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Johan Bové

Changed the "post deletion" on my Mastodon profile to a month. No need to keep a copy of my ramblings on this Mastodon server for longer than that since I keep the original post on my own site anyway.

Johan Bové

Managed to spend 20 minutes time today on figuring out why a file wouldn't _simply_ sync with the Nextcloud app on my Android phone after being edited by Markor. It would not sync to my Nextcloud server at home and then the bytes would not sync back to another instance of NextCloud on my Fedora virtual machine that is running on this Mac... and while I am writing this I just realise just how scifi all of this is, compared to what we had 20 so years ago: physical drives and FTP.

Johan Bové

One of the aspects I love about the servers or instances is that every server's content and all the author's public posts can be visited, read and seen online in any web browser without "register to see more nags" - it's open Web as it should be!

Johan Bové

Tried installing Mastodon on the Yunohost server on a Raspberry Pi 3. Turns out it does not have enough RAM. Installation aborted itself, left a nice clear log message and then uninstalled everything nicely. That is what is really awesome about Yunohost.

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Reading the 134 pages of the bill, I understand the proposal to be a state-run "antivirus" program that must be installed on every digital device and server connected to the Internet, analyzing every text, image and video. If it finds something, you will be reported automatically to Interpol and the program will read the file and remove it from your device and any other server. Before you can use any device, you must identify yourself, no matter if it is a cell phone or a computer.

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Wondering how much CO2 is used by running a personal file share server on NextCloud on a Raspberry Pi 3, with a backup to a local Qnap NAS system, which keeps an offsite backup on B2? My home uses renewable energy... Going to have fun figuring that out.

Johan Bové

Replaced Rainloop with Roundcube on my Yunohost server after reading about the severe security issue and the lack of patching from the maintainers.

Johan Bové

How does Twitter serve mega accounts like Elon Musk's ? Do they have a dedicated server rack with a label with "Elon's stuff" in a datacenter?

Johan Bové

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.

Johan Bové

The OneDrive site at https://onedrive.live.com/?v=photos is not showing any pictures for the time, getting this fine error status:
GET https://onedrive.live.com/getpagecontext [HTTP/2 500 Internal Server Error 434ms

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Server upgrade today: 2048 GB Ram and two CPU cores. Not sure if I really need it, but that seems to be the standard these days and the "upgrade" was free - for now. So why not.

Johan Bové

Can I run a small and private Mastodon instance on a QNAP NAS server? Let's find out.

Johan Bové

Uninstalled ManyVerse to see if I would miss it. Also deleted the pub server. Don't know if anyone was actually following my ManyVerse account. So not sure I can restore it.

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Currently a lot of communication from our Kita (day care) still goes over paper, bulletin board and lots of emails send to a group address. Problem is that the emails are not really made available like in an actual mailing list, with a online archive. Thinking of setting up a Mattermost server for our Kita.

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A couple of months I've gone "Indie" with most of my software setup. Using as my ONLY browser and for reading email and keeping a calendar. The calendar and contacts server is self-hosted and syncs with Sabre's . My social-media platform and CMS is - which I'm also actively supporting. The community is fantastic!

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That is some sound advice! The coolest new technologies I learned about are web sign-in, webmentions and microsub & micropub. It's really cool how I can use - essentially - my own domain name, a server and any editor or reader client to passively and actively participate online 🌐





Johan Bové

by Aaron Parecki is a very good client - using it is really simple - especially with a Known server as micropub endpoint and the interface is clean and well - polished. It even has email-to-publish functionality! https://quill.p3k.io






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app on iOS has stopped sending likes and bookmarks to Known. Probably will need to re-authenticate? Haven’t checked server logs yet. Writing this in the https://Monocle.p3k.io streamreader

Johan Bové

for who test their work with Google's : If you're on a corporate network, your Lighthouse test results will probably be completely influenced by the network's proxy server. So if you have access to an open wifi, then connect through that and re-run your tests. You'll be much happier with the results 😅

Johan Bové

Was wondering what kind of server requirements an enabled website would need for celebrities like Bill Gates in terms of integration with Webmentions.io and Brid.gy. Would a site like https://www.gatesnotes.com/ bring these services to their knees?