Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

Today I heard from @handle that the next NLNet grant application deadline is in 4 days -- I also learned that this year they have a new category called "User Operated Internet". I got really excited about this because the last time I applied to the NLNet grant program, there wasn't really a good category for my project to fit under. But "User Operated Internet" is perfect!

https://nlnet.nl/useroperated/

I spent today throwing up a rough draft of a home page for my project. In the past I have called it Greenhouse, but I am thinking now I'm going to change the name to Server Garden, because the original thing that was going to be called Server Garden is now on hiatus.

Please take a look and let me know what you think! I know it has tons of issues, but I'm still interested to hear what folks think about it:

https://server.garden/

Whoops, sorry, a bit of a delay getting the stream started today, I didn't test it before going live 💀 it should be working now

https://stream.sequentialread.com/

More compatible video:

https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream-clip-socks5-test3

https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream-clip-socks5.mp4

@owncast

My friend once said: A lot of what looks “whoa how did you do that?!” comes down to “sat down and did all the 500 steps, one by one”.

Want to watch me slowly do steps one at a time? I'm trying to get back to streaming my work regularly. Live now working on making email servers radically easier to self-host! https://stream.sequentialread.com

Streaming https://stream.sequentialread.com/

Music today: 🎸🥁 Sleater-Kinney 👩🏻✊🏻 Working on for-fun social media app project.

Stop by and say hi!

@f0x 🔥

It would be nice to have more ips, like with IPV6, but that **ON ITS OWN** is not going to make it easier...

Er, I should say, impossible without "external help" for routing/bandwidth.

@peter

Internet protocol is all about routing and transferring, it says nothing for authenticity or integrity so the question of who owns it is only relevant when it comes to gatekeeping and rent-seeking routability... By my estimation, its already possible to use software to defeat this routability rent-seeking as long as the protocols you are using have been updated since the 80s and 90s (they are wrapped in TLS OR they can tolerate alternative ports).

Honestly, usability/ease of use/maintainability is the primary problem that potential server operators face. It would be nice to have more ips, like with IPV6, but that's not going to make it easier for folks to host servers safely and reliably. How do you expect my mother to understand both numbers AND letters for her server's address!? 😲😲

IMO its more scary that mobile networks (most internet users) tend to employ symmetric NAT & most mobile device computing is purely consumption oriented as a result, making mobile production impossible.

stream continues today!

https://botsin.space/@owncast/106551410419372829

streaming capsul.org maintenance stuff 💊 https://stream.sequentialread.com/

I did some benchmarks on my "for fun" spatial database index today: https://sequentialread.com/building-a-spatial-index-supporting-range-query-using-space-filling-hilbert-curve/#benchmarks

@dumpsterqueer This is cool!!

my techbro shit reaction:

what's the point of TLS if some CAs/DNS operators somewhere own all the keys to kick folks off the network, impersonate them, etc?

Obviously cloudflare is worse because its impossible tell how much they are processing/recording your traffic, while bona-fide attacks against TLS/x.509 are harder to hide..

at any rate, trying to make my own mini cloudflare service where the user exclusively owns the keys, and maybe has automated monitoring to spot the x.509 authority attacks if/when they happen 😬

my favorite co-host decided to join me today. he blends into my shirt lol