rogerbraun

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by rogerbraun 8y ago
The install docs are on the wiki: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/wikis/Installing%...
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by rogerbraun 8y ago
Some background information on ActivityPub in Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/activity-pub-in-pleroma/ https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
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What Is Pleroma? (distributed social network in Elixir)(blog.soykaf.com)
11 points by rogerbraun 9y ago|2 comments
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
no, we really don't. Not every tool needs to be equipped for private discussions. ActivityPub and OStatus are used for Twitter-style communication. Those aren't high security communication services.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
it's really not worth it. If people want to exchange encrypted messages, they should use a proper tool for that.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
In AP, messages are signed with http signatures ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-09 ). OStatus has a similar mechanism called salmons, which are signed XML payloads.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
there's #social on freenode, although it's not very active. You might have more luck asking your questions on #pleroma on freenode (another Ostatus/AP server) or on the mastodon discord.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
messages are signed using http signatures ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-09 )
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
In OStatus 'salmons' are messages sent from one server to another that contain posts. They are signed, so the receiving server knows if it can trust it. If person peter@example.com mentions bob@differentsite.org, a salmon is sent
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
this doesn't make much sense. The very easy way to add AP-level privacy to ostatus was to just use a different salmon endpoint for private messages. This way, messages would never have federated to servers that don't respect priva
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
Yes, and this was known to the main developer. There were easy ways to make it at least private if the other server was trusted, but they chose to not implement them.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
Privacy on the level of AP would have been very easy to add, by just using a different salmon endpoint for private messages. This was discussed at length back then, but Mastodon still chose to implement the leaky-by-default changes. There&#
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
sadly, the federated timeline is close to useless. I don't understand why it isn't the public timeline that's exposed.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
This is something that was always a problem on Mastodon, but you can use other fediverse servers like https://social.sakamoto.gq/main/all to look at the network, they show things publicly.
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by rogerbraun 9y ago
If you are European you're probably part of the visa waiver program anyway.
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by rogerbraun 10y ago
I looked into this a while ago. Here are some notes I made: - https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/OStatus - https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/Salmon Hope it
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If English were written like Chinese (1999)(zompist.com)
228 points by rogerbraun 10y ago|94 comments
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Scsh Reference Manual(scsh.net)
1 points by rogerbraun 10y ago|0 comments
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by rogerbraun 10y ago
It depends on your use case. The overhead is much smaller than you probably think and the Erlang / Elixir programming model works extremely well for some cases, networking for example. I've been writing pieces for a Bittorrent cli
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
How do you take photos that look like the old ones? They seem to have much more interesting colors.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
That's what I meant, sorry for the confusion.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
Thanks for the answer, but if you don't care about this use case, then I think I'll just use a different application that does. The things I don't like about Signal / Textsecure are: - Requires Google / Apple servic
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
Just use Conversations. It can now use the same protocol and is the best XMPP client there is. I'm completely baffled that the Textsecure people insist on using the gapps package, which is of course an extreme privacy risk.
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10 years of self-hosting Linuxwall.info(jve.linuxwall.info)
8 points by rogerbraun 11y ago|0 comments
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Init Scripts Considered Harmful(sanityinc.com)
2 points by rogerbraun 11y ago|0 comments
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
What I find much more amazing is that the thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat is so often used to explain the implications of quantum mechanics, because it was meant as a way to show that all that superposition stuff clearly doesn&
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
I use it, it's pretty good. As simple as it can be, easily integrates with everything.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
The most modern RMS proof laptop is the Thinkpad X200 with Libreboot. It's probably still faster than this chip.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
'As with many extensions of startup culture...' - is this true? Are american hacker spaces grown out of startup culture?
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
It's always a shame when the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is presented as how reality works. Most of the perceived weirdness of QM comes from the leaps of faith required to make the Copenhagen interpretation work.

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