Sure. Most of the actual traffic is encrypted by https these days. So they can’t look inside. But they can see to what IP you send these encrypted packets and from where packets come to you.

With DNS they can see what domains you typed in and your computer looks up. Just the part to the .com or something and nothing after. And sure, they’re preconfiguring their DNS server. Because they’re an internet service provider and you pay them to provide services like domain name lookup to you. They’re certainly not going to preconfigure a server of their competitors and funnel your data to them.

With something like Mullvad, if you configure that correctly (!) also your DNS requests go through an encrypted tunnel. Now your ISP can only see you connect to some Mullvad server. And now Mullvad provides DNS to you and they’re now the ones who can see what kind of domains you look up.

You can often just change your DNS settings. Either in the devices or for all your network in the router. But mind that plain DNS on port 53 is unencrypted. You’re connecting to a different setver then, but theoretically they could snoop on you if it’s an unencrypted connection.

Isn’t there some ISP in the US that is kinda trustworthy? I mean Mullvad or all the other VPN services are companies, too. Depending on your use-case and threat scenario, you might want to choose a different ISP if you’re afraid of them… But I’m not an expert on American companies. And I also use third-party DNS servers. I own my Wifi router and I set the DNS to opennic.org and also configured an AdBlocker.

I’m not sure if ActivityPub allows for an extension like that. And I mean if you open up a separate direct channel via TURN… It’ll be incompatible with something like Mastodon anyways, so I then don’t see a good reason for why to bother with the additional overhead of AP in the first place. I mean you could then just send the status updates in some efficient binary representation as data packets directly do the other players. So why use ActivityPub that needs to encode that in some JSON, send it to your home instance, which handles it, puts it in the outbox, sends HTTP POST requests to the inboxes of your teammates where it then needs to be retrieved by them… In my eyes it’s just a very complicated and inefficient way of transferring the data and I really don’t see any benefits at all.

So instead of extending AP and wrapping the game state updates into AP messages, I’d just send them out directly and skip AP altogether. That probably reduces the program code needed to be written from like 20 pages to 2 and makes the data arrive nearly instantly.

I suppose I could imagine ActivityPub being part of other things in a game, though. Just not the core mechanics… For example it could do the account system. Or achievements or some collectibles which can then be commented and liked by other players.

Probably for European users if Europe decides to force gatekeeping platforms to implement such a feature.

Port forwards in the router + DynDns.

Though those leaks showed they actually did it on a large scale. I don’t think they stopped for some arbitrary reason. Why would they? And technology developed further, surveillance is only getting easier. I’d say even without a tin-foil hat on, it’s more likely they do it than not.

Well, centralization and giving up your freedoms, letting someone else control you, is always kinda easy. Same applies to all the other big tech companies and their platforms. I’d say it applies to other aspects of life, too.

And I’d say it’s not far off from the usual setup. If you had a port forward and DynDns like lots of people have, the Dns would automatically update, you’d need to make sure the port forward is activated if you got a new router, but that’s pretty much it.

But sure. if it’s too inconvenient to put in the 5 minutes of effort it requires to set up port forwarding everytime you move, I also don’t see an alternative to tunneling. Or you’d need to pay for a VPS.

Ah, nice. Alright. Thanks again. I’ll see how I can do it. Unfortunately I’ve already set everything up, joined Rooms and connected a few bridges. I hope it doesn’t break. I’ll do a backup first. Seems reasonable and not that hard to upgrade.

Oh well, seems both reasonable. Maybe I should switch before the projects diverge too much. Conduwuit seems pretty active. Hope it stays that way.

Do you happen to have a link where I can read the backstory myself? Thanks for the info anyways. Seems to be a good call.

I found that. Seems it mainly addresses caching and database performance, adds some admin and moderation commands. I’m not sure if it addresses any of the shortcomings I have.

My main question is: Which one is going to be maintained in the years to come and have the latest features implemented? And secondly: Why a fork? Why don’t they contribute their fixes upstream to Conduit?

Not possible. Almost all mailservers have migitated for this kind of thing. Even if you wrote a script, it wouldn’t work on any properly configured mailserver…

Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.

That laptop doesn’t look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that’s maybe why I’m being a bit negative here. It’s cool and a nice idea, though…

(And we already have ARM-based retro machines, FPGA clones if popular processors available. So there is no need for them to do the exact same thing.)

The M6117C also isn’t the original and not that old. Also the 8MB of RAM aren’t true to the original.

I’m not sure. I occasionally use emulation. And I think it’s fine. Unless you’re a speed runner and need everything to be exact to the frame timing, you won’t notice. Certainly not for a desktop UI like the Win 3.11 on the photo. I guess it depends on the use-case.

Something like a FPGA or an ESP32 can also be repaired, replaced, programmed and most of the things a CPU or different architecture can do. And if the emulation layer doesn’t have too many flaws, it’ll be pretty realistic. Not exactly the same thing, but I think it’ll do for practically any use-case. And it comes with other benefits.

I think you’re allowed to do it just for the sake of it. But I often see people using an original SNES because “emulation is shit” and then they proceed to connect it to the TV set in their livingroom, which isn’t even close to the original experience because it adds lots of latency and doesn’t have interlacing and the colors are different than on a CRT, too. I think that’s just having strong opinions despite being uneducated. And I think I’m equally as well off with my Raspberry Pi and Emulationstation. (Which can also run DOS games.)

In the end everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this also isn’t the original (You can get an old Laptop… I have one with an 486.) But this isn’t the original but a replica. And it’s debatable (in my opinion) whether it’s the CPU architecture that does the realism, or other factors. I think for realism, you’d need a black and white liquid crystal display, a NiMH battery that degrades fast if you don’t charge it right and half the amount of RAM at most. And maybe just a floppy drive. The CPU is something you wouldn’t notice with the current state of technology.

Ah, well I only read the official documentation on https://docs.conduit.rs/

I’m gonna take a look at this later.

“Viele kamen allmählich zu der Überzeugung, einen großen Fehler gemacht zu haben, als sie von den Bäumen heruntergekommen waren. Und einige sagten, schon die Bäume seien ein Holzweg gewesen, die Ozeane hätte man niemals verlassen dürfen.”

– Douglas Adams, 1980 (aus Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis)

Depends a bit on how much images and videos get shared. If its mainly used for chat by a bunch of people and a few gifs and stickers in-between, it shouldn’t consume that much storage. But sure if you frequently share all your vacation photos, the cache is going to grow fast.

Definitely the whole server name. Other servers and clients can’t guess that information. I think it’s properly documented how to do it.

I installed it like 2 weeks ago. As of now it’s still running and has a really low memory footprint compared to Synapse. But a lot of things aren’t implemented. Chatting works fine. I get a lot of warning messages about not implemented things, though. Like my client (FluffyChat) trying to query some profile status … I’d say try it. I’ve done so. But I can really only give some good advise after a few more weeks of using it. Maybe there is a dealbreaker.

I’d be interested, too, if he and FUTO got to terms with their community and if they learned how licensing and trademarks work… Last thing I remember he claimed lots if things that weren’t true. And FUTO didn’t really address anything.

Loooool 😵

Kommentator(in) hat überhapt nicht verstanden worum es überhaupt irgendwie geht. Die Kinder sind denen doch ein willkommener und vorgeschobener Grund. Im Grunde werden sie aber damit vor den Bus geworfen und nur instrumentalisiert. Eigentlich geht es ja darum den Überwachungsstaat auszubauen. Wenn sie Kindern helfen möchte, wäre es ja mal angemessen überhaupt etwas vorzuschlagen was denen hilft und nicht noch mehr schadet und das Problem unter den Teppich kehrt… ?!?

Vor allem ist das ja ziemicher Konsens. Polizei sagt das wird sie mit Millionen falschen Treffern beschäftigt halten, so dass sie komplett gelähmt sind und überhaupt nix mehr verfolgen können. Die Firmen und Platformbetreiber sagen das geht so nicht. Gut außer die ganz großen, die können das. Und die Bürgerrechtler schreien auch auf…

Nix davon mitbekommen? Aber mal nen Kommentar absetzen? Ich meine was ist denn mit den armen Kindern? Denkt denn niemand an die?

Ja lass mal als Preis machen wir geben einfach unsere Rechte auf. Autokratie ist ja auch ganz nett. Und mit den mißbrauchten Kindern… Da machen wir ne Sperre vor, damit das niemand mehr mitbekommen muss. Das fühlt sich auch viel besser an. Polizei mehr geschultes Personal bezahlen? Ha! Das ist nun wirklich unrealistisch und DER Preis ist ja wohl zu hoch.

Edit: Ich hab auch noch mehr Ideen: Privatspäre komplett verbieten. Jeder macht seine Gardinen weg und die Haustür muss jederzeit offen stehen. Oder wir verbieten Kinder. Oder Menschen im Allgemeinen. Oder einfach das Internet… Sollte man mal Alles diskutieren…

Also schön, dass es ihre Meinung ist und der Artikel auch korrekt betitelt. Es ist aber eine außerordentlich dumme und uninformierte Meinung. Ich habe aber das Gefühl, richtig dumme Meinungen vertreten ist so halbwegs salonfähig geworden.

Frage mich auch wie sie dann Journalismus betreiben will wenn sie keinen Quellenschutz mehr betreiben kann. Entweder will oder kann sie das eh nicht, oder sie meint so wie die EU Minister, sich selbst schön Auszuklammern davon und nur den gemeinen Pöbel überwachen zu lassen.

Fühlt sich für mich genauso an wie den neuesten geistigen Dünnschiss der AfD zu lesen, wie sie mal wieder die Wirtschaft ruinieren wollen, alles verbieten und den Renteneintritt auf 70 anheben… Hoffentlich glauben denen nicht zu viele Menschen…

I mean it’s probably computers in general. The amount of Windows support requests I get from relatives… They also don’t get how to fix file associations, their printer stopped working for the second time in a year or they clicked on “update” and now they’re on Win 11 and having massive issues with it. I’d say computers are just difficult to deal with, sometimes… Maybe an iPhone has lower maintenance. But I don’t think it has anything to do with Linux. Some people refuse to acknowledge that. I’ve used both. And a Logitech mouse definitely works.