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Hosting a Valheim Plus server on a VPS with Podman and docker-compose
One of the best parts of being a self-hoster is being able to host a game server for your friends, right? Well, yes but also it can go sideways and not only because you’re a system admin for more than yourself. There are many ways but Podman, docker-compose, and Syncthing can help! ...
Enshittification protests beget more enshittification
Like many others, I am frustrated by corporations that have ingested immense amounts of user generated content and are using/selling it to train LLMs1. However, deleting the content now is counter productive, let’s protest more effectively by building a better web. ...
Joy is free and comes in small packages
Two little neighborhood kids MADE my day! I’m rolling in my small Subaru hatchback and these kids run to the edge of their yard and give me the trucker/train conductor honk fist pump hand signal! I tapped out a festive sequence of mini honks and everyone was happy. Joy is free and comes in small packages! I shared this on Mastodon but wanted to remember it, it was awesome!
When open source goes source available
Redis went from an open source license to a source available license. This is not a new pattern of trying to protect share-holder value against large cloud providers extracting value they didn’t create. Corporate finance discussion aside (since that’s a really sad can of worms), it’s interesting to see what the FOSS community did about it. ...