My neighbor is one of those preppers...he asked me once if I had a plan for the end of civilization. I told him "I'll be watching it from a chair on my front lawn with a very VERY stiff drink in my hand..."
I have no desire to live through the end of civilization.
Another βfuck youβ has been delivered to federal courts by the Trump administration. This time, the extended middle finger is embodied by (extremely recently now-former) US Attorney Bilβ¦
Well, #Amazon thru #Ring is doing it again. Features enabled by default (Opt In is on) that let someone (read police, #ICE, etc.) snoop your cameras or WiFi. Go into the Ring app and Opt Out of these two features: Sidewalk and Search Party. Protect your #privacy.
Hi there! It's a genuine pleasure to connect with a fellow author. I'm Lynn Morrison. I'd love to hear a bit about your writing journeyβwhat initially inspired you to put pen to paper, and what's been the most surprising part of the process so far?
Better yet, use kinetic persuasion. A 3lb sledge hammer should adequately persuade your #Ring camera to stop non-consensually photographing casual passersby.
Now if'n we could get chargers in the #STL area, for whatever reason chargers just aren't happening, Circle K is building 3 to 4 stores right now that I know of, none with chargers, Walmart isn't adding charging at their stores here, nothing, this place is a desert
Laughs, "Ok, being a little silly here, but this is the first post at our new home, looks like things are back up and running already. @GoFedi handled the actual migration in a few hours, this morning I was still checking my feeds here, it went down, and here we are less than six hours and back up. The original timetable was based on their email, and frankly I like it, I'm the sort of person who likes to plan with margin of error, because the time you don't is when things go pear-shaped. I'm also rathery impressed by Pork Bun, I updated the DNS maybe Β½ hour ago, and its already working for me at least."
Glad to see everything went smoothly! Thanks for the kind words. @rjbasitali did a great job on the migration logistics, and you handled the DNS side perfectly. Always nice when a transition goes cleanly and ahead of schedule.
@Chris Trottier @Basit Ali @GoFedi You're welcome, I think the only thing I can ask for at this point is updates as I mentioned in my first message about the transition, particularly the Bookface theme. Hopefully this'll also fix the minor problem I've had, pages not fully loading, or not loading at all, things I've seen from Friendica instances I've been on before, but seems to be more common since the last update.
@Chris Trottier @Basit Ali @GoFedi It is, I think I already have the old version where its a Frio custom setting installed, but I think its now available as a freestanding theme of its own, @Random Penguin can prolly clarify that. Speaking of themes, prolly should wipe out all the extra themes I have now as most don't work, and some even break the instance.
@GoFedi is getting ready to migrate us to their servers, so we'll be going quiet here for 7 to 10 days while they do their things and the new DNS settings propogate, and be switching to using @Jeph for all things related to this blog and my personal blog. Recalls and TaurNation will continue to post as usual as any loss that might come from the transfer isn't considered an issue on those blogs.
@GoFedi can y'all make sure everything is updated? I think BookFace grew up and became a real theme (dillyofapickle.com/display/8aaβ¦), and that'll need to be installed, and we've had a little flakyness since the last Friendica update. Thanks.
Hmm, just had a horror movie idea, Jesus, a murdered gardner comes back to kill those who wronged him. He Has Risen, watch as Jesus mows down victim after victim.
Anyone know what kind of graphite (or anything else) is best for repairing these contacts in a #C64 keyboard? All the pads on the PCB work, but some of the rubber plungers need a reapplication of their conductive material.
I'm sure this is a solved problem so I'm asking the fediverse π
Add newbies mode to onboarding flow which show tutorial how to add to contacts a person who is not in current room, or generally speaking, online-only / remote contact. I think having
@koteisaev yes the "setup chat" or "setup group chat" parts can still be improved and better guided, especially when not in the same room and not having a friend who guides.
I considered myself "tech-savvy", but DeltaChat was my first software of that kind (e2e private messenger) and my contact was far from me, and not a "tech-savvy" person. So it was not obvious for me that I had to instruct my contact who is far away about additional "off-the-band" actions need for us to add each other to contact. Now i aware of all that, but my contact got discouraged with that complexity and don't want to try again. Have to keep using whatsapp (it sometimes get blocked).
@koteisaev sorry it didn't work out. IIt's clear there is room for improvement, and to make it more obvious how to setup contact. Currently, it helps a lot if someone guides the process for a group aka "Now click this link/scan this QR to join our group" after which the person immediately has secure contact to everyone in the group. Already, we spent hundreds of hours to arrive at where we are. Will be some effort to improve it further across all platforms.
@koteisaev no worries, we already discussed several possible improvements. It will take some time to get around to tackle them. Onboarding and getting in contact are topics worth getting back to.
@koteisaev I appreciate all your work on the onboarding process, especially for groups. I have a group of very non technical people who are committed to WhatsApp which makes me π¬ so I am slowly preparing to shift them one at a time to Delta Chat. :)
@scott @koteisaev we think we know pretty exactly what you mean and why you hesitate. It's a healthy approach! Also some of our own contributors hold off on introducing it into some of their groups and for good reasons. It's important to understand and read the room before suggesting. There usually is only one try. An interesting related read ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcβ¦
I agree, #Deltachat is awesome for superfast account creation, then sharing the account by QR code. No password set or stored, no phone number or email given, no password manager grumbled about necessitating
servce choice is a tricky question right now and one which we carefully avoid confronting initial users with, during the default onboarding experience. Right now, we regard it as safe to use any of the listed chatmail.at/relays (manually curated). We are working towards "randomized" onboarding by further minimizing metadata seen by relays, and introduce multi-relay support so that choices don't easily leave you stranded in case of blocking/failure.
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we hear you but it's the truth: by onboarding to #deltachat today you are diving into an experimental testrun of "the future of email" , also known as #chatmailchatmail.at
Finally we, as app distributors, want to fully disentangle from any "default" server. Testrun will become history :)
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I did create the profile but I honestly don't understand so much how it works. As for accessibility, I didn't find it so easy to learn. I am a blind user and would like to learn more and help others join in.
#deltachat has reliable and audited end-to-end encryption but reliable message delivery is equally crucial in times of shutdowns and increasing Internet fragmentation. #chatmail relays are more reliable and faster than classic email servers but they may still fail, leaving users stranded. The recent rollout of V2 releases not only hardened end-to-end encryption but aims for chat profiles to use multiple relays in the future, removing a common point of failure in decentralized private messaging.
@Delta Chat this likely won't help much against censorship but is certainly welcome for other reasons. So I get it right that it will be possible to migrate between servers?
@shuro As I understand, there are non-disclosed chatmail servers in Russia? But if the server addresses were to be disclosed, they could be shut down by the authorities? This is obviously a dilemma...
@kallekn @shuro publishing existence of relays and someone using them for a block is a tricky issue, indeed. We have preliminary discussions mostly around learning about new relays during chatting with others, and then being able to automatically use those, without any central list anywhere. IOW, the information which chatmail relays exist should be distributed across the planet with no central oversight.
@Kalle KniivilΓ€ sadly our censors are not completely dumb and run device farms to detect even undisclosed servers which apps connect to one way or another. This way they managed to render Tor practically non-functional without private bridge servers as all public ways to distribute them eventually lead to blocks. So it doesn't matter much :(
@shuro @kallekn fair points but there is one key difference with Tor: people already form social private contexts in their messaging groups. Using chatting between actual people for distributing relay knowledge can not be replicated by having thousands of device robots in some cellar because the app will only give you the same initial relays. New information comes in through chats, and not even we, as developers, see those relays.
@shuro It would be nice to have a very large amount of relays, of course. But if I lived in Russia I would be very wary about setting up my own relay, because eventually the authorities could find it and I could be charged for whatever crime they make up, like aiding terrorists.
Onboarding is cool until step 4. People don't like scanning QRs: when people add my Signal, even if the username is shown on my screen right below a QR code, nobody scanned the QR yet. Everybody just typed the username. Scanning QRs kinda sucks. And it's rather impractical when the person is not next to me. At which point sending a long link also is meh (or, depending on context, just not possible).
@kbruen Scanning QR codes is a pretty well known UX metaphor these days but indeed not well suited for setting up a chat with a remote person (unless in a video call). We are certainly going to circle back to this UX issue. Meanwhile in reality it's often the case that two people start to chat, then do a group chat, and invite others to join that group which allows to instantly get access to all people in the chat without having to do the qr/link dance with each member.
@kbruen indeed it's generally true probably that a lot of us don't have lots of friends that are also friends with each other. Wherever groups do something together (parent/school councils, sports associations, political groups, all kinds of shared hobby groups) Delta can more easily help, probably.
1) there are bridges ("matterdelta") which provide interop with Matrix, XMPP, Telegrram, ssh and anything that Matterbridge provides. It doesn't preserve end-to-end encryption and so bridging bot choice is tricky.
2) There are growing efforts around 3rd party #chatmail clients chatmail.at/clients. Interoperability is "free" between all chatmail clients (#deltachat being the prominent one). Unlike #Signal we welcome third parties to the party :)
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@ratcatcher @crazy_pony in terms of core functionality there is no difference between ArcaneChat and Delta Chat -- both are chatmail clients using the same core library which performs all networking/encryption/contact/group/chat/realtime-setup etc. ArcaneChat is maybe a bit more of an experiments-pushing client, and some of its features made it back to mainline, and arcanechat is continously rebasing on mainline, in turn.
I was going to rant "another mobile only"... but then I did look first and found there's also AppImages, deb/rpm/FlatPak/Snap packages, and even .tar.gz - so one does NOT need to "1. Install app".
@rootnode yes, you can use email addresses from any modern email service that provides a certain level of security. Just make sure you use a *dedicated* address. Using email addresses that are simultanously used by non-chatmail clients are not supported, however. In prior times we tried to make it work but it detrimental to security outcomes and easily gets confusing for users. So email addresses are fine but need to be dedicated for chatting via chatmail clients.
@rootnode self hosted email address is fine as long as it's exclusively used by chatmail clients (who were setup using the 'add second device' work flows or exporting/importing a backup file)
from a UX perspective βadd second deviceβ doesnβt sound like βenter alternative addressβ. It sounds like βInwent with one of the big ones and am entering a second deviceβ. Unless there is a clear guidance on which requirements need to be fulfilled to self-host, Inwould not call it decentralized.
@rootnode "add second device'" is found in settings of an established chat profile. It's about setting up multiple devices for the same chat chat profile.
To use a different email address it's "create new profile" and then "use other server". If you have further questions or suggestions maybe better use support.delta.chat
so, when I tried to first start the app, it only allowed on your server, no other systems. Then when I try to change it it tells me that changing accounts is not supported yet and I should check back in a few MONRHS. Sorry, but this is fishy at beet6.
@lexinova @upofadown FWIW there are some non-electron clients chatmail.at/clients and an upcoming post about an experimental Tauri one. The current #deltachat desktop electron-based client tries to both size-bloat/ram wise do better, and also e.g. bars the frontend rendering process from doing any Internet connections which are purely done via the Rust core library, for all #chatmail clients.
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@lexinova Message retention more or less negates the benefit of forward secrecy. If an attacker gets your secret key information they for sure are going to get your old messages. Since most people want to keep their old messages around forward secrecy is not very important for encrypted messaging.
the last step can be challenging. You need to be close and have working camera (yes, people have broken cameras) to scan QR, or have an already established communication channel to send the link, which in slme situations defeats the purpose.
There should be some human readable / easy to memorize or pronounce "nickname", "username", "ID" or something, so than you can tell someone "just type John Doe once you install DeltaChat to find me".
@vort3 you have a point and it's kind of funny that even though #chatmail uses the email system, one can't just give out an email address. The challenge is to establish automatic end-to-end encryption while maintaining identity privacy (in Delta Chat we want chat profiles to be fully private and decentralized so can't just do some central registry). There are some ideas on how to bring back the ease of telling your address and people contacting you. Just more involved than it sounds :)
throwing a random idea in: if your camera doesn't work, how about sharing the invite through NFC? I believe LINE does this, not to mention it's similar to how you can exchange contacts between iPhones.
@abolitionmedia Hello, I was just appreciating your work. Maybe we should set up a couple of these servers. I have an extra vps and will test one this week. Thought it worth a mention. I installed this, and it looks pretty good. The fact it's not fully p2p seems a disadvantage, but it looks like the server is not hard to set up. Hopefully not. chaos.social/@delta/1154793927β¦
@frankiezafe default onboarding currently has 700MB per user but that's rarely ever reached and might be lowered again. Messages are removed server-side unconditionally after 20 days. More info nine.testrun.org/info.html Other relays have different limits (often higher) chatmail.at/relays and people can onboard through the respective relay website after installing delta chat.
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@frankiezafe messages are stored on the device, the relay which transfers the message stores it only temporarily. So the disk space on your end device is more relevant. If you run out of local storage space, you can configure Delta Chat so it deletes all messages after a year or so.
I work in a marketing department. Because of what I have learned about how QR codes can be used/abused, I absolutely will not scan a QR code. I would rather type a random 40 character string than expose my device.
Ugh, Iβm old. The Eagles released βDesperadoβ 52 fucking years ago. The western that they made in England. And wasnβt a hit for the Eagles until Linda Ronstadt covered it.
@ferrex you are right. #Olvid is pretty well done regarding UX for boarding and getting in contact, largely similar to how #deltachat does onboarding, with interesting differences. Something to learn from (we think in bot directions). Thanks for pointing this out to us! Do you happen to know any olvid people in the fediverse? It's not an open source project and work with a central transport server, no federation etc, but still interesting to engage with from a UX standpoint.
I don't normally have any problems with daylight savings time, well, other than that it exists, but this time....
Yeah, I never sleep the night through, but its only twice that I wake up 2ish and 4ish, but not last night, it was one of those nights where I wake up basically once an hour. And then there's the needing to sort out when it is.
Yeah, didn't need that on top of that, thanks.
Can we just get rid of it? Let's switch to two time zones, and split the difference by adjusting the clocks by a Β½ hour, and call it American time.
The more pics I see of Donnie Demento's Bastille Day (he just doesn't know it yet) bash, the more it seems the men are all dressed normally and the women are in costume for their amusement π
It's a strange feeling logging onto the news to hear that Trump has just declared war against my country, Nigeria.
On the one hand, it's scary. Cos not only is it the greatest military force in human history, it's the greatest military force in human history at the whim of a madman.
But then he's got such a short attention span that next week he'll be warring against Tatooine.
Nigeria is not perfect. We do have Islamic terrorists. But they kill BOTH Christians & Muslims. #nigeria #uspol
the US military achieved nothing in Afghanistan. Not sure how they'd fare just trying to make it out of Lagos. I see them stuck in traffic for a decade before eventually going home and discovering that someone stole their engines.
Interesting to see that refugee places are his solution to the supposed white genocide in South Africa, and killing people is his solution to the killings in Nigeria.
I think the current estimates for internally displaced refugees in Nigeria (as a result of terrorism) is close to 3 million. The vast majority of them are Muslim.
Nigeria has problems. We all remember the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls & Boko Haram. These days, we talk about 'bandits' - nomadic marauders who sweep into villages at night, killing.
Yes, the perpetrators are often Muslim, and the victims sometimes Christian.
But I don't think it's about religion at all. It's climate change.
The Sahara is eating up northern Nigeria, forcing its people further & further south. Clashes with southerners are inevitable. Their differing religions are incidental
@virtuous_sloth God knows what's in that man's mind. I'm not an expert on America, but I kinda doubt that it's about oil. The main change since the Iraq days is that, with fracking, America is now the world's largest oil producer. Doesn't that mean that it no longer needs to attack other countries for oil? I might be wrong, tho.
For context, this story of Christian persecution in Nigeria is not new; it's not something Trump has just invented. It's a story that American evangelists have been pushing for many years as part of their ridiculous argument that there's a global threat to Christianity.
It's easy to look at what's going on in Nigeria from afar and see religious persecution - in fact, many of us Nigerians accept that religion, and tribe, are factors in our troubles - but it's not as simple as Americans think.
I am sorry to admit I not familiar with the religions in your country. But from our perspective over in Canada, he is not on a crusade to "save Christians" in Nigeria, he uses Evangelical Christians in the US as a tool to attain power. Trump has been threatening oil rich countries, Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, the middle east, and now Nigeria. Everything he does is to achieve the goal of a financial transaction
of course that has nothing to do with Nigerias mineral deposits. Of course not. That would mean he is hand in hand with international mining companies looking to exploit natural resources safely.
Thanks for your service brother,.. I'd like to buy you more then a coffee,. I'm an old school computer guy, just learning the fediverse, I don't normally do social media, but looking to jump into this,. will be in touch soon.
I don't have archive access to the WaPo, but fwiw, another "skidooed" reference (this one from 1906) exists online at digitalcommons.library.umaine.β¦
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