smileyhead

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smileyhead ,

Dark web should really be called dark or overlay Internet.

All dark "web" browser use the same rendering engines and same spec as regular ones.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the ...

smileyhead ,

Saying Linux is for sysadmins (or similar) is like saying Framework Laptop is only for repair technicians.

smileyhead ,

Checklist for Migrating to HTTPS:

  • Disable all 443 port traffic
smileyhead ,

Yeah, a really bullshit ISP.

smileyhead ,

I pay yearly more for IPv4 address space for virtual machines on my dedicated server than for that dedicated server itself _(ツ)_/.

Let that thing die.

Monthly summary:

54.40€ - 30 IPv4 addresses
0.00€ - 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses
38.39€ - whole server for dozens of services

Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?

I plan to host Conduit for my friends and family. Even if I invite absolutely everyone there would be no more than 50 users, max. But would it actually sustain and work, as it is not yet on 1.0 is a question. I do not want to host Synapse as I had bad time with it's (lack of) garbage collecting. We do not plan to join very big ...

smileyhead OP ,

No problem.

Overall, purely technically, no. This has to be the hostname of the computer the Conduit is running on. And it can be in the local network (LAN) with your own name.

But practically, yes. Because you must buy a domain name and point that domain to the server localtion (IP address). And the only global domain names available to register have TLDs :).

So, yes.

smileyhead OP ,

Only for yourself or so you share?

If share, please say how well it use the disk.

smileyhead OP ,

Yes, your server needs to be full domain name. Otherwise, when typing a username (like @myusername:myserver.com) other servers would need to know where that myserver.com is.

Conduit needs to know it's domain Because it is part of usernames.

smileyhead ,

one of the world's first RISC-V laptops

RISC-V

smileyhead ,

Now imagine we only had Windows and no one would create such thing because Windows and it's programs does not have support.

smileyhead ,

You can call it GNU/Linux if the same name for OS and kernel turns out to be confusing for you.

smileyhead ,

At least it's not the other way around.

smileyhead ,

They should look at GNU Taler for having it in the future.

smileyhead ,

UBlue developer likes and use Homebrew so he thinks it is essential tool so his distro preinstall it to be better and more "user friendly".

smileyhead ,

Yes. And yes.

smileyhead ,

It's like making a .txt document with tables and ASCII art and then on my God other text editors use different fonts and the look breaks. Only the most popular, Windows Notepad is supported.

Web was supposed to be bulletproof, easy to archive and implement. If a webpage break because a browser is supporting 99% of super bloated web standards instead of 99.5% of Chrome, there is clearly something wrong.

My rule of thumb is, try to randomly remove some HTML tags and CSS declarations. If whole site break and is unusable because of one/two lines missing, this website is a hack exploiting browser monoculture.

smileyhead ,

It's normal for things to implement stuff from each other? 🤷

Microsoft is late with many things too. And I don't nessesarly think a feature here and there is what makes a good OS, the base stuff is more important.

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Now we need to wait for Android to get support too 🙃.

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Just Google's proprietary app connecting to Google's proprietary servers that just happened to be preinstalled. There is nothing RCS being build to Android itself.

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Linux what?

Ah, Linux.

Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux.

smileyhead ,

Yayy, another chat app! 🙄

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    smileyhead ,

    You don't have to agree to someone in full or in none. There is no 0 or 1 here.

    smileyhead ,

    They are planning a first stable release this year. Give them time, it's much easier to develop software in first stares when you don't need to think about backwards compatibility and tech dept.

    smileyhead ,

    It may be less private than deGoogled Android right now, but in the long run Android is a dead end.

    smileyhead ,

    Privacy-wise CalyxOS is even better in my opinion.

    Tho I really want to run Linux phone.

    smileyhead ,

    Migadu is great but they state in their policy that automated (non-human) outgoing email like for password resets are not allowed.

    smileyhead ,

    SimpleLogin is for mail aliasing, not transactional mail.

    smileyhead ,

    Add this repository to the F-Droid app.

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    Windows is the worst thing that ever happened to computer science.

    And I don't exaclly mean the product itself, but the mindset and habits that came with it.

    smileyhead ,

    Yep. Come join in.

    Would it be possible to install Linux on this HP Chromebook Plus?

    This is the laptop in question. It has an x86 processor so basically any distro should work on it. However, it is still a Chromebook which likely means Google fuckery in the BIOS. But it's great value for the money (can get it $300 off at Costco) and if I can plop Linux on to it then I'd love it.

    smileyhead ,

    I am almost certain that the OP was asking about standard GNU/Linux ecosystem borrowed from the desktop, not just some OS that happened to be build on top of modification of Linux kernel.

    smileyhead ,

    The choose is:

    Apple iOS: Propably being spied by manufacturer, can be spied by NSA, can't do anything to improve this.

    Google Android: Know you're spied by Google, know you're spied by manufacturer, know you're spied by third-party, can be spied by NSA. But most of times you can cut them all (except NSA) off.

    smileyhead ,

    Best of both worlds

    Only in term of security/privacy. Not control and freedom. And without freedom to modify, share and reuse software we are in a straight path to the lack of privacy again.

    smileyhead ,

    Since I bought a domain name I do not remember IP addresses. Just like I don't remember password since I installed password manager or not remember phone numbers since I have a smartphone.

    It's only annoying when being on someone's else computer without my clipboard sharing setup and need to copy an address by hand. But that's an issue when setting something up. I would take this inconvenience while setting up than all everyday inconveniences that IPv4 created in last years.

    smileyhead ,

    Imagine getting out of phone numbers, so the solutions is for everyone to call the last remaining people with public/routable numbers 24/7 so those people would redirect messages to others.

    With Internet, users does not see that easly, but if you host anything for others it's getting harder and harder to accept incoming connections without many layers of hacks to bypass hacks that ISPs do to keep IPv4 network working.

    smileyhead ,

    Who needs an IP address anymore? What year is it? You want to connect to your friend's computer and exchange some information via computer system, seriously? Just use Cloudflare, Google or Azure and route everything through them.

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    that’s our ISPs’ problem

    If the Internet means for you a way to access Facebook, Netflix, Google and YouTube, yeah.
    But if it means a network to send something to another computer then it's a huge problem.

    Because ISP won't care if you can accept connections or not. They don't care about decentralization and being able to host stuff yourself. Most consumers just want a pipe to big services and not to their friend's house.

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    Those are just the same networking concepts as v4. Just 128 bits instead of 32. The hard thing can be ULA or SLAAC, which are like "yeah, just some random address to not get conflicts" and "yeah, first half your ISP gives you, second is taken from MAC address".

    We even get rid of a bunch loaded crap that holepunching v4 and making it work developed through years.

    Maybe it seems hard, because what was used before was not really learned how it works but just relied on hacks.

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    By disabling both v4 and v6 you can fix 100% of the problems.

    smileyhead ,

    This. And also disable https. Those things just break all the time.

    smileyhead ,

    Meanwhile me who needs to pay 97 EUR / year for two V4 to V6 proxies so people not having (or disabling, ugh) V6 can connect to my stuff.

    Actually those proxies are still cheaper than renting v4 address space for all my servers.

    smileyhead ,

    You'll still pay, just not have an option not to pay.

    smileyhead ,

    You can subnet it with the exact same rulea as IPv4, nothing is chaning there.

    Replace, for example, 192.168. with fd01::, with digits after this being divided however you like. You might step upon a too basic router that has it's own way to assign addresses with no way to change it, but that would not be IPv6 fault.

    smileyhead ,

    Even better, if that's not something available from outside, to just enable mDNS.

    Venmo/ Paypal Alternatives ( kbin.run )

    I've long been annoyed that everyone, including myself uses Paypal/ Venmo for moving money around. What alternatives do you find useful? Here's a list (https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/). GNU Taler looks viable (https://taler.net/en/index.html). I would love to have your thoughts! ...

    smileyhead ,

    Taler is not ment to be completely censorship resistant. It takes the side of dealing with goverment, law and other things and is expected to be used in areas with working democracy.

    A private alternative to MasterCard, PayPal, Stripe, etc. not a new currency or completely different banking system. And we need it.

    smileyhead ,

    Step 1: Write a website in pure HTML, can be converted or builded from something like Markdown

    Step 2: Style it a little with CSS, as a layer on top, without touching HTML

    Step 3: Profit.