I'm organizing all my articles and bookmarks ... and writing a small blog post about it!
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#IndieWeb #Blog @wallabag #Wallabag #Bookmarks
Organizing all my bookmarks with Wallabag
Earlier this week I gave up. I've got too many bookmarks in too many places, and it's become impossible to find anything. I just cannot manage anymore. I've got business bookmarks in my business Nextcloud Bookmarks.Steven Brady (Open Source or GTFO)
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No real resolutions. Just going to continue doing what I was doing, but hopefully doing more of it.
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What I'm doing in 2025
No need for resolutions. I'm just going to continue doing what I've been doing, but I'm going to try to take it up a notch. * Chronological Bible reading plan. This year the Free Bible Version.Steven Brady (StevenBrady.com)
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Once again begging people to give up on "if you're not paying for the product you are the product" because I've seen so many people who now think if you are paying for a product your data is totally safe now forever because if I'm paying the company money they don't need to sell my data
When instead they could also sell your data and get Two Money
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Whether or not you're paying has no bearing on whether you are or are not the product.
That has a lot more to do with the people in charge of the product and how big the company is.
A tiny open source hobby project may be free AND not sell your data. A company that sells you a product may also sell your data for Two Money. There's not actually a correlation between whether you're paying and whether your data gets sold anymore.
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Not sure why Proxmox themselves don't have an RPM build of the Proxmox Backup Client for EL 8 and 9, but at least there's a community built one. EL9 client runs fine on Fedora 41.
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Releases · TomGem/proxmox-backup-client
Proxmox Backup Client for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. Contribute to TomGem/proxmox-backup-client development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Fucking idiots out here dead serious going "I don't trust Signal, everyone should just self-host their own XMPP server" meanwhile people can't even figure out how to factory reset a fucking iPhone. Go touch grass.
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One third of adults can't delete device data
Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a drawer, survey findsRichard Speed (The Register)
Behold: Genius at work.
I told her not to get in there when I saw her thinking about it, and exactly one second later she dove right in. No thoughts, only box. This is a very tall box that a bass guitar arrived in, so it's like 4' (1.3m) tall. She needed assistance to get out, but wasn't too bothered about the situation. #CatsOfMastodon
Do you use #PHP? Do you benefit from it?
Joe Watkins is a major contributor to PHP, so if you benefit from PHP, then you’re benefiting from Joe’s open source work.
Please support Joe and his family, as he deals with serious health issues.
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Donate to A big ask from a big community, organized by Joe Watkins
A few years ago, we were in a dire situation and we reached out for help. Now, we are in an… Joe Watkins needs your support for A big ask from a big communitygofundme.com
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The Moxie child support robot gets new lease on life through open source
It's a Christmas miracle! The Moxie, that support robot thing for kids we talked about two weeks ago, seems to be getting a new lease on life. The start-up that makes the Moxie has announced it's going to not only release a version of the server software for self-hosting, but will also publ
Alright, back up and running with Fedora 41 KDE, I have all my stuff reinstalled, and all my data restored. It all took much longer than expected, all because I couldn't find my faster backup drive.
It seems that some of my setup scripts needed tweaking since the dnf config-manager command needed changes after the upgrade to dnf5. Not sure why they didn't keep those commands backward compatible, but whatever.
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2GuysTek put out a great video on the Proxmox Datacenter Manager
Proxmox just got a vCenter Alternative?! - Proxmox Datacenter Manager!
#Proxmox Server Solutions announced Proxmox Datacenter Manager last week, to everyone's surprise. #PDM is taking a stab at creating a centralized management ...YouTube
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Picked up a few TP-Link Tapo smart plugs today from Best Buy. Spent the last hour setting them up and configuring automations.
This is fun.
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This week I briefly thought about changing my personal blog to WordPress, setup a test site and played with it for a couple days, remembered how much I hate the Gutenberg/FSE experience, read more about the recent WordPress drama Matt loves to create, deleted the test site, updated the theme on my Ghost-powered blog, and updated my /Uses page.
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Computers * Office PC: Dell OptiPlex 5090 running Fedora KDE Plasma Spin 41 * Office Laptop: Dell Latitude 5470 running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon.Steven Brady (StevenBrady.com)
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Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs
I've spent way too much time troubleshooting multiple Nextcloud LDAP issues this week. The first was me moving the user. This was easy to figure out, as I had moved my Bookstack user a couple weeks back and realized it was the same issue. Second was the sadly short password that the LDAP users and groups backend supports. Apparently I knew this in the past but forgot to save the short password for this service account. I was trying to use an unfortunately long one. My ADAudit+ reports tomorrow are going to be an absolute shitshow.
While I was working I updated to 30.0.4. Fortunately Nextcloud updates are the easy part.
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Tell Congress To Pass the PRESS Act Now
The Protect Reporters from Exploitive State Spying (PRESS) Act is a long overdue federal shield law that provides protections to journalists against government surveillance and forced disclosure of confidential sources.act.eff.org
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any country doing this should be declared a dictatorial regime ' de facto '. We have enough candidates today!
#Journalism it is the best example of why end-to-end #encryption matters.
Thank you for your post.
The lookup app on the site locates a rep not correct for my address.
Peace
#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!
✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
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As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/release…
Release v0.9.0 · GeopJr/Tuba
Added Audio Visualizer (#1099) Focus Picker (#1101) Scheduled Posts (#1209) Draft Posts (#1213) Bold search query in results (#1085) Mute expiration and notification hiding switch (#1106) Verified...GitHub
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@megalodon REDEMPTION ARC!!
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Baby Shark - Tuba Euphonium Quartet
THEY DID IT!!! We even added a little extra! The Plano ISD Band Camp: Beginner Tuba & Euphonium Ensemble. #BabyShark Arranged by De’Marcus Walker.⬇️ ALBUM & ...YouTube
Support my attempts to find out if you can do NFC tap-to-pay without big tech
I've been dropping a lot of hints about my journey to rid myself of Google's Android on my Pixel 8 Pro lately, a quest which grew in scope until it covered everything from moving to GrapheneOS to dropping Gmail, from moving to open source "stock" Android application replacements to r
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and others
i'm totally pro-choice, and this is serious issue.
could you point some bad advices? maybe in this case links are NOT necessary.
i have some disagreements with the ddf guide, or more like additions. in short: avoid normie smartphones.
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#AOC Flips the Religious Freedom Argument on Its Head | NowThis
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AOC Flips the Religious Freedom Argument on Its Head | NowThis
‘The only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination. I’m tired of it’ — AOC just flipped the entire ‘religious freedom’ ...YouTube
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#FBI Warns #iPhone And #Android Users—Stop Sending Texts
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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts
US officials urge citizens to use encrypted messaging and calls wherever they can—here’s what you need to know.Zak Doffman (Forbes)
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Now that the FBI is saying it, i am more skeptical of these "encrypted" messengers. This is the same govt that has been trying to kill encrypted services for a few years and we all know they dont care about security
I am really wondering who is worse to have my data, China or NSA?
Everyone is posting their wrapped so thought I would post mine
And before you ask, yes my computer does seem to be infected with a virus, how did you know?
#Meme #Limewire #Wrapped #SpotifyWrapped #Torrenting #Pirating
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Black Friday Deal: Drupal 100% Off!
This Black Friday, we’re going all out: Drupal is 100% yours for $0. Just download and enjoy. Offer never ends.
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