[nmglug] Msatodon & Matrix Update

[Jonathan Haack]

NM Gluggers,

First of all, always great to see all the conversatin and dialogue 
taking place, much enjoyed. Personally, the normal time rarely works for 
me as I teach secondary during the day and typically have 
college/tertiary office hours until 7pm after. Just wanted to say hi and 
update folks on the Mastodon and Matrix communities I set up.

The Mastodon and Matrix communities are both self-hosted in a data 
center up at Brown Rice, in Taos NM. I recently upgrades the server with 
8 enterprise SSDs in a RAID10/zfs array, along with 4 platter drives for 
backups. The server has over 500 available virtual cores, over 350GB of 
RAM, and I have a separate SuperMicro off-site (the old one) that I use 
as a backup server. All data are stored on either encrypted zfs data 
sets behind keys on luks volumes and/or FDE volumes.

Personally, I find email to be very out of date for communicating and 
would love to get some more of our locals to hop in the Matrix for sure, 
and or - if you don't already have a Mastodon - to join there too! The 
Matrix community is now over 20 users and although the NM Glug channel 
is not yet thriving, the public glug channel is very active, with 
developers out of state regularly chiming in on projects and helping me 
with some of mine. I've also removed any cumbersome barriers to sign up 
now, and everything should just work.

Well, hope y'all are well ... if interested, here's the links:

Matrix - https://element.gnulinux.club (for sign up, and/or change the 
server for discovery and join pubglug and/or nmglug if you already have 
an account.

  Mastodon - https://gnulinux.social ... If you already have one, drop a 
follow to @oemb1905 at gnulinux.social ...

Stay well nerds and happy hacking. Back to teaching, enjoy your day and 
hmu if y'all have any questions.


Kindly,

Jonathan Haack