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Encoding for the 21st century In the last few days I have been moving pictures and music to my self-hosted setup . How do I compress my files so to get as much quality as possible without breaking the bank on storage? Encode pictures with JPEGXL and music with Opus. JPEGXL: a better, smaller JPEG First things first, JPEGXL is fully open-source with a BSD-3 license and standardised through the…
From Big to Accurate Tech: My Self Hosted Setup The Mission Replacing big tech platforms and subscriptions with self hosted solutions: Google Drive and calendar -> Nextcloud Google Photos -> Immich Spotify -> Navidrome Github -> Codeberg Gmail -> Mailbox Hacker News -> Freshrss Tailscale -> Headscale (bonus track) scattered note taking -> Silverbullet I built the system myself but you can get…
Making Sense of Entropies What’s a working definition of entropy we can use across multiple contexts? The complexity stems from the vast number of definitions given formally and informally through time. We will start with the first definition and work our way through some of the more modern ones to get a sense of what we mean and what we definitely should not mean when talking about entropy.…
Beyond Conway's Law: Bridging Structure and Function Throughout this article I will examine organizations: systems designing other systems . What structural qualities are prevalent when predicting an organization's function? That is, what structural qualities allow an organization to build effective systems? Conway's law Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a…