Christopher M0YNG @M0YNG@mastodon.radio

It was suggested I post, and pin, a toot with information about what it costs to run this instance.
I like this, I want to be transparent, and I think it's important that the community have trust and confidence in me, and the hosting.

Currently the costs looks like this:

* £112.50 a year for a VPS
* €25.00 a year for the domain name

All media (avatars, etc.) are sotred on the server, we use 20G of 40G so far.

More details (and optional donations) at
https://liberapay.com/M0YNG

#instanceAdmin

A helpful guide on getting started with Mastodon.
https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/

@sp6mr Thanks 😁

Yet more pointless pager things!

I think I can send APRS messages to my pager now too.

If you'd like to try, send a message to M0YNG-10
and it should appear on my pager 📟

Please welcome @ruben!

@ruben please toot an #introductions so we can get to know you 😀 add some hashtags too so we know what interests you.

You can find more people in the instance in the directory
https://mastodon.radio/explore
(you can opt into this too once you have 10 "friends", and add tags to your profile) and the local timeline.

And this list of radio amateurs on mastodon, may be of interest: https://pad.dc7ia.eu/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

And there are apps!
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Happy tooting!

You know what annoys me most about the #nordvpn incident?
I use them, and I've not received anything about it. Not a single email, notice in the app, nothing at all.
Just more marketing messages.

It really doesn't help me to trust anything about their operations if they don't admit to anything and tell me about it.

Maybe it's because I've never used the affected data centre, but if they don't log anything how would they know?

I did a blog!

📟 Pager notifications from Mastodon 🐘
http://m0yng.uk/2019/11/Pager-notifications-from-Mastodon/

Yay! I made a pointless thing!

I will now get mastodon notifications via pager! 📟 🐘 (assuming that the code hasn't crashed and I'm in range of my transmitter)

This would be extra useful if new account requests were available via the api...

#amateurRadio #pager #mastodon #90sTech

Please welcome @pe2kmv !

@pe2kmv please toot an #introductions so we can get to know you 😀 add some hashtags too so we know what interests you.

You can find more people in the instance in the directory
https://mastodon.radio/explore
(you can opt into this too once you have 10 "friends", and add tags to your profile) and the local timeline.

And this list of radio amateurs on mastodon, may be of interest: https://pad.dc7ia.eu/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

And there are apps!
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Happy tooting!

Ok mastodon.radio, now I can receive pages ... what do I do with this ability?

Seems the limit is 40 characters.

#pager #amateurRadio

and yes, I did have to disable driver signing to get the pager drivers to work, which windows 10 does make fairly hard.

For anyone wondering, yes you can run a windows 10 VM with no network connection in VirtualBox on your MacBook to programme your radios using windows only software.

Yes, the device can be connected directly to the USB of the laptop.

Yes, the VM data and vitual hard drive can be stored on a usb drive connected to a small server and connected to the laptop over the Samba protocol, over WiFi.

It's not even that slow!

My pager arrived!
I've had excellent service from the #DAPNET support team, and have everything registered and online (including my pistar for tx)

And, it worked!

#pager #amateurRadio

@vfrmedia you're a newish driver, if I remember correctly?

https://youtu.be/OUE5fcdBf9Q

Please welcome @vu2ocy !

@vu2ocy please toot an #introductions so we can get to know you 😀 add some hastags too so we know what interests you.

You can find more people in the instance in the directory
https://mastodon.radio/explore
(you can opt into this too once you have 10 "friends", and add tags to your profile) and the local timeline.

And this list of radio amateurs on mastodon, may be of interest: https://pad.dc7ia.eu/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

And there are apps!
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Happy tooting!

Tempted to try and dual boot my macbook Pro with #debian but the wiki doesn't have much recent into, and nothing on #debian10