I was just setting up remote runners for TankieTube when I had an epiphany:

I could ask comrades to volunteer their own computers! quagsire-pog

That way those who can’t or don’t care to donate monetarily could still contribute.

How would it work?

Conceptually, you can think of it like a crypto mining botnet. Except it transcodes videos for the community instead of producing heat for individual profit. And it’s voluntary ofc.

It can run on any operating system with an internet connection. I’m going to use my gaming desktop and at least one VPS.

Tech level required: comfortable copy-and-pasting things into a CLI.

OpSec considerations: negligable as far as I can tell. There is no P2P involved. Your computer talks directly to the TankieTube server using sicko-to-HTTPS communication. The server would see your IP address, but that’s always the case on every website.

Thoughts?

Edit: Email TankieTanuki@pm.me if you want to help beta test a machine. I could use help creating a docker image too because I’m not experienced with that (I still prefer to do everything with Bash scripts).

Would Cygwin be the way to go for Windows users?

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I assume that videos can get uploaded to tankie.tube by basically anybody,

    Yes.

    and those videos would be sent out to be transcoded on random people’s machines?

    Randomly to anyone entrusted with a token bestowed by me.

    BTW I love your avatar. :3