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The Good Karma Kit


A Docker Compose project to run on servers with spare CPU, disk, and bandwidth.
Help the world by contributing your unused computing power to good causes.

Quickstart

  1. Download docker-compose.yml into an empty directory
  2. Edit the docker-compose.yml file to fill in the environment variables, or comment out any containers you don't want to run
  3. mkdir data && docker-compose up
  4. Finish setting up some projects through their respective web dashboards exposed on localhost (see below)

See the notes below for more info on each container, what it does, and what companies it's affiliated with.

Caveats

The nature of most of these containers is that you're contributing resources to the public or to specific causes running on the public internet. Unless otherwise specified or restricted to 127.0.0.1 in the compose file, all ports should be made available to the public internet. Make sure you understand the risks involved with exposing your machine to WAN. It may be worth running this in an isolated VM on an isolated subnet if it's on your home or corporate network.

Not all the containers are not-for-profit, some either reward you with cryptocurrency, or are affiliated for-profit entities. Each container is marked below with its non-profit/for-profit status.

If there are too many containers for your liking, the top-3 good-karma-earning/positively-impactful ones to run are:

  • archivewarrior
  • boinc
  • tor

Contents


Autoupdater

watchtower

image: containrrr/watchtower

Automatically update & restart docker containers when they have new versions available. (open source helper container)

https://containrrr.dev/watchtower/
https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

Notes: requires access to system docker socket, and will autoupdate all running containers on the host unless scoped with labels.


Distributed networking projects

tor

image: thetorproject/obfs4-bridge:latest

Run a relay node for the Tor onion routing netowrk that helps people use the internet with as much privacy as possible. (501(c)(3) US nonprofit)

https://www.torproject.org/
https://hub.docker.com/r/thetorproject/obfs4-bridge

i2p

image: divax/i2p:i2p-tor

Run a relay node for the i2p routing network (similar to Tor). (501(c)(3) US nonprofit)

https://geti2p.net/en/
https://hub.docker.com/r/divax/i2p


Distributed computing projects

boinc

image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/boinc

Help contribute CPU and GPU power to a wide variety of scientific research projects, including protein folding, alien signal detection, and more! (operated not-for-profit by UC Berkeley and funded by the NSF)

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/boinc

Notes: if you have a GPU, it will help computations greatly, please uncomment the /dev/dri line.

foldingathome

image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/foldingathome

Help contribute CPU power to solve protein folding problems in bioscience, crucial to the development of vacienes and our understanding of molecular biology and mechanics. (operated by a research group at Washington University in Saint Louis, a 501(c)(3) non-profit)

https://foldingathome.org/
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/foldingathome


Distribued storage projects

ipfs

image: ipfs/go-ipfs:latest

Run a storage node (free/not-for-profit) on the IPFS distributed storage network and pin files you care about to help serve them to others. (operated by Protocol Labs Inc., a for-profit US company)

https://ipfs.io
https://hub.docker.com/r/ipfs/go-ipfs

storj

image: storjlabs/storagenode:latest

Run a storage node (for profit) on the Storj distributed storage network, automatically contribute your storage space and bandwidth and earn cryptocurrency in return. (operated by Storj Labs Inc., a for-profit US company)

https://www.storj.io/
https://hub.docker.com/r/storjlabs/storagenode

Notes: 💰 This one earns you money for your storage! Set up your WALLET address for payouts.

sia

image: nebulouslabs/sia

Run a storage node (free/not-for-profit) on the Sia distributed storage network. (operated by Sia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit, but helps serve Skynet, a for-profit partner entity)

https://sia.tech/
https://hub.docker.com/r/nebulouslabs/sia

Notes: there are concerns with the long-term viability of this project https://siasetup.info/concerns-about-sia-and-skynet


Internet Archiving projects

archivewarrior

image: archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile

Help contribute CPU and bandwidth to archive parts of the internet automatically before they go down. Has helped save large swaths of the internet from going dark forever by adding them to Archive.org. (operated by an open-source collective, not-for-profit)

https://warrior.archiveteam.org/
https://hub.docker.com/r/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile/

zimfarm

image: openzim/zimfarm-worker-manager

Help contribute CPU and bandwidth to archive large content collections for offline use in areas with limited internet. Helps many communities access things like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and more. (operated by the Swiss non-profit Kiwix/OpenZIM)

https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm
https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/zimfarm-worker-manager

Notes: this one requires a static IP and >1TB of monthly network transfer available! You must contact Kiwix to get your worker set up, and get your static IP whitelisted.

kiwix

image: kiwix/kiwix-serve:latest

Help contribute bandwidth and disk to serve large content collections to users in areas with limited or censored internet. This is the server for the content that zimfarm archives. (operated by the Swiss non-profit Kiwix/OpenZIM)

https://www.kiwix.org/en/
https://hub.docker.com/r/kiwix/kiwix-serve

Notes: this one requires you download some ZIM archives to serve into ./data/kiwix, get those from here: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

archivebox

image: archivebox/archivebox:latest

Use ArchiveBox as a tool to archive sites you care about for offline visiting or rehosting after they go down. (open source project, not-for-profit)

https://archivebox.io
https://hub.docker.com/r/archivebox/archivebox/

Notes: this one is empty by default, add some sites to archive or crawl regulary using the web UI or CLI.

pywb

image: webrecorder/pywb:latest

Use PYWB as a tool to archive sites you care about for offline visiting or rehosting after they go down. (open source project, not-for-profit, affiliated with Rhizome/Webrecorder)

https://github.com/webrecorder/pywb
https://hub.docker.com/r/webrecorder/pywb

Notes: this one is empty by default, add some sites to archive or crawl regulary using the web UI or CLI.


Contribute

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or PR to suggest a new container be added to the bundle.