I was just setting up remote runners for TankieTube when I had an epiphany:

I could ask comrades to volunteer their own computers! quagsire-pog

That way those who can't or don't care to donate monetarily could still contribute.

How would it work?

Conceptually, you can think of it like a crypto mining botnet. Except it transcodes videos for the community instead of producing heat for individual profit. And it's voluntary ofc.

It can run on any operating system with an internet connection. I'm going to use my gaming desktop and at least one VPS.

Tech level required: comfortable copy-and-pasting things into a CLI.

OpSec considerations: negligable as far as I can tell. There is no P2P involved. Your computer talks directly to the TankieTube server using sicko-to-HTTPS communication. The server would see your IP address, but that's always the case on every website.

Thoughts?

  • nothx [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I have some credit on a random cloud provider, I may be interested as long as usage doesn’t raise any red flags to them.

      • nothx [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Any usage really. If resources start getting pegged on the VPS, they may CPU limit it to preserve performance of the neighboring VPS instances.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          I see. You can always throttle the CPU usage in the configuration. Or run the service only x hours per day.