#calmtech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #calmtech, aggregated by home.social.
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Evening at the lighthouse
Servers humming like a tide you trust.
Backups done, lights trimmed, no drama on the horizon.
Decentralisation isn’t noise, it’s cadence.
Slow systems. Clear ownership.
A light that stays on when the weather turns.
#HauntedLighthouse #SelfHosting #Fediverse #CalmTech -
Clear sky.
Fishing fleet riding a calm sea.
The beam turns, steady as ever.
No drama. No storm.
Just quiet infrastructure doing its job.
That’s the thing about lighthouses.
They don’t shout. They operate.#HauntedLighthouse
#LighthouseLore
#SelfHosting
#Fediverse
#NightPhotography
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Sysops note:
Learning happens in the gaps between design and cock-ups.
Root disk filled, Postgres did the right thing and refused to start, backups proved their worth, DB moved onto its own volume, system calmer than before.
Architecture improves fastest when reality gets a vote.
#sysops #selfhosting #postgresql #learningbydoing #calmtech -
Sysops note:
Learning happens in the gaps between design and cock-ups.
Root disk filled, Postgres did the right thing and refused to start, backups proved their worth, DB moved onto its own volume, system calmer than before.
Architecture improves fastest when reality gets a vote.
#sysops #selfhosting #postgresql #learningbydoing #calmtech -
Sysops note:
Learning happens in the gaps between design and cock-ups.
Root disk filled, Postgres did the right thing and refused to start, backups proved their worth, DB moved onto its own volume, system calmer than before.
Architecture improves fastest when reality gets a vote.
#sysops #selfhosting #postgresql #learningbydoing #calmtech -
Sysops note:
Learning happens in the gaps between design and cock-ups.
Root disk filled, Postgres did the right thing and refused to start, backups proved their worth, DB moved onto its own volume, system calmer than before.
Architecture improves fastest when reality gets a vote.
#sysops #selfhosting #postgresql #learningbydoing #calmtech -
Sysops note:
Learning happens in the gaps between design and cock-ups.
Root disk filled, Postgres did the right thing and refused to start, backups proved their worth, DB moved onto its own volume, system calmer than before.
Architecture improves fastest when reality gets a vote.
#sysops #selfhosting #postgresql #learningbydoing #calmtech -
Evening light on stone and salt.
The beacon wakes, the sea keeps breathing, and for a moment the internet behaves itself.
Quiet tech. Steady light.
The Haunted Lighthouse.#Lighthouse #CalmTech #DigitalStewardship #Fediverse #Mastodon #EveningLight #Coastal #SlowInternet #PrivacyFirst #HauntedLighthouse
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🌘 Lighthouse Lore — Night Watch
At 22:00, the Lighthouse does not deploy.
It observes.
Backups have run.
Alerts are quiet.
The graphs look… suspiciously calm.
This is not the hour for “one last tweak”.
This is the hour for ale, dogs, and trusting systems built to run without applause.
Good night, keepers.
If it breaks now, it was already broken.
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#LighthouseLore #NightWatch
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Reden statt Verkünden
Vor Jahren war Social Media ein Versprechen: Es sollte die Menschen rund um die Welt verbinden. Heute? Ein Albtraum aus Notifications, Doomscrolling und Dopamin-Junkfood. Robert Alexander beschreibt es in seinem Blog treffend als Sirenengesang – verführerisch, aber tödlich für unsere Aufmerksamkeit. Seine Lösung? Calm Tech: Tools, die im Hintergrund wirken, statt zu Aufmerksamkeit zu heischen. -
Joy in the journey: Zen Courtyard’s ambient soundscapes + brief prompts help you re-center without tracking or ads. Flow returns. #CalmTech #Mindfulness #PrivacyRespecting
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Teknologian "kaikkea samaa joka laitteessa" -höttöily alauttaa mieleeni Guy Debordin toteamuksen tavaroiden pyrkimyksestä monopoliin:
"Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one.””Jokainen yksittäinen tavara taistelee omasta puolestaan, on kykenemätön tunnustamaan toisia tavaroita ja yrittää asettaa itsensä kaikkialle ikään kuin se olisi yksin.” #AmberCase #GuyDebord #CalmTech
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Amber Case ja toiveet no-nonsense-teknologiasta (yst.pah.max.mu.)
"Sen sijaan, että jääkaapin oven avaamalla sen omistaja voisi tarkastaa kaapin sisällön, koneoppimista soveltamalla jääkaapista yritetään rakentaa älykäs... Eikä ole esimerkiksi mitään järkeä suunnitella pesukonetta, joka yrittää olla hauska ja mukaansatempaava. Silti pesukoneetkin yrittävät olla nykyisin hauskoja ja mukaansatempaavia. -Niiden ei tarvitse olla hauskoja vaan toimivia”
#CalmTech #AmberCase
https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000009649338.html -
As I add another 100 users to this instance several times a day, I see the "why do you want to join" question we require.
It strikes me at how many note this Instance's focus on #calmtechnology as a key part, along with #OpenWeb, #IndieWeb, and #fediverse
In setting this instance up every option, I could set to use #CalmTech principals in place I did. Suspect there might be more. Will think on that.
Wonder who else has thought about that and #Mastodon