Mike 

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Internet freedom fighter / privacy advocate

CEO: https://newnet.software
Contact: [email protected]

Exploring the fediverse one day at a time
#technology #linux #privacy #freedom
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Mike Feb 22, 2024
Bluesky is finally allowing federation. Anyone gonna try hosting their own server?
https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web
Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky

We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.

Bluesky
Mike Feb 15, 2024
Currently exporting all my user data from my Google account of 10 years. Let's see how much they know about me...
Mike Feb 15, 2024
Block anybody who posts The Hacker News.

This fraudulent website boasts that they will engage in deceptive (and possibly illegal) advertising tactics for anybody willing to pay them $2500. Their articles cannot be trusted.

https://www.hakpop.com/blog/thehackernews-profits-from-deceptive-advertising
TheHackerNews.com Profits from Deceptive Advertising — hakpop

This week, a colleague shared an article by The Hacker News titled “ The SEC Won't Let CISOs Be: Understanding New SaaS Cybersecurity Rules .” Authorship is attributed to The Hacker News, but I became suspicious after reading the content. The article mentions a company called AppOmni several times a

hakpop
Mike Feb 13, 2024
Thinking about buying a Mini-PC for a home server. Just for running Radarr/Sonarr/etc, syncing files with Syncthing, and hosting a Plex Media server. Anybody have any suggestions? Ideally don't wanna spend more than $200-$300 bucks
Mike Feb 13, 2024
Made the full switch away from Windows about a month ago. So far there hasn't been anything I could do on Windows that I can't do on Linux Mint. Never going back to that bloated spyware machine

Next is transitioning away from social media and making this fediverse instance my main platform.
Mike Feb 11, 2024
Sad to see Skiff shutting down already. Really great privacy email service and suite of Google replacements for Drive, Calendar, etc. I knew the custom domains for the free tier seemed too good to be true. I just started using them about a month ago, but in the end it's always about money. Looks like it's back to Proton I go...

If you're a Skiff user you have 6 months to migrate your data.

Read more here: https://skiff.com/data-migration
Skiff – Migrating your data

skiff.com
Mike Feb 11, 2024
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