@pertho I have a public Chatmail server and people I don't know have made accounts on it. I also have another running in South Africa under the domain e2ee.wang
When multi-transport is finished basically everyone's public Chatmail server will be routing messages for anyone who needs it. I've also brought up the possibility of using LoRa or Meshtastic type radios connected to the server to allow people under censorship situations or during internet outages to still be able to route low bandwidth messages to another Chatmail server which can then forward it on and deliver to the intended recipient.
@hub what I find incredible is that this type of catastrophe isn't the norm already, but maybe we're getting there now that AI is reinforcing the good old cost cutting
If only there was a federal Government that could put forth some privacy legislation to protect Canadians. But I guess the industry lobby doesn't want it.
A legal battle could soon be taking place in the gaming world after a proposed class action lawsuit claims that certain games are gathering children’s data without parental consent.
A legal battle could soon be taking place in the gaming world after a proposed class action lawsuit claims that certain games are gathering children’s data without parental consent.
Idea that just popped into my head: A cloud storage service or application which transparently makes use of lossless compression, potentially offloaded at least partially to the user's machine, and only bills you for the space taken up by the compressed file, while leaving all files uncompressed on the user's own file system. If compression and decompression take place at the client end, this reduces bandwidth. Obviously compressed data like zip files, and anything already using lossy compression like mp3s, is passed through unchanged. Known good compression algorithms and lossless transforms are used for certain kinds of data, E.G. WavPack for wav and some AIFF files, or flac if it can give bit-exact copies of every chunk, BMP automatically converted to/from PNG, etc. Something like brotli or zstandard for the rest, potentially with user-specific dictionaries which build up over time with their file history. For some users, it has no benefit at all as they're likely to already be handling compressed files, JPEGs, MPEG4 videos etc, but for others, it provides primarily a method of convenience, they don't have to manually get all these tools involved to maximize their storage potential with certain files, and they don't have to constantly convert back and forth with a copy elsewhere if they need to, say, actually work with the raw wav file for whatever reason.
you can take this idea much further and hash the user's files clientside, and then use ref couting instead of uploads if two users turn out to have the same file.
Interestingly enough, this approach potentially puts you in legal hot water in the US due to weird quirks about how music copyright works.
There's no birthday problem with something like sha256. There are more values than atoms in the universe. Even md5 is resistant to birthday paradoxes I think, as long as inputs are random and non-advbersarial.
Mastodon is quite silly. It almost looks to me like looking at a trunk line of conversations. Or perhaps a trunk radio system. There is little to no flow to anything, parts and snips of conversation are everywhere, and a lot of things are unrelatable, even with the fetch all replies feature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Not to mention the annoyance of having to open each thread to check what's available, every, single, time... And even when it appears to be working, and you've opened the thread, and you're seeing replies, you're still left scratching your head, well did it really fetch everything? Is there more to the story? However, the Mastodon project sure is actively and vibrantly being maintained and enhanced, so I am hoping threading becomes a greater focus and increased reliability comes in the near future. #AmusedAnnoyedRamblings #Mastodon
“Billions of atoms, spinning at random, expending energy, running down, achieving nothing.
“Entropy, like the stars. But what is the one thing that stands against entropy, against random decay? Life. See how the atoms are arranged here? They have meaning, purpose.”
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Let's do the time warp again! Back by popular demand, don't miss a screening of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring an all-Deaf shadow cast! Come sing, dance, and sign al…
The following is a guest post from Drupal Accessibility Working Group maintainer Mike Gifford. The digital world is becoming increasingly regulated, and for good reason.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Hi, is there a reason why Parrot didn't catch new items since Saturday evening? There were a number of items in a channel I follow, 11 in total, which were added yesterday, but Parrot only caught all of them today, all at once.
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The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.
A Paris court will rule on Thursday whether France’s TotalEnergies misled the public about its environmental record – a case that could reshape corporate climate advertising across Europe.
A Paris court will rule on Thursday whether France’s TotalEnergies misled the public about its environmental record – a case that could reshape corporate climate advertising across Europe.
A French court on Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in "misleading commercial practices" by overstating its climate pledges in the first decision applying France's greenwashing law to an energy company.
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.
Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.
If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.
I deploy mine with a Chef cookbook I maintain that is in sync with the official deployment tool. (actually it's slightly behind right now, I need to update a couple minor things but it's not important). Mostly because mine is ready to do DNS certificate validation, and it's significantly faster to install/deploy.
Additionally I have my server setup to auto update and reboot Debian as needed, so it's 100% hands off. It just runs. It reboots for maintenance and I never know anything happened (unless I look at my cron emails)
@KomarMajo @SuspiciousDuck Takze to je jeden z tych, co moze za dnesne problemy Slovenska. Fico&co. sa ide potrhat za svoj^^W err nas blahobyt, ale furt to kazia hen takito.
Ukrajina vyvinula vlastní raketu s doletem až do Mosky (3000 kilometrů) a my jsme se zeptali jestli si ji můžeme koupit a pojmenovat jí po Daně Drábové. A oni řekli, že ano.
Bad decision Fedora but it was expected when IBM/RedHat is basically fund it. Maybe that is what corporate client of RHEL/IBM wants. IDK. There are many other distros that bans AI/LLM but many contributions of Fedora ends up in upstream projects like Kernel or DEs.
Hi all, I wanted to share the outcome of today’s Council meeting regarding this proposal. After several weeks of discussion and incorporating feedback from our community into better revisions of the initial proposal, the Fedora Council has approved …
Human code reviewers of Fedora project can only address questions of quality, fix security issues, or address missing functionality in AI code slop. It cannot answer questions about legality or licensing or even trace origin like:
> Where did that AI code come from? > What licensing does AI created slop follows? Can you put it under GPL? > So who actually wrote the code? Why person submitting putting their name on top of it?
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Unknown parent • • •@pertho I have a public Chatmail server and people I don't know have made accounts on it. I also have another running in South Africa under the domain e2ee.wang
When multi-transport is finished basically everyone's public Chatmail server will be routing messages for anyone who needs it. I've also brought up the possibility of using LoRa or Meshtastic type radios connected to the server to allow people under censorship situations or during internet outages to still be able to route low bandwidth messages to another Chatmail server which can then forward it on and deliver to the intended recipient.