This article is part of the series Understanding ActivityPub, which takes a look at the ActivityPub protocol through the lens of real-world examples

The theory behind Mastodon and WebFinger is fascinating. I’ve managed to configure my immutable mastodon handle. That's the handle I can communicate to potential followers: if I move to another server, I'll update the webfinger with my new coordinates.

They say, it doesn't matter which Mastodon instance you sign up with. You can still communicate with the entire Fediverse and when push comes to shove, you can also always move. Well, push came to shove for me and I had to move. So let's talk about the giant asterisk that belongs after both of those claims.

how to use inotifywait to monitor a directory tree for changes. For instance, we’ll see how we can detect when a new file is created.

Use `tootctl media remove` to remove Media Attachments to free disk space

Mastodon 4.1.0rc1 has new flags to `tootctl media remove` to help prune old storage of profile avatars and header images. Each account you encounter, either via follow, boost, or reply to a post that was followed or boosted, hits your instance and caches an avatar (profile pic) and header image (banner image). This can take up a lot of space!

SynoCommunity provides packages for Synology-branded NAS devices.
Packages are provided for free and made by developers on their free time.

Answer in a Raspberry Pi thread regarding rsync running as a daemon in the remote machine

Pis are very resourcefull tools. And one of their underdocumented features is a builtin hardware watchdog. This little hardware service will once enabled watch the system activity and automatically power cycle the Raspberry Pi once it gets stuck.

I do most of my git work in a terminal but I frequently found myself using git GUIs for some use-cases like: index, commit, diff, stash, blame and log.
Unfortunately popular git GUIs all fail on giant repositories or become unresponsive and unusable. GitUI provides you with the user experience and comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal while being portable, fast, free and opensource.