So, I find myself in a situation where I want my experience of the fediverse, and my interaction with the fediverse, to break out of the mold that casts most of the current class of fediverse servers. I want to come at it from a different direction and different architectural model to see if the…
Fork It
Currently, in my corner of the fediverse, there are a number of conversations going on around the meta-topic of What To Do About Mastodon, Part XVII Redux, brought about by the Saturday blog post announcing the formation of a US-based non-profit to accept tax-deductible donations on behalf of the German parent company of Mastodon, and the appointment of a couple of questionable choices to said non-profit’s board of directors.
Following Up on Self-Hosting Whatever, Wherever
It’s been a week and a half since I posted “Self-Hosting Whatever, Wherever” discussing my approach to moving my self-hosted services out of the cloud and back into our house, using our asymmetric cable modem connection, an overlay network, and a small edge router in the cloud to proxy requests and responses back to our home network without exposing the home network to the rest of the internet in the process. As I’ve made some more progress, an update is in order.
Self-Hosting Whatever, Wherever
*The Story So Far*
As most of you know, I’ve been a big proponent of self-hosting services for one’s self and one’s closest friends and relatives for, well, as long as I’ve been connected to the internet. At various points over the last thirty years I have hosted things in my home, at my place of work, and in the cloud, back and forth and back again, depending on what was convenient and cost effective and satisfying. Right now, most of my self-hosted services are running in the cloud, the least satisfying option, but the convenience was far better than not getting them set back up at all after moving to the east coast and rural life, so the cloud served its purpose.
But now, it’s time to bring things back home.
My Own Personal Song of the Year 2023
We find ourselves in mid-December, staring into the void that is the impending new year, and by and large we seem to get reflective around this time, so it’s no shock that @dustin@linernotes.club has made a call for music reflection: It’s December 2023 and I want to know what Your Own Personal Song of the…
Back to blogging!
Well, it’s been an age, but apparently I’m going to blog again. I have lots of projects underway, so this is where I’ll write about what’s happening with each of them as I feel the need to ramble. That’s it – that’s the update. Welcome to my blog.