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My degoogling journey: SearXNG

Ironically, what started me on my journey towards degoogling was ever since I got my hand-me-down Pixel 6 Pro a few years ago. I installed GrapheneOs on it. I also don't run Google Play Services on it. In the following months, I also stopped using Google as my

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Making Calibre-web work with KOReader

Calibre Web server is a fantastic tool to own your ebooks! It's easy to install and surprisingly works well with KOReader.

VPN to your home network with Wireguard

In the last two blogs, I talked about how I installed pihole and unbound. This will be third part in the series, if I could call it that. This one solely focuses on Wireguard. I set it up so I can access our homelab and get the benefits of pihole

I installed Unbound. Bye, Cloudflare

In this blog, I will be talking about how to install Unbound. Like my previous blog, the audience of this entry is myself. So, consider this more as a documentation than a tutorial. Unbound is a recursive DNS resolver. It is imperative to first understand what a DNS is before

I installed pihole

Describing my 2024 as merely eventful would be a disservice to it. It’s the year I decided to walk my talk on self-hosting. And, of course, I started with Pihole and Unbound. This blog is less of a tutorial and more of documentation for myself. I am this blog’

Academia's reliance on Google scholar

Google Scholar bears the remnants of the old search, far away from the fast-paced enshittification. Whilst some of the so-called advancements have seeped their way through via the AI outline that is currently only available on Chrome and AI-generated 'research', Google Scholar is still a decent academic search

On Filipino resiliency

In the image below, you will see how a mayor in the Philippines described the ongoing crisis back home, a lazy and deeply appalling take. The Philippines is on its 16th typhoon this year, six of which were just this month. The author even quoted the US National Academy of

Navigating the surveillance state for trans liberation

The 2024 Paris Olympics was meant to be a celebration of athletic might yet it became a political battleground where the politics of identity were as fiercely contested as the sports themselves. The Olympics showcased an unsettling moment when Algerian boxer Imane Khelif faced a torrent of bigotry for allegedly

Reform vs revolution: a personal dilemma

I recently spent two weeks in Honolulu on a fellowship funded by a foundation established by a tobacco heiress and a historically contentious institution. I applied to this fellowship without expecting much rather than meeting people and maybe a few answers to some questions that I have gathered in the

Meta's human rights report: genuine concern or strategic PR?

Meta has just released its human rights report for 2023, which covers the whole of 2023 from 1 January to 31 December inclusively. The report is structured into a few subchapters, including sections on ‘AI’, risk management, issues, stakeholder engagement, transparency and remedy and something they called ‘looking forward’. As

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