Para quem se interessa em ter uma instância própria no Fediverso, recomendo ler o artigo da Elena Rossini sobre a experiência dela com o Yunohost, ferramenta que ela (e eu) usamos para autohospedar nossas próprias aplicações.
(Detalhe: somos 2 mulheres hospedando nossas próprias instâncias. Que isso sirva de encorajamento para outras mulheres "que não se sentem capazes" - e de provocação para os machões de plantão que acham que isso não é coisa de mulher. ;o) )
A Elena fez um super trabalho nesse artigo - para quem não tem perfil tech e não saberia escolher um servidor, ela dá as recomendações dos passos iniciais, sugere 3 empresas diferentes com preço em conta - e ainda vai publicar outros artigos com a continuação.
Eu sou muito fã do Yunohost e não teria instância própria se não fosse por ele. Na prática, uma das coisas que o Yunohost oferece é uma interface com centenas de softwares open source (como o Mastodon, Friendica, Nextcloud e muito mais, veja a lista completa aqui: apps.yunohost.org/catalog) que você pode instalar no seu servidor em apenas alguns cliques, como se você instalasse uma aplicação na app store. Ele mesmo faz as configurações iniciais e automatiza boa parte dos processos - inclusive a criação de certificados (Let's Encrypt).
Alguns softwares precisam que você acesse pelo terminal para fazer algumas operações - o Friendica é um exemplo (mas é porque tem um bug na versão atual), se me lembro bem o Pixelfed também precisava. Mas existe manual de instruções para tudo isso, e ainda que a pessoa não saiba programar, dá para fazer. Mas com outros softwares, basta clicar no botão "instalar" e tcham, você tem sua própria plataforma - a instância do Peertube foi extremamente fácil de instalar, não precisei entrar no servidor e tal, tudo foi feito via interface gráfica do Yunohost.
Outro ponto positivo: o Yunohost automatiza as atualizações. Então por exemplo, se o Mastodon lançar uma nova versão, em poucos dias o pessoal do Yunohost a disponibiliza e o processo de atualização, incluindo o backup, é automatizado. Você clica em um botão e atualiza sua plataforma.
Eu poderia criar instância "na raça", como uma "verdadeira dev" pois já programei e consigo me virar, em tese. MAS os projetos open source sofrem de um problema crônico que se chama: documentação desatualizada (ou ausente mesmo). Eu já sofri muito tentando instalar software open source eu mesma, com as parcas informações que encontrava. E óbvio, se não existe documentação publicada, não existe GenIA que saiba a resposta, então não, não dava para contar com a falsa inteligência das GenIAs. Ok, talvez eu tenha tentado instalar projetos marginais, mas o trauma ficou.
Consequentemente, o processo de instalação de alguns projetos open source, pelo menos no meu nível de conhecimento devops baby, é uma batalha. O Yunohost facilita essa etapa, e ainda me permite não somente criar uma instância no Fediverso como instalar centenas de aplicações úteis no meu dia a dia, como leitor de RSS, arquivagem de sites, blog, cloud própria, ferramenta de vídeoconferência privativa etc - vejam a lista no link acima, as possibilidades são infinitas, lembrando que um dos maiores interesses de fazer isso é poder usar ferramentas que TE RESPEITAM, que não te vigiam, saber que seus dados não são vendidos nem compartilhados com ninguém. E para mim, é caminho sem volta - bem que diziam que autohospedar as próprias aplicações era viciante. No meu caso não sei se é vicio, mas a sensação de empoderamento é quase física - eu fico impressionada cada vez que instalo algo que funciona super bem e que, se fosse usar um aplicativo equivalente feito por alguma empresa, ia me custar um bom dinheiro.
New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…
I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.
This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.
And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting
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What Are Coordinate Systems and Why Do They Matter in #Mapping
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Discover why coordinate systems are essential for mapping, navigation, and geospatial analysis, from global satellites to local grids.Sebastian Walczak (Geoawesome)
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Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to yo…Blaze (he/him) (Fediverse@piefed.social)
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is for testing Bonfire Social, the microblogging part. (This one not federated)
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Australian ban on under16s social media
!Fediverse - Ive been spending alot of time driving lately and I heard again about the impending ban on social media for under 16yo children in Australia.
It made me wonder whether there is as opportunity/ use case for #ActivityPub based solutions that allow schools / community groups to offer accounts to their parents - that could be then used by those parents to offer moderated/ controlled child accounts (for their children).
Parent accounts would have vistability and potentially control over who child accounts can follow/conmunicate with. Schools could use it for communication with parents and/or pupils.
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As a software developer myself I can see why you'd adopt the latest greatest ASAP. Developing a tool used by many is fun in itself, but incorporating new possibilities keeps it fun for yourself as well. At least, that's how I experience these things.
I just hope FreeBSD packages will be at 8.5 as soon as firefly adopts it 😄
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 ?
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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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!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.
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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
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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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!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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Sure. I’m up for working with anyone.
There’s a few “spoken word” albums on Bandwagon.fm, but I haven’t really cracked *podcasts* yet. That would probably take some improvements to the RSS that we auto-generate. So in this case, we might not be ready for them.
Or, are you thinking of this from another angle?
Hi Ben sorry slow reply to this - As always life continues to be a serious of craziness. Classic sorry for the random reply as well as I haven't had time to really get my thoughts together.
I've just started to try out #Podcini so still getting a feel for that.
I also found minipub.dev/ - a framework for Commenting on podcasts which I thought was interesting (Maybe more from the use cases it identifies ) and I think covers what I was thinking - Basically your Podcast app provides a stream of what you listen to and allows you (and others ) to share comments and forward songs/programmes that you recommend to others.
This approach of having comments tied to a thing works across other domains (locations, activities that you do) basically anything that could be tied to a URI
But you are right - there is a need to sketch out some use cases and user journeys and see what the interest is and whether there are others that might have the capability to bring some effort to bare against them.
At the risk of rambling - That's something that I find hard to figure out with Opensource - not all people who are users have the capability to develop/build and hence there is a squew in what is developed.
Rambling back to the point about these use cases - There is also a challenge around identity - Do you want separate accounts to post updates on your running, listening, openstreetmap updates - or do you want to link/bring those all together under one identity/account. (I guess plugins that operate under a Friendica account would do this second approach)
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in reply to abeorch • • •A Minecraft server is the classic.
Don't discount just putting together a basic webpage that can be accessed at home too- something he could put together in a basic HTML editor (drag and drop) and put his favorite things on or whatever he may be focusing on (cars, animals, space, you name it).
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in reply to empireOfLove2 • • •I definitely agree on a vanilla Minecraft server.
It's really simple but you can go very deep in what you could do with it. Also it's a game and brings a playful fun aspect into the technical world.
It's pretty much how I started to learn everything about networking years ago.
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in reply to abeorch • • •I showed interest at around this age and my dad showed me CentOS and building basic webpages. I didn't take too much interest in that, but I asked him if we could build a Counter Strike server and he obliged. He's a nerd himself so we had a static IP for the server and everything. Worked well!
Anyway, I would recommend getting an old desktop and installing Ubuntu server or desktop edition with a desktop environment. Show him how to navigate the command line and what that means if you follow the file explorer at the same time. And then hosting very basic things(webpages, local game servers, etc.).
He might really latch onto it, or might not be interested whatsoever. I latched onto it, ended up building my own PCs soon after, and have my own homelab and I work as a full time Linux sysadmin now.
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in reply to abeorch • • •For this I would recommend:
Now why do it this way? Because Windows does NOT like the boot manager being replaced and does NOT like disk space go "missing" unless it allocates it itself. If you install Windows first it'll setup the boot manager for Windows and then when you install Linux grub will get installed and that can manage Windows pretty well.
And if you let Windows partition off the blank space for Linux then Windows knows that that empty partition isn't owned by Windows anymore and it won't freak out seeing the space go missing when Linux takes it over.
This article covers most: linuxblog.io/dual-boot-linux-w…
If you have two individual disk drives then I would do the same thing, install Windows on one of the drives, boot into Windows, and make sure the second drive shows up in disk utility, but it isn't formatted for use in Windows, just unallocated/blank. Then when you install Linux you just tell it to install onto the second drive.
I would 100% recommend Tailscale for this. You can install Tailscale on the Proxmox host and then have your nephew have his own Tailscale account where you can give him access to only the Proxmox box.
I do this with my Proxmox boxes so I can remotely manage them wherever I am. When you first install Tailscale on Proxmox it may require a reboot, so I would recommend being nearby the server so you can login physically if needed, but after it has been smooth sailing for me. Been using it like this for a year or two now.
Of course just a suggestion.
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in reply to abeorch • • •Minecraft server. Then Pufferpanel, then modding. Tons to learn.
Put it in a VM for him and take snapshots for easy recovery.
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in reply to dil • • •That would be Snap!
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Snap! Build Your Own Blocks
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in reply to abeorch • • •Hedy is an open source programming language that is broken into levels for easy learning. As you progress the language gains more capabilities, so they are never overwhelmed with too much
In contrast to block based languages like scratch its goal is to leave students ready to switch to Python by the end.
Each level has small tasks to complete so you can tackle it piece by piece and get a sense of progression.
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Hedy - Textual programming made easy
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in reply to abeorch • • •I think educational activities work best once they have some application to someones life. So it'd be something within the realm of a 7yo. And it's not fun unless there's a sense of achievement every now and then, along with all the stuff to learn. So probably not too steep of a learning curve.
Sadly they discontinued Lego Mindstorms. I think robotics is a great hands-on topic. People can grasp what they're currently doing, why they do it, and what it's good for. It has a tactile aspect, so you'll train dexterity as well and gently connect the physical realm with the maths.
But other than that, I bet there's a lot of things you can try. Design a website (and deploy a small webserver). Maybe some easy to use photo gallery if they have a tablet or camera. Maybe a Wordpress for them to write a Blog? They should be familiar with the concept of a diary. Kids love Minecraft, so maybe a Luanti server if you're into Free Software. But learn how to add NPCs and animals, that is (or used to be?) a complicated process in Luanti and the world feels boring and empty without. A chat server to their loved ones could motivate them to read and write text (messages). Or skip the selfhosting aspect and do the kids games available for Linux. Paint, LibreOffice...
I like the recommendations from other people as well. Sadly I don't know which kids programming language works best. I think I heard you can just go straight for Python as well. Not sure if that's true or what age group that applies to. It's a bit more involved to learn the syntax and why you need brackets around certain things etc but at least they get to learn the real deal and something properly useful. 7 might be a bit young, though. And there might be a language barrier. But that applies to all the computer stuff behind the scenes, unless you're a native English speaker.
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in reply to poVoq • • •This is confusing. So, Luanti is basically a clone of Minecraft? The docs say how to download the basic platform, and then to download any game.
But where do you start? There's no recommended or default game or world?
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in reply to PlutoniumAcid • • •No, Luanti is a platform for Minecraft like games, like a place to find lots of user generated games and such, I guess Roblox is a bit similar to that (I never tried Roblox, so I am guessing). It is also fairly easy to make your own games with it.
There are however games for Luanti that are very similar to Minecraft such as Voxelibre and Minecloina.
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) - ContentDB
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in reply to abeorch • • •I'd argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.
Having a bulb that let's you know the outside temperature/weather when you're getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.
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in reply to abeorch • • •I've hosted both Minecraft and Luanti (free open source Minecraft). Either is a great idea!
That said, I found setting up a Luanti server slightly simpler (because no need for everyone to have a Microsoft account, and no Java dependencies to worry about):
docs.luanti.org/for-server-hos…
Luanti has lots of options, but a good default choice is Mineclonia:
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in reply to abeorch • • •Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.
Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely, like the above-mentioned Mineclonia).
Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.
The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.
So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn also only allow you to play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.
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in reply to abeorch • • •I do not recommend using a seven year old as a server for the following reasons.
overall, not worth it mate. good luck though!
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in reply to abeorch • • •Video games come to mind. You could probably figure out how to host a game server of their choice (think something like Minecraft) so him and his friends can play. Docker is a nice shortcut for that, and you also get to sprinkle in some networking knowledge too for opening ports and such.
If games are off the table, could try to figure out some hardware to interact with. Having some sort of robot that you can control with an API could be fun.
On the line with hardware, you can get a raspberry pi, and try to work with him to blink an LED via Scratch or Python. Then work to something even bigger.
If typing is a struggle you could do typeracer or something like that to figure out who can type faster.
You could build a basic website together with some CSS and HTML. Make like, a fan site for his favorite band (or whatever hes into). Maybe he wants to make something for his friends to see.
Or, ask them if there is something theyve wanted to know how it works...then build some sort of project using it.
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in reply to abeorch • • •Minecraft server + mods + introducing scripting his own mods/customizations? Suggested simply because gaming is a great way to introduce computing concepts that kids can visually see the output from.
Otherwise, I'd suggest showing him how to create his own web pages, creating visual programming games, etc. Find his favorite hobbies (music, art, animals) and start creating something around that hobby so that the computing piece is just as interesting.