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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.

    If I didn’t have the two big boxes I’d use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.

    If I didn’t have my pis, I’d run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.

    What I’m saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I’m also trying to say I’ve broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.

    I use Pis as a (sort of) hardware key to get family and friends onto my Tailscale VPN. They all have pihole too. I haven’t convinced any of them to get a pi0 as a redundant box, but I’m sure they’ll learn eventually too. No doubt it’ll be my problem.




  • I’ve said it before, I think there’s money in a service that crowd funds open source donations.

    I use so much FOSS that making sure they all get some money is a real first world problem. If I can only give £10 that month what do I do? Rotate who gets the tenner? Give everyone £.20? Then you have to figure out how each service wants funding and organise that.

    Instead I could go to FOSSfund select all the software I use and donate £x. That money gets divvyed up and stored with other people’s donations until a threshold is reached.

    When enough money is accrued the service makes a substantial donation. The FOSSfund itself is funded through interest gained while holding donations.

    Of course I am a naive user that wants good things to exist and has no idea the difficulties in making them happen. Brb, off to vibecode a payment system. I forsee no problems. I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.