Tag: technology
Note – 2024-12-28 14:55
@[email protected] I love Posty and have successfully created archives using https://posty.1sland.social/. You are quite correct the current export feature in Mastodon is useless for most peopl...
Note – 2024-12-28 10:06
I love RSS feeds and do most of my blog and website catching up using these feeds. Used various pieces of software over the years to co-ordinate and aggregate feeds. Today, just installed FreshRSS on...
Discovering Long Range Radio Communications (LORA)
My experiences with LORA radio communications using the Reticulum Network Stack to build networks
Note – 2024-11-21 16:01
@AdamBishop I'm no self hosting expert and have struggled to set this project up in the past. They have just moved out of Alpha and it's time to fully test to see if this could be a replacement for my...
Note – 2024-11-21 15:44
Playing around with GotoSocial on a VPS. Love the idea of a simple, self hosted, low resource entryway into the ActivityPub Fediverse. https://gotosocial.org/
Note – 2024-11-06 08:01
@AdamBishop we desperately need new browsers to keep the mainstream on their toes. There are a few FOSS browsers around I am keeping tabs on, including Zen, Gnome Web etc. Lots of Firefox forks around...
Note – 2024-10-06 06:10
@mountainmindset very much my story too. I'm trying to get rid of the major players in the Enshittification race from my life. Microsoft gone for some time. Google and FB nearly out. Unfortunately, ou...
Note – 2024-10-02 06:17
@hikingdude absolutely correct Franz. I enjoy Mastodon for similar reasons to you, not to listen to yet more propaganda from one side or another.
Note – 2024-09-25 15:21
Took delivery today of a Jelly Star phone (Unihertz). Only a 3" screen but a real pocket rocket of a phone, costing just €200 & weighing only 116 grams. 48mp camera, 8mb ram & 256gb storage. Sturdy &...
Note – 2024-07-20 03:45
@[email protected] I'm a bit of a Linux geek but as I haven't turned on the news for over a week its all passed me by
Note – 2024-07-04 05:27
@keenan I really enjoyed that blog post which mirrored many of the things that happened to me when I started discovering the wonderful world of Eleventy.
Note – 2024-06-27 07:46
FB blocked my blog post about camping in the mountains, citing that it didn't meet "community standards"! 😱 What? You've got to be joking. A genuine attempt to write real content, not AI, no adverts,...
Note – 2024-06-26 19:17
@hikingdude I use a RSS reader called Feeder. I enter the URL of the website or blog I want to read and that is added to the list. The unread posts appear each day for me to look at
Note – 2024-06-22 12:55
A successful afternoon. This might not seem much, to you tech wizards out there in the Fediverse, but I managed to get my first containers (docker) working on my Synology NAS. I now have a Hiking Trai...
Note – 2024-06-17 07:51
Our trusty sun/solar oven at work early this morning. A dhal curry is gently going to cook for hours during the day. We bought this oven some 15+ years ago and its given excellent service. Anybody wit...
Note – 2024-06-16 12:02
Been messing about trying to convert some very old outdated/unused mobile phones to be used as GPS devices in the hills. Might as well get some value from them, yes? BQ Aquarius 4.5 running Ubuntu Tou...
Note – 2024-06-09 14:15
@DaleTrexel I must admit I struggled to find a suitable host so followed the recommendation and direction of my Mastodon friend Franz, @hikingdude Thanks for the comments and encouragement.
Note – 2024-06-07 06:33
@[email protected] that looks really good. Unfortunately won't do for me as there is no Linux version