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/

Does anyone know if it's possible to do object detection of static images on a raspberry pi?

I'm wondering if I can use an ai or something to tell me when the chickens have gone to bed.

Thinking a cron job that runs every 5 minutes and counts chickens in an image, if there are three for n checks we can assume they are in bed for the night and can be locked up.

Equally we could know they are awake and want letting out.

I'm finding lots of info on AI hardware...

I'm really bored of being drip fed announcements.

This morning we have the news telling us what will be announced in 12 hours time. But we don't know for sure until it is announced.

And this is the announcement that was announced days ago.

Yet other times we have announcements that just happen and take effect immediately (like lockdown and schools closing)

I'm about to change the nameservers for mastodon.radio to mythic-beasts who also host the VPS.

It's possible this may cause some disruption, but it shouldn't.

#instanceAdmin

Now we have #xmpp on mastodon.radio... What's a cool thing to do with it?
(Other than talk to people obviously)

mastodon.radio users!

I've (hopefully) got ejabberd running on mastodon.radio!

If you want to give it a try, connect to mastodon.radio using your #XMPP client of choice and your mastodon credentials (thanks to @mike for the magic sauce that does this)

Feel free to ping me a message and we can see if this thing is working as intended.

I've had another project idea I'll probably never make.

I know you can get Power Pole distribution things for taking your PSU/battery and sharing it with multiple radios.
(obviously power poles are the best connector for this)

I'd like to add something like an ESP32 and some relays so you can control the power to your radio via e.g. WiFi

I often operate my radio on data via VNC, and it would be nice to be able to turn it on and off as required rather than leaving it running 24/7

I saw someone post about using old browsers and old computers and how even the simplest HTTP sites were now out of the reach of these because HTTPS just doesn't work.

So, I've changed my website to not redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

Related? I've also now set up a #TOR Hidden Service.

Now you can view my website over:
* Gopher gopher://m0yng.uk
* Gemini gemini://m0yng.uk
* HTTP http://m0yng.uk
* HTTPS https://m0yng.uk
* TOR http://jmtp5ljchlww4vedleoqeysjx6pjlomb3is7vyzkvcyjdgv3p6hq7nid.onion

For me, I chose mastodon because it was the most complete and professional looking that I knew of.

I like the design choices of longer but not massive message length, no quote toots, etc.

I'd probably choose it again, but I'd also shop around more seriously first.

I kind of regret the domain name though, I think it would be better to not tie so closely to the software.

A question for instance admins.

Why did you choose the software you did?
(Eg mastodon, pleroma, misskey, etc)

Would you still make the same choice now, after running your server for a while?

#instanceAdmin #FediMeta

Does there exist some sort of cyber deck packet radio combo?

I'm wondering about some sort if "road warrior" for accessing and serving stuff over packet radio.

A TNC used to be big, but with direwolf and single board computers and usb-c doing power delivery at 15v it feels like you could make a chunky but compact and portable complete packet node.

#amateurRadio
#packetRadio