Notices by Bruce Davie (drbruced@aus.social)

@GossiTheDog I researched this for long enough to give up and go to mesh wifi. My nominal 1G system was getting 100Mbps and this seems typical. There seems to have been a lot more investment in making mesh wifi work well. Still I don’t think you’ll get up to 10G without running cable. (Because I am old I am still amazed that 10G can be achieved over anything other than fibre.)

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Douro Valley hiking day 2. #hiking #portugal

@tchambers I think you want Applebot-Extended as well. This repo might be of interest https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

More good analysis of the Substack situation from @mmasnick
As a fan of decentralised systems, I like this part:
"Running a private website is all about tradeoffs. You have to make lots of choices, and those choices are difficult and are guaranteed to piss off many, many people (no matter what you do). For what it’s worth, this is still why I think a protocol-based solution should beat a centralized solution every time, because with protocols you can setup a variety of approaches and let people figure out what works best, rather than relying on one centralized system."

Feeling good about moving my newsletter off Substack this week.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/substack-realizes-maybe-it-doesnt-want-to-help-literal-nazis-make-money-after-all/

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

Current status: enjoying the Scottish sunshine (!) with a local pint after a morning’s walking #beer #hillwalking #scotland