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Wander

@Wander@packmates.org

:therian: Grey Wolf Therian, he/him, 30ish y.o.
Running packmates.org and yiffit.net fediverse instances.

:vlpn_happy_heart: Interests: Tech, therianthropy, furry/feral art, animal books, shamanism & animal-influenced spirituality, SFW & NSFW petplay

I sometimes post or boost NSFW content.

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Wander, (edited ) to selfhosted
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The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

Wait, what?

Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.

We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...

The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.

It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.

In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021

PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.

cc: @selfhosted
#selfhosted #selfhosting

Wander,
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@Omniraptor ah yes! Probably that's why.
Actually the whole original post was sent via Mastodon.

I tend to write posts that I share to my Mastodon followers and then at the end I mention a Lemmy community if I believe the community would also find it interesting.

Wander,
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@benjohn @selfhosted 6-8 GB of RAM with powerful CPU and GPU that was designed to run games and can in some cases run small AI models is nothing to scoff at imho.

Wander,
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@southsamurai Oh that's definitely a huge concern, but not just for self-hosting but for privacy in general.

But still, if the average joe wants to self-host something using an old phone is probably the easiest way to get them to try self-hosted alternatives and drop corporate / commercial services.

Maybe not the 'average average joe' such as my parents, but anyone who is minimally curious enough to do stuff such as registering a domain, setting up a game server for friends and maybe has opened the CMD windows console once or twice in the past following a tutorial. That kind of demographic (IDK if it has a name) might be much more inclined to self-host if it was as easy as installing an APK and letting your phone one somewhere at home.

Overall as long as Android doesn't become straight out malicious spyware itself, the benefit of dropping commercial alternatives might very well be a net positive. In a worst-case scenario, any tunnel / vpn configuration necessary to expose a service to the internet could also add an automated step to blackhole requests to google's tracking servers.

Wander,
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@RegalPotoo Maybe I should have been more specific in the wording of my title.

No one planning on hosting public multi-user service that would see some serious traffic would probably benefit from hosting on a phone.

Someone who wants to simply run a single-user instance or their personal nextcloud? I think that's a real possibility.

Wander, (edited )
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@selfhosted Update:

  1. Just to clarify, the the whole point is that Android makes it easy for less tech oriented people to host small single user / family services.

It does not need to be perfect, have massive throughput or allow for massive amounts of read/write cycles.

If people can host their own media server like Jellyfin or note taking apps like Joplin instead of using commercial services by simply installing an APK on an old phone they can leave connected at home, that's already a big win.

  1. Regarding device longevity, Android 13 apparently supports / will support full KVM emulation. Windows can be run if you have root while android based VMs are expected to be possible without the need for root. Since this type of virtualization allows VMs to run their own kernel, keeping the "server app" updated should allow the user to be protected even if the host OS is outdated as long as these server-app-VMs are trustworthy themselves.
Wander,
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@MigratingtoLemmy use a hammer to break the screen, control via adb :vlpn_happy_blep:

Wander,
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@Wander HOLY SHIT I CAN SEE A IMAGE PREVIEW ON MASTODON.

Wander,
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@KayOhtie @Wander It wasn't working for the longest time. And I believe it still only works for SFW posts, not NSFW posts. But basically the reason I'm surprised is because either lemmy or mastodon weren't talking to each other before and now due to some change it works (albeit not always).

Wander,
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@AdellcomdoisL @Wander Actually that's my preferred option but then I was worried that by not having an option for andromorph or gynomorph characters it could also be some sort of erasure. I definitely need more feedback / opnions on the matter.

Wander, to privacy
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Federated wireguard network idea
Any feedback welcome.

Let's keep things stupidly simple and simply hash the domain name to get a unique IPv6 ULA prefix.

Then we would need a stupidly simple backend application to automatically fetch pubkeys and endpoints from DNS and make a request to add each others as peers.

Et voilà, you got a worldwide federated wireguard network resolving private ULA addresses. Sort of an internet on top of the internet .

The DNS entries with the public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses could even be delegated to other domains / endpoints which would act as reverse proxy (either routing or nesting tunnels) for further privacy.

Maybe my approach is too naïve and there are flaws I haven't considered, so don't be afraid to comment.

Exact use cases? Idk, but it sounds nifty.

cc: @fediverse

Wander,
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@fediverse I've read that this is called an overlay network. Unfortunately many of the ones I've seen documented focus on keeping things in their own private networks which is okay but not fun.

ULA addresses require no permission and were designed precisely to knit together private networks. We can just use domain names and convert them via checksum into a static ULA /48 prefix. DNS can be used to announce routes, or eventually something more BGP-like given that ownership of a domain can be verified and thus authorization to announce routes.

If domains ever become a bottleneck one could use private TLDs with some consensus mechanism and even create multi-layer networks this way where packmates.layer.1 and packmates.layer.2 are two different networks even though they might have the same address range.

Anyways, I'll go out and touch some grass now.

Wander,
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@yote_zip @HappyFrog RIP gnome 2.

Wander, to fediverse
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It's FediFriday! Share your favorite lemmy/kbin communities or your favorite fediverse content creators!

You can check out https://lemmyverse.net to find new communities.

Anyways, what are your favorites? Or what sort of community are you looking for? Maybe others have suggestions for you.


cc: @chat

Wander,
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I want to give a shout out to the SFW Feral Art Bot on Mastodon/Fediverse @feralbot and @animalshapes, an incredible artist that I found this week.

Also, on lemmy I've been digging !tech a lot. And !animals is a must for a daily dose of "aaaaw".

@chat

How has joining the furry fandom affected your life? Was it positive, negative, or did nothing of note change?

For me, joining the furry fandom has had a huge impact on my life in a good way. I learned that it's okay if I'm different or "cringe" as long as what I'm doing is making me happy. I no longer need validation from others that what I'm doing is okay because I now realize that those types of people needlessly bully individuals who...

Wander,
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@jessecool1234 It has had a huge positive impact, especially since it allowed me to meet people who are non-judgemental and accept me for who I am.

It's allowed me to be myself in a world where I had learned to pretend to not be "the weird kid" and tried to fit in too much. @chat

Wander, to Furry
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MUST READ! This will resonate with many of you:

"Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet"

https://www.vox.com/culture/23733213/fandom-purity-culture-what-is-proship-antiship-antifandom

As a furry with a feral 'sona and nsfw artwork, young furs on twitter loved to tear me to shreds U_U

Wander, to memes
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Me: if I could be a furry I'd be a feral! The reality of my choice: (by Wereshiba)

Oh, but I would still choose it regardless. I'd just have to get people to do things for me :P

Artist: https://twitter.com/wereshiba
cc: @memes

Wander, to Furry
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I haven't been to a furry convention in a lot of time... which ones do you recommend?

Doesn't matter if it's far away. I do want to eventually be able to travel, but since I haven't been keeping track of conventions, I wouldn't know which ones people recommend nowadays.

I often hear that there's many smaller conventions that trump the larger ones in regards to experience, and that's what I'm most curious about.

Thank you <3


cc: @chat

Wander, to ancientyiff
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I remember wanting the Kama Citra poster so badly but still lived with my parents (by Zaush)

Artist: https://furaffinity.net/user/Zaush
cc: @ancientyiff

Wander, to chat
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You know Reddit is screwing up when the amount of Lemmy instances spikes up like this

And it's only been a week... How do you think it's going to end?

Reddit will probably still be massive but I can see a lot of quality content moving to the fediverse. What do you think?
cc:/ @chat

Wander, to gfur
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Fox butt [by azelyn] @gfur

Wander, to furry
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I'm a fox and you are not! [by Kenket] @furry

Wander, to chat
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No lemmy account? No problem! You can submit content by simply writing a post from your favorite mastodon/fediverse client and mentioning the community you want to post to: @chat

Wander, to lemmy
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@lemmy I just realized that you can submit posts to any lemmy community from any mastodon / fediverse account. This is pretty cool!

Wander,
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@BrooklynMan yeah, this is pretty awesome. The only big thing I'm struggling with is that the community account, as seen from Mastodon, boosts absolutely everything... all comments, in any order, not just top level posts.

Wander,
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@BrooklynMan while I realize that it sometimes doesn't make sense to care too much for how mastodon users see things, maybe there's some way top posts and comments can be distinguished so that we can filter them out. But I do understand that there's limitations and it's a reasonable compromise.

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@baronvonj I don't think that's currently implemented

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