Hello folks,
I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people’s websites for free.
How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?
Thanks in advance!
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You may install BOINC and contribute to scientific computations.
Is there any way to exclude US projects, or only pick projects that are non-profit or open-source?
I wouldn’t want to waste energy on something that the Christian Taliban will likely destroy, or benefit from; or go to patented corporate research.
Yes, you select projects that you participate in by yourself.
Noice
That’s not really how this works
The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the better the Tor network will be. The current Tor network is quite small compared to the number of people who need to use Tor, which means we need more dedicated volunteers like you to run relays.
Pretty sure tor is a honeypot… Not sure the alternatives though
Edit: maybe honeypot is not the right word, but at the nation-state level this won’t keep you anonymous I’m guessing. Good for normal people who want more privacy
That’s definitely not what I’ve heard, please elaborate.
Tor itself may not be, but private users are competing against NSA resources or something
Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I don’t think the protocol itself is broken with enough people doing exit nodes, and I think normal people will benefit from privacy granted by tor.
But I bet with high certainty that if the NSA wants you it can probably find you.
The below YouTubers I’ve seen before but I also can’t independently verify whether they are just click baiting or not…
Stop getting info from yt “infosec” channels.
No one uses single exit-entry gateways in tor anymore, and the widespread use of tor bridges, split exits and vpn (now that they’re quite fast) means it’s much easier for law enforcement to fingerprint traffic rather than sit and wait for someone to tilt their hand and reveal an exit node that will have moved in an hour anyway.
Think about it: if criminals were successfully moving illicit goods and hiding the comms, you think you would hear about it on YouTube, of all places?
You’re saying law enforcement can easily fingerprint you? Or am I misreading what you’re trying to say?
You’re saying law enforcement can easily fingerprint you?
Yes. The days of Maltego are behind us, law enforcement now just file requests directly with Google.
Even on something like tor browser or tails?
You can check out https://foldingathome.org/ (Folding@Home) projects, where you contribute your spare CPU or GPU power for various science research.
If you’re willing to donate bandwidth, I suggest I2P or a public SyncThing node. My server chews through a terabyte of bandwidth helping people securely access their files. I also run Tor’s Snowflake proxy which helps users reach the network.
I2P is Java. SyncThing and Snowflake are written in Go which means you can’t pull off typical memory corruption attacks in these relatively safe languages, and it’s fairly easy to run them in a container.
I2p has several implementations including Java
You probably don’t want your server maxing out all day, your electricity bill will thank you
don’t want your server maxing out all day
But don’t you think about that poor server?
It is feeling so bored out and it’s whole life worthless…
It’s just a mini computer. Most likely pretty efficient processor but also not very powerful.
I don’t feel like it makes a huge difference for me and I run quite a few servers. It’s mainly the cooling costs in the summer months that run up the bill.
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I think lower CPU usage is good. CPUs tend to be the most efficient this way and it allows for sudden usage spikes without lag.
A Fedi instance requires a time commitment, there are some good suggestions in here but I recommend some alternative frontends.
You could also use it for running more services at home 😬. Thinks like Wekan, nextcloud, gitlab, matrix server, mbin, mastodon, grafana, mumble…
ok but there’ll still be a lot of idle capacity that can be put to good use. I relatively rarely browse I2P, but I’m happy to contribute bandwidth. It’s safe too, because I only see encrypted traffic coming from one relay and going to another one, and it does not run an “exit node”
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- install gitlab-runner on your VM
- hook to a few projects as available runners
- do that again
You could mine crypto on my behalf (I’ll keep the profits)
Mine crypto to donate
You’d be better off directly donating.
I know, should of added /s
No, you cant just „share processing power“
Also you could host something like a Lemmy instance, but then you had to get it federated, and mod it, and what not
If you want to do something good, host a snowflake proxy or something
