An(arch)druid Wraidd

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:17:43 +0100

Wasn't it possible to export channels at one point?

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:20:07 +0100

Oh I see, it's an app.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:28:24 +0100

Hmm I don't like how when you reblog something it takes you back to the top of the page. Not good behavior.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:27:53 +0100

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) wrote the following post Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:22:30 +0100

#google now (taking up a notch the) brainwashing (of) the masses into putting #pentagon -connected microphones at home... "for the kids!!!" https://fossbytes.com/how-nostalgia-struck-us-with-the-new-google-home-alone-ad/ #gafam #nsa #prism #surveillance

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:27:32 +0100

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) wrote the following post Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:25:21 +0100

Would you rather be "home alone" or be home with an always-on microphone, connected to a datacentre of those who keep audio, make text for it, index the text, keeping it there for decades for people who bomb homes? https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:26:53 +0100

https://gizmodo.com/turning-off-facebook-location-tracking-doesnt-stop-it-f-1831149148

Thinking I should maybe just delete Facebook.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:20:23 +0100

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) wrote the following post Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:13:23 +0100

“One-third of people arrested for felonies in #California are never convicted. The government has no legitimate interest in retaining #DNA samples and profiles from people who have no felony convictions" https://www.eff.org/press/releases/social-justice-organizations-challenge-retention-dna-collected-hundreds-thousands

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:19:27 +0100

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) wrote the following post Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:06:05 +0100

Loaded headline; many countries interfere in each election worldwide, advancing their own national interests. #ciapost emboldens a narrative wherein #russia totally controlled everything https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sad-truth-about-russian-election-interference-is-that-we-knew-about-it-before-election-day/2018/12/09/0d13d30c-fb06-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:59:49 +0200

Ok so I failed at using hubzilla more, oops.

All of my progress on computer projects is stalled by my inability to find a tutorial that will show me how to implement ppolicy in OpenLDAP. I'm not going to launch any services that use LDAP until I can have it handle passwords more than eight characters in length.

adinfinitum

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 23:07:26 +0100

too much in the #fediverse #decentralisedweb #distributeddata

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:29:12 +0200

I'm going to try using Hubzilla more.

I wonder if I can get IFTTT to auto-mirror here what I post to facepalm.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:26:33 +0200

Fla wrote the following post Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:11:42 +0200

Massive upgrade to Linux Steam client: Windows games can now be played with Linux

This is THE huge news of Linux for 2018. Valve announced that they are now embedding Proton, their improved wine, inside the Linux native steam client, allowing it to launch every windows game of the steam marketplace with similar performance.

I know a lot of gamers who have a dual boot only for gaming and are going to remove it to keep only Linux thanks to that improvement. This is big. This is very big. Added to the fact that AMD drivers are now open source and always performing better, this is definitely the year of linux on desktop for gaming.

Only downside I see: most companies will not bother port their games to Linux anymore. But few were doing it anyway.

Phoronix forums discussion

And this is going to profit everyone even not gamers / not steam users, as they are upstreaming most of their work to Wine.

See from the official announcement:

Q: What is Proton exactly? How does it differ from normal Wine? Who worked on it?

Proton is a tool distribution based on a modified version of Wine. The included improvements to Wine have been designed and funded by Valve, in a joint development effort with CodeWeavers. Here are some examples of what we've been working on together since 2016:

vkd3d[source.winehq.org], the Direct3D 12 implementation based on Vulkan
The OpenVR and Steamworks native API bridges
Many wined3d performance and functionality fixes for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 11
Overhauled fullscreen and gamepad support
The "esync[github.com]" >patchset, for multi-threaded performance improvements
Modifications to Wine are submitted upstream if they're compatible with the goals and requirements of the larger Wine project; as a result, Wine users have been benefiting from parts of this work for over a year now. The rest is available as part of our source code repository for Proton and its modules.

In addition to that, we've been supporting the development of DXVK[github.com], the Direct3D 11 implementation based on Vulkan; the nature of this support includes:

Employing the DXVK developer in our open-source graphics group since February 2018
Providing direct support from our open-source graphics group to fix Mesa driver issues affecting DXVK, and provide prototype
implementations of brand new Vulkan features to improve DXVK functionality
Working with our partners over at Khronos, NVIDIA, Intel and AMD to coordinate Vulkan feature and driver support

#linux #proton #wine #valve #steam

Potential Hubzilla Bug

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:51:40 +0200

When I write and submit a post, the post goes through but the post entry box doesn't clear.

bug report hubzilla

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:51:59 +0200

Ok, that time it did. Hm.

BBS 2.0

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:45:13 +0200

Kinda wondering if it would be possible to distribute disroot's setup (email, matrix, hubzilla, and nextcloud, all integrated with LDAP) as a Docker image or something, so that other people could run their own "copies."

I mean what we've got going on here is veeeeeery similar to what BBSes used to be. Hell, find some way to integrate them with dialup and there'd be almost no difference.

hubzilla disroot

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:49:04 +0200

My personal goal (which I am a long, long way from) is to get some form of communications hub working across something other than corporate-controlled fiber backbones. This "free and open exchange of ideas" paradise is going away, very soon, so it behooves us to develop alternatives before it's too late.

Can't stop the signal.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Thu, 24 May 2018 00:43:04 +0200

Ugh, I can't just post a picture directly to my channel? Have to upload it to a photo album first? That's kind of a huge usability penalty.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Tue, 22 May 2018 22:10:57 +0200

Right, so I've concluded that there's something fucked up about this channel in particular that makes it impossible for me to add myself from Diaspora. Don't know exactly what it is but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that this channel was imported rather than created.

No idea how to troubleshoot.

Chat thoughts

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Wed, 16 May 2018 17:11:15 +0200

Trying to choose between #xmpp and #matrix for chat is such a bugbear.

(Yes, I know the difference is less crucial than it seems on the surface due to bridging.)

XMPP Pros

Lightweight (at least by comparison)
Has option for non-logged communications
Existing clients support multiple accounts
Good pidgin integration
Potentially useful for Diaspora/Hubzilla integration

XMPP Cons

No voice/video
Doesn't bridge with other protocols very well
MUCs are single-point
Multi-client syncing not the best

Matrix Pros

Voice/video both 1 on 1 and in channels
Good bridging with other protocols
Richer overall experience
"Way of the future?"
Handles multiple clients well
Good offline messaging in both 1 on 1 and MUC

Matrix Cons

Heavyweight
Current clients don't do multiple accounts
Pidgin integration kind of (really) sucks
Lots and lots of forensics
No provision for Diaspora/Hubzilla integration

So ... wat do?

(One option is to use Matrix for day-to-day chat and Tox for "sensitive" chats ... but having to commit to a single Matrix account on a given client is painful.)

matrix xmpp

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Wed, 16 May 2018 15:13:00 +0200

Gonna be honest, I don't like that you have both "categories" and "hashtags." I don't see the point of having both and it seems like it would complicate the "follow hashtags" feature that everyone seems to want. #hubzilla #features

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Wed, 16 May 2018 15:08:23 +0200

Good moooooooorning Fediverse!

Today's #songOfTheDay:

Daft Punk - Robot Rock
by emimusic on YouTube

music

Questions and Answers

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 17:45:06 +0200

New Wiki

Questions and Answers

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sun, 13 May 2018 22:34:19 +0200 last edited: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:46:06 +0200

Hokay, so, some initial observations.

Comparisons to Facepalm

"Social channel" seems to be your standard social media blogging platform. Something of a FB clone but FB cloned Myspace anyway so who cares. Ability to format is nice, seems to have access to both BBcode and Markdown (although MD formatting does not seem to be perfectly faithful -- underlining, for example, does not seem to work.
I love to pieces that there are more options for posts. Disabling comments alone, glorious. Voting, expiration date, queueing, even encryption (note to self, figure out how that works). And categories. So all the best parts of Facebook and Tumblr. Aces.
Meanwhile the Forum type channel seems analogous to FB groups, which are in essence thread-displayed forums (which are themselves in essence glorified listservs). Haven't played with these too much yet.
Not sure what the point of the third channel type is. Further investigation is needed. Like Facebook pages maybe? Idk, seems like that would be covered by just having a second social channel.
Don't see a way to do events, which I would consider a social media must-have.
Asymmetric following is ... cool, I guess? I mean I guess FB technically has this too, since "friending" and "following" are two separate, only loosely-related, things.
On the subject, can you "mute" one of the people you're following? Might be important for reasons of interpersonal drama.
Inability to change visibility after posting is ugly, but probably a weakness of the federation system?
Is it possible to tag people?

Comparisons to Diaspora

My very favorite thing about Diaspora is the bookmarklet feature. That doesn't seem to exist over here, or if it does I haven't found it yet. (Potentially a way for me to contribute to the project?)
Diaspora does Markdown better.
Diaspora has integrated chat (XMPP, even!), which I'm not seeing here.
The sharing/"following" mechanic is a lot more ... intuitive, I guess, over here, but I only think Hubzilla's way is "intuitive" because Diaspora does it backwards to how every other site does it.

Comparison to Masto/Pleroma

Why are content warnings not a standard feature on all social media platforms these days? Seriously, I'd consider a way to redact sensitive content a key feature of a welcoming social media environment in our modern era. Potentially something else for me to contribute, if it doesn't already exist.

Other Thoughts

The interface is pretty sluggish but that might be my computer.
No mobile app is murder.
What is the point of multiple "profiles" for the same channel?
Editing fucking breaks formatting.

Might edit as I play around more.

hubzilla testing evaluation

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An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:46:14 +0200

Commenting instead of editing because editing messes everything up:

]I found that you can add "applications" for events and calendar (and emoji reactions and some other stuff) to a channel, so that's real horrorshow.
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An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:55:42 +0200

More!

BBcode doesn't work for lists. Like. You can make a list in Markdown and it'll display fine, but if you then edit the post it'll show the list has been converted to BBcode, which if you then save will display incorrectly. Same if you write the list in raw BBcode -- see previous comment for an example.
Can't seem to follow a Masto account from Hub. (Well, technically Pleroma, not sure that's significant.)

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 01:02:00 +0200

Was able to add my Diaspora* user on Hubzilla but not vice versa, at least not via my "address."
Is it possible to follow tags? Can't seem to do so, another Diaspora* feature that I really like.

muppeth

Mon, 14 May 2018 01:32:37 +0200

Nice writeup.I'm also quite new to hubzilla and havent explore all the universe of features it offers.

Chat (also xmpp) is here. There is built in chat (not xmpp i belive) and we are checking also xmpp based chat to see if it makes sense to add. The chat can be enabled (might have not beed added to menu bu default) by going to hamburger menu on the right. If its not listed you need to go to add apps on the bottom of that list, and there you need ot enable it. Same goes for Events which are also supported.
I don tthink you can follow tags. Which is a pitty as its the best feature of diaspora. That said, as you see the amount of features on huibzilla, its not something that cant be done
Which is the third channel type? Feed?
you can mute afaik
Yes you can tag people although I'm not sure what you refer to (mentioning like @An(arch)druid Wraidd this?)

But yeah as i said I'm also exploring stuff.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 03:49:28 +0200

Hmm another thing that can't be done -- replies to comments. Not sure that's a killer feature since half the time FB users can't seem to figure out how to do it anyway, but still.

Yes, I did find the chatrooms function in the apps menu. I feel like some of those apps should be pinned to the navbar by default -- home, network, and chat at the very least. But it would be nice for XMPP to be fed directly into the chat function for purposes of better mobile integration. Not sure this is possible (well, okay, I know it's possible, so I guess what I mean is "I don't know how much work that would be").
Bunch of different ways this could be done.
Yes, feed channel. This would be one of the potential ways to integrate following tags -- create a channel for the tag you want to follow, then follow that channel. That's if feed channels work how I suspect, but I haven't gotten a clear view of that yet.
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Yes, mentions are what I was referring to -- getting someone's attention on a particular post.

muppeth

Mon, 14 May 2018 14:35:57 +0200

Replies to comments you mean the thing we are doing now?

Yesterday I started looking around for the state of xmpp (there are two plugins but none of them i managed to get to work. need to check a bit more.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 16:28:21 +0200

You said you never used Facebook? So you might not know what I mean exactly. FB allows threaded replies to comments as well as just to posts. It's a small thing that half the ppl on FB don't even use.

I'm going to be deploying my own hub instance at some point so if you haven't figured it out by then I'll see what I can do.

muppeth

Mon, 14 May 2018 16:47:10 +0200

Ok. I think the examplanation is clear. You mean you can have multiple threads of comments within one post.
I dont know if hubzilla has such feature. Its good to check if there is such feature request and if not.... make it happend. I will put it on the radar.

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Mon, 14 May 2018 16:49:43 +0200

I personally don't much care honestly, just tabulating the differences. Following hashtags is the number one feature I'd like to see added at this stage, to the point I might get to work on it myself XD

An(arch)druid Wraidd

Sun, 13 May 2018 01:46:09 +0200

Channel migration, very straightforward. Doesn't seem to have imported my old content from Hubzilla, unless I'm just not seeing it yet.

Much to learn. Much to explore.