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Escape from G**gle Photos – selfhosting
If you’re here, you already know why we’re doing this – they capped the “unlimited for free” offer, they can suspend your account for any reason at any time, and probably worst of all, your photos are their product.…
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Limit your sites to VPN and local clients only
The problem: You have a bunch of sites running behind an nginx proxy, and you want to limit access to some of the more critical ones to your VPN clients only as a second security layer.…
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Easy, Cheap Digital Life Redundancy
This is a belated response to the “I’ve locked myself out of my digital life” post that was circulating earlier this month. Its author describes a hypothetical situation in which a single unexpected disaster (such as a lightning strike) could cause disruptive damage to your digital – and in turn, to your “analogue” – footprint.…
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Openbox scaling for HiDPI displays
I recently switched to a laptop with a 16:10 QHD display (popularized as Retina by a certain shoddy company), and I faced a problem that I had been fearing for a while – scaling on X11/Openbox.…
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Seen, read 2021
Inspired by Soderbergh’s annual list of “seen, read,” and with the help of almost two full months of journaling (sigh), Goodreads and the Netflix’ viewing history (there will be some misplaced but memorable mentions at the end): All caps, bold: MOVIE, All caps: TV SERIES, Italics: Book, Quotation marks: “Video game” Disclaimer: a lot of…
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recent* quick reads
*updated whenever Self-Portrat at 28 HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS Lie still in bed Ego death. How to Communicate When Trust Is Low The evolution of Steve Albini How Plastics Are Poisoning Us TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami Algorithmic Feed Dreams Disappearing Act The Case of the Fake Sherlock The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain’t broken Lore!…