2024-08-30 19:47 UTC
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@kwf@social.afront.org 2024-08-30 20:01
Context: @warthog9@social.afront.org and I run a managed appliance service called MicroMirror, where we take cash donations (https://en.liberapay.com/phirephly/) and use them to deploy free software download mirrors based on the cheapest hardware possible. https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2023/05/building-micro-mirror-free-software-cdn.html The B4SH ISP in Surrey volunteered to host one of our appliances in their network, so they donate space, power, and transit capacity for the server we ship them to just plug in. For some reason, this was the best spot for them to plug this server is. 🤷 We are up to 35 of these Micro sized download mirrors worldwide. Because these sorts of things just tend to get out of hand for me.
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@mivox@mivox.net 2024-08-30 19:55
@kwf@social.afront.org @tychotithonus@infosec.exchange 😂 I love this. Most scenic software repository ever? Perhaps!
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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv 2024-08-30 20:17
@kwf@social.afront.org wow, that's a story 😀
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@chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt 2024-08-30 20:24
@kwf@social.afront.org i only use free-range operating systems
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@hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org 2024-08-30 20:40
@kwf@social.afront.org gigupanddown dot net, but is it really?
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@petterroea@infosec.exchange 2024-08-30 23:01
@kwf@social.afront.org that's amazing Kenneth - keep up the good work! Is this uhh.... Guerilla mirroring?
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@vxo@digipres.club 2024-08-31 00:12
@kwf@social.afront.org it makes sense, but I wasn't expecting it to be THAT localized. That's funky
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@log@mastodon.sdf.org 2024-08-31 01:11
@kwf@social.afront.org Very sorry, but I have to ask.... Is that data center bigger on the inside?
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@kkarhan@infosec.space 2024-08-31 01:17
@kwf@social.afront.org personally I love those #fanless #ThinClients as they make power-saving #MiniServers that are cheap to buy and keep online and since they have no moving parts, maintenance is minimal...
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@meganmariehart@mastodon.social 2024-08-31 04:49
@kwf@social.afront.org Wow, pasture raised servers!!
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@arclight@oldbytes.space 2024-08-31 10:18
@kwf@social.afront.org These are LOCAL FILES for LOCAL PEOPLE!
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@Nux@fosstodon.org 2024-08-31 16:32
@kwf@social.afront.org hasn't Fedora moved to a private cdn yet?
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@g0fcu@mastodon.radio 2024-08-31 16:38
@kwf@social.afront.org Bizarrely, before I read your next post I recognised the location of the picture, about a quarter of a mile from my house. I am a B4SH shareholder and customer, they are a great bunch of people.
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@CauseOfBSOD@wetdry.world 2024-09-02 18:00
@kwf@social.afront.org youre telling me that my software updates actually come from a thin client sitting in that there box? wow im amazed it doesnt crash from load
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@alex@blog.mbe.tv 2024-09-03 00:58
@kwf@social.afront.org this is so cool!
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@dottorblaster@fosstodon.org 2024-09-03 23:03
@kwf@social.afront.org @stevelord@bladerunner.social this works *way* better than my internet cabinet that constantly loses connection each other hour. My ISP definitely should/could learn something from you and from the Surrey
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@k0ffy@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-10 19:13
@kwf@social.afront.org Kenneth, this is 99.9% unrelated, but reading this made me think of the Localizers in the 1999 sci-fi novel Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. You ever read that? I feel like you would be the person to invent Localizers (smart dust) in that book.