Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.
We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.
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Yunohost - Federating the forum
!Selfhosted - As a yunohost user I find the yunohost discourse forum really useful - but I also find that tracking posts and discussions in the forum - the many other forums for other software I use - and then related conversations on ActivityPub time consuming.
I know that the discourse forum software has a plugin that allows content in the forum to be followed via ActivityPub without impacting the ability for the forum losing control of content moderation in the forum (or having to deal with ActivityPub replies and conversation) meta.discourse.org/t/activityp…
I while ago I posted in the forum about the idea forum.yunohost.org/t/discourse… - but perhaps because it mightnt have been seen by ActivityPub users - there wasnt much interest.
I think that making it easier to follow and share forum content would also promote yunohost to activtypub users.
What do people here thing? - What are your thoughts ?
@YunoHost :disability_flag:
Discourse forum and ActivityPub Integration
Im really getting into using Yunohost. I was wondering whether its possible / or its being considered to allow integration between.the Discourse forum and ActivityPub social networks Mastodon / lemmy etc.YunoHost Forum
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Sync Fediverse contacts to CardDav Account
!Fediverse - Does anyone know of a service or feature that can sync the fedivers/ #activitypub accounts that an account (or.accounts) follows and/or is followed by - into a #CardDav account?
My use case is thus - As a person with a Mastodon and/or Lemmy, Pixelfed, Friendica, GotoSocial accounts - I would like to syncronise the profiles of the accounts I follow and/or the accounts that I follow into an existing CardDav account in which I record the names, emails, phone numbers, profile pictures of the people I know. I would like the syncronisation to either simply relflect the information held in each fediverse account - allowing me to use a sepatate contact merging service - or optionally to append/update information to existing contacts in a nominated CarDav account so that I can have one complete CardDav record reprenting people i know across Fediverse and other contact points.
I remember when I used to be able to sync my Facebook friends with my address book, my contacts from Skype and it was useful.
It would also make sharing my Fedi details with others easier ..I could just message them a Carddav file.
Does this make sense? Does it exist? Shoud it exist? @DAVx⁵ :android:🔄 - Is this somehow related tonwhat you are doing or do you know relevant related services - Maybe CardDav merging tools? Is it something @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox would/could do?
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Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.
And then there's the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn't work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.
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My idea is that once you have CardDav records you can join /link them manually. - That would still be useful to me.
However if a ActivityPub profile record could include things like email/phone (amd you could decide who to make them avaialbe to ) then I guess some automates matching would be possible.
Guide to Yunhost Install - VPS or local selfhosted ?
!Selfhosted - I would encourage @Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ to cover both options - VPS and locally / selfhosted in a guide to setting up Yunohost - and include plenty of references to doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_… - I'd also encourage you to include some suggestions on areas/things that its worth learng a little more about (e.g. DHCP, some basic routing, Firewalls/Portforwarding )
Choose your self-hosting mode | Yunohost
You can host yourself at home (on a small computer), or on a remote server. Each solution has their pros and cons:doc.yunohost.org
Hello Fedi friends,I'm currently planning my written tutorial for #YunoHost - from the POV of a newbie.
The guide will have a simple but ambitious goal: to encourage non-technical people to try self-host their own #NextCloud instance... and show them that it's something accessible to all, thanks to the wonderful YunoHost.org
I have tried other similar tools and YunoHost IMHO is simply the best and most secure solution. I've been using it for 11 months now and I have ZERO complaints. It just works... and it's effortless.
I'm thinking of splitting my written tutorial in a 3-part series... because doing everything in one go for a non-technical person could be overwhelming.
Part 1: registering a domain name and signing up for a VPS*
* yes I know technically you could forgo a domain name but I think having one is more empowering long term... and I'd go the VPS route because it's the most headache-free for a newbie. I can do the whole thing in 12 minutes with a VPS... and experienced headaches with a Raspi. I think for a total newbie the VPS is the way to go... especially if we factor in security issues. The stakes are lower
Part 2: installing YunoHost and tweaking DNS settings (assigning domain for NextCloud and creating a subdomain for YunoHost admin stuff, etc.)
Part 3: installing NextCloud (which people voted for when I asked which app I should install in my tutorial) and seeing what it can do.
Thoughts?
Is a 3-part series overkill or ok? I'd like to encourage people to set aside 30 minutes a day for this, so that the whole thing is not too overwhelming.
Eager to hear what you think about this!
P.S.: tangentially related but ICYMI: my Ghost blog is now federating thanks to MagicPages.co. You can follow it here: @ele
#MySoCalledSudoLife #TheFutureIsFederated
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
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Federated Locations
!Fediverse - This may have already been shared here. Apologies if it has. I saw this on #Reddit Fediverse group and it seems interested. Hopefulyl it work well with #Friendica post locations. (If I can ever figure out how to use those properly. )
Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.
In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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I just visited Damascus for the first time since 2006. I grew up there, so the trip was a LOT of emotions.
A few photos from the trip.
1. One the major streets of Damascus, Nasr Street
2. A community centre in the old city. Film directing students are gathered in the courtyard for a lesson. Very neglected treasure of a building.
3. The Hamadieh market in the old town
4. Sunrise/moon set in the edge of the city. Solar panels everywhere.
#syria #damascus #lebanon #palestine
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Moziila didn’t have the resources to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full AI inside your browser.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
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How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands
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How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Got my robot vacuum running Valetudo the other night...
....then proceeded to get stoned and watch it roam the house, doing it's thing.
And then it dawned on me - I now have a completely self-contained autonomous robot that is free to roam my house, not attached to any cloud services, doing actually productive things; and I have full control over it.
I know it's an odd thing for a grown-ass man to get excited over, but I can attest to the fact that 14 year-old me would be over the fucking moon about this. My parents got me the first Lego Mindstorms set for Christmas when I was younger, and I had an old Palm V handheld from my uncle; I managed to figure out how to control the Mindstorms controller with the Palm V's built-in IR blaster, using just a "universal remote" app.
How far we've come.... Just accomplishing this has given me a renowned motivation for self-hosting shit; it's incredibly freeing. And knowing that the manufacturer of this vacuum could access it at any point and just outright shut it off without my knowledge.... I don't have to deal with that anymore.
The robot is a Wyze "Robot Vacuum" (model WVCR200S), which is based on the 3irobotix CRL-200S - the very same robot one author recently discovered was being intentionally shut off after he had blocked some telemetry URLs. I bought it for $20 on eBay. Fully functional, but the battery only lasted ~10 minutes from a full charge. Luckily it just uses four 18650 cells in series, so replacing those was a pretty simple task. I did not buy a whole new pack (most of them are expensive and falsify their true capacities), rather opting for individual Molicel P30B 3000mAh cells for ~$5 each. I ended up having to peel off the nickel tabs from the old cells and carefully solder them to the new cells, as I don't have a spot welder. Lots of flux and a soldering iron set to 450C were key here. I would not recommend that method 😅.
Edit: My parents dropped by last night and I gushed about it to them... My dad is a tech guy, so he was pretty interested. My mom was more "I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm happy that you're happy" 😂😂
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I've patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would've been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.
Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible
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Yeah, that's a rough one. Manufacturers really don't want us mucking about and will release different versions under the same name all to obfuscate that process.
A lot of TVs are like this as well; we have a curved Samsung 55" that lost it's backlight last year - not only did I need the model and serial numbers, I also needed the specific T-con board revision. A similar thing happened on my former TCL Roku TV several years before. Same deal.
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And then it dawned on me - I now have a completely autonomous robot roaming my house, not attached to any cloud services
I have one of the older model rumba's. It does have wifi capabilities, but I've never connected it. Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi? Valetudo looks interesting tho.
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Responded with the wrong account... I try not to have any crossover between my accounts, but here we are...
Anyway.
Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi?
Probably. I only have the two robots: the aforementioned Wyze, and a cheap Eufy Robovac 25C
Valetudo looks interesting tho.
It's really quite fascinating. Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it's a cloud replacement that's hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.
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Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it’s a cloud replacement that’s hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.
Yeah but can it run Doom? That's the burning question
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A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News
A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News
Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairs—free of charge.Inside Climate News
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#opensource #office
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Office alternative from Germany by Ionos and Nextcloud is now available
With "Ionos Nextcloud Workspace," there is now German competition for Microsoft 365. The avoidance of US clouds is intended to strengthen digital sovereignty.Frank Schräer (heise online)
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Liz Wire
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