Very cool.

Use KeepassXC with Syncthing for maximum autonomy or Bitwarden for maximum ease. Both are FOSS. That’s my recommendation and also seems to be the consensus among those who share your needs.

I can’t comment on Stalwart but if you’re looking for something reliable and easy to install on a VPS I recommend YUNOhost, which is a FOSS server OS that has email out of the box.

Some people have to buy ebooks with DRM to support the author but like to strip it using a Calibre plugin, for various reasons.

I would love to know how you get on with this.

The people who make writefreely are saying that they are working on making image uploads possible for self-hosted instances, not just their own at write.as. Currently if you are self-hosting you can insert an image but it must be hosted elsewhere and inserted via a markdown link.

When we about 10 my friend and I learnt to speak backslang for this very purpose.

Incredibly, it turned out that the teacher had learnt how to speak it too.

I hear that jobs in astronomy don’t pay like they used to.

This looks a lot like Writefreely.

And you would be able to see blog posts in a fediverse feed and subscribe to a blog that way.

You know I think just the freedom of people is enough. People will naturally share and talk about what is important and interesting if they can go where they want and say what they want. They move the information as well as filter it for relevance.

The internet as we know it today is coercive; most of it is designed and run with opaque, narrow and self-interested goals. It has penetrated our thoughts, feelings, behaviour and culture, with very limited accountability or critical evaluation. And even just the sheer bandwidth of it on a user level is paralysing.

The internet interacts with the human appetite for information in the same way as processed foods do with our impulse to eat. We’ve freed ourselves from the limitation of supply but do not moderate our demand.

My own imagining of a better and different internet would be based on people and places rather than screens or other abstractions. We would have plenty of comfortable and non-exclusive public places to meet, excellent train services to get between those places and each others homes (trains are pro-social and have unbeatable efficency) and a system and philosophy of education that is based on critical thinking rather than arbitrary tasks.

Information technology would be peripheral to our relationships and experience and would be used as a tool to serve our own free interests rather than being an end in itself.

But then how will they become famous?

They do all sound stupid.

As it’s a complete statement just say “I’m wondering if the monkey can see my ears.”

Because it is ‘the’ monkey, rather than ‘a’ monkey, it is implied that the monkey has already been referred to.

Obligatory.

And allegedly was the progenitor of the ‘healing’ and ‘content-aware’ tools that Adobe became so famous for, pas moins

Give the encrypted file to one person, the key to another and do not keep either yourself. They exchange them if you die.

RFF was the best thing I’d discovered on the internet for as long as I can remember. I was gutted to hear about it stopping.

Bandwagon is in development, which is/will be a federated music platform which can integrate with internet radio. You can check out the first instance at bandwagon.fm

In the meantime I’ve been really enjoying the music on Mother Earth Radio, particularly their instrumental channel.

It’s interesting to see the hierarchy of embarrassment that conservatives have found themselves stuck in. Average Tory voter < Tory party < Nigel Farage < Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson.

Farage should have stayed quiet about Musk and Robinson. Now everyone knows how vulnerable he feels about being the next Nick Griffin.

The whole of the right is allowing itself to get completely tainted by it’s lowest denominator at the moment.

All I can see in the picture are hobbies.

I have no problems with lemm.ee. Mastodon on the other hand…

I got booted from my first instance for going against prevailing opinion even though I was perfectly polite about it.