Hi. 👋

I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I am an environmentalist and 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:

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

#FediHelp does anyone know of a #FOSS android app or other type of service to check for unread mails in my inbox that honors a given time schedule (I.e. not on weekends, etc). Currently I am using #K9 / #Thunderbird for #Android, which unfortunately does not have that feature.

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I am actually really happy about how my mobile-tweaks for #ktistec turned out. There was a lot of #CSS hacking involved, but I am pretty happy with the results :)

Here's a little video of how it looks:

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Im Briefkasten war ein Schmutzblatt der "Gesellschaft für Staats- und Völkerrecht e.V." (in Altdeutscher Schrift stilisiert...) welches die Legitimation des Grundgesetz in Frage stellt.

Mir hingegen stellt sich die Frage, wieso eine Reichsbürger- & Aluhut-Butze ein eingetragener Verein in Deutschland sein darf und Missinformation und Rechtsextreme Propaganda in #Trier verteilen darf 🤨

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Well, this was long overdue. A while ago already, I implemented "active menu entry marking" (the active menu item is highlighted) in my tweaks and scripts around #stagit via #javascript. This was the only JS in stagit-scripts.

Obviously, because it's all static files, this was not really necessary. So finally the active-entry marking is pre-processed now upon re-generating the #HTML files with fairly simple regex: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/stagit-scripts/commit/3a0908d57956db2c0ba114b6b9ea523aced694c0.html

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Pretty unhappy with my #VPS host. I think I might migrate at least a few services to some other provider. A bunch of the services I've written for my own use cases could technically also be uploaded to some standard webhost. That might be cheaper (and I do not need to care about server maintenance). Just thinking loud here...

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Oh yes, #WorldOfGoo2 has been released today and it's available DRM-free for Win/Mac/#Linux: https://worldofgoo2.com/

Tomorrow, it's time for some nostalgia #WorldOfGoo #Gaming

JayVii

A frozen 0.33 or 0.5L PET water bottle wrapped into some cloth is the most effective and cheapest trick I learned to get well through >25°C nights in my rooftop flat.

If you struggle with the heat, try it out! In my experience this is about as good as a ceiling fan, a lot better than table fans and a lot cheaper!

JayVii

My #ktistec tweaks repository (https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/index.html) now also includes adjustments for small screens (for example, if you use ktistec on your smart-phone), such as pagination buttons that are easier to hit with your thumbs or an iconified navigation bar at the top, so it actually fits the screen. It's using the very nice feather icons!

Image description: Screenshot of the settings-page of my ktistec-instance viewed from a smartphone. The top navigation bar has icons rather than labels, such that it fits the small screen.
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I finally transferred almost all my webtools to SimpleCSS, for example the #goaccess dashboard for privacy preserving web traffic measurements:

https://src.jayvii.de/pub/goaccess_dashboard/ (see it in action here: traffic.jayvii.de

Or other tools such as a barebones youtube-feed yt2html, twitch-feed tw2html, youtube-to-podcatcher service yt2rss, ...

I really like the idea of simple and classless #CSS. It helped me improve the visuals of my #PHP services quite a lot!

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After a few performance improvements, I did some loading time tests for #serci, between my home network (wifi) and a random VPN where the service is running.

echo "html,redirect" | tee timestamps.csv
for i in $(seq 1 1 100); do
    HTML=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://search.jayvii.de)
    REDI=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://search.jayvii.de?q=test)
    echo "$HTML,$REDI" | tee --append timestamps.csv
done


Across 100 runs for loading the site's HTML (generated from pure #PHP) versus a redirect to a chosen service (here the default #MetaGer), I can measure on average 0.28s for loading the frontend (HTML) and 0.13s for processing input and issuing the redirect.

I am quite happy with this relatively low overhead, although performance may decrease a little if more services are added (currently: 47). At some point maybe an #sqlite database may be more efficient than my pre-constructed #json files which are loaded on-demand.