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| 10 | going down this rabbit hole of being almost independent of the current internet | ||
| 11 | machine. Even though I initially thought that I will have problems adapting, | ||
| 12 | I was pleasantly surprised that the transition went so smoothly. Even better, | ||
| 13 | it brought many benefits to my life. Such as increased focus, less stress | ||
| 14 | about trivial things, etc.<p>It all started with me doing small changes like unsubscribing from emails that I | ||
| 15 | have either subscribed to by accepting terms and conditions. Or even some more | ||
| 16 | malicious emails that I was getting because I was on a shared mailing list. And | ||
| 17 | the later ones I hate the most of all. How the hell do they keep sharing my | ||
| 18 | email and sending me unsolicited emails and get away with it? I have a suspicion | ||
| 19 | that these marketing people share an Excel file between them and keep | ||
| 20 | resubscribing me when they import lists into Mailchimp or similar software.<p>It's fascinating to see how much crap you get subscribed to when you are not | ||
| 21 | paying attention. It got so bad that my primary Gmail address is a full of junk | ||
| 22 | and need constant monitoring and cleaning up. And because I want to have Inbox | ||
| 23 | Zero, this presents an additional problem for me.<p>The stress that email presented for me didn't occur to me for a long time. I was | ||
| 24 | noticing that I was unable to go through one single hour without hysterically | ||
| 25 | refreshing email. And if somebody wrote me something, I needed to see it right | ||
| 26 | then, even though I didn't immediately reply to it. I can only describe this | ||
| 27 | with FOMO (fear of missing out). I have no other explanation than that. It was | ||
| 28 | crippling, and I was constantly context switching, which I will address further | ||
| 29 | down this post in more details.<p>This was one of the reasons why I spawned up my personal email server, and I am | ||
| 30 | using it now as my primary and person email. I still have Gmail as my “junk” | ||
| 31 | email that I use for throw away stuff. I log in to Gmail once a week and check | ||
| 32 | if there are any important emails that I got, but apart from that, it's sitting | ||
| 33 | dormant and collecting dust.<p>The more I was watching the world loose it's self with allowing anti freedom | ||
| 34 | things to happen to it, the more I started to realize that something has to | ||
| 35 | change. I don't have the power to change the world. And I also don't have a | ||
| 36 | grandiose opinion of myself to even think to try it. But what I can do is to not | ||
| 37 | subscribe to this consumer way of thinking. I will not be complicit in this. My | ||
| 38 | moral and ethical stances won't allow it. So, this brings us to the second part | ||
| 39 | of my journey.<p>I was using all these 3rd party services because I was either lazy or OK with | ||
| 40 | the drawbacks of them. I watched these services and companies became more and | ||
| 41 | privacy policies and everybody is OK with accepting them, and they pray on that | ||
| 42 | more evil. It is evil if you sell your user's data in this manner. Nobody reads | ||
| 43 | flaw in human nature. I really hate the hypocrisy they manage to muster. These | ||
| 44 | companies prey on our laziness, and we are at fault here. Nobody else. And I | ||
| 45 | truly understand the reasons why we rather accept and move on, and not object | ||
| 46 | and have our lives a little more difficult. They have perfected this through | ||
| 47 | years of small changes that make us a little more dependent on them. You could | ||
| 48 | not convince a person to give away all his rights and data in one day. This was | ||
| 49 | gradual and slow. And it caught us all in surprise. When I really stopped and | ||
| 50 | thought about it, I felt repulsed. By really stopping and thinking about it, I | ||
| 51 | really mean stopping and thinking about it. Thoroughly and in depth.<p>Each step I took depleted my character a bit more. Like I was trading myself bit | ||
| 52 | by bit without understanding what it all meant. What it meant to be a full | ||
| 53 | person, not divided by all this bought attention they want from me. They don't | ||
| 54 | just get your data, but they also take your attention away from you. They | ||
| 55 | scatter your and go with the divide and conquer tactic from there. And a person | ||
| 56 | divided is a person not fully there. Not at the moment. Not alive fully.<p>I was unable to form long thoughts. Well, I thought I was. But now that I see | ||
| 57 | what being a full person is again, I can see that I was not at my 100% back | ||
| 58 | then.<p>A revolt was inevitable. There was no other way of continuing my story without | ||
| 59 | it. Without taking back my attention, my thoughts, my time, and my privacy, | ||
| 60 | regardless of how too late it maybe is.<p>This has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. Even less with changing the | ||
| 61 | world. All I wanted was to get my life back in order and not waste the energy | ||
| 62 | that could be spent in other, better places.<p>I started reading more. I can focus now fully on things I work on. Furthermore, | ||
| 63 | I have the mental acuity that I never had before. My mind feels sharp. I don't | ||
| 64 | get angry so much. I can cherish the finer things in life now without the need | ||
| 65 | to interpret them intellectually. Not only that, but I have a feeling of | ||
| 66 | belonging again. Sense of purpose has returned with a vengeance. And I can now | ||
| 67 | help people without depleting myself.<p>The last step so far was to finish closing all the remaining online accounts | ||
| 68 | that I still had. And when I was thinking what value they bring me, I wasn't | ||
| 69 | surprised that the answer was none. I wasn't logging in them and using them. I | ||
| 70 | stopped being afraid of FOMO. If somebody wants to get in contact me, they will | ||
| 71 | find a way. I am one search away.<p>We are not beholden to anybody. Our lives are our own. So dare yourself to | ||
| 72 | delete Facebook, LinkedIn. To unsubscribe. Dare yourself to take your time and | ||
| 73 | attention back. Use that time and energy to go for a walk without thinking about | ||
| 74 | work. Read a book instead of reading comment on social media that you will | ||
| 75 | forget in an hour. Enrich your life instead of wasting it. It only requires a | ||
| 76 | small step. And you will feel the benefits immediately. Lose the weight of the | ||
| 77 | world that is crushing you without your consent.</div></article></main><section><hr><h2>Posts from blogs I follow around the net</h2><ul><li><a href=https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSv4ServerLockClients target=_blank rel=noopener>Finding which NFSv4 client owns a lock on a Linux NFS(v4) server</a> — <a href=https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/>Chris's Wiki :: blog</a><div>A while back I wrote an entry about finding which NFS client owns | ||
| 78 | a lock on a Linux NFS server, which turned | ||
| 79 | out to be specific to NFS v3 (which I really should have seen coming, | ||
| 80 | since it involved NLM and lockd). Finding the NFS v4 client that | ||
| 81 | owns a lock is, depending on your perspective, either simpl…<li><a href=http://www.landley.net/notes-2023.html#28-10-2023 target=_blank rel=noopener>October 28, 2023</a> — <a href=http://www.landley.net/notes-2023.html>Rob Landley's Blog Thing for 2023</a><div>Oh good grief, two of my least favorite licensing people, Larry Rosen | ||
| 82 | and Bradley Kuhn, are interacting on the OSI's license-discuss | ||
| 83 | list where the're doing | ||
| 84 | bad computer history and insisting that a guy Larry Rosen | ||
| 85 | coincidentally interviewed for a book years ago is clearly the origin of | ||
| 86 | somethin…<li><a href="http://offbeatpursuit.com:80/blog/?id=25" target=_blank rel=noopener>A fix by any other name</a> — <a href=http://offbeatpursuit.com:80/blog/>WLOG - blog</a><div>tags: | ||
| 87 | i2c, plan9 | ||
| 88 | Another month, another file system. | ||
| 89 | Well, if you can’t fix it in software, fix it in hardware (looking at | ||
| 90 | you, bme680, we’re not | ||
| 91 | done yet). The show must go on, as they say, and I would like my | ||
| 92 | experiments to go on. | ||
| 93 | So a “new” addition to the environmental sensor family connected to | ||
| 94 | the h…<li><a href=https://mirzapandzo.com/next-image-url-parameter-is-valid-but-upstream-response-is-invalid target=_blank rel=noopener>Next/Image "url" parameter is valid but upstream response is invalid</a> — <a href=https://mirzapandzo.com/>Mirza Pandzo's Blog</a><div>Getting "url" parameter is valid but upstream response is invalid error with Next/Image on WSL2<li><a href=https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/13/Going-off-script.html target=_blank rel=noopener>Going off-script</a> — <a href=https://drewdevault.com>Drew DeVault's blog</a><div>There is a phenomenon in society which I find quite bizarre. Upon our entry to | ||
| 95 | this mortal coil, we are endowed with self-awareness, agency, and free will. | ||
| 96 | Each of the 8 billion members of this human race represents a unique person, a | ||
| 97 | unique worldview, and a unique agency. Yet, many of us have the sam…<li><a href=https://szymonkaliski.com/writing/2023-10-02-building-a-diy-pen-plotter/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Building a DIY Pen Plotter</a> — <a href=http://github.com/dylang/node-rss>Szymon Kaliski</a><div>This article documents my learnings from designing and building a DIY Pen Plotter during the summer of 2023. | ||
| 98 | My ultimate goal is to build my…<li><a href=https://neil.computer/notes/chart-of-accounts-for-startups-and-saas-companies/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Chart of Accounts for Startups and SaaS Companies</a> — <a href=https://neil.computer/>Neil Panchal</a><div>Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of accounting principles and essential bookkeeping. I had to learn it. There was no choice. For filing taxes, your CPA is going to ask you for an Income Statement (also known as P/L statement). If<li><a href=https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/deploy-a-nomad-cluster-on-alpine-linux-with-vultr/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Deploy a Nomad Cluster on Alpine Linux with Vultr</a> — <a href=https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/>Valerian Saliou</a><div>After spending countless hours trying to understand how to deploy my apps on Kubernetes for the first time to host Mirage, an AI API service that I run, I ended up making myself a promise that the next app I work on would be using a more productive & simpler<li><a href=https://jcs.org/2023/10/25/wifi_da target=_blank rel=noopener>BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.0 Released</a> — <a href=https://jcs.org/>joshua stein</a><div>BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory | ||
| 99 | 1.0 has been released: | ||
| 100 | wifi_da-1.0.sit | ||
| 101 | (StuffIt 3 archive) | ||
| 102 | SHA256: ccfc9d27dd5da7412d10cef73b81119a1fec3848e4d1d88ff652a07ffdc6a69aSHA1: ff124972f202ceda6d7fa4788110a67ccda6a13a | ||
| 103 | This is the initial public release of my BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for | ||
| 104 | classic MacOS.<li><a href=https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2023-10-25-my-all-flash-zfs-network-storage-build/ target=_blank rel=noopener>My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build</a> — <a href=https://michael.stapelberg.ch/>Michael Stapelbergs Website</a><div>For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. | ||
| 105 | In this article, I describe my goals, which hardware I picked for my new build (and why) and how I set it up. | ||
| 106 | Design Goals | ||
| 107 | I use my netw…</ul><p>Generated with <a href=https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring target=_blank rel=noopener>openring</a>.</section><footer><hr><p><big><strong>Want to comment or have something to add?</strong></big><p>You can write me an email | ||
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