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Banshee | |
September 23rd, 2019 | |
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I have an idea for a thing. | |
Now, I get a lot of ideas for things and some of them are just too | |
big for me to do in a reasonable timeframe. Sometimes they're so | |
big my eyes glaze over at the very thought, so I just tell | |
everyone else in a blog or phlog and hope someone else does it. | |
Sometimes the idea is so dumb that I know I'm the only hope and | |
have to do it myself. Sometimes the timinging is such that it | |
needs to be done right away or it's not relevant. Sometimes time | |
doesn't matter and I can just ignore it until I'm bored one night. | |
In my head this all adds up to a sort of Eisenhower decision | |
matrix: | |
URGENT NOT URGENT | |
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Important | Do it First | Schedule it | | |
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Not | | | | |
Important | Delegate it | Don't do it | | |
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Except in my case it's more of a "don't do it and feel bad vs | |
don't do it and don't care". | |
Well, now I've got an idea for +-----------------------------+ | |
a project that is too big for | One of the reasons (not the | | |
me to do in a weekend, but it | #1, but up there) that | | |
might actually matter to | I wanted to move to Iceland | | |
people. Do I just go for it and | was to get away from coding | | |
drop all the other things I've | for evil (pharma, mostly) | | |
got going? Ugh, probably not, | and get around to doing | | |
but I need to come up with a | something for the betterment| | |
real plan if I have any hope of | of people. I haven't found | | |
accomplishing the goal. | a lot of opportunity for | | |
| that just yet, but I'm | | |
But I never said what this is | getting there. | | |
all about, did I? +-----------------------------+ | |
So what is it? | |
I want to make an easily deployable system that creates a platform | |
for publishing text which does so on web, gopher, gemini, and any | |
other logical systems, is made available on tor, IPFS, zero-web, | |
and so on (RSS, fediverse?, moar). Basically, I want you to be | |
able to click "go" and spin up a server that will push your | |
text-based content out into the wild on all possible channels at | |
maximum volume. (Hence why this phost is called Banshee) | |
Why? | |
Some people have a hard time getting their voice out from behind | |
firewalls, oppressive regimes, and so on. I want to make it easy | |
for them to toss something on a raspberry pi, or spin up a virtual | |
machine, or SOMETHING, and have a way to be heard. | |
How? | |
I really don't know. I assume I could look into containers as | |
a start. There's a heavy devops part of this that's not my | |
wheel-house. Frankly, I think I'll need help. | |
I'm going to start up a tildegit org for this, stub out a repo | |
with a readme and get some conversations going. I think this could | |
really help people with real problems today. Hopefully it won't | |
fall off my radar and into the "someday" category. |