Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
Shamar
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I attended the EDPB event on #PayorOkay models and left deeply concerned. The discussion lacked acknowledgment of data protection as a fundamental right and ignored clear GDPR principles making the model unlawful. Instead, it conflated ads with core services, sidelining fairness and rights. Surveillance ads harm individuals and society, yet their ‘value’ is overstated. We must reclaim the debate: data protection is key to human dignity and a rights-respecting digital future.
I think that with a pid and an oprion to automatically demonize (sysv way, doible fork, setsid, detaching from the terminal...) it would be trivial to run snac on a shared hosting even if it doesn't support fastcgi: you just need a script to start it.
Hi, I managed to build a statically linked #snac with musl (and zlib, curl and openssl).
Now I realized that I could deploy it as a FastCGI, but I wonder how I could stop a running process on snac update.
Is there a kill switch one could toggle eg by creating an empty file with a specific name under the data dir? Or maybe a version file that is periodically checked by snac processes that exit() when you start a new version?
Or maybe something even simpler I'm missing?
Also, I've read that snac now support unix domain sockets, but I can't find anything about that in the doc... where should I look?
Shamar
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.63 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the
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Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
https://comam.es/what-is-snac
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
#snacAnnounces
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the
proxy_media boolean field to server.json to true.The
strict_public_timelines option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
https://comam.es/what-is-snac
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
#snacAnnounces
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
It's not.
It's a stance OSI got by its sponsors https://opensource.org/sponsors
Meta in particular was allowed to cancel other teams' votes.
The issues have been reported by several people for months (here a recap https://discuss.opensource.org/t/list-of-unaddressed-issues-of-osaid-rc2/650 ) but OSI ignored them, silenced or censored those people.
See Julia Ferraioli's account of the co-design process: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juliaferraioli_opensource-opensourceai-osi-activity-7256687721182605313-_wpd
If you feel disgusted as I do, here an initiative to restore (and _maybe_ improve) the OSD through public discussion and IETF rough consensus https://opensourcedefinition.org/wip/
Shamar
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@knowprose @sj Thanks for sharing this, it's good to know there's a sizable community that is unhappy with how OSAID got rolled out.
Shamar
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@sj @jaredwhite Through LinkedIn, I got invited to this discussion area regarding the topic... So I'm passing it along.
I haven't had enough contiguous time yet to chime in, but I will.
*Dusts off penguins and Gnus*
@anzu@livellosegreto.it
I wonder how much abstraction we need to program in C (or in Oberon without inheritance)...
@anzu@livellosegreto.it
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
@anzu@livellosegreto.it
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
@anzu@livellosegreto.it
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
Let's suppose you have to teach C to 7yo kids.
Where do you start from?
How do you setup their playground?
(please, don't question the goal in this thread... let's focus on solutions)
Actually C without _any_ allocation is quite simple and secure.
As I look openssl compiling, I wonder if we should surrender to C, and just find a way to teack kids how to program in C.
If you avoid malloc, it's not even such a terrible language...
Or I'm just too old and corrupted?
Joined May 2019
