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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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anti homeless architecture under capitalism
vs
anti homeless architecture under socialism
Tis that time of the month when grant deadlines are coming up and I need to scramble to keep up. :)
They don't stop comin'!
@hank Jeeze. :P The internet is already full of lies, so having potential lies that sound authoritative as your primary interface seems kinda exhausting.
Maybe I'll start looking stuff up in literal encyclopedias and reference manuals again or something.
@Valdis I wish this was scaled to account for which countries are dumping all of their trash onto others. E.g how much of the Philippines garbage actually came from Canada.
@heapwolf Hell yeah. :O
LMAO.
> Set up a new VM
> `ufw enable`
> "Are you sure, this might bust your SSH sessions"
> yeah sure fine
> Realize I forgot to enable the SSH rule
> No recovery account
Good thing I didn't load it up with any services yet. :P My reward is to have to rebuild the machine from a base image and delete the SSH key from known_hosts.
Writing some ansible scripts to automate spinning these guys up. (this is for distributed.press)
@makeworld Is there a straightforward way to get some of my sites indexed by this thing? Seems that stuff like the Agregore website isn't being loaded https://agregore.mauve.moe
@makeworld Oh wow. Search that focuses on non-commercial sites sounds great. I'll try giving it a go. 🙇
@hank I don't really want answers TBH. I also worry that LLM based search is still not trustworthy enough of a source. I really just want what Google had like 10 years ago. 😅
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@mauve There's a lot of alternatives. Some that come to mind are Yandex (yandex.com), Brave search (search.brave.com), and Searx (instances at searx.space).
@postemples Oh wow, SearchX seems really useful. Thank you for the links!
So where should I be going for search if not DuckDuckGo? (defs not Google or regular Bing either).
Is it just me or have #DuckDuckGo search results been getting worse lately too? It feels like the top results are having way more ads and SEO garbage in them and don't get to the point as much.
@yhancik@octodon.social Huge mood. 😭 Hopefully it also means we end up being less wasteful as a result? It'd be nice if reality had a less stressful method for it though. 🤪
@rust_discussions cc @hank is this relevant to your interests?
@hydroponictrash So wait, can you just do this with any chromebook?
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After some time I’ve found a way to upcycle Chromebooks to run the latest version of Ubuntu and boot to an external USB drive while maintaining the ChromeOS. The WiFi chips in these models also can create their own wifi networks so they can be short range routers.
What does this actually mean? Instead of requiring new hardware like a raspberry pi, we can take old Chromebooks that schools get rid of in the thousands and actually reuse them to create portable micro servers. Pack them full of offline books, maps, wikis, etc.
There is a major upside compared to using an old Chromebook over a raspberry pi, mainly that it's actually cheaper and can be free depending on how you source your chromebooks. I got 10 at $30 each which is cheaper than a pi or a pi alternative.
The battery life is also insane. I used it for close to 12 hours and it didn't even hit 50% battery loss. They also take very little time to charge so I'm interested to see how much power they might take up while attached to the off grid solar array.
So the plan is to make the docs and work some more on making these into portable offgrid information stations and packing them with info. https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/offgridserveruses
#solarpunk #permacomputing
@futurebird This is a cool writeup exploring what it would be like to have continuous time. The author also has some other interesting time things like "What if it was the same time everywhere".
@stardustxr TBH I don't think I need it for my main use cases right now. I thinm 3dof for viewing a static "sphere" around my head will suffice for mobile use cases.
I think for 6dof I'd want to use either VR or a passthrough AR thing like the Lynx
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
