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  • The Free Software Foundation deleted its account on X and recommends the Fediverse

    I just saw the post on Mastodon that the FSF Europe deleted their account on X (Twitter) and recommends their Fediverse accounts.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • Social Media Channel
    • Markus Lensing
    5. December 2025
  • The Software Engineering Challenge Behind Effective RAG

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is frequently marketed as a simple solution for grounding AI responses in real-world data. It sounds straightforward & easy: connect a vector database to a language model, pipe in your data, DONE! But maybe it might be just a little harder than that …

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    4. December 2025
  • Mistral 3 Released

    Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key areas … well, let’s see.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • AI Channel
    • seismographix
    • jcrabapple
    3. December 2025
  • Reclaiming my Music Decisions

    Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • #selfhosting
    1. December 2025
  • NextCloud on Hetzner is the OneDrive upgrade I didn’t know I wanted

    For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault feature, though more out of curiosity than necessity. Later, I joined a friend’s family plan, making it even more cost-effective.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • #selfhosting
    • TheTrabi
    • Holger Dyroff
    • Thomas Fricke (he/his)
    • Oliver Andrich
    • Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)
    • ralf tauscher :FreiburgSocial:
    • Fabian Kern :vz24130: :tux:
    • Wolf
    • Jan
    • Shannon Prickett
    • Thomas Fricke (he/his)
    • lichtlos
    • bitstacker
    • Rob
    • Ikkle Gemz Universe+
    • Fabian Kern :vz24130: :tux:
    • Wolf
    • Shannon Prickett
    • Mathias
    • everton137
    29. November 2025
  • Recommended Read: About the Fediverse

    Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • Social Media Channel
    • Chris
    • D1re_W0lf ⁂
    28. November 2025
  • I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive

    If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.

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    27. November 2025
  • Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone

    If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • #selfhosting
    • Eelco
    26. November 2025
  • Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step

    Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?

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    Fediverse reactions
    • #selfhosting
    23. November 2025
  • Recommended read: Frictionless – About Eliminating Development Friction

    I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by removing the friction that slows teams down and using smart metrics.

    I put it on my reading list and I’m curious about it!

    22. November 2025
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