Hi,

I have also been thinking about selfhoating a jisti-meet server. Just how easy / difficult is it to selfhost it? Do you run it in docker or natively? Linux or some other OS (FreeBSD)?

Kr.

Three months ago, we organised an infostand on amateurradio at a makerfaire … and ‘talking to people’ was hardly ever mentioned.

Amateur radio is a technical / scientific hobby for everything about radio, radio communication, radio technology and radios propagation.

Actually, the first thing we showed was a small WSPR transmitter and showed that with just ‘a little bit more transmission power then your wifi-router at home’ we could be receiver 4000 km away. (and explained that by transmitting a radio-signal very slowly, you can reach very long distances, … and about HF propagation, greyline propagation, and as wspr signal is so simple, you can build such a transmitter yourself)

please do not equate hamradio with ‘talking on the radio’. That is probably the worse way to explain what our hobby is about. Ham-radio is ‘a giant playground that allows you to play around with radio-technology and learn how radio really works’.

Kr. (ON1ARF)

I dan’t know if this is still valid but I used to be told to have different partitions for your system, logs and data (home directories) … and have the swap-partition located in between them. This was to limit the distance the head has to move when reading from your system starts swapping.

But if you use a SSD drive, that is not valid anymore of course :-)

Kr.

just out of interest … somebody here on satellite? I am interested to know the prices for sat services out there?

Australia looks like an interesting case. Iknow that in some countries, ISPs have to provide service to both urban and rural customers at the same price, which means that urban customers actually subsidize people living in rural areas. In some other cases, the gouvernements help pay for this.

Isn’t there a project in Australia that the federal gouvernement is subsidizing the role-out of fibre?

A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.

Hi, Perhaps a stupid question, but what exactly is required to port an OS to a different architecture? OK, there is the boot-process, and low-level language compilers, … but what else?

How much code has actually to be rewriten, and how much just needs “make” to be recompiled?

Kr.

or a one-way trip from a window on the 10th storey of a building all the way down to the ground.

Hi all. Thanks for the feedback. Very much appreciated 👍. … I will set it up in docker.