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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-02-01 at 18:28

Same for Canada Post. I want to see them start to open more permanent post offices, one in every community of a couple hundred people.

Then, in every province, partner with Credit Unions to offer banking services in every community. Give the opportunity to everyone to have a free checking account and high-interest savings. The barebones to reduce the un-banked to zero.

If they don't have a stable address, let it be the PO Box.

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-02-01 at 18:25

I would like to see a platform from the Liberal leader where the CBC is so well funded, that it will stop using Google and international advertising data harvesting networks.

Ensure that every town in Canada with at least 10,000 people get a permanent office with at least 2 correspondents.

[#]Canada #cbc #cbcnews #politics

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-31 at 18:31

There was a DOS game that I played in the late 90s. It was something like Risk where you would have turns and try to defeat the other's army.

I can't find it, or remember anything else.

Any ideas?

[#]tipofmytongue

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-30 at 23:28

I’m making this post for anyone interested in following me.

Crypto is a scam

I will continue to add to this as time allows

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-29 at 15:14

Something I think we, as normies, should borrow from the old guard of the open source community, is the liberal use of mailing lists. Email is the old school fediverse, and everyone has an email client, and getting more email accounts is very straightfoward.

I think it's even better than bulletin boards, and definetly better than Facebook Groups

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-27 at 11:54

Or if not Yacy, a personal/local search engine for a home intranet?

[#]selfhost #intranet #searchengine

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-27 at 03:10

Last question, probably for the week because work calls in the morning, but do I know anyone that has installed Yacy for local, intranet search, and/or as a personal search engine?

https://yacy.net/

[#]search #yacy #selfhost

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-27 at 01:23

I have a likely odd question, but here we go.

Has anyone come across a way, or a tutorial, or blog, etc about how one would create a TUI for a django application that is running on a local machine, or interface with one running on a server?

I have an idea for a project that I will want to access from anywhere, but also would like to keep it out of a browser for most cases. If used, it will be touched multiple times a day.

[#]cli #tui #django

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-23 at 12:17

I'm looking for a Canadian owned and operated cloud services company where I can test out an inexpensive VPS for a small personal project. Preferrably with datacentre in a major centre like Montreal or Toronto. My preferred supplier is for most things are here in Halifax, which doesn't help for this particular use case.

I have already tried OVH, and it’s been a bad first impression.

Edit: My go-to host has servers in Montreal, so I have went with them for the test

[#]canada #selfhosting #vps

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-23 at 01:07

If you are ultra paranoid, make sure you turn off and on your phone at least once a day. A lot of “bad” software lives in ram only, turning off flushes the ram and the access.

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-22 at 16:52

I’ve tried a couple times to set up a #matrix server. It may be time to give #xmpp a try again.

https://jeffmcneill.com/xmpp/#xmpp-conversationsim-dino

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-21 at 14:38

@jake I just found this post of yours from a few years ago - https://theorangeone.net/posts/exposing-your-homelab/

I wondering if you have come across a good tutorial/example on how to implement a VPN Gateway using Headscale? I currently do the old faithful DDNS/reverse proxy method, but would like to obfuscate my home IP for a little added privacy.

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-21 at 00:05

This is something worth repeating, especially with all the social media billionaires front and centre in DC today.

https://ivarhill.com/the-problem-with-discord/

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-17 at 14:22

While I have your attention, I would also like to start a #followfriday but for active blogs.

I'll start with this beautiful (writing and paintings they include) blog by Theodora Goss - https://theodoragoss.com/posts/

[#]blogs #ff

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-17 at 14:17

I created a human readable list of the OPML files I shared earlier this week, you can find them here - https://jeffmackinnon.com/pages/rss-feeds-for-humans.html

[#]rss #blogs

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-17 at 12:49

If you can't pay your workers enough to live in thier community with dignity, then your business shouldn't exisit and SHOULD fail.

That goes for restaurants too.

https://www.1015thehawk.com/2025/01/17/restaurants-canada-warns-atlantic-immigration-cuts-could-harm-industry/

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-17 at 00:44

Today I installed and configured a SimpleMachines Forum to replace a facebook group.

My first forum install in at least a decade.

Down to the corporate social media sites, long live forums and BBs

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-14 at 20:25

Something I've been looking for are curated RSS lists (preferrably in OPML format) that I can add to my daily reading, keeping me on top of what's important and off corporate social media.

Well, today I decided to publish my own lists, and you can find the links here - https://jeffmackinnon.com/RSS.html

If there are blogs, news sites, etc that you want to share too, reply here or post a comment there. I'm especially interested in full-text feeds on what's happening in Canada.

[#]RSS #localnews #blogging

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-14 at 14:07

Before I dig into it, at all, what does my corner of the fediverse think about #Drupal in 2025? I'm doing some investigating to determine if it is a solution for a small community project that I'm pondering.

In 2023 I would have installed Wordpress with bbPress and an events plugin, but this is 2025, and we all know what uncertainty that photomatt has introduced into that ecosystem.

[#]drupal #onlineforum #onlinecommunity

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-11 at 15:16

A couple things I would like in the solution are:

• templates

• publish to local folder

• publish FTP

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