Neptr
@Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 5 days ago:
There are gaps in between the rain drops which means we see other parts of the cone.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
The other problem with Matrix for me is that Element call (the protocol) is not present in most public instances and isn’t very straightforward to selfhost. The default is jitsi which is not E2EE. Pretty major IMO because if Matrix is supposed to be a Discord alternative and supposedly E2EE but VC isnt encrypted, pretty yikes.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
Where did you read that Signal uses MLS? I could not find any claims of using MLS on Signal’s specs page or their GitHub repo. Also MLS doesn’t mean anything on its own, see Soatok’s blog on MLS.
Soatok is currently in the process of writing a blog post about another vulneribilty they found in Matrix’s encryption, and with Matrix’s history of numerous vulnerabilities, I would stay away from that shit. No matter how “good” the algorithm is in theory, it is all about implementation. Matrix also has very brittle encryption, often times many messages will become unrecoverable, which is terrible UX.
You’d be better off just selfhosting XMPP+OMEMO, with the caveat that it is also flawed and leaks plenty of metadata.
The best alternatives to Signal (but not Discord) are SimpleX and Briar. Both are significantly better than XMPP/Matrix for privacy and security.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
It still isnt great. Better than DeltaChat/Matrix but decently worse than Signal’s security.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
OMEMO is better than nothing. Much better than OTR or PGP (looking at you DeltaChat), and the biggest problem seems to be the metadata and old versions used in some clients. The encryption (of message contents) at the very least is decent.
OMEMO is better than Matrix’s encryption, which the later doesnt offer proper forward secrecy and breaks all the time leaving messages inaccessible.
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 1 week ago:
You can use WebCord with Spacebar.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 4 weeks ago:
Bro, 3 of us have now posted this lol.
- Comment on Goldenrod 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget Kudzu.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 2 months ago:
Valhiem
- Comment on AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source 2 months ago:
- Most “Open source” LLMs are really just open weights, which is useless without the training data. This dilutes the definition of OSS. There is no way to train the model as a normal person (aka not Google or Meta, etc)
- LLM producers don’t credit the OSS they trained on, no attribution. Most models violate the licenses of all their training data (eg. GPL).
- LLM scraper bots put high stress on server infrastructure, creating a DDOS attack.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.
- Comment on 🥵 🥵 🥵 2 months ago:
Poopy
- Comment on 🥵 🥵 🥵 2 months ago:
Poppy
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
Good Dinosaur reference?
- Comment on Usually 13. 2 months ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Usually 13. 2 months ago:
I couldnt upload as an image :(
- Comment on Usually 13. 2 months ago:
- Comment on stinky ginky 2 months ago:
Everything evolves over time. Ginko just hasn’t changed visibly in structure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Maybe a setup FIDO2 LUKS unlocking, but that requires a security key: www.privacyguides.org/en/security-keys/
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You could setup LUKS TPM unlocking.
- Comment on Mustaaaaaaaaaard 2 months ago:
One word: Kudzu
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 months ago:
Even worse, “gross lil critters”
- Comment on [Help] My first serious self hosted server 5 months ago:
I liked qdirstat
- Comment on SilverBullet v2 released: open-source, self hosted, programmable notes 5 months ago:
If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.
- Comment on Peak batchelor 8 months ago:
Yummy electrolyte drinks
- Comment on Your majesty 9 months ago:
But stale bread for French toast??
- Comment on do regular apps work with eOS? 11 months ago:
- Comment on do regular apps work with eOS? 11 months ago:
eOS is just Android, so Android apps work.
That aside, eOS has a history of being often behind on security patches and updates, so it is highly recommend to avoid it.
