I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.
It’s a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit
Overview
Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?
♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboardsThis is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:
- networks: Tor, i2p
- computing: boinc, foldingathome
- archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
- storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission
This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.
Be careful with compute intensive tasks. Some providers don’t like when you actually utilize your rented hosts.
Not a problem when self-hosting on own hardware. Especially in winter. Overly complicated spaceheater goes brrrr
What would they do about it?
Find some loophole in their T&C to terminate your account I guess. Similar to how mobile providers don’t like people actually using a lot of bandwidth on their „unlimited“ plans.
Never heard of this so far but maybe. Would be interesting to try
Many providers have specific clauses for this. Ever since crypto mining became a thing providers have included in general terms you can’t over use the service. And often specifically against using it for crypto mining.
Providers will normally warn users and only kick them off when no explanation is forthcoming.
Usually this applies to shared services, like a VPS. You pay a lower price because you share hardware. But that only works if the hardware is shared fairly. If another user hogs all the resources, the service is no good for anyone. But it can also apply to seemingly dedicated services, like your own server for example. In that case the server is free to be used for whatever, but things like cooling and power are still shared. A regular dedicated server service will be based on typical use and can kick users out who require too much cooling or power. In cases where the resources are legitimately required, they will offer contracts that allow you to use all of the resources all of the time. But in turn you will have to pay a premium for something like that.
On the surface it may seem like a bit of bullshit, but that’s often what allows prices to be as low as they are. So I’m fine with it, as long as it’s made clear beforehand (which in my experience it is)
Made me learn about Archiveteam, thanks :D
Love the art.
I like this, thank you; saving to process further in the coming days…
Going to Jail in Germany speedrun any%
I don’t know all of the tools, do you mean the tor relay?
Basically all programs which enable file sharing via your Internet connection. Germany is notorious for having a huge amount of lawyers which are only dedicated to tracking down and file a copy right infringement (or worse) case against people, who had unlawful actions done over their IP. And if you can’t pay your fines, jail time is waiting.
add https://catagolue.hatsya.com/apgsearch pls <3
Whats the difference with Linkwarden? I find it very similar to it. I’m looking for something like this but for future data search with a potent search or even LLM capable searchs. There is another called Data Hoarder that does this job too.
The GoodKarmaToolkit in particular is an extra project that is managed by ArchiveBox, but the listed services aren’t made by them. I’m not as familiar with ArchiveBox itself, and it looks like there’s an open issue about AI stuff: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1139
There is another called Data Hoarder that does this job too.
Yup, Hoarder was the one I was planning to use for bookmark management: https://hoarder.app/
