Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

back at it again https://stream.sequentialread.com/

hopefully I can torrent some bytes today. music: gold panda

continuing my bad habit of starting a million projects: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/tuber

🍠 Tuber: Serve Your Media Without Limits From a "Potato" Computer Hosted in Mom's Basement: Take our Beloved "Series of Tubes" to Full Power

Nowhere close to operational yet but as far as I can tell there's no reason why it won't work? I'm excited about this one.

I'm streaming now, finally taking some time to start working on that p2p cdn idea i had

https://stream.sequentialread.com

The idea is its an HTTP reverse proxy you can put on any web server and you can configure it to offer media files and downloads over WebTorrent instead of over HTTP
inspired by https://github.com/Novage/p2p-media-loader but for HTTP in general instead of just the <video> and <audio> elements in a page

Music rn: 🎹🌌 MGMT 🌀🎸

We got a little carried away with the little cakes decoration process

I'm proud of what cyberia.club has done with capsul.org, our home-grown "cloud" VPS provider over the past couple of years. We keep it running day in and day out, and others have joined us in our repos / made a fork, embarking on their own journey.

https://sequentialread.com/capsul-rumors-my-demise-greatly-exaggerated/

@j3s

Every time I travel south from my icy domain (Minnesota) I'm reminded of how many homeless people are out there struggling. We don't see nearly as many homeless folks daily up here because the winter will either force them out or kill them.

I met a lot of homeless folks in Atlanta. The Covid economy has been cruel to many.

One man I spoke to told me about how his mother never really loved him, and always told him that you can't change the world, and it would be silly to try. But he found God at a homeless mission, and realized how much he had been lied to and abused by the system.

After I mentioned I was traveling/just a visitor, he asked what brought me here, so I tried to explain that I was part of a group who're trying to make it possible for anyone to "own" their own presence online as a part of a community that they have a say in, not like how it is with facebook or google. To my surprise, he instantly picked up on what I was saying and seemed to be cheered up by hearing about it. I explained that the server was as if it was "a car running without oil" and he told me to make sure I oil that machine well.

I really hope at some point our society can progress to the point where folks don't get left behind and kicked to the curb. This guy was shivering cold standing under an awning to stay out of the rain.

I just returned from Atlanta, Georgia where @j3s and I did maintenance on Baikal, cyberia's server and the workhorse behind https://capsul.org

Baikal has been running for years with an inefficient QEMU VirtIO configuration which caused its SSD disks to wear out much faster than they should, and our decision to use NVME drives for some of the disks in the ZFS pool almost prevented us from being able to expand disk capacity to meet demand: We kept mailing PCI-e to NVME adapters to the datacenter and they kept saying "It doesn't fit".

Life happened and it got kinda bad, with a legitimate risk of everything going kablooie, so we had to work hard to get everything fixed in short order and ensure that our little project has a future. I suppose it's not-so-little anymore, depending on your perspective.

Attached are a couple fun pictures from the trip. You can also see a video I took of us replacing one of the SSDs that was wearing out here: https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/zfs_disk_replacement/

I was sweating bullets while j3s carefully pulled the disk out of the server while it was running 😅

streaming working on capsul-flask https://stream.sequentialread.com/

Music right now: 🧔🏾👨🏾‍🦲👨🏿‍🎤 Das Racist 🎭👜🔥

Greenhouse Cloud alpha test program by the numbers!

3700 views on our self-hosted demo video

30 user accounts registered

19 successful installations:

9 linux -- command line only
3 linux with desktop application
4 macOS desktop application
3 windows desktop application

5 bugs identified and fixed

6 fully self-hosted web applications already live and in production via greenhouse!

1 month since the public alpha test was launched

@nolan

Hello, do you know of any work that has been done on profile edit in pinafore?

https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/741

Also, is there a pinafore development related real-time chat channel like matrix, slack, discord, irc ?

Thanks for the hard work on Pinafore, its really smooth to use 🤯

@forest

TEST

pumpkin and kale smoothie with lemon, sugar, parsley, and ginger

I'm getting back to streaming again after recovering from COVID19

small side project, my GoToSocial implementation quest

https://stream.sequentialread.com/

I was bullied by NAT when I was younger now im taking my revenge

I'm releasing an alpha version of my new self-hosting-oriented cloud service called Greenhouse today!

Right now the service is free for early-adopters. Help me make self-hosting "radically easier"!!

https://sequentialread.com/greenhouse-alpha/

> If you are interested in learning about self-hosting ..

I guess I should say, regardless of whether you've never done any self hosting or if you are already an expert, either way I'd like to hear feedback.

I just opened registrations on the alpha version of my new self-hosting-oriented cloud service provider, Greenhouse!

You can check it out, sign up for an account, and download the CLI or desktop application here:

--> https://greenhouse-alpha.server.garden <--

If you are interested in learning about self-hosting, please try it out and let me know what you think!

I'm not publishing this on blast yet! I'm not quite ready for the unwashed masses yet, so please don't re-share this for now. A full public release will come soon!!

They will have their own lore website pitney-the-pineapple.greenhouseusers.com 😛

These are gonna be HTTP error pages too. Consider "504 Gateway Timeout"

There are so many good ones lol