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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

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

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

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

not a fan of her really she seems to be very interested in getting me to tell her all about her fanvue but she once offered to buy me a coffee here in berkeley once said she was an anatomy student

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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

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 · 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

demonstrating how angry that makes me on layaway and my daughter's safety definitely depends on how nice i'll be about it. until then enjoy town os

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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

those letters were written to my daughter and preserved for years -- hand written. town-os's original design and the scarlett-school were written on them. they were jail paper -- I wrote those in solitary confinement to keep sane. that is why I have a special little place in my heart for

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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

that has priceless shit in it, some of hte most expensive stuff I've owned (some of it my whole life) and I'm gonna walk into a room some day and enjoy closing the door and creating an auditory experience for everyone but the person inside who made that happen. My letters are in that apartment.

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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

this is also the reason the android client doesn't work and probably won't until I get my hands on a new phone. It's also the reason I'm working on a desktop client. It's also the reason my anbernic stopped working right before I released the first images. Understand you are being BGP'd.

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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

I spend $100/mo that I get from cash aid. I cannot get a job for a number of reasons. I have 30 years of computing infrastructure experience. Here is my github with more information. github.com/erikh

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Erik Hollensbe / Town OS: Community Powered Computing @town-os.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

please check out what I built while homeless in berkeley with claude. it's a platform to open communication and the code is completely free too. it more or less allows you to run amazon web services on small devices on an interface that nearly anyone can use. town-os.github.io

town-os.github.io

Town OS — Your Cloud in Your Closet

Town OS — Your Cloud in Your Closet. A self-hosted platform that runs entirely from a USB drive.

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