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@techviator@kbin.social

Tech Pro - Hobby Aviator - VR Enthusiast - Homelab Selfhoster - AI Prompt Hacker errr I mean Engineer 🇵🇷🧑🏻‍💻🛫🥽🤖 https://techviator.com

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The most recent update is awesome! Some of the public and private working areas have been redesigned and improved. I really enjoy working in this app every day. If you have a headset check them out at https://immersed.com

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A lot of the FUD regarding joining the has been put to sleep by on this blog post:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

"The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers."

Also @daringfireball made this blog post that I agree with:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

"the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. I don’t like Facebook, the company, and I’ve never seen the appeal of Facebook, the product (a.k.a. “the blue app”). But there are literally billions of good people who use their services. Why cut them off from the open ActivityPub social world?"

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I understand, and I do remember the XMPP debacle, but I also remember that back then people trusted Google and their do-no-harm motto, and they really wanted them to lead in the real-time voice/video chat arena, and in order to make it Google made some protocol desitions that broke away from XMPP.

This time around we don’t trust Big Tech and will not try to adjust to their ways, if they want to they can embrace ActivityPub or not. The rest of the Fediverse will not try to apply their tactics or monetization to the protocol. Either they adhere to the stardard, or their users will have no compatibilty with the rest of the Fediverse.

I am not suggesting we all embrace them and try to make them feel welcome, but let's not close our instances alltogether to them, let each person decide for themself if they want to follow people from their instance or not.

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Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap and many other registrars offer dynamic DNS via API or a ddns client very easy to setup.

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Anyone who says mastodon is too hard for normal people should be asked to explain how 78% of Americans use online banking. Have you ever tried to use your bank’s website/app? Is mastodon really harder than that?
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/banking-trends-and-statistics/#:~:text=As%20of%202022%2C%2078%25%20of,prefer%20to%20bank%20in%20person.

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@fraying People want to download an app and be able sign up right there and then, not download app, have to learn what an instance is, go to the instance and find out that the sign-ups limit has been reached... let's say they keep trying, find an instance and sign up, then they get the local and global feeds filled with stuff they don't care about, no easy way to select your interests and get recommendations of people to follow.

I'm all for the fediverse, but I get why only a few main instances are getting new users and why non-techs get lost easily here. Hopefully it will get better soon. The old social networks did not begin as giants they got there by becoming easier for new people.

Religious can deny service to gays? I can deny service to religious bigots! SCOTUS conservative majority rules in favor of web designer that denied service to gay couple.

Based on this SCOTUS ruling, as an #atheist, I can now deny service to a religious person... I mean, it should go both ways, if a religious person can deny service to a gay couple, I can deny service to a religious bigot!...

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Elon: No one can fuck up a social network like me!
Spez: Hold my beer...

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Finally CE 2.7 was released today! And just in time to ruin...err I mean, enjoy the weekend upgrading it. 🤣 🤣

https://www.netgate.com/blog/p…

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Finally #Pfsense CE 2.7 was released today! And just in time to ruin...err I mean, enjoy the weekend upgrading it. 🤣 🤣

https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2.7.0-and-23.05

#selfhosting #firewall

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@moelassus Life came up and I couldn’t do it this weekend, got pushed for next. I'll post an update here once completed (if I still have Internet afterwards, LOL).

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Pfsense upgrade went very smooth. 35 minutes since I took the screenshot of the installed packages until everything was back up and upgraded.

I followed the process as listed by Netgate: performed full backup, removed all installed packages, rebooted, performed the upgrade (it reboots by itself), reinstalled all packages, and rebooted again for safe measure.

First boot after upgrade took about 3 minutes instead of the usual 1.5 minutes it takes on my device, but since I was looking at the console I saw the boot process and it was all good.

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People is already moving away from having a desktop at home, and younger people are not even interested in having laptops, phone and tablet seem to suffice for most of them. From that perspective it makes sense to have a cloud computer that you can use no matter what device you own. Businesses are already moving this way with different types of VDI and cloud-native apps.

For us hardcore computer users, most likely we'll finally jump to full-time Linux, but for work will still use the Cloud Windows when/where required.

For me it would be better to just have both options, and let me select, but knowing MS, they will make it near impossible to chose (like they currently do with the online account vs local account to sign in to the computer).

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Not many issues to be honest. You could even install Microsoft Edge on Linux and use that to access O365.

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I am not having issues, they just made it complicated for the average user in Win11.

And no, installing offline does not force a local account anymore, it just keeps asking you to go online unless you do another workaround usually too complicated for the average user.

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I mean, you don't have to use Edge, any modern browser should work. I use Brave mainly, and have not had any issues with O365. You can use OneDrive on the browser, but even if you want it synchronized to your desktop there's a few ways to sync it to Linux:

https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver#readme - FOSS with GUI

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive#readme - FOSS CLI (but there is a GUI for it, and a System Tray icon if desired)

https://www.insynchq.com/linux - Proprietary commercial product

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The average user would have the same issues with Windows if they had to install it themselves.
The only way to get average users to start using Linux is to sell them the devices pre-installed with it.
Case in point: Android.

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It's already being used for security audits, so it is definitely possible to use it that same way in a malicious manner.

Also, there are companies like Lakera (creators of the Gandalf prompt injection challenge) offering products to sanitize and secure LLMs, so there is a market for it, because the risks are definitely there.

Foundation of All Known Life: Webb Telescope Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule (68k.news)

Scientists have detected a new carbon compound, methyl cation, in space for the first time using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. This compound, crucial in forming complex carbon-based molecules, was found in a young star system in the Orion Nebula. The discovery could enhance our understanding of life's potential development...

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The original source of the article looks better than the reader version posted, and includes pictures, but good article. Thanks for sharing!

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Yeah, but also no. This was reported last year, and the scientists studying it did not mention it was an attempt to contact us from another planet, but the "remains of a massive star’s death."

From this article on CNN:

Flaring space objects that appear to turn on and off are known as transients.

"When studying transients, you’re watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind,” said study coauthor Gemma Anderson, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist, in a statement. “‘Slow transients’ – like supernovae – might appear over the course of a few days and disappear after a few months. ‘Fast transients’ – like a type of neutron star called a pulsar – flash on and off within milliseconds or seconds.”

This new, incredibly bright object, however, only turned on for about a minute every 18 minutes. The researchers said their observations might match up with the definition of an ultra-long period magnetar. Magnetars usually flare by the second, but this object takes longer.

“It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” Hurley-Walker said. “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright. Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”

The researchers will continue to monitor the object to see whether it turns back on, and in the meantime, they are searching for evidence of other similar objects.

“More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we’d never noticed before,” Hurley-Walker said.

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Adding to all the previously added reasons, there's also no native mobile app yet for Kbin, and that seems related to having no API released yet.

That is hopefully going to change soon since at least 2 apps are being worked on by the community - This unnamed one with the goal of being like Apollo, and Artemis which seems to be looking for beta testers - besides the hopefully soon-to-be-released Official Kbin mobile app by the Kbin team.

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There's no all-in-one app for it yet, as there are different implementations and different APIs for different platforms (is like asking for a single app for facebook, twitter, reddit, instagram, youtube, tiktok). However, all of the ActivityPub platforms can interconnect (aka Federate) whith each other, so while the interface will not be optimized for it, you can view content from Mastodon on Kbin, or from Kbin on Lemmy, etc. The most popular services in the Fediverse right now seem to be Mastodon and Lemmy, but also Pleroma, Peertube, and Pixelfed are getting attention lately. View more Fediverse projects at https://fediverse.party/

Kbin is the one I like best, because it has a view for Threads (similar to Reddit) Microblog (similar to Twitter & Mastodon), People (a directory of users you can follow), and Magazines (similar to a directory of subreddits). And from Threads you can suscribe to threads in Lemmy or kbin, from Microblog you can suscribe to Mastodon or Kbin users to follow, from People you can follow users, and from Magazines you can suscribe to topics you like.

They are working on an API for it as well as some apps for it, but for now you can access the website of your favorite instance and install as a progressive webapp on your mobile.

OC I created a site that helps people search the fediverse (programmer2514.github.io)

I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile)....

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Very cool! Thanks!
Suggestion: add Brave Search (search.brave.com) as an option as well. It's a smaller search engine but they have their own index and does not track users.

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Edit: Thanks for all the great feedback and suggestions. I decided to create a new in and install so I can try a few different options and see which ones I like and end up using to migrate my current accounts.

Edit 2:
Having behind is giving me trouble, not sure how to proxy_pass on it to avoid issues with double reverse proxy. I will try to run my instances directly from Docker and see if that goes better.

--- Original post ---
I am fairly new to the Fediverse, but have been in IT and homelab for over a decade, I am thinking or migrating from my current instances and just creating my own instances of Kbin and Mastodon for my personal use only.

Any suggestions or ideas?
Any reasons you would not recommend it?
Security concerns?

Besides Mastodon and Kbin, any other fediverses I should self-host (I thought of Lemmy but it seems I'd be able to subscribe and interact with it just fine through kbin. Also thought of peertube, but unsure or pros/cons since I have not yet even signed up on one of their instances).

Also, 1 shared VM for all of the instances, or 1 for each? I am considering if full VM or LXC, the LXC would be faster and consume less resources but I'm concerned with the security of the host.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, would like some feedback.

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@ernest Yunohost was a great suggestion, installing it right now in a brand new VM. I'll play with a lot of the applications and see which ones I like best. Thanks for that I wasn't even aware of it.

I hope Kbin makes it there soon too. I like this interface better than Lemmy as a reddit replacement.

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@ono there are relay services to help with that. I am going that route.

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