Alright folks, I'm trying something new, so I'm making a new #introduction.

Hiya! I'm Drew.

I've recently set up a second #fedi account using a #holos relay through my domain name, so I'm trying out the #fediverse from my phone. Cool! My regular mastodon handle is @abmurrow@hachyderm.io for those curious.

I'm a #webdev in #Drupal, #PHP, and I do a bit of work in #FOSS. I am originally from the Appalachias in the southeast US, but these days I'm living in #Aotearoa #NZ. I am learning clawhammer #banjo and am seeking out weird, old, crooked tunes the play on it because I really enjoy the sound.

I work with #Linux, #nix, and #nixos, though I'm starting to take a serious look at the #BSD world. I'm strongly anti #AI and #LLM and do my best to avoid unethical software and hardware. This opinion will not be changed through persuasion or "spirited debate" ;)

I believe in the power of FLOSS and the OSS community, but more than that, I believe that tools have opinions that usually get left there by people with opinions, and using those tools tends to frame your thinking and behavior even when you don't expect it. So tool choice is, in effect, and ethical choice and one that will change you. What does that mean? It means I'm constantly in friction with my daily choices and am seeking out alternatives all the time that better fit with my values, which is why I'm here!

Holos offers a nice way to self host my data without self hosting a bespoke fedi instance, so I'm taking a look around before I commit.

Glad to be here!

Which #fedi instances have a hard-line stance against #genAI to the point where they are exceptionally careful about the state of the OS the instance is running on?

An old sketch of mine that I thought #fedi would enjoy:

A graph showing that I have, in fact, an awesome wealth of fucks. However, none of those fucks will be given to you. I am happy, for I have many fucks. You are sad, for I give you no fucks while having many.

#FucksToGive #NoFucksForYou #WealthOfFucks #FucksGiven #Fucks #meme #funny

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A graph showing that I have, in fact, an awesome wealth of fucks. However, none of those fucks will be given to you. I am happy, for I have many fucks. You are sad, for I give you no fucks while having many.

I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports #GoToSocial! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on #Linux, #Proxmox, #BSD / #FreeBSD, #IPv6 and many other things!

More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #fediverse #activitypub #activitypubrelay #relay #social #snac #snac2 #mastodon #gts #gotosocial #littlefedi #pleroma #misskey #services #devops #starling #tech

Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.

What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster

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snac2 sending push notifications to a user via MastoBlaster App on iPhone

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

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Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

the last weeks we saw more and more security issues coming up. Let's talk!

Sorry, a pretty long blog post about this...

https://gyptazy.com/blog/coding-after-ai-are-humans-still-good-enough/

#ai #aicoding #coding #opensource #foss #security #infosec #vulns #developer #devops #engineer #ops #fedi #philosophy

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Let's talk about AI slops - like this image!