ppp_thing VS FactGraph

I wrote a PPPoE client with failover so I can keep the session even when one of my gateways fails or is rebooted (this lets me do regular maintenance without interrupting my internet connection); I put it on github[1], but I doubt anyone will use it. I hope there are few people left with the scourge that is PPPoE, and my OS choice means many people would need to switch OSes to use it, so yeah. Also, I don't care to make it easy to use or to promote it, really. (I've mentioned it once or twice and did a Show HN that got less than ten votes, which I kind of expected).

I've also got my personal (network) monitoring software, some 'IoT' stuff to capture temperature and humidity data around my house, and I'm working on a ESP32 based alarm clock pulling data from iCalendar.

[1] https://github.com/russor/ppp_thing

I just published https://github.com/russor/ppp_thing which lets me (and maybe you) failover my PPPoE session between two FreeBSD hosts, so I can do regular maintenance without losing my IP or impacting TCP sessions.

I used to let my DSL modem handle PPPoE and NAT, so failover was easy, but found out fragmented IPv6 crashed the leased modem, and the replacement modem also sucks, so bridge mode + a custom PPPoE client (but from netgraph pieces) it is. Sadly useful in 2021, because PPPoE is somehow still a thing.

I used to have a project like this. I was going to call it FactGraph: https://github.com/FactGraph/FactGraph/wiki

My idea was to build up a big community-maintained database containing facts and evidence, where everything is linked into a huge network. Everything would have a weight (sometimes automatically calculated from parent nodes), and the software would calculate probabilities for some big questions. Every user could also build their own personalized graph to explore their own worldview, and maybe even uncover some cognitive dissonance that they weren't aware of. Or you could use it to compare and contrast different philosophies, religions. Could even calculate a "coherence score" for each religion and denomination after crunching all of the available evidence.

Then I discovered RootClaim: https://www.rootclaim.com

They're doing something very similar, with a more targeted approach where they focus on some specific questions. e.g. COVID-19: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-cov...

RootClaim really seems to be nailing it so far, and hopefully they can continue to grow and become something like the project I was imagining.