A eulogy for (Nintendo’s) Mii, written for Sevgi’s Resurrecting Networks workshop at the Internet Archive Europe. Mii were born on 19 November 2006. Even though they still theoretically exist, we declared them dead as Nintendo discontinued StreetPass, on 8th April 2024. This eulogy is made of two parts, one written...

Epigraph This ephemeral collection of epiphanies was directly inspired by the week I spent in Loro Piceno for Sapere, Fare, Diventare, in the context of La Scuola Open Source’s XYZ. The pictures that follow come from there. Indirectly, these ideas are sparked by my broader ongoing reflections for Unbordering, XPUB’s...

La più magica, speciale, indimenticabile, brillante osteria della Val di Fiastra. Luogo speciale di togetherness, ÈnOsteria è fieramente, impavidamente, gioiosamente governata da Anna nell’impervio Appennino Marchigiano. Apre alle ore 18:00, ma non chiude mai, in quando entrarvi significa tuffarsi in un’ebbra...

I was always curious but very confused by IPv6. As a successful attempt to procrastinate a mountain of other “more important” things, I watched a few videos to understand it better, both in terms of its usage and its functioning, but also the politics of it. Wow, it is a much bigger deal than it seems to be from the...

It is quite fun and anecdotal that in different occasions and in the most unexpected ways people reach out to me and ask for my help to make a website, at times offering to hire me to do it. Here is a #wip reference of fundamental information required to make a general evaluation of the amount of work needed and,...

Do intelligent people hold a position of power over less intelligent ones? What is the role of intelligence in class? How does intelligence relate to capitalism? Is praising intelligence ableism?

If every life is a movie, people meeting each other is a crossover!

Since I started going to therapy (and probably even before then, but not consciously), I have been using a very effective metaphor to describe the recurrent, uncontrollable, and sudden change in perspective in my life. Sometimes, briefly yet not too rarely, I see my life as a movie of which I am the main character....

Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker. I chose it because Justus suggested me to look into it while I was interviewing him for the DWeb blog, and other friends encouraged me to try it in multiple occasions. By learning more about it, I found its advantages and its architecture to be very interesting, while...

Gathering notes on metrics and monitoring for Linux (servers). Current data Following advice gathered from this post on the YunoHost forum, I found btop++ to be the best tool for observing the metrics of a system at present time. It is a simple solution to see at a glance how loaded the system is while it’s running....

Sadly, I failed convert the Docker compose files provided by Immich into Quadlets using Podlet. Nevertheless, I found this repository that documents in detail the whole process. Convert uploads to JPEG XL #TODO)) Using immich-upload-optimizer?

This is a rough reverse-chronological record of the changes in (or “evolution of”) my approach to hosting and system administration, both for myself and communally. YunoHost Nextcloud bare installation A huge shout-out to my friend Claudio, who helped me understand and perform the most tricky passages. deGooglization