tired_n_bored

Why?

My homelab made of scrap electronics from the previous decade has officially had less downtime ratio than AWS this year

Trying Tuwunnel, works very well

May I ask you what brand was the chassis? Btw yeah not worth the hassle

I have some services in my homelab but I never expose anything to the public. For this I have a Contabo VPS hosting a Wikipedia mirror and a XMPP server for anyone who wants to access it

I was just about to install Gitea. Any substantial differences between the two?

For me borg is ideal. Once a month I run a backup.

Synapse was too heavy on my resources. Moved to XMPP despite I like Matrix more.

Snapshots

That’s why I don’t tie myself to a specific company. DIY NASers, unite!

But without federation questions and answers reside only on one server

May I ask you how? Or if you have more info? No criticism here, honest question. Afaik the only way to do that would be to fingerprint a behavioural pattern, which albeit possible is surely more secure than cell communication.

But we’re talking about a protest where bad actors (the police) just want the names of its attendants. Our phones scream to everyone “I am [name surname] and I am here!”. Bluetooth instead says the same but with a lower tone of voice, so less people can listen. Also, with little configuration you can instruct it not to broadcast its identifier.

What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:

1. Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it’s more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some “technical skills” (going in the developer settings)
2. With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication
3. The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they’ll be able to track less people down

At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.

If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat

I appreciate CoMaps but for now they don’t differ in functionalities at all. Will consider switching in case Organic really enshittifies

Sarcasm…

Tried Jami, unfortunately it’s still Alpha/Beta quality software in my opinion. Frequent glitches made me go crazy

Teach the UK a lesson

Applications like that obfuscate the already almost unreadable decompiled code