The Chuggybumba Network

The what, now?

The Chuggybumba Network isn't really a network at all, but rather a collection of services I run out of my garage. Well, I call them services, but they're mostly for my own use. And friends and family, if willing.

I've always run my own servers ever since I managed to install Linux on my trusty 486/DX66 IBM PS/1 2168 from 1993 (god I miss that clunky old tower.) Years later, when I got the chance to buy a rack server from my work I couldn't resist. Suddenly I was spinning up virtual machines, and thus the "network" was born.

Lately I've been focusing on reclaiming my digital sovereignty. The internet we once knew and loved has rotted into a husk, with governments everywhere itching to go full-ass Orwell on its own citizens. I'll have my personal privacy surveillance free, thank you very much. I try to explain this whenever anyone asks. "Would you be comfortable with a politician in your bedroom?" I say. Yet for some goddamn reason, many people treat constant privacy infringement as something we just have to accept.

Not me. Around here, I run my own shit.

So, what's cooking?