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date: 2024-01-01T19:41:42+01:00
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em;">
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{{< hextra/hero-badge link="index.xml" >}}
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<span>RSS Feed</span>
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{{< icon name="rss" attributes="height=16" >}}
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{{< /hextra/hero-badge >}}
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</div>
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title: 'Taking off, nailing down'
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date: 2024-04-01T10:58:34+02:00
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authors:
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- name: this.ven
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link: /about/
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image: /images/profile.jpg
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tags:
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- Hugo
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- Infrastructure
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- Relaunch
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- Website
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---
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Hi! If you wonder why my website looks different, this article is about why.
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<!--more-->
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If you already know about the background of this site you may want to jump to
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the section [Know why, know what, know how](#know-why-know-what-know-how).
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## The history of this site
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Since I started the this.ven project in the fall of 2017 and created the website
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in the following year, the purpose of these pages and the services I am running
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has changed.
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### Taking off with Tor on a netbook
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In the beginning, I just wanted to share my music
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([drafts](/music/drafts/)) and some of the details related to it. For this
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reason, an old netbook with a 700 MHz single-core CPU, 512 MB RAM and 4 GB SSD
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running Debian 9 (Stretch)[^1] has been sufficient to serve static HTML files
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via an Apache 2 webserver over the Tor[^2] network. To connect the site to the
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clearnet[^3] I resorted to a proxy together with a link shortener service. This
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way the visitors could access my onion site by navigating to a clearnet address.
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{{< figure src="img/netbook-kernel-panic.jpg" alt="Netbook Kernel panic"
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caption="The last screen (kernel panic) of the netbook in Oktober 2022" >}}
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Though this solution induces that visitors had to trust the free proxy service
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since the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) Tor traffic is terminated at the exit node
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(before the proxy node), at that time I didn't have enough resources for another
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option. Additionally, I didn't want to register at a service, share my personal
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data, such as the place of residence and phone number, due to the legislation in
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my country.
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### Migration to Uberspace
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However, as the need for E2EE instant messaging (IM) became more urgent, and I
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was looking for options to run other web applications without being dependend on
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Tor I gave Uberspace a try. I migrated the website files and extended it in the
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following years. I used a Prosody[^4] server for IM with my family and friends,
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and registered a domain in order to setup DNS records against my concerns. I
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setup and tried out many other services for blogging, collaborative writing,
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file sharing, instant messaging, streaming, and audio- and videoconferencing.
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After some time I learned that there's a high price to convert fellow people for
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Internet politics and digital rights this way. I cancelled the domain and most
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services. Unfortunately, some friends didn't manage or didn't want to switch to
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another protocol ([Matrix](/docs/infrastructure/matrix/)) and fell back to SMS.
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### A more private Uberspace
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As of 2019 the Uberspace evolved into a more private resource to allow myself to
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be more independent from GAFAM, which I---kind of---celebrated in November 2020
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when I organized to do a live [miniconcert](/music/live/streaming-miniconcert/)
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using a [streaming setup](/docs/infrastructure/icecast/streaming-setup/) backed
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by Icecast. However, I still wanted to share my experiences and knowledge to
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support other people on their way to digital sovereignty[^5]. I started a wiki
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using DokuWiki[^6] documenting my [infrastructure](/docs/infrastructure).
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{{< figure src="img/larven-wiki.png" alt="lar.ven wiki"
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caption="Startpage of the discontinued lar.ven wiki" >}}
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In addition to instructions on how I tweak my services at Uberspace to achieve
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more security and privacy I also wrote articles about setting up a Tor relay
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with the netbook that was providing the onion site before and VoidLinux[^7] as a
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more lightweight OS until the hardware finally died. It was replaced by a
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Raspberry Pi 3 A+, but due the lack of a wired NIC I switched to a Snowflake
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proxy[^8] very soon. If you want to support the Tor network, donate to the
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project and have a look at the:
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{{< cards >}}
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{{< card icon="link" title="Browser Snowflake proxy"
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link="https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/browser" >}}
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{{< /cards >}}
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### Site building overhaul, handy features, and a new design
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At the end of 2023 I reconsidered my infrastructure and website content. If the
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intent is to share my music and knowledge together, there is no reason to
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separate the contents. Furthermore, I was getting tired of manually maintaining
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the static HTML files. I browsed the [Uberlab](https://lab.uberspace.de/) guides
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to find a content management system that has already been proven to work. A few
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of my requirements were to write Markdown files and a Git repository for version
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control and site building automation.
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## Know why, know what, know how
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[Hugo](/docs/website/hugo/) is what I have found to be a sufficient solution to
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address the aforementioned needs. I migrated the content of the former site[^9]
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and added new documentation on [graphics](/docs/graphics/) design, for exmaple,
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while I was recreating the color scheme, logo, and profile image. This way I can
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share my experiences and knowledge together with the music I am able to create
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absolutely independently through the people contributing to software freedom.
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{{< cards >}}
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{{< card link="/about/" image="/images/profile.jpg" title="this.ven"
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subtitle="FLOSS musician, tinkerer, and privacy advocate" >}}
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{{< /cards >}}
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In the next months I will focus on my music projects, further document how I am
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approaching in the [docs](/docs/), and keep you updated via this blog.
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Stay tuned. {{< icon "hand-metal" >}}
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[^1]: [Debian Stretch](https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/) release page
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[^2]: [Tor Project](https://www.torproject.org/) website
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[^3]: [Clearnet (networking)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearnet_(networking))
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in the Wikipedia
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[^4]: [Prosody](https://prosody.im/) website
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[^5]: [Open Standards](https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/standards/index.en.html)
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background page of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
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[^6]: [DokuWiki](https://www.dokuwiki.org/) website
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[^7]: [VoidLinux](https://voidlinux.org/) website
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[^8]: [Snowflake](https://snowflake.torproject.org/) project page
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[^9]: [Former website](https://web.archive.org/web/20240111215640if_/https://this.ven.uber.space/)
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in the Internet Archive wayback machine
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