Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

she/they (pl)
breadthcharge.net/

the first line goes in Cohost embeds

🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce5/15/2023, 4:10 AM

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce5/15/2023, 1:51 AM

to all the people saying "selfhost"

I'm pretty technically competent compared to the majority of people you tell that to, but even just ssl certificates are a pain in the ass.

and now that I got it working, dns broke something because my reverse proxy did not change, even though I'm pretty sure I also didn't change my dns rules.

I barely know how to troubleshoot this, most of my time is bouncing between 5 things and guessing. Most people you tell it to? good luck, unless that's the only thing they're hosting on the machine.

but that's not a me thing; I can solve this eventually. I have the time, and I know it will work because it already did.

however.

it is an indictment.

every day I throw away two to thirty days because I want to do a thing, I get less likely to ever even bother. I do not have the time to waste, or the money to enable me to waste it.

#computers

dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct5/15/2023, 4:02 AM

"just self host $SERVICE" mfs when I don't actually want to moonlight as a full time IT intern

"just self host your own email/cloud storage/vpn/website/media streaming on your home network!" okay cool. lemme just uh

drop a wad on an old computer and a bunch of ssds/hard disks if needs be
upgrade my home internet to at least half-gigabit upload speeds
manually configure linux distro of choice/postfix/owncloud/openvpn/nginx/plex/whatever
leave said computer running aforementioned software 24/7 (and be S.O.L. if it goes offline while I'm not home)
do all maintenance/troubleshooting/backup management myself
run the (VERY REAL) risk of get booted by ISP for violating some obscure clause in their contract

If I wanted to, I could do this because I'm a no-life freak who's been using Linux since they were 9. That no-life part is changing now, and I want to do things other than babysit an old server. Shit, I do self host a few of these things, and even enjoy it to an extent - just on a VPS instead of my own home network. To expect the average schmoe, or even a relatively technical person to be able to do this, let alone be bothered to is just delusional. It's goofy.

Telling people to simply become an IT guy isn't a solution to their problems.

#Internet #technology #self hosting

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce5/15/2023, 2:00 AM

i hear a lot of "why do people use the mainstream platforms" and my answer to that is having the time to actually do and learn this stuff, if it's not your job, is a luxury in a very literal sense

and also that most people saying it don't get just how much they've learned that they take for granted.

not everyone should be a sysadmin, but we're forced to if we don't like the offerings. but no one takes that seriously, and designs and documents things as if people will know the moving pieces.

I know parts of the moving pieces, enough to get by and yet it still trips me up. No guide is nearly complete, they're all missing things. but even I can't go and add what was missing, because by the time I've learned the thing enough to use the 'simple' guide that assumes broad infrastructure knowledge, I've already forgotten what part i tweaked out of desperation actually fixed this. and I know that's constantly the case, or someone in 16k downloads would have submitted them otherwise.

💤🌵🤖@cactus5/15/2023, 2:45 AM

previously, https://twitter.com/boring_cactus/status/1545599637444210688

Nire Bryce @NireBryce5/15/2023, 3:01 AM

https://twitter.com/boring_cactus/status/1545600556017676288 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so fucking many things I wanted to do and then two-to-thirty days wasted and abandoned.

I swear 90% of it is people who do this for work thinking anyone has the time to spend doing it when they aren't paid and don't have a team to onboard them like they already forgot about.

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