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Nice, MicroBlog offers free 6-months hosting for – including podcasts and short videos:

https://www.manton.org/2020/03/24/microblog-free-month.html

I evaluated it some weeks ago and I’m really impressed with it so far.

I gotta say, youtube-dl is freakin awesome. Syndicated back my videos from Youtube and Vimeo. Worked like a charm. It also converts formats and places subtitles in the desired output format next to it. Finding out how to get all into HTML5 was the most work [for me] while the server crunched the numbers. No need to strain my poor internet connection at home at all 😀

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Franz

Well, I guess this is it for Franz. I really liked this and it worked fine for me for a year. After an update all my configured services are gone and there is no longer a way to reconfigure services without creating an account with Franz.

Hello Pidgin, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.

I found a ticket on Github about the issue here: https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/984 but it never got fixed or even a statement from it’s developer so I assume it’s simply the end of the journey.

TIL: How to configure ppp on remote server (knowhow last needed for a 1 💾 router + ISDN) + keepalive so I could access more Linux servers on a VPN via SSTP, a slow non standardized HTTPS tunneling protocol by M$ from 2007 that was invented because ipsec was “too complicated” 😭