#own-your-data — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #own-your-data, aggregated by home.social.
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Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.
I've upgraded #FediMeteo in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.
The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.
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What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb?
As several have shared before me:
* own your domain and publish some content on it
That’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or however you would like to express a sense of belonging.
Of course there are lots of things you can do to be more indieweb, and that’s very much a choose your own adventure journey.
Maybe you’ll decide to post your content first on your personal site rather than on silos, and only post copies (syndicate) to social media walled gardens.
* https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Maybe you like taking an explicitly principled approach, step-by-step.
* https://indieweb.org/principles
Maybe you’ll decide to entirely quit using specific silos, for any reason, whether you created a replacement with your own site, or switched to a community owned and run solution.
* https://indieweb.org/silo-quits
Maybe you’re a developer and decide to implement various open web standards (formats and protocols) so your indieweb site can interact more with other indieweb sites.
* https://indieweb.org/building-blocks
Maybe you want to join a community of like-minded folks creatively expressing themselves on their personal sites, treating each other respectfully, encouraging each other, and collaborating on building better solutions than sites that require agreeing to long and heavily imbalanced terms of service.
* https://indieweb.org/join
All of these are optional.
Make a personal website on a domain you own, put some content there.
Welcome.
Previously: https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people
This is post 18 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
#domain #domainName #ownYourDomain #ownYourIdentity #identity #personalWeb #personalWebsite #smallWeb #ownYourData #ownYourContent #POSSE #indiewebPrinciples #principles #siloQuit #siloQuits #openWeb #openWebStandards #webStandards #community #IndieWebCommunity
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
← https://tantek.com/2026/240/t1/indieweb-your-own-words-actions
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As of today, I believe NetBSD is one of the most important operating systems to consider for your deployments.
With hardware costs rising dramatically, portability and efficiency have become more important than ever. If prices do not come down, we will probably have to adapt and create new kinds of hardware, at lower cost. And NetBSD, by its very nature, will be very easy to port to that hardware.
Does it run on your modern PC? Maybe. Maybe not.
But it runs on your server. On your VPS. On your SBC. On your old computer, which may still have a lot to give, especially if you want to keep ownership of your own data.
And I know something about old hardware still having a lot to give:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/No jails or containerisation? smolBSD has already shown that a reduced NetBSD kernel can be so small that it can be started in milliseconds, while also adding the security benefits of virtualisation. A different concept, certainly. But one that already exists and can already be used.
Linux itself has opened up to AI. That is a choice I will not comment on.
But from now on, for those who do not want LLM-generated code in their operating system, there are essentially two options: fork Linux (!!!), or choose something different.
And NetBSD is that something different.
Already in 2024:
“...code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”
#NetBSD #RunBSD #smolBSD #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #ModernTech
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Ghost v6.61.0 just dropped. The standout feature is email-able gift subscriptions with Portal gift sub links, making it simpler to share access.
This release also updates the Source theme to v1.7.2 and Casper to v5.12.2, plus improves resilience for disconnected clients.
Available soon on PikaPods. 🎁
Release: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.61.0
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Thou shalt possess naught
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Installing Void Linux on ZFS with Hibernation Support
Updated, and now supporting minimal, KDE Plasma, Gnome and XFCE
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/
#Linux #Desktop #OwnYourData #Void #VoidLinux #KDE #Plasma #Gnome #XFCE #Xorg #Wayland #GNULinux
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117143645809189838
illumos is great for those platforms
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Months ago (or a year ago, by now), I bought a few Intel N150 mini PCs for dirt cheap, between 120 and 150 Euro each (depending on the RAM).
Two of them sat untouched on my desk for months, almost making me regret buying them.
Today, I'm glad I did: considering how high hardware prices are getting, having a little backup supply doesn't hurt.
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Company wikis often turn into a maze of lost documents. BookStack fixes this by organizing everything into a simple hierarchy of books, chapters, and pages. 📚
Instead of spending hours searching for that one onboarding doc, your team gets a clean WYSIWYG editor and paragraph-level linking. Run it on PikaPods starting at $2.10/mo.
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CW: Poor man's disaster recovery adventure
This is a nice story for a Monday, not because it was particularly difficult, but because sometimes having to come up with solutions for clients with absolutely zero IT budget is surprisingly satisfying.
The story goes back a couple of years and involves four free™ data storage providers, security/age, archivers/par2cmdline-turbo, and figuring out how to distribute the PAR2 files so that (rather prophetically) any two sites would be enough to recover the data.
That setup allowed us to download some pretty important old documentation today.There are a few side quests I’m leaving out that would make for entertaining subplots, such as finding the encryption key, or how one of the providers changed its TOS and deleted the account without warning, while another wouldn't let us reset the account credentials.
But, you know, that's a story for another day.
Remember, #OwnYourData #SelfHost
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Activepieces 0.88.0 is here. This open-source automation platform just got a massive upgrade for agent steps. Agents can now search knowledge bases, use external MCP server tools, and call other flows as tools. 🚀
You also get a new MSSQL integration and a GitHub workflow dispatch trigger.
Available soon on PikaPods.
Release: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/releases/tag/0.88.0
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There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one #GoToSocial and one #snac.
Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.
This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.
Thanks, @grunfink !
#snac2 #snac #ThankYouTuesday #Efficiency #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData
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Komga 1.26.0 is out! The open-source comic and manga server features the first beta of NextUI, a completely rebuilt web interface. They also added native RAR5 archive support and a new v2 referential API. 🚀
The update will be available on PikaPods soon.
Release: https://github.com/gotson/komga/releases/tag/1.26.0
Run it: https://pikapods.com/pods?run=komga