Tom Purl @tompurl@mastodon.technology

Setting up Matrix homeserver and its media files storage on Tardigrade https://blog.progressiv.dev/suguru/setting-up-matrix-homeserver-and-its-media-files-storage-on-tardigrade

Toot, toot, I'm a 47 years old male geek (IT, boardgames and books), and found this space via Lobste.rs #introductions

Encrypted and decentralized cloud storage — Tardigrade https://blog.progressiv.dev/suguru/encrypted-and-decentralized-cloud-storage-tardigrade

Today is the last day to grab a 25% discount on our 5-year Pro plan! This deal lasts until 11:59pm Eastern.

https://write.as/deals/its-our-birthday-month

Fancy an accelerometer-equipped skirt?

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/21/beautiful-and-bouncy-rgb-led-skirt-reacts-to-movement/

Running an OnionShare anonymous dropbox on a Raspberry Pi by Micah Lee

https://micahflee.com/2021/02/onionshare-anonymous-dropbox-raspberry-pi/

”TikTok is introducing Americans to a question that Europeans have struggled with for 20 years: a lot of your citizens might use an Internet platform created somewhere that doesn’t know or care about your laws or cultural attitudes and won’t turn up to a committee hearing.”

#privacy #TikTok #tech

It's 2 weeks since I joined Mastodon and I still like it. I guess, now is the time to introduce myself to you!

I'm a guy from Europe, beginning 40's, was always fascinated of computers. I started off with my C64 and soon coded my own little text based game in BASIC.

Using Linux as main OS for years but I'm far from being an expert.

Studying forensic engineering while having a full-time job (computer stuff too) and working with archaeologists in my (always short) spare time 👋 🙂

Many articles about the Australia-Facebook dispute noted that a large number of people rely on Facebook as their primary news and information portal. Because I think that relying on a big tech entity that treats users as products for advertisers as a primary news source is unwise - I suggest RSS as an alternative in my post.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/around-the-web-rss-as-a-facebook-alternative/

#facebook #bigtech #rss #australia #newsfeed #news #newleafjournal #mastodon #pixelfed #atom #fediverse #decentralization #kde #akregator

So, a new day and a new social media experience. Looking forward to trying out Mastodon.

I love Linux though am far from an expert, even after about 4-5 years as my main daily desktop. But I like learning.

My main interests are in the area of tools for writing (Emacs/org-mode, pandoc, LaTeX) and music-making (LMMS and Ardour mostly).

I've also been trying to re-activate my long-dormant programming skills via Python. But, you know, work and stuff gets in way.

Anyway, pleased to be here!

me coding: "hahaha! yess! this is awesome!!!"

me debugging: "oh. oh no. what is this, oh no."

*sadly goes to reset the counter to 0 on the "days since I saw someone shit on the existence of light themes" sign*

I think on average I see this like once a week.

I cannot see dark themes at all. And it's a hell of a thing to see this hostility not just to a software option but to my own existence and qualities as a person who uses this option. Like I've seen people say you have to be a psychopath to use light theme, which is an awesome way to double up on the ableism!