As of today I run a mastodon instance, targeting Dutch speakers, although everyone could sign up if they want to.

The instance can be found at https://olifantje.net (olifantje is small elephant in Dutch).

Feel free to sign up or to sign up at another mastodon instance and follow …

This is just a short note on my experiences running backups with Duplicity.

Duplicity is an open source package that allows you to do incremental backups, complete with proper indexing, to remote storage. This can be a modern ‘cloud’ storage like S3, but I prefer to run it over a …

Fiddling around with open source / free alternatives for social networking has reconfirmed the one major problem with open source : there are so many forks to choose from.

To help someone choose a linux distro to run will end op in a short questionnaire about the needs of the person asking …

Pagina’s / forums maken over een onderwerp op hollandsepod.nl

Op veler verzoek (1) heb ik even uitgezocht hoe je een pagina/forum kunt maken. Volgens de documentatie op de wiki van friendica is het zoveel als een extra account maken en vervolgens je eigen account rechten delegeren, zodat je …

Today I found my homelab puppet setup failing. I mostly run the latest released puppet code on my setup and this time it bit me in the ass :

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: hiera configuration version 3 cannot be used in …