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/

I've also deployed an image optimiser so the images are taking up 20Mb LESS now too.

I just had a "Why not?" moment.

I have my site available over http, #gopher, and #gemini
Each had their own directory for the content and images.

Why can't they all be in the same place?

Well, they can.
and now they are.

Which means I don't have 44Mb of images in three places, and all the servers are looking at the same directory (so you can view gopher files via http, and html via gemini, if you want)

agate is weird and wants its own directory for certificates and content, so symlink!

Everyone, Please welcome @W5IC !

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

This is a super fun game. For a relaxing time turn off the music but keep the sound on.

Vector Pinball (Pinball game) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy

@bacardi55 I've just tried to install gtl, but had issues 😟

When I run "make dependencies" I get an error that tcell has a malformed module path.

Invalid char ' '

I've never used go before so...

Tip: when making up a charging cable for your cheap Chinese radio that didn't come with a plug for your country - don't guess at the polarity of the connector or assume it will have reverse polarity protection.

Does anyone know if you can get stacking dupont cables?
My searches on eBay are failing...

I have multiple i2c devices and I want to connect them all together, and being able to branch, stack, whatever-the-word-is the jumper cables from one to the next would be ideal (I think?)

#!/bin/bash

echo "Visitors to $(hostname) on $(date +%d/%b/%Y)"

HTTPV=$(grep "\[`date +%d/%b/%Y`" /var/log/nginx/access.log | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l)

GOPHERV=$(grep "\[`date +%d/%b/%Y`" /var/log/gopher | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l)

GEMINIV=$(grep "`date +'%b %d'`" /var/log/gemini.log | cut -d" " -f11 | sort | uniq | wc -l)

echo "HTTP Gopher Gemini"
echo "$HTTPV $GOPHERV $GEMINIV"

oops.

Logged into the wrong control panel and issued a reinstall command for the wrong VM.

Luckily it was my personal VM that runs m0yng.uk so nothing important but I really should check these things.

Oh well, I'm now running a more up-to-date version of agate.

I wonder...

Adafruit INA260 current and voltage sensor, a raspberry pi pico, a basic display, and I'd have made a multimeter?

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/adafruit-ina260-high-or-low-side-voltage-current-power-sensor

Fedi, I need some open source help.

I have a friend who has an elderly relative who keeps getting lost...

They have asked me for recommendations on location tracking.

The relative has a phone, but isn't confident using it so anything needs to Just Work with no interactions.

I know about owntracks and traccar, but my friend doesn't want to run their own server.

What am I missing?

#carposting

Have had a wiggly exhaust on the car for about a week now, kept thinking I'd need to take it to the garage. Today I actually looked and saw two rubber things had clearly failed. Replacement parts were £2.78 for two from the motor factor (with 60℅ discount because reasons!)

Lifted the silencer with a trolley jack, the old rubber basically fell off. Slipped the new rubber in place, done. Took barely a minute.

Does #gemini GUS not exist any more? 'cos I can't load gemini://gus.guru