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\"Think
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\"Stoked

A few of my favorite things:

Looking to add web mentions support and better integration with my mastodon

Base theme is here: https://www.priority.vision/themes/feed/

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\"Really

Why I use this opensource tool for my analytics

I've dabbled in self hosting my blog on and off for years.

Something  that i never really felt was where I wanted it was light site stats. I  had no interest in paying for this functionality, or giving big brother  Google any of my data.

When I landed on Ghost, they did not have the partnership with Tinybird yet, so I started to dig.

I finally found Umami

Out the gate i was really impressed on how easy it is to get going.

Once I set up my site, it gave me a simple script to add to the site. Once done, I could see all the goodies I was after.

Today I've dug into UTMs and campaigns to get some more insights on linking.

I'm just a stats nerd and don't really have any reason to do this other  than that, but it sure is fun to watch the funnels and journeys people  take.


Having this data self hosted and the data housed on my own  homelab feels so much more satisfying. We already give so much  information to big tech, anything i can pull in house feels like a tiny  victory.

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\"We

A quick post on how and why i use self hosted LLMs

While I have strong feelings about the overarching \"AI\" umbrella, open-source models and tools are neat.

Powered my home lab, with unraid, the ollama docker, and the open-webui docker.

Right now, these are my favorite opensource models:

I have a few more at the ready when needed


What about internet access and search?


When needed, I can easily feed this to the net via my cloudflared container and custom domain.
I  much prefer keeping it offline and use the strength of the model vs  just having it be an internet gopher. However, i have searx self hosted  and can easily tap the API when needed

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https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

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\"Well

My unraid server just might have a run away docker image 🏚️🔥

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