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@mikemccaffrey
> You really need to differentiate between traditional data centers and AI data centers

That's a distinction without a difference. AWS is just as socially harmful as "AI" or crypto-mining. More relevant dichotomies might be;

* hyperscale vs. human-scale (a PC is a closet running @yunohost or #LibreServer is kind of a datacentre). * corporate-owned vs. co-op owned/ community-owned
* overseas-owned vs. locally-owned
* 100% renewably-powered vs fossil-powered
* etc

@sarahtaber

@mikemccaffrey
> You really need to differentiate between traditional data centers and AI data centers

That's a distinction without a difference. AWS is just as socially harmful as "AI" or crypto-mining. More relevant dichotomies might be;

* hyperscale vs. human-scale (a PC is a closet running @yunohost or #LibreServer is kind of a datacentre). * corporate-owned vs. co-op owned/ community-owned
* overseas-owned vs. locally-owned
* 100% renewably-powered vs fossil-powered
* etc

@sarahtaber

@mathiasx just spit-balling here ...

#Erlang all the things!

#Unikernel all the things!

And I do wonder how #Yunohost or #Nix / #Guix or #FreedomBox / #LibreServer / #Sandstorm handle all this ...

@jorgesanz thanks for the link, it is a good usable non-technical take. Only I didn't understand the bent towards rootless containers at the end, seems less performant for no benefit.

There seem to be easier options but without this focus on resilience. #Freedombox, #LibreServer, #Sandstorm.

Updated #NextCloud to version 28.0.0 on the bookworm branch of #LibreServer. It works, but is very slow. My guess is that the more corporate it gets and the more "AI" gets foisted into it, the slower everything gets. This system is probably more designed for corporations and Big Iron rather than some doodz with Rpis.

@smallcircles
To be fair, we get a sense that many instances are operated by those who are invested in highly questionable endeavours, which make them function similarly to a large corporation.

One of the goals of Fediverse proponents like us is to make setting up secure instances fairly easy, and not too burdensome. We think #Mastodon isn't able to provide such, but with #BloatFE and no javascript, maybe it can.

We wonder how #GNUSocial and I2P-friendly #Epicyon (eg. #LibreServer) might help.

Doing the #gemini version of the install instructions for #LibreServer bookworm.

Made a test install for #LibreServer Bookworm, which at least runs all of the way through the install. There will be lots more bugs to be found and app installs to be tested.

It looks like the #Debian hard frooze is today. Under ordinary conditions I would be preparing the next version of #LibreServer, but there is too much going on at the moment and so that is going to happen at a slower pace.

@bob Is LibreServer the new name for FreedomBone? I must have missed that. What motivated the name change?

#LibreServer #FreedomBone

@bob Is LibreServer the new name for FreedomBone? I must have missed that. What motivated the name change?

#LibreServer #FreedomBone

@ademalsasa @bob #LibreServer is going ok. The most recent news is that there is now a 64bit Raspberry Pi image available. Turtl has also been deprecated because it's clients are incompatible with current Lets Encrypt certificates, although it may return if the developers fix that.

Upgraded Matrix/Synapse and ElementWeb to the latest versions. The recent high severity Electron bug doesn't apply on #LibreServer, because ElementWeb isn't being run through Electron.

Destination Libre https://blog.libreserver.org/destination-libre #LibreServer

Did a test install of the #LibreServer Raspbian image on #Rpi4, and it seems to work as expected.

#LibreServer Raspbian image constructed https://libreserver.org/downloads

The initial login via ssh is exactly the same as for Raspbian. More secure passwords will get generated during installation.

Making a #Raspbian install image for #LibreServer :rpi:

Now that there is an official Raspbian using Debian 11 I'll make an #LibreServer image for that,

#LibreServer now has an Enigma machine app. This is for situations where you want to communicate securely over an insecure channel, such as IRC or a BigTech socnet, but where OpenPGP isn't an option.

https://github.com/enigma-reloaded/enigma-reloaded

Note that the address shown in the image is just a test install, and won't be available for long.

Adding the ability to use NextCloud for the notifications system in #LibreServer. You can already use email or Matrix or MQTT.

Updated #NextCloud to version 23 on #LibreServer. I might be able to do a bit more integration because maybe some of the profile fields such as email address could be automatically configured.

Testing #PixelFed on #LibreServer. It looks nice.

Minor fix on #LibreServer, checking that the mutt client has installed.

Updated Matrix/Synapse and ElementWeb to the latest versions on #LibreServer

@kzimmermann @anonimno @mpts Although I am now supporting it on #LibreServer, Raspberry Pi is a problematic platform. Ultimately, everything is being pushed through a closed Microsoft operating system called ThreadX which is the main OS of the Pi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

Updated Matrix/Synapse and Element to the latest versions on #LibreServer

Testing out miniircd on #LibreServer and it seems to work ok. The way it's set up is primarily for members of the server only. Additional registrations could be added if needed.

https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/miniircd