The end of an era. I've had this machine at DigitalOcean for fifteen years (and before that, my blog was hosted out of a residential ADSL line), which is why I've been putting off migrating to Mythic Beasts for so long.

The General Situation has made it untenable to retain a server in the US, though, and migration wasn't as scary as I expected. I only have three major services running, so it was a few hours' work.

Side benefit: as Mythic Beasts don't have a reputation for their servers being used for spam, I no longer need to relay my outgoing mail through Google, which was (probably?) my last main link to their services.

If you've been thinking about moving something away from a US service, now's as good a time as any.

#selfhosted #degoogle

Esta semana he estado refinando las posiciones GPS de las fotos 360 que hice el finde pasado, y las he subido a la instancia de Panoramax que he instalado en mi homelab. No encontré ninguna instancia que cubriera España, así que me lancé a instalar una y ha sido muy sencillo.

Mi idea es abrirla próximamente para que más gente pueda aportar sus fotos y poco a poco vayamos construyendo una alternativa a Google Street View.

#Panoramax #SelfHosting #Homelab #degoogle #FreeSoftware

After 90 days we *may* not see Session on our app stores again :(

Indeed from outside STF seem like a pretty strong foundation with a plan lied out and everything, but the reality says a different story.. Session is on life support

@session is asking for a community investment of 1million dollars, which i would say is alot considering the short period of time they have left, but not alot considering the size of operations that they have

> the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April 9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026.

> If the fundraising is successful, the foundation would be able to continue active development of Session, including launching Session Pro and Session Protocol v2.

> If it is unsuccessful, the lack of funding would mean the foundation is not able to support Session in any capacity and will need to be shut down. As a result, Session would be removed from the app stores, and critical infrastructure like the Session file server, push notification server and seed nodes will go offline.

Session plans to donate the rest of the money to the @eff in case this fundraising campaign turns out to be unsuccessful

> We also want to assure you that if the STF is unable to secure funding sufficient enough to meet its goals within the next 90 days, any donations that cannot be used in accordance with the STF's constitution will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

https://getsession.org/donate

#surveillance #privacy #foss #messenger #cybersecurity #Anonymous #ageverification #degoogle #fdroid

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116380720555090709

FRANCE!! Lets goo #degoogle #linux yall really be out here

Alle so: Weg von MS, Meta, Alphabet

ConsorsBank so: eh übrigens, ab Ende April funktioniert euer OnlineBanking¹ nur noch, wenn ihr die Banking-App aus dem GooglePlayStore² installiert, die bisherige google-freie TAN-App wird abgeschaltet.

WERO unterstützt man immer noch nicht, anvisiert ist angeblich 12/26

¹ Ja, auch das am PC.
² Ich habe ganz bewusst GrapheneOS ohne Google

Ich suche weiterhin eine Bank, die mich nicht zwingt, Google zu verwenden, WERO unterstützt und am Besten ethisch unterwegs ist. Zuletzt wurde ich allerdings ohne Angabe von Gründen von 3 Banken abgelehnt. Da hatte ich erstmal aufgegeben, sowas wirkt sich ja auch auf den SCHUFA-Score aus.

#did #google #banking #consorsbank #degoogle

Thought I'd summarise all of my mini-achievements in trying to de-Google over the last few years, and what I'm trying to do in 2026.

https://chrisistrying.com/my-de-googling-update-april-2026

#deGoogle #technology #SelfHosting