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About this episode

The episode discusses self-hosted VPN networks, the usability of Wireguard, and features updates on the podcast and related events.

(00:00) Complete Shownotes at https://discuss.james.network (00:40) Sponsor Ameridroid referral link - US-based distributor of Odroid, Open Hardware and Home Automation Third Reality M1 Power Plug w/ Metering with Home Assistant support. LINUXPREPPER at checkout (02:01) State of the Podcast Albyhub as a selfhosted Bitcoin Lightning node. Locally hosts wallet and node for podcasting 2.0 donations + Nostr authentication. Thank you to those who have sent me donations and messages over the last couple days of it working. Send a direct lightning or Nostr donation here . Also, a thank you to the helpful Alby team. They have useful step-by-step guides . Only email them because their chat is covered in scammers. (02:44) Nostr decentralized social network. Iris.to webui client for Nostr (04:38) Events SeaGL or Seattle Gnu/Linux Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 11/07 - 11/08. Full schedule released . No cost; all are welcome! My SeaGL presentation on 11/07 at 5pm . Will also be tabling to promote this show. Do stop by and say hello! (06:40) Self-hosted Tools Is Wireguard hard to use? Send your thoughts on an anonymous form. Adding authentication services onto…

People in this episode

Host: Full Name

Topics covered

• self-hosted VPN
• Wireguard
• Nostr
• Bitcoin Lightning
• SeaGL
• home automation

Keywords

• VPN
• Wireguard
• self-hosted
• Nostr
• Bitcoin
• SeaGL
• home automation

Sponsors

Ameridroid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Albyhub, Nostr, Racknerd

Products: Wireguard, Pangolin

Places: Seattle, University of Washington

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