Years ago I got one of the first Alexa devices and I was really looking forward to install it. When it arrived and I powered it on for the first time, its LEDs blinking, I felt a panic creeping up in me. It was the moment I understood that centralised collection of such amounts of private data is unacceptable and will ultimately break democracy and free societies. That was the moment I decided to go decentralised. That Alexa device is still here, visible but unconnected. To remind me every day.

Continuing my exploration of using garage S3 storage in my homelab [1], I managed to do a lot of things today. I can now use the certbot dns01 challenge on my own step-ca based Certificate Authority to generate wildcard certificates for my homelab and reconfigured nginx to reverse proxy web pages, straight from S3 buckets as https://<BucketName>.web.homelab.jhw. Yay! This will be explained in Part 3. [1]

Jan Wildeboer

S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 1: Basic Install

Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my own S3 storage in my homelab. You have been warned. This is Par...

#Garage #S3 #SelfHost #SysAdminLife @Run your own homelab

Sparkasse Göttingen muss Konten der Roten Hilfe bis zur Entscheidung im Hauptsacheverfahren weiterführen. Eilantrag erfolgreich. "In seiner mündlichen Begründung stellte das Gericht klar, dass politische Entscheidungen oder Listungen eines „x-beliebigen Drittstaates“ keine ausreichende Grundlage für die Kündigung eines Kontos durch ein deutsches Kreditinstitut darstellen."

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Gericht verpflichtet Sparkasse Göttingen zur Fortführung des Kontos der Roten Hilfe

Die Rote Hilfe e. V. hat im Eilverfahren vor dem Landgericht Göttingen einen wichtigen Erfolg gegen das sogenannte Debanking erzielt.

Liebe Grüße an die @npub137pw...u446 :) #RoteHilfe #Debanking

New blog post: Garage part 2: adding nginx as reverse proxy to my private S3 Storage

Jan Wildeboer

S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 2: Reverse Proxy

Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my own S3 storage in my homelab. You have been warned. This is par...

Replies to this post will show up as comments under the blog post. #SelfHost #SysAdminLife #S3 #garage @Run your own homelab

LOL. I went through all the hassle of setting up #immich only to find out it can't even rotate uploaded pictures using the web UI, as far as I can see?

Did you know that science has progressed to the point that you can get your blood checked for antibodies against COVID19 and if those antibodies are coming from vaccination or infection? I do this check once a year. And the results are in. Still vaccination only. My regimen of #WearAMask and avoiding risky situations seems to work. Next year I'll order the test again. In Germany it costs around €50-75, depending on the lab. Ask your doctor to get it done. That's how I did it.

Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO. But there is a similar rule for EU member states, that will be automatically triggered without NATO but demands the same commitments as given to NATO for EU members that are also NATO members. Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)

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Article 42(7) TEU - The EU&#039;s mutual assistance clause

Article 42(7) TEU is the European Union’s mutual assistance clause. Once activated by an attacked Member State, all other Member States have to p...

I really hope that [@Mer__edith](

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) comes to #FOSDEM and announces that #Signal will move at least parts of their server infrastructure to Europe and other regions, using hosting companies that are not connected to the US in order to mitigate the risk of a Trump order to shut their AWS account(s) down.

I tip my hat to #Bose for giving owners of soon-to-be End of Life/support speakers the garantuee that the devices will continue to function and giving them the information needed to collectively build new tools to do even more with them. Thank you, Bose!

SoundTouch Cloud Service Ending | What It Means for You | Bose

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