Announcing TuxJam Half-cut on Saturday 1st August in Manchester. Building upon the success of the in-person Podcrawl and our inability to meet up at Oggcamp, the guys feel that another AFK meet-up is long overdue. The TuxJam crew will be staying at the Pendulum Hotel and do a live recording followed by a sampling of some fine ales at the local establishments. Join @mralc, @mcnalu , @thelovebug and @kevie in person for tech talk, food and a few beverages.

#TuxJam #TuxJamHalfCut #Manchester

A wee gift for my friends at @tuxjam :

[dwroulette]: a web scraper (written in #POSIX #shell) for #DistroWatch that gives you one of the top 100 #Linux distros completely at random. 😅

#TuxJam @kevie @solusspider

New #blog #post: Mocking-up Photo Sharing over SMS

https://rldane.space/mocking-up-photo-sharing-over-sms.html

This was inspired by #TuxJam 120: "Tunnels & Texts"

1607 words, my ninth-longest article (I think it merits the name ;) so far!

Whoo, that was a 3-hour writing/hacking session! 

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SMS #Imaging #Photos #AVIF

Catching up on my #TuxJam backlog, currently listening to Episode 120: "[Tunnels & Texts]"

I'm listening to Dave explain his Pangolin/[Fosrl] setup, and (not throwing shade on anyone, here), I couldn't help but think of two things:

1) This all sounds very impressive
2) This all sounds incredibly complex

I'm allergic to complexity. That's why the only thing I currently self-host is #Syncthing, and you could barely even call that self-hosting. It's fully automagical. No open ports, no DMZ, no VPN, no relay setup, no potentially sketchy containers, just a single executable and if need be, a single apt source (otherwise, just use your distro's / OS's own repo, if it's reasonably up-to-date.

I started to wonder what a #minimalist #BSD or #Plan9 - style setup for something like Fosrl would be. Just a simple SSH reverse tunnel? Just tailscale? Port-knocking? (Is that still a thing?) Something completely different?

I'm not hating on Fosrl, nor indeed the awesome Tuxjam folks. I'm just wondering what an out-of-the-box, minimalist solution for admittedly a complex technical problem would be.

An extra Christmas treat this week: TuxJam 127 Festive Stormy Break is out. In this episode @mralc, @mcnalu, @thelovebug & @kevie review StormOS #Linux and Breakout 71 on #Android (a special thanks to @rl_dane for the recommendation). This along with a mix of Christmas #CCMusic https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-127-festive-stormy-break/

#TuxJam #Podcast #Technology #Gaming