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mpldr

@mpldr@fosstodon.org

How do you do, fellow FLOSS enjoyer?

I laugh at bad memes, write Free Software, occasionally a blog, and I also provide free webhosting for artistic and educational content. Reach out if in need.

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wagesj45, to DeGoogle
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If you are trying to #degoogle your life, be aware that one of the unpleasant side effects is that a shit ton of people will not be able to receive #email from you. I've been on an email address handled by my shared server provider for like 15 years now, and I can attest that #google and #yahoo are both pretty bad for blocking anything from a #domain outside the big providers.

mpldr,
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@wagesj45 how do you do, fellow selfhoster. Do the MTA responses give an insight as to why the delivery fails? Google and Yahoo have been reasonably simple, Outlooks been a bitch

kravietz, to infosec
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Going through this excellent book by Shaun Pinner, much recommended! There’s many lessons to learn from this book but from my #infosec angle there are a few. Firstly, always keep an off-line maps app on your phone (I use OsmAnd). As a test — switch on airplane mode and try to survive for a day. Can you still navigate from point A to point B? Secondly, keep your social media profiles friends-only access. Thirdly, don’t keep any passwords in memory - it’s a bad practice from security point of view anyway, but I never thought about the interrogation angle. A password manager locked with biometrics and PIN and random passwords everywhere will prevent you from finding yourself in situation where you’ll be begging your interrogators to check another password because you might have remembered wrong.

mpldr,
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@organicmaps @notsoloud @kravietz I'll hand it my debug normie and let you know

Smootasaurus, to email
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New #email feature request. A spam filter that checks to see whether the sending domain has an http server and any valid website whatsoever or it's just a spam factory.

mpldr,
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@Smootasaurus my Mailserver doesnt have a Webinterface though and there are email-only domains on it.

kubikpixel, to email German
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    mpldr,
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    @kubikpixel @thunderbird @rust Microsoft wird mit nix nachziehen. Das ist schon seit den Halloween papers eine bekannte Taktik: man ist mit nix kompatibel, macht sich zum Standard und Zack sind Freie Alternativen drastisch im Zugzwang kompatibel zu sein, während Microsoft die Schultern zuckt und sagt: "Tja keine Ahnung warum keiner unser 'offenes' Protokoll implementiert. Sind ja nur 120 MB Standarddokument"

    Microsoft interessiert sich nen scheiß für seine User, aber das ist nix neues ^^

    mpldr,
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    @kubikpixel @thunderbird @rust achso, und hier natürlich die Quellen dazu. Endlich mal wieder richtig ekeln: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

    Smootasaurus, to email
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    WOW! Installed Thunderbird just before the weekend started and set my inbox to trust SpamAssassin for junk filtering. Only noticed my desktop has been amazingly quiet after checking mobile notifications. Is K-9 Mail the Android #email app for #mozilla?

    mpldr,
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    @Smootasaurus yes. Will be same as Thunderbird for android just with a different coat of paint.

    (Source: this years FOSDEM)

    mpldr,
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    @Smootasaurus its supposed to be coming soon™

    But looking at my project directory thats not necessarily saying much.

    lanodan, to random
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    > Noo foss is out of touch with normies

    foss: Mostly just nerds publishing stuff they made for themselves and helping each others.

    mpldr,
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    @lanodan true, also explains why it has certain issues with normie-accessibility.

    Go grab a normie at times and set them down in front of your programs. Its quite painful, but also pretty interesting.

    drewdevault, to random
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    It's not very popular, but I wonder if signing release tarballs with the release manager's private key would go some ways towards alleviating xz-esque woes, at the very least making distros aware that an upstream has changed hands and having to do due diligence to fix their builds

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault I don't think so. While it is certainly useful, signing the tarballs doesn't help. Since the perpetrator had a position of trust, this would still have happened.

    drewdevault, to random
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    What is up with tonsky.me and the steadfast commitment to making the reading experience on his site more awful every time I visit

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault great. Now I want to make the darkmode toggle button in pure CSS

    drewdevault, to random
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    Say I build a website which lets you browse the Linux kernel source code. The website includes a script which is distributed with the CDDL license. You're working on modifying Firefox for use in Debian, but you haven't changed the name. You're viewing this website when your modified version of Firefox crashes.

    You're asked to share the core dump when you report the bug. What is the license of the code dump file?

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault assuming this would reach the level of licensable, which I don't think is the case, whatever license you give it. If you create an image using the GPL, its not automatically GPL. In the same way the license of the generated dump is not affected by the crashing program.

    mpldr,
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    @lanodan @drewdevault they very much do not. They contain the process memory, not the process binary. Hence the need for the binary path when working with them. Without the binary, you'd hardly get anything of value out of them. I do not know if it contains the loaded instructions at time of the signal, but even that could hardly be called a redistribution.

    drewdevault, to random
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    WIP Redis fork:

    https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault at least they were honest enough in their announcement to make clear that this is a move to monopolise their niche. Dick move, but at least they don't sugarcoat it with "user-experience yadayada".

    What's become of this world that calling ones own anticompetitive behaviour like that had become a "win"?

    drewdevault, to random
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    I should write a bootloader

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault just compile to EFI binary

    selfhst, to selfhosted
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    Weekend Discussion 💬

    Would you self-host software that isn't open-source or has features locked behind enterprise licenses?

    mpldr,
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    @mforester @selfhst same D:

    drewdevault, to random
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    SourceHut is dealing with a huge spam attack, 36% of all new user registrations in February have been spam so far. I hear over the forge grapevine that a lot of other platforms are dealing with a huge surge in spam, too.

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault it's surprising that Google wouldn't filter this kind of junk and doesn't use it in scoring.

    Oh wait. Looking at the junk copycat sites that just have a few paragraphs of continuous keyword spam at the bottom that then show Google advertising to monetise this. Yeah. It kinda checks out. Everyone wins, except the user.

    drewdevault, to random
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    This fucking Alpine grub bug is driving me up the wall

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault best moment to switch to an efistub and drop the bootloader

    drewdevault, to random
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    Apple enthusiast thought leader types are so creepy to me, I know it's irrational but it's just so weird

    mpldr,
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    @drewdevault depends on how low you're willing to lower the bar. Worst case they do "10 crazy apps you won't believe part 38".

    a1ba, to random
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    mpldr,
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    @a1ba "How can you tell?"
    "Terrible Kerning"

    masukomi, to random
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    matter

    Discord is NOT documentation

    mpldr,
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    @masukomi manpages work great for a lot of projects

    danb, to random
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    Added a couple more cases to my open source confusion project:

    • APITable - Misrepresenting the AGPLv3 to encourage use of their enterprise license.
    • Nango - Advertising as open source under the Elastic v2 license.

    Also added Metabase as an addressed case & positive example of them clearing up their potential AGPL confusion.

    https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases

    mpldr,
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    @danb Got another one: FUTO. Advertising themselves as Open-Source but of their in-house projects a total of 1 manages to clear that high bar. I've sent them a request last week which went unanswered so far.

    mpldr,
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    @danb they are careful with their wording: "All FUTO-funded projects are expected to be open-source or develop a plan to eventually become so."

    1/6 isnt exactly a great quota though. Most oft their code is under the "FUTO temporary license" (non-free)

    governa, to foss
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    6 Best #FOSS Single Sign-On Software

    https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-single-sign-on-software/

    mpldr,
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    @governa Allow me to eloquently ask: Where authentik?

    sethmlarson, to random
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    The open source sustainability crisis, from Chad Whitacre:

    https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-open-source-sustainability-crisis/

    mpldr,
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    @sethmlarson Open Source, as sad as it is, to me is more of a "good deed of the day" than anything. I have one sponsor and I am most grateful for them. But ultimately it's not much more than a gesture. (Though my projects hardly qualify as core infrastructure)

    tarnkappeinfo, to internet German
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    📬 Fediverse von Hetzner dominiert: Gegenteil von Dezentralisierung
    #Internet #BenCartwrightCox #Benjojo #Dezentralisierung #Fediverse #Hetzner #IDCFrontier #Mastodon #OVHSAS https://sc.tarnkappe.info/f8b9ca

    mpldr,
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    @arti @tarnkappeinfo @kura Ohne eine Quelle im Kopf zu haben würde ich meinen, das netcup ein Hetzner Reseller war.

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