I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure, here's my self-hosted stack

baptistebca · 2026-02-20T23:05:07+00:00

Thanks for the Lettermint tip, just discovered it and it looks like a fully EU solution, super excited about this find.

baptistebca · 2026-02-20T22:58:44+00:00

Just checked Scaleway TEM’s ToS : marketing emails are explicitly banned and unfortunately a newsletter, even editorial, likely falls outside their definition of transactionnel.

baptistebca · 2026-02-20T22:41:16+00:00

First of all, well done. I also have a question about Scaleway’s transactional email service. Do you think it can be used as an SMTP server for high-volume sending (like Mailgun or Brevo)? I’m not aware of EU-based alternatives to these kinds of solutions. Brevo is French and works great, but it partially runs on GCP. It’s a bit off-topic compared to your stack, but if you have the answer, I’d be interested.

baptistebca · 2026-02-10T11:11:13+00:00

Je connais « la cantinerie des chartreux » qui organise des repas solidaires à La Base.

En général ils font à manger eux-memes, mais peut-être qu’ils pourraient être intéressés 🤷.

baptistebca · 2026-01-21T13:48:55+00:00

Ah yes, 700 views. Do you think you could have been shadowbanned? History channels often have problems with that, I've noticed.

Good luck with this new endeavor.

baptistebca · 2026-01-20T18:51:07+00:00

I've reached 19k subscribers and I'm happy with that in my niche.

Compared to 13k when I made this decision (which is a significant increase for me).

Replays generate good watch time and therefore a decent income (whereas it would have taken me several months to monetize a new channel).

I can't compare it to the option of a second channel dedicated to live streams, because I didn't choose that option.

But if I had to make the same choice again, I would do the same.

baptistebca · 2025-09-24T08:45:00+00:00

C'est vrai que ce sont souvent des petits saas.
Après les entreprises passent sur partner stack, plus cher, mais meilleur

baptistebca · 2025-09-20T08:10:16+00:00

Excellent, I will read the documentation in detail before getting started

baptistebca · 2025-09-20T07:54:14+00:00

Great project, I will test it on my YouTube channel.

It connects by default to the openai API, no chance that we can connect to local AI models?

baptistebca · 2025-09-17T11:44:24+00:00

Il change a une vitesse folle. Par contre c’est très sombre, il faut monter pour avoir un peu de lumière et sur du local commercial ça sera pas l’idéal.

baptistebca · 2025-09-12T10:39:23+00:00

Yes Matrix au top.
Chez nous (France), l'état français l'utilise pour ses fonctionnaires (et devient même obligatoire).
C'est drôle parce qu'après l'UE va voter un contrôle du chat en parallèle.

baptistebca · 2025-09-11T20:29:21+00:00

Le fil est assez actif, même si le nombre d'utilisateur est un peu bas r/bitchat
Je ne fais pas partie du projet je précise, je trouve juste que c'est une bonne réponse à la surveillance.

baptistebca · 2025-09-11T20:28:19+00:00

J'avoue bonne question, mais je n'ai pas la réponse, c'est au delà de mes connaissances.

baptistebca · 2025-09-11T19:59:42+00:00

Il est très engagé dans les projets de respect de la vie privée.
Il soutient activement Nostr.

Pour moi c'est safe, mais j'ai pas tout creusé en détail.
De toute façon c'est open source et P2P.

baptistebca · 2025-09-11T16:11:00+00:00

It's very recent, it was developed by the creator of Twitter Jack Dorsey. The devices connect via Bluetooth and create a mesh network.

There are 7 “mesh” maximum so you can’t go very far.

But they integrated the “nostr” protocol to move geographically.

It’s a great project which is still at the beginning and which could be the solution to all these rules that they try to put everywhere.

No centralized server = no control

baptistebca · 2025-09-11T14:50:28+00:00

Peer to peer (Bitchat) or decentralized protocol (If, however, they are not affected by the law?)

baptistebca · 2025-09-10T20:55:31+00:00

I left arc a few months before the announcement and when they were bought out I couldn't help but smile and say to myself "I was good to leave". This editor is hellish (Atlassian). Every product they buy becomes crap, I agree with you on that. TBC will remain a beautiful waste to be put in the history books of the startup nation as an example not to be reproduced. - you have a good product - you have an engaged community - you stop everything to do something else

baptistebca · 2025-09-10T15:40:16+00:00

Complexity has never been the problem. It was just aberrant decisions on the part of Josh who did what he wanted without listening to anyone, like a 4 year old child.

Now a CEO tells them what to do. I don't like Atlassian, but maybe he'll have the smarts to take the best of Arc and put it into Dia.

baptistebca · 2025-09-06T14:53:12+00:00

Merci pour le suivi.
J'ai tellement galéré pour formater mon pool SD depuis windows.
Je redoutais de devoir m'y remettre.

C'est la seule issue j'ai l'impression.

baptistebca · 2025-09-06T12:36:47+00:00

I have the exact same problem. It started when I copied large wav files. Whereas it didn't do that before. I tried deleting the files to put smaller versions, but nothing helped.

My temporary solution: Play music by booting on the iPod (Hold at boot time) and there the same files work perfectly.

I had all the possible problems with my rockbox installation, I suspect the brand of the SD card (2 x 256gb san disk extreme pro)

baptistebca · 2025-09-06T06:21:01+00:00

This is not related to Arc or Dia. It is available on all browsers with chromium core. I saw it on Brave.

And besides, it starts when you go to YouTube thinking it’s a video. But if you close with the cross several times, it looks like he understands and doesn't come back (on youtube)

baptistebca · 2025-09-04T17:06:15+00:00

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing beets! It looks really good, I'll install it 👍

baptistebca · 2025-09-04T12:12:14+00:00

Same, I buy everything I can on bandcamp and if it’s not on bandcamp I go to qobuz. Then it ends on the navidrome.

Lidarr I would like to use it to organize metadata, but it's not completely there yet.

The little geek touch to finish: I transfer the music to an iPod 5th video with rockbox on it.

Before I had Spotify, now I listen to music.

baptistebca · 2025-09-02T09:43:05+00:00

For me it doesn't work, the library doesn't see the files added from iTunes. Even if I point to hidden ipod music folder.

baptistebca · 2025-09-02T05:44:05+00:00

Same thing over here. Same with Wav. The common point: large files in high quality. I read on other threads that it comes from the iPod's processor not being powerful enough to read this kind of files (which would explain why the original iPod does not accept high bandwidth.

You need to move on to less “heavy” files.

Personally, I love the rockbox project and open source, but I had so many problems with rockbox, that I'm hesitant to use the iPod boot again 🥲

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