re-invent the wheel I've forked it for
BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API
Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog
Features
- Linked to a user using Lemmy’s API, no authentication
- Host content on any instance
- Category filters: Set one or more community as the categories
- Easy to adapt to your profile
- One page constraint
- Anchor navigation and permalinks
- Responsive
- Dark / Light mode
- No cookies or tracking
- Interactive “about me”
- No backend: serving a single lightweight page that can be hosted anywhere, including GitHub
- HTML, CSS and ES6 JavaScript. That's it.
TODO
- Possible compatibility issues with older iOS devices. Let me know if you encounter an issue! I'll be cleaning up the code in the meantime.
- The only class not written by me is the markdown-html translation layer for which I'm using snarkdown. It does so using regex queries. As to not completely re-invent the wheel I've forked it for
Thanks for sharing I had no idea how harmful vinyl is. Various sources say it is safe to handle but the manufacturing, recycling and distribution is a nightmare.
I like how my collection is 90% second hand and won't be getting rid of them anytime soon, but it's an eye opener for sure!
Yes it does, a client needed this documentation and I've tested it extensively. The only exception is when S-Mode is enabled.
You are wrong for now, it is still possible.
- Ctrl + Shift + F3 during setup gives you access to sysprep
- In an admin CMD you can excecute the BypassNRO.cmd script. In C:\Windows\System32\oobe\
- I have encountered one 24H2 installation where the oobe folder was empty, but if you copy the file from another device it works just the same
- Reboot from sysprep and you can now select "Install without internet" when selecting a WIFI
This will not work if you're already connected to a wifi. BypassNRO sets a registry flag, so it's only a matter of time till they patch it out, but it works for now.
Edit: Rufus also allows the creation of a local user when making the installation USB, skipping the entire setup process.
Nardwuar vs. Tyler, The Creator (2025)
Nardwuar track list
- Ngozi Family - 40,000 volts
- Young Buck - Get Buck
- Uncle Luke - I Wana Rock
- Astrud Gilberto - The Shadow of Your Smile
- Gary Davis - Gotta Get Your Love
- One Way - Wild Night
- Kevin McCord - When The Night Comes
The sun will be more obscured in some places, but few people will witness this. "The areas where the sun will be more than 50% obscured are hardly inhabited."
This Saturday, people living in Belgium will be able to see a partial solar eclipse. The last solar eclipse visible in the country was in October 2022. Next year, people will be able to catch an almost complete eclipse.
If the weather cooperates, people in Belgium will be able to see a partial solar eclipse on Saturday 29 March. The moon will pass in front of the sun as seen from Earth. At 11:14 Belgian time, the first small bite will be taken out of the sun's surface, at the top.
"In Belgium, we will have to make do with a lesser eclipse: from just under 38% [of the diameter] in the far west of our country to 31% in the southeast," public observatory MIRA said. The spectacle will last one hour 48 minutes, ending at 13:04.
The Flemish Public Observatory Urania described the spectacle as a "giant Pac-Man in the sky".
No full eclipse
The moon is not exactly in line with the sun. This means that the solar eclipse will not be total anywhere in the world. Around a quarter of the surfac
I'm running my instance for the same reason, it's been running for over a year and I'm the only active user. Although there's people passively using it as well.
Storage doesn't go over 100GB much. The only downside I notice is a community on Lemmy is only federated if at least one of the users is subscribed to it. Using Lemmy-federate you can add a bot account that subscribes to new communities.
Following preliminary rounds, 20 participants will have the opportunity to play against the grandmaster simultaneously.
The chess tournament Your Next Move will return to Antwerp on 21 October after more than a decade, allowing young and professional Flemish players to challenge former world champion Garry Kasparov.
Following preliminary rounds, 20 participants will have the opportunity to play against the grandmaster simultaneously.
The tournament was previously held from 2007 to 2011, initiated by Inge Geerdens, founder and CEO of the software company CVWarehouse. Geerdens now hopes Your Next Move will become a recurring event.
A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into the way President Trump’s second term is shifting perceptions of America abroad.
For eight decades, Henri Mignon has viewed Americans as heroes. They twice liberated his tiny Belgian hometown, Houffalize, from German occupation — the second time, he said, when he was 8 years old, mere hours after shrapnel from shelling had killed his father.
The image of U.S. troops handing out gum to local children is a memory he has carried with him ever since. And he has dedicated more than 30 years to retelling the story of the war as a guide to tourists who flock to this corner of the Belgium-Luxembourg border, eager to learn about the last major German offensive on the Western Front.
But this month Mr. Mignon, 88, said he felt uncomfortable as he anticipated his Saturday morning Battle of the Bulge tour in Bastogne, just south of Houffalize.
I've never seen anything like it in Europe, where I live they even show the subs in 2 languages at the same time. It's horrible.
public transport companies leave the social media platform X
The Flemish public transport company De Lijn, the Brussels public transport company MIVB and the Belgian rail company NMBS jointly quit the social media platform X (the former Twitter) on Wednesday. The three public transport companies announced that they were leaving X in messages posted on the platform on Wednesday morning.
"US universities and their scholars are the biggest victims of this political and ideological interference. They are seeing millions in research funding disappear for ideological reasons."
In response to the "alarming political interference" of the Trump administration in academic research in the United States, the Brussels VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) wants to bring American researchers to the Belgian capital.
The university is opening 12 postdoctoral positions for international researchers, with a specific focus on American scholars working in socially significant fields. These prestigious fellowships come with substantial funding (€2.5 million) as part of the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) programme.
Additionally, as part of the Brains for Brussels initiative, VUB aims to actively attract American professors looking to relocate. In collaboration with its Francophone sister university ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), VUB is also providing 18 apartments for international researchers seeking temporary residence at the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies.
Cybercrime is set to explode in the coming years. The new European Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) aims to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of essential and key services in well-defined sectors in the EU.Belgium was the first European member st ...
Since the introduction of the NIS2 legislation last October, 2410 organizations from critical sectors have registered with the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB). The largest ever cyber security operation in the country is currently underway. During this period, reports of cyber incidents increased by 80%.
Cybercrime is set to explode in the coming years. The new European Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) aims to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of essential and key services in well-defined sectors in the EU.
Belgium was the first European member state to fully implement the new NIS2 directive. Belgian organizations covered by the NIS2 legislation have until tomorrow to register on the website atwork.safeonweb.be on a mandatory basis and are currently taking the necessary security measures such as protection against cyber attacks and data breaches.
LinkDump - Acting Busy, offline knowledge and nostalgia
https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/
Want to be on your smartphone and do nothing at the same time? Not in the hyperbolic sense, actually nothing. You could call it meditating or avoiding social contact, however you look at it, this site got a great laugh out of me when I realised its purpose, or perhaps lack thereof.
https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
From the most useless link to the most useful: this is Kiwix, a platform to behold. Distributing knowledge everywhere, Kiwix brings the power of the internet to the offline world. Having support for all platforms, even a Raspberry Pi can be used to create a local copy of Wikipedia, Stack-Overflow, iFixit or any other treasure trove of digital knowledge.
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
As a versatile tool for distributing a formatted document, PDF's are a great solution. They also come with a lot of frustrations, some security related, some editing related. Stirling PDF is a self-hostable PDF
Belgian consumers can soon order painkillers and skincare products from Takeaway for home delivery.
Dutch food delivery service Takeaway.com will soon offer home delivery on medicines to Belgian consumers.
In cooperation with pharmaceutical retailer Phoenix group, Takeaway.com will deliver products from BENU (formerly Lloyds Pharmacy) to the doors of Belgian clients. Customers will be able to order painkillers, skin care products, feminine hygiene products and other essential goods from within the app.
Women comprise 47% of gamers but only 6% in esports. 'Radiance' aims to change this with its first all-female event on 15 March in Brussels.
Radiance', the first Franco-Belgian event dedicated to 100% female esports, will be held on 15 March at La Tricoterie in Brussels, organisers announced on Thursday. The event is being organised to mark International Women's Day (8 March).
In the world of esports, women are underrepresented and face numerous obstacles in their professional pursuits, according to the French Embassy in Belgium and Belgian non-profit Gaming Factory, both of which are behind the initiative.
A 2020 study by the Syndicat des Editeurs de Logiciels Libres found that 47% of video game players are women, yet only 6% of them are represented on the esports scene. The organisers believe that a structured, responsible and inclusive esports environment must include women.
The prosecutor's office said it raided 21 addresses in Belgium, according to local media.
Belgian police have raided several locations in the country as part of an investigation into corruption within the European Parliament.
Prosecutors said the alleged corruption was "under the guise of commercial lobbying", and that several people had been detained for questioning.
According to officials, an address in Portugal was also searched by local police in relation to the case.
Belgian newspaper Le Soir said the investigation was linked to Chinese tech giant Huawei and its activities in Brussels since 2021. The BBC has approached Huawei for comment.