Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

@pemensik

That what I did understood by reading the doc.

#PowerDNS's #DNSDist seems a superb project, just maybe a bit overhelm for what it should do in this specific case. Yet seems likely the only option, actually.

It's a bit of a shame no other #DoH #CGI have been written in compiled languages so far... which is likely why few resolver support such forwarding.

When I first read about DNS-over-HTTP, I saw it as a further centralization attempt by #Google & friends (which sadly includes @mozilla these days), since to get a working DoH service you need good sysadmin skills and a stable public IP: not something a kid with a cheap shared hosting can set up.

And ə PHP implementation would be too slow.

#FossilSCM made me realize that a simple CGI in C could have good performances and be widely distributed, so I wrote one (still early alpha).

Now I can use it in most (non enterprise managed¹) browser, but I'd like to try it system wide.

Anyway... thanks for your help guys!

@draeath

@pemensik

Because I wrote a fast, easy to deploy, cgi-bin in C to do DoH, and saw that it is an incredibly good way to circumvent surveillance (that mainstream DoH providers feed) and censorship (that these day run rampant in Italy, thank to the #PiracyShield).

With a single binary that can be hosted practically anywhere, you can merge your DNS traffic with the one of the hosting provider and have a professional security around the service.

And being a small binary, it's very fast.

How can I have a local system-wide #DNS proxy to a trusted (by me) DNS-over-HTTPS endpoint on #Debian (or #Devuan) #GNU / #Linux.

I know how to configure firefox to this aim, but I'd want the system resolver to do the same.

#fedihelp #DoH #sysadmin

@ekaitz_zarraga

When in doubt, I always write down the issue I'm going to address in the issue tracker and then name the branch after the issue id.

(as a policy at work, we also always start a commit message with the related issue ids: on long term, plury-annual projects it's a valuable debugging tool during bisection, to really understand why a change was introduced)

@pierobosio

Ho qualche dubbio su #AuroraStore: mi pare che si connetta comunque ai server di Google.

@devnull

Tangential note: "robotized" voice should always be preferred to realistic human-like voices, to reduce alienation of people exposed to them.

I think that using unrealistic voices, traits and so on for software output should even be mandatory by Law.

The anthropomorphization of things is just a way to alienate humans, to train them to emphatize with automata that other humans control and reduce their ability to emphatize with their similar, reducing their ability to aggregate in groups and eventually fight together.

Divide et impera at individual level and large scale.

Cui prodest?

@amin

Here my blog (mostly political and tech stuffs) https://encrypted.tesio.it/atom.xml

Here the blog of an Italian organization that fought #BigTech in Italy with a certain success before the new fake #PrivacyShield was adopted: https://monitora-pa.it/atom.xml

Both are manually crafted indipendent website (including the feeds), with no tracking or ads.

@joacim @selea

@amin

Very nice work!

I see the engine is a single #python script that connects to a #PostgreSQL db.

Both are cool technologies but require quite a bit of technical expertise to be self-hosted.

Over the years I've seen that projects based on less cool technologies (php, cgi-bin, sqlite...) enable both #selfhosting and #SAFEhosting, that is using cheap, local, non #BigTech hosting providers.

It's something I realized reading free software based on the #permacomputing values.

Not really a suggestion or a feature request (maybe a note to myself, for a fork when I'll have more free time), but something I think you might consider.

Another one: it would be cool to enable a sort of federation among the instances, either by simply proxying the trusted instances (and excluding the duplicated urls) on user's search, or by enabling trusted #fediverse users to add websites to be crawled.

"Trust" here is a key concept: federation should be optional and disabled by default.

Anyway: good luck and good work!

And thanks for using a network #copyleft!
(I prefer the #HackingLicense over #AGPLv3 in the age of #GitHubCopilot/CopyALot, but at least AGPL protects the work you donated to the world from direct privatization...)

@selea

@ward

I prefer "output of statistically programmed software".

First, there is no #AI out there.

Second, its output is not a "content" as it does not carry a meaning (despite being designed to fool human meaning-seeking mind).