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let's chat offline. its covered
this is great. i thought 360 videos had died off. this was nice to watch.
@prologic

then you won't like co-ops as many of us use it to describe mission and core values.


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A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially of a political nature.
A public declaration, as of a sovereign or government, or of any person or body of persons, making known certain intentions, or proclaiming certain opinions and motives in reference to some act or course of conduct done or contemplated; in general, a proclamation.
@prologic

likely too much to sum in a twt. but the coop models i've seen really do well with:

- everyone involved is a stakedholder
- core co-op has membership fees/donations
- consensus on technical design and implementation
- apolitical
- all operators drive the co-op's agenda, not their own
- diversity of operator skillsets (ie: infra, sec, code, pm, advocacy, writing, design)
- monthly or weekend meetings with an agenda and notes taken (think non-profit board meetings)
- good documentation both internal and external

this is a start. i've been working on this for a long time, just looking for folks to click up with. have a few in the eu ready to go but we're more on the sec/infra/cryptography side. will have to fill in the blanks.
@prologic then make it happen? a lot of work goes into these pre-baked self-hosting platforms. most of us just build our own methodology just like you did with swarm on mills-dc.

there's always going to be very opinionated implementations that don't work for everyone. in the end, have to do what works best for your use-case or have a co-op who can make decisions together
@prologic is this for scraping public pods?
@prologic yes.
@movq you can also ask @akoizumi (novaburst or whatever name this week), he knows yeti.
@prologic

going to have to swallow a frog for a while. no one suggested you use the platforms like every other person begging for attention and hyper stimulation.

use them to boost your signal. most oss/foss projects use at least twitter for announcements.

how can anyone discover whatever it is you're building this week without you talking about it on popular platforms?

this is why many brilliant projects and ideas die. nobody knows about them.

without some sort of effort to spread the word by the time people find it, it's no longer relevant.

-- a guy who did the same shit and lost 3500 iphones.
@movq he seems to have ghosted. but he's on tilde irc
@prologic @ocdtrekkie has a point about the self-hosted platforms. there's tons of them. and deploy your own systems like homelabos, yunh, etc. get your apps in there as a start just like you did with yarn on vultr marketplace. but that wasn't my point

my point was to mingle with the self-hosting crowds on other platforms like twitter, reddit, etc. this will require effort and consistency to steer them to whatever platform(s) you decide to cook up.

then you'll likely start seeing more people trickle in to see what's up. that's your gateway to your iaas/paas idea. and maybe could help make the world a better place.

as for me, i've given up on trying to make the world better. i'm just working on my own world.
@abucci even if you disable these settings, you're on an android phone. google never leaves and consistently sends datapoints and telemetry forever. do you think disabling the browser settings does much in this case?

either way have you taken a look at other aosp builds that are de-googled?
@movq from tildeverse he had some similar ideas. also german :-)
@movq @prologic rms batch transmits. if it's good enough for him we can do it too. but i draw the line at eating my feet.
@movq du erinnerst mich sehr oft an "yeti".
@mckinley iphone per hour is a remnant of a odd situation from february. does not represent any of our finances.

if i calculate my iphone/hr finance equation it would put me in the one per leap year category.

internet throughput related prior to my decent debut as a digital hobo i ran 1gbps, 2gbps, and 5gbps fiber links.

could download the entire internet while my leer jet was being fueled and my platinum-coated kalashnikov was given a massage by a team of swedish courtesans.

this thread is depressing. i miss being a billionaire and parking my aventador in my library while tai lopez fetches my crushed velvet smoking jacket.
@prologic

im the last person to ask about what's acceptable or appropriate.

however bringing awareness could come in the form of being on public social networks simply for announcements, having more github activity and interaction, finding one of countless blogs to do a q&a on or have someone review and do a tutorial on it. tons of no-to-low cost marketing techniques that avoid becoming a shitbag. :-)

also might i suggest thinking focusing on the self-hosting crowd? a well written post on reddit might stir some interest.

i know how you feel about social networks. (we both worked at one). but use their platform to pump our ecosystem.
@prologic

the global internet is your house.

ive seen your setup first hand.
@jlj @darch @eldersnake @prologic

what is there to be concerned about? its a small system and there hasn't been a huge push to get it out there compared to some of the push fediverse and other things get.

unfortunately most go for quantity over quality which is why it costs millions to run twitter daily and a few cents to run yarnd

i will add a pod once i settle in. but there's more out there.
@prologic we did talk about it. wasn't sure of the name. would like to know more someday. not today though. lacking sleep.
@jimhalpert there's nothing important about using gpu/cpu/asic to solve sudoku puzzles to buy heroin on darknet.
@screem @prologic

new gig must be going well. id ask what sort of salary they provide but instead im curious how many iphones per hour you can buy

cc @ullarah
@screem @prologic

wow thats an amazing...


keyboard. 75%?
@prologic no issues here. been online the last 4 hours.

keep this bookmarked. https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

good place to start
@prologic what is gonix
@prologic @movq @lyse

they are right in one sense but wrong in their delivery.

if a pod had a pv attached on storage plane and the pod does something (could be anything) to corrupt the pv, the scheduler will continue to kill the pod since its pvc pointing to pv cannot be fulfilled.

there is no proper time for pod death. kubernetes will kill pods for whatever reason it deems necessary at any given time. its purpose is to ensure declared state is met at all times.

now all that being said ext4 corruption can and does happen on the underlying storage that supports your storage plane (ceph+took, talos, nfs, iscsi, etc) but a pod cannot directly cause this.

if the csi driver/storage plane had some bug or takes a flaming shit sure it can corrupt the blob storage but not a pod.

basically it means they gave you the right answer to the wrong question.

if you need help im happy to discuss.
@prologic im theorizing we've got another 10 years as a species. we've gone and fucked everything up. nature is furious. rightfully so.

one could ponder the idea that if we weren't so population-dense life could be more sustainable.

but like you said. humans are stupid and selfish. im not excluded from that blanket statement.
@abucci not sure what part of the us you live in. but when antifa starts destroying property that is not theirs to destroy or people are cancelled because they have a viewpoint or opinion the mob doesn't agree with that's just as fucked as the people they claim are nazis.

send me the list of hundreds of nazi instances, would you? ill see if I can compile this against a list of known instances across the fediverse and visualize it. ill even write it in go.
@prologic then you deal with the privacy concerns of contact tracing.
@prologic ice blocks in hell before i deny anyone a feeling regardless of how delusional i may perceive it.

but how does one logically chastise another human being for being human? we all carry pathogens and microbes. evolution has given us the ability to adapt over time. without it you'd drop dead from a mild cold.
@prologic


what does becoming sick have to do with selfishness or stupidity?

you have an immune system for a reason. when you isolate like you do your immune system weakens. after a lack of exposure to community pathogens your immune system falls back to your tuned antibody instructions (basic immune response vs targeted response from learned immunity) this ultimately makes it tougher to fight off whatever comes your way.

increase your intake of zinc, c, and d3/k2. increase your hydration.

unless you plan on living by yourself for your life in a cave in guatemala or some shit you're going to need to expose yourself to microbes so when you do catch a bug your immune system is better equipped.

before you say it, no im not an internet doctor. years of medical training and saving lives on the ground during and prior to wuhan.
@prologic 100%. doing what you (or previously myself) do in the cloud would bankrupt us in a new york minute.
@prologic

build your own world. that's my goal.
@mckinley t430 is one of the best t series there is
@prologic @carsten


this is wise carsten. one way communication can really help tune out the noise.

also ive seen a lot of conspiracy theorists. but that's the internet. happens on all platforms. so many people these days can't think for themselves. they become slaves to delusion and consensus bias.

the plague and countless other trigger points have encouraged a global war amongst humans. most don't know what they're angry about anymore.

they're desperate to be heard, get attention, and seek a neurotic level of approval from their networks.

at one point we as a species had integrity. now we'll whore out for a like.

really strange world we live in.
@carsten @prologic it costs money to keep the lights on and profit. apple and the rest are not a public benefit corporation. $10 for 2tb of online storage is pretty cheap. especially with all the convenience features apple provides like scanning your files for you and providing a nice interface to law enforcement.

seems like a hell of a deal to me.
@novaburst at least they use misskey which is a nice ui for activitypub.

i still rss a few timelines from technical people but lost interest in dealing with warped individuals.

many are deluded into thinking they're a japanese anime character or a woman while wearing a beard who are so far gone if you disagree with their rhetoric you're magically labeled a fascist.

maybe im old and based. but I've yet to find any meaning in any of this. it feels like a mass psychosis experiment.
@carsten an afterthought. it reminds me of people saying "guns are dangerous". they are not dangerous by themselves. it takes a human who is dangerous to make them so. social media platforms count on the weakness in human beings and their ability to be weaponized rather easily.
@carsten i don't think it's clear if he quit fediverse or not. but it's comical that he has to mention neo-nazis. i've been in and out of the fediverse since the beginning and the % of neo-nazis is small. there's 1-2 extremely shithole instances harboring them, but most instances have defederated them. but then again anyone the radical left doesn't like is a default neo-nazi.

@novaburst you've mentioned this before. are you still plugged into an instance?
@screem i think it depends on what your goals are. my own was to have a hardened phone that i can control. pixel serves that purpose for me with grapheneos.
@movq of course i was joking. i'm sure gentoo is a fine distribution or was when i tried it when it first released.

i recently rebuilt and included pipewire. my hesitation was that implementation a while back when they tried to layer pipewire on top of pulseaudio in one of the arch variants. multiple times a day i had to disconnect my speakers and reconnect. miserable existence.
@movq you'll be fine. if you were using pipewire and gentoo i'd recommend protective gear
@carsten @prologic

the architecture reminds me of iceland.

wherever you are. enjoy it.
@prologic


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@prologic ill reach out when i can locate your number.
@prologic

this sounds like a work ask...
@screem

have you considered a pixel 6/pro? may want to have a look at grapheneos as well.
@prologic


- screen smashed, didn't trust the repair guy so wiped everything so he could test the repair. will figure out how to get your number and everyone else's.

- terraform can do this either with kubernetes or helm provider. i may have something in my toolbag that comes close.

- strikes me funny you're asking about this. never thought id hear you mutter the word.
@mckinley @prologic win2k professional was stable. although it looked like a one night stand between novell and os2 warp.
@screem

let's hope the subscription is ad-free.

@prologic (#x3kam3q)

never am i to be nostradamus, but would not surprise me if we hit total collapse in the near-term.

i collect rain and dehumidifier water for the garden i planted. on humid days 4-6l i store into my tank.

if it becomes illegal or already is my response is, come and take it
@screem @prologic

you will own nothing and enjoy it.
@off_grid_living that's about what i pay in the states. im at ~50% solar. hvac is the culprit.~
@lyse the tooling has changed over the years but the practise itself is ~8yr.

i intentionally delete systems and/or data to verify things are working.~
@prologic the math is as mind-blogging as 6-minute iphones.
@prologic proof positive greed is universal regardless of which direction your toilet flushes.
@darren

solve the problem by making them do the yard work if they want to eat said meats.
@prologic if they don't have infrastructure already buried they have to trench and blow from the nearest ring or hut. if they are able to guarantee subscriber density > 50% sometimes they will absorb the cost. otherwise the 80$usd/mo is a diminishing return.

true cost of the pull and installation is 11kusd for the record. rest is hand-rubbing profit.
@movq @novaburst @carsten @lyse

i have an interesting approach which i'm planning to write about on blog/gemini.

it's fairly elaborate, but here's highlight:
- don't rely on sms or mobile device for anything
- main .dotphilez and other non-secret configs are encrypted and routed to five remote locations every 15 minutes to s3 endpoints (minio)
- media replicates to 3 external drives, 3 external locations
- every system or service has no less than 3 hardware tokens strategically placed in places that aren't ~/
- bailout codes (glass-breakers) are individually secured and sharded. these live somewhere on the internet as fragments

~8y running this setup, haven't lost anything. have had drives, keys, media fail but there's always a way~
@ocdtrekkie the twtxt spec is public, nothing stopping you from writing your own for ios.
@ocdtrekkie @mckinley primarily audio and visual issues. like the instance isp had issues at the time but could have been my link. have since moved can't say connectivity has improved here.
@mckinley are you still using peercalls? the last couple of times i used it the experience was flaky. the last call you and i had along with @prologic was tough to get through due to connectivity issues and what not. curious to know if you did jitsi last night
@carsten moving here i never thought i would see something like this happen. i appreciate the ability to carry weapons as it's a dangerous world and a dangerous country to which i feel people should be able to arm themselves to defend their home and family.

what i never expected in a country that claims such freedom is that a government would come down and tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies.

this indeed is a sad state of affairs, and i don't see things ever getting better in this country. one could consider moving, but the ripple effect from their decisions do have global impact.

i've always dreamed of a better world. it appears i need to keep dreaming.
@ullarah well played
@prologic @ullarah doves > sneakers.
@slashdot @prologic to be fair you use signal. will you leave it? legit curious.
@prologic if it's too expensive to change companies won't do it. looking at bancs
@movq good idea. also 3-4l of h2o. add .25gm of salt/litre
@screem no worries. i've enough unique systems to know your concerns.
@prologic @ocdtrekkie @ullarah @darch @lyse @mckinley

third week in a row i missed it. when it's not work it's sleep. will make a point to join next one. hope you guys had fun.
@movq jfc. reminds me of the heatwave in the states.
@prologic @screem now that i think of it throw it on oracle/was/gcp free tier.

there's no such thing as privacy with any provider that controls the traffic path and the metal in the dc.

didn't we get it running on-prem last month? or am i inhaling petrol and suffering memory lapse?
@prologic

you won't allow me to forget.

by the by. when are we dropping yarn on linode?
@novaburst you might be able to find a chassis on ebay which you could transplant the pi
@prologic that works. i'll have my people call your people using an iphone derived from 11 minutes of labour :-)
@mckinley this sir, is a thing of nightmares :-)
@prologic grab a drink and a peercall and we'll discuss.

i took a look at box and think it's a good path forward. it's like a docker-lite from what i gather. this is an area of research for me, so if you'd like to collaborate, i'm interested.
@prologic here's my take on kubernetes.

it's simple in principle and architecture. but the infinite abstractions and constant tool-shifting makes it a schizophrenic erector set for angry adults.

next time we session let me show you a couple of ideas on how to make it simple and keep it that way.

and yes, i still rock swarm as the main dc.
@prologic @screem

- racknerd
- frantech
- netcup
- hetzner

all inexpensive. i have a couple of prepaid vps im not using you can have one.
@prologic sounds like you need an operator who can wrench this for you.
@xuu of course, mfa goes without saying. passphrase+mfa wins every time. i was delving more into the cryptography and mathematics behind it coming from a lot of research in this area. but point well received.
@eaplmx indeed and thank you for unpacking further. your use of mnemonics is a good substitute for complex long passwords (still better than dog1234).

and if you have issues with typing, some form of password manager is helpful. unless of course it's your luks partition or something else then you should burn this into the cortex.
@prologic tls-intercept would be considered bad if you were doing it to someone else. feel free to break your own proxies.

in the interim, have a look at how dnsmasq. it can be used to rewrite hostnames at the os-layer or you can package in container for further network-wide shenanigans.
@carsten manchmal ist es schwierig, zwischen dem web und einem terminal zu wechseln. wenn sie sich jemals dafür entscheiden, wird es hilfreich sein, einen guten workflow zu finden.
a yeti drove a truck through a pi shop
@prologic

passwords for the most part are dead. high-entropy bit mnemonics are the way.

have a look at the bip-39 spec. theoretically unbreakable given a proper implementation. the caveat is many services don't allow for a charset > 50 which forces the consumer to reduce entropy bits by way of varchar constraints.

while a passphrase or mnemonic with a length of 8 words ie: red glue seven wifi belief bacon zebra pipe is rather strong, it's also the sequence of the words that contribute to the breakage. if you were to set prologic builds software that needs some maintainers today this would be simpler in theory to crack since the progression of words forms a common speech pattern which can be brute forced easier.

this would make a good friday call
@prologic time to package it up and setup an endpoint.
@mckinley

> For a lot of folks, it’s 100% social media. If they don’t see it there, they don’t see it. They only see what their preferred social media services want them to see.

this is discouraging for current and future generations. i don't participate in social beyond what you see here, but it's got to be a rough existence being spoonfed whatever a machine decides.
@darch i had no idea this was a thing, thank you!
@movq i received the point of the article loud and clear. there's plenty of young people who have become frustrated and sought out ways to aggregate. of course mass re-adoption is futile, but putting the information out there in a way that makes things simple for others is likely a good plan. meanwhile i'll go back to baking a docker container that can aggregate nearly anything you throw at it
@lyse same here. solves the same problem with a toothpick vs a javelin
@movq @carsten

i don't think rss has gone anywhere. it's likely obfuscated by all of these apps and services that aggregate for you. my reader is full of blogs and videos. also @mckinley work on watching videos from the terminal and aggregating via rss. it's a great workflow
@darren welcome. you'll have a good time here.

@ullarah @prologic

sounds like we need a stay peercall and adequate amounts of booze sprinkled with iphone finance math
@novaburst it's time to golang a d20
@prologic sounds like a fitting description for me.

based and backed by a text file :-)
@lyse gui interface programming is my kryptonite as well. i know my limits, and my limits are text. :-)
@tkanos how are you running the image?

- compute engine
- anthos
- cloud run
- gke

each one will have a slightly different approach.

if you're running from the terminal docker run -e DOMAIN='toxik.com' -rm myimage where -e is how you pass the the environment variables at execution time. if you need multiples you can do -e DOMAIN='toxik.com' -e TZ='UTC' and so on
@prologic

- api
- controller manager
- etcd
- scheduler

simple component architecture. it's the 9th circle of hell level abstractions that really cause the scientist to become a farmer.
@lyse perhaps i should have said parallel dimension or planet? although the architecture at its core is very simple

@movq unlikely. but i'm sure there's a helm chart for big foot