Bringing the Technology Home
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dusting For a while now I've been moving a lot of my "data" back from the
far reaches of the corporate internet where possible. It has been a long
term change, I like self hosting, it's something interesting to do and fun
to get things to work. I stopped for a while since the new internet is
basically just bots trying to wreck what they can, harvest data, or
gleefully sent off with compromised credentials to steal. However, I've got
quite a fair bit better at locking down the servers and the network. Since
the proliferation of utter shitfuckery (2016) I've moved my digital life
over to hosts in more stable countries or used trusted hosts, then
gradually started moving things back on to machines at home. During the
Eternal Lockdowns(TM) fully rebooted this project and now with the farce
the social networks and their glorious leaders living in their own plain of
existence (plus the occasional leak of how the companies are being run) I
was able to kick it up a gear. Lately I've joined up also using cooperative
external hosts like Ouvaton, Nubo, and L'Autre Net for things I don't have
the capcity to do myself. Over the past month I was able to rehome =>
https://photos.om.gay Photo Hosting => https://w8.org Microblogging =>
https://blog.om.gay Blogging => https://om.gay Email + Web => gemini://oh.mg
Gemini => gopher://oh.mg Gopher Some of these things hosted on one of the
machines in the cover image, which isn't bad going for an ADSL connection.
For the moment, still getting back on the ropes with Plume (managed to
acquire some not so great federated SPAM / instances I've blocked), working
out how (and where) I repatriate my LiveJournal entries, and just vibing.
dusting For a while now I've been moving a lot of my "data" back from the
far reaches of the corporate internet where possible. It has been a long
term change, I like self hosting, it's something interesting to do and fun
to get things to work. I stopped for a while since the new internet is
basically just bots trying to wreck what they can, harvest data, or
gleefully sent off with compromised credentials to steal. However, I've got
quite a fair bit better at locking down the servers and the network. Since
the proliferation of utter shitfuckery (2016) I've moved my digital life
over to hosts in more stable countries or used trusted hosts, then
gradually started moving things back on to machines at home. During the
Eternal Lockdowns(TM) fully rebooted this project and now with the farce
the social networks and their glorious leaders living in their own plain of
existence (plus the occasional leak of how the companies are being run) I
was able to kick it up a gear. Lately I've joined up also using cooperative
external hosts like Ouvaton, Nubo, and L'Autre Net for things I don't have
the capcity to do myself. Over the past month I was able to rehome =>
https://photos.om.gay Photo Hosting => https://w8.org Microblogging =>
https://blog.om.gay Blogging => https://om.gay Email + Web => gemini://oh.mg
Gemini => gopher://oh.mg Gopher Some of these things hosted on one of the
machines in the cover image, which isn't bad going for an ADSL connection.
For the moment, still getting back on the ropes with Plume (managed to
acquire some not so great federated SPAM / instances I've blocked), working
out how (and where) I repatriate my LiveJournal entries, and just vibing.