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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can’t zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

    I’ve read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that’s a battle that’s been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.


  • Welcome! I’m a new amateur in the States. Like you, I peek in here and find that at the moment, it doesn’t take long. The frog boil has worked quite well in Reddit; the frogs are staying in their pots even as enshittification becomes obvious (pro tip, it’s spelled IPO). Unlike you, I’m new enough that I have nothing worthwhile to contribute yet.

    As for Mastodon, I’m on an instance with a 5k character limit. Some instances run modified versions known as glitch or hometown, which allow the admin to set a limit (well) above 500. I didn’t find a handy list of these easily, but a little searching in google or r/Mastodon may turn up ideas.





  • It’s a very heavy building - multiple stories in earthquake country, and I’m not on the top floor. Everything dies when I leave the nook with the windows. NOAA works literally only on the windowsill, TRACON almost never clears the noise floor once I’m not near the window, and I hear some smaller UHF repeaters away from the window but haven’t yet heard the 2m (it’s not super high traffic, so can’t say I haven’t just been unlucky).

    We’re allowed on the roof and I’ve been up there, everything’s peachy. When I’m at the office downtown, I’m on a high floor, so I can pick up the 2m easily even though I’m on the other side of the building.
















  • Prerequisites

    • Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
    • Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment

    Installation

    • Don’t bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
    • Instead just cargo install mollysocket
    • Move the mollysocket executable if desired
    • Run mollysocket once so that it will emit the default config

    Configuration

    • Fish the config file out of .config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.

    config.toml

    • In the new file, replace the allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.
    • Put a proper path in the db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you’re sitting.
    • Delete the mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it’s already where you’re intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.

    Run script

    • The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It’s best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
    • export ROCKET_PORT=8020
      export RUST_LOG=info
      export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
      

    Proxy server

    • You’ll need to proxy everything from / to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.
    • Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.

    Things to know