Humans only use 10% of their brain.
You can plug an Ethernet cable into an Android phone with a USB-C Ethernet adapter, and then click "Ethernet tether" in your phone. Then connect the phone to the server rack to keep the servers online during an outage.
America is obsessed with mushrooms this year. And to be clear I don't mean the food or the drug. I mean the fungus.
> Perched high in the White Mountains of Eastern California, this gnarled bristlecone pine stands as a testament to resilience at an elevation exceeding 10,000 feet (3,200 meters). These remarkable trees hold the record for the oldest living non-clonal organisms on Earth, with some individuals dating back nearly 5,000 years — contemporary with the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.
> The environment that nurtures these ancient sentinels is unforgivingly harsh. Bitter cold, fleeting summers, relentless winds, and nutrient-poor soil would seem to promise certain death for most living things. Paradoxically, these extreme conditions are precisely why bristlecone pines not only survive but flourish. Their incredibly slow growth results in wood so dense and robust that it becomes virtually impervious to insects, disease, and the erosive forces that would destroy less tenacious organisms.
What I take from this is that it's okay to grow slowly.
It's a "tower" technically, but it's very very small.
Raspberry Pi is a good idea if your workload supports it. But it's ARM.
Yep I have like 4 of them. They're home theater PCs and GitLab CI workers. But only because I have more powerful servers hosting my websites already.
Dell Optiplex are tiny, absurdly cheap computers that are a great first step for self-hosting out of your house.
Why? Businesses and schools buy hundreds of these at once and then "liquidate" them a few years later. Therefore they're way cheaper than regular PCs for their specs.
For less than the cheapest smartphone you can own a small slice of the Internet.
There are many times where people think "but you can't just..!"
But you actually just CAN.
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The ActivityPub bridge simply doesn't have "root" markers. It never has. I will overhaul it soon and fix this.
They increased my limit to 1000 users. For now I'll whitelist my own account and make the bridge perfect. I will add spam protection to it. Then if it hits the limit again I will ask them to increase it.
I'm glad they're working with me on it. But it's very sad the "winning" decentralized network of today requires permission.
This is not even a commentary on the userbase. It's a commentary on the design of the protocol.
This is what I imagine plays during mandatory Bluesky staff meetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAGw92RHQc
Nostr.
"Decentralized" networks political compass.
