Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
@notplants To be fair, everything else except for the super hardcore peer-to-peer networks like nostr and SSB have that problem. It's particularly bad for activity pub where the domain name is in the ID of every single object.
I suppose it's not much of a consolation, but DNS is not strong censorship. Its easy to circumvent for those who seek and desire.
We already have to circumvent DNS censorship regularly; If you want to download Circuit Board diagrams for obsolete TVs or something you will probably need to bypass DNS censorship. ICE bragged about censoring 8 million domains in a year iirc.
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LZ Config Day v2 and Grilling
<p>Layer Zero, Sunday, September 28 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><p>Round 2 of LZ/Cyberia configuration day and grilling</p><p></p>
https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/lz-config-day-v2-and-grilling
@ojack OMG! my bad. I think i misread gitlab.com as github.com so I simply glossed over it.
It looks like its purely a frontend app right now, so it makes sense why the "copy link" button isn't working yet, and why the content has to be lost when a user navigates away. (images are probably too big to store in IndexedDB or whatever)
Are you planning on building a backend for it?
Besides that I will say its one of the most mobile friendly editors for text and image that I have ever seen,
I wasn't sure at first how to move an element around the page but figured it out fairly quickly while playing with it.
I found more info about the project:
https://nlnet.nl/project/WobbleWeb/
It links to this github repo:
https://github.com/omalley242/WobbleWeb/tree/main
But it looks like that's not the real source code behind https://wwwobble.org ;
on `wwwobble.org` i see Astro framework stuff but theres no mention of astro in that git repo.
I found you on codeberg at https://codeberg.org/ojack but I dont see the source there either.
If you are keeping the source closed I respect that, but just curious since I would like to see how it works.
Since you were asking for notes, here are mine:
1. after uploading an image, the select new element type popup is still visible
2. cant scroll down to reveal new blank space while editing
3. there is no way to move an element backwards or forwards
4. what is "hydra" ? I've never heard of it. Does it have a visual editor that you will add later? If no, why not just have a script tag?
5. the copy link button does not work on firefox on android, i cannot share my page. There is nothing in my clipboard.
6. When i tried to post my work to codeberg, it navigated away from the page and all my work was lost.
@stillgreenmoss I'd say it's fine, I think it is probably better than the alternative of just sending the voice data off to a third party.
@austin This is especially egregious because it caused them to end up making their JSON parser case insensitive, which leads to security vulnerabilities.
Because otherwise you wouldn't be able to parse JSON where the keys start with lowercase letters.
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itch
https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/
good writeup of the rock-and-hard-place that itch is stuck between
i've worked in ecommerce, it fucking sucks and nothing works right
I'll eat what I'll eat, and what I dont eat can be saved for a later eat.
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so-called "free thinkers" when their sources are paywalled
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Yesssss!
"We are very excited to announce the preview release of ACME support in NGINX. The implementation introduces a new module ngx_http_acme_module that provides built-in directives for requesting, installing, and renewing certificates directly from NGINX configuration. The ACME support leverages our NGINX-Rust SDK and is available as a Rust-based dynamic module…"
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
/via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@acirep/115022763840493408 #Rust #nginx
I think thats how the coop cloud backups work?
The docker configs get backed up somehow and then the contents of the docker volumes get borgbackuped . similar to yunohost but probly cleaner due to the containerization
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#iocaine has been up for 14m 48s, and spent 8m 8s dealing with - gestures hands wildly - everything.
In the past 24 hours, it served 31.53M requests, 97.27% of which were garbage, 2.71% passed through unscathed, and 0.005% were fed to the Cookie Monster. This required about 116.21MiB of memory on average, and 71.09GiB of absolute trash was generated for the nastiest visitors.
Top garbage consumers were:
Disguised bots - 23.00M
Enthusiastic guestbook visitors - 2.08M
Claude - 1.34M
OpenAI - 706.76K
Facebook - 398.74K
Amazon - 279.96K
Commercial scrapers - 215.17K
Google - 1.59K
Various other agents slurped through 590.44K pages of unhinged junk, bless their little hearts.
In these trying times, 0.07% of all requests were likely of human origin: I hope you enjoyed your stay, and will visit again! Of all requests iocaine let into the garden, 91.37% were from Fediverse software. Thank you! #FediHug
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looks neat as an instagram-like frontend for Mastodon api compatible softwares: https://oslo.town/@matt/114994487058558789
I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:
This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?
I've been thinking for quite some time that something like this would be cool, and that you can get lots of different types of fedi "experience" out of putting different frontends together that cater to different styles.
Context, just in case:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo
> Moonbase Alpha provides a realistic simulation of life on a natural satellite
> Why vms?
Because qemu qcow images have a great way of implementing differential backups : high reliability, no external dependency, and low performance impact to the disk. Backing up the entire VM can be desirable because its much more likely to "just work" every time when the VM is restored.
By "no external dependency" I mean that special software is not required to receive the backup data on the other side, no need for something like borgbase or setting up your own borgbackup server. Its just files, they can be rsync'd or even live on object storage like backblaze b2 for example.
> why package an app as a VM instead of a [docker container]?
I didn't say package apps as vms. I think docker (like what coop cloud uses) is way better for that.
But vms are probably a better way to manage the operation of a collection of containers, more holistic backup that's easier to "lift and shift".
Long term my plan has been to make a coop cloud image for capsul, and potentially even make a web ui for coop cloud.
So its not vms instead of coop cloud, its coop cloud inside a VM.
@notplants vms +tunnels
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
