Articles
Long-form posts and essays. (266 total)
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ActivityPub ATproto self-hosting architecture
The fediverse and Bluesky are often discussed as competing visions of decentralized social media. ActivityPub is a W3C standard implemented by Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, and hundreds of other projects. AT Protocol is Bluesky’s foundation — a different...
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indieweb ActivityPub architecture selfhosting
This post is a guided tour through the architecture of the system that powers this site. It’s built on Indiekit , an open-source Node.js IndieWeb server created by Paul Robert Lloyd . I forked it because I wanted to change fundamental aspects of how...
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Fedify indiekit ActivityPub
You can easily fork this repo, customize the tests to your usecase and then run the test suite. git clone git@github.com:rmdes/activitypub-tests.git ActivityPub / Fedify Compliance Report Field Value Target rmendes.net ( @rick ) Date 2026-02-25T10:03...
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Lately, I have been investing a significant part of my free time into extending my Indiekit fork with features I personally needed. What started as a few tweaks progressively evolved into a broader effort to rethink parts of the backend UI and to bui...
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feedland Docker self-hosting RSS opml
FeedLand is an open-source feed reader and sharing platform created by Dave Winer , the pioneer behind RSS itself. It describes itself as “an ecosystem of feeds, news and people” — a place to subscribe to RSS feeds, organize them, discover what other...
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Bouddhisme Tibétain DérivesSectaires
TL;DR : En Occident, le bouddhisme tibétain bénéficie d’une image d’exception morale, perçu comme la “dernière religion pacifique”. Cette idéalisation rend toute critique suspecte et toute parole de victime inconfortable. Pourtant, comme toute tradit...
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indiekit indieweb deploy Eleventy
A complete guide to deploying Indiekit on your own server using Docker Compose. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a fully functional IndieWeb blog with automatic HTTPS, Micropub support, syndication to Mastodon and Bluesky, and a static Eleventy-...
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Podcast audio Abuses TibetanBuddhism
Recently, a survivor of abuse within Tibetan Buddhism was featured on A Little Bit Culty, the podcast hosted by former NXIVM whistleblowers. In this episode, she speaks openly about her experience of abuse at the hands of Lama Tsultrim at Tara Mandal...
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RSS bluesky microsub micropub
Je n’ai jamais vraiment été collectionneur de quoi que ce soit. Peut être de musique pendant un temps, à l’époque du MP3, il y a une vingtaine d’années. En dehors de cela, il n’y a jamais eu quelque chose pour laquelle je me sentais assez passionné p...
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ICE Fascism Trump
ICE, Trump, and the Politics of Exclusion A recent CNN poll asked a deceptively simple question: Should ICE deport people who entered the United States illegally but who now work, pay taxes, and have acquired legal documentation? Presented this way,...
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Defaults
📬 Mail Client: FairEmail, ProtonMail 📮 Mail Server: Cloudron 🗒️ Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: Nextcloud 🌅 Photo Management: Immich 📆 Calendar: Nextcloud 📦 Cloud File Storage: Nextcloud 📖 RSS: FreshRSS, Indiepass 🌐 Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox 🕵🏻 Se...
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indiekit indieweb Cloudron self-hosting
What You’ll Build By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have: A personal website at your own domain The ability to post from any Micropub client (Quill, Indiepass, iA Writer) Automatic syndication to Mastodon and Bluesky Webmentions showing likes, repl...
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Canada Carney
I don’t often or ever share on my blog Political Speeches from anyone but we’re in dark times and there is more darkness ahead so perhaps this lightning of lucidity can help : Here is the full text of that speech. I urge you to read it in its entiret...
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okcinfo
I have been using Claude Code for a few months now, first on small personal code bases that urgently needed refactoring and then professionally on small internal tools then bigger code bases that are actually in production but are legacy code that ha...
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tech audio
After running Funkwhale 1.4.0 for a while, I decided to upgrade to the 2.0.0-rc5 release candidate. This post documents the full upgrade process on a Debian 12 (bookworm) server, including the issues I encountered and how to resolve them. What’s New...
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videos politics indieweb
it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anythin...
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tech politics
“A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that th...
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thoughts politics
Le comble de notre époque : après des décennies de perte de souveraineté économique, financière et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prétendent la « récupérer » en fermant leurs frontières. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas...
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thoughts politics
Aux États-Unis, l’administration Trump a marqué un tournant idéologique majeur. Sous couvert de réformes et de moralité, elle a mené une véritable offensive contre l’autonomie des femmes: remise en cause du droit à l’avortement, pressions sur les fin...
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thoughts politics
The core problem in the 🇺🇸 right now is trust in information, democracy, institutions. Whatever is put forward, whether a “manifesto,” “killer’s note,” or shooting suspect’s story, no matter what the authorities claim, the public has come to believ...
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