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What's more solarpunk than using old hardware destined for the dump to host a cool website?

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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

years ago I read about a protocol to treat webpages like torrents.

so if a website becomes popular, it'll be accessed not from a main server, but from every who has seen it and cached it.

that would be perfect for "microservers" like this.

what sucks is that I don't remember any specific name for that protocol, so I cant search for it and figure out if it's actually a thing or some vague prototype.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

possibly, sad we are moving towards having like 5 websites, instead of countless small websites.

[–] sfled@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

Sounds like Gnunet or sone other P2P system?

PeerTube does this in a way. When you're watching a video, other users can stream it from you directly.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 3 days ago

I think little Lemmy has overloaded the phone.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

Ah like the low tech magazine website! Fuckin' s i c k!!!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I love this idea, though I wish they some information about what software it is running.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It says it's a static website on postmarketos. So, I'm guessing... some Apache server?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's nginx according to the response headers.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Do you think that's not just the reverse-proxy (for the ssl certificates)? Can you just serve a homepage via nginx? I'm guessing you could simply redirect into a webroot dir with html files, but is it practical?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

nginx is a very capable web server by itself, the reverse proxy is just one small part of it.

Without more information I'm just guessing, but they're probably running the whole thing on-device, the CPU in that phone should have hardware cryptography support (For AES), but even ChaCha is pretty efficient in software on chips like that.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Not this site exactly, but started digging and found this article, about running k8s on Android phones using the same OS. Hope it is interesting.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

That's super cool

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago