Charlie / is on Nostr

Occasional rants, swearing, #Linux tips, #Gaming on Linux, general tech, and the occasional #Ohio local rant.

Systems admin & developer in central Ohio suffering through Windows at day job & run Linux or BSD anytime other.

Run this community instance (open to the public) and help with Veracious Network game servers and network.

VN on Discord - https://discord.gg/9CWsDncg7w

Bits & Bytes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOuiL0JQoIos5C-zEgerqw

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Operating System: Debian 12
Discord Username: cdp1337
Github: https://github.com/cdp1337
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2024-06-15 22:27:18

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Oh yeah, when I encrypted that message to Larvitz, I just entered their email as the recipient.
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any desktop clients for Mastodon which have native support for this, but that would be an amazing feature for one!

2024-06-15 22:02:56

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In short, each key is in 2 parts; the public and the private.
I (as a third party), can take your public key and use it to encrypt a message that only the matching private key can reveal.
You can also use multiple public keys to encrypt a message, so you can chat with multiple recipients at once.
Signing works on a similar premise, where you can sign a plain text message with your private key, and me (again as a third party), can use your public key to verify the plain text message was not altered.
The main unfortunate part is access to the private key; email clients like Thunderbird support it natively and transparently, (sending/receiving encrypted messages "just works"), but Mastodon being a web application, doesn't have access to your private key, so a desktop app would be required (or a browser plugin would be needed).

2024-06-15 21:52:28

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2024-06-15 15:30:05

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"How can the fediverse be more private"...
Hang on, let us exchange GPG public keys before we proceed. ;)

2024-05-05 06:39:19

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..... yeah, that's fucking useless. That's just twitter with a reskin.
But from a corporation standpoint, that move makes sense. Why allow users the freedom to choose where they reside? You are just losing market share (and thus losing stock valuation, which we all know is the only thing most corporations give a fuck about).

2024-05-05 06:30:11

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Yeah, I don't have an issue that he's making a bridge or how that bridge handles opt-in / opt-out; I have an issue that he needs to make a bridge in the first place.
Bluesky should have implemented ActivityPub when they rolled out federation. THEIR software should handle .....
OH, wait.... does Bluesky just not _want_ to federate or something?

2024-05-05 06:18:40

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They were chatting about "quote posting", I have no idea WTF they're referring to. Is it using `> ` to create a blockquote in a message? I don't know... probably some twitter term hence why I wouldn't know it.
They chat about the Bluesky bridge; I still fail to see why there's a bridge that's needed in the first place. They developed a social media platform with the intent to be federated; just use the already accepted standards instead of trying to reinvent it themselves. It's like Novell trying their hardest to push IPX when IP was already in place, then additional software translation needing to be built to support this arbitrary protocol.
5% search selection sounds about right. Mastodon has a lot of work needed to improve the UX, this stat is indicative of that; most users don't even realize there's a "Settings" section of any of their accounts.
37min: I'm sorry, I can't do long-form content on Mastodon? Have you SEEN some of my articles? Some of them are pretty damned lengthy! They're correct that it's server centric, but fail to go into the tidbit that it's open source, so the operator can choose to modify the software to allow for things like long-form content.
39min: Eh? Wasn't the idea with Threads and Bluesky to be federated platforms from the get-go? Or were they originally just aiming for the traditional (and failing) monolithic centralized concept? If bluesky wasn't originally federated, but added it afterwards, that's even more irritating that they didn't use a published standard for a new feature.
He reminds me of a buddy of mine who built an eCommerce bridge application to cross sell/dropship between Amazon and Ebay. I don't know how I feel about that...
I still don't understand WTF Flipboard is; it appears to just be Yahoo news, ie: a bunch of public news articles plopped on a page... How is that federation? Is it considered federated as Wordpress has a federated plugin where blog posts can be sent to users directly via follow requests? Clicking "follow" on a topic just takes me to the register page on Flipboard...
56min Yeah, the dude in the red shirt has a good point, how "federated" follow count and "internal" follow count is a little awkward. Why is there a differentiation between federation system, (at least when possible).
Their lack of split screen feels off. Why does each speaker require full screen one-at-a-time when they're having a conversation with each other? It would feel much more natural if they were side by side as they were conversing.
Yeah... probably not quite the feedback you were interested in, but those were my thoughts as I was listening to the video.

2024-05-05 05:12:44

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Alright fine, I'll give it a watch while I work on this network diagnostic tool.

2024-04-30 03:41:43

5GB of system memory free out of a total of 128GB system memory. Maybe it's about time to restart this poor #Linux box.
Also peculiar that #Spotify is requesting 50GB of virtual memory. Even more peculiar that #Discord is requesting almost 1TB of virtual memory :/
Remind me again, why did we all decide to ditch IRC in favour of V8 / NodeJS apps?
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