PropaGandalf

Hello everyone

Yes I know, a few months ago a post with the exact same title was shared in this community by @[email protected]. But this was at a time when lemmy was still quite small. I would like to give the topic new momentum.

From their wiki:

ListenBrainz is a project by the MetaBrainz foundation which allows you to publicly store a record of all of the songs that you listen to. Using this data, we provide statistics, recommendations, and a platform for you and other developers to explore this data.

Many of you probably use a music streaming service. You share your user data with the company anyway, and some of it with others. If you feel like it, you can make your data available to the general public and help other open source apps to build their services on this data.

Website: https://listenbrainz.org/
Wiki: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Main_Page
Github: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server
ListenBrainz Android:

• https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-android
• https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.listenbrainz.android

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10542663

Well to be precise:

• How does one install it? On a hypervisor? On a regular distro + KVM?
• Should I go with Proxmox/Debian/some other distro?
• I already installed Flatcar Linux, is this also suitable?

Well to be precise?

• How does one install it?
• What is the difference between a hypervisor/openstack/a container service (podman,docker)?
• Should I go with Proxmox/Debian/some other distro?
• I already installed Flatcar Linux, is this also suitable?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10530523

Hello folks,

TL:DR

• Solid enables a dencentralized, user owned data storage and SSO
• ActivityPods adapts its functionality to the fediverse

Slowly, things have smoothed out for the fediverse and it has become an everyday thing or even a new home on the internet for many of us. And yet I still don't feel that I can utilise the full potential of this network.

One of the biggest arguments in favour of the fediverse has always been that you can communicate with all other services regardless of which service you use and that it doesn't really matter where you register because you still receive all the messages. The reality is often disappointing.

Once registered with a service, you can communicate with all other services, but unfortunately often not in the format for which the other media were created. If you then try to log in to another instance with your account, you will also be disappointed - it simply doesn't work.

What we are really missing is a SingleSingOn (SSO) solution with which you can log in to any instance and any service. And it already exists! Meet the Solid project.

Solid (Social Linked Data) is a web decentralization project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. The project "aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy" by developing a platform for linked-data applications that are completely decentralized and fully under users' control. (Source: Wikipedia, Solid)

In short: Solid stores all your data in a decentralised data store called "pod". Anyone can host their own pod or use a pod provider. The user can then decide which data is made available to which service and can adjust it centrally at any time without much effort. This is also accompanied by the authentication method through WebID, which is handled via the Solid OIDC protocol.

Solid is designed to revolutionise the entire internet, but specifically for the fediverse there is ActivityPods, which aims to combine the advantages of Solid with the nature of the fediverse. This project will probably be the one that will give us the long-awaited interoperability thanks to SSO. And probably as early as this year!

Hello folks,

TL:DR

• Solid enables a dencentralized, user owned data storage and SSO
• ActivityPods adapts its functionality to the fediverse

Slowly, things have smoothed out for the fediverse and it has become an everyday thing or even a new home on the internet for many of us. And yet I still don't feel that I can utilise the full potential of this network.

One of the biggest arguments in favour of the fediverse has always been that you can communicate with all other services regardless of which service you use and that it doesn't really matter where you register because you still receive all the messages. The reality is often disappointing.

Once registered with a service, you can communicate with all other services, but unfortunately often not in the format for which the other media were created. If you then try to log in to another instance with your account, you will also be disappointed - it simply doesn't work.

What we are really missing is a SingleSingOn (SSO) solution with which you can log in to any instance and any service. And it already exists! Meet the Solid project.

Solid (Social Linked Data) is a web decentralization project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. The project "aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy" by developing a platform for linked-data applications that are completely decentralized and fully under users' control. (Source: Wikipedia, Solid)

In short: Solid stores all your data in a decentralised data store called "pod". Anyone can host their own pod or use a pod provider. The user can then decide which data is made available to which service and can adjust it centrally at any time without much effort. This is also accompanied by the authentication method through WebID, which is handled via the Solid OIDC protocol.

Solid is designed to revolutionise the entire internet, but specifically for the fediverse there is ActivityPods, which aims to combine the advantages of Solid with the nature of the fediverse. This project will probably be the one that will give us the long-awaited interoperability thanks to SSO. And probably as early as this year!

Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney's Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney's decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

Hello everyone

Since the announcement of threads to join the fediverse and the resulting discussions I have been thinking about the matter of content distribution and filtering in the fedi. Here is a possible solution to it.

In essence, one can distinguish between server-based and user-based content filtering.

• server-based content filtering regulates which instances federate with each other and which content is cached on the own instance.
• user-based content filtering regulates what content the end user sees.

Content can also be categorized, for example, according to its origin. Sorted according to the quantity produced, there would be:

1. instances
2. communities/tags
3. users/channels

From this I then derive the following behaviour:

• server based content filtering should be used when servers want to prevent certain content from being cached or when they want to set up a small exclusive gated community with a few selected federated instances.
• user-based content filtering should allow granular filtering of all the above content groups with the help of white and blacklists. This could look something like this:

Each field could contain a drag and drop function or a field for importing a blocklist as well as a search function to find instances/communities/users. Instances could also define in advance which default settings an account created with them could come configured with. The instances defederated by the server could optionally be displayed with a checkbox, but then in a grayed out look to make it clear that they cannot be changed by the user.

What do you think?

Hey guys

Today I got so annyed by firefox's default behaviour of downloading each and every PDF file to my disk that I went searching for a solution until I had the problem fixed. And it seems like I have finally found it. I have linked the solution but here is the fix in short:

1. go to about:config
2. change browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true

Thank you jscher2000 for the solution!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9785046

Hey guys

Today I got so annyed by firefox's default behaviour of downloading each and every PDF file to my disk that I went searching for a solution until I had the problem fixed. And it seems like I have finally found it. I have linked the solution but here is the explanation in short:

Firefox determines what kind of file type it is based on the content-type header it receives from the server. Another header is the content-disposition header with which the server specifies how the file should be handled. The two most important options here are attachment and inline.

• inline is the default if not otherwise specified, and means the browser will handle the file according to the behavior set in the browser settings.
• attachment means to always download the file

It is therefore possible that some pdf files are downloaded by force and others are handled according to the behavior specified in the settings. To force the latter in any case, you can proceed as follows:

1. go to about:config
2. change browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true

Thank you jscher2000 for the solution!

Hey all

A few years ago, when I started my journey into the realm of open source, decentralisation and privacy as an ignorant, naïve young internet user, I had already registered with numerous companies without giving it much thought. I randomly signed up for services using my google and microsoft email addresses, which I opened when I was very young.

I have been struggling with this naivety and carelessness of my younger self for several years now. During this time I have gone through all the services I have ever registered for, requested my data everywhere, written dozens of emails, deleted my google account a year ago, then the amazon account, my apple account and yesterday now also the microsoft account, together with the email I have used the longest and replaced everything with open source, privacy respecting services.

Now there's only one big player missing, as you can imagine. Yes, Meta has me in its grip like no other company with its chat service WhatsApp. I myself would have been ready to finally ditch this increasingly bad service long ago unfortunately, those around me don't see it the same way.

But I have now started my preparations:

• I have cleared out, structured and organised all my contacts.
• I have said goodbye to all long-dead groups.

And now comes the exciting part:
in the near future, I will write a message to my most important contacts explaining that WhatsApp, with all its clutter, has become a burden for me and that there are better, privacy-respecting alternatives. I will suggest Signal to them and explain that I will slowly withdraw from WhatsApp. I won't be on the platform as often, but I'll still be available for emergencies. And that they should take a look at this very familiar looking app. their data and I will thank them for it :)

In conclusion, I would like to say that I have realised that you can achieve anything, not radically, but in incremental steps. Especially when others are affected, you have to give them space and time to familiarise themselves with the alternatives without having to deviate from your own convictions. And if there is no other way and if they are also averse to this plan in the long term, new ways will be found. I have already lived without a mobile phone for more than half a year a few times and have also managed that.

What do you think? I'm interested in your opinion :)

Hello folks,

TL:DR - I need help building a LP wireless corne keyboard. I described my core requirements below and I'd apprecchaniiate if you could take a look at them.

this is my first contact with the world of ergonomic keyboards and the world of mechanical keyboards in general. I have never dealt with electrical engineering or similar tinkering before either, so I neither know how to solder properly nor do I have any other technical skills. I am willing to learn tho :)

So I'm a minimalist, foss enthusiast and a constant life optimizer. I am therefore a big fan of the swiss army knife principle: multifunctionality, modularity, compact, portable and aesthetic design. If possible, I try to combine several things with a single capability into one modular, multifunctional gadget: The result is a multi-purpose device that takes up less space and is characterized by a well thought-out design.

This process just happened to me with keyboards. I have a fairly large keyboard at home and I always carry a laptop with me to university. I'm not a big fan of their fixed parts, the qwerty layout they come with, the standard switches, the huge space they take up and their overall inefficient design. The search for more freedom of use first led me to the world of mechanical keyboards, then to the 40% keyboards, which still suffered from the unergonomic staggered layout, via the olkb planck, which, I realized, has the hands too close together, and finally to the corne keyboard. And what can I say, it was love at first sight... ^^

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So I took a closer look at this keyboard and came across many great implementations that inspired me to design my own. I'll list everything I've thought about so far:

• 6 row corne PCB (42 keys), LP (choc red)
• Boardsource Unicorne aluminum case (very minimalistic, few edges, robust and still lightweight) with magnetic back + Boardsource legacy plate
• Wireless (BLE) connectivity
• MCU: Nice!Nano/Supermini NRF52840

I'm thinking of a mix of Boardsource's Unicorne LP case, their Legacy plate and the presoldered wireless corne pcb from typeractive, similar to what this reddit user did. I will probably have to make a bigger cutout on the side to fit the reset button. Also I'd like to put some magnets on the inside of the case to make it stick like seen here. Regarding the MCUs they should be all supported by the zephyr project so I'm assuming they will work with ZMK too?

I'm not exactly sure if the pcb fits the unicorne case though, as it only has room for a usb port on the side and the wireless pcb has the power heads there. alternatively there is also the regular corne aluminum case from boardsource, which was also used in the above post, but which I personally don't find as pleasing to the eye as the unicorne one.

Now I turn to you: What do you think about it? Have I overlooked something? Are the sources I have given solid? Is it safe to shop there?

Thanks in advance! (and sorry for the long post)

Hello everyone.

I wanted to share this one thought with you that I really became aware of just recently. Libertarianism, at its core, is all about personal freedom. It is therefore the highest good worth protecting. But how exactly should it be protected and by whom?

It is obvious that a society writes its core values into its constitution and affirm them by law, but it becomes more complicated when it comes to adhering to these common values. Who ensures that these rules are followed? Who punishes violations?

Whether it is the state or a private company, in all cases you are dependent on the reliability of a third party. How this third party deals with the task it has been entrusted with is, however, its responsibility. As long as this third party is not controlled by another third party, it can act with the trust as it sees fit, not always to the benefit of the client.

That bings up the question why we should ever rely on the state or any private company to protect our values. In the end, we are all on our own. Whether freedom, privacy or security, we cannot afford to become dependent on others. We have to find ways to do it ourselves and these ways exist. I don't want to rule out that third parties may be given the task of protectiing them but I think that we need a technically independent safeguard. Encryption, privacy tools or self-defense devices are just few examples of this.