My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:
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My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:
December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services
December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host
I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...
It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨
@_elena still no simple FTP server that doesn't require 287302723 different config files with 0xDEADBEEF command line options.
Honestly if a ftp server is more complicated than `ftpserver $HOME --write --read` then it is a failed one.
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@_elena You're needed.
@anne_twain thank you 🥹
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I love it and that is why I added your RSS to #TidySearch 🥰
@justbob thank you! 🥰
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@_elena My way of rebelling: Teach compsci whilst painting a positive vision for computing, to show how narrow-minded these powerful fools are!
And yes, I would check out your podcast.
@alcinnz amazing!!! 🙏
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@_elena its so fun switching off these mega-corp platforms and apps. you realize you don't actually need most of them at all.
@SnakeOilSalesman absolutely
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@_elena As a busy dad, i dont have the time to set things up any more, and self hosting is seldom plug and play... I set up Home Assistant on a raspi, but it took time. More plug and play self hosting pls! 🙂 And i dont want to have 100 raspberry pis running things neither, so some sort of virtualization would be nice also.
@gnomulf maintenance on YunoHost is SUPER EASY... I used a basic VPS with little RAM and had 2 microblogging, a photo sharing and other apps running smoothly... so I highly recommend YunoHost
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Great idea 🙌🏻 !
I think a podcast could reach even more ppl, who rather listen to podcasts than reading longer blogs. Maybe even with guests sometimes 🤷🏻?
With your projects you’re not just giving yourself hope, but also others 😊 🚀
@EloPup thank you and yes! we're planning to have guests :)
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@_elena You warrior! And yes, they give me hope too 🙂
@sylvia awww thank you Sylvia ❤️
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@soatok I want them to federate, though.
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The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page
(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…
http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/
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I went to the Museum of Science and Industry, before riding around Jackson Park. Then I took the Lakefront Trail all the way to the north end of the trail. #chicago #dusk #skyline #darktable #photography
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Hey hey friends who get #migraines, can you please share your favorite tips? I seem to be getting a new condition, lolsob. I think it's likely hormonal (i.e. peri/menopause).
Right now things that help are: sometimes caffeine (sometimes that backfires), Tylenol (Advil does little), that headache music I mentioned before, getting off screens and away from bright lights and noise, rest, or VERY gentle movement (like slow zen-walking around the house).
What works for you? (boosts welcome!)
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Detail of Robie House near UChicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. #chicago #architecture #photography #darktable
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@anton @thezerobit this project has taken up the majority of my free time and spare thought this year. I have no regrets. It is magic. It has been very rewarding and I highly recommend making visual programming languages.
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@bryan but, I have a severely negative reaction to companies requiring me to talk to people (or worse, an AI) on the phone. And T-Mobile got to the point where literally everything required a phone call, even things the "T-Life" app or website is supposed to be able to do, that never actually worked.
Even once I was talking to a real person, getting a transfer PIN sucked. Just a miserable support experience.
Not because the people are bad, but because the systems are designed to be hostile.
