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Another repost of this, as i've moved to my own personal instance running on GoToSocial.

Hi, I’m Andy, a #devops techie from the UK with a particular obsession with over engineering my home network setup. I operate dimension.sh (a tilde/pubnix), I’m also a Disney parks fan, Texans fan, and when I get a spare moment I enjoy a bit of wood working and tinkering with old computers.

Tried looking for a low-resource, auto-sleep free cloud hosting for dynamic websites, haven't found any luck

I've got no money in my bank account. When I tried connecting Google Cloud with UPI, it asks for a pre-payment of a thousand rupees - and auto-pay of 15 thousand.

Vercel, Render and Replit can't even read from a non-proprietary Git hosting platform - like Codeberg.

Kinda annoyed right now, maybe I'll try checking out pubnixes and tildeverse.

#hosting#gcp#render

i tend to crosspost certain posts of mine to multiple different discord servers

and goddamn every now and again people can be such cunts about it calling it "self-promotion" when i'm really just trying to start a conversation

this also happened in tildeverse irc and is the reason i'm no longer comfortable being in there. one or two of the mods there absolutely have it out for me over this and constantly express it in the most dickish way possible whenever i show up

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Today, only #ActivityPub does that. Only the fedi qualifies.

@wjmaggos minor correction: not only ActivityPub qualifies as “fediverse.” There are also the #Tildeverse , a.k.a. #PubNix , which are public-access servers, usually with SSH login. There is also the #SelfHosting movement, although I personally feel this doesn’t count if you are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to host your website. These otherwise qualify as #fediverse as well, I would say.

It's really another experience writing inside the pubnix itself about unix, and that is what I plan to do there -- write about unix, its tools, and more specifically NetBSD -- because I already have a blog to write more general stuff and I don't want to abandon either.

Using an editor that allows you to read in the output of commands without leaving the editor, like vi and its descendants, makes the experience of journaling your exploration really fluent.

Couple that with Gemini, which allows you to just write in plain text without having any build step, any markup conversion, any syntax tagging, just hit save on your editor and it's live, that's so frictionless that, on both sides, writing and reading, the process is a real pleasure.

Yesterday I logged in to the tilde.pink pubnix, fired up tmux with neovim on one side and amfora on the other, and spent a few hours reading and writing about the experience of reading and writing using the Gemini protocol and why the medium and the tools matter for writers and readers.

Here are the links to read it over an HTTP proxy and directly through Gemini:

portal.mozz.us/gemini/tilde.pi
gemini://tilde.pink/~jutty/gem

portal.mozz.usgemtext — tilde.pink