- Ted Pier - a.k.a. MiningTcup - -
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Things I've Done
-YouClient
-- My middle school gave each student an incredibly weak - Chromebook infested with blockers and spyware, and - didn't allow us to bring our own computers. Since one of - my strongest skills at the time was web dev, I made an - alternative YouTube client. The entire thing is a single - html file, making it easy to distribute and run. - Advantages over using the official YouTube website are - faster loading, no ads, tab customization, anti-unload, - no browser history, and no spyware spying. -
- -Linux
-- The kernel is the core of the operating system. Linux is - an alternative operating system kernel, similar to the - Windows or MacOS kernels. It can run on nearly any - device (including PCs and Macs), and is used by Android. - One of my favorite things to do is mess with - configuration files on my - Arch Linux - + - Hyprland - system. Over the last more than a year, I've settled on - an (in my opinion) nearly perfect configuration. -
- -Notes
-- I'd always wanted to use a notes app, but I never liked - any of the options. Instead of paying with my - information, time, or money for one that someone else - made, I decided to make my own. I wrote the server in - Go, the language which I believe is best for anything to - do with servers, and the app in Android Studio using - Kotlin. After completing the server, I accidentally - deleted the source code, prompting me to recode it. It's - finished now, and you can view the most likely terrible - source code for the server - here. Although I don't plan on giving out the source code - for the app because it's so terrible, you can download - the APK file here. -
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Services I Run
- -Static Webserver
-- That's what you're using right now- my website! It's a - classic Nginx webserver. Notice how fast it loaded? - That's what happens when a website is written without - any libraries, tracking, or external fonts. -
-DNS Servers
-- Back in middle school, some friends and I found a way to - disable the school Chromebook's spyware. While proxies - were disabled and vpns (almost) impossible to set up, we - were free to change the DNS servers of any network - except(?) the schools. This gave us the power to block - any domain we wanted, including the domains which would - load blocklists or send away all our data. The plain DNS - server is run using BIND 9. -
- - -Git Server
-- GitHub is slow, annoying, and trains LLMs on everything - you upload. My Git server is very fast (for me, - at least), annoyance-free, and doesn't train LLMs - on your work without asking. -
- -Mozhi Server
-- Mozhi is a proxy for several translators, used by Crow - Translate by KDE. -
- -Arch Linux Mirror
-- Having my own Arch Linux mirror means my updates will be - just about instant. -
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Contact Me
-- I'm sort of chronically online. Your best chance of - quick contact is a phone call, but Discord, email, and - text work too. -
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