Isaac

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[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm a software developer, and I tell people on the daily you need to protect your data and have many times said not to give DNA to anyone unless it can save your life. 21 and me is gross as a business model and should not be a thing and I also strongly agree they need to be put into prison

I'm peeling back the tech-oligarchies hold on me by getting rid of Google and the other big boys. I'm fortunate I can spin up SMTP server (MailCow) and cloud storage (NextCloud) using free and open source software (FOSS). But I encourage others to do the same if they can. SMTP is a tough nut to crack, maintaining servers is also a bit of a task. But any technologist that knows web servers (Docker, VM) and DNS can set up shit using elest.io/managed-services

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world! Or not, but if you do lmk and I'll subscribe

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We could stop with capitalism and economies of scale, it's busting at it's seams in almost every metric I can dig up. I'd be fine having a few chickens if by-laws permitted and the misses didn't mind

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's actually really evil. Stuck in hospital with c difficile? Don't matter still gotta go across the street to Tims for your needed nutrients. What the actual fuck

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trump doesn't need to scheme so hard with Ford in Ontario looking for a 2 tiered healthcare system. Can only imagine Smith has something lined up for AB (not sure on that one but if I were a betting man..).

Our premiers seem more beholden the Weston's and Canadian oligarchy they don't give a shit about us. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yea exactly, maybe I'm naive but I hope we've chosen Lemmy to eschew the tech oligarchy, including Mr bezos at Amazon inc

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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She doesn't use the kings English, I guarantee

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I spun up a mailcow instance relatively simply through elestio (new to me devops as a service). Takes a few clicks, let's you pick your cloud provider and has pretty slick admin UI to manage firewalls and dockerfiles etc.

I've never setup an SMTP server before, but I've decided to with my "buy Canadian" initiative to eschew the tech-oligarchy at every turn I can. Not for Canadians sovereignty alone, but to help get rid the planet of billionaires by starving them of their capital.

But I digress, mailcow makes setting up DNS a breeze and elestio makes mailcow a breeze. I've actually spun up this Lemmy instance on elestio too, just so nice its a game changer. Here's info about mailcow https://elest.io/open-source/mailcow and no I'm not affiliated with elestio, just seems solid thus far (only been using it for a month, but support is on point too).

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

You've obviously felt my pain. Maybe 6th install will take 🤞

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

I mean Canada is only one country Michael. How many people could they possibly have? 10?

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Glad I just ditched Google... Might have to expedite removing data from their claws

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

ROG Flow 13 looks dope, and while I appreciate your opinion for 15-16", the smaller the better in my book. Rocking a 10.1" Onexplayer netbook 5 and its okay, no Z13 tho, but also way cheaper

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