@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah all good! The only thing that was out of the ordinary I guess was that initial problem I had with the open registration flag not working, which I worked around. But if thatās the first youāve ever heard of it, maybe it was something odd in my config/build.
@adi@twtxt.net follow my new feed will ya š
Okie dokie, PSA: Anyone following me that wants to still follow me, please do so at my new feed here: https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt. As the nicks are the same, youāll have to unfollow my current/old one.
@prologic@twtxt.net Ahh! I didnāt even think of that problem. I was planning to. I did even have my feed copied over, but deleted it because I realised anyone following both would have doubled up posts. Whatās the best course here you reckon?
@eldersnake@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net If it goes down at anytime now itāll simply be the rate limiting, which Iāll work on over time. Shouldnāt happen often, and I could technically mitigate it a bit by scheduling Pagekite to restart every so often, but not ideal.
@prologic@twtxt.net Just realised I replied to you my hosted pod, which you canāt see. Should be working now, if you try follow me on there.https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt
@prologic@twtxt.net How did you find that? xD Yeah only just connected up the domain. I have the certs, but thing I canāt wrap my head around is using SSL certs with yarn on port 8000. 443 is tied up with my website.
whatās even worse is Iāve seen domain sellers put those niche domains on mega sale for the first year, like $1.70 or so for a year, then the price jumps up anywhere between $30-70 per year depending on the domain thereafter. But the first year is more than enough time for spammers to do their thing.
Hopefully havenāt offended anyoneās eyes with this š
But hey, it will likely be a one person Pod so I guess I can go nuts.
@prologic@twtxt.net Supplying open_registrations: true
in settings.yaml also wouldnāt work unless the default was compiled to true in options.go
first, but it respects it being turned true|false afterwards. Hmm.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, regardless of using the ā-Rā flag or the long form, every time I would fire up yarnd
it would report registrations as being closed and saying neither of the flags were supplied (they were). And sure enough it was showing as closed on the actual webpage. Changing the default in options.go
let me register my account, and then turning off Open Registrations in Pod Settings worked to turn if off again.
@prologic@twtxt.net The main thing I canāt work out for the life of me is where the raw user txtxt.txt
file is š¤ I did a find
everywhere, lol!
@prologic@twtxt.net Will do! I should probably let you know yarnd was ignoring the ā-Rā open registration flag, I had to edit the default value in options.go and compile it that way. Probably something to put in a bug report but I also canāt yet discount me having done something silly on my end yetā¦
Got Yarn (yarnd) built and running on my Raspberry Pi. All goes well I might eventually migrate to my own Pod? :P Depending on how much I have to deal with rate limits via Pagekite, otherwise might have to shift it over to a VPS.
@prologic@twtxt.net Good stuff!
@eldersnake@twtxt.net Theyāre not currently taking new subscription plans for some reason at the moment, so signing up and removing the rate limits entirely doesnāt seem to be an option ATM.
Figured out my Pagekite ātroublesā I think. Donāt know how I missed this, although the docs and website arenāt always as clear as could be, but turns out non-subscription accounts have a rate limit. In the case of free trial accounts, itās only 5 unique connections (IP addresses, user agents etc) per 3 hours. I was easily hitting this just through testing in multiple browsers, CURL and anyone else visiting. Chucking a few bucks their way lifts that limit to 8 connections per Ā¾ of an hour, which is much better but still.
@prologic@twtxt.net No problem at all!
@prologic@twtxt.net Ha! I just assumed the DM didnāt send because of the other issue.
@prologic@twtxt.net @adi@twtxt.net Seems to be fine now. Interesting thing is this morning I did try to post and it showed up like this in my twtxt.txt: 2021-09-16T02021-09-16T23:32:57Z Getting "error loading feed" on twtxt.net but not on Goryon. Also wont let me post on twtxt.net. @prologic is anyone else reporting issues ?
You can see the timestamp is mangled. Otherwise I just wasnāt able to post at all. Rather odd.
@prologic@twtxt.net I think I first noticed it when I got home late yesterday, I canāt remember exact time, but definitely late arvo/early evening. At the time I put it down to an update or little bit of downtime that everyone would be seeing and went off to do other things, but then today I noticed it still happening and saw people still posting like normal (from the logged out state) xD
@prologic@twtxt.net It was happening all day. See pic.
It happened after I came home and had been using Goryon to post while I was out. Then today twtxt.net only loaded my feed AFTER I made a post on Goryon before, if that makes sense. I kind of wonder if Goryon did something to my feed (file) that upset the twtxt.net pod, because it seems like I was the only one affected.
@adi@twtxt.net Thanks bud. Still having issues on my site, nothing to do with the solar setup or anything funnily enough, I think itās my Pagekite setup. DNS always checks out now, it seems I have to restart the Pagekite service a lot for it to function properly, and then after a while it starts having issues again. Kinda sucks, if my ISP didnāt block port forwarding I may not have had this issue.
@eldersnake@twtxt.net And now txtxt.net timeline IS loading, but only after I posted on Goryon? Haha wtf.
okay that worked. On Goryon, regular twtxt.net still playing up on me :S
Hello world?
Getting āerror loading feedā on twtxt.net but not on Goryon. Also wont let me post on twtxt.net. @prologic@twtxt.net is anyone else reporting issues ?
yeah ill have to add a http tunnel when I get home. I have my Nginx config set to redirect to https from http requests but of course if i donāt have a http tunnel it would never get there. silly me š¤¦āāļø
and it will need the āwwwā as well as https. Seems Iāll need a redirect..
To explain, because my ISP blocks port 80 and 443, Iām using Pagekite to tunnel it out, but im currently only running a tunnel to https.
@adi@twtxt.net try https
the server itself is on a Raspberry Pi 3+. Probably the worst internet setup for a public server ever, but its been fine in my testing. Its even loading fine for me on my phone and Iām out and about at the moment, so I dont know why its not loading for others unless its a DNS propergation thing.
the reason for the distance from the house is the LTE connection is hooked up to dual MiMo yagis to get a strong signal.
eh yeah photos will come but I need to tidy the installation. Iāve had the solar setup itself for a while, a 160w solar panel on a regular deep cycle car battery powering an LTE Optus Broadband connection, which feeds into a GL-AR300 mini router connected to a 110m Ethernet run of cable back to my house. Its as Jerry rigged as it comes, but I live quite rural and its been a secondary connection as I only have a satellite broadband connection otherwise š until Starlink lands anyway
bugger ! and yet works on everything I test it on outside of the home network š¤£ typical. Did you use the www sub domain ? I know it doesnāt load on the root ānakedā domain yet.
Assuming the DNS is playing ball now, my little personal site https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/ is now self hosted and solar powered. As @mckinley@twtxt.net can attest, running on the original nearlyfreespeech.net non-production plan could use as little as $0.01 per day so thereās not really any advantage to this, its justā¦ because I can š
@adi@twtxt.net Hmm never heard of that one before (Vis). First glance looks like an almost āsucklessā Vim! I shall try it out. Iām addicted to Vi-style text editing, pretty much ingrained in my muscle memory.
Although it serves as a preface to make a self-hosted XMPP instance, actually a very good article on the problems of the typical centralised messaging services: https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternative.html
that would awesome ! I donāt know much abour the Fdroid process but I do know they require the whole source code to be available to inspect
Always good to have finds like that. I appreciate any devs that not only have an F-Droid version, but also provide means to get a pro version without going to the Play Store or requiring GSF (Google Services Framework). I recently picked up a second hand Google Pixel 3 and put CalyxOS on it, so Iāve been playing around with the whole de-Googled thing.
Things like this make me shake my head https://cryptobrowser.site/en/ - if you visit the site make sure you have ad block, block trackers etc. Pretty sure itās based on Chromium, but anyway a browser made specifically to āmine bitcoin while you browseā. Sounds like extra resource hog to me. Also they actively encourage you to login to Google or Facebook to save your mining progress. The whole thing sounds like a privacy nightmare and sadly no doubt some people will fall for it.
What the heck is happening to this country?
@peekgirls@twtxt.net @twtxt@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net you know youāve made it as a social platform when the porn sites start signing up š¤£
well said.
And 32kb of RAM might seem like absolutely nothing, but yāknow I kind of miss when developers had to be memory constrained, as odd as that might sound to say. Nowadays devs can put any amount of layers and bloat into software because āmemory is cheapā and they just donāt care.
The instant thought to this is āthis is why you would want to roll your own mail serverā, however then again, whatever server provider youāre with can provide your IP upon request. Even if you roll one at home, youāve got your ISP.
So I guess the best security is simply toā¦ not use the internet?
Thanks for the suggestions! More than a few possibilities it seems.
Iām sure Iām not alone when I say Googleās Captcha thing is the scourge of the internet and anyone using (implementing) it should be subject to capital punishment (slight exaggeration). I hate it every time I come across it and most of the time it keeps saying to āplease try againā. Grr!
Was it you @prologic@twtxt.net that had some good ideas for self hosted email or am i thinking of someone else ? i know it can (apparently) be a bit of a headache to set up properly.
mkws
. Let's see if he has something to say. š
@adi@twtxt.net yeah that make script isā¦ something.
@adi@twtxt.net I mean, your last paragraph sounds like a lot of fun. Server crashā¦ not so much!