Alavi | علوی

Alireza Alavi | سیّد علیرضا علوی

Geek, FOSS lover, Software engineer, Curious.

I will be sharing my thoughts and updates here.

languages: Persian/English
website: https://alavi.me
Find me in other places: https://alavi.me/contact

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2025-11-25 18:40:39 UTC

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I live in Tehran and right now I wanted to take a shower but water was out :)
I think horrible management and "engineering" decision for the dams and water managements had a much bigger factor in this situation. Although the drought and climate change is undeniable.
We are also battling with horrible weather pollution, wild fires in the north of the country and much more.
I say the human race is going to shit and we are in one of the worse places.
Tge situation will get so horribly ugly for all of us that at some point we understand we have to correct our paths. And then rebuild our societies and civilizations again.
Interesting times we are living in...

2025-10-28 15:48:23 UTC

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Imagine how much they are making off of your books that they agreed to share a bread crumb of it with you for 9000.
Sad days we live in.

2025-05-18 08:00:34 UTC

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We live in a fucked up world.
Israel is the biggest terrorist force of the recent century and nobody is doing anything about it. USA is even licking it's ass.

2025-05-08 10:58:56 UTC

Hey #bsd folks, do you suggest I use #freebsd or #openbsd for desktop usage?
#usebsd

2025-03-14 08:43:25 UTC

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I don't think we can market accessibility as a good business practice with good ROI.
In most cases, it really isn't. The effort it takes to make a system really accessible compared to the return is really big.
It's more of a humanitarian act. That we shouldn't leave out a minority of people out of our world, over things they had no control over. Even if it means losing some profit in the process.
This actually goes for a lot of things, not only accessibility.
I don't think it's a good idea to coat it as a great decision for your business, but we should endorse it as what it is, an ethical thing.

2025-01-14 19:03:42 UTC

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No I mean even though Elon was born in africa, he's not African. He's just a colonist that was there.
Same as "Americans" who are British people that just killed all the true Americans and took over the land.
(Sorry not sorry Americans 🤷‍♂️)

2025-01-14 16:19:01 UTC

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Aren't the white people in Africa just colonists?

2025-01-05 19:51:23 UTC

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خیلی عالیه. همیشه دوره هاتو توصیه میکنم به کسایی که میخوان شروع کنن.
ولی جادی جان در کنار این دوره های مقدماتی، خیلی دوست دارم‌ مطالب و دوره های تخصصی هم‌بذاری. یعنی نهایت و غایت چیزی که بلدی رو به اشتراک بذاری.
تجربه ی زیادی داری و خیلی ساله در این عرصه هستی، مطمئنم از لحاظ علمی و فنی هم خیلی چیزای ناب برای گفتن داری.
خوشحال میشم فارغ از این مطالبی که بقیه ی جاها هم پیدا میشه، اون چیزایی که پیدا نمیشه رو به اشتراک بذاری.
منظورم این نیست که اینا کم ارزشه. ولی به اون چیز های والاتر و فراتر از ابزار هم واقعا توی جامعه ی فنی و علمی و مهندسیمون نیاز داریم.
❤️

2025-01-04 11:15:24 UTC

How can I specify in mastadon that I only want to see posts with specific languages? (Only see posts on English and Persian for example)
#Mastodon #feditip

2024-11-04 08:20:45 UTC

Guys I need #selfhosting advice.
I need to access the intranet and services in my office network from anywhere (for remote work and administration, etc.)
Currently I have #wireguard setup, and I give a config file to each team member. (One major problem is that config files dont have password and anyone who gets access to the config, gets access to my network).
I have heard a lot about #tailscale and #headscale but I don't understand what they do and how are they better?

2024-09-01 11:45:12 UTC

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Nothing has become one of my few liked brands

2024-08-27 19:33:33 UTC

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Alt+shift+y is an insane keybind imo

2024-06-30 14:06:21 UTC

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This is actually the hardest step (and not using youtube).
Because with tuta and proton, unless I pay for an account, I can't use my account with thunderbird or other mail clients, and have to check my emails separately and manually everyday, so using tuta or proton as my main email for important stuff isn't a great option.
The pricing on your plans isn't irrational, but for me, a university student living in a 3rd world country, isn't possible right now.
And even if I could afford it, I couldn't buy it, because it doesn't accept cryptocurrency as payment method.
I have been buying my mullvad vpn account with crypto for years now.
And I'm not asking for charity, you guys have to make money at last :)
Just some insight from another perspective.