ThorrJo
@ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 3 weeks ago:
Voip dot ms employs a ton of countermeasures versus skript kiddies as voip fraud is a severe problem. You are unlikely to have much luck with Tor Browser. I have to ask them to take my boring data center IP off their greylist every time I want to add cash to my balance.
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 3 weeks ago:
try voip dot ms
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 3 weeks ago:
Save yourself a lot of trouble and get a hardware SIP phone like the Grandstream WP826. I spent years struggling with software phones, most of them suck ass and the good ones aren’t very good.
Then make sure to enable voice transport encryption and set SIP transport to TLS (not UDP) and set keepalive timers to something below 3 minutes or so. The encryption settings are not just for security, using TLS for SIP transport has way fewer problems with incoming calls than UDP in 2025 network environments.
There are some firmware issues with the Grandstream WP826 but they are steadily releasing new firmware updates every month or two. If you need absolute bulletproof reliability go for something more expensive, otherwise the WP826 or similar model will likely be good enough (I say that as someone who is easily vexed by shitty software/electronics)
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 3 weeks ago:
ArchiveBox strikes me as being a rickety pile of hacks, but it does mostly do its job out of the box. The built-in search is abysmal however and must be replaced with one of the other options to be useful.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 4 weeks ago:
allowing Instagram is like rolling out the red carpet for the vampire as a method of inviting it in, and then maybe having the kids lie down so their bare necks are on a silver platter.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
Including Germany, which has draconian laws against criticizing Israel’s genocidal actions and fascist regime, as demonstrated by the recent drama over feddit.org?
Laws aren’t identical across the EU. If you are aggregating content from a bunch of instances, there will be content aggregated that’s illegal in one place and not another.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
If you can stomach bitcoin bros, check out Nostr, it works more like this.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
But I don’t like them and don’t want them in my feed.
Mass-market slop troughs exist for a reason.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
I, and a lot of other fedizens, don’t want the type of people who use BlueSky and Facebook in my ActivityPub fediverse.
Fedi is cool because it’s small, weird, and highly enriched with people I’m actually interested in communicating with. I don’t need or want the pool to be diluted with an ocean of piss.
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 5 weeks ago:
I only would agree with defederating if it’s proven that they are blocking anti-genocide content on other servers from being visible to their users.
In general I believe that maintaining lines of communication with those who otherwise believe in reprehensible ideologies is best, both in order to better understand such backwards ideologies, and also to provide a lifeline back to consensus reality for people who’ve been swept up by them.
I also believe that in the majority of cases, users should wield the power to instance-block for themselves. Or at least, servers where this is the case are the ones I prefer to participate on.
However, if it becomes clear that feddit.org admins are censoring content external to their instance in support of Zionism, then my first objection becomes irrelevant, and the second would be questionable, given the efforts of admins to put external fedi content thru a pro-genocide filter. At that point, defederation would be both warranted and wise.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
Currently in a holding pattern because, while I got RAM & SSD for a new-to-me “1-liter” server before tariffs hit, I don’t have the server itself nor any money to buy one, despite looking for 9th or 10th gen Intel which will cost me only $120 to $150 barebones.
Money to buy one is not coming in because the place where I live has nonstop noise & activity and I don’t have a separate room or any door I can close, which severely limits my ability to work as I have auditory hypersensitivity and an absolute need for solitude in order to recharge enough to think. 🤷🏻
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
mood
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 1 month ago:
The New York Times never fails to reveal its close adherence to its century-plus role as entertainment for the well-to-do who want to play in the trappings of intellectualism without ever having their status quo truly challenged.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 month ago:
Ah okay, this is what I was thinking of.
Sounds like Peertube admins can also proactively choose to mirror videos from other instances too?
Very nice. Would be cool to get some kind of massive user influx and see how well it does under load.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 month ago:
Thanks for doing this.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 month ago:
How does the p2p work? I thought there was a bittorrent-like aspect to it but what you’re describing sounds different.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 month ago:
As far as I know the p2p only potentially applies when >1 global users are watching a video simultaneously.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
lol the downvote counter just ticked up a couple times as I was tapping around trying to figure out wtf
- Comment on App v1 is out! | JoinPeerTube 1 month ago:
please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now
- Comment on The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us! 1 month ago:
Thanks for calling out that it’s not The Mastodon Network™, no matter how much Gargron wishes ot were so.
- Comment on The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented Its Registers 1 month ago:
Ken Shirriff regularly posts cool hardware deep-dives and can be followed on fedi at @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 1 month ago:
if you wish to get roasted with additional specifics, see !localllama@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 months ago:
I should probably give in and get the Puli, I dislike non-replaceable batteries but I’m sure if it dies before I upgrade to 5G and give the device away I could figure out how to replace it.
The Spitz AX looks awesome for e.g. an RV base station etc, but too many antennas for travel use. I used old Spitz on Amtrak with some success. I wish they had a similar 5G unit with 2x external 5G antennas, and internal antennas only for wifi.
Maybe I will get my wish someday, GLi do like producing a variety of devices on a theme…
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 months ago:
I have a Spitz, just don’t plan to run a VPN on the device itself as the CPU is very slow and will limit max thruput.
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 months ago:
in the USA, LiFePO4 battery cost of drop-in 12V replacements has fallen to the point where lead-acid may no longer make sense for projects like this.
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 2 months ago:
Although purported interest has never been higher, all the soft white libs I know are still deep in their full-of-shit phase and not doing a single fucking thing to prepare. It’s only the far leftists and people in the center that are on the uptake thus far from my vantage point.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
the problem lies within the underlying protocol.
The problem lies with Gargron doing what Gargron does, implementing whatever the f he wants for “the Mastodon network” and not giving a crap how it affects the health of the overall fediverse.
Hell, this isn’t even the first time there’s been drama over Mastodon’s advisory post scopes, not by a long shot. I kinda wish I’d saved receipts from the last couple times, some highly experienced devs have chimed in in the past.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
Mastodon implemented a new feature in a way that would break (in a really jarring privacy-violating-to-some-extent way) until everyone else copied their implementation exactly.
You ever notice how Gargron refers to the fediverse as “the Mastodon network?”
He’s been doing things this way since 2017 at least. At this point, any longtime observer really has no other choice but to consider the behavior deliberate.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.
And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work.
Anyone who’s ever touched the Mastodon dev process knows that Gargron is much the same, FWIW, minus getting angry in public. These days I just have to shake my head at all the bright-eyed bushy-tailed noobs updating issues on the Mastodon repo, because those of us who’ve been around since the start know exactly how far that’s gonna go in nearly all cases - and in the cases it does go anywhere, it’ll be because Gargron implemented something similar with zero discussion and no credit where credit is due.
But yeah, follow Dansup long enough and you are guaranteed to see some regrettable behavior on main.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
This is in part because he’s in public trainwreck mode fairly often.