This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. The big news this week was obviously The European Commission's European Technological Sovereignty Package....
Around a week ago, I decided to take a look at IRC again, and setup an IRC bouncer. After some search, I settled on going with soju as my IRC bouncer, and gamja as a nice web frontend. Since I use Caddy and Docker in my server, but neither provides a Dockerfile, I thought sharing my setup with the world could be useful.
Trying to answer a complicated question for myself, as a computer user during the multimedia era: Why did the CD-ROM caddy exist, and why didn’t I have one?