Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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Wonderful idea. Love that you’ve figured out how to pay for it right off the bat.
Several suggestions:
Blowing hot … air?
Skirting the edge of self hosting, I was faced with this question last month. I ended up with a Ubiquity UCG Ultra. It has all the network management tools on-board and for the first time in a long time I can manage my network from anywhere on the planet.
Access can be via a web UI, or an app.
There’s going to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for this … right?
If you open your CPU up to a jailbreak by being a dumkopf, does that really count as Open Source?
The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.
I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.
You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.
My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.
That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.
What’s your recommendation for OP?
Nothing and everything.
There are thousands if not millions of open source solutions scattered around society. Some are feature complete, most are not. Some are maintained, many are not. A handful are funded, the rest is not.
What open source needs, more than anything else is fundraising and the means to distribute those funds to the tune of the trillions of dollars that the corporate world extracts in profits from those open source efforts.
In other words, the people who make this need to get paid.
Firefox terms and conditions, Red Hat, and several other projects that have caused uproar through the community, are all caused by the need to get paid to eat food and have a roof over your head whilst you contribute to society and give away your efforts.
Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.
The app “Track & Graph” is another.
I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.
Absolutely.
Except not in this timeline.
Here it’s all about ChatGPT, nothing about neural networks, nothing about machine learning, or about what we used to call expert systems.
You do realise that the journalists around us don’t sit still long enough to make the distinction, and I can guarantee that the Orange has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The general public has no clue at all.
Hopefully ChatGPT et. al. will choke on their own input shortly, take all the trillions of investment dollars into the sewer and cause a few CEO’s to suddenly discover the meaning of Defenestration.
… dreaming is fun …
On a positive note, something we, as-in science, got from this whole kerfuffle is back propagation, which for the first time gave us the ability to (partially) solve until now unsolvable multivariate problems.
Hopefully more will come of that before the LLM in charge pushes the big red button into oblivion.
What could possibly go wrong … though to be fair, the current crop of LLM are evidently smarter than the Orange running the country at the moment … even including typical LLM hallucinations.
How do you think that the internet works?
How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?
This would be funny if antivaxers weren’t so vocal and misinformed.
It’s a pun on the word “Mistral” … not a very good one, but funny to an economist I suppose.