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Successful @Waterfox build with a twist, look at the recording around 1:18 asciinema.org/a/rxzdtOQJ5rDMQG…

The locale submodule needs a separate git clone for me, then, it works :)

#waterfox #firefoxgate #privacy #browseralternatives #browsers #browser


@Waterfox has provided build instruction for the Waterfox internet browser 🤩

Prebuilt binaries and packages are great already, including auto-updates, but sometimes when one need to poke at source code or tailor a custom build : Thanks, much appreciated.

github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterf…

#waterfox #firefoxgate #privacy #browseralternatives #browsers #browser


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Motorcycle captcha again...


I was about to make another joke on the motorcycle captcha, and this happened

It is not an edit, got this positive verification on bodhilinux.boards.net forum search box

#motorcycles #captcha #meme #scooter #wtf !memes

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It was using you for training. Well done! The basilisk however will not look favourably at your behaviour.


For you guys using NUC sized mini PCs, if you model has poor airflow management for RAM or storage sticks : this 12x12cm fan, USB powered with on-off switch fits perfectly under a NUC.

Perfect for silently pushing air in the NUC. It is silent, has rubber grommets to dampen vibration and sound. Everything runs 5 degrees cooler, that's almost 15%.

Item 3256807208293074 on Ali...

#nuc #selfhosting #cooling #homelab
!Selfhosted !homelab


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"Meta doesn't want you to read this book" is the best promotion a book about Meta can have, imo businessinsider.com/meta-book-…

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@Waterfox has provided build instruction for the Waterfox internet browser 🤩

Prebuilt binaries and packages are great already, including auto-updates, but sometimes when one need to poke at source code or tailor a custom build : Thanks, much appreciated.

github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterf…

#waterfox #firefoxgate #privacy #browseralternatives #browsers #browser

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Unexpected benefit of Linux Mint relative slowness following Ubuntu releases, as they like to keep a safe pace and make things working right before releasing new versions : it aligns with enterprise software surprisingly well.

Enterprise software are even slower to update, meaning the network shared printer drivers, corporate Zero trust client, email server connector, antivirus (as in paid, licenced av agent) does works perfectly.

Mint sits right in a sweet spot about both corporate bloatware and OSS.

!Linux Mint #linuxmint

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

That's not an unexpected benefit, that's exactly why they do it the way they do. Stability takes precedence over being up to date.
in reply to Diplomjodler

I’m not really sure the corporate laptop is their main objective, but yes.

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By joining EFF, you are supporting expert technologists, activists, and lawyers in the fight to protect free speech and privacy online. eff.org/mjoin

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Awesome color ebook readers from Kuro time design "Kobo Libra Colour VS PocketBook Inkpad Color 3 cross-review"

kurotimedesign.blogspot.com/20…

#kobo #libra #ebook #vivlio #inkpad #readers #libracolour #pocketbook


in reply to TheTwelveYearOld

Yeah no robber is doing this.

Stalker yes. But most people don't get stalked.

And this is coming from someone who thinks any bumper stickers that contain any words is trashy.



@Waterfox there, have a coffee ☕ ✅ 💸

It's not much but hope that helps a little working on Waterfox

➡️ buymeacoffee.com/waterfox

#waterfox #buymeacoffee #firefox #firefoxgate #privacy #oss #browsers



Another DNSBL (antispam dns blocking list) shutdown, too much personal risks vs regulations and laws.

Because gdpr and nis2 backfire at small but useful projects like this.

Sad day, isn't it ?

Heads-up mailserver admins: remove ix.dnsbl.manitu.net from your postfix/spamassasin dnsbl

nixspam.net

#antispam #infosec #postfix #spamassassin #mailserver #sysadmin #instanceadmin #gdpr #nis2



Carefully ensuring all my Github repos are synced on @Codeberg.org, before deleting Github ones...

Github was a backup account already since Microsoft takeover, time to free them from my files. As a bonus that will also reduce my carbon footprint.

Unfortunately, many great repos are still solely on Github, so as a contributor for issues and pull requests I will have to keep an account there.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/thou…

#codeberg #github #copilot



Welcome in the Fediverse @LibreWolf


It has been decades since I had to build a browser from sources.

Librewolf repos on codeberg do build on first try. I take that as proof of software quality.

High five 🙌 to the very small team for such a great thing.

codeberg.org/librewolf/source#…

#librewolf #Firefox #firefoxgate #codeberg #build #linux





It has been decades since I had to build a browser from sources.

Librewolf repos on codeberg do build on first try. I take that as proof of software quality.

High five 🙌 to the very small team for such a great thing.

codeberg.org/librewolf/source#…

#librewolf #Firefox #firefoxgate #codeberg #build #linux

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[openSUSE] AI hands out Windows keys, but Linux never had a lock


don't like this

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This zero-cost licensing model translates to significant savings


You don’t say?

in reply to banazir

Indeed it does, even more when you think about enterprises where subscriptions piles up and last literally forever.

In the end, these costs are compensated by customers so, you, me, them, everybody…

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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

Good article. I use Brave on desktop and android. I like that the adblocking is baked in.
I still have to add my favourite addons but that's the beauty of personalization.

Quick question: is the Tor browsing functionality in Brave adequate or should I just stick to the official Tor browser in that regard?

in reply to soyboy77

Tor browser is a dedicated tool for the job, you should use it if you have anything related to tor use cases in mind.

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Près de Pornic, un atelier de sensibilisation au cyberharcèlement, "fléau aux conséquences lourdes" t.co/eTrs3dgd7N #PréventionInternet #Cyberharcèlement

— Prevention Internet ® (@prevention_web)
Mar 1, 2025

March 01, 2025 at 10:30AM

#PreventionInternet

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A tale of browsers, freedom and privacy


Chrome: Ads infused in browsers core is a leap in the wrong direction.

Firefox: helpless to find a stable income, goes into turmoil for looking forward to AI goldmine.

Browsers are so bloated they are not simple applications, more like a full stack, an operating system for the internet, controled by forces beyond a mere user power and often understanding.

We need trimed down forks of both open source chromium and Firefox. And for a sustainable development, actual donations to those projects.

Yes to be free, safe for privacy, one have to pay a little of the hard earned money.

#firerox #chrome #chromium #oss #privacy #ai #mozillafoundation



Gov backdoor in encrypted services, UK, France, Sweden...

What a world to live in because
1. we may (?) actually need that because of bad guys
2. good guys goes bad breaking privacy and service integrity with backdoors
3. bad guys will be bad guys and use backdoors too

theregister.com/2025/02/26/sig…

#privacy #e2ee #cybersecurity #sweden #signal

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

I feel like this fundamentally misses the point.

It's not just that backdoors are intrinsically targets for bad actors, it's that they don't help. Encryption isn't some magic that only big companies can produce. With off the shelf libraries, it takes a really small amount of code to write something that encrypts and decrypts messages. If Signal has a back door, then a bad person can still use it as a transport for messages that they're encrypting with keys that they're distributing via some other mechanism.

If you do this, then the messages seen via the backdoor will be gibberish. At that point, law enforcement can say 'aha, you're using additional encryption, you're either a criminal or paranoid', but that doesn't really help them much.

in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

Yes of course, thanks for this complement. Anything above the transport will add another layer of obfuscation, and essentially give you more time before a breach.

With that said, it may be such an inconvenience regarding the primary use of instant messaging that I doubt actual bad guys would still use it like that.

Plus symmetrical encryption is good enough for a proof of concept, managing a key infrastructure is out of reach from many.

Anyway that’s a good point you’ve made on your GitHub publication 👍



First UK, then France... Privacy is not worth it compared to state security. Does it matter to you ?

#grpd #rgpd #privacy #e2ee #encryptiondebate


France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.

Here's how you can stop them: 👉 tuta.com/blog/france-surveilla…

#backdoor #encryption #privacy #security




AI is the new oil, let’s go dumb then

Putting AI in it is the modern days excuse to raise a paywall, go freemium, subscriptions, and kill legacy free services and software.

Many are doing it, I am abandoning useful tools because of that or either shady privacy induced concerns.

Open source, community project and hosting may be a way out but needs funding too, so I donate once in a while, at least it is my decision.

#greedybastards #enshittification #ai #opensource

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Friendica + Caddy dockerized installation guide, scripts, tips and tricks


Hello there,

here is my contribution to the Fediverse: a guide to install a Friendica instance using Docker and Caddy.

That should help new administrators and beginners to go online easily.

Friendica deserves a try, this instance variant is neither mastodon nor pleroma, yet after testing many including Misskey forks I tend to lean on Friendica's side for my instance... will you ?

Like this, it is really good for selfhosting or single user instance on a cheap VPS. And it may scale to many users.

codeberg.org/m33/Friendica-cad…

#friendica #fediverse #instances #selfhosting #fediadmin

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Loops video app (Tiktok alternative) testing version hits 1.0 today, jump in and try this 🙂
loops.video

#loopsbypixelfed #loopsvideo #loops



The best I can do is


Friendly February - Day 22: Give sincere compliments to people you talk to today #friendly



Error 500 with one Lemmy group, then gone


!Friendica Admins Just a note about an odd behavior on my instance (2024.12), I used to browse the Lemmy group programming.dev/c/programmer_h…. Then out of nowhere it provoke error 500, even after a full instance restart.

app [ALERT]: Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes) {"code":1,"message":"Allowed memory size
of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes)","file":"/var/www/html/src/Content/Conversation.php","line":976,"trace":null} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":
null,"request-id":"67b9a0b78b4fb","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleFatalError","uid":"b72782","process_id":45}

I unsubscribed and subscribed to the group: error is gone 🤷‍♂️

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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

That looks to me like the system wanted to display a discussion that contained too many entries. There is an admin setting where you can set the maximum number of posts per page. When you geht that message the next time, go to the settings, half the value and try again.
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Currious, it's the default value at 40. I lower that to 20 now, thanks for the suggestion.

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Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations


!Selfhosted For Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations: with and without case fan. This graph show a 20°C decrease, with a slow rpm fan.
The metal case has thermal stickers to reach for main components on both sides, and the fan is what I have in scrap parts, totally not for that case but pushes a lot of air with low noise compared to screaming mini cpu fans.


#selfhosted #raspberrypi #homelab

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

The CPU is perfectly happy sitting at 50°C. It is slightly happier at 30, but it doesn't actually help in any way unless you run into throttling, or run (much) hotter for longer. It's fine.

Some might state that the CPU is probably gonna live longer, but seriously have you ever had a CPU die on you cause it was old (or even die at all, even)? Again, it's fine.

Having something that mostly agitates the air (not even really moving it) like a low-hundreds-rpm fan would also work. As would using one of those passive heat pipe coolers that are also overkill (especially with a fan, but just leave that off), but have the same "number looks better" effect.

in reply to Creat

When I said I had one Pi lifetime that was shortened it was a way of saying yes, it died from 24/7 high load no fan overheating. Now it just boot and freezes after a couple of minutes.
Then, yes, back in the days when overclocking and over powering was a thing, CPU actually died from all that, I changed a few for customers that didn’t know better. How ironic I did that to myself years later with little arm boards, isn’t it?

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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

That's what I said with "much hotter for longer". If it's constantly thermal throttling, that's gonna be an issue. Of course OC'ing also will. 50°C just isn't an issue. Also older models have CPUs that either don't throttle at all, or do it less well/effectively.


Fire wall


From now on I will show this video to my students : this is what a firewall looks like.

youtu.be/Dq0WWMLNqHw?t=10&si=X…

#stem #cybersecurity #firewall


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Mastodon rules to live by:

💃 Be excellent to each other.
😶‍🌫️ Use filters to curate your feed.
😊 follow @altbot
😇 Always add useful alt text for images.
🤩 Do not boost images without alt text.
⚠️ Use content warnings liberally.
😍 Apologise when you get something wrong.
😎 If someone asks you to change your behaviour, SERIOUSLY consider that.
👹 Block early and often, don't feed the trolls.

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“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry. Now available signed at nihtgengapress.com/category/po…

#poetry #books #bookstodon #indie

Thank you for supporting an independent indigenous poet directly!

This entry was edited (4 weeks ago)

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Relocalisation numérique


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in reply to Camus (il, lui)

Content de voir l'article partagé ici, n'hésitez pas si vous avez des questions !
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Nous n'avons pas non plus de système logiciel mobile qui soit français ou européen, Android et iOS ayant détruit toute concurrence


postmarketos, pour ma part. Donc, si.
Logiciel mobile européen? je crois qu'il y a ubuntu touch, et sailfishos, bien que ce dernier dépende de certaines couches google. Pour moi il n'y a plus qu'un choix sans couche ios/android/aosp : postmrket.

y'a également purism/librem, mais c'est US.



Bluesky = tons of job in the worker queue


Hello there !Friendica Support

FIY I have enabled the Bluesky plugin to help Hank (from Relatica) diagnose some issue.

The plugin is working pretty well on 2024.12, almost too well: just a word of caution, on low end systems you may have thousands jobs piling in the worker queue.

Bluesky timeline is very chatty... also, not realtime. They do a pretty good job at showing you what look like real time interaction, the propagation delay is more like in the couple of minutes range 🤔

Bye!

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in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Ah ? two questions please: will it lighten the load on my instance ? and, I guess it's in the -dev branch, right ?
(currently the bluesky addon is v1.1 here)

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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

It's on stable. Concerning the load I'm unsure. On my systems it doesn't make a real difference.

You just have to execute bin/jetstream.php start. The system will tell you to perform some setup. After that you execute it again and you are done. When you perform a logrotate you have to restart the daemon.

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

I'll have to stop importing the Bluesky timeline I think, note to self:
- RPi4 on the Fediverse timeline : ✅
- RPi4 connected to Bluesky timeline : ❌

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OpenStreetMap > Corporate Maps


If you're into changing names on maps for the greater good, you can use and contribute to OpenStreetMap anytime now. 😉

openstreetmap.org/

#osm #openstreetmap #gulfofmexico #gulfofmexicorename #gulfofmexicoforever #gulfofamerica #osmand #organicmaps



Upgrading from a Pi4 to NUC clone?


!homelab Hello there,

I’ve been running a little army of raspberry pi and libre computer lepotato for many years now.

Sometime died of overheating, one died because the microsd card failed so hard that some kind of electrical shock took off the whole pi.

I’m looking at this trend: replace that with a single or a 2 node cluster of mini pc.

The point is I still want to consume as less electricity as possible. So low TDP CPUs <10 to 15W is my most important criteria, then 2 disk bays (don’t care about the form factor or connector).

Reading buyers comments on Amazon indicates that cheap Chinese mini pc have their ssd dying quickly, or their motherboard, or their power supply, sometimes in months, not even a year.

Would you please recommend a low power mini pc please ? It may be Chinese but from a reputable brand (which I fail to determine).

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

I know someone that has a Beelink mini PC and is happy with it, and I've heard some good things elsewhere too. I'm probably going to get one once my current Lenovo mini goes bad on me. They have some sub-$200 USD options that I think can fit two m.2 SSDs in them.
in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

Upgrading from a Pi4 to NUC clone?

Update: I have borrowed a Nuc N150 from a colleague, he swapped it for a tower desktop (not powerful enough for gaming, I don’t care about gaming). I may very well end up buying it from him for cheap.

Else I have a few used Lenovo M910q with i7 in the 230€ range on eBay, that will do

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Un article intéressant chez zataz.com, enfin il me semble ;-)


!Technologie - 🤖
zataz.com/clipper-chip-is-back…

Le 28 janvier dernier, le Sénat français a adopté un amendement qui pourrait marquer un tournant décisif pour la cybersécurité. Ce texte impose aux éditeurs de messageries chiffrées de fournir aux services de renseignement un accès privilégié aux contenus échangés sur leurs plateformes, sous peine de sanctions financières. Une mesure qui, sous couvert de lutte contre la criminalité et le terrorisme, remet en question la confidentialité des échanges numériques et pose de sérieuses interrogations sur les libertés individuelles et la souveraineté numérique.

in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌

Ce texte impose aux éditeurs de messageries chiffrées de fournir aux services de renseignement un accès privilégié aux contenus échangés sur leurs plateformes, sous peine de sanctions financières.


suffit de faire comme le pourquoi du courriel a été inventé : décentraliser ,chacun fait son serveur dans son coin ; avec xmpp, chiffrement omemo, il n'y a plus de personne "morale" au sens juridique à qui demander les clés.. puis on trouvera un prétexte, mais ils ne les auront pas. La superbe de telegram est révolue.

in reply to tkr

et le problème est toujours le même: l'adhésion par les masses, l'utilisateur lambda

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!Friendica France Bonjour Friendica France

est-ce qu'il y a du monde dans ce groupe ? Des admins d'instance aussi ?

A+



I'm testing this


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