I was pretty used to saying "OK Google Good Morning" and this type of morning routine just worked on Android and wit Google Home. Apple's iOS has no such default, so you really need to create your own routine in Shortcuts from scratch. On the plus side, you have 100% control over what you'd like to include.

There are a few videos already that do tutorials on the individual steps, but what I'll do is share a link to download my Good Morning routine, which you can import and edit. In the video I'll demo the shortcut being used, and then I'll talk you though the action elements that are included to give you an idea of what to edit (name, RSS feeds, a key date, etc).

Link to my shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2ce862acec8d495dbc08e2984da0879d

Chapters:

#technology #ios #goodmorning #shortcuts

Grocy can help manage not only shopping lists based on inventory, recipes and meal plans, but also chores, tasks, equipment manuals with notes, and batteries that need to be charged or replaced across devices. A key part of its inventory managemen...

Yes, Docker containers automatically reconfigure the IPTable rules, and do not show up under UFW status as opened ports in your VPS firewall. This can leave your management containers wide open. Most docker container tutorials only use examples of how to do basic port mapping, and this is what exposes those ports.

I explain what is happening with this, and which of the three options I found easiest to make sure only the essential ports are open.

Chapters:

#docker #containers #firewall #VPS #selfhosting

This video covers the resuscitation of commercial shortwave radio by the BBC to reach Ukraine and Russia, shows how you can tune in remotely to hear these broadcasts is say Finland, how Tor Onion sites are being used, as well as peer-to-peer social networks, can be used to bypass the blocking of traditional websites and social media sites.

Chapters:

Finnish Radio Station: http://kiwisdr.oh6ai.fi:8073/

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#technology #war #censorship

I show how Linux's KDE Compositor, that is already included with the OS, can be used to show such effects as screen magnification, screen drawing, mouse cursor tracking and clicking, without the need for additional 3rd party software when creating...

This is an easy-to-use screencast creator with all the basic functionality that allows Windows and Linux users to create great screen recordings. It has an easy learning curve, and many other screencast creators especially for Linux, lack the abil...

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

It is easily installed for free as self-hosted solution and in the video I give an overview of what it does and how easy it is to configure. The video will help you decide if something like Elgg could be suitable for your organization.

Timeline:

Note: This was a demo site I was proposing as a concept to an organisation so it is not actually in use. But it does illustrate was Elgg can do.

More about Elgg at https://elgg.org

#FOSS #opensource #collaboration #lgg #social #organizations

Wallabag is a free and open source alternative to Pocket or Instapaper and will save web articles for later offline reading later. The saved articles are available with adverts and navigation arrows etc. I give an overview here of its user interface and how it works.

More about Wallabag at https://wallabag.org.

#wallabag #selhosted #alternativeto #pocket #instapaper #readitlater #opensource #FOSS

I did this quick screencast to just show off what Wekan looks like. This was for Wekan version 2.7 dated May 2019. Wekan is free to use, and you can self-host it yourself if needs be.

Also watch my video about Kanboard as another alternative to Trello for comparison - at https://youtu.be/gpTvtvyxj_I.

#alternativeto #trello #wekan #todo #projectmanagement #FOSS #opensource #selfhosting

This is a video showing what the user interface looks like on the Patchwork client application. Scuttlebutt is the peer-to-peer protocol used to communicate directly between the clients (no central social media server). I recommend new users to Scuttlebutt start out with the Patchwork application for Linux, Mac or Windows as it is the easiest to use. The Manyverse mobile app for iOS and Android is another good option, and Planetary Social for iOS only.

CORRECTION: The use of markdown to include a preview of a remote image was a BUG that has been corrected. So only less than 10MB size images or docs can be attached as blobs (images attached will preview). Due to the nature of such a network users do not want their client's reaching out over the Internet to display remote images as it leaks information about the user. But despite this Scuttlebutt does upload and show images vs Aether which will only do so if you have linked to the two white listed sites (it has no means of attaching images to a post).

More information about Scuttlebutt and Patchwork at https://scuttlebutt.nz/docs/

You can also see a video on the MeWe social network at https://youtu.be/iUZMtNS54ZU and on Aether at https://youtu.be/7AHFqqw1zGM

#socialnetwork #alternativeto #P2P #altmedia #peertopeer #ssb #scuttlebutt #patchwork #manyverse #decentralized #privacy #planetary