Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

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 - DavidHSP/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 displayWe 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 companyLink to first photo made with the tablet (https://imgur.com/ivIMrUc)
06:00 Minutes InEmail 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 InEmail 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau
Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocollink (https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1193961192228610048)
Mind.com (mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks09:20 Minutes In
Email 4 - Censorship - RobWhat are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming)
11:15 Minutes inPick 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 APINo federation
14:00 Minutes InGadget of the Week
Dell's new thunderbolt dockDell WD19TB (https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-thunderbolt-dock-wd19tb/apd/210-arik/pc-accessories)
Built in thunderbolt cableAdditional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port
2x Display Ports1x HDMI
2x Rear USB1x Front Facing USB
Dell's USB C dockDell WD15 (https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/dell-dock-wd15/overview)
17:00 Minutes InNews
Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7YouTube 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!
Prerequisiteswritable 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 ISPJared 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 50MbpsComcast 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 regulationsISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced
Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming27:30 Minutes In
Main Segment De-platforming / Self hostingViolence is wrong, Full stop
Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thingGroups 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 chatWill not federate
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