There's a few videographers whose published works I tend to keep somewhat abreast of.
Rob Braxman is one, Brodie Robertson another, and this kewl little intro to I2P from @RTP is a brief, enjoyable and easy to digest tour of the #I2P namespace and network with simple onboarding for n00bs too.
But before I do, and yes, a PeerTube addy is always better than even a LBRY address, which itself is better than a YouTube address (which, if posted, should always be sanitized through something like Invidious).
But isn't there a #browser #plugin that checks if any particular #VoD at YouTube has a corresponding one available on a #PeerTube server?
@PublicLewdness Exactly how I feel about #social_media in general - I have more than enough to do throughout the #Fediverse (every aspect of the things in life occur here)... So why would I waste my otherwise free time on things like Twitter or #Faceplant or #InstaSPAM?
Thank you so much for your input and valuable insight! 👍
Fediverse has gained critical mass. The ecosystem is going mainstream, appealing to a broader audience. There’s corporate interest, and even Big Tech is pondering an entry. → This means Opportunity and Threats… now is the time to address them.
The bridge is an ActivityPub server and Nostr client, written from the ground up in TypeScript with Deno. It generates RSA keypairs and pubkeys deterministically by combining the username with a SECRET_KEY. Sqlite is needed to store a reverse-lookup of Nostr to AP IDs, but otherwise it mostly works off the Web Cache API and the Nostr relay. I wrote nearly everything and gained lots of knowledge about cryptography.
Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.
That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.
In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered_species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.
The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms – first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub – this is huge, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single_user “virtual Fediverse server instances”, in consumer based home #LAN environments – let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.
To my knowledge, *this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached.
If you hurry, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.
Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎
And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!
A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @userone@SLD01.TLD01 AND @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 AND @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 – that, at least to me, can only be described as, “The Bees Knees”.
I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant – the cat is already out of the bag.
Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway – but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.
There's a lot more. Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI? Of course I did!
There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, before your eyes.
Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).
The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #WorldWideWeb over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests – the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacydisrespecting and #legacy #monolithicsilos – owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data_mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, Sunnyvale Syndrome.
This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributednetwork of services and sites truly belonging to the #individualparticipants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.
For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality – with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.
It's dark, so incredibly dark. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you apparently have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, “It puts the lotion on its skin!”
And in a manner of speaking, following an “Internet century” (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where Homo sapien drones existing in #LordsandVassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...
Fast forwarding to the scene where...
Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth.
Kinda like the true story of the Takahē. And we too, are beautiful.
I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow:
Takahē is an ActivityPub server designed for efficient use on small- to medium-size installations, and which allows you to host multiple domains on the same infrastructure.
Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.
That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.
In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered_species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.
The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms – first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub – this is huge, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single_user “virtual Fediverse server instances”, in consumer based home #LAN environments – let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.
To my knowledge, *this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached.
If you hurry, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.
Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎
And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!
A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @userone@SLD01.TLD01 AND @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 AND @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 – that, at least to me, can only be described as, “The Bees Knees”.
I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant – the cat is already out of the bag.
Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway – but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.
There's a lot more. Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI? Of course I did!
There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, before your eyes.
Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).
The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #WorldWideWeb over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests – the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacydisrespecting and #legacy #monolithicsilos – owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data_mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, Sunnyvale Syndrome.
This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributednetwork of services and sites truly belonging to the #individualparticipants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.
For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality – with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.
It's dark, so incredibly dark. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you apparently have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, “It puts the lotion on its skin!”
And in a manner of speaking, following an “Internet century” (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where Homo sapien drones existing in #LordsandVassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...
Fast forwarding to the scene where...
Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth.
Kinda like the true story of the Takahē. And we too, are beautiful.
I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow:
Takahē is an ActivityPub server designed for efficient use on small- to medium-size installations, and which allows you to host multiple domains on the same infrastructure.
I found this in a Matrix room, and sanitized it so it could be posted here.
I've never been a fan of Jobs himself, but The WOZ is one if my heroes. Nevertheless, there's a perspective here that's hard to dismiss, and Jobs' accomplishments are indeed stellar and cannot be dismissed as anything but distributive and revolutionary - even if he was a major dik:
This topic is for collecting links to places where people collect their cool ideas. Sam Squire: 100 Ideas for Computing: Some truly great and inspirational ideas in this list (should probably extract titles of the best ones here (note: Licensing i…
SAS expanders doing weird things. might finally have things repaired now I just need the scrub to go for a while and see that the disks don't disconnect the way that they were before.
An excerpt from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Synopsis: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest, where the way the…
I used to get the impression many project developers would support Mastodon API foremost but now I'm inclined to see more projects implement ActivityPub C2S first and then everything else.
I used to get the impression many project developers would support Mastodon API foremost but now I'm inclined to see more projects implement ActivityPub C2S first and then everything else..
Our EE college (1977) at Uni had a PDP-10. We had retired Western Union teletype machines to interface with it. The output printed on a roll of yellow paper - exactly as you would imagine.
This is really cool! I didn't know this site existed. I worked on TENEX/TOPS-20 at BBN when I was starting out, wrote a bunch of the network code, connecting the BBN machines to different networks, so this brings back memories. Do you have a pointer to the PANDA distribution? Can it run under an emulator on a RPI?
And yes indeed! First thing is to sign up for s few account with the SDF.org PubNIX, a nonprofit for over 35 years now, and several resources behind immediately available to you, including free bootcamps for TOPS-10 and Plan 9.
This is why I love the Fediverse and putting 5 pubic service related matters - if I can deliver awareness to just one person I've done a good deed for the day. So yes, https://SDF.org and we have all kinds of perks and member related benefits!
@wizdude The fan tray is on the bottom, very old school. The rack frame extensions were cut off with a plasma torch to reduce weight so one person could carry the unit, but now it can't be rack mounted. It is sitting on old DEC Alpha DS10L rails to allow for airflow.
is there a good contact email for y'all? I was wanting to find some more info on a game that's playable on Twenex (Crime, by David Nilsen, no copyright date or anything)
Meet Henry James' new governess - a brand new Fediverse server platform that will no doubt have pretty much any features your little heart desires... For $5 per month.
Tell me what you think. This isn't mastodon or Pleroma or Smithereen, Mitra, Friendica, Epicyon, or MicroblogPub - it is its own thing, s new SaaS based Fediverse server platform.
Wildebeest is a new project from Cloudflare that’s designed to make it easier for individuals to set up and run their own Mastodon-compatible servers. It handles setup, maintenance, and updates.
@marathonWell, being a long time provider of hosting services myself, I don’t really know all that much about mastodon hosting solutions, other than #MastoHost was the traditional and defacto go-to, perhaps the only #SaaS solution, for a long time.
Here’s the #Wildebeest source, which I suppose anyone could conceivably self-host with some non-trivial measure of tweaking.
I would venture to guess that #Cloudflare will remain the only SaaS provider for hosting it, but who knows?
One of the big differences between the two, right out of the gate, is that Wildebeest is built almost entirely upon #TypeScript, and uses an #SQLite derived database they call D1, which they say is in alpha stage right now, so it’s bound to be much lighter (and faster) than mastodon which is a hodgepodge of Ruby, Node, and Redis for cache (keeping it somewhat performant). The mastodon database engine is #PostGreSQL, which is a solid choice. One of mastodons criticisms is synchronous updates causing lags when say, it’s been offline for a while and needs to catch-up.
Again, I’m prejudiced, especially considering that I had to maintain mastodon through all the vulnerabilities and updates, tweaking it so it could actually be used for longer posts for actual articles, tutorials, HowTo’s, even recipes for chefs and the like, but to be fair, it does come into it’s own as far as being a viable platform at the ≥ 20,000 active user account level…
But that flies in the face of what #DeSoc and the #Fediverse are about - non-monolithic, horizontal scaling of single user and small community based instances (aka “SmallWeb” deployments).
I ran my own open mastodon server for a couple of years and couldn’t wait to get everyone off of it and eventually deploy a Pleroma (v1.0.0) server instead.
Gled had perhaps the most popular mastodon forks and operated a very popular instance based on his fork, with all kinds of features that just made sense while mastodon continued to fall further and further behind everyone else, but eventually he abandoned that and as you can see, urged others to deploy Pleroma servers instead:
So, no pun intended, but it’s a completely different beast than mastodon. Cloudflare will undoubtedly attract many code contributors, and it will be interesting to see its evolution, which the company states they will accept input on from the community and consider - that’s more than Eugen, as the presumed BDFL of mastodon, has demonstrated historically, where many of the most popular feature requests have gone repeatedly ignored or outright categorically dismissed; leading to some very fine forks of the platform such as #Hometown and others - still, they are forks of mastodon do adoptees aren’t escaping any of the (“excessive”, IMO) system requirements and overhead issues that do many former mastodon self-hosters have cited as reasons for their departure from the platform.
Aside from that, Cloudflare really wants this to be a Cloudflare based platform, and that’s really what the crux of the biscuit will continue to be with regards to most criticisms.
I don’t know if I sufficiently addressed your question though. I hope I at least came close. In any case, there are a lot of Fediverse server platforms available that are lightweight enough to run on small IoT devices like Raspberry Pi and old PCs or laptops collecting dust in garages that can easily be deployed, and have features that literally leave mastodon behind in the dust.
One more anecdotal point before leaving the whole notion of, “is Cloudflare evil?” question that I’ve been skirting here. the mastodon company itself, to get over the doggedness of its vertical #silo’ing strategy, places the servers that it owns behind a Cloudflare competitor - https://www.chinafy.com/technology/fastly-china - you might be interested in looking at that.
Here’s an article I recently published about one such example of an up and coming platform based on #Django that is now in beta:
Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server - GitHub - cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
I used to get the impression many project developers would support Mastodon API foremost but now I'm inclined to see more projects implement ActivityPub C2S first and then everything else..
@RTP"Yes officer, here's my registration. I've got my ID right here in my bag. No, that there is my phone, my ID is in that bag. No sir, I would never install that app on my phone, so the government issued me one for my iD app - it's in that bag. What? Oh. Yes. It's called a faraday bag. Here's my ID. Turn it on? I think the battery is dead, but feel free to charge it up, I'll just sit here on the side of the boulevard, pulled over by you, while you do that. No sir, I actually don't even own a charger for that ID.
Oh, okay..., sorry you don't have the time to put a charge on my ID, that I keep in my faraday bag, with the battery run down to zero, without a charger, and inconveniencing the dirty bolshevik government that can't track me as a result.
Apple 🍏 ??? No sir, I would never own one of those - they're full of worms!
@RTP"Yes officer, here's my registration. I've got my ID right here in my bag. No, that there is my phone, my ID is in that bag. No sir, I would never install that app on my phone, so the government issued me one for my iD app - it's in that bag.
What? Oh. Yes. It's called a faraday bag. Here's my ID. Turn it on? I think the battery is dead, but feel free to charge it up, I'll just sit here on the side of the boulevard, pulled over by you, while you do that. No sir, I actually don't even own a charger for that ID.
Oh, okay..., sorry you don't have the time to put a charge on my ID, that I keep in my faraday bag, with the battery run down to zero, without a charger, and inconveniencing the dirty bolshevik government that can't track me as a result.
Apple 🍏 ??? No sir, I would never own one of those - they're full of worms!
I've been trying to understand Apple's moves and motives and it just dawned on me that they have responded to the demands of the Intelligence community. They built a way to bypass encryption. So why y...
Giving @RTP a follow shouldn't be done for entertaining content.
Following RTP should be done because you're likely to miss critical news that directly and adversely affects you and your children that is crucial to be aware of.
Testers, packagers, and early adopters are wanted for the official beta program.
Relatica's developer is friendly, accessible, and responsive. The project enjoys an aggressive development cycle and has its own dedicated #Matrix support channel.
It's good to see a novel and dedicated effort to deliver a capable #desktop and mobile client that allows for #social engagement without a browser:
For those here that aren't aware already, Friendica is one of the earliest and yet most modern and feature rich #Fediverse platforms, #internetworking with other protocols that enables you to do things like directly interface with #Diaspora and even the deprecated legacy silo networks too.
#Friendica has a pluggable addon system and provides direct support for multiple text formats and even direct linking of images in posts.
There's really just too much to list. If you're wanting a feature complete platform for #publishing, #microblogging, #news, #RSS, social engagement and more then Relatica is definitely worth trying out!
If you're interested in trying out Relatica's ease of use and features then you'll need to have a user account on a Friendica server.
You can self-host or get yourself a free Friendica account here:
@RTP"Yes officer, here's my registration. I've got my ID right here in my bag. No, that there is my phone, my ID is in that bag. No sir, I would never install that app on my phone, so the government issued me one for my iD app - it's in that bag.
What? Oh. Yes. It's called a faraday bag. Here's my ID. Turn it on? I think the battery is dead, but feel free to charge it up, I'll just sit here on the side of the boulevard, pulled over by you, while you do that. No sir, I actually don't even own a charger for that ID.
Oh, okay..., sorry you don't have the time to put a charge on my ID, that I keep in my faraday bag, with the battery run down to zero, without a charger, and inconveniencing the dirty bolshevik government that can't track me as a result.
Apple 🍏 ??? No sir, I would never own one of those - they're full of worms!
I've been trying to understand Apple's moves and motives and it just dawned on me that they have responded to the demands of the Intelligence community. They built a way to bypass encryption. So why y...
Testers, packagers, and early adopters are wanted for the official beta program.
Relatica's developer is friendly, accessible, and responsive. The project enjoys an aggressive development cycle and has its own dedicated #Matrix support channel.
It's good to see a novel and dedicated effort to deliver a capable #desktop and mobile client that allows for #social engagement without a browser:
For those here that aren't aware already, Friendica is one of the earliest and yet most modern and feature rich #Fediverse platforms, #internetworking with other protocols that enables you to do things like directly interface with #Diaspora and even the deprecated legacy silo networks too.
#Friendica has a pluggable addon system and provides direct support for multiple text formats and even direct linking of images in posts.
There's really just too much to list. If you're wanting a feature complete platform for #publishing, #microblogging, #news, #RSS, social engagement and more then Relatica is definitely worth trying out!
If you're interested in trying out Relatica's ease of use and features then you'll need to have a user account on a Friendica server.
You can self-host or get yourself a free Friendica account here:
Testers, packagers, and early adopters are wanted for the official beta program.
Relatica's developer is friendly, accessible, and responsive. The project enjoys an aggressive development cycle and has its own dedicated #Matrix support channel.
It's good to see a novel and dedicated effort to deliver a capable #desktop and mobile client that allows for #social engagement without a browser:
For those here that aren't aware already, Friendica is one of the earliest and yet most modern and feature rich #Fediverse platforms, #internetworking with other protocols that enables you to do things like directly interface with #Diaspora and even the deprecated legacy silo networks too.
#Friendica has a pluggable addon system and provides direct support for multiple text formats and even direct linking of images in posts.
There's really just too much to list. If you're wanting a feature complete platform for #publishing, #microblogging, #news, #RSS, social engagement and more then Relatica is definitely worth trying out!
If you're interested in trying out Relatica's ease of use and features then you'll need to have a user account on a Friendica server.
You can self-host or get yourself a free Friendica account here:
Yes, back when SNI first enabled us to move away from IP based VirtualHost containers in Apache to the Name Based VirtualHost where many websites shared a single IP address, there were some interesting issues, such as the default VirtualHost being displayed if you didn't also specify non RFC compliant hostnames as aliases.
For example, there was a trend at the time to ignore proper usage of hostnames, with "www" generally being used as the traditional defacto, default hostname for a host delivering HTTP. i.e.,(http://www.SLD.TLD).
Similarly, you would usually name your first FTP server "ftp", and the protocol was specified as "ftp", yielding ftp://ftp.SLD.TLD, and gopher would be gopher://hostname.SLD.TLD in the address bar of your browser. Other protocols followed that same "protocol://hostname.4LD.3LD.SLD.TLD format, these child zones being a very common practice in universities in the .EDU and .MIL TLDs, as well as the .UK, .FR, .AU, .US, and some other ccTLD's (Australia has recently dropped that whole requirement for .com.au and .net.au finally lol).
So, although it was merely convention to name your hosts after the services they were delivering, like "www, www2, www3, Etc.", or ftp, gopher, Etc., Those were only conventions and you could name them whatever you wanted.
But you weren't supposed to use the canonical domain name as the hostname!
Nevertheless, as the "web" became more ubiquitous and average users, oblivious to other protocols, began to ask the question, "why do I need to type in all those extra characters for www.ibm.com (like http://www3.ibm.com) instead of just ibm.com?", in conjunction with the popular trend of browsers defaulting to "http://" protocol (unless you manually specified another protocol), many providers started to accommodate those hosting customers by breaking with the RFCs and pointing DNS A RRs to "@" or "SLD.TLD" - the canonical domain name, akong with another A record for "hostname.SLD.TLD" (usually still using www for the first website).
Now, when you query a DNS server for a hostname, it returns an IP address, no problem so far. And with IP based hosting it really doesn't matter what you call your website in your Apache server's VirtualHost container - it's just going to return a web page for the server at that IP address, coz that's all it's being asked: "Do you have HTML to send me for the IP address on this HTTP server?", And then it sends the page - coz there's only one website per IP address!
But with HTTP 1.1 and SNI it's a compound question:
"Do you have HTML to send me for the IP address with the hostname of 'www.SLD.TLD' on this HTTP server?"
If yes, then serve the page. If not however, it gets a little weird. The default VirtualHost container is usually the first one defined in httpd.conf, so on many web servers that's the page that says - "It Works!" lolz.
So, in DNS you had to have two A Resource Records (RRs) one for say, 'www', and one for '@', or you could use a CNAME RR if you're one of those lame-o boneheads (bad form - don't use CNAME's!), AND... You also either need to specify two <Named VirtualHost> containers pointing to the same directory, or just one with an Alias directive.
NOTE: you 'could' point to two different directories, but in 99% of all cases, why the heck would you do that?
I dunno why, but maybe coz many hosting providers didn't understand how to write a DNS zonefile in BIND or maybe coz they didn't grasp that the browser was actually now asking for an actual hostname with it's request to the IP address that httpd was listening on, but this resulted in a lot of "no joy" when people neglected to type in the "www", resulting in delivery of either someone else's website or the comical "It Works!" page (ROFLMAOPMP).
Adding insult to injury, the opposite could be the case when leaving out the hostname and just typing in the domain into the address bar, depending on how httpd.conf was configured - many knowledgeable sysadmins resisted this the because it wasn't RFC compliant, but eventually (the customer's money is always right), most default websites today just serve the canonical domain name as the main (or maybe even the only) hostname in a VirtualHost container in Apache with an alias to the 'www' hostname (or server block on Nginx.
As a little epilog, that came back to bite hosting providers, and moreso, their customers, in the last decade or so when the evil Cloudflare and ever popular WordPress came into prominence - To enforce their predatory vendor lock-in practices, Cloudflare offered free CDN services to people with websites... But only for one hostname per domain, AND, that hostname HAD TO BE "www", lolz...
Well, after a couple of decades of dumbing down the user and people setting the main name of their WordPress sites to, "SLD.TLD", this would cause, in the best scenario, to have their websites served to most people without the (so-called) benefit of Cloudflare's CDN... Unless you could retrain every user on the entire planet to type in the actual hostname (www), OR... pay Cloudflare lolz.... 🤘🤡🤘
Well my friend, That's all I've got right now, I hope you found that a bit amusing in a sort of nostalgic kinda way.
Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.
That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.
In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.
The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms - first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub - **this is huge**, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single user "virtual Fediverse server instances", in consumer based home #LAN environments - let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.
To my knowledge, ***this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached**.
***If you hurry***, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.
Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎
And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, **Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server**. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!
A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @userone@SLD01.TLD01 *AND* @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 *AND* @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 - that, at least to me, can only be described as, **"The Bees Knees"**.
I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant - *the cat is already out of the bag*.
Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway - but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.
There's a lot more. **Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI?** Of course I did!
There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, *before your eyes*.
Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).
The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #World Wide Web over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests - the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy disrespecting and #legacy #monolithic silos - owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, **Sunnyvale Syndrome**.
This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributed network of services and sites truly belonging to the #individual participants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.
For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality - with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.
It's dark, so *incredibly dark*. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you *apparently* have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, ***"It puts the lotion on its skin!"***
And in a manner of speaking, following an *"Internet century"* (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where _Homo sapien_ drones existing in #Lords and Vassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...
***Fast forwarding to the scene where...***
Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later *rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth*.
Kinda like the true story of the **Takahē**. And we too, *are beautiful*.
I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow:
Funny, I once did a project where multidomains was mandatory. It isn't hard to do but there is a danger of seeing it is project xyz too. Then again, with instances like we know that is not really a problem.
Yes, back when SNI first enabled us to move away from IP based VirtualHost containers in Apache to the Name Based VirtualHost where many websites shared a single IP address, there were some interesting issues, such as the default VirtualHost being displayed if you didn't also specify non RFC compliant hostnames as aliases.
For example, there was a trend at the time to ignore proper usage of hostnames, with "www" generally being used as the traditional defacto, default hostname for a host delivering HTTP. i.e.,(http://www.SLD.TLD).
Similarly, you would usually name your first FTP server "ftp", and the protocol was specified as "ftp", yielding ftp://ftp.SLD.TLD, and gopher would be gopher://hostname.SLD.TLD in the address bar of your browser. Other protocols followed that same "protocol://hostname.4LD.3LD.SLD.TLD format, these child zones being a very common practice in universities in the .EDU and .MIL TLDs, as well as the .UK, .FR, .AU, .US, and some other ccTLD's (Australia has recently dropped that whole requirement for .com.au and .net.au finally lol).
So, although it was merely convention to name your hosts after the services they were delivering, like "www, www2, www3, Etc.", or ftp, gopher, Etc., Those were only conventions and you could name them whatever you wanted.
But you weren't supposed to use the canonical domain name as the hostname!
Nevertheless, as the "web" became more ubiquitous and average users, oblivious to other protocols, began to ask the question, "why do I need to type in all those extra characters for www.ibm.com (like http://www3.ibm.com) instead of just ibm.com?", in conjunction with the popular trend of browsers defaulting to "http://" protocol (unless you manually specified another protocol), many providers started to accommodate those hosting customers by breaking with the RFCs and pointing DNS A RRs to "@" or "SLD.TLD" - the canonical domain name, akong with another A record for "hostname.SLD.TLD" (usually still using www for the first website).
Now, when you query a DNS server for a hostname, it returns an IP address, no problem so far. And with IP based hosting it really doesn't matter what you call your website in your Apache server's VirtualHost container - it's just going to return a web page for the server at that IP address, coz that's all it's being asked: "Do you have HTML to send me for the IP address on this HTTP server?", And then it sends the page - coz there's only one website per IP address!
But with HTTP 1.1 and SNI it's a compound question:
"Do you have HTML to send me for the IP address with the hostname of 'www.SLD.TLD' on this HTTP server?"
If yes, then serve the page. If not however, it gets a little weird. The default VirtualHost container is usually the first one defined in httpd.conf, so on many web servers that's the page that says - "It Works!" lolz.
So, in DNS you had to have two A Resource Records (RRs) one for say, 'www', and one for '@', or you could use a CNAME RR if you're one of those lame-o boneheads (bad form - don't use CNAME's!), AND... You also either need to specify two <Named VirtualHost> containers pointing to the same directory, or just one with an Alias directive.
NOTE: you 'could' point to two different directories, but in 99% of all cases, why the heck would you do that?
I dunno why, but maybe coz many hosting providers didn't understand how to write a DNS zonefile in BIND or maybe coz they didn't grasp that the browser was actually now asking for an actual hostname with it's request to the IP address that httpd was listening on, but this resulted in a lot of "no joy" when people neglected to type in the "www", resulting in delivery of either someone else's website or the comical "It Works!" page (ROFLMAOPMP).
Adding insult to injury, the opposite could be the case when leaving out the hostname and just typing in the domain into the address bar, depending on how httpd.conf was configured - many knowledgeable sysadmins resisted this the because it wasn't RFC compliant, but eventually (the customer's money is always right), most default websites today just serve the canonical domain name as the main (or maybe even the only) hostname in a VirtualHost container in Apache with an alias to the 'www' hostname (or server block on Nginx.
As a little epilog, that came back to bite hosting providers, and moreso, their customers, in the last decade or so when the evil Cloudflare and ever popular WordPress came into prominence - To enforce their predatory vendor lock-in practices, Cloudflare offered free CDN services to people with websites... But only for one hostname per domain, AND, that hostname HAD TO BE "www", lolz...
Well, after a couple of decades of dumbing down the user and people setting the main name of their WordPress sites to, "SLD.TLD", this would cause, in the best scenario, to have their websites served to most people without the (so-called) benefit of Cloudflare's CDN... Unless you could retrain every user on the entire planet to type in the actual hostname (www), OR... pay Cloudflare lolz.... 🤘🤡🤘
Well my friend, That's all I've got right now, I hope you found that a bit amusing in a sort of nostalgic kinda way.
The original #Jabber server at the center of the #XMPP Universe, is now back online following a weekend of hardware and and software upgrades -it's now powered by #Prosody, and many more extensions to be added incrementally in the future.
https://Jabber.org was the world's first public XMPP service and it's truly great to see this new development take place, ensuring continued support for those of us who've been using it for almost 30 years.
So you've started a new server on the Fediverse - and it's completely empty. By default, nothing happens. You're stuck there alone on your personal little island with no way to the external world.
Is there actually an Android XMPP app which is not from early Android days and not related to Conversations? I would like to be able to run the app, but also close it, not having it run in the background.
Mastodon supports media uploads, so why should I join Pixelfed?
When you filter out the text posts and only see photos/videos, the experience changes.
The process of capturing & editing photos/videos requires more effort and curation than a simple text-only post.
Portfolios are one example of this, a feature that gives artists, creators and photographers their own portfolio website https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/dansup
We ❤️ Mastodon, compatibility not competition is what makes the fediverse so special!
The title might explain this more then some want to, sadly it is true.
So, what is the deal? Well, we have this fediverse network that might communicate on tcp, ok, they try to do that. But let's be honest. Most of the Fediverse is acting like a Udp network protocol. They send out shit into the world and do not even care what happens to it.
Mastodon is simply stating we should generate a 5xx message for a week to get delisted. Friendica is simply not understanding 4xx messages or are ignoring them
The fediverse is an network where you need a firewall to make it usable 🙁
Whatever you wanna call it today, #Network_effect, #separation_anxiety, or the original of all adages, #vendor_lockin - a prison designed and perfected by campaigns of #FUD by #IBM (a phrase coined by Dr. Amdahl himself), Simon gives you the straight dope on confronting your fears and apprehensions in this next article:
I googled "OS for 4gb ram" and the first hit, which also was used by google to populate its snippet is an answer from quora which is very obviously created with #chatgpt (I recognised the non-committal non-answer right away, but it can also be detected by a popular GPT detector).
The user has 98 answers and, you've guessed it, they are all created with GPT. PLOT TWIST: The questions where also created with GPT!
A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they c…
I was asked to Interview at #JPL once for an immediate need contract to address some infrastucture issues back in the NT 4.0 days.
The interview itself went well between me and three staff members, and at the end they gave me a quick tour of the facilities and team members I would be managing.
I figured I would be receiving a call and offer letter in the next day or two, but before I left, they led me to a room with some workstations and asked me to take a test.
I declined.
Less than a month later, two of those interviewers in the group were among the students attending a Core Technologies class I was teaching in the #MCSE program.
"When you boil the water, you really should just make the damn coffee."
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But before I do, and yes, a PeerTube addy is always better than even a LBRY address, which itself is better than a YouTube address (which, if posted, should always be sanitized through something like Invidious).
But isn't there a #browser #plugin that checks if any particular #VoD at YouTube has a corresponding one available on a #PeerTube server?
I seem to recall something like that.
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For #Chromium based browsers:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/peertubeify/gegmikcnabpilimgelhabaledkcikdab?hl=en
https://gitlab.com/Cha_de_L/peertubeify
Pulls metadata from YouTube via #Invidious
For #Firefox @Bouteille is also working on this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/
And bonus material here:
https://booteille.codeberg.page/peertube-extensions-finder/
#tallship #PeerTube #browsers #FOSS #Fediverse #VoD #videos #privacy
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in reply to PublicLewdness • • •Exactly how I feel about #social_media in general - I have more than enough to do throughout the #Fediverse (every aspect of the things in life occur here)... So why would I waste my otherwise free time on things like Twitter or #Faceplant or #InstaSPAM?
Thank you so much for your input and valuable insight! 👍
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in reply to tallship • • •It feels time is burning before my eyes on #BigTech social media...
When considering major/ mainstream #SocialMedia is the purified form of manipulative #algorithms.
Designed to make us spend more time, while occupying our minds, steering, influencing. Shaping people using our data.
Platforms like #Mastodon are different.. Much more natural, organic. #Freedom #Internet