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My best effort of the eclipse this evening using my degoogled smart phone (IodeOS) and a pair of solar eclipse glasses. The clouds hit at just the wrong time!
#SolarEclipse #Astrophotography #IodeOS #DeGoogled
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Following today's adventures, I feel I should address the elephant in the room.
I’ve picked up a 7-day ban from the Lemmy Linux community because a moderator decided my content is "LLM generated slop." Which is honestly hilarious, especially since the post was pulling 154 upvotes and 83 active comments in 24 hours before they pulled the plug.
Let’s be clear: I’ve never hidden my workflow. I’m a
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It's comments like this that make it feel what I am doing is worthwhile.
My audience may be small (for now), but it's people like this that make me want continue what I am doing.
Thanks for reading @shellington and thanks to everyone that has joined me on my journey so far.
#SelfHosting #FOSS #Linux #Privacy #Fediverse
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 10latest
7
Avg engagement / post
3–7
Typical post (engagement)
8.2%
Engagement vs followers
59/100
Consistent reach
Apr 2026
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 7 likes + reposts (median 6) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: My best effort of the eclipse this evening using my degoogled sm · 24 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.5×
Follows 34 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
My best effort of the eclipse this evening using my degoogled smart phone (IodeOS) and a pair of solar eclipse glasses. The clouds hit at just the wrong time!
#SolarEclipse #Astrophotography #IodeOS #DeGoogled
Recently discovered Kiosk Satellite, an open-source, Home Assistant-native Android app, and swapped out my desk tablet's dashboard for it.
Dropping closed-source kiosk apps for local-first alternatives feels like a massive win. Setting it…
Saw a discussion on social media this morning about smart home gear and it got me ranting. Mainstream advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs like harmless plug-and-play gadgets, totally glossing over the fact that they're hard coded to leak…
Jellyfin 12 is now out and with it comes a change of versioning.
Read how to upgrade to 12 safely here:
https://unknownuniverse.uk/home-lab/jellyfin-12-upgrade-guide/
#SelfHosting #Linux #Jellyfin #HomeLab #Tech #FOSS
Got hit with that viral screenshot claiming every phone in the UK is about to be child-locked unless you hand over a digital ID?
I dug past the panic and the clickbait to look at what's actually happening, why privacy advocates are still …
Coming across a recent video titled "They're Banning Your Home Server" got me thinking about what big tech's push against user-controlled hardware means for anyone running their own gear.
The industry lobby framing private servers as "pir…
Following today's adventures, I feel I should address the elephant in the room.
I’ve picked up a 7-day ban from the Lemmy Linux community because a moderator decided my content is "LLM generated slop." Which is honestly hilarious, especia…
Linux 7.2 has officially landed, dragging x86 timing clean out of the nineties by making the Time Stamp Counter mandatory.
I wrote up a quick piece on why ditching those ancient legacy fallbacks is good housekeeping, plus a few other bits…
Tracking family Navidrome streams without account-hopping 🎵
Navidrome is great for streaming self-hosted FLACs, but checking what my kids are listening to meant constantly logging in and out of different accounts and since playback histor…
The July Steam survey has cleared 4% desktop market share, and big tech is finally waking up. With GOG, Epic, and NVIDIA testing the waters with native and Flatpak tools, the corporate world is starting to notice the space the FOSS communi…
After coming close to running out of resources last week and having to re-purpose another device turning it into a 3rd Proxmox node, got me thinking....
So, I built a basic tool for rough guidance.
It calculates vCPU overcommit ratios an…
It's comments like this that make it feel what I am doing is worthwhile.
My audience may be small (for now), but it's people like this that make me want continue what I am doing.
Thanks for reading @shellington and thanks to everyone th…
Following today's adventures, I feel I should address the elephant in the room.
I’ve picked up a 7-day ban from the Lemmy Linux community because a moderator decided my content is "LLM generated slop." Which is honestly hilarious, especia…
Linux 7.2 has officially landed, dragging x86 timing clean out of the nineties by making the Time Stamp Counter mandatory.
I wrote up a quick piece on why ditching those ancient legacy fallbacks is good housekeeping, plus a few other bits…
Tracking family Navidrome streams without account-hopping 🎵
Navidrome is great for streaming self-hosted FLACs, but checking what my kids are listening to meant constantly logging in and out of different accounts and since playback histor…
The July Steam survey has cleared 4% desktop market share, and big tech is finally waking up. With GOG, Epic, and NVIDIA testing the waters with native and Flatpak tools, the corporate world is starting to notice the space the FOSS communi…
After coming close to running out of resources last week and having to re-purpose another device turning it into a 3rd Proxmox node, got me thinking....
So, I built a basic tool for rough guidance.
It calculates vCPU overcommit ratios an…
It's comments like this that make it feel what I am doing is worthwhile.
My audience may be small (for now), but it's people like this that make me want continue what I am doing.
Thanks for reading @shellington and thanks to everyone th…
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💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2026.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated67/100
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Credibility score
87%
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Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~8.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
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About
Sysadmin documenting the fight for digital sovereignty.
🛠️ Tinkering in a Proxmox home lab.
🐧 Linux and Docker enthusiast.
🛡️ Hardened privacy: No Windows, no Google, just FOSS.
🌐 unknownuniverse.uk
#SelfHosted #Proxmox #Linux #Privacy #FOSS #Docker
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