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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing

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Local community/homebase for life operating system. Town OS is for everybody. Really. town-os.github.io

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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
DNS is basically busted on the network I'm on, which has very odd DoH requirements. I'll release an image later tonight for rolodex and hopefully it will fix some things. I think everything else is probably in decent shape. Some more coming regarding jellyfin/plex/radarr/sonarr that I hope to show
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Er, so the big problem here is that information is not traveling. That's what this project is supposed to be about.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
and yes it is to draw attnetion to my imprisonment here in this bullshit festival I don't give a fuck it could be your kid
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nathan's invested a lot of time jerking me around Nathan likes getting nathan's way so feel free to donate to that cause if you do but at the end of the month if I am not free and I am not safe and I am not compensated I will slaughter someone here.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
and yes at the end of this month I will execute someone if I am not compensated.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
nathan's now on the "i'm building this myself" team feel free to donate to his cause of pushing people around
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
let it be known I will take a life to draw attention to this little problem here
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
if you want to learn how to piss a coffee shop off really fast come buy me a pack of cigarettes I'll give you a rust binary
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i'll integrate it with pax which can pair spam over bluetooth
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm going to make a special version of town-os tomorrow that I will attach to a raspberry pi and usb battery and will just arp storm any wifi nearby that has an open connection I'm getting sick of waking up on the pavement
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
my guess is that nathan thinks he can do what I do or he can leverage it for personal financial gain see I have a lot of dirt on a lot of people nathan is probably one of those people so someone needs to get a photo of him the next time we're together also jorge aka captain nemo hangs around him
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
nathan seems to think he's the person who gets to call the shots
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
nathan seems to have dropped off the face of the planet after being so excited to accept donations for town os the short version is nathan is probably more interested in making himself important
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
maybe a coffee
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
please someone bring me a pack of cigarettes and something to eat
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
new gfeh (Object Storage) coming. also install is trying to use rolodex for libvirt stuff instead of dnsmasq -- might be buggy at first but there's some cache seeding/sharing opportunities there once the vm and libvirt work together. probably still a few bugs around plex -- oauth once don't purge
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
plex is working and some new stuff is on the way plex.default.home
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
berkeley bitches in full effect
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My claude will run out at the end of the month so to continue at this pace, someone will have to foot the bill.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
donation instructions going up on the website. remember to look for this
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
translations are up for most major components at this point
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
town os gives you a trust model which is purely peer to peer. you only trust your friends if you want to. That's what I'm heading towards -- a fully peer to peer trusted cloud system that's easy to boot, consistent and lets you (safely) untrust roots.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
trying to fix dns today sorry -- the good news is that DoQ DoT DoH are all first class supported. the DNSSEC roots validation leaves me with a lot of confident but also, rolodex publishes prometheus metrics now which I have been using to debug it with claude.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
trying to make this work but go ahead steal this shit and kill me
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
all website docs up back later
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
definitely some issues iwth dns -- will investigate after some rest
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
releases up -- arm images coming might want to write a usb for one btw some cool features around dns and new metrics and yeah there are some issues with cache warming and ingress / healthcheck that are still unwieldly working on it
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
reminder that america is in a very unique position where race-baiting is quite beneficial to anyone with a thirst for power
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
more coming in a few hours
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
damn near everything is getting released after a test cleanup so yeah
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
dnsbl is still here and the blocklist functionality will be refined around it for now. RBL is important but it will need to be dealt with after I am certain a few things are working properly.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
plucking RBL support for now -- more coming later.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
someone stole my hygiene bag in the last 24 hours just discovered it look forward to new fixes coming to the blocklist functionality as well as DNSSEC.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
oh yeah my laptop got jacked too -- so building town os has cost me about $5000 or so and less than $1000 of it was on claude and I also have other broken hardware that is also quite expensive and an apartment I lost in a "hey, let's see what happens when alameda county gets involved" incident
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
nathan's cashapp for those on mastodon (the rt's don't get posted)
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
and yes, F7693004 and yeah I can talk at length about who I am also look for the tats they're very unique.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
nrion has been extremely supportive and has learned a lot. also, I'm teaching in this area and generally asking that you just give me a coffee or help someone else for this work -- this funds development, improves the product and gets us all closer to true freedom in one way or another.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
setting up cashapp donations through @nrion.bsky.social -- my phone, card, identity etc have been stolen so this is the only way to fund development. I'll drop a tag later.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
love you
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
love you
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
got a cool surprise for tonight
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
new rolodex on the way verifies hard (as in prunes) roots that do not successfully verify DNSSEC. Also it exports prometheus metrics that are now used in town-os
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
oh I guess the oakland sexy party of forgiveness stuff didn't arrive yet
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
more mirroring coming to mastodon
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
japanese lang has started -- not finished yet but poke around for it. also the dns server got trained a little better on DNSSEC management. I'm going to push the patches but be aware I cannot test this on the berkeley visitor network which I am normally forced to use.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
a lot of nerds wish larry ellison would leave planet earth
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
ultimate banger
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
note that I did update the android app today to reconcile some issues; I do not know if they work yet. I also have no way to test the android app on a real phone anymore.
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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
useful backup script gist.github.com/erikh/a87db5...
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