Mastodawn

One pretty cool thing about this is that because I have my whole network on Tailscale (including my phone) and am running a Pihole DNS server for that Tailnet I can internally use my local IP address for my Mastodon server, so when I use Mastodon myself everything stays inside the home.

#mastoadmin #tailscale #SelfHosting

Using Pi-hole as a DNS Server for my Tailnet - blog.thms.uk

Use Pi-hole as a DNS server across your entire Tailnet with Tailscale, without forcing all traffic through an exit node. Ad blocking and internal DNS everywhere.

blog.thms.uk

John Sturgeon 6d ago

William Lindsey

Mar 17

"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."

~ Martin Gelin

#Trump #Republicans #democracy #dictatorship #authoritarianism
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The Guardian

John Sturgeon Mar 18

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116243060815019587

We live in a time now where literally 4 out of 7 members of my family would say he's wrong based on "their own research".

We're so colossally doomed.
#climatechange

John Sturgeon Mar 14

MichD Mar 12

I'd appreciate if people automating posting random state info about their house to Mastodon [tangentially: why? who benefits?] either wouldn't do it with the #homeassistant hashtag, or at least would include another common, easily mutable hashtag so I don't have to keep muting accounts while following the HA hashtag because I'm interested in, well, people talking about Home Assistant. 🙃

John Sturgeon Mar 13

Alexey Pegov Mar 12

Ok, it seems like it’s not that easy to find some shortening for Aujourd’hui. I have decided to stick to Auj. though not that sure about it. #language #french #ui

John Sturgeon Mar 13

"AI IS COMING TO TAKE OUR JOBS!! ZOMG!!!" #claude

John Sturgeon Mar 4

Steve Herman Mar 3

(AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry’s vulnerability to conflict. https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-bahrain-71066b0a822c4cfd88b61e3fe79af917?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Strikes on Amazon data centers highlights vulnerability to physical risks

Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict. AWS said late Monday that drones directly hit two data centers in the United Arab Emirates and another site in Bahrain suffered damage after a drone landed nearby. AWS later said recovery work in the UAE was making progress. An expert said that Amazon typically configures its services so that the loss of a single data center would be relatively unimportant to its operations. He said the attacks are a reminder that cloud computing isn’t “magical” and still requires physical facilities that are vulnerable to disaster scenarios.

AP News

John Sturgeon Mar 3

Brent Simmons Mar 2

Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

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John Sturgeon Feb 28

@robb

One small fix to the script that I think makes it a way nicer experience:

https://gist.github.com/johnsturgeon/4b859596359cc39ee895387419b9b4ca

This will change the volume_increment to a ‘small step’ volume increment by adding the shift+option modifiers. The bonus is that you can ‘see’ the volume HUD and it seems to work exactly right (for me at least).