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mario, 1 month ago to random

Hubzilla 9.0.1

• Fix an issue where after an update initiated from a modal the modal backdrop would remain
• Fix bootstrap namespace in conv list templates
• Fix link to delivery report in conv list templates
• Slightly improved handling of linefeeds in some bbcode block elements and added tests
• Fix categories_widget() cache not being observer aware
• Allow to run additional site specific commands at the end of util/udall in util/udall_extra
• Fix linefeeds in table and list content removed
• Pubcrawl: do not attempt to sign wall to wall messages
• Pubcrawl: default to Note activity type for now

ATTENTION: This release contains important security fixes. Please update ASAP!

Updating from version < 9.0

1. Backup your data
2. Make sure that the sodium PHP extension is installed and enabled
3. Make sure that either the bcmath or gmp PHP extension is installed and enabled
4. Make sure that the intl PHP extension is installed and enabled
5. Execute util/udall

Updating from version 9.0

1. Backup your data
2. Execute util/udall

jupiter_rowland, 1 month ago to random

Unpopular opinion: I hope Hubzilla won't stick to sending Note-type objects forever. It still has the Article-type/Note-type switch that was introduced with Hubzilla 9 on Friday, but as I've just discovered, a recent hotfix has basically rendered that switch useless, and Hubzilla only sends Note-type objects again.

Article-type objects have a lot of advantages. Yes, on Mastodon. Whether Mike or Mario or anyone else on Hubzilla or (streams) likes it or not.

With Note-type objects, I have to count characters and, when a post exceeds 500 characters, issue long post content warnings like the one above and add the filter-triggering hashtags #Long, #LongPost, #CWLong and #CWLongPost. That's because posts with over 500 characters disturb so many Mastodon users, especially those on a phone using the official Mastodon app that doesn't fold posts over 500 characters in.

With Article-type objects, I wouldn't have to do that because Mastodon would reduce even an 80,000-character monster post to a cute little link with title, summary and hashtags. Much easier on Mastodon users than having 80,000 characters slammed into their faces right away.

With Note-type objects, I have to link to sensitive images because Mastodon refuses to hide images embedded in or attached to Hubzilla posts, no matter what I do.

With Article-type objects, I wouldn't have to do that because Mastodon would have people click or tap the link to the original post before they can see the post with the sensitive image in it. Of course, that link would be accompanied by an appropriate content warning.

That said, Mastodon might still automatically use that sensitive image as the preview image for the link. There'd be nothing you can do against it on Hubzilla except for adding another safe image first and hoping Mastodon will pick that one. But that'd require one more image description.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Hubzilla 9 #CharacterCount #500Characters #UnpopularOpinion

jupiter_rowland, 1 month ago to random

Threads might overrun the Fediverse with its own rules, its own culture and its own non-standard technology, simply by being the biggest project in the Fediverse and making itself the de-facto Fediverse standard by sheer numbers. Mastodon users are up in arms against it.

Mastodon itself has been doing all these very same things to the rest of the Fediverse ever since 2016. Largely the very same Mastodon users who are raging against Threads now are not only cheering on Mastodon forcing its ways and its non-standard stuff upon everything that isn't Mastodon, but demanding more of it.

Just for the record: Mastodon was not here first. At least Friendica, Hubzilla and Pleroma were, in this order. And Hubzilla even had ActivityPub before Mastodon.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Meta #Threads #Hypocrisy #DoubleStandard

mario, 1 month ago to fediversenews

Release banner for Hubzilla 9.0
Hubzilla 9.0 is here and delivers many improvements under the hood and at the UI level. Two of the most asked features have been implemented: repeats a.k.a. boosts and adjustable theme colors at the channel and site level. Hubmins can also customize other components via the bootstrap sass variables.

Under the hood we implemented a short term object cash which will improve performance when fetching objects. The internal use of ActivityStreams1 has been deprecated in favor of ActivityStreams2. Object integrity proofs (EddsaSignatures) according to fep-8b32 have been implemented. Interesting for developers: CI and the test environment have been vastly improved.

Other notable changes are: refactored browser to browser encryption using the modern sodium crypto library and support for custom emojis with configurable emoji sets.

For a complete list of changes in Hubzilla 9.0 please refer to the changelog.

A big THANK YOU! to all contributors and everybody who supports Hubzilla and its development.

Breaking changes

• The .htaccess file has been updated to fix an issue with recent Apache versions
• Require sodium PHP extension
• Require bcmath or gmp PHP extension
• Require intl PHP extension
• Versions < 9.0 will not be able to decrypt encrypted messages composed in version 9.0 in the UI
• Poke and Mood apps removed
• Removed smiley button addon
• Removed smiley_pack addon
• Removed emojione addon (use the emoji addon instead)
• Removed fediwordle addon (use the fediquest addon instead)
• Individual connection filters need manual intervention (e.g. replace http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/share with Announce when filtering repeats)

Update

1. Backup your data
2. Make sure that the sodium PHP extension is installed and enabled
3. Make sure that either the bcmath or gmp PHP extension is installed and enabled
4. Make sure that the intl PHP extension is installed and enabled
5. Execute util/udall

Install

Please refer to the install instructions.

#Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.

https://hubzilla.org

CC: @Fediverse News

jupiter_rowland, 1 month ago to random

This is interesting to watch.

The cat's out of the bag. @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️'s announcement to implement nomadic identity à la Hubzilla and (streams) in ActivityPub is in the news all over the Fediverse. Of course, you can't expect everyone in the Fediverse to know what nomadic identity is, so the explanation is that it's that stuff that Hubzilla does.

Which, in many cases, is the very first time that Mastodon users even read that name and learn about the existence of that project. I mean, I've seen a poll just yesterday, according to which three out of four Fediverse users have never heard of Hubzilla.

This, in turn, piques their interest. All of a sudden, lots of Mastodon users are curious about Hubzilla as it's said to be able to do things that Mastodon can't, but that they wish Mastodon could.

Some like @dynamic who haven't used any other Fediverse projects than Mastodon so far actually go as far as trying it out themselves, only to discover something probably absolutely unexpected: Hubzilla works and handles absolutely nothing like Mastodon. And that's not simply due to the formerly-default-and-now-only UI that's perpetually stuck in 2012.

They may actually wonder why Mike had the audacity to build something that's so much different from Mastodon instead of just aping Mastodon and slapping extra stuff on. And I guess they're even more surprised when you tell them that Hubzilla was made before Mastodon. Which means that there was a Fediverse before Mastodon.

It occurred to me only recently just how many ways Hubzilla has to completely blow Mastodon users' minds.

However, it isn't like people who have come from Twitter to Mastodon to Hubzilla over the last year and a half are all happy about how Hubzilla is different from Mastodon. Switching from Mastodon to Hubzilla takes more getting used to than switching from Twitter to Mastodon, especially if you expect Mastodon to be a standard that everything else has to follow.

There are, in fact, lots of things about Hubzilla that'll irritate people used to Mastodon to no end. The confusing difference between account and channel. The unusual conversation model that sends posts to other people than on Mastodon which doesn't have a conversation model. Separate editors for posts and comments. In fact, posts and comments being something different. ActivityPub not being on by default, and instead of having a simple opt-in switch in the settings, you have to "install" an "app" to be able to connect to Mastodon. No CW field (it's the summary field, but there's none for comments). No alt-text field. No distinction between followers and followed. Stuff in the settings not being where you'd expect it to be from your experience with Mastodon.

And I'm not even talking about the vast permission options yet. Or the filters which even I say need improvements. Or Hubzilla being unable to boost (shall be fixed with Hubzilla 9) and follow hashtags. Or people telling you that you have to type code manually if you want to have alt-text.

Even those who learn about Hubzilla without trying it are confused. Why is it so different? Why does it have to be so different? Why can't it be like Mastodon?

In fact, it doesn't really occur rarely that Mastodon users consider almost everything in which Hubzilla differs from Mastodon a bug which they think can be fixed. It seems to be hard to imagine that what they take for a bug is part of Hubzilla's concept, and it has often been part of the concept since the early days of Mistpark back in 2010, almost six years before Mastodon came out.

I think over the next days and weeks, Hubzilla will increasingly be considered not only weirdly different, but disturbingly different. Along with that, more and more Mastodon users will become aware of the "atrocities" from a Mastodon point of view which Hubzilla users commit in the Fediverse, and which they justify with their different culture. Enormously long posts, text formatting, quotes, quote-posts, as if it's all the most normal thing in the world. Which, for Hubzilla users, it is.

In the near future, Mastodon will likely produce two more forms of drama. One is strong opposition against nomadic identity anywhere in the Fediverse, not so much because it's "un-Mastodon-like", but because it's expected to be used in malicious ways.

The other one is increasing opposition against Hubzilla itself and more and more calls for Fediblocking it in its entirety, along with all Mastodon or otherwise Fediverse instances that don't Fediblock all Hubzilla hubs. All because it's got that disturbing stuff like nomadic identity and huge posts well over 500 characters and quote-posts with no opt-out for anyone. And because more and more Mastodon users become aware of it.

I hope it won't happen, but I can't exclude it.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla

freebliss, 2 months ago to random

#faircamp musing on reducing server cost and resource usage: 1) Faircamp generates the site without any download files/archives at all (only streaming assets are written to the build directory). 2) Instead it generates an additional local/client-side directory - not to be deployed - that contains all releases for download with torrent files. 3) Visitors on the faircamp site can exclusively download releases via torrent/magnet links, and the artists seed the downloads from their own machine (whenever they're online).

Nothing about this is new (on the contrary - file sharing renaissance galore :)), but I really like the idea of mashing up a (cheaper and less resource-demanding) always-on streaming server with a P2P download delivery mechanism (which is entirely re-using existing computers and infrastructure, i.e. avoiding data center proliferation and idle infrastructure). Also fans are downloading music directly from the artist then - literally from their computer. ^^

(Thoughts anyone? Note that this would of course be an additional option, not a replacement of how faircamp handles downloads so far)

etherdiver, 2 months ago to random

Had to quit smoking weed about a week ago (temporarily, I hope; high prices in CA combined with not enough work ATM means I have to forgo my one vice for now) and GODDAMN my dreams are getting Very Weird, Very Specific, and Very Vivid. It's been interesting but not entirely comfortable.

Last night I dreamed I was feuding intensely with one of my ex wives. Wild threats, dirty tricks, etc, all in painstaking detail, and somehow all feeling even more real than sitting here typing this out...

jrp, 2 months ago to avantgardemusic

Sad to learn, that UBU web is not adding any new content anymore, but:

"As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer active.
The archive is preserved for perpetuity, in its entirety. "

https://ubu.com

#UBUweb #inactive #archive #avantgardemusic @avantgardemusic group @ExperimentalMusic group

jrp, 2 months ago to random

Only just discovering Matthew Bourne's phantastic release of Leaf Label Recordings, presenting anything he had released before on Leaf 2012-2020.
Only a few pieces in I'm completely taken by his fine & coloured piano playing, complex, clever, open minded.

https://matthewbourne.bandcamp.com/album/the-leaf-label-recordings-bundle

Not just high end food for the weekend.

#matthewbourne #extramusic #piano #LeafLabel

jrp, 2 months ago to random

Selling a Lavry DA-11 DA converter, in #Berlin.
https://lavryengineering.com/products/da11
Asking 750€.
DM, if interested.

Mastering-grade unit, no smoker studio, in very good condition.
Input sample rates from 30KHz - 200KHz.
I loooove this unit, now selling due to upgrade to a newer Lavry.
19" rack mount (if you own an AD11, too) can be added: + 30€.
Unit can be tested in my studio in Mitte. Have original packaging.

@audiopro group #lavry #da11 #forsale #DAConverter #highend #mastering #followerpower

jrp, 2 months ago to random

Listening to field recordings containing percussion jams from my Januar trip to La Reunión/Mauritius.
It's marvelous to drastically limit the frequency response of the original recordings - and then add a slap-back delay, noticably louder than the original and with even more narrow frequency response.
This focusses everything into one. And it lends the quality of an intense & sparkling memory, rather than just appearing to be a full frequency natural #recording. The almost always massive ocean waves in the background are a lovely detail. Beautiful.

https://hub.kliklak.net/cloud/jrp/2024-03/Mauritius_Shandrani_240131_010_excerpt.mp3?f=&zid=kbin.social%40kbin.social

So that's that. Now pondering a strategy to recompose all this into a work of its own.
(The usual surgical digital tools are crying "use me!" into my ears, but that seems all too worn out. Got to be more haptic tangible.)

#mixing #mastering #memory #FieldRecordings #percussion

https://hub.kliklak.net/photos/jrp/image/734cf096-dc79-43ae-b754-25750a5c003b

@contemporaryMusic group @radicalmusic group @ExperimentalMusic group
@composers group

alisynthesis, 2 months ago to bass

I've had a few conversations here about the immense power of the Yamaha CS-15D as a #bass #synth. For your perusal, here's an example from the brand new Doctor Body album Misalignment, released today on Bandcamp (streaming coming soon).

If you're a bass fanatic who wants a body shattering, mind melting bass experience, this synth will do it. (And how about that crazy ass bass line by @composergreg?!)

#BandcampFriday #NewMusic @synths

https://doctorbody.bandcamp.com/album/misalignment?t=6

caos, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Freegal German

🎧 🎶 Artikelserie zum Thema #Musikstreaming (Artikel u.a. zu #Freegal #Quobuz #Tidal & Aufruf zum Mitschreiben):

Auf @gnulinux ist eine Artikelserie zum Thema Musikstreaming gestartet. Vielleicht könnt Ihr da neue Optionen entdecken und/oder Eure eigenen Erfahrungen beitragen?

Folgende Artikel zu dieser Serie sind bisher erschienen, oder sind geplant:

• Intro
• Freegal - Der Bibliotheken-Streamer
• Qobuz - Verspricht gute Tonqualität und faire Bezahlung der Künstler
• Tidal
• #Spotify
• #Deezer
• ...

Unter anderem kann es um folgende Fragen gehen:

• "Bluetooth versus USB - Eine Frage der Übertragung
• Wie viel zahlt man, wofür?
• Welche Marge bleibt für die Künstler übrig?
• Wie verhält es sich mit der Tonqualität?
• Wie #Linux -kompatibel sind die Dienste?"

@ralfhersel würde sich "sehr freuen, wenn ihr das Thema dieser Serie aufgreift, und selbst einen Beitrag zu einem der oben genannten Aspekte von Musik-Streamern schreibt."
Außerdem sind natürlich Eure Rückmeldungen und Ergänzungen als Kommentare zu den Artikeln sehr willkommen!
@musik

jrp, 2 months ago to modularsynth

Wondering i should buy even more Eurorack ring modulators.. which ones do you recommend?
@modularsynth group @Synths group
#RindModulator #eurorack

jupiter_rowland, 2 months ago to random

@Various Fediverse features

Another FediGroups fact:

FediGroups is basically a "hack" based on Mastodon that recreates Friendica's most basic group/forum functionality on Mastodon. Each group is a Mastodon bot that automatically boosts everything that mentions it. And since it's all based on Mastodon, you have to mention the group in each comment unlike on Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) etc.

#FediGroups

jrp, 2 months ago to random

Suche dringend eine englisch-/spanisch sprachige #Zahnärztin in #Berlin, gerne Mitte oder nördlich, Hintergrund in alternativer/ganzheitlicher Medizin bevorzugt. Bitte teilen: Herzlich Danke :)

Looking for an English-/Spanish-speaking tooth doctor in Berlin, preferrably a women praxis, with background in alternative/holistic medicine. Please #share: Thank you much!

#followerpower #toothDoctor #holistic

caos, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to tischtennis German

🏓 Liebe Tischtennis-Aktive! Was sind Eure Lieblings-Übungen?? (Sammel-Thread)

Meine Lieblingsübung ist "Falkenberg"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=STeGWSdsQUI

https://tt-test.de/falkenberg-uebung-erlauterung-und-variationen/

... sicher kein Geheimtipp, aber gut für die Beinarbeit und macht Spaß 😁

Was sind Eure Empfehlungen?

Teilt sie gerne hier in der #Tischtennis-Community, damit wir ein bisschen Inspiration und neue Ideen für's Training bekommen.

@tischtennis

jrp, 2 months ago to random

For people interested in #Faircamp and the wonderful and diverse music presented there i established a group on gup.pe:

@AxWax @keef @Simon Repp @Flavigula @faircamp group

mario, 2 months ago to random

I recently stumbled upon #^https://github.com/SrS2225a/custom_uploader which is a simple app to share files with hosting services. The app is available via FDroid #^https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nyx.custom_uploader/

It is very simple to configure a custom uploader for Hubzilla:

1. Press the cog button
2. Press the + button to add a new uploader
3. Select POST as method
4. Enter the upload URL https://channelname:password@hub.example.com/api/z/1.0/item/update
5. Set Form Data Name to media

Done.

Sharing a file with this uploader will result in a post to your default privacy group with the file attached or embeded if it's an image.

You could also add a custom text to your upload if you add the body upload parameter or even configure a privacy group to post to if you want.

Enjoy!

drkmbnt, 3 months ago to diy

I added a new posting to my homepage. #diy #soldering #noise https://www.base.at/drkmbnt/liveequipment-for-2024