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When it comes to self-hosting (and my own slice of "digital sovereignty"), I'm often drawn to try the #Nextcloud app for the specific need first.

However, quite often, these are not the best of breed for the given task - and it's not balanced by integration benefits between the apps either.

That's actually quite sad, and I think NC is losing a *lot* of potential by not curating and guiding the app ecosystem better.

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@grassymage I think Proton still sucks compared to @monocles or even @Stuxhost if #SelfHosting isn't an option.

Because there are no "logless" Providers and everyone who claims otherwise is either a #scammer or and/or operates a #Honeypot.

  • If you really expect state-spomsored attackers, using @torproject / #Tor is the absolute minimum...

A few weeks ago I was asking around for an invite to #FOSStodon for our #Koalagator calendar FOSS project only to have folks quickly tell me that drama was afoot.

Sounds like things have settled down hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-co AND that the project has recommitted to being an inclusive space for marginalised communuties.

Very glad to hear this! Thanks @fosstodon team for all you've done and continue to do for the FOSS community, @Gina especially.

Now, about getting my project onto fosstodon. @Gina any chance of an invite?

Koalagator is a multi-year code revival project of a 10 year old much loved calendaring platform. We have big ambitions to make local community events easier to discover on the open web, away from big tech control.

github.com/koalagator/koalagat

hub.fosstodon.orgFosstodon Community StatementOfficial statement on cleaning house, owning past mistakes, reaffirming support for marginalized folks and fair treatment for everyone.

Inspired by @coffeentacos recommending kiki to me (thank you!!), what lesser-known static site generators/website toolkits are you all liking these days?

I'm especially interested in simple/minimal generators with blog support, pleasing defaults, and user-friendly customization, like Quartz, MkDocs + Material for MkDocs, etc. It's pretty common to see Astro or Hugo recommended for just about everything, but I'd really like to learn about some of the interesting smaller projects that are surely out there!

(and for anyone who's curious about kiki: tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki)

itch.iokiki: a tiny homepage construction set by tomo-dashia construction set for building your own homepage, wiki and blog
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@var it’s nice to have a separate dedicated computer for managing the backup. You really need to have all backup disks attached to SATA. USB is not reliable for backup purposes because is likely to lose data when a sudden power outage occurs. So if you have (for example) 4 disks that all attach to SATA, that is a lot of IO happening, which you really don’t want when you are using your computer for other things that may need that IO, especially games or multimedia. You’ll notice the performance hit if it is backups are happening on a computer that you use for other things.

Also, it’s nice that the NAS comes with software that takes care of things like software RAID-1 or #ZFS for you. Some #NAS products will do #RAID1 in hardware for you.