Čtečka otisků je podstatně lepší, než u předchůdce. Tím, že je telefon menší, ale zároveň podstatně víc překáží - funguje zároveň jako home button a už jsem o ní nesčetněkrát zavadil
Okay, so you're part of the #TwitterMigration. You wanted to get away from the #birdsite as it started to gradually turn into another Nazi hive after the #TwitterTakeover. Luckily, you've been pointed at the #Fediverse, i.e. #Mastodon. You go there with the following mindset:
Mastodon is a 1:1 #Twitter clone, just without Elon Musk, but otherwise absolutely identical to Twitter. I mean, how could a microblogging service possibly be any different from Twitter? That's just as strange an idea as a desktop operating system that isn't exactly like Windows. Unless you're a Mac user, that is.
Mastodon.socialis Mastodon. Because that's the website you've been pointed at on Twitter.
Also, the Fediverse = Mastodon. Only Mastodon.
Now you try to register an account on Mastodon. Which means on mastodon.social. And you discover you can't do that because registrations on mastodon.social are closed, because mastodon.social is full.
Either you can't be bothered to read what the pop-up says. Then your understanding is that Mastodon itself is full. And you're back at Twitter. Avoidable mistake; see right below.
Um, instances? Servers? What the...? What's that?!
Okay, this'll be hard to wrap your mind around if the entire IT world has only consisted of commercial, corporate-owned walled gardens so far. Windows/macOS, iOS/manufacturer-provided Android, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer/Edge/Safari/Google Chrome, Google Search, Google Maps, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Spotify, maybe iTunes, your Microsoft/Apple/Google cloud etc. You couldn't even imagine that alternatives to these exist, much less alternatives that don't belong to yet another U.S. gigacorporation. Or even alternatives that aren't as monolithic as these.
Mastodon feels like a revelation to you, an epiphany. All this commercial, corporate-owned stuff is, in fact, not the entire IT world. It's a bubble. And there's a world outside this bubble. And this outside world is strange.
For starters, Eugen Rochko is the core developer of Mastodon. And yes, he is also the admin of mastodon.social. But that does not make him the owner and overlord of the entirety of Mastodon, just like Elon Musk is the owner and overlord of Twitter.
Also because Mastodon is, in fact, not mastodon.social. Not only. Mastodon.social is only one out of many Mastodon servers or instances. Thousands of them. Literally. Those listed on the official website are only those recommended by "the makers" of Mastodon. Here are even more.
There are instances for all kinds of special interests. There are also instances for lots of places in the world. People have set up instances for cities; Chicago actually has two of these.
Mind-blowing, right?
Okay, so you still absolutely have to join mastodon.social because that's where people went whom you know from Twitter. You want to stay in contact with them. So you can't join a different instance.
Wait, wait, wait, calm down. You can. And you can still get back in contact with your acquaintances on mastodon.social.
Even more mind-blowing, right? How can this possibly work?
Well, I take it you use e-mail. You need an e-mail account to use Mastodon after all. Most likely, you're on Google Mail. Are all your e-mail contacts on Google Mail, too? Do you only ever receive mails from accounts on Google Mail? Does Facebook send mails from a Google Mail account?
No, Facebook doesn't send mails from a Google Mail account. Facebook runs its own mail service. And yet, Facebook's mails get through to your Google Mail account. And that has probably been perfectly normal for you.
This is made possible through a technological miracle known as "federation". Basically, all e-mail servers in the world can communicate with one another, send mails to one another, receive mails from one another.
It's the same with the Fediverse. After all, the "Fed" in "Fediverse" comes from "federation". Generally, all Mastodon instances can communicate with each other. Unless one instance has "defederated" (completely blocked) another instance. There are actually Mastodon instances which are defederated by most other public Mastodon instances. But otherwise, everything connects to everything.
Once you've joined an instance, you'll discover first-hand that you can, in fact, follow people who are on mastodon.social. Or just about any other instance, all without having accounts there.
There goes the second bullet point.
And the first one will quickly start to crumble, too. First of all, Mastodon looks nothing like Twitter. Also, everything is named differently. Tweets aren't named "tweets" but "toots". You don't retweet, you don't even "retoot", you "boost".
And Mastodon works quite a bit differently from Twitter.
You've got three timelines. Next to your personal timeline which lists whatever your contacts have tooted or boosted, there's the local timeline which lists what the other users on your instance have tooted or boosted (this is how and why special interest instances or local instances make sense), and there's the federated timeline which is the local timeline plus what local users' contacts on other instances have tooted or boosted. There is, however, no timeline for the entire Fediverse.
There's no full-text search for the entire Fediverse. Deal with it.
There's no secret algorithm telling you what to read or whom to follow. All timelines are strictly chronological.
This also means that there's no secret algorithm shoving your toots into other people's faces. If you want people to discover your toots, use #hashtags. On Twitter, hashtags are a gimmick. In the Fediverse, they're vital.
There's a #newhere hashtag. It matters. As someone who is new here, you're expected to write an introduction, use the #newhere hashtag in it and then pin your introduction so that it's always on top or near the top of your personal timeline for others to read.
Privacy settings per toot. You can choose who can read your toot. If you write threads, it's common practice to only set the first toot to public and all other ones to unlisted so that they don't clutter the public timelines.
Delayed toots. You can choose when your toot goes out.
Content warnings (CW) that blank out your toot. And yes, they're taken very seriously. People are likely to demand you use them when you don't.
Alt-text for images. Again, people are likely to demand you create them when you don't. Some people on the Fediverse are blind and use screen readers, and they, too, want to know what that picture in your toot is.
Not to mention that toots can be almost twice as long as tweets, namely 500 characters. Unless the owner of an instance has changed that number.
Speaking of the latter: As the first bullet point from the beginning crumbles to dust, the one about Mastodon being Twitter minus Elon Musk, you may have been rubbing your eyes in disbelief already.
How can I possibly write more than 500 characters in a toot? How can you write in italics on Mastodon? Or use lists with bullet points in a toot? Where on Mastodon are the buttons for that?
Well, you are right now having a glimpse at the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. As in: There is a Fediverse beyond Mastodon. The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. There are other projects out there which are federated with Mastodon just like Mastodon instances are federated with one another. This is possible because they speak one common language: #ActivityPub. And they're all decentralised themselves with multiple instances each. For example:
Not all of them are "not Twitter clones", i.e. microblogging services. Pleroma is another one which was created out of disagreements with how Mastodon works. Akkoma is a Pleroma fork which came to exist because someone didn't like where Pleroma went. There's also Misskey. Obviously, they aren't "Mastodon clones" either, they were designed to be different from each other. And there's GNU social, the oldest one on the list.
Friendica is definitely "not a #Facebook clone" because, while created for a similar purpose, it's still vastly different. And it federates with just about everything that moves including e-mail or WordPress. It even used to federate with Facebook itself eons ago. By the way, #Friendica makes everything possible that I've done in this post which is also why it's usually filed under "macroblogging". But I'm not on Friendica; I'll get to that. Also, Friendica is the second-oldest one on the list.
Funkwhale is "not a #SoundCloud or #BandCamp or #Spotify clone", also because you're unlikely to find mainstream commercial music on it. Castopod: ditto, but specialising on podcasts.
Flockingbird is "not a #LinkedIn clone" at all, also because rather than being a service of its own, it piggybacks on the rest of the Fediverse by picking up hashtags.
Hubzilla was a successor to Friendica, but it's much more than "not a Facebook clone". It's also not a clone of whichever CMS and/or cloud service you use. It can provide you with your own personal organiser including a #CalDAV calendar (next to the public event calendar) and a #CardDAV addressbook, your own #WebDAV cloud space, your own online photo album, your own website, your own blog and/or your own wiki on top of just about everything that Friendica does. It's the third-oldest on the list and still older than Mastodon.
Thanks to ActivityPub, these services are federated with Mastodon which means that you can follow their users from your Mastodon account. You don't necessarily need accounts on these services. Okay, you need them to fully make use of them. You can't start discussions on #Lemmy or upload videos to #PeerTube without having an account there, but you can follow and comment on PeerTube channels and reply to discussions on Lemmy from your Mastodon account.
Want proof? Well, this post came from a #Hubzilla channel. You can still read it on Mastodon. And if you reply to it, I can still see it on Hubzilla.
And there went the misconception that the Fediverse is only Mastodon.
Stay tuned until next time when I explain to you how "Facebook's #Metaverse" (it's called #HorizonWorlds, in case you don't know) is not and will never be #TheMetaverse, and that free, open-source, (largely) non-commercial, decentral #VirtualWorlds exist already now.
@Proserpina Harker Just imagine he posted from his own Facebook server to all other Facebook-, Twitter-, YouTube-, Instagram- and LinkedIn-like like servers out there. You just happen to have chosen a server with a software that limits your posts to 500 chars (Mastodon).
oh, I see. Fascinating, thank you for explaining this. Yeah, I think for the way I intend to use this 500 characters are great, but it's interesting to know that I could change that by changing my server. 😯
@Proserpina Harker Actually, Hubzilla is not (only) a Facebook-like server, I usually describe it as the Swiss army knife or multi-tool of the Fediverse. But you have to learn how to handle or at least ignore the options coming with that. So if you have a simpler use case, it certainly is a good idea to stick to a specialized system with a more focused user interface (like Mastodon).
I'm not on Mastodon. No, seriously, I'm not on Mastodon. Even if you can read me on Mastodon, I'm not on Mastodon.
I'm on Hubzilla. Which is not another Mastodon instance but a wholly different project. Which actually predates Mastodon by 4 years.
Imagine you're on Twitter. Meanwhile, I'm on a monster that's Facebook, Google Cloud Services and WordPress all rolled into one, but not Twitter. And yet, you can read my posts on your timeline as though they were native tweets from Twitter. Only that I've smashed the 280-character limit into smithereens.
This is the magic of the Fediverse. For the Fediverse is not only Mastodon. The Fediverse consists of dozens upon dozens of different projects. And yet, they can all communicate with one another.
Hubzilla doesn't have a 500-character limit. It doesn't have a character limit at all. I think only Mastodon has that 500-character limit.
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a
decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.
I guess this also highlights some problems with the federated system, because you lose certain stuff that might not be supported on other instances, like if you read this on Mastodon, then you don't see the formatting used in the original post, like italics and bullet points. I'm also not necessarily a fan of how not having a text-search encourages hashtag spam.
Projev premiéra hodnotím kladně. Bylo v něm to, co v projevu prezidenta chybělo.
A co opozice? Šilerová vysloveně lhala; třeba o tom, že máme nejhorší inflaci v Evropě. Nemáme, jsme na tom špatně, ale zdaleka na tom nejsme nejhůře. Okamura stále opakuje dokola to samé kňučení a jeho voličům to určitě stačí; třešinkou na dortu bylo to, že i v tak krátké chvilce ho moderátor nachytal, jak si protiřečí.
Současná opozice má nulovou sebereflexi. Hlupákům co hledají rychlá řešení to ovšem stačí.
The Czech initiative "Gift for #Putin" made a video-streamed fundraiser in order to buy one #Hummer H1 to serve as a military #ambulance directly in the front line.
They ended up collecting 6x as much!
The initiative (cooperating with the #Army of the 🇨🇿 and the 🇺🇦 Embassy) has already raised money for a modernized T-72 #tank (called "Thomas the tank").
It was the first case in the world when ordinary people did a fundraiser for a tank for #Ukraine.
For Putin with love: Czech e-shop sells tanks and grenades to support Ukrainian army. Ukrainian embassy will receive money and buy real weapons in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense according to the needs of the #Ukrainian army.
Ve středu 21.12. od 10:00 spouštíme živé vysílání, které ukončíme až v momentu, kdy vybereme jeden milion korun na novou terénní sanitku pro české dobrovolníky z projektu Fénix
Let’s do a proper #introduction. I am Slothdude, a hobbyist #sloth #artist. I used to draw sloths on an app called #DrawQuest until it shut down, and then for a while drew sloth portraits of people on another app called French Girls until that shut down, too. Now I draw sloths wherever I can, usually with an iPad app #Procreate. I do slothified versions of fine #art as well as cartoons and #fanart. I am also a #lego enthusiast. I can be found under the handle @dqslothdude on the bird site.
Pokud nějaký konflikt - nějaký útok - začne v kybeprostoru tak - kolegyně, kolegové, ať děláte co děláte, tak pokud jste třeba viděli aspoň 10 minut Hvězdných válek (...)
Evropská komise schválila používání léku proti rakovině prostaty firmy Novartis. Na jeho vývoji se podílela česká vědkyně Martina Benešová. Firma to oznámila na svých internetových stránkách a na prohlášení upozornil Deník N.
The Verge managed to speak to a couple of developers at Valve on the Steam Deck, and while most of it was already known there's a couple of interesting bits to pick out.
I hope a Steam Controller 2 is just the left and right portions of the Deck welded together. Would be perfect for fitting in with controller schemes for the Deck itself.
Epic Games announced today they're killing off a bunch of classic games removing them from stores and turning off their online services for retro delights like Unreal Tournament.
Too bad to see UT 1999 go. I always enjoyed playing this with friends at LAN parties. I guess as long as the server can be hosted locally or on a dedicated machine, we can play on. 🎮
screw Epic, they're modern line up sucks & they're EGS is garbage compared to Steam. The Unreal Series is a classic, Unreal Tournament is an incredible game. The community will keep it alive & Epic's Fortnight obsession will do them no favors in the long run.
I used to be such a big fan of UT, disappointed they killed the UE4 version for Fornite, despite both series could have co existed. This comes in no suprise tbh and just shows what a disappointment Epic Games is, not even a good Vulkan port of their engine, or supporting open standarts to begin with.
They've gotten comfortable with the massive piles of money they're getting from fortnite and unreal licensing, so they no longer give a rat's ass about their longtime fans. Last game was Oculus exclusive Robo Recall and before that MOBA Paragon that bombed.
Wish they at least threw a bone and open sourced Unreal Engine 1 so fans can maintain the games.
@gamingonlinux: I've already had it on GOG. Best classic shooter for me. I ever made my own levels back then. UT level editor is really easy to use despite of its UI bug I had to avoid.
Kdo jste měl dneska tu čest vidět dnešní #OVM, dokáže mi někdo vysvětlit, jak je proboha možný, že #AlenaSchillerová neměla po deseti minutách kvokání na úrovni puberťačky v rozpuku do každýho slova všech ostatních hostů zalepený ústa moderátorem?
Vždyť by to už měla bejt "moudrá dáma v letech", ne? Dneska fakt masakr..
Dal jsem to celý. Jako oukej, člověk je zvyklej, že mu jsou některý politici názorově nebo vyjadřováním protivný, ale aspoň to mívá nějakou úroveň (když Havlíček svýho času vyprávěl o "kokainu v konečníku", aspoň to člověka pobavilo), tomuhle však chyběla jakákoliv důstojnost...
#KarelČapek Nemám za nedůstojno člověka, aby dostával od bližního něco darem. Nepovažuji za ponížení, aby člověk o něco prosil. Naopak, je zcela důstojno nás lidí, aby se prosilo i dávalo.
Obecně řečeno, člověk není dobrý jen k tomu, aby se na něm vydělávalo; je dobrý i k tomu, aby se mu dávaly dary.
#FrictionalGames is making another horror game that should be released early next year. According to #Steam release date is supposed to be around march.
#Amnesia, #Penumbra and #SOMA are amazing games and if you guys did not tried them, then i can't recommend enough to get them. I especially consider SOMA and Penumbra: Black Plague being masterpieces.
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a desolate WW1 Bunker. Face the oppressing terrors stalking the dark corridors. Search for and use the tools and weapons at your disposal, while keeping the lights on at all costs.
Zajímalo by mě, jestli se opravdu jedná o hack v telefonu, nebo jen předinstalovaná galerie dostala jako bonus backdoor 😀
Navíc, vzpomeňme si, jak #BIS varovala ohledně technologií #Huawei u nás. Tohle jsou jen videa, ale představa, že takhle odpálí část komunikace u nás je vlastně dost děsivá...
Už několik týdnů čelí ukrajinská města a vesnice bezprecedentním raketovým útokům ze strany Ruska. Terčem jsou především elektrárny, teplárny a vodárny.
(...) komise navrhuje stanovit limity pro pevné částice produkované brzdami a dále mikroplasty, jež se abrazivním otěrem uvolňují z pneumatik.
V diskuzi samozřejmě shitstorm ohledně ekošílenců, buzerace a podobný kraviny, ale zpátky k meritu věci - fakt jsem jedinej, komu tohle dává větší smysl řešit tohle, než (už tak od Euro 5 naprosto minimální) emise spalovacího motoru?
Jako ať se na mě nikdo nezlobí, ale kdo ví, jakej bordel je z destiček a kotoučů, tak to v salátě, co roste podél cesty, mít prostě nechceš (a co pak teprve plastovej bordel z gum) ..
Jako vlastník telefonu #Titan jsem na obrovskou bestii vlastně celkem zvyklej, ale TOHLE je fakt něco:
#Unihertz #Tank Svítilna jak do vietnamský pěstírny - ukázka YouTube 22 Ah baterka IR noční vidění Hmotnost 560g (to je dvojnásobek Titana, co mě svlíká z kalhot 😁 )
Tomuhle telefonu chybí snad jen startovací kabely jako originál příslušenství v krabici 😀
mám tady takovou úvahu, nad kterou bych chtěl, abyste se ve Vašem vládním angažmá zamysleli, protože pro takovouto politiku jsem vás nevolil. Konečně mi totiž dorazilo mnohými obávané, často zatracované, vyúčtování za #energie. #Elektřina mi za poslední rok zdražila cca dvojnásobně, #plyn zhruba také tak.
Když se ovšem do fakturace podívám, vidím tam (v podstatě dárek od vás) 5000 Kč. Částku, kterou ovšem já jakožto celkem slušně vydělávající nižší střední třída vůbec nepotřebuji, vždyť už jsem od vás (v podstatě také dárek) 10000 Kč dostal za to, že jsem autorem dvou dětí.
Nemohu se nezamyslet - opravdu máte pocit, že jsem vás já a všichni další voliči volili proto, abyste rozdávali peníze lidem, kteří to nepotřebují? Jak moc je tato politika odpovědná směrem k rozpočtu, který kdybych předložil doma, tak jsme do měsíce pod mostem?
Vaše #politika se mi nelíbí a chtěl bych, abyste peníze používali zodpovědně - nejste tu od toho, abyste pomáhali lidem, kteří zdražení energií unesou - jste tu od toho, abyste zachránili ty, kteří na něj nemají - a to opravdu nejsou všichni, kdo nám dnes řvou na náměstích, sítích a všude jinde, kde vás napadne.
Taky jsem několik takových fejkových profilů na síti #Facebook pochytal právě tímto způsobem. Kdo za nimi stojí a kdo to platí (pokud někdo), to je to, oč tu běží ...
1/4 Na českých Mastodon instancích se už objevují účty nejen různých osobností z médií, kultury a dalších, ale i oficiální účty institucí - poslední případ je @strakovka Nechtěl by @PiratIvanBartos@twitter.com nechat pro tyhle účely spíše vytvořit instanci na doméně gov.cz?
@ondrej @ivanbartos Tak ono cena v řádech nižších jednotek milionů za zprovoznění + roční provoz je naprosto reálná od jakéhokoliv dodavatele.
A pak je otázka, zda se to kvůli pár desítkám účtů vyplatí provozovat a to ještě s tím, že využití této instance by bylo jen dobrovolné rozhodnutí jednotlivého úřadu.
@JakubOnderka @ondrej @ivanbartos To je hloupost. Zeptejte se provozovatelů současných českých instancí. Kromě Internet Infa (tam nevím) to AFAIK všichni dělají dobrovolnicky a jen několik z nich získává zdroje na provoz pomocí darů. Ani u Pirátů na to nemáme miliony a server už pár let běží 😉
@jackc @ondrej @ivanbartos Kolik z nich provozuje zaručenou službu? Jaké mají SLA? Kolik budou platit uživatelům pokutu v případě nedostupnosti, pozdní reakce na ticket nebo v případě bezpečnostního incidentu?
To všechno a mnohem víc by dodavatel vládního serveru musel řešit a ručit za to.
@jackc to mě na těch parametrech výběrek vždycky fascinuje, že se z toho udělá něco, co to není. Roky se používá Twitter, kde SLA nikdo neřeší, teď přišli o 90 % zaměstnanců, nikoho od státu to netrápí, ale u alternativy by se měly nastavit parametry, jako kdyby to měl být nějaký kritický systém. @JakubOnderka @ondrej @kayla_eilhart @strakovka @ivanbartos
@sesivany @jackc @ondrej @ivanbartos No to je ale zásadní rozdíl. Pokud stát něco kupuje od externího dodavatele za veřejné peníze, tak určité SLA musí požadovat – jinak by ta služba třeba rok nefungovala a stát by platil i tak. Její hodnota je už k diskusi, smysl by mi dávala dostupnost kolem 99.5 % u podobné služby.
Vysockoval jsem si whitelist a Misskey se nechce ani s jednim endpointem (mastodon/pleroma) kamaradit. V dohledne dobe zkusim update na Edge verzi a uvidim, jestli se to pohne.
i cannot remove relay for some reason, even though log does not seem to contain any errors.
$ > bin/console relay remove https://relay.libranet.de/actor; cat log/friendica.log | tail
https://relay.libranet.de/actor couldn't be removed
2022-11-18T19:07:10Z worker [NOTICE]: New URL differs from old URL {"id":112262,"uid":0,"old":"https://etiketi.de/profile/romeorakow","new":"https://etiketi.de/feed/","worker_id":"c77dfc7","worker_cmd":"UpdateContact"} - {"file":"Contact.php","line":2563,"function":"updateFromProbeArray","uid":"fe52dc","process_id":1764976}
2022-11-18T19:07:13Z index [NOTICE]: no data for session {"session_id":"5kq3chsev5tl02hqfjgc5bj78h","uri":"/photo/profile/schmaker.jpeg?ts=1647710580"} - {"file":"Database.php","line":77,"function":"read","uid":"da344c","process_id":1763326}
2022-11-18T19:07:13Z index [NOTICE]: no data for session {"session_id":"uclpi9df5iha6brs3cd7gj63gp","uri":"/photo/18826804036375fe354633f050753497-1.png"} - {"file":"Database.php","line":77,"function":"read","uid":"183032","process_id":1763313}
2022-11-18T19:07:13Z index [NOTICE]: no data for session {"session_id":"kbj2tsenbdbkqnurc3mrbveo8h","uri":"/photo/profile/schmaker.jpeg?ts=1647710580"} - {"file":"Database.php","line":77,"function":"read","uid":"9cf70a","process_id":1763326}
2022-11-18T19:07:16Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://xarxa.cloud/users/evikerdani","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::getKeyIdContact, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"7f6a28","process_id":1756820}
2022-11-18T19:07:16Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://xarxa.cloud/users/evikerdani","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::fetchKey, HTTPSignature::getSigner, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"7f6a28","process_id":1756820}
2022-11-18T19:07:17Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://mastodon.social/users/garnetmagpie","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::getKeyIdContact, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"5b1114","process_id":1765064}
2022-11-18T19:07:17Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://mastodon.social/users/garnetmagpie","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::fetchKey, HTTPSignature::getSigner, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"5b1114","process_id":1765064}
2022-11-18T19:07:34Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://pouet.chapril.org/users/miko123","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::getKeyIdContact, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"f93173","process_id":1764232}
2022-11-18T19:07:34Z index [NOTICE]: Multiple requests for the address {"url":"https://pouet.chapril.org/users/miko123","update":null,"callstack":"HTTPSignature::fetchKey, HTTPSignature::getSigner, Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend","result":"Receiver::processInbox, Inbox::rawContent, BaseModule::run, App::runFrontend"} - {"file":"APContact.php","line":178,"function":"getByURL","uid":"f93173","process_id":1764232}
I'm not used to do this, but with the large influx of new users and node admins recently coming from #Twitter, our small team is now behind the curve for handling support requests, bug reports and bring about much-needed features.
The project is built on a #PHP / #MySQL platform, but we also need people to be able to assist others just using the software to give developers some space.
Still learning a lot about #Friendica and the #fedivers myself. But I'll be always happy to help others, and maybe I'll be able to also contribute some day. The vision of an open, noncommercial decentralized social network is worth the effort. @Hypolite Petovan what will be best practice to get started to support developers? Unfortunately, I not that much experience in open source community social culture. I guess participating the discussion on the git site?
@Marek Bachmann :friendica: Yes! Open source community social culture is pretty much "do what you can on your own". Even inaccurate answers are better than no answer at all. Adding your support for new features or enhancements go a long way to motivate developers, acknowledging bug reports is good etiquette, and assisting support requests by gathering as much details as possible often helps troubleshoot the issue.
Finally, correcting existing documentation or guides or writing updated ones is absolutely stellar.
@Fedi.Tips Thank you for asking, we're a bit swamped at the moment, so I feel like a shoutout would be better after the upcoming release slated for December/early January. If you follow me you'll hear about it.
What can they do in the Friendica project? 🤔 My technical background is that I have been writing some web applications for the company since about 2000 with PHP (from version 3), mySQL/MariaDB and Postgres. I also use JavaScript and HTML, and since version 2.x Smarty as a template engine. In addition, I used to write scripts with Perl and now 99.9% with Python. 😊
Version management used to be in Subversion and since GIT has been around, only in GIT, but since Github was taken over by Microsoft, I don't use the service anymore, I host it myself first with Gogs and then with Gitea. 🤔
Even the embarked documentation could use an overhaul, it's stored in the project files but it's mostly Markdown so no need for a technical background.
Support requests on GitHub are often lacking context information, asking for it ahead of a developer would be appreciated.
Mutual aid on the @Friendica Support forum goes a long way, it's already pretty active in German, a little less so in English.
these are all interesting areas, but I see this is all going towards Github and having to set up an account there. (This is a noGo as long as Microsoft owns it).
I'll have a look at the wiki (there's also a gitea linked, but that's probably not actively used anymore or?) and especially the forum, if I can help there.
Thank you for the quick answer and the collection of information.
@7homas ♓ Gitea is still the goal to move to, currently it's a mirror of GitHub but once we figure out the Continuous Integration on Gitea (hi @Philipp Holzer !), we should be able to fully migrate.
@Hypolite Petovan Good idea with Gitea, I only use it for my own projects. But there are not several users working on it. But it should bring everything what you have on Github too, except the eyes of Microsoft. @Philipp Holzer
@Hypolite Petovan It is a pity that this process has not gone further. Many of the large projects have turned their backs on Github for the same reasons.
Thus, it would probably also be time to set a sign here and if an own system is already available, then this is even easier.
Of course, I can not say how difficult it is to move the messages and then take over, or whether you have to make a cut, etc..
@7homas ♓ We will make an announcement when we finally switch over. But I'm not expecting an uptick in activity when it happens. What we'll gain in privacy-conscious contributors, we'll probably lose in existing GitHub users who don't want to make the effort to create yet another account to submit their support request/bug report/new feature.
@Hypolite Petovan Of course, if you look at it that way, that could be a fact. It is difficult to weigh that of course, what it brings but I must say, for me and I refer now 100% to my ideas and not to the project set the data protection very high. For this reason, I also use as a messenger, for example, no Whatsapp but only Threema, Signal or Matrix. But that's another topic and not this one.
We have to distinguish between the "normal" upstream branch and the Docker images I maintain.
For the upstream branch, I don't see any impediments anymore. It's fully merged to Woodpecker as CI/CD and most of the time, it's working fine
For the Docker images, it's really hard currently. Because I use a "standard" CI/CD action script/binaries from the Docker maintainers themself and they hardly relay on Github. Currently it's not possible to automatically test the Docker images. And as "official" and "best practice" Docker image, as Friendica is part of, we need a github repository to relay on (but we could make a "mirror" repo, so that's not a real issue 😀 )
Gib es irgendwo ein Howto für eine Entwicklungsumgebung? Reicht es einfach, lokal Friendica zu installieren und eine "Wegwerf Domain" drauf zu werfen? Oder nutzt ihr dann eine localhost Oder wie entwickelt und testet ihr lokal? Würde mir gerne mal ein paar "Junior" Issues ansehen, um damit in den Code zu kommen und dann potentiell mehr zu machen. 😀
@grischa Answering in English. I have a second Friendica node at dev-friendica.mrpetovan.com where I test all my developments. I would advise against localhost since you wouldn't be able to test any federation feature.
Sorry, didn't get the helper mention, I'll switch to Englisch, too.
Hmm.. But do you develop on that server directly or how is your coding environment? How do you debug, when it s not your local machine? Remote debugging?
@grischa I use JetBrains phpStorm as my IDE. It has a Deployment feature where it keeps an SFTP connection open with my remote server, and any file changed locally is updated on my server as well.
I am a little ashamed to admit I don't know how to use remote debugging, so I just output/log data through the code during my work, and clean up the debugging stuff before committing my work on Git.
Okay, I am using phpStorm, too. But I never saw that sync feature, maybe because I didn't use it yet, because I develop my server software local normally.. Debugging would be very helpful, but maybe it works without. Okay, thanks for that input, I will try something. 😀 (I could point a real domain to my local server maybe?)
@grischa I'm not sure how you would point a domain to a local machine but it should be possible. Let me know if you want me to test federation with your dev setup once you're done!
Thanks for that offer! 😊 But I am running a Pleroma and a Hubzilla instance on my own, so I guess this is enough for testing whether federation works. I'll come back to you, if it doesn't.. 😆
@Hypolite Petovan @grischa If you are developing locally you could get a dyndns domain or something that points to your home router. This then simply reverse proxy to your local system should actually be an idea for this.
Of course easier if you do the development via SFTP on your server and you also exclude any other bugs.
Thanks for that offer. 💙 But my DNS is at INWX, they already have the DynDNS feature. Never tested it yet, but it should work as they even document how I have to configure it with my FritzBox (kb.inwx.com/de-de/8-dyndns). 🙂
@Hypolite Petovan I have setup a local #Apache and added an entry to /etc/hosts to point to my local machine. Then in a /etc/apache2/sites-available/friendica.conf I setup a virtual host on that host name and even setup a self-signed SSL certificate so I can run #Friendica locally. To be able to receive mails locally, as I have #Linux running here, I had to a bit patch Friendica to disable a regex check on the entered email address. Now when I want to locally federate with e.g. #GNUSocial I just have to repeat above steps and I remember I was able to setup "remote" follow between these two local instances. For Windows users, there is #WinAMP around for a very long time, including #Mercury mail server so you could be able to repeat it even on Windows.
@Hypolite Petovan So in the end, I don't have to sync my files with my server by SFTP, I just develop locally and independently from my server and when I'm finished with my changes, I do the usual stuff, like pushing them on my server (see git.mxchange.org/?p=friendica.… ) and pulling from there through local file access.
@Hypolite Petovan True you can leave out the /etc/hosts part and just access it through, e.g. https://localhost/friendica/ and set RewriteBase /friendica/ accordingly. With the separate host name you also have a separate error.log and access.log so it won't mix with other installations on your local machine.
@grischa @tobias @zwovierzwo i'm using DDEV for local development. I've fired up Friendica within 5 minutes with the bonus that the whole config can be added to git. No more "works on my machine" as everybody is using the same config.
Never heard about DDEV before, but found their website by searching. Thanks for that hint! I will have a look at it (atm I don't even know what it does, seems to be docker related).
@grischa @tobias @zwovierzwo Yes. But there is defacto no docker knowledge needed. Everything you need to know is written down in the config.yaml which is located in the .ddev folder.
I had a plan on doing a documentation rewrite, and then was hit by a pandemic - I think I have approximately 20 minutes a week to commit to it - but maybe that's unfair - I have about a month of vacation coming up and I will try to commit some time
Remote Debugging with PHPstorm works very will. You'll need an ssh tunnel to the Tunnel and a mirror of the folders on the Server on your local drive. here is a tutorial
@grischa I have XDebug installed on my remote server, I use it for more verbose error messages and also for the profiler, but not for remote debugging.
@Hypolite Petovan another question at this point. Does a kind of Kanban board exist for tasks that are pending or would that perhaps be a solution for development and the tasks that are currently being completed or should still be developed? In my office, we have had relatively good experiences with this - for example, we have Taiga running here.
@7homas ♓ No we don't have any sort of product management. No requirements, no schedule (apart the 3 months release schedule), no task list besides the GitHub issue tracker.
@Hypolite Petovan well - I thought maybe there is something like a visual structuring here and you can see who is working on which tasks. We have something like that at work, so we can do sprints and see who is working on which problem, new function and which bugs. This allows us to move them from release to release and prioritize or categorize them accordingly. But also if it takes longer or certain dependencies still needs us to write under tasks.
@7homas ♓ If the Core Developers team grows even by one, I think it would be good to start having this kind of project management tool. With three people I feel like this is still manageable, but the work load isn't, so we need more people, and with more people more structure.
@7homas ♓ Of us three, I believe only Michael consistently commits time to the project. My contributions have been more irregular, although I do keep an eye on the GitHub project, so even when I'm not actively contributing code, I'm looking for ways to help others.
@Hypolite Petovan Well, it's a pity that there aren't more people here who can or want to contribute more time to the project. Basically, it's a really great idea that you can host Friendica like, for example, a Wordpress. So the number of servers should actually be higher than they are currently due to this possibility. But of course the code part is very complex and probably needs to be cleaned up and improved at one point or another. So it is clear to me that this cannot be achieved due to the small number of heads, that one makes a big cut as I had suggested one time or another.
My goal would be to understand the code more and maybe start with a small junior point, but if something like that isn't really on the agenda and it's better not to experiment with the code, then that's the way it is.
@Tobias I think I know what you meant - I hope so. Access to the wiki? So I don't have to create an account there first and then you can give it further access. As far as I have seen this is a Dokuwiki and there should be so. Then I would first register in the hope that this works.
@Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌ @Hypolite Petovan Well same here. My PHP knowledge of 2003 to 2007 is completely outdated. The last thing I did was porting the application I wrote at that time from PHP5 to PHP7, but that is some 6 or 7 years back, too. Since then I didn't write a single line of code in PHP anymore.
@7homas ♓ @Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌ @ITMC GmbH As much as I appreciate you trying to motivate people to contribute code, the Friendica codebase has reached a point where it is probably out of reach of amateurs and requires the attention of professional developers like Michael, Philip and I all are.
@Hypolite Petovan I don't want to say that again, that the code base is very complex. I rather thought that you can not only win people over for the code here, but that there are some tasks, as you have already listed. I have to say I've looked at the code quite a few times and I haven't really gotten through what works where, how and why the way it works. Although I do daily development with my own applications based on PHP.
If I were to join at some point, I see the junior jobs as a starting point, as you have often described, and then ideally as an encapsulated development without any problems that can arise with the core. Start slowly and feel your way and not from 0 to 100 and then cause chaos all over the core. Because it's always such a thing with self-developed applications where you can already understand the workflow in your head and in contrast to other developed software that still evokes many dark corners in your head.
That's why I understand your post and I think I'll hold back there, also to motivate people here, to screw the code base is not trivial and only people who have been doing this for a long time should do it. Because a broken Friendica is of no use to anyone.
@Andreas Kilgus Ok, I was wondering if you were talking about the philosophy of the project. I've tagged a few task I believe are good entry points into the project code, please ask questions if you're unsure of something.
@7homas ♓ @Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌ @Hypolite Petovan Completely agree – but not before sometime in 2024 when I will retire. Until then I'm managing a network restructuring project of a financial institution which keeps me fully occupied. Sorry. Really would like to contribute.
@ITMC GmbH this should be good - but as i understand hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com it is better not to change the code if you are not firm with it. @Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌
@7homas ♓ @Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌ Completely agree again. But I think, in 2024 I'm so familiar with Friendica, that I'm able to write an extensive FAQ for administrators – which is still missing nowadays, AFAIK. 😉
I don't have much experience with PHP (I did it for 3 days in 2009, I think), and I'm currently a bit busy, but I might try to tackle some fairly language-independent issues over the Christmas break, if you have any.
@Hypolite Petovan Thank me when I've got a PR ready. There's absolutely no guarantee I'll actually get that far.
By the way, you do have js front-end code, so that's something I should be able to pick up. Also, I'm generally at my best dealing with complex interactions, front-backend interaction, algorithms, data structures, that sort of stuff. (And refactoring tech debt and complex code into something more readable, but maybe that's not the best place to start an unfamiliar language.) I'm terrible at infra, configurations, and fancy CSS. Just in case you have an issue that would be a good fit for that. But I don't mind picking up something else.
@Martijn Vos We are in an absolute dearth of front-end developers, so your help would be absolutely welcome. I believe our days of fancy CSS are behind us with the frio theme, but interactions can be added or improved. Case in point: github.com/friendica/friendica…
If you could look into this, this would take a big worry off my plate.
@Hypolite Petovan how is the plan, if i want to change something in friendica - esspacially with the junior jobs. Git Checkout - make own branch and then i think a merge to the develop branche can not be done by the non core team developer @Martijn Vos
@Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} This is most antiquated indeed. Beyond shiny new language features, we’ve started implementing Dependency Injection and a form of Domain-Driven Development, so getting familiar with these terms would also help.
Happy to help out. Is there any documentation on how to set up a development environment? Haven't done PHP in 20 years or so but have lots of experience in other languages.
If a VS Code devcontainer setup that launches a LAMP environment with Friendica preconfigured would be useful, I'm happy to contribute that for starters.
That, and I'm curious how to populate a node with test data. Can I just dump and import my main account, or is there a better way?
@Nolan Darilek Hi Nolan and thank you for the offer! There are no specific steps to set up a development environment aside from installing a node. A challenge with a local development setup is the potential lack of federation with other servers.
As for populating a node with test data, creating a few users and following remote accounts are enough for most purposes. Although dumping your main account and importing it would be a great way to test this seldom-used feature!
@Le Général Midi Non, pas du tout, le #Fedivers (basé sur ActivityPub) et la #Fédération (basée sur Diaspora) sont deux réseaux incompatibles entre eux. Une poignée de plate-formes supporte les deux protocoles (Friendica et Hubzilla en tête) mais cela conduit à des discussions fragmentées où les utilisateurs de Diaspora ne peuvent voir que les réponses Friendica aux comptes Mastodon, et vice-versa.
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@n8chz ⒶⒺ Désolé pour ça, ce problème semble être très spécifique à votre situation. Il sera difficile de le résoudre fiablement si nous ne pouvons pas le reproduire fiablement de notre côté.
1/2 Dnes je ten velký den, kdy... ne, už nic o rádiu... :-) Dnes je ten velký den, kdy oficiálně vychází internetový komiks Contra Chrome v českém překladu. Pojednává o tom, jakým vývojem prošel Google Chrome a jaká rizika přinesl a přináší pro nás jako jednotlivce ale i pro celou společnost.
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