Social Networking

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Looking for one or more social media places to call your home ? Name Link Description Mastodon Home – Mastodon Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy options, and moderation policies Counter Social counter.social Read the More…

My Home Network

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With working from home during 2020 I wanted to invest in ensuring my home network is resilient, reliable and has inherent upgradability.  Below is the current state of my home network.  I’ll update this over time as I add, upgrade or change hardware. The Hardware The cabinet fans are quite loud and since I have this unit currently in the More…

Setting up Outlook with local Autodiscover

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The Problem Ideally the modern Outlook setup process uses a DNS CNAME for autodiscover.outlook.com. Due to changes, out of the hands of my web hosting provider (due to cPanel updates), my DNS record started to produce re-directs, preventing automated setup. My hosting provider was informative, helpful and accommodating but unfortunately not able to address a cPanel bug (feature?) that might More…