J.A. Machete
Veronica ExplainsThe internet is still full of wacky, weird, fun stuff. Your stuff still has a home. People want to see it.
Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
Crimperman 🏳️🌈@veronica indeed. As I say on the front page of my site, "this remains a place for me to say 'I am here'."
while (1) printf("coltn\n");@crimperman your site is really cool and inspiring!
@coltn thank you 🙂
"Miss Movie Masochist"@veronica Me: *My* stuff is definitely not wacky or weird. Perfectly bland normal stuff here!
Also me: [puts a bent DVD on a 3D printer hotplate]
CritteRo@veronica I wonder how many people stopped self-hosting their own websites due to ISPs using CGNAT?
It sure broke mine around 2020. I didn't even know that was a thing until ~last year. I just thought I forgot how to properly port forward.
Plutarch
ARGVMI~1.PIF
The Doctor
ToroidalCore@crittero @veronica It's only recently I've encountered CGNAT on a wired ISP. We were able to get fiber at a cottage my family owns, so I had to work around it with Wireguard when we wanted to put some cameras up (no IPv6).
Recently, I'm on the verge of getting fiber which will have CGNAT, but it sounds like they have their act together with IPv6.
I've been hosting stuff at home for a couple decades, mainly web and email.
@toroidalcore Yup, same here. I caved in, about a cheap VPS, and I am now using it as proxy, with nginx and wireguard, to route to my servers.
UDP only tho..., so I still can't self-host gameservers, or other TCP-needing apps.
My ISP technically does offer IPv6, but omg it's so unreliable. Even now, I see the connection on my router stuck at `Connecting...`. I have to call them ***again***.
@crittero As much as I gripe about my cable ISP, they do actually handle IPv6 properly. It seems like it's prevalent, but not everyone has their act together.
I managed to wireguard tunnel to my own machine which does have a public IP, so no VPS for that. Although I do use one for a DNS server.
With the new ISP, I probably will set aside a VPS just for wire guard stuff, although I think I might do port forwarding to get services exposed. Still figuring that out.
Jacen
Mx Verda
hauptstadttauben@veronica pigeons! 
ginoputrino@veronica It's much harder to find gold in all that noise. Doug Adams:
"In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another because sound travels such huge distances underwater. But now, again because of the way in which sound travels, there is no part of the ocean that is not constantly jangling with the hubbub of ships’ motors, through which it is now virtually impossible for the whales to hear each other’s songs or messages." (1/x)
@veronica "So fucking what, is pretty much the way that people tend to view this problem, and understandably so, thought Dirk. After all, who wants to hear a bunch of fat fish, oh all right, mammals, burping at each other?
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of infinite loss and sadness that somewhere amongst the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods". (2/2)
We are being engulfed in LLM trash.
River@ginoputrino @veronica kindly asking for a link to the full source of that quote, because that is a beautiful piece of writing
@riverpunk @veronica Hi River - agree, one of my favorites. It is from "The long dark tea-time of the soul" by Douglas Adams. It is the second book in his Dirk Gently series (the first being "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"). But you can read them in any order, and IMHO teatime is the superior work.
Jon Hancock
Lizette
David Hembrow@veronica It's the prospect of what I do feeding the slop machines that puts me off these days, sadly
avatastic 
@veronica finding that stuff is becoming increasingly difficult. are you aware of any open search initiatives where folks with spare compute/bandwidth can take part in building a new "OpenAltaVista" (other early search engines were available, this was my first) devoid of corporate influences and AI?
Texan_Reverend@veronica The fact that StumbleUpon is back tells me that folks really are interested in seeing the earnest, weird, funny, beautiful, personal stuff that other humans have made.
Simplicator@Texan_Reverend @veronica Old-school dedicated hobby forums yet live
@Texan_Reverend @veronica Tho recently one went down due to host calcification & neglect. Another got hit w/a ransomware attack that was really just a wipe, incl all backups
Baloo Uriza@Texan_Reverend I don't think StumbleUpon ever went away so much as people are rediscovering it again.
@BalooUriza The original site was shut down in 2018. This new version may even be run by entirely different people, but I'm not sure.
si_irini
\>ᏒⴹᎢꓰＣ𐋏@veronica I miss the time when folks had a "my fav links" on their site, the ad hoc pages cobbled together via some geosites interface or an app your friend had. But most of all I miss humans randomly finding your site and just saying: "Hi".
shellsharks@R_3_T_3_C_H @veronica I’ve got a few things like that, and I’ve seen quite a few others who have similar pages. Like… I have a blogroll (https://shellsharks.com/blogroll), a bookmarks/links page (https://shellsharks.com/bookmarks), and a li’l weekly link dump publication (https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/) that anyone can peruse and click around on!
Louis Posteur@veronica it's so hard to find stuff these days though 
@ajswritesthings @veronica Depends what you’re looking for I guess. There are a bunch of IndieWeb exploration engines/tools/resources you could check out if you just wanted to go on a little adventure —> https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#explore-the-indieweb. I also have a little link dump “newsletter”-kinda thingy you can check out which links to all sorts of neat things I find each week 🤗 https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/
Christian Lynbech@veronica @kbeninato Would like to plug this post in support of the above.
Sarah Sammis@veronica If you like surreal art and watercolors of birds, please give my art instance a follow: https://socialbc.ca/@artbysarahsammis
Sarah Sammis (@[email protected])
4.26K Posts, 451 Following, 571 Followers · Artist currently residing in the SF Bay Area with family in Vancouver and Victoria. Works with acrylics, watercolours, and digitally. Does a lot of chicken themed art.
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