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Johan Bové

Grateful for my little family and being able to enjoy life as much as possible over the weekend. We have our own problems, but fortunately nothing we cannot handle. Standing still for a moment to reflect that. You never know when the table gets flipped over.

Johan Bové

It is finally happening! In our family, we seem to have about the same amount of USB TYPE-C devices as micro USB ones, with a small number of Iphone lightning connector still to go...

Johan Bové

The backup file of our family Whatsapp group, including videos, is about 7GB large. Good thing we can still locally backup the files to other systems.

Johan Bové

And we're almost all sick again in my family.

Johan Bové

Feeling joyful and fortunate to be able to have another wonderful Christmas day with my family! Wishing everyone similar fuzzy feelings and a happy new year!

Johan Bové

Went to see the first Ice Hockey game with my five year old and family tonight ever. Our team lost, but the experience will last for sure.

Johan Bové

Sharing the Earthstar Encryption Project again.

> Earthstar is a tool for building undiscoverable, offline-first shared data storage. Users decide which devices their data are stored on, what the infrastructure of their network looks like, the shape of their data, and how they can interact with it.

> Storing and collaborating digital data is an essential part of every day computing, from photo-sharing amongst family members, to document co-authoring between colleagues. Earthstar is a tool for building undiscoverable, offline-first shared data storage. Users decide which devices their data are stored on, what the infrastructure of their network looks like, the shape of their data, and how they can interact with it. The proposed project adds a number of useful features, notably end-to-end encryption (including metadata), P2P discovery in local networks and efficient data synchronisation.

https://nlnet.nl/project/EarthstarEncryption/index.html

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We're back at work! Had a really good time enjoying an actual vacation at Cavallino Tre Porte in Italy. Our family beach holiday in a fantastic camp site was the best time of this year for now! Hoping everyone else gets a change to enjoy this too somehow where ever they might be.

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So not to have this previous post as my last post: I am happy to have made a nice Python "picture uploader" app for our family pictures. Thanks to Flask it was only a matter of finding some good tutorials and articles and the thing actually works.

Johan Bové

Highly recommend the NEMO museum in Amsterdam - our 4-year old and the whole family loved it!
https://www.nemosciencemuseum.nl/en/

Johan Bové

Can I trust Cloudflare's DNS not to spy on me? Thinking the family safe service is a nice idea, but could not find their privacy policy.

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Had another great time at the Staufenplatz Osterkirmes fun-fair today with the family. Enjoying this Easter holiday all-things-considering.

Johan Bové

We had a great Easter-weekend with the family! So fortunate that we can enjoy life like this in peace.

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Anyone know Ukrainian's that need digital space for keeping files safe? I have an FTP server hosted in the Netherlands and I can give away 3 times 10 GB (30 GB). It's not a huge space, but it might be enough to keep some family data safe? PM me if interested.

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I think I am in shock. Cannot concentrate much on work. This war is getting too close to my home. Today I went to help out an Ukrainian refugee family who are staying in a hotel nearby. Two kids, including grandma. Got them a clothing shop gift certificate and bought some coloring and sticker books and a box of Legos they can take with them as they find somewhere safe to stay. Something normal. Some chocolate too as Easter is coming. Then I see the articles and pictures on the news and Twitter and I catch myself thinking: What the heck am I doing? Less than a day's driving away from my own house people are dying in a war, cities are destroyed. And for what??? Stop this inhumanity and madness!

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Really impressed with YunoHost and NextCloud as a solution for our family online presence.

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You keep your passwords and secrets secure in a password manager. But what happens when you lose access to the password manager, or when something bad happens to you and your family needs access to something really important only you knew the secret password for? I use a DiceKey. https://dicekeys.com/

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What I've realized in the last year is that social media is very overrated. Family and real life friends matter more than any digital-only connection.

Johan Bové

Had a great family weekend! Having an almost four year old tell you he loves you is the best feeling in the world.

Johan Bové

Family is everything.