Posts by iank@hostux.social
(DIR) Post #Ad3ZfnzTCCjfb0hr5k by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T04:38:33Z
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Of the 4: email is what I'd recommend. Run an imap server next to prometheus. Dovecot is popular, but I'm also running courier. Run postfix or exim for going between. There are reliable email clients, and most cell carriers have smtp to sms gateways. To send a tiny ephemeral messages from within my small team, it feels a bit like sledge hammer. Ok, what about the other options?
(DIR) Post #Ad3aXuWP83y5UPuW4u by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T04:48:20Z
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Gotify: slick website, seems to be designed for basically this use case. Despite the website suggesting it is a project with goals, it is mostly just has one author who scratched their itch and is now telling everyone to go away and be happy with how it is. No, you can't receive messages from more than one server, single avoiding a single point of failure, staging, testing: none of that is in scope.
(DIR) Post #Ad3cLNjTPdokEGB2R6 by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T05:08:29Z
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I just lost my xmpp post? I'm tired. Prosody: "setup a server in 30 minutes." Yes, you can. But there are 2 programs that translate from prometheus to prosody, both look to be written in a few weekends then neglected, poorly documented, not very good features, likely to hit bugs, not used by many people. I went down this route, hit a bug and spent many hours learning someone else's code, so, I have the wizard hat, and now that I do, I'm not giving it up, but you probably don't want it.
(DIR) Post #Ad3eAZnMQItqMbyEq0 by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T05:28:56Z
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IRC. This translation program (aka irc bot), has significantly worse documentation than the xmpp ones, has a lot more code, and and hasn't been touched in 5 years. I'd definitely be better starting from scratch. Learning IRC server software is not nearly as inviting as prosody. Oh well, I'm thankful the libera.chat admins, irc servers are a wonderful community meeting ground and I even wrote a little bot recently. You don't need to know how it all works, it works, it is hackable, it is great.
(DIR) Post #Ad3hkvlEX4b8mD0CUy by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T06:09:07Z
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There's a 5th way I overlooked. There seems to be 2 or 3 matrix bots out there. I got turned off by Matrix's pushing of nonfree captcha programs on users. There are lots of public communication servers with a lot less lines of code that let users in without nonfree captchas. I don't yet know if a matrix server + client + bot could be a good option, it looks to require wading through a lot of irrelevant docs and complexity. Maybe some day.
(DIR) Post #Ad3kyBWVXTLjI37si8 by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T06:45:04Z
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Oh ya, after all that, hacking up some polling is a legitimate option: #!/bin/bash while true; do wget -O- prometheus-server/api | grep something; then mpv sound; sleep 60; done
(DIR) Post #Ad3oZedIZaBE9HrRLs by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T07:25:31Z
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@offset___cyan it's all bits to the computer, what is it to me?
(DIR) Post #Ad3pg8HpKlu5oGTFNQ by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-22T07:37:54Z
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People who never publish anything on the internet are generally not missing out on a super great time or opportunity.
(DIR) Post #AdHL8pEHgTbg5Doe7E by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-28T20:01:41Z
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https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-education-and-free-software-education Shows how FSF is doing much needed work to advocate for free software in schools. Please chip in so that work can continue. Right now, about $91,000 is needed for the fall fundraising goal.
(DIR) Post #AdHLQ7s3d2Nwp0fXwO by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-28T20:04:48Z
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This recently blog, [Free software in education and free software education](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-education-and-free-software-education), shows how FSF is doing much needed work to advocate for free software in schools. Please chip in so that work can continue. Right now, about $91,000 is needed for the fall fundraising goal.
(DIR) Post #AdHLZ4T5eJBWsIFwZs by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-28T20:06:26Z
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This recent blog "Free software in education and free software education" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-education-and-free-software-education, shows how FSF is doing much needed work to advocate for free software in schools. Please chip in so that work can continue. Right now, about $91,000 is needed for the fall fundraising goal.
(DIR) Post #AdHLb85n94bUh6L928 by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-28T20:06:49Z
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This recent blog "Free software in education and free software education" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-education-and-free-software-education, shows how FSF is doing much needed work to advocate for free software in schools. Please chip in so that work can continue. Right now, about $91,000 is needed for the fall fundraising goal. https://donate.fsf.org
(DIR) Post #AdLISL08n6hb1gt9UG by iank@hostux.social
2023-12-30T17:50:25Z
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@mntmn @holo_memory wish I was there. I had my own memorable feet resting moment this morning.
(DIR) Post #AdTmO7FeWRB174j6Tg by iank@hostux.social
2024-01-03T20:03:31Z
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Happy .69% of 2024 !!! Party time?!
(DIR) Post #AdTnY27KZ8yo2W7v4S by iank@hostux.social
2024-01-03T20:16:32Z
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Happy 2024! I hope you find joy every day of it.
(DIR) Post #AdTyqfh5G5GxUbwL8y by iank@hostux.social
2024-01-03T22:23:09Z
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@conservancy you got the link wrong. it should be https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/
(DIR) Post #AnYZmerRGfNqsjtucK by iank@hostux.social
2024-10-30T12:45:33Z
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@joeyh Abrowser from Trisquel is an excellent firefox derivative, and should be an example to other derivatives or even grow beyond Trisquel.
(DIR) Post #AnYhXtwjhJFCxSqwmu by iank@hostux.social
2024-10-31T07:42:02Z
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@Suiseiseki @joeyh Ya, it isn't perfect I should have mentioned, you should still should add something that blocks JS by default like noscript or LibreJS, and an adblocker.
(DIR) Post #AnYiTZNGLHfJwzl6y8 by iank@hostux.social
2024-10-31T07:45:54Z
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@Suiseiseki Is there something I'm missing other than LibreJS allows free js, and noscript has a default allowlist?
(DIR) Post #B1oLxnF2t29oVOkAm8 by iank@hostux.social
2025-12-31T14:38:48Z
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Just published https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-fsf-president-ian-kelling. I share some of my thoughts about @fsf and free software and why I think you should donate to the FSF (if you can).