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Jean Dinco

What's up with the Free Our Feeds campaign?

A new tech movement was launched last week surrounding the AT Protocol, the protocol that BlueSky sits on. ‘Free our Feeds’ seeks to ‘save social media from billionare capture’, which is quite a noble and ambitious goal. When you go to the website, you’d be welcome by a giant

Self-hosted offline Wikipedia

Institutions of truth and knowledge are under attack as Bigtech continues to simp to fascism. And they are setting the stage for the mass erasure of identities, bodies, and history accuracies. And of course, they started with trans people With Elon Musk leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, he

Of Facebook and fascism

We welcomed 2025 with the hope that the new year would bring new beginnings. But the optimism did not age well as we were instead welcomed by companies who preemptively bent the knee to fascists. Though Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration is yet to occur at the time of writing

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

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