I thing to find good backpack but it is hard. After 2 days of scrolling trough e-shops in my country I didn't find any that I willing to pay for. After exchanging few messages on Mastodon with Evan and James I'm finally decided (almost) that I go for Subtle & Co backpack. James recommended me something else but it is hard to buy it here and I will need pay import fees so I need to find alternatives.

Online life

I still trying to figure out new house for my blog. Trying to decide whether to go with Static website (e.g. Hugo that I used mostly) or something “more dynamic”. Currently this one is based on Writefreely, I still considering installing Ghost.

I get another domain (I have pretty nice collection now 😊). Most of them there are just because I had good vision of what to do with them, so now they just laying around. Maybe i Have problem 🤷‍♀️.

I added some automation to my workflow. As for example reposting RSS feeds to the mastodon. I used for that solution Echo Classic made by Robb Knight. He also have very good hosted service called EchoFeed. If you don't want to selfhost it by yourself and want more connectors go and check it for sure. He has also some discount on it. I decided to selfhost because some services I want repost from are available only locally or via VPN.

Homelab

I finally managed to move my N8N instance to my homelab and save some money for runnging VPS. Currently it running as LXC container with 1GB ram and 1CPU. It is pretty fast while eating arround 700MB ram.

There is also new Stalwart release with reworked web UI. I tried to upgrade mine but I failed. I hosted previous version for month or two, but just from couriosity, so it does not matter. And i save also some money.

Links

Here are some links i found as interesting reading (already was reposted to my mastodon).

• Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations [TechCurnch(https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/hackers-are-abusing-unpatched-windows-security-flaws-to-hack-into-organizations/)]
• How to Be a Wizard: AI-Assisted Coding and the Art of Leverage AdamFortuna
• A solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline Low tech Magazine – this is really cool idea!

I recently finished watching the film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi), and it left a profound mark on me. It wasn't just because of the themes of bullying or hearing impairment, as vital as those are. It was about something much more universal: the journey of learning how to forgive yourself and starting to love yourself again.

It made me realize that the best stories aren't the ones with a neat, “closed” ending where everyone gets married and lives happily ever after. The best stories are the ones that teach us how to think and how to look beneath the surface of a person.

🧊 From “Villain” to Tragic Hero

Take the Ice King from Adventure Time. For the longest time, he's presented as an annoying, one-dimensional antagonist. But once you discover he is actually Simon — a kind man who sacrificed his sanity to save others — you can't help but love him. You feel a deep sense of pity for him. He is simply a human being trapped within his own tragedy.

🤫 The Art of Looking Inside

It's a similar story with anime like Oregairu. If you only look at the characters superficially, they might not interest you at all. But once you walk through the whole story and see their internal struggles, their fear of being genuine, and their defense mechanisms, it's a whole different ball game. Even the characters you would have judged based on their appearance or first impression eventually become your favorites.

What these stories taught me:

1. No one is just black and white: Every “bad” attitude often has roots in pain or being misunderstood.
2. A real bond is more important than romance: In A Silent Voice, it wasn't about whether Shoko and Ishida would start dating. It was about the fact that they saved each other's lives.
3. Empathy is the key: Sometimes, we just need to see inside someone else to understand that their behavior is nothing more than a mask.

Sometimes stories don't need a grand gesture to end. It's enough when the main character, after years of self-hatred, finally “takes down the crosses” from the faces of others and allows himself to hear the world again. Because that is exactly where real life begins.

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mobile-wallpapers/

Even though I agree on most of what was written there – there is one part I'm don't think that is wise choice.

In music category they recommend Bandcamp which is store/site where you can buy and own music but mostly for independent artists. For example try to find there Taylor Swift's music. You won't find any, unless I'm missing something.

Anyway, Bandcamp in my opinion is not alternative to music streaming companies. An alternative, in my view, should offer comparable quality and a similar library of content.

Bandcamp is a different world, there are different artists, therefore, recommending it as an alternative / direct replacement to music streaming is not wise choice.

Hope I save some money like that.

• firstname@lastname.tld i use for Financial istititions
• for family and friends I use simple gmail address or probably outlook address, this is just for convenience as where I'm live almost everyone has the G-Mail so its more easier to communicate with them. Sometimes you don't even need to tell them whole address...
• my streaming services are more-less on {service}.{some-random-id}@firstnamelastname.tld
• important services e.g. some games, or some important -to-me communities goes to aliases on {something}@pseudonym-or-other-owned-by-me-domains.tld
• unimportant things, most forums, or newsletters goes to alias domains (not my owned) but the one that comes with simplelogin or other alias services such as *firefox relay or duck. (yes i use more aliasing services)

and as a bonus when I need to contact someone trough email i creating somethin like email-for-reply.(some-random.id)@my-owned.domain.tld

I'm never using any of my login emails to register on other services. Owning domain is nice because you can move all your aliases to another email provider or even self-host it if you have a lot of time and strong nerves..

Owning multiple devices is not very peculiar among the “more nerdy” community

I mostly doing sysadmin-ish stuff and some light weight programming (php, javascript or GO) in VSCode, so I think, that combination could be ideal for me...

That Macbook Neo falls into a nice-to-have category to me. Especially I like the citrus color. Also, I can imagine that if you are someone on exec or senior level that color choice can create smiles on some client's faces..

PS: if you can have bright orange iPhone, so.. “why not”...🤷‍♀️

I using DNSControl which allows me to manage all domains across all DNS providers at once. An another good thig is I have finally overview above that mess in my DNS zones and can remove unused and forgotten DNS records.

With all above I however not move all the records from Cloudflare as I using their tunnel to expose my home-lab servers to the internet. I have idea to replacing that tunnel using Wireguard but that's another story. 😀

#journal

I currently have still active Proton subscription which I lately using as a secure storage and VPN.

In last days I moved most of my domains to the Proton Pass aliases (simplelogin) except few “primary” domains .e.g. surname.tld which I use for critical services. Other domains I'm using for registering on the websites like shops etc.

I tried to use catchall but I'm not feel safe with them (maybe this is in my head).

I also have DuckDuckGo address and Firefox relay which is very good for registering for newsletters and less important sites in order to keep my pseudonym or real name private.

OK, I do not going to remove any of the big-tech email providers but reposting emails to my primary one, to make easier to get all emails without needing to check another email applications.

This not meaning that I'm moving off from big-tech, I'm keep continuing to use their apps for convenience but I'm thinking more which data I will share with them.

#journal #privacy

I put there one 256GB USB key for testing and lately I looked into ROSE package which allows me to connect NFS share as a disk to your router.

Now I have access to my files on my storage server over the Back to home application literally from anywhere where I have internet.

#sovereign #journal