ἄδικος.net
[pronounced a.dɪ.kɐs; Ancient Greek adj., "unjust" (from ἀ- [a-], "not" + δίκη [dike], "justice")]
Welcome to adikos.net. Happy to have you here! Feel free to check out my blog posts!
This site is always evolving, so please check back for updates, which are made whenever I have the time or inclination to do so! I was having some issues with the Ananke theme, so I'm testing one out currrently. We'll see if I keep it around.
Currently Reading
Novels / &c.
- Marcel Proust, trans. and ed. C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (1982): This is a dreamy, strange, confusing, but also brilliant series so far. Excited to read more. It's really hard to describe.
- Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria (2013): I picked this up at our local indie (a used copy, nice!) awhile back, and it seems like a really interesting fantasy novel!
Poetry
N.B. I put poetry in its own class because I can't "brute-force" poetry; it is something I have to read slowly and savor, over a long period of time. Most poetry books are not conducive to reading for long stretches, at least IMHO.
- Kevin Young (ed.), African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (2020): A massive collection of African-American poetry spanning centuries. Really enjoying it, even though it's slow going.
Reading Log (where the "currently reading" books eventually go)
If you want to check out my eclectic music taste:
- ListenBrainz account to show off my weird music collection. Please check it out!
- Check out my Koito instance which will also relay to ListenBrainz! It's super cool.
- Here, have a setup guide for Koito (& bonus, Navidrome + Koito)!
If you're interested in chill, relaxing games, please check out my Chill Games post. A friend inspired me to compile the list, and I'm trying to add to it all the time. Feel free to provide suggestions! I'm trying to update it more often, as I know it sorely needs updates.
My friend gom from Mastodon kindly provided a guide to Zoom alternatives, which I offered to publish here on my site. Please either contact them via Mastodon, or via the email linked within the piece, if you have suggestions, thoughts, or updates. You can find it here: Zooming Out. There have been a few updates to this list since its initial publication on 18 Oct 2020. It needs some reformatting for its Hugo version, and may see some more updates.
I really cannot stand anything "AI" and am committed to never using it, and you should be too. For some good tips on avoiding it, check out Resist AI. This is an AI-free zone and I intend to keep it that way.
- Here is a nice AI blocklist for the adblocker uBlock Origin!
- This is a nice robots.txt to harden your website against AI scrapers
Public Services
- LibreTranslate: LibreTranslate is meant to be a self-hosted Google Translate replacement. As far as I know, it currently supports around 60 languages, and is very nice to use once it's set up.
- Please feel free to use, no API keys required, and I hope it helps you with translating whatever you need translated!
- LibreTranslate can be self-hosted, of course; find the code here.
- SearxNG: SearxNG is a "metasearch" engine, and really what that means is that it can pull in results from numerous different search engines. This also helps increase privacy, as you're not pulling search results directly from those sites (and exposed to their ads, &c.).
- This, of course, can be self-hosted!
- Phanpy: Phanpy is a Fediverse web client! If you don't like logging in directly to your Mastodon/GoToSocial/other ActivityPub server, you can use the web client.
- Since I moved instances to a GoToSocial instance, they recommend using a web client instead of the server itself, which doesn't really have its own web interface.
- The installation was quick and painless on YunoHost and hey, bonus: not only can I use it, but y'all can as well!
- As a result, please feel free to use this Phanpy instance if you like!
Private Services
- Vaultwarden is an open-source, secure password manager that stores your passwords and other secrets encrypted in the cloud. It also works really nicely with smartphone apps, especially on Android.
- Vaultwarden is an alternative implementation of Bitwarden, the original project.
- This instance is private (sorry!), but you can create your own Vaultwarden/Bitwarden instance on your own hosting! Bitwarden also offers free accounts on their main site, and has a few paid pro features available. I would encourage you to set up your own instance if you self-host, however, as it's not too difficult at all!
- If you and I are friends, though, reach out to me and perhaps I can arrange an account for you...
- NextCloud is a great alternative to cloud file storage such as Google Drive, and allows one to sync files, contacts, and even calendars, accessible on multiple devices, including Android and others.
- This instance is private (sorry!). But you can create your own NextCloud instance on your own hosting!
- Navidrome is a self-hosted music streaming platform that I just found out about! I got it installed very easily and it was super straightforward.
- Wallabag is a great piece of software allowing you to convert webpages, content and all (for the most part), to "articles" that you can read later. Think of it like a Pinterest that actually backs up the content and isn't just a glorified bookmarks manager! The "articles" do link to the original website, of course, so you can check it out, or even refresh your saved copy as needed.
- This instance is also private, but you're welcome to create your own Wallabag instance on your own hosting!
- YunoHost thankfully has their own packaged version of Wallabag, so it was super easy to install.
- XMPP is an open, extensible chat protocol. I run the Metronome XMPP server via YunoHost.
- XMPP is quite nice since you can set it up to use OMEMO end-to-end encryption, technology that Signal's encryption protocol was later built upon.
Sun & Moon icons for light/dark mode toggle by FontAwesome. Toggle adapted from Luca-san's implementation.
Thanks so much for visiting, friends!