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Cool website run on a solar powered repurposed smartphone (compost.party)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's more solarpunk than using old hardware destined for the dump to host a cool website?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

years ago I read about a protocol to treat webpages like torrents.

so if a website becomes popular, it'll be accessed not from a main server, but from every who has seen it and cached it.

that would be perfect for "microservers" like this.

what sucks is that I don't remember any specific name for that protocol, so I cant search for it and figure out if it's actually a thing or some vague prototype.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Sounds like Gnunet or sone other P2P system?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

IPFS?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

possibly, sad we are moving towards having like 5 websites, instead of countless small websites.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're still around, tho:

Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

Edit: In case you don't like surprises: https://wiby.me/

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

PeerTube does this in a way. When you're watching a video, other users can stream it from you directly.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Ah like the low tech magazine website! Fuckin' s i c k!!!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I love this idea, though I wish they some information about what software it is running.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It says it's a static website on postmarketos. So, I'm guessing... some Apache server?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

... but you could probably use something like termux to do something similar if postmarketos doesnt work on your phone for any reason.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's nginx according to the response headers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do you think that's not just the reverse-proxy (for the ssl certificates)? Can you just serve a homepage via nginx? I'm guessing you could simply redirect into a webroot dir with html files, but is it practical?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

nginx is a very capable web server by itself, the reverse proxy is just one small part of it.

Without more information I'm just guessing, but they're probably running the whole thing on-device, the CPU in that phone should have hardware cryptography support (For AES), but even ChaCha is pretty efficient in software on chips like that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

TIL

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not this site exactly, but started digging and found this article, about running k8s on Android phones using the same OS. Hope it is interesting.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I think little Lemmy has overloaded the phone.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's super cool

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Bravo!

this post was submitted on 17 May 2025

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