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JayVii
jayvii@social.jayvii.de

he/him | #Statistics #DataScience #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Privacy #Vegan 🌱

Websites	https://jayvii.de
Introduction	https://social.jayvii.de/introduction
Mail	jayvii+social [AT] posteo [DOT] de
Languages	DE / EN

JayVii posted Nov 18, 2022

Who would have thought that encrypting your /boot would be such a mess with GRUB's detrimental decryption performance on every boot or waking up from hibernate...

Should have stuck with unencrypted /boot... #linux

JayVii posted Nov 17, 2022

I have a hard time finding spots in my schedule to read #books, but lots of time to listen to podcasts etc while commuting via public transport.

Thought that might also be a good occasion for #audiobooks, but would highly prefer #DRM free ones over, let's say audible. Any recommendations on where to buy (or "rent") those?

I am thinking bandcamp, but for audiobooks.

JayVii posted Nov 17, 2022

I'm quite happy with my current setup of self hosted services on my VPS, including the fediverse server #ktistec, the RSS aggregator #selfoss and a bunch of tiny self written services & scripts (+ Websites).

All of which are as simple and low footprint as possible to make them easily maintainable. E.g. websites are completely static content, created with #hugo.

Feels like small islands that are isolated from outside factors, yet let me interact with others out there. That's probably how the internet must have felt like pre Web 2.0, when many people still had their own blogs, rather than using centralized, monopolistic platforms.

I am thinking about co-hosting more complex software together with others (and sharing costs...) like invidious. So if you are interested, send me an e-mail (contact + PGP avail. on my website)

JayVii posted Nov 6, 2022

Some observations about my #ktistec (1.0.0) trial:

The setup was super easy and blazingly quick. Barely any load on my server hardware
The UI is very smooth, simple and fast
Rich message-composer, which however feels like it is constantly fighting me (on mobile)
Posts can be edited any time!
Visibility of posts cannot be set. Everything is "global"
Media upload works fine. "Captions" are not the same as "alttext" in Mastodon.
Searching for tags would be a nice feature
No option for filtering my timeline, except for following and blocking accounts
Posts of accounts appear from the moment onwards you interacted with them for the first time
Above two observations make threads really awkward, because there is missing context
The "metrics" feature is really, really nice!
Obviously no limitation on post length(?)
No API that I am aware of. makes cross posting, archiving, etc somewhat hard to achieve(?)
The web-frontend embeds content from jquery, cloudflare and another random domain, which I feel like shouldn't be necessary (see screenshot)

All in all, there are many rough edges, but nothing that appears like it couldn't be overcome. Feels quicker nice, actually and I hope I have the skill set to actually contribute to this in the future!

Image caption: a screenshot of the ublock origin overview on a smartphone. It shows the domains ktistec on social.jayvii.de connects to. There is cloudflare, hwcdn.net and jquery

JayVii posted Nov 5, 2022

Testing captions...

A screenshot of social.jayvii.de in a mobile browser with dark mode. If you can read this, then image captions work!

JayVii posted Nov 5, 2022

Currently trying #ktistec, a very simplistic single-user selfhosted #fediverse server. Not 100% certain it'll stick around, but if you care to follow, there you go.