jwildeboer

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by jwildeboer 23d ago
I'm actually Dutch ;) And I have been following this and other EU legislation like DMA, CRA etc in similar ways. And also chatcontrol. As an EU citizen I take my time to keep up to date on laws and regulations that may affect me or my
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by jwildeboer 23d ago
FTR. The whole PPWR process started back in 2015, there was a public consultation period in 2020-21, the new rules were entered into force in February 2025 and now the general application happened. So there was plenty of time to prepare, as
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by jwildeboer 3mo ago
FTR. The reports I have seen have always made it clear that Mullvad has two owners/founders/CEOs. And while the donations may be private, they obviously come from money earned as part of being one of the founder/owner/CE
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by jwildeboer 7mo ago
TL;DR Monthly prices for VPSes up around 30% on average, for dedicated servers 14% on average, based on the stated old and new prices in EUR. Location/type, Average increase: Germany Dedi 14,1 % Finland Dedi 14,8 % USA VPS 30,9
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by jwildeboer 11mo ago
If you go to their release page, you will see two versions listed. The current stable release (13.0) and the explicitlly marked LTS version (11), both with clearly visible end of support dates. Not sure how much simpler it can get :)
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
No AI, EU based, so respects the GDPR for all users, regardless of where they live, you can send PRs to make it better, is 100% Free Software, has its own Actions system that is also 100% Free Software, the logo is nice, you can become a m
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
I guess not, but I didn't take the time to go through teh key generation for my homelab.jhw domain just yet.
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
No. Both MacOS and iOS happily resolve and connect to the machines in my homelab.jhw domain. I did add the root cert of my CA (Certificate Authority) to the trust store on MacOS and iOS, so I can also enjoy TLS connections. Scroll to the &q
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
Author here. I used the homelab.jhw mainly as part of my tests and experiments with my own certificate authority and to avoid going into split horizon DNS setup.
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
Sure. Constructing the case to shoot yourself in the foot is not a big problem. But in reality things mostly just work. I’m happily running a bunch of services behind a (nginx) reverse proxy as rootless containers. Forgejo, the forgejo runn
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
My name is Jan and I am not an AI thingy. Just FTR. :)
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by jwildeboer 1y ago
(I’m a red hatter) anyone can get the Red Hat Developer subscription for free and get full access to the knowledge base.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
FYI: Just last Friday there was a call/meeting to coordinate and build out the federation efforts in Forgejo. More work is coming and more help is appreciated! There will be a presentation at FOSDEM on this topic and there is a matrix
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
After my struggles with trying to keep Gitlab CE (Community Edition) up and running (it needs a lot of CPU and memory) I switched to Forgejo and have not been disappointed. It runs as a rootless container and uses almost nothing, memory and
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
(Not to be confused with LoRa, (short for long range) which is a spread spectrum modulation technique derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology, powering technologies like LoRaWAN and Meshtastic)
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
How many people are the “we” this blog post talks about? 5 people? 500?
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
The legendary Gazelle Toer Populair. Produced since like forever, the classic Dutch bicycle. Guess who is also happy with his Gazelle since many years? Yep, this Dutchie living in Munich, Germany.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
"As an experiment, I decided to migrate two hosts (each with about 10 VMs) of a client — where I had full control—without telling them, over a weekend." And that's where I draw the line. Abusing the trust of your customers is
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
It’s a final ruling. Not a current (over-)ruling as you paint it. This is a decision from the European Court of Justice. No appeal possible. The 13B€ are already in an escrow account and will now be released.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
Correct title would be „Why we picked dual licensing with AGPL and a commercial license“, IMHO. You can only contribute when you accept the CLA at [1] which gives them the right to license your contributions under said commercial license. [
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Apple iCloud Private Relay is down for some since yesterday(apple.com)
3 points by jwildeboer 2y ago|0 comments
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
Yep. That's exactly what I am looking for. Use USB-PD to charge small electric vehicles in a standardised way ;) See https://jan.wildeboer.net/2024/06/Charging-SEVs-A-Modest-Pro... where I describe the concep
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
I am waiting for an updated version that does PD 3.1, so it can go to 48V/5A.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
From 2014, so I guess posted as anniversary reminder?
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
(no, that’s the BIC (Bank Identifier Code AKA SWIFT). IBAN is the International Bank Account Number.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
For donations they also offer liberapay so you can use stripe and PayPal. For membership fees you can also use direct bank transfer.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
Yes. I am a paying member and thus I get the member newsletter where finances are disclosed and discussed. It’s a low-cost operation and we have enough reserves in the bank.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
From the linked post: “PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 22, 2023” So quite old news, IMHO? Shouldn’t that be mentioned in the subject?
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
Big AI is just the same old boys club that governed IT since the 1980s, it seems.
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by jwildeboer 2y ago
I consider ATProto, the protocol BlueSky uses, to be a proprietary thing as it is owned and maintained by BlueSky. ActivityPub is an Open Standard.

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