Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP!

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00:30 Minutes In

Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David

• HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers

• Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile)

Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack

Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC

This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name.

• XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work.

• It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again.

• Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing

• When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display

• We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports

• XP-PEN seems like a good company

• Link to first photo made with the tablet

06:00 Minutes In

Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira

What is the best VPN company?

private internet access

They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents.

affiliate link

08:30 Minutes In

Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau

• Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol

link

• [Mind.com](mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks

09:20 Minutes In

Email 4 - Censorship - Rob

• What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post

11:15 Minutes in

Pick of the Week

MediaCMS

• Fully featured open source video and media CMS

• Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API

• No federation

14:00 Minutes In

Gadget of the Week

Dell's new thunderbolt dock

Dell WD19TB

• Built in thunderbolt cable
• Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port
• 2x Display Ports
• 1x HDMI
• 2x Rear USB
• 1x Front Facing USB

Dell's USB C dock

Dell WD15

17:00 Minutes In

News

• Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7

• YouTube Video

• Reddit write up

• Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill!

Prerequisites

• writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network

• Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta

• Kernel fork for h9x/A10

• Project sandcastle utilities

• EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 <-- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user

• Bridge setup script/udev rules

21:00 Minutes In

Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP

Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP

Arstechnica link

• AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps

• Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps

• Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house

• Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000)

• As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup

• Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations

• ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced

• Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming

27:30 Minutes In

Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting

• Violence is wrong, Full stop

• Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing

• Groups and People were banned from twitter so they moved to Parler

• Amazon kicked Parler off its hosting services

• Google and Apple kicked the Parler app off their platforms

• Mozzila blog post

• Community discussion (sorry to much to summarize listen to the episode)

Honorable Mention

• TeamSpeak 5 is going to be switching to the Matrix protocol for chat

• Will not federate

• Mumble is a better option

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Links:

• iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 (to GUI) - YouTube — Daniel Rodriguez
• SUCCESS: iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full gnome-shell desktop GUI : linux
• Amazon.com: 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Transmitter, Dual Link USB Audio Adapter with APTX Low Latency, Bluetooth Dongle for PC, PS4, Headphone, Speaker (Only for Audio): Electronics
• GitHub - mediacms-io/mediacms: MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.