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

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

We're now running v3.2.1

Changelog and info:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.2.1

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F4GOH #aprs chilling out in nature.

Got it all to fit in the box!
Had to use a flat cell rather than the 18650.

Not sure what to make the button do... maybe change mode (car, bike, walking, etc.) or toggle position ambiguity?

Anyone know what font is being used for the "CARA NEWS" bit?

It's the very first issue of CARA News (@G5BK) from 1977!

Everyone, Please welcome @KD2QPX!

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

Oops, sorry for the downtime.

This time it was the backups which used the very last bit of disk space available on the server.

FYI - I run a backup of the database every day, and it comes to nearly 500Mb - compressed!
The backups are then synced to my home NAS and older backups removed from the server.
But I trim the old ones manually, and hadn't done it recently.

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Everyone, Please welcome @johnbailey!

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

I'm making a thing to map #aprs stuff my station sees.

Mostly it works, and I can see the path packets take to get to me.

But a lot go via MB7USW, but I've never heard MB7USW beacon.

Is that normal?
Do digipeters not usually have WIDE in their path?
I'm pretty sure that's why I've not heard it.

I'm trying to parse this #aprs packet with libaprs in python

M0YNG-10>APRX29,:!5156.00NI00204.00W&Tx-iGate

But it gives this error

invalid callsign in path

... and looking at it I've never been heard "on the air"
Is aprx screwing up my beacons somehow?

Appeal following unprovoked assault on Cleeve Common last month | Gloucestershire Constabulary
https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news/gloucestershire/news/appeal-following-unprovoked-assault-on-cleeve-common-last-month/

I know the chap who was assaulted, I understand he's doing OK.

Anyone every tried to use lighttpd to reverse proxy a motion jpeg server?

It seems fine with static stuff, but the mjpg just sits there not loading.

Does this work with a different web server?

I'm not finding much into on this by searching so wonder if anyone has done it and knows.

Urgh.

So many people near me have ring doorbells.

I'm tempted to try gdpr it and tell ring they do not have permission to process my data...

But are there any more... Active... Ways to prevent it recording me walking down the street?
I've seen someone who developed a targeted WiFi deauth, but that doesn't help if it's not a WiFi device, and is dubious on the legality.