praveen

@praveen@social.masto.host

Indian Pirates/pirates.org.in Debian Developer, Privacy Advocate, poddery.com, diasp.in, Free Software, fsci.org.in, Social Justice, Human Rights...

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praveen, to mastodon

Does anyone remember the website that allowed you to create events and people can using ?

I have used it in the past, but now can't find it.

praveen, to iOS

We have crossed 300 USD / 75% of building custom username support in @prav iOS.

https://opencollective.com/prav-ios

Thanks if you already contributed and more contributions welcome.

We often get this question on why we are building #Prav on #iOS since #Apple is evil from many #FreeSoftware supporters.

Unlike #LibreOffice or #Debian, a personal choice is insufficient to beat #WhatsApp due to network effects.

#XMPP #FreeSoftware #Federated #Decentralized #OpenSource #Decentralized

praveen,

@TerryHancock @prav

Thanks for the suggestion, the description is updated to "Prav is a messaging app available on Android as private beta. This fund raiser is to build Prav iOS app based on Monal's Quicksy rebranded version."

Is this fine now? Or do you have suggestions for further improvements? The page has a detailed write up at the bottom.

praveen, to debian

#gitlab 16.8.2 is released in https://fasttrack.debian.net

We just missed the latest upstream release by 4 days, hopefully we can catch up soon.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and new contributors welcome!

https://opencollective.com/debian-gitlab/updates/gitlab-16-8-2-almost-the-latest-upstream-release #debian #debian-gitlab #git #FreeSoftware

See https://wiki.debian.org/gitlab/ if you are wondering why we do this when Gitlab Inc already has an omnibus package.

praveen, to telegram

.in now has 100% compliance on Compliance Tester.

https://compliance.conversations.im/server/diasp.in/

If you are new to , feel free to request an account at https://diasp.in and try this federated chat platform with an XMPP app like Monocles Chat or Monal today!

Unlike popular messaging platforms like , or , in , you are not locked into a specific app or a service. There are many apps and service providers to choose from.

impactology, (edited ) to random
@impactology@mastodon.social avatar

Random idea

Canva like tool tailored specifically for science communicators to create, beautiful animated infographics, 3D models for narratives.

To enhance the visual appeal of research and teaching material for engineers, scientists, and textbook authors.

Templates to create scientific illustrations and models with a set of primitives and modules you can pipe data into and then you can customise how it looks, functions and behaves

praveen,

@impactology have you tried https://penpot.app/ ?

praveen, to random

Many of my friends are unhappy with members of private group and admin of public semi-anonymous groups being able to see phone number of a member since #Quicksy and #Prav currently takes the phone number as username.

We want to change this in @prav and allow Prav users to choose a custom username which will hide their phone number in groups.

We need your support to implement this. Please contribute to our fund raising campaign.

https://opencollective.com/prav-ios

Thanks if already contributed!

#xmpp

praveen, to mastodon

Those of you in #mastodon / #fediverse know the benefits of #federation / #decentralization.

Though many of you might not be aware of (or even if you are aware might not actually be using) XMPP.

XMPP is a federated replacement for centralized messaging apps like #WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal etc

You are invited to try this with our community run public XMPP service at https://diasp.in/signup

We had to disable open sign ups due to spam, but we hope to reopen it soon.

#diaspin #diasp.in #xmpp

praveen, to rust

... consider that #Go and #Rust were both developed nearly exclusively by people working for firms. Yes, dynamic linking and maintenance of stable ABI promises are hard. That
means they cost. But static linking and volatile ABIs also have a cost--an opportunity cost. If that cost is both (1) hard to measure and (2) will be borne by economic actors outside your firm, the obviously rational choice is to not bother with dynamic linking and stable ABIs.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/01/msg00308.html

#Debian

praveen, to debian

We are working on rebuilding #gitlab 16.6.x on #debian #bookworm.

It is a good way to start contributing to debian as rebuilding is usually very simple.

I'd be happy to help if you are interested to join the effort.

We have to do this once in a month or two months usually.

This is the list of packages we need to rebuild.

https://storm.debian.net/grain/zgriFDoyuAzzWBTodnaD6Z

and this is the list of steps we usually need https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/gitlab/-/wikis/bookworm-backports

You can also contribute by testing the gitlab packages.

#FreeSoftware

mobian, to linuxphones

If you are not happy with your on-screen-keyboard (#squeekboard) on Mobian, you might want to try out #phosh-osk-stub which is @agx's toy keyboard. I like the layout a lot, apparently it even features local text prediction (have not tried that yet).
Remember, it is a toy, so hold back on your support requests.

Installation TL;DR: apt install phosh-osk-stub && update-alternatives --config Phosh-OSK

P.S. The screenshot is using PureOS rather than Mobian, but it is available there just as well

praveen,

@mobian @agx I'm just missing the arrow keys on the terminal since the shift, works great otherwise.

praveen,

@agx @mobian thanks, I did not know about the space long press option! This is indeed nice!

praveen, to debian

Thanks to great work by @weepingclown we have finally updated diaspora-installer package in #debian unstable and it is ready for bookworm-backports once it migrates to testing.

There were many challenges to get it working with ruby 3.1 in debian bookworm and sid, but he solved these issues patiently one after the other. This was the bug he fixed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006547

and list of things he did https://tracker.debian.org/news/1494486/accepted-diaspora-installer-07182debian-source-into-experimental/

#diaspora

praveen, to apple

I have personally found it impossible to get friends with iOS on #xmpp whereas friends with Android were happy to join via #Quicksy. We are raising funds to build Prav App on iOS, please contribute and spread the word. https://opencollective.com/prav-ios

Since we announced the campaign, Monal developers announced they will be building the Quicksy variant so that is less work for us to fund (we still need to develop support for custom usernames and also pay #Apple for publishing).

praveen, to random

@debacle @prav @tigase @snikket_im @Monal We are leaning towards #Snikket because it has background notifications working (we confirmed this). We have not yet confirmed if #Monal background notifications work, if we confirm this, we might go with Monal, since it seems more actively developed compared to #Siskin. It also seems to have caught up with Siskin/Snikket on features with audio calls added recently.

element, to random
@element@mastodon.matrix.org avatar

📣⚠️📣 Announcing a new home and license (AGPLv3) for Synapse and friends: going forwards Element’s work on Synapse, Dendrite & related server-side projects is going to be released as AGPLv3 rather than Apache.

https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

praveen,

@element @mynacol I think if you add a condition like this "If at any time the code stops being available under agplv3, this agreement will get cancelled automatically".

This will ensure someone buying Element in future can't stop giving the AGPLv3 version as their ability to provide alternative proprietary license depends on this cla.

praveen,

@u_tamtam @Slow I'm part of Prav team and I have been promoting XMPP and for many years. I'm a long time Debian Developer and maintains gitlab in Debian. I'm part of the community maintaining many services to public including XMPP services at diasp.in and poddery.com Prav is just trying a different approach to running an XMPP service. Both poddery.com and diasp.in is fully volunteer driven and we are finding it difficult to get new volunteers.

praveen,

@u_tamtam @Slow Also we have been working on Prav for over 2 years already gathering members required to register a coop in India. We need 50 members from two states to register a multi state cooperative and we are very close to that number. We are in process of finalizing bye-laws and will be registering soon. At Prav, we are happy if new people learn about Quicksy and XMPP through us even if they don't join Prav.

praveen, to linuxphones

Just in time for my talk on #Mobian at https://kochi2023.mini.debconf.org I got screen sharing working with Jitsi Meet, Firefox and Phosh on #Debian Trixie. So I can show a demo of Mobian on the big screen easily from a laptop. There is also the option of connecting USB C to HDMI adapter, but I don't have one.

praveen, to Facebook

Mainstream social media and messaging apps (, , etc) are a nightmare for our personal data and freedoms.

We have replacements for most of these services but maintaining these services has recurring cost and effort.

diasp.in is a community project supported by volunteers. We offer , and services.

If we don't find enough volunteers by October 31st, we will be forced to shut it down.

Please volunteer at https://diasp.in/volunteer

praveen,

I have been involved in running this service from the beginning, but new volunteers took over (Thanks to Dhanesh, @sahil and @rajudev for keeping it alive till now). Only if new people join in, we can continue running it. @_Y___h has already volunteer, but more volunteers makes the load on each one lesser.

praveen,

@sahil @rajudev @_Y___h Poster designed by Surbhi during

praveen,

@jabberati its a bit of chicken and egg problem, since we did not have many volunteers, we did not publicize this option for long and due to spam sign ups, we closed registrations. So pretty small numbers currently, but if we have volunteers we can offer this to new people.

praveen,

We found volunteers to continue and , but had to drop , which also made it possible to scale down the server and reduce monthly cost to 1/3rd.

praveen,

@goku12 we were probably running a bigger server than necessary, but matrix was taking 800+ GB disk space. Synapse needs huge RAM as well. No one actually volunteered to continue running so we did not do an exact calculation. We are hoping to keep the db for 3 more months if someone wants to continue running it (since Infomaniak offers 300 Euro credit for 3 months).

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