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poVoq

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Admin on the slrpnk.net Lemmy instance.

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I think that CPU only supports up to 8GB RAM. Also the m2 is only for Wifi cards I think.

I have a somewhat similar ASUS board and it is quite ok otherwise, but don't expect wonders from that CPU.

A bit annoying will be that you need to either use one of the four SATA ports for the system drive, or find some way to boot from the PCIe 1x port. The similar ASUS board that I have does not support booting from NVMe drives though, so even if you added an adapter for this it probably wouldn't work (maybe if there is an BIOS update for it).

You could boot from a USB3 drive... not ideal but workable. Or add more SATA ports via an PCIe 1x extension card... but those might be hard to find, usually they require a longer (4x?) PCIe port.

P.S.: if you end up buying that board I can sell you 2x 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs that I have currently no use for :p

Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )

When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...

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The problem is that the so called privacy community is full of security LARPers that have no idea what their threat model is and in addition many snakeoil vendors trying to sell you (usually unnecessary or even counter-productive) VPNs etc.

So it's understandable that people get tired of these grifters and stop bothering.

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I noticed that the quality of translation is varying a lot between the languages. Polish for example is very poor in Libretranslate, while Portuguese is quite good.

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You could run this: https://salsa.debian.org/sms4you-team/sms4you

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Impossible to say without providing more details. But somewhere between 10€ and 200€ a month depending on your setup and how you calculate in hardware costs.

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Well, I am paying less, but if you realistically calculate the costs of hardware over its lifetime, this is certainly not unrealistic for many homelabs.

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It's relatively popular in DACH countries.

I use it sometimes. It has its fair share of issues, and the back end is not open-source, but it is OK for the most part. Main benefit is that you don't need a mobile number to sign up.

But if you are looking for an alternative IM to use with friends and family, I would rather suggest XMPP, specifically Snikket.

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I use Arch btw. 😅 (well, actually I don't any more, but this had to be here)

Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction

Hey hello, self-hosting noob here. I just want to know if anyone would know a good way to host my writing. Something akin to those webcomic sites, except for writing. Multiple stories with their own "sections" (?) and a chapter selection for each. Maybe a home page or profile page to just briefly detail myself or whatever, I...

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It works nicely, but for some weird reason spammers really like it, so never open registrations on it.

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That isn't a problem, but a feature, see: https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

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These days selling the software itself is rarely successful nor a particularly good business model. Basically only computer games still work like that, and the commercially really successful ones not any more either.

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Funded by a (somewhat controversial) tech billionair, see a recent interview with him here: https://youtu.be/5UHF84gyVWg

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Some of the views he expressed in the past sounded a lot like Elon Musk before he went full bonkers recently. But I guess it could be worse.

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The very fact that the developer's livelihood now depends on the investor is enough to influence development significantly.

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Sure, works great.

There is even an integration with Lemmy that server admins can use to give every account on their Lemmy server also an XMPP account with the same handle/address.

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You need an Ejabberd server and this auth script: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/ejabberd-auth-lemmy

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This is nice for the file syncing part: https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) ( snikket.org )

For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you'd expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps)....

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It has a very opinionated default configuration and many of the relevant settings are hard-coded in the containers and thus are not easy to change permanently.

It's probably possible to get working with ConverseJS, but I think it is better to wait for an officially supported web-client to be added to Snikket or alternatively configure your own XMPP server without the ready made Snikket containers.

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Its not specific settings but the overall setup that is not intended to be modified.

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XMPP doesn't use HTTP for the most part, so Traefik isn't going to work. Just open the right ports in your firewall.

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I think this article does a better job at explaining the issue: https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

CLA are a symptom of the overall problem and many corporate run projects are affected even if they don't have a CLA (but are selective in what they merge).

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If you run things on your own server and have no federation there is no point in e2ee.

If you already have an XMPP server, maybe add an easy to use Movim web-client to it. People that are used to Discord seem to have little trouble adapting to it, but it isn't a full feature equivalent to Discord obviously.

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That is what transport encryption does.

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Mumble is the go-to solution for that these days. Even has a nice Android client.

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No. I don't think any of the here proposed solutions other than Mumble (and Teamspeak) does. Maybe Revolt?

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Then just don't?

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Uhm, honestly that's a you issue if your own friends and family don't trust you even that much.

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Sorry, but you are making excuses and you know full well that other online services are not any more secure, but less so. If something like your totally made up example would actually happen then you would need to have a stern talk with your dad about not uploading stuff like that to a remote computer, period.

E2EE is a band aid at best and mostly used to justify using commercial services that are inherently untrustworthy.

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Seen by them and any random employee, and in addition actively searched through by robots to sell data to advertisers or insurance etc.

And no, I have not lived a sheltered life, but I am telling you that if your friends and relatives do not trust you to not snoop on their stuff that tells me more about you than it tells me about them. Maybe something you should reflect on instead of finding excuses.

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It's useful for sharing configuration files or lengthy error logs etc. when trying to troubleshoot a technical problem with others via chat. AFAIK the original pastebins where invented for such purposes on IRC.

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I have been using this for a while now and it works very nicely, however I never quite understood why one would want to use it through git. Storing a change history via git is a nice side effect though.

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Secretly behind the backs of the official community council and not many months later started to turn Gitea into an open-core product.

And they also demand a CLA from contributors now, which is directly against the idea of FOSS.

I was a bit sceptical about the justification of this fork in the beginning as well, but time has proven the Forgejo team to be sadly completely right.

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I am sure Gitea will be happy to provide you longer support if you pay them for it /s

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Well, I don't disagree with your specific points, but you are missing that the founding idea of FOSS was a copyright hack to ensure that software remains modifyable/fixable by its users. A mandatory CLA that allows relicensing partially circumvents that not only for the users but even the contributors.

Sure you can argue that technically the already released code can not be relisensed, but that's really missing the point that FOSS software intends to be open now and in the future.

Anyways, a good related read is: https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

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I guess we can all agree on the FSF being out of touch lately 😅

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I have tried out their Kudos demo, which works great. Otherwise there is sadly not much you can try out yourself yet and self-hosting is a bit complicated from what I have seen in their documentation.

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https://slidge.im/slidge-whatsapp/ Is what you want to use for WhatsApp right now. The Slidge gateway framework works best with Prosody currently, however to be honest Prosody's Docker support isn't great, but you can easily install it from a distribution repository.

There is the Prosody "distribution" called Snikket that does have well working containers, but it isn't that easy to get it to work with Slidge currently. But maybe try it out with Snikket first, and if you like the normal use, you can try to recreate a similar setup with vanilla Prosody and the Slidge gateway.

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

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You are basing your experience on Pidgin, which is the worst possible choice for an XMPP client that hasn't been updated in over a decade. Other XMPP clients are relatively modern looking and easy to use, including encryption (probably easier than Matrix for most users).

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Dino has an intentionally simplistic design, but it doesn't look "dated" at all. Gajim or Movim both look pretty modern and similar to Discord etc. these days.

And XMPP has bridges to pretty much all major commercial networks, it just doesn't have a major centralized provider of them that in exchange siphons up all your personal data like Element & Beeper does. But you can easily self-host the available bridges for XMPP.

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You can easily do it for your Grandma. But your argument can be just as easily applied to Matrix vs. WhatsApp etc. If you use the centralized services of Matrix.org or Beeper then Matrix is just a very poor version of Discord.

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Tinode is not XMPP/Jabber. It is not compatible with XMPP. It's meant as a replacement for XMPP.

From their repo. it has AFAIK nothing to do with XMPP, they just use it as an SEO term.

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It should be noted here that Synapse resource use is highly dependent on the specific usage and can easily blow up if even a single user is joining a lot of large popular rooms on the Matrix network. XMPP has no such issue and scales pretty linear with user number.

[Question] Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

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Yes it does. It really is just a pre-configured Prosody server, made by one of the core Prosody developers.

Snikket does not mention XMPP intentionally as their entire reason for existing is that it is supposed to be XMPP for people that don't care what XMPP is. They laid out that reasoning in a blog post a while ago.

I want to bring some attention to Slidge XMPP Bridges ( git.sr.ht )

It seems like an awesome project that fulfills a lot of the requirements for bridging many popular messaging platforms (like FB messenger, WhatsApp, discord, signal, and more). I wanted to share because I know a lot of us have friends and family who still use antiquated/proprietary communication platforms. Fair warning, I have...

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Yes, if you mean the Slidge Discord transport.

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