maintenance logs
It's been a rather quiet year for compost so far. A handful of people have made themselves a home on it in recent months, but many e-mails sit unanswered in the inbox. Sorry about that! compost still sits comfortably at that friend's place, fed by a giant 400 W balcony solar panel. Mostly resting without needing a lot attention. There is no daily necessity to check in on it, it just keeps running…
compost is currently at a friends' place. They have some extra solar capacity while I ( near ) am too busy during the upcoming days to be able to properly take care of it. The suncycles just would't sync well, so thanks viernullvier for taking care! Last weekend we hosted a session Cables of Resistance, and it turned into a really nice opportunity for many participants to network and talk about…
Happy new year! Chaos Communication Congress ended up being kind of all over the place, sorry if we missed each other at the Feminist Server assembly. It was fun to see many people at the meetup! There's now a zine that was prepared to describe this little habitat. Take a look at it if you like!
if you're at 39c3, come say hi at the feminist server assembly !
Hey gang, viernullvier here. I've been the designated guardian of compost.party for a few days and used the opportunity to play around with the solar power setup. My goal was to come up with a setup that is able to power the phone throughout the notoriously bleak Berlin winter while doing away with the need to unplug the panel every morning. TL;DR : We're not there yet, but I learned a lot along…
compost is travelling again! it has been given into viernullvier's care while no one's home here for the next couple of days. It was placed into a bag and carried over on a bike, its new home is barely a kilometer away. The site will be served through the cellphone network while we're gone, so please be gentle on the 1 GB data plan.
This work changes so much with the seasons. Keeping this running feels much more like tending to plants than it feels like conventional sysadmin work. Did it rain? Did something move, is everything still in place? We are well into fall here in Berlin, which statistically means roughly half as much hours of sunshine as in summer, again halving to a total of 51 hours of sunshine in November.…
We have a new inhabitant, twilliability . Welcome! The server is back in Neukölln after the intermezzo in ZKU, where excorp took care of it in August. It survived the way safely, but has had some issues finding back home comfortably. The GSM experiment that we started has been quite the success. We hosted the server on the mobile cellphone network for about a month on a cheap data plan. The…
We were at the Berlin permacomputing meetup today, where wellgedacht held a workshop discussing self-hosting and their Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit . We printed some of our maintenance logs with a needle printer.
Compost was down for several hours early in the morning today. As predicted in the previous maintenance log post, I was late getting back to the server on the previous day to unplug and replug. I had assumed I could do it anytime before the charge dropped too low but I realized later that I re-plugged it in too late in the day yesterday for it to develop a full charge before nightfall around…