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kris

@kris@outmo.de

Main admin of this instance.

Interests: #selfhosting #xmpp #permacomputing #solarpunk #anarchism #foss #libregaming

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Edent, to opensource
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🆕 blog! “Can you trust ProtonApps.com?”

I've recently signed up to the privacy-preserving service Proton. All the email, calendar, drive, VPN, and other services seem to hang off the proton.me domain. I wanted to download the Android apps to my phone - without using the Google Play Store. The VPN app is on F-Droid but none of the others are. So, […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/can-you-trust-protonapps-com/
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#OpenSource #privacy #Proton

kris,
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@Edent @PC_Fluesterer F-droid has their own build infrastructure and (with very few exceptions) only allows apps in their repo that can be build cleanly from FOSS code. IzzyOnDroid is a 3rd party repository for the F-droid app that allows developers to directly upload binary .apks for distribution. The security implications should be obvious...

martijnbraam, to random
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Phone get :D

kris,
@kris@outmo.de avatar

@martijnbraam as a fellow FP5 owner: really looking forward to running non-Android mobile Linux on this thing! Your contributions will be for sure appreciated ☺️

Goffi, to chat French
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What would be the essential features that you would expect in a #team #chat? I mean features that you actually use at work or in association, or you would very much like to see.

I'm asking to check how far we are in common #XMPP clients, but don't hesitate to quote features event if they are already present in some clients.

kris,
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@Goffi easy invites for new users and support for webhooks for automated notifications from various services.

J12t, to random
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A tough but very important piece by @deadsuperhero .

Read this. We need to fix this.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

kris,
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@J12t By being less naive about who and who isn't an abuser. Activist spaces have a long history of highly abusive members (of any gender) that look the look and walk the talk at least on initial appearances, but are in reality narcisstic abusers that make everything about them and their profile in the community. This has all the hallmarks of that.

stefan, (edited ) to random
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If you were born on a #LeapDay, when would you celebrate your birthday in a non-leap year?

#LeapYear

kris,
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@stefan party 365 days a year when ever I would feel like it 😎

aks, to Matrix
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I'll repeat my old take on #matrix, #XMPP and #IRC chat protocols.

These protocols are open, thus there is no reason to not make them interoperable.

In the end users dont care about protocol, they care about client. And users can choose any client they wish.

If all three can be seamlessly talk to each other, we'll have beautiful solution.

Even better if it can be done without bridges (or the bridges are built in to clients/protocols)

Instead of fighting over "the one true protocol" we should make them as seamlessly interoperable as possible!

We have zero excuse. These three (and probably more!) are all open.

I would love to help as well.

#FOSS

kris,
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@aks the closest one can reliably get to that idea right now is an #Ergo #IRC network with first party gateways allowing access from #XMPP and #Matrix. I run such a network and while I wish the current gateways had better #IRCv3 support, it is working quite well overall.

kris,
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@aks yes this is how and -irc work, all users are "real" users on all three protocols.

thomas, to random German
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5x 1 Gigabit LAN Switch: 20 €.
5x 2,5 GE Switch: 109 €

WTF. Großer Unterschied.

kris,
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@thomas War leider bis vor kurzem noch viel schlimmer.

sam, to random
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People talk about the "lack of an algorithm" on Mastodon a lot, but one thing I love about it that this doesn't capture is how my timeline is almost entirely bicycle and co-op related content and that this is by design. I've followed several hash tags, groups, etc. and heavily curated what I see. You can't do that on Twitter and the like because the algorithm will insist on showing you content that it thinks will drive engagement. Mastodon does have an algorithm, it's just a user driven one.

kris,
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@sam I think the problem is mainly that new users start out with an very empty timeline. Some very profilic boosters kinda make up for that by suggesting other accounts to follow, but some more options for instance admins to suggest stuff would be nice. Akkoma for example has the Bubble concept that allows instance admins to add a set of trusted instances that appear in a combined feed similar to the local one.

aks, to Matrix
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Can i use my homeserver as server? Or do i have to spin up separate xmpp server and then use puppet bridge?

kris,
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@Menel @aks Bifrost needs both a Synapse Matrix server and a Prosody XMPP server to function. It might work also with Ejabberd but I think that is untested.

volpeon, (edited ) to random

Why do all chat services suck

  • IRC is old and lacks basic features
  • XMPP clients feel outdated or are janky
  • Matrix is over-engineered
  • Telegram requires a phone number
  • Discord
  • Signal requires a phone number
  • For the rest point 2 applies
kris,
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@crazy_pony @aslmx @volpeon I had no problem on boarding "modern" people to https://join.movim.eu but the OMEMO implementation for group chats sadly needs some further work in it.

Revertron, to random
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Is there some script to update on a server?
(To check the latest version, download a binary and restart a service.)

kris,
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@Revertron you can run it via Podman and enable auto-updates with Systemd easily.

justinas, to architecture
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As my research relates to and , I launched a collaborative web notebook on the topic:

https://solarpunkarchitecture.org/

It is based on Discord forum with bells and whistles, so there is some Activitypub support for categories. You can follow them here:

communities@solarpunkarchitecture.org
humanities@solarpunkarchitecture.org
art@solarpunkarchitecture.org
architecture@solarpunkarchitecture.org
technologies@solarpunkarchitecture.org

kris,
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@justinas Discourse not Discord though. I was highly confused at first about ActivityPub support in Discord (the chat app that also has internal forums these days).

320x200, to random
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Syncthing and other similar software are great, but sometimes you just want a simple, lightweight, and fast way to mirror things, specially if the remote and/or local machines have limited resources.

Here is my ultra minimalistic set and forget (I hope) 2-in-1 rsync based mirror script that can be used in a cron and called manually at the same time. If there is a problem with the transfer, you even get an email.

https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/One_way_fast_and_lightweight_file_mirroring

kris,
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@320x200 for a slightly more advanced setup I found https://github.com/kd2org/karadav quite nice for WebDAV.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help 🙂

If you click this link → @example ←

Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

THANKS GANG!

kris,
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@Edent on Husky (connected to Akkoma) I get a "example.bin" download when I press the link.

mailbox_org, to email German

💚 Wir stoßen auf 10 Jahre Datenschutz, Privatsphäre und Sicherheit an! 🥂 Danke an all unsere Nutzer und unser großartiges Team, die dies möglich gemacht haben. Cheers auf viele weitere Jahre sichere und freie Kommunikation! 🚀📧
https://mailbox.org/de/post/wir-feiern-10-jahre-mailbox-org

kris,
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@debacle @mailbox_org Wäre wirklich cool wenn euer Ejabberd Server auch mal auf die neuste Version aktualisiert würde.

jacobcoffin, to random
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When I wrote this story, I'll admit I thought this part was further out.

https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/the-frozen-generation-jacob-coffin/

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2024/02/frozen-embryos-are-children-alabama-supreme-court-rules-in-reviving-couples-wrongful-death-suits.html

kris,
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@jacobcoffin Excellent story by the way!

misty, to random
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Hard not to feel like this spam attack is the end of an era for Mastodon. The possibility of doing this has always been here, but now that it's actually happened we're going to see it happen more often.

The fact that smaller hobbyist instances have been the main vector for this is going to have knock on effects on other small hobbyist instances.

kris,
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@Anarcat @jacob @misty While allow-list federation is certainly something people will talk about more, isn't the main problem of the current spam wave that not well monitored hobbyist instances have open registration?

I really hope that software defaults will switch to invite based or similar methods as hobbyist instances really have no business in running public servers that easily become spam vectors.

Edent, to fediverse
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

In theory you should be able to follow this test user:

@你好

But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.

If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂

kris,
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@Edent Works fine on Akkoma here and presumably on Pleroma as well.

liblast, to godot
@liblast@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Here's what's going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvuKeNCGws

(PeerTube mirror is processing...)

kris,
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@liblast Maybe time to also reconsider using or similar? Would be really nice if one could use for mapping and import nice maps from legacy Quake engines into Liblast.

liaizon, to random
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Wow the fact that WhatsApp is going public about its forth coming federation is so wild. Pretty psyched about the EU's DSA and DMA, really seemed like they are pushing things in the right redirection.

kris,
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@liaizon Not sure... my take away from the Wired story is that it will be half-broken with only a c2s interface, no group-chats and you need to sign a contract with Meta to be able to use it. Smells more like malicious compliance to me...

firefly, to random German

@lex Sag, ein utopischer Roman, der das Leben mit dem Grundeinkommen thematisiert. Wüsstest du da was aus der Solarpunk oder Hopepunk-Ecke?

kris,
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@firefly @lex Nicht direkt Grundeinkommen, aber der neue Roman vom Cory Doctorow behandelt ähnliche Ideen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Cause_(novel)

kris, to random
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@Codeberg @forgejo Maybe it would be interesting to add donation support to via ? There is a funding opportunity: https://nlnet.nl/taler/

kris,
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@kyva @forgejo @Codeberg It's a fully open source alternative to GooglePay / ApplePay / Paypal etc. that is has finally reached a point where it might see some support from EU based banks, learn more here: https://taler.net/

Before you ask: it is not another crypto currency and does not use a blockchain 😅

kris,
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@tbss For now there are only two banks involved in the pilot, one in Germany and one in Hungary. You will have to wait a bit longer I guess. In general, your best bet will be a bank that is part of the coop bank system and Santander is AFAIK not.

18+ kawaiipunk, to random
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I'm not going to be prescriptive (I have my preferences for co-op structures) but I'm not sure having a single volunteer sys admin for an instance is the way to go. It's too much pressure and hard work, especially if the person is working alone.

I think we need better and more organised structures better suited to longevity.

kris,
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@kawaiipunk we have been thinking of better horizontal coordination via a Loomio exchange forum: https://groups.f-hub.org/fedi-admin-guild/

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