Alot of free services are having to do that now to avoid bots and abuse, unfortunately.

According to my last job interview, linux servers are only for websites and worthless otherwise.

That's a good point. I think most people go into Costco to get the gold though. I'd need some good shipping insurance on a $3000+ purchase

Really interesting writeup. Might be fun to try something similar with some old devices I have.

Its on my bucket list of things to do, because here in the UK there are plenty of TalkTalk Youview (Huewei DN372T) TV boxes with 320GB hard drives that overheat and hang with the last official update from Youview and despite asking there is no way to revert these back.

However with so many being available on Ebay et al and the HD-less (DN360T) forcing people onto streaming services, I think its only right to reprovision these to work in a hive networked manner with external storage so people can store as much broadcast footage as they have storage for, and stream from any device.

Being an early adopter of Media Portal over a decade ago, but finding it impossible to secure windows even back then despite only using it for satellite transmissions, I think Linux should receive more attention now.

I was able to get a free x86 box but it's been impossible for me to get an arm instance on the west coast always out of space. Otherwise oracle free tier is pretty ncie

I had the same issue after shutting down my instances. I wrote a simple bash loop to recreate them and left it running overnight. All instances were up by the morning. I haven't shit any down since then. Reboots are fine.

I'd be interested in seeing that actually.(the config)

Flowroute: DIDs -> select number -> Choose a DID Action -> Set callback URL -> Apply action -> check SMS Callback, SMS DLR callback (?) -> enter URL complying with https://developer.flowroute.com/api/numbers/v2.0/set-a-messa... (I had to have it exactly as specified with /numbers/ starting from the webroot and not in a subdirectory), see also https://developer.flowroute.com/api/messages/v2.1/receive-an...

Using SMS webhook v2.0 in Flowroute Preferences -> API Control

In Arch Linux I installed "community/nginx-mod-echo 0.62-5" and restarted nginx

nginx.conf:

  load_module "/usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_http_echo_module.so";
  http {
    log_format postdata $request_body;
  }

sites-available/example.com.conf:

  server {
    location /numbers/1NPANXXxxxx/relationships/sms_dlr_callback {
      access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com/postdata.log postdata;
      echo_read_request_body;
      }
    }

Reload nginx, then I just did `tail -f postdata.log` and in near realtime received output like "{\x22body\x22: \x22Your OpenAI API verification code is: 438301\x22, \x22to\x22: \x221903866xxxx\x22, \x22from\x22: \x2218559090331\x22, \x22id\x22: \x22mdr2-9e551f88de31449096782f9a9f32080f\x22}"

Thank you for sharing this!

Thanks

I bought the rust book because it looked nice. But it's annoying lugging around a huge book when trying to squeeze it in during work.

I dont think someone complaining about an algorithm influencing their news is going to want to use FB. Although i dont use FB anymore so maybe their news is great.

Yeah FB has a bad brand name but I actually find their news tab to be pretty unbiased. It’s also basically the only way I hear about local news since I don’t watch broadcast tv.

Ive been using navidrome lately for self hosted music streaming. It has a bunch of android/ios apps

Ya this is what keeps me off jellyfin. Not having a good xbox or native tv app means its basically useless unless you use roku or something.