John Sturgeon

@johnsturgeon
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Software Engineer (retired from ) currently working on volunteer programming for open source projects.
GitHubhttps://github.com/johnsturgeon
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I merged a bunch of note data in #Obsidian and sent Claude to inventory the tags so I could clean them up.

Claude called me right the fuck out.

@phillip if you’re a #Proxmox user a PBS server is required. It revolutionized backup for me.

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

"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
@jajaperson wait what???

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

@sterndata Side note, I used the bash script that they provided, for my Debian server and it worked flawlessly.
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. 🙃
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
@peternlewis I was really bummed when I saw the trailers that they gave so much away... the way the book revealed everything was fantastic.