I’m sitting here at Dunkin Donuts on a Friday morning and I’m feeling okay. Yesterday I sent a proposal to Indivisble to design a secure VPN for them. I even offered to do it for free because I believe strongly in what they do. I just hope they take me seriously and not consider me to be some nut job but only time will tell. If I had to guess, they will probably think I am just some crazy shit house rat. The thing is, I believe Indivisible and its sister and brother chapters could benefit from the coordination through the communication that a network would provide.
I’m having trouble selling anyone on the concept of a private network right now. Nobody has any interest at all. Not even for fun or learning. I thought the homelab crowd would eat it up and boy was I wrong. I guess that’s the problem when you have some really niche interests. Most of the folks in the Reddit sub r/homelab were like why should I do this when there is Tailscale available. Tailscale is a corporate offering. It’s kind of deflating because I thought the entire ethos of the homelab crowd was a do it yourself, anti-corporate, and anti-cloud one. Again, I misinterpreted the mission.
Maybe I should make a Reddit post in the r/HomeNetworking sub asking if anyone would be interested and see who contacts me. I’m not optimistic though because, as I mentioned before, my interest is niche. People might express interest in passing politeness but never do anything. That’s even more frustrating. I guess I could prove it out myself through a simulation.
Well, in other news, I have an upcoming job interview next week with a social services agency which I am excited about because it’s an opportunity to exit from the contract security industry. That would be most welcome as I’ve had it with being a fucking security guard. Being a guard is miserable and even some retail jobs are better. The only advantage to security is that it pays a little better than retail on average.
I might need to get up and leave Dunkin soon because it is starting to get crowded and noisy. I wish people would use quiet inside voices but they don’t. I’m tired and really want more out of life but it’s going to take time before that happens.