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eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:32 PM

Assuming the DNS is playing ball now, my little personal site https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/ is now self hosted and solar powered. As @mckinley can attest, running on the original nearlyfreespeech.net non-production plan could use as little as $0.01 per day so there's not really any advantage to this, its just... because I can 🙃

prologic

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:34 PM

@mckinley @eldersnake Photos? 🤔

prologic

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:34 PM

@mckinley @eldersnake Photos? 🤔

prologic

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:36 PM

Not working here 😥

prologic

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:36 PM

Not working here 😥

adi

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:41 PM

@eldersnake @mckinley How are you "solar" powering it?

adi

f.adi.onl

9/15/2021, 10:41 PM

@eldersnake @mckinley How are you "solar" powering it?

adi

f.adi.onl

9/15/2021, 10:42 PM

@prologic @mckinley @eldersnake Yeah, photos?

adi

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:42 PM

@prologic @mckinley @eldersnake Yeah, photos?

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:43 PM

bugger ! and yet works on everything I test it on outside of the home network 🤣 typical. Did you use the www sub domain ? I know it doesn't load on the root "naked" domain yet.

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:49 PM

eh yeah photos will come but I need to tidy the installation. I've had the solar setup itself for a while, a 160w solar panel on a regular deep cycle car battery powering an LTE Optus Broadband connection, which feeds into a GL-AR300 mini router connected to a 110m Ethernet run of cable back to my house. Its as Jerry rigged as it comes, but I live quite rural and its been a secondary connection as I only have a satellite broadband connection otherwise 😔 until Starlink lands anyway

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:51 PM

the reason for the distance from the house is the LTE connection is hooked up to dual MiMo yagis to get a strong signal.

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 10:56 PM

the server itself is on a Raspberry Pi 3+. Probably the worst internet setup for a public server ever, but its been fine in my testing. Its even loading fine for me on my phone and I'm out and about at the moment, so I dont know why its not loading for others unless its a DNS propergation thing.

adi

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:24 PM

@eldersnake No 'www' http://andrewjvpowell.com/ doesn't work!

adi

f.adi.onl

9/15/2021, 11:24 PM

@eldersnake No 'www' http://andrewjvpowell.com/ doesn't work!

adi

f.adi.onl

9/15/2021, 11:28 PM

@adi @eldersnake I get something along:\n\n> Temporarily Unavailable\n> The website at andrewjvpowell.com is unreachable at the moment. Possible explanations:\n\n> Your pagekite.py may need to be upgraded!\n> The computer may have been turned off\n> The computer may be disconnected from the Internet\n> The PageKite program may not be running

adi

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:28 PM

@adi @eldersnake I get something along:

> Temporarily Unavailable
> The website at andrewjvpowell.com is unreachable at the moment. Possible explanations:

> Your pagekite.py may need to be upgraded!
> The computer may have been turned off
> The computer may be disconnected from the Internet
> The PageKite program may not be running

adi

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:28 PM

@adi @eldersnake I get something along:\n\n> Temporarily Unavailable\n> The website at andrewjvpowell.com is unreachable at the moment. Possible explanations:\n\n> Your pagekite.py may need to be upgraded!\n> The computer may have been turned off\n> The computer may be disconnected from the Internet\n> The PageKite program may not be running

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:29 PM

@adi try https

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:33 PM

and it will need the "www" as well as https. Seems I'll need a redirect..
To explain, because my ISP blocks port 80 and 443, I'm using Pagekite to tunnel it out, but im currently only running a tunnel to https.

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/15/2021, 11:33 PM

and it will need the "www" as well as https. Seems I'll need a redirect..\nTo explain, because my ISP blocks port 80 and 443, I'm using Pagekite to tunnel it out, but im currently only running a tunnel to https.

adi

f.adi.onl

9/16/2021, 12:23 AM

@eldersnake I'm redirected to http from https and getting those messages?

adi

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 12:23 AM

@eldersnake I'm redirected to http from https and getting those messages?

adi

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 12:24 AM

@eldersnake Ok, works with https and www.

adi

f.adi.onl

9/16/2021, 12:24 AM

@eldersnake Ok, works with https and www.

eldersnake

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 12:49 AM

yeah ill have to add a http tunnel when I get home. I have my Nginx config set to redirect to https from http requests but of course if i don't have a http tunnel it would never get there. silly me 🤦‍♀️

mckinley

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 01:14 AM

@eldersnake How's the experience actually using PageKite? I've recommended it as an alternative to Ngrok but I haven't had a reason to use it myself.

mckinley

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 01:14 AM

@eldersnake How's the experience actually using PageKite? I've recommended it as an alternative to Ngrok but I haven't had a reason to use it myself.

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding internet to your local machine:


SSH_HOST=https://xuu.me
PRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519
forward:
	LOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding internet to your local machine:\n

\nSSH_HOST=https://xuu.me\nPRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519\nforward:\n\tLOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"\n

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding internet to your local machine:


SSH_HOST=https://xuu.me
PRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519
forward:
	LOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"

xuu@dev.txt.sour.is

dev.txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding internet to your local machine:


SSH_HOST=https://xuu.me
PRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519
forward:
\tLOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding:\n

\nSSH_HOST=https://xuu.me\nPRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519\nforward:\n\tLOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"\n

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:56 PM

a simple Makefile for forwarding internet to your local machine:


SSH_HOST=https://xuu.me
PRIV_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519
forward:
\tLOCAL_PORT=$(HOST_PORT); sh -c "$(shell http --form POST $(SSH_HOST) pub=@$(PRIV_KEY).pub | grep ^ssh | head -1 | awk '{ print "ssh -T -p " $$4 " " $$5 " -R " $$7 " -i $(PRIV_KEY)"  }')"

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:58 PM

using this as the service: https://github.com/JonLundy/sshfwd

xuu@dev.txt.sour.is

dev.txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:58 PM

using this as the service: https://github.com/JonLundy/sshfwd

xuu

txt.sour.is

9/16/2021, 05:58 PM

using this as the service: https://github.com/JonLundy/sshfwd

adi

twtxt.net

9/16/2021, 08:46 PM

@xuu Looks cool!

adi

f.adi.onl

9/16/2021, 08:46 PM

@xuu Looks cool!