Tips & Tricks

A random collection of stuff I found interesting on the internet.

Internet stuff

Restore a closed window on Firefox

Search engine with no AI: add this URL as a custom search engine: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&noai&df=1980-01-01..2022-01-01 (here is Firefox’s help)

Self-hosting

Self-Hosting Resources Made Simple

• Freedombox, fastest way to #selfhosting https://freedombox.org
• 📩 Mail In A Box, email selfhosting https://mailinabox.email
• Yunohost, all-in-one selfhosting package https://yunohost.org
• Nextcloud Devices https://nextcloud.com/devices
• 👍 Awesome List https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
• 💚 Awesome Directory https://selfhosted.libhunt.com
• 📻 Podcast https://selfhosted.show

Naming schemes

Need to name your servers, computers, cats, plants, etc? Why not use the Naming Scheme Wiki, dedicated to just that?

Mastodon tools

CobaltVelvet made a handy tool for looking back at all your posts, which allows keyword search and/or time range filtering: tumelune

Best practices for alt-text / image description

see my article on accessibility.

How to Compress or Reduce Video File Size with FFmpeg

thanks to ffmpeg’s blog The command I use: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -preset veryfast -crf 23 output.mp4