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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • No problem! I’ve used it for years, though my home assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4 is now doing the pi-hole thing with adguard instead as the original one was having issues. Though you get weird DNS quirks when the machine running DNS also relies on the internet.

    Plus that time I did a dumb thing in home assistant to see what would happen, and it brought the internet down.

    So I am keen to get another Pi. I highly recommend keeping it on a dedicated device you never touch except for updates!




  • Vote privacy can be tricky in an environment where every vote gets sent to thousands of instances and needs to be verified as legit via the ActivityPub protocol.

    Piefed does a good job of this I think. If vote privacy is enabled, they create a second account that is used only for votes. Other instances see the votes and can validate them against the vote account but it’s not tied to the actual user (except in their home server database).

    A benefit of this is that the vote account for the user is always the same, so you can still track vote manipulation, and ban the vote account if needed.




  • In NZ English… “Cheese”. Though we do have a term “tasty” for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don’t think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you’re likely to see “mild” or “tasty” not “cheddar”.

    In Māori, “tīhi”. It’s a transliteration of “cheese” into a language that has neither a “ch” nor a “s” sound.


  • One of my favourites that I haven’t seen mentioned is the Todo.txt extension.

    It adds a todo list in the tray synced to a couple of files (that I store in Nextcloud). I add things I need to do to the list, and I also play with the settings so it colours by priority and sorts by priority.

    I also use the ntodotxt app on my phone to sync items. The app is fine but I really like the gnome extension, very handy.