Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Minutes In Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile) Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083TD9VW4?pf_rd_r=EDN0TAKZ8952EWP1WGXT&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8) This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name. (https://us.creative.com/p/accessories/creative-bluetooth-audio-bt-w2-usb-transceiver) XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work. It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again. Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports XP-PEN (https://www.xp-pen.com/) seems like a good company Link to first photo made with the tablet (https://imgur.com/ivIMrUc) 06:00 Minutes In Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira What is the best VPN company? private internet access (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/) They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents. affiliate link (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/buy-vpn/altispeed) 08:30 Minutes In Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol link (https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1193961192228610048) Mind.com (mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks 09:20 Minutes In Email 4 - Censorship - Rob What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming) 11:15 Minutes in Pick of the Week MediaCMS (https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms) Fully featured open source video and media CMS Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API No federation 14:00 Minutes In Gadget of the Week Dell's new thunderbolt dock Dell WD19TB (https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-thunderbolt-dock-wd19tb/apd/210-arik/pc-accessories) Built in thunderbolt cable Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port 2x Display Ports 1x HDMI 2x Rear USB 1x Front Facing USB Dell's USB C dock Dell WD15 (https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/dell-dock-wd15/overview) 17:00 Minutes In News Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7 YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8vt34kTh0) Reddit write up (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphone_7_with_dead_nand_netbooting/) Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill! Prerequisites writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta (https://checkra.in/releases/0.10.2-beta#all-downloads) Kernel fork for h9x/A10 (https://github.com/corellium/linux-sandcastle) Project sandcastle utilities (https://github.com/corellium/projectsandcastle) EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 <-- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user Bridge setup script/udev rules (https://github.com/newperson1746/iphone7-linux-nfsroot) 21:00 Minutes In Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP Arstechnica link (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared-mauch-didnt-have-good-broadband-so-he-built-his-own-fiber-isp/) AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000) As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming 27:30 Minutes In Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting Violence is wrong, Full stop Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing Groups and People were banned from twitter so they moved to Parler Amazon kicked Parler off its hosting services (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/11/parler-is-officially-offline-after-aws-suspension/) Google and Apple kicked the Parler app off their platforms (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html) Mozzila blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/?utm_source=www.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_content=card) Community discussion (sorry to much to summarize listen to the episode) Honorable Mention TeamSpeak (https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-5-beta-bug-report-bbcode-not-working-channel-commander-not-shown/14670/4) 5 is going to be switching to the Matrix protocol for chat Will not federate Mumble (https://www.mumble.info/) is a better option -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! 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