Re: [Chicken-users] Askemos again; … better news ; still: Needs some support/donation.

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

On Jan 24 2013, Daniel Leslie wrote:

> > To fix the case I rather urgently need to find at least two locations,
> where I dare to replicate my notes wrt. to my personal privacy.  One
> already secured; so one more whom I can trust not to embarrass me by
> leaking info taking as a "remembrance to myself".  Preferable outside
> Germany.
>
> Are you saying that you require access to a physical server outside of
> Germany, on which you may bootstrap instances of Askemos to act as
> replication peers?

Yes, Dan.  Thanks for your consideration.

Though I'd only need one user account, not the whole machine;
any port would do. Needs about 100M virtual memory under load.

Also the immdiate need is fixed. The problem was a "not well
considered business decision".

But that doesn't change the principled version of the problem:
there's an SPOF, which can not force the cloud off, but it *can*
prevent further updates until fixed.

> If so, I'm sorry to say that I'm stuck on a slow residential cable line and

this is in fact how most of the peers run. A plug computer behind customer 
grade aDSL. Currently there is a *single* chicken at a vhost rented from an 
ISP. This serves the web; other replicas now to be reenabled in dns.

For my backup needs to wrt. personal data this is perfect because
I know how to get this off the net if there was any sudden reason.
Any phone call or email would do. Can't do that with a vhost visible to
anybody who can access the ISP's backup.


> haven't the cash to spare for the continuous operation of a server. Between
> my wife's tuition and the mortgage, we're rather tight for cash.

I can relate the situation. Even without a wife, a mortgage can be a burden.
Had this until the "real estate crisis" half a decade ago.  :-[

Cash is still tight since.


> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hello <$all>,
> >
> > we've been recently in touch regarding Askemos.  Now I might need
> > some help, if you can.


> > > > And, erm, what are the minimal steps for bootstrapping a server which 
> > > > can collaborate on this *ethical cloud*?


> > ## The Needs - Short Term
> >
> > To fix the case I rather urgently need to find at least two
> > locations, where I dare to replicate my notes wrt. to my personal
> > privacy.  One already secured; so one more whom I can trust
> > not to embarrass me by leaking info taking as a "remembrance to
> > myself".  Preferable outside Germany.
> >
> >
> > ## Minimum requirements
> >
> > BALL became a bit like the Swiss-army knife wrt. small scale
> > ISP needs.
> >
> > For operation it needs to bind to a port at the moment.
> > Run as some isolated user it needs to be able to maintain the
> > contents of one directory.
> >
> >
> > ## Participate - Long Term
> >
> > The more parties joining the network, the better it should help
> > with privacy, safety and autonomy.
> >
> > ### Regarding the Healthiness
> >
> > So far we had
> >
> > ♣: AMD64, i386, ARM
> >
> > ♠: Chicken, Rscheme
> >
> > ♡: FreeBSD, Linux
> >
> > ♢: GPL, BSD

A hint to Eben:

Still both the stacks are week when rscheme and freebsd are
both taken off at the same time as the event demonstrated.

Thanks again for your time and consideration.

/J

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