Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
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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
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@joshuatopolsky It’s not just links to Mastodon. It happened to me just using the word mastodon in another context. My link was actually to a story about mastodon DNA being sequenced at the MIT Technology Review
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What's the easiest way to set up a simulated network with ISP-style NAT? Preferably without buying dedicated hardware for the purpose, and preferably reproducible for other developers.
Usecase: I am developing a P2P system, and need a reasonably representative environment to test my software in, and how well it deals with shitty residential networking configurations.
I'm a developer, not a network engineer, so my knowledge of networks is limited to a developer perspective and I don't have the spoons to learn it in-depth.
Boosts appreciated 
cute pet posting
pixelfed may have federation issues so:
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@forestjohnson My weird rationale for chosing EOL'd ChromeOS devices is that Google publishes when they get EOL'd so I can just check that calendar against whatever devices are best supported by the custom firmware (seabios/coreboot) builds and get a consistent supply of devices that are otherwise destined to become unsupported e-waste.
I set up this thin client computer in my fathers basement today. It cost $35 used on ebay, is fanless at 10W TDP, and has 8GB of RAM.
Seems like a fine time to repost this, instead of purchasing a new SBC consider upcycling an old thin-client instead! You get more GB of RAM per $ that way anyways and some great fanless options exist on ebay for less than $50. I'd link to the article I wrote about this but my home server is down right now and I'm traveling.
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pls boost am testing gotosocial concurrency
The only way I really know how to interact / feel comfortable interacting on sites like this is so similar to a brand just posting ads on their profile, it feels like a waste and no one ever seemed to be interested in those kind of posts anyways.
So its back to macroblogging and realtime chat with me for now 👴
Yesterday I talked with some of my IRL friends about social media and online culture, their experiences with it in the past on tumblr and twitter, came to the conclusion that this social media / microblogging is not a good fit for me.
I don't think it ever was, I never really felt comfortable on facebook, linkedin, twitter or anything like that. I just got excited about the new wave of users joining Fedi (well, specifically mastodon) so I thought I would poke my head in.
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@thomasareed and some note: This is the Fediverse and CW is some kind of Mastodon hack which use the title of ActivityPub protocol.
So people participating on systems like Hubzilla, Friendica and others have no CW functionality and setting a CW is rather useless for them (and these people will never post with Mastodon CW warning)
Oops i forgot to include this link to thomas reed post https://infosec.exchange/@thomasareed/109376747868155703
IMO, pressure on #FediCulture to push CW usage closer to the "NSFW" mainstream cultural standard is not necessarily a bad thing. I acknowledge this is probably a classic straight white guy take but i think CW is weird! I honestly have a hard time believing that the CW feature / culture is as good at preventing harm as its hard-core adherents claim.
The question of what should be CW'd, what images should be fogged until click, etc, its subjective, culturally relative, and I feel like the current status quo might be a #Whiteness that has made black folks feel uncomfortable / unwelcome here.
Some of this is based on reading @shengokai takes on Mastodon and it's affordances, some of it from other posts I've seen around, I am curious what other ppl around me think.
I just published a new blog post about hardware choices for home-brew servers:
*[Shut] Up the Punx!!!*
Bomb the Music Industry
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Mastodon 4 adds a new endpoint, /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks
This endpoint contains your instance's block list in an easily machine-readable format. As far as I know, the only tool that currently uses this endpoint is the kiwifarms one.
The endpoint does not require any form of authentication, so it's very easy to scrape. I recommend editing your web server configuration to prevent access to the endpoint until there's something legitimate that uses it.
- 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
