Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

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2026-09-06 20:18:26 GMT

I use a 3-2-1 #backup strategy for my home server:
3 prayers, twice a day, once for each drive I don't want to fail.
#HomeServer #SelfHost #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #backups #NAS

2026-07-26 11:22:22 GMT

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Ah yes, LinkedIn needs to access my canvas. I wonder why...
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2026-07-26 11:20:08 GMT

#LinkedIn's tracking is wild.
Signing up for an account in a private Firefox window with adblock and privacy badger: It already shows my family as people I might know.
Signing up for an account in Mullvad browser with VPN active: It doesn't know.
Signing up in Mullvad browser without VPN: It also doesn't know.
So basically it has fingerprinted my Firefox browser so well that it knows it's me before I'm signed in.
Awful, terrible, scary, corrupt website. They don't even try to hide it.

2026-01-29 17:37:30 GMT

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Very interesting! Also, the bit at the end about the banana is such a good idea.

2026-01-18 13:42:50 GMT

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I'm so glad that it's not just me who's annoyed by this trend. I've also seen it in toots on Mastodon. I hate it. No clue what their reason for not using uppercase letters is, but I can't imagine any good reasons myself.

2025-12-17 23:11:06 GMT

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These drawings of the aviance intelligence lately have been perfect :blobcatgiggle:

2025-10-21 19:46:23 GMT

This is **SO** useful! Can't believe this is a thing in #GNOME search!
And before anyone asks: Yes I do know how many bytes are in a kibibyte. This was just an example.
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2025-05-29 08:40:13 GMT

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First time I noticed our chickens doing this, I thought they were about to die.

2025-05-26 18:31:10 GMT

Having a home server is so much fun. Can't scan because the scanning software doesn't run on #Linux? No problem, just set up the scanner to upload over SFTP to your server and serve the files using #Caddy!
I love this!
#SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeServer
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2025-03-20 22:34:53 GMT

The thing about blogs: If it looks modern with a short URL and has tons of cookie popups and self-promo, stay away. If it looks like a plain HTML page with some basic CSS, found at a long URL at the bottom of your search result, it's probably trustworthy and written by a passionate self-hosting human being.
Basically, the more it looks like https://motherfuckingwebsite.com, the higher the quality of the material you're about to read.
#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Blog #ModernInternet

2024-11-17 16:15:16 GMT

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I owned OnePlus earbuds for about a year and they were completely dead. They would not even hold a charge for a few seconds anymore. I'm not surprised that the small batteries in earbuds die in such a short time. If I hadn't received mine for free, I would never purchase a pair with my own money, as you will probably have to throw them away in 1 or 2 years.

2024-11-05 10:30:45 GMT

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Yes, but I'm a GNOME fanboy. I love the smooth animations, the fact that there is a program to alter settings, the ecosystem of programs, the fact that stuff "just works"...
I've tried sway/i3/leftwm/niri/dwm/... in the past, and while I like the productivity aspect, I just don't enjoy the worse integration and out-of-the-box experience.

2024-11-05 10:16:22 GMT

Gotta use the system monitor to kill the system monitor now...
For some reason after the latest #ArchLinux updates, #GNOME programs have been crashing *constantly*. If I open anything (GNOME Files, System Monitor, Loupe, Celluloid...), there's about a 1/5 chance that it crashes after an indeterminate amount of time.
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2024-10-23 19:25:55 GMT

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2024-10-23 19:11:51 GMT

Sometimes I think about the entire LLM situation, where people are happily having "pseudo-conversations" with... a GPU in a server rack somewhere. It's so absurd. Like, just picture this visually. People are chatting with a GPU as if it were a human being. That's so sad and lonely.
I think that's one of the aspects of LLMs that I hate the most. This is just dystopian. Reminds me a bit of something like Blade Runner or Inception where people just want to be fooled.

2024-10-19 19:40:44 GMT

I give up...
It's completely broken :blobcatonfire:
#Matrix #UnifiedPush #ntfy #ElementX #ElementXAndroid #fdroid
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2024-10-15 16:23:14 GMT

I'm so looking forward to the day when #Google disables ad-blockers as I'll get many complaints from family about why their websites are riddled with ads now and I'll be able to give them the biggest "told you so, shouldn't have been using #Chrome" when I once again move them over to #Firefox.
At least that's how I hope it'll go...

2024-08-17 13:15:37 GMT

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"FLOSS" as in: All of these are Open Source, most of them FLOSS. I don't really care wether FUTO uses a non-FLOSS license. The keyboard is very good. I prefer real FLOSS of course, but I make exceptions when it makes sense.

2024-08-17 12:27:31 GMT

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Only possible thanks to the following amazing #FLOSS #Android apps:
- Bitwarden + Authenticator
- Binary Eye (QR code scanner)
- Catima (Loyalty cards)
- Clima (Weather)
- DAVx5 (CalDAV/CardDAV)
- ElementX (Matrix client)
- Etar (Calendar)
- Fossify apps (Phone, SMS, file manager, gallery)
- Firefox
- FUTO keyboard
- K-9 mail
- F-Droid (App store)
- Organic Maps
- Signal

2024-08-17 12:23:45 GMT

#Android battery life started to absolutely suck. Couldn't solve it using "normal" means. Got so tired of the battery drain with the screen off that I now went with the nuclear option.
1. Factory reset phone
2. Remove/disable *all* #Google spyware (all apps)
3. Disable *all* #OnePlus bloat/spyware
4. Disable *all* system apps I don't recognize/understand the use of
5. Install only #FLOSS apps (except for Play Store, Play Services, Camera and Spotify)