A PASTICHE of my Bro the Penny Farthing / Prisoner

[TiddlyTitch]

Typically to have a node app everywhere you have to open up ports (80, 25) that will then be continuously assaulted from the outside.

Erm. You like assaults Bro?

What I’m doing is to have my TW run in a docker container which then connects to Tailscale.

Is Tailscale a friend?

… in theory, anyone who does get in will be stuck inside the docker container.

I remember that. Am I still there?

… consider routing your domain name through cloudflare instead of sending it directly from your name provider. That provides some protection from the less sophisticated bots.

Could someone explain CLOUDFLARE ??

TT

[Mark_S]

@TiddlyTitch

Typically to have a node app everywhere you have to open up ports (80, 25) that will then be continuously assaulted from the outside.

Erm. You like assaults Bro?

I didn’t say it was a good idea. It’s just what I found in a lot of the self-hosting lit.

@TiddlyTitch

Is Tailscale a friend?

Hope so. They make some great YT videos. The guy’s got a great accent. Basically it is an easy-to-use VPN service that also provides you with an SSL-protected domain name. If you have a website or service that you only want to share with your own devices anywhere you go, or a couple close friends, then this might be the ticket.

So, you want to start self-hosting? Part 1 - How to install Proxmox and pick your hardware.

@TiddlyTitch

Could someone explain CLOUDFLARE ??

Cloudflare is a web service that serves up your web site. (This is un-intuitively called a reverse-proxy). This has many advantages in terms of security and performance.

When someone attempts to go to your CF-protected website, the address they first see is cloudflare. CF detects and mitigates bot activity and denial of service activity. It serves up activity from your site so the user doesn’t see your actual IP address. If your users are far away from your server it can cache material at servers closer to them for faster uptake.

When a website asks if you are human, it might be coming from cloudflare. Depending on which statistics you see, as much as 40% of the top websites use Cloudflare.

[Scott_Sauyet]

Umm, UNIcycle? I count two, even if they’re of very different sizes.

[tw-FRed]

Yes! In French, it’s called a “Grand bi”.

Fred

[tw-FRed]

@tw-FRed

In French, it’s called a “Grand bi”.

“bi” being here a reference to the “bi” prefix in “bicycle” (in French, “bicyclette”) and meaning “two”.

Fred

[TiddlyTitch]

@tw-FRed

“bi” being here a reference to the “bi” prefix in “bicycle” (in French, “bicyclette”) and meaning “two”.

So, how do the French refer to a Penny-Farthing bi-cycle?

TT

[tw-FRed]

This is called a " Grand bi ", like every cycle model with a great diameter difference between wheels, as far as I can tell. There might be some slight differences between look-alike models, but I don’t know any other name for these.

Fred

[Mark_S]

Before they figured out gears, the Penny Farthing was the way you could achieve “high” (pun!) speeds on a bike. One imagines that in a time of unpaved and brick roads that the large diameter wheel also helped smooth out the bumps.

The type of bicycle we ride today was originally called a “safety bike” because the alternative was the towering Penny Farthing.

@tw-FRed

There might be some slight differences between look-alike models,

Apparently they made (and make) different front wheel sizes depending on the calibre of the rider. As they say, the bike chooses the rider.

The fact that people are still making and buying Penny Farthings confirms one of the core principles of What Technology Wants – that no technology ever goes extinct.

[TiddlyTitch]

Do you know why It Is called a PENNY FARTHING?

[Scott_Sauyet]

I’ve always assumed it just had to do with the ratio of coin sizes.

[TiddlyTitch]

The canonical Penny Farthing in THE PRISONER Is canopied …

[TiddlyTitch]

@Scott_Sauyet

I’ve always assumed it just had to do with the ratio of coin sizes.

Right …

12 Pence to a Shilling
20 Shillings to a Pound
— (Unless It Is a Guinea (=21 Shillings))
4 Farthings to a Pence

Therefore: 960 Farthings to a Pound.

A Farthing is a diminutive.

[Mark_S]

The only thing more dangerous than a Penny Farthing is a Penny Farthing with a kite attached.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Mark_S

The only thing more dangerous than a Penny Farthing is a Penny Farthing with a kite attached.

Didn’t that figure in early electricity experiments?

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Prisoner Intro

[TiddlyTitch]

@Mark_S

@TiddlyTitch

Could someone explain CLOUDFLARE ??

Cloudflare is a web service that serves up your web site.

@Mark_S

CF detects and mitigates bot activity and denial of service activity. It serves up activity from your site so the user doesn’t see your actual IP address.

@Mark_S

as much as 40% of the top websites use Cloudflare.

TX. I think I get it. I will check with my hoster.

[Mark_S]

@TiddlyTitch

Didn’t that figure in early electricity experiments?

That’s Penny Faraday, Daniel Faraday’s younger sister.

[Scott_Sauyet]

@TiddlyTitch

Therefore: 960 Farthings to a Pound.

Yes, but I was thinking more of the physical coins.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Scott_Sauyet

was thinking more of the physical coins.

Right.

The sizes don’t reflect the value felt.

As a kid. I always felt the 3 pence coin, the Thruppence Bit, was worth a lot more than 12 Farthings … of course it wasn’t …

[Scott_Sauyet]

I’ve seen the explanations of British currency values many times, but it never really sinks in. When I read something that uses it, I have only the vaguest sense of the worth and relationships. “Wait, how many guineas in a sovereign?!”

[Ste_W]

That’s because the entire country was using l.s.d… or pounds shillings and pence.

From

https://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/old_money/origins_of_lsd.html

The reason we used ‘d’ for pence is that ‘d’ stood for denarius. Of course ‘s’ can stand for shilling or solidus and ‘l’ stands for ‘libra’, the Roman pound. So 12 denarii (‘d’) made one solidus (‘s’) and twenty solidii made one pound (‘l’).