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FSSERVER.io

latex encased server holding digital safety infrastructure tools for SWers

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archive of SWer internet history

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a bad “client” list : unfriendly digital platforms

♬⋆.˚listening to while building /fsserver/

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ordered a bunch of materials…….a few different cooling systems (*UPDATE: DHL sidequest failed and my heatsinks + fans are still M.I.A.✈︎) to test out with the latex /sheath/ …. the anxiety about overheating my rpi is building!!

also ordered ms.latex herself,, and was able to ship solvent glue internationally???

successfully installed yunohost after struggling, reflashing, and making my living room into a dangerous labyrinth of semi-suspended cables — weaving my web~

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had a few weird issues like:

  • installed successfully the 1st time, but after a weekish away & reboot, my yunohost.local was down…. couldn’t figure it out why from looking @ my monitor & didn’t have the resources to do anything about it anyway —my monitor is an ancient german tv and my keyboard is a similarly antiquated universal remote made in “west germany” ??? (jk hehe)

  • decided to reformat my SD & reflash: bumpy start, but after another reboot we were good 2 go

  • configuring my DNS was a small nightmare, because the original domain registrar i used doesn’t support AAAA or CAA records. dumb. also the domain hasn’t had its 60-day bday yet, so i couldn’t transfer….registered a new domain on namecheap and learned my registrar lesson

  • also had issues with yunohost being able to access my server’s ports , but after some router exploration that made me feel very hackey — my diagnostics showed no issues!

this definitely took waaaaaay longer than 5 seconds

break! reading patti smith on the train to berlin. had a sweet meetup with neuza & arvin at a cozy cafe and arvin reassured me about my cooling concerns~

soooo relatable............

bespoke condom ✔︎

i used my_webapp on yunohost to publish the static website that is the meat of fsserver. i was initially commited to uploading site files using SSH, but after hours of troubleshooting:

  • 403 errors
  • permissions permissions permissions
  • config file mess abouts
  • a lot of unsuccessful SSL handshaking
  • yunohost domain & app routing

i decided to stop being a terminal purist and use FileZilla for a more intuitive GUI experience.

*UPDATE: my frustration with yunohost & my_webapp conflicts has grown so i've ditched yunohost altogether and moved to using nginx directly + a cloudflare tunnel. this walkthrough was extremely helpful!

obviously, now that she was dressed, i had to have a photoshoot w my new bff

it's live! with much room for development —fsserver is relatively functional, and in conversation with swer peers who have provided feedback on how to make her more accessible/usable. against my own nature, i had to draw a lot of "good enough for now" boundaries with myself, which i've ultimately come to appreciate as i work more collaboratively with ppl on content.

designed to emulate the popup-ridden flash-y tube sites of years gone by...

my goal for this project was to create a tool...but maybe the real treasure was the interconnected histories of sex work/censorship/the military industrial complex/imperialism/colonialism we found along the way....... i went deep in the research-hole for the sex worker history of technology & the internet (S.W.H.O.T.T.I.) section of the site (lots of gratitude for the work of #SurvivorsAgainstSesta, Hacking//Hustling, Livia Foldes’s Sex Workers Built the Internet, and Gabriella Garcia’s Decoding Stigma) — and unearthed serious lore. western railroad towns built off the earnings of brothels & madams becomingtelecommunication & internet backbones,, teletext ASCII porn, Lena Forsén's Playboy spread being used for early jpeg compression algos, porn sites pioneering cookies & payment verification, the implications of the TVPA, Patriot Act, and SESTA/FOSTA on digital surveillance. my wish is to see a timeline like this incorporated into mainstream narratives of internet history. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

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thoughts? i ♡ 2 chat ig email isemaok.com