Posts by sbb@c.im
(DIR) Post #AceJY3JhniMtTsava4 by sbb@c.im
2023-12-10T00:09:33Z
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@Codeberg Are your servers Debian bookworm? With an ext4 filesystem? If so, please have a look at this:https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712
(DIR) Post #AcpxxdEidYUIW8tFMe by sbb@c.im
2023-12-15T01:26:32Z
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@davidrevoy Your artwork is great! How about one from Aesop's fables, featuring the lion taking his "lion's share"?https://read.gov/aesop/141.htmlThose who don't see any problem with Threads joining the Fediverse apparently seem to think that functioning-by-goodwill internet Federations grow on trees, and they aren't any sort of considerable loss if sidelined and subverted by the lions who know everything there is to know about taking their "lion's share".
(DIR) Post #AlvXjj14tpQZhC2gDY by sbb@c.im
2024-09-12T12:27:58Z
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@sneak I too, discontinued to use the Nextcloud desktop sync client. I use syncthing, or rsync, or Magic Wormhole instead.Nextcloud can be trusted, but only in a piecemeal way: one Nextcloud app at a time, getting to know them. Some Nextcloud apps are more "Mickey Mouse" than others.Any org seriously considering it should prototype it and stress-test it. Nextcloud especially loves being on-prem where LAN latencies are low.#Nextcloud #OpenSource
(DIR) Post #Ao3DTTPVExEprzvJVA by sbb@c.im
2024-11-15T01:02:53Z
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@frameworkcomputer If your printer actually works reliably in Linux, I'll likely utter the phrase "Enough speech; accept my money."
(DIR) Post #ArRHMJ43MGLADu7gRc by sbb@c.im
2025-02-19T21:57:14Z
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Even though #Signal *itself* has sound security - taken in isolation - it's always moored in an ecosystem (that of smartphones which run #iOS or #Android) which, by default, have #AI set up to shoulder-surf Signal, sending reports back to the mothership. In #iOS, that AI is called "#Apple Intelligence", and in #Android, it's called #Google Assistant. Repeat, these are on by default. *Only a small percentage of your family, friends, colleagues, and fellow country-persons will pain-stakingly disable these.*Sure, Signal itself is secure by default, but "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link". And the weakest link is the ecosystem which Signal is moored in - that of smartphones policed and patrolled by AI, which report back to their respective motherships *in a strong majority of cases*.Alternatives like #Deltachat (for normies willing to open their wallets/purses to rent an auto-crypt-compatible email address) and #XMPP (easily free to use, however realistic and mature only for non-iOS/#MacOS-users at present) have comparable E2E encryption. Deltachat and XMPP *don't* require smart-phone "moorings" - thereby making it much more realistic to dodge the almost-pervasively AI-patrolled ecosystems.#infosec
(DIR) Post #ArRHNsFm0mLpeLLugC by sbb@c.im
2025-02-24T01:35:27Z
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@axbom I too have been doing some similar evaluating of alternatives. I would recommend adding:- #Zulip (Slack, #Mattermost competitor) More info: https://c.im/@sbb/114034480079879818- #Conversations/ #Gajim/ #Prosody (is similarly E2E encrypted, but additionally federated, unlike Signal), this is my #XMPP "stack" at present (more info: https://c.im/@sbb/114032786446300932 )- #DeltaChat (is federated, unlike #Signal) More info: https://c.im/@sbb/114043962394278098- #flarum , a forum similar to Discourse, but will run on a #RaspberryPi, unlike Discourse- #calibre-web for your ebook collection- #shiori, for private cloud bookmarks#OpenSource
(DIR) Post #As6yXeQ20jxmds02GO by sbb@c.im
2025-03-16T12:02:48Z
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@john I use radicale for calendar and contacts on a VPS. I became dissatisfied with the lagginess of #Nextcloud . Also the frequent manual upgrades.
(DIR) Post #As6z7DKcCMnr3bQLS4 by sbb@c.im
2025-03-16T12:09:16Z
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@john For syncing around files, I use tools like syncthing, magic wormhole, the SFTP server within OpenSSH, and occasionally old-school rsync
(DIR) Post #AtSM1QVuBq4rRfS3l2 by sbb@c.im
2025-04-24T07:59:37Z
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I tried out the #ooni network tester app from #FDroid. I have good connectivity here in #Malaysia, both from a cellular SIM card connection, and the monastery wifi (a fiber internet connection).But alas, the Ooni tests don't test for #XMPP, in their instant messaging apps testing! Only #Facebook, #Signal, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger are tested for, apparently. I do have trouble with XMPP, on the fiber internet here. Insidiously, brief XMPP text messages can be sent, but any video memo (say, 40MB in size, about 4 min worth of video) will only 1% upload, then get stuck. Attempts to resend will keep getting stuck. It seems that the XMPP traffic gets throttled to nothing after a small amount of data is sent: say, 400kb or so. I *can* send these video memos from my cellular SIM card connection.I wish Ooni could have warned me about this, as it caused a friend to not receive a video memo for about 10 days, until I caught on to what was happening.
(DIR) Post #AtSM1UXTDxhpvgDMki by sbb@c.im
2025-04-24T22:19:37Z
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@debacle @raucao any tutorial for that, which you can link to?
(DIR) Post #AtSM1WLqU9azYCn6uW by sbb@c.im
2025-04-25T01:48:08Z
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@debacle @raucao Thanks for that, but I'm puzzled how the various #XMPP-related hostnames (like upload.example.com, proxy.example.com) get assigned/bound to different kinds of traffic in that nginx config.
(DIR) Post #AtSM1XU2HBk13tdAJc by sbb@c.im
2025-04-25T08:36:50Z
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@debacle @raucao @prosodyim I'm OK with all these hostnames being split up in XMPP, but as to using all those non-443 ports... sooner or later, a "standard" #XMPP server will surely heavily use ALPN and port 443.
(DIR) Post #AtSM1Z12ZxjhoY52Om by sbb@c.im
2025-04-25T12:11:04Z
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@raucao @debacle Another anecdote: A friend of mine in the #Philippines couldn't connect to my #XMPP server in #Singapore, *until* he turned on a VPN with an exit node in Singapore. There's all sorts of strange QOS rules lurking in the various ISPs' routers here in Asia.
(DIR) Post #Av1LYFbp1B2SKiyzRY by sbb@c.im
2025-06-11T12:28:15Z
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@davidrevoy nice art!