I uhh wasn’t literally about to go do this or anything…

Why don’t they just move to El Salvador if they like Bitcoin so much

Don’t go to harmful.cat-v.org and look at their political sections, worst mistake of my life

Fuck

You were even able to log into their ancient computers over the network… every Unix nerd should have the opportunity to log into an ancient Unix system running on a real PDP-11. It’s so different… and so slow lol

Sorry for late reply, been

I got my amateur radio license recently and I just started thinking about this

I don’t really know very much at this point tbh but I would also be down to help with your project if you would like

Idk if I could even find enough people in my city who would want to do something like this with me either… although I am willing to run/help people run network nodes based on things other than 802.11 which could help a lot with range (point-to-point radio links, maybe over microwave, more conventional packet radio on the amateur radio bands, LoRa, etc)

I have some friends willing to run nearby 802.11 nodes… not enough though

Probably would have to start out with a much more mixed network architecture… maybe point-to-point radio links between the people in my city initially interested in running nodes, packet radio on the local ham bands, LoRa or something, etc…

Idk if enough people would be interested but I’ll have to ask around when I’m back home

Hell yeah, did that get people interested at all beyond self-interest? Bringing fast internet connection to people is cool and good too ofc

Idk if you pay for bandwidth or anything but if you do that might be cheaper than exchanging 1 TB of traffic or more over their network

Sorry, had to log off for a bit

It seems you need some kind of NAT traversal mechanism. Wireguard is pretty easy to set up, it’s built-into the Linux kernel these days. I’ve heard good things about Tailscale as well.

Sorry I wish I could help more :(

Unlimited destruction upon NAT

Do both hosts have internet connection via IPv6? You could try this over IPv6, usually no NAT, but your ISP might do some kind of firewalling

You could also probably put up a Wireguard (VPN) connection between them since the webserver is not behind NAT

Or also “forward a port” if you have access to the NATing router between your PC and webserver

I have been in similar situations before and there is no easy answer

I have no idea how Peertube works but if you’re on Linux you might be able to turn on filesystem compression… but if the data you’re storing is already compressed (like video) that probably won’t help very much

You could try sshfs like you mentioned in your post but it might be unreliable :( , maybe you could try NFS or even mount remote storage over Plan 9 protocol

Plan 9 posting

Yeahh, SGI machines are built really nicely

Should have got yourself a copy of NetBSD or OpenBSD on CD maybe

Rip your O2 :(

PC microarchitecture is RISC now

Everything is RISC now outside of weird old microcontrollers still in use but that doesn’t tell you much about the actual substance of whatever is being described as RISC

I like MIPS for being a (mostly) clean and simple implementation of RISC. MTI tried some very interesting ideas out for a while (superpipelining, delay slots, using optimizing compilers rather than making machine code easy to write for people), and while a lot of these failed or were abandoned, many of them just became common practice

That’s soo cool

Were you running IRIX on it? Idk how well IRIX ran on those machines by the early 2000s but I guess not very fast

I guess they aren’t all that useful today but I’m just kinda a MIPS stan for some reason (world’s first successful RISC architecture, aged way better than SPARC lol)

I will probably never get to see an O2 in person…

Worth it imo, no 90s PC laptop would let you do real-time graphics work or whatever

They probably could have figured out something less power-hungry tbh, the MIPS processors of the time weren’t so bad compared to PCs

The issue is in all the support circuitry and especially those huge SCSI hard drives that spin at like 10K rpm lol

My Indigo 2 gets pretty warm

An SGI was so sick to have in the 90s, basically essential for real-time computer graphics work

They also cost a trillion dollars though :(