derin
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I'm a game developer. Or, at least, that's what I tell myself.
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Comment · 3 years ago
You should use your bridge off of a residential IP in the same city as your other devices, or else Facebook finds the activity suspicious.
Comment · 3 years ago
It does. I use ntfy with a ntfy server on one of my VPSs, and I use the official ntfy account on GMS as an intermediary.
It works fine, but I'll probably switch back to Matrix's push server at some point.
Edit: With Synapse + Element, obviously.
Comment · 3 years ago
Gitlab and Element's website structure is different. element.io is the site for the managed product, so even their "on-premise" installer is meant to be used in a commercial relationship. For install docs you'd probably have to purchase their product (which isn't available freely).
You probably want to read the open-source software's installation instructions at: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web
TLDR, check out the project, run `yarn install`, then edit the config file, then `yarn build`.
And, yes, that is all there is to it. It's significantly simpler to deploy than GitLab.
Finally, you keep mentioning self-hosting; you _can_ just use a non-self hosted application like the downloadable version of Element, SchildiChat, Fluffychat, or any other client.
No reason to bring hosting into the mix for the client, if that's causing concern.
Comment · 4 years ago
Unless they installed conda on an Apple machine, because I'm pretty sure that constitutes original sin.
Comment · 5 years ago
...and where do you go when AWS/Signal's servers go down?
How about choosing something that's federated? https://matrix.org/
Comment · 5 years ago
This is NPR One, no? That's why I've been using it - it gives you a nice steady stream of NPR's programming and outside podcasts, randomly sampled at first, which in time starts preferring your favored content (which it learns by you "liking" content).
Been listening to it for years, it's great stuff!
Comment · 5 years ago
...because it's a different protocol with different needs that are satisfied by its own notation?
Edit: Just read Arathorn's comment above, very cool - I hadn't seen that one before.
Comment · 5 years ago
Guess I was just skipped, then. C'est la vie - still a great project, and one worth sponsoring if you can (IMO).
Comment · 5 years ago
I was on their Patreon for a while, but had to hop off because of financial fun.
Sadly none of the rewards are updated and the flair is no longer given out; at this point it makes sense to just see it as a donation.
Comment · 5 years ago
Matrix[1] is trying to solve that issue, I'd highly recommend looking into it. I actually pipe most of my various "chat" networks (including WhatsApp) into it via bridges[2].
As you said, we in Europe are kind of forced to have WA installed, but at least you don't have to use it as your primary client if you don't want to. You can even deploy it to an Android VM and go completely headless, if you feel the need.
Comment · 5 years ago
An incognito browser would ignore all client-side cookies, so the Slack web client would not try to - say - resume a previous user's session or re-use any previously saved data.
Likewise, incognito mode will also ignore most cached web content, meaning all assets on the Slack web app will get loaded again from scratch. This "clean state" start could, theoretically, get around issues with old - potentially incorrect/outdated - assets being loaded, even though that really shouldn't happen under most circumstances.
Comment · 6 years ago
Telegram? Signal? Viber? Matrix?
I feel like all of these apps (with special emphasis on Telegram and Signal) have almost the exact same UX and features of WhatsApp... beyond adoption numbers.
Surely one of these can take its place?
Comment · 6 years ago
Shame, that "Essential Gem" looked pretty promising...
Comment · 7 years ago
Just as a heads up, you should probably remove the
yaourt xmake
Yaourt is no longer actively maintained and poses security risks. Just linking to the AUR package is usually enough.
Comment · 7 years ago
It was pretty straight forward to install/set up? There are some requirements to be able to federate, namely having a domain and associated certs for encryption, but otherwise nothing stood out as overtly obtuse/difficult.
You have to either make a venv for a binary or just install a package, then reverse proxy 2 ports from your http daemon, and finally also hook things up to your Postgres database. After all that it's just a matter of configuring your homeserver's config (which is large, but you can easily get support via the community for any poorly documented options)
The documentation could definitely be improved, though.