Michael

I really like watching compiler output scroll by. Selfhosting and my homelab are my biggest current hobbies. I'm also a big fan of the EU (the idea, not necessarily all parts of the current implementation ;-) ), but don't fear: Political posts will be a very occasional thing.

#fedi22 #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

Blog: https://blog.mei-home.net
Bookwyrm: https://bookwyrm.mei-home.net/user/mmeier

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2026-05-24 16:22:11 UTC

Spontaneous Homelab project: Looking into YaCy as a Google search replacement. IT's a P2P distributed search engine, which I find a really nice concept. So let's see what it can do.
@npub1w2v…zxys: Does anyone have experience with YaCy? Pros/Cons? Interesting articles?
#HomeLab #YaCy

2026-04-23 09:17:12 UTC

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Yes. People who couldn't be arsed to write a single word of documentation for their human colleagues suddenly don't have any issue at all with writing miles and miles of instructions for their AI colleagues.
Same for people who previously couldn't find time to mentor a student or new junior colleague because "it's too much work to describe the task in enough detail". For their LLM? No problem at all. 🤷
That's the one that really gets under my skin.

2026-02-03 21:37:37 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116007580009927087
Note especially the last paragraph. These are people living through a genocide. Barely. A genocide supported in one way or another by many of the countries we're living in.
Have some empathy. As Aral says, if you're getting spam-tagged, report them to Aral or other members of the Gaza Verified team first, or just hit the block button.
Have some compassion. They're getting starved to death.
#Gaza
#note1rgq…c64q

2026-01-30 17:09:37 UTC

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It's not exactly the same as Framework, notably they're not putting any emphasis on repairability, but there is @npub1sfg…fqh4.

2026-01-29 22:55:30 UTC

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/volla-tablet-volla-os/
I got myself a new, de-googled Android tablet from a German company.
Advise: Do not buy, on account of a touchscreen so bad it's slowly driving me up the wall.
#Blog #Volla #Android #Tablet

2025-08-28 19:06:48 UTC

Does anyone know whether there's an easy way to verify the link to my bookwyrm profile on my Mastodon profile, preferably one that doesn't involve patching the bookwyrm sources?
#HomeLab #Mastodon #Bookwyrm #AskFedi

2025-05-19 19:18:32 UTC

Does anyone know whether it normally takes more than 10 minutes for Codeberg to send out the confirmation mail after registering? I've seen they've got issues with HW right now?
#Codeberg

2025-05-18 20:15:28 UTC

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Yupp, I've deployed Frogejo into a new Namespace, with Gitea still running. And now I'm transferring everything, project by project, with Forgejo's import functionality. And it's painful.

2025-05-18 09:53:52 UTC

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I actually read that the other way around? As far as I know, neither currently has federation support, but what federation development there is is going on in the Forgejo codebase?

2025-05-18 07:40:33 UTC

Now that Thanos is done and my metrics ingest rate is reasonable again, the next project is migrating from Gitea to Forgejo.
I had wanted to do that as part of the k8s migration already. But I had really bad timing. On the Friday of the weekend I wanted to start, I had my regular services update. And I upgraded Gitea past the point where Forgejo was a simple drop-in replacement. 🤦
#HomeLab

2024-11-30 14:31:35 UTC

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Yupp, and the autocrats won, and handily. When people start rending their clothes and having special talk shows about why Europe is so utterly ignored internationally in a decade or so, we can just end the debate by sending them a copy of whatever peace treaty comes out of it.

2024-11-26 23:14:04 UTC

Fresh blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/mastodon-media-cache-cleanup-issue/
In this one, I try to fix the failing media cache cleanup for my Mastodon server - with only a very small amount of success in the end. On the positive side: I got to look at some C++ code, recreationally!
#HomeLab #Blog #Ceph #MastoAdmin

2024-11-05 09:02:21 UTC

It finally happened - google showed me one of my old blog posts as one of the first results for a search - and it did contain the solution to the problem I'm having. 😂
https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/ceph-rook-crush-rules/
#HomeLab #Blog

2024-10-29 19:32:02 UTC

A question for my followers from the United States: I've seen a couple of posts now where people are talking about their canvassing, and how they've now got apps which tell them who's a registered Rep/Dem and who's already voted, so they can skip that door.
I somewhat understand the Rep/Dem thing. But is data about who voted actually public in the US? That just seems like something that really doesn't need to be public info.
#USpol

2024-10-17 16:19:00 UTC

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Show-off, with that bright green HEALTH_OK from the Ceph cluster. 😁

2024-10-13 17:51:47 UTC

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Hm, or am I being stupid? We're talking about Linux after all, so perhaps Fedora is going to be able to keep the old home dir? It's all on an LVM volume anyway. So let's see what happens?

2024-10-13 17:31:55 UTC

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I will go with Workstation with the Cinnamon spin. I thought about Silverblue, but for now I just want a working System on my Laptop.
I don't have any experience with the Atomic distros and decided to skip them until I have had a chance to test them a bit in a VM.

2024-10-13 17:07:08 UTC

Someone needs to stop me. I'm about to switch my laptop from Manjaro to Fedora in a moving train where it's entirely uncertain when it will actually arrive and whether I will continue to have Internet connectivity. 😬
I've already mounted my old encrypted home dir inside the live image to back it up.
#Fedora #trains

2024-08-22 09:35:55 UTC

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And there's an interesting quote in that section:
> Especially for novice Fediverse users, these [server diplomacy] dynamics can be confusing or even invisible
This is a good point, but I think it's not just true for novice users. I've been on the Fediverse since August 2022. But I've only got a very superficial view on the overall diplomatic situation. If I decided to move away from my self-hosted instance, I would not have any idea where to move. And I've been here for a while now.
2/x

2024-08-22 09:31:52 UTC

I'm currently reading through the new report on Fediverse governance, and it's interesting for me to read about what the larger servers are doing.
I'm currently in the "General Observations" part: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/#section-one:-overall-observations
In there, the authors call what I've been calling "admin feuds" "diplomacy" instead, and I like that framing, because it fits surprisingly well - you don't have any instruments to directly influence other servers, but you have some indirect methods.
1/x
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