Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 21

@TheGibson Oh cool, I did internet radio for a minute and found a battered SM58 found in a roadside free box to be easier to use, if somewhat less crisp, than my other options. It's a great vocal mic.

@TheGibson Ah crap, you meant like ... not XLR though, huh. heh

@TheGibson Shure SM58 is very forgiving

@blainsmith Nice :) cheap tiny ARM boxes are the future for a lot of scrappy decentralized projects, I think :) @gabek

@gabek Yup, we are definitely doing this with the vibrancy of the ecosystem in mind and making entry to AP/fediverse development easier. We're trying (for now) to do a drop-in replacement that can back from say 1-3 existing front ends, maybe Mastodon, Pleroma, Pinafore, Brutaldon.. still very early on in our effort. The other hope is to document the S2S stuff so people don't have to reverse engineer it any more. @blainsmith

@blainsmith @gabek I'm working with a friend on an attempt to do this in Python+Django, which is a lot more (visible) moving parts than a single Go binary, but a primary goal of ours is to make it plenty performant for a single user instance on a Raspberry Pi level machine

I've refined my #mastodev / #activitypub question... wondering if anybody out there has taken a stab at enumerating the *subset* of the activitypub server-to-server spec which is implemented specifically by Mastodon / Pleroma. #pleromadev #fedidev

Are there any #mastohosts who offer shell access? Or would be willing to donate a tiny test instance for a few days/weeks such that people developing some #activitypub open source could inspect the request/response data? We're trying to reverse engineer the API spec because it's not really ... documented. #mastohost #mastodev

@mosselman The .py is totally a typo, yeah. I withdraw the question, since it was over a week ago when my brain had been scrambled by a few hours of attempting to reverse engineer stuff in a language I don't code in :)

@weird_hell I was thinking how many different kinds of cool lamps could also house a wifi-enabled server. I happen to love shoji lamps, for example. Lots of room and ventilation in those, haha

The NanoPi M4 should be powerful enough for whatever I'd want to do with a low power file & app server for the next few years, possibly excepting Nextcloud. Especially if I get the 4GB RAM model.

It's a hot new single-board computer; I think the #Rockchip 3399 boards will get lots more dev support over the next year or two because they're so good on bang for buck.

By the time whatever I'm running gets too heavy for such a beast, it would be well past time to move it to better hardware anyway.

Since all my friends already know I'm a freak for ✨lamps✨, nobody would really think it odd that I'm dragging around a good size little accent lamp while couch surfing or whatever. Hell, I've already done so on more than one occasion due to my sleep troubles.

I think as far as portability, since this is a plug-in device, having it in one self-contained unit without a bunch of visible wires & bits is more important than absolute minimum size/weight.

Since all my friends already know I'm a freak for ✨lamps✨, nobody would really think it odd that I'm dragging around a good size little accent lamp which couch surfing or whatever. Hell, I've already done so on more than one occasion due to my sleep troubles.

I think as far as portability, since this is a plug-in device, having it in one self-contained unit without a bunch of visible wires & bits is more important than absolute minimum size/weight.

Money-no-object BoM for the stealth server project (highly tentative & far too expensive rly):

• #NanoPi M4 #SBC (6-core, 4GB RAM, USB 3, PCIe lanes for which there'll soon be a SATA hat, 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO, RasPi form factor)
• 16GB eMMC daughterboard for root fs
• 500GB SATA SSD (w/USB3 adapter til SATA hat available)
• 2x dual-band ~5dBi omni wifi antenna
• 1 meter 24V RGBW LED strip (366 lm/ft)
• 24V wall wart, 5V 3A regulator, misc parts

It'd make one hell of a cyberpunk accent lamp...

@calvin @djsundog Any brands you like, or to avoid?

If one were to build a lovely stealth #ultramobile accent lamp out of

• an omnidirectional dual-band wifi antenna, inside of and supporting
• a paper towel roll or similar, around which is wrapped
• a length of programmable RGB LED strip, inside
• a translucent plastic diffuser, mounted on
• a base containing the #SingleBoardComputer, SSD, and power converter

then how much would the LED strip interfere with the wifi signal? Are strip LEDs on an all metal backing, or is it just embedded wire?

My life may soon become #ultramobile. I may be laptop & desktop free for the first time in 20 years.

Ideas:

• My #cubieboard 2 + 500GB SSD + 802.11ac wifi dongle + dual-band antennas + RGB light strip + 12V supply + misc parts = portable low power accent light which is a web server & write-through cache of my cloud drive (aka a custom stealth #freedombone in a lamp)

• What if there were a non-sucky Android tablet that could also run a mainstream Linux distro on its display? Does that exist?

With decreasing certainty of correctness as I process this information further from the raw code, this would appear to imply that the Mastodon federation API endpoints are:

accounts/show
follower_accounts
following_accounts
statuses/activity
statuses/show
tags/show
activitypub/collections/show
activitypub/inboxes/create
activitypub/outboxes/show

#Mastodev #fedidev #ActivityPub

With decreasing certainty of correctness, this would appear to imply that the Mastodon federation API endpoints are:

accounts/show
follower_accounts
following_accounts
statuses/activity
statuses/show
tags/show
activitypub/collections/show
activitypub/inboxes/create
activitypub/outboxes/show

#Mastodev #fedidev #ActivityPub