Why tho?
What’s the use case for a ActPub based weather info service that wouldn’t be adequately addressed by a basic API on an existing service?
Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.
Why tho?
What’s the use case for a ActPub based weather info service that wouldn’t be adequately addressed by a basic API on an existing service?
They may have the ability but they don’t have the appetite. The other side of it of course is that if we start doing things like that on one side the other will as well and then we have no functioning vote regardless because congress would just do whatever they feel like.
Pretty simple simple ‘castle & moat’ setup. Lots of firewall, IPS, dynamic threat, etc around it with separate subnets and all the usual biz. My ISP doesn’t use CGNAT so I’m lucky that way, though they did question WTF I was doing last I made a service call to them based on the bandwidth usage.
I tend to find the R820 behind me to be a pretty reliable host so long as you don’t mind footing the power bill to run it.
Pretty sure the separation of church and state has something to say about this.
I’ve been a user of GOG for a while principally because of the no-drm ability to download a copy of what you bought. When the library starts getting past a certain size though you start to wonder about those things like what if the producer has a falling out and wants to yank it from the platform, does it vanish from my library then too? Are there contracts that say ‘forever’ when they offer it? Would love to find some ‘download all’ option to take a full copy offline of the bought items at once but it’d probably overrun the monthly ISP limits even if they had one.
Seen too many things on Netflix or Spotify that I liked vanish because ‘fuck off, we can’ and although I never anticipated it being ‘bought’ in those cases it does give a lot of justification to find alternate means to reestablish that access.
If it works as a basic post bot I guess there’s something to that, just seems and odd extra step when you’re already using a phone/computer that likely already has some kind of weather widget built in.