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I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I care about social inclusion & privacy. This is my personal Fediverse server, powered by ktistec. I modified its appearance with my own adjustments.

I typically remove shared posts after ca. 3–6 months. I do keep most of my own posts (for now).

I post about a variety of topics, both in German and English, such as:

#Debian / #Linux
#FOSS / #OpenSource
#vegan #Food
#ktistec
#webdev, particularly #CSS and #PHP
sometimes posts & shares about German and EU politics (#DEpol, #EUpol)

I also developed a few tiny & simple self-hostable tools to ease my life (and that of others), such as:

You can find out more about myself on my website or in my introduction post.

JayVii shared a note by GrapheneOS May 10, 2026

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

JayVii posted May 6, 2026

Every single time, when I follow a direct link to github. Or at the very least on my first click on anything there... What a scam of a platform.

Screenshot of a github error page: too many requests. Please wait for a few minutes and try again or log into your github account.

#github #scam #enshittification

JayVii shared a note by Matthew Green May 6, 2026

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

JayVii shared a note by Gabriele Svelto May 5, 2026

The fact that Google decided to dump a 4 GiB language model file on every Chrome installation is yet another sign of how the generative AI craze is unsustainable. Don't look at it from the side of users, look at it from Google side. Having every user download a 4 GiB monster which will need to be routinely updated is a significant cost. It takes a ton of bandwidth to do that, far more than Chrome updates consume. And yet they're doing it because they're desperate to externalize the cost of "AI".

JayVii shared a note by tofuwabohu May 3, 2026

Looking for voice message transcription recommendation

I don't like voice messages for several reasons and I'd like to transcribe them. How do you do it?

- Needs to run local on Android or selfhosted on my own server (no cloud service)
- The flow from the Signal app should be as easy as possible
- Basically only needs to work in German

#Signal #Android

JayVii shared a note by Anjiolina Nakaya May 1, 2026

Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.

Scientists are famous oversharers.

JayVii posted Apr 30, 2026

snarky remark about signal phishing attacks

This would have never happend with #Element/#Matrix, because

could not decrypt message

#Signal #SignalApp

JayVii posted Apr 28, 2026

What isn't discussed enough within the whole Signal Phishing attack debacle in Germany, is that users have been primed for years to accept fishy (in-) security processes by online services, apps, payment providers and banks.

I (and probably you too) get (legit) messages and mails from banks you wouldn't believe... It is no wonder, that people interact with phishing-DMs via their messenger, when this is what other services call their official authentication procedures for a decade or so.

#Signal #SignalApp #Phishing #Hacking #Securityupdate

JayVii posted Mar 29, 2026

Well, TIL that you can pipe tar directly into ssh. Need to play around with that a little. Maybe it overcomes the requirement to have enough space for a giant tar file on the host?

From Drew Devault's blog post on tar as rsync alternative

JayVii posted Mar 28, 2026

In an attempt to use my smartphone a lot less, I am currently trying Newsboat's Podcast integration and a slim script I hacked together this morning. It automatically fetches podcast episodes, downloads and pushes them to the MP3-Player I bought a few months ago for taking to the gym.

It is of course a little bit more clunky than simply using Antennapod on my smartphone, but honestly, it is a quite smooth and pleasant experience nonetheless. Let's see how this goes for a few weeks.

#newsboat #podboat #rss #podcast