Web developer and Studio Lead at Deloitte Digital in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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.
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.
One of the aspects I love about the #Mastodon 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!
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.
Reading the 134 pages of the #chatcontrol 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.
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.
Replaced Rainloop with Roundcube on my Yunohost server after reading about the severe security issue and the lack of patching from the maintainers.
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?
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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:: http://steve-jansen.github.io/ guides/ windows-batch-scripting/ part-2-variables.html :: Saves the JSON files to IPFS @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS :: script global variables SET me=%~n0 SET parent=%~dp0 SET folder=export SET event=https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/ukraine-server/api/ukraine SET page1=%event%/export_events/deeprows SET file1=%folder%\export_events.json SET page2=%event%/export_associations/deeprows SET file2=%folder%\export_associations.json SET page3=%event%/export_sources/deepids SET file3=%folder%\export_sources.json SET log=%parent%\%me%.log :: Generate the ipfs key with `ipfs key gen --type=rsa --size=2048 bellingcat_ukraine` SET ipfskey=k2k4r8k7lcogpmkq9mkf3ykg1rexvhmxcinz5z91k8v49gbem6ivjp1v SET ipfskeyName=bellingcat_ukraine ECHO %me%: %date% %time% started... ECHO --- >> %log% ECHO %me%: %date% %time% started... >> %log% curl %page1% > %file1% curl %page2% > %file2% curl %page3% > %file3% SET size=0 call :filesize %file1% ECHO file 1 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof call :filesize %file2% ECHO file 2 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof call :filesize %file3% ECHO file 3 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof ECHO "Files copied..." :: copies the files in the folder as they appear on the original site COPY /Y %file1% %folder%\export_events\deeprow >> %log% COPY /Y %file2% %folder%\export_associations\deeprow >> %log% COPY /Y %file3% %folder%\export_sources\deepid >> %log% SET ipfshash=''; SET ipfsbase32=''; FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%f IN (`ipfs add -q -r %folder%`) DO SET ipfshash=%%f FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%f IN (`ipfs cid base32 %ipfshash%`) DO SET ipfsbase32=%%f ECHO CID: %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO https:// %ipfsbase32%.ipfs.dweb.link >> %log% ECHO %me%: Pinning... >> %log% ipfs pin add %ipfshash% >> %log% :: ECHO %me%: Pinning to Pinata >> %log% :: Turned off in favor of web3.storage @REM ipfs pin remote add --service=Pinata --name=%ipfskeyName% %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Uploading files to Web3.storage... :: See https:// web3.storage/ docs/ examples/ getting-started/ node C:\Users\johan\Projects\IPFS\web3-storage-quickstart\put-files.js --token=%WEB3_STORAGE_KEY_PC1% %folder% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Publishing to IPNS key %ipfskeyName% ... >> %log% ipfs name publish --key=%ipfskeyName% %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Done! Check the log curl-to-ipfs.log for details. :: Thank you https:// stackoverflow.com/ a/ 11479359 :: Set filesize of first argument in %size% variable, and return :filesize set size=%~z1 exit /b 0 :: force execution to quit at the end of the "main" logic EXIT %ERRORLEVEL%
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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.
Can I run a small and private Mastodon instance on a QNAP NAS server? Let's find out.
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Why do I believe Gemini is great for personal Internet presences? First of all, it's a real grass-roots initiative which I am very excited about.
If you're reading this, chances are high you are already using Gemini. But for history reasons and to share my opinions of Gemini I would like to offer you here some views of mine.
Collecting some of the strong-points of Gemini from my perspective of having some experience with Gopher and running personal websites.
And on top of this, the young Gemini community is driven to make this a success!
I'm sold.
ps. I published this first in plain text on my Gemini capsule and now that I copy paste this into a HTML document I can really tell just how easy it is to publish on Gemini.
"Any Database Server can be accessed remotely and many can serve huge databases. But a server needs a machine, and human resources associated with its operational management. Such costs are detrimental for pay-per-use model of the cloud and especially to a new popular with developers class of Serverless applications."