It is amazingly sunny and cold here
today. I walked down to the store at
lunch. The sun was great and the wind
was ... invigorating. I used my hood
on the way home.
I haven't spent enough time outside
this year, so I'm making an effort to
correct that. There are two shopping
areas within a 15-minute walk from my
house, so I've been attempting to
avoid taking the car. So far, I'm at
the three-day mark. It's easy when
it's so beautiful outside and there's
not much snow on the ground. We'll see
how it goes if the weather takes a
turn for the worse.
The XMPP server has been back up since
Friday. I did a bunch of tests over
the first couple of days -- and
experimented with different
configurations -- so there were
frequent restarts. One of the things I
was toying with was file transfers. If
anyone wants them activated, I'll do
so, since the server has a lot of
unused bandwidth. It's 500GB/month and
I don't recall ever using more than
about 2% of that with the old XMPP
server, even when we had Shizaru on
it, serving the www pages for
circumlunar.space.
I've also been considering setting up
a very small private social network
for my family. Epicyon looks
interesting, but Alex Schroeder
reported heavy CPU use with it[1]. I
guess Pleroma would be the next
alternative. Something light would be
best. If anyone's got any
recommendations, feel free to send
them my way.
[1] see the comments section on the
following page:
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2019-11-09_Epicyon_needs_Python_3.6_which_needs_a_Debian_upgrade
