[Bloat] keeping the lights on at bufferbloat.net

[Dave Taht]

Jonathan Foulkes <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com> writes:

> Hi Dave, I just logged into Patreon and tried to set up a monthly
> donation, but I keep getting Internal server errors from their
> platform (tried different browsers as well), so heads up on that.

It was because they were having problems that I checked the account.

> I’ll try again later today and tomorrow if needed. But you might need to send a reminder once whatever is going on there clears up.

$30 in donations showed up immediately. (thank you matthew and richard!)
$7 to go. :) I know it's a modest amount to have angst over but at this
point given my other debt obligations it's best to have zero net costs
here.

I do not like discussing my finances but I just got thwacked hard from a
direction I should have expected by now.

>
> Thanks again for all you do,

Well, I haven't been doing much of late. After two grants and a contract
fell through last july (seeing both openwrt and cake ship two weeks
later was bitterly ironic then), and I gave up the yurtlab
($1100/month), I did manage to retain a portion of the basement at the
site in exchange for some work (which included rolling out 18.06.1
across the lupin campus), and I can keep that going so long as I keep
that network up to date. There's a bit of room to work down there (~450
sq feet) and I hope whenever the make-wifi-fast patches land I'll be
able to do some QA and measurements.

I'd given up then and sought employment aug-dec only to discover that
nobody in the bay area wanted my C, queue theory, ietf, or project
management skills, and I otherwise was frightfully obsolete. I long ago
needed to pick up go or python or rust if I wanted to continue
programming or find a mgmt role that made sense. A friend of mine opened
a restuarant which had some appeal for a time!

The *best* rejection I got over the course of 6 interviews was:

"fq_codel saved my marriage... but you are a rocket scientist, and we
don't need rocket scientists just now."

It is long past time for me to seek a new business model and monthly
income sources. I started a new semi-paid P/T gig a while back (the
"ipv4 cleanup project" - https://github.com/dtaht/ipv4-cleanup ) which
is keeping me *literally* above water - I live full-time on the boat
now, which is a heck of a lot cheaper than any normal housing in the bay
area. Except: the "bufferboat" also has some desparately needed repairs
pending and it isn't the most productive office environment.

I haven't put in for any grants yet this year. I mostly think it's time
to move on and do something else. I'd like to get a floor under some
other people and participate in GSOC, though, at least.

I think I can pull out of this in a few weeks overall, it was just this
morning was bad, very bad.

>
> Jonathan
>
>> On Feb 4, 2019, at 11:55 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I came very close to not being able to pay the linode bill for
>> bufferbloat.net today. I got nailed by a huge back bill that wiped me
>> out completely (and then some).
>> 
>> Anyway... the linode bill is $100/mo, and donations have fallen to
>> only $66/month. If you have a few spare bucks a month you can throw in
>> to keep the flent test network alive, please see:
>> https://www.patreon.com/dtaht
>> 
>> thx.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Dave Täht
>> CTO, TekLibre, LLC
>> http://www.teklibre.com
>> Tel: 1-831-205-9740
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