social.pollux.casa

Writing C for #curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/

Anyone else using #gotosocial have an issue where most images aren't being downloaded, with a server message similar to this:

"Note from electragicians.space: 1 attachment in this status was not downloaded. Treat the following external link with care:"

I'm wondering if this is normal for GTS, and also if it's possible to turn that behavior off.

Thanks!

@adele I agree and would add another important thing - Europe on the EU level effectively does not have any working card payment system not tied to US (only on the levels of separate states). Block Visa/MC/AmEx and the consequences for the interstate movement of people and goods/money (one of EU pillars) will be devastating.

I can genuinely say that no piece of portable hardware I've ever owned has got as many questions or compliments as my @mntmn Pocket Reform.

[New Blog Post] - From hugo markdown to gemtext with lowdown

https://bacardi55.io/2025/04/02/from-hugo-markdown-to-gemtext-with-lowdown/

cc @bacardi55

Bringing my blog back to life on #gemini :

• 1/5: Fix export from orgmode: ✅
• 2/5: Convert markdown to gemtext: ✅
• 3/5: Automate capsule build: ✅
• 4/5: Auto deploy after successful build: ✅
• 5/5: Change DNS to new server: waiting for migrating all other capsules first (to change DNS only once - as all capsules have a CNAME entry pointing to my main capsule)

Migrating other capsules to new server:

• Planet Gemini FR (french capsule aggregator): ✅ (new domain: gemini://planet-gemini.fr)
• gemini://houston.gmi.bacardi55.io: ✅ (DNS still pointing to old server)
• gemini://discogem.gmi.bacardi55.io: In progress
• gemini://tinylog.gmi.bacardi55.io: In progress

Seems that even with new steps and migrations in the list, I'm getting there for real :-).

Do you use NFS at home? Feels weird to do it without authentication. Do you allow ip ranges? or go wild with kerberos.

I wanted to quickly explain why school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing a major Epos on Markdown vs obsolete writing formats:

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.

Prosody 13.0.0 is here! Farewell Zero-ver!
This major release brings a number of exciting new features, including improved security, performance, and administration tools.
Check it out: https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-13.0.0-released/
#prosody #xmpp

Going to write about it later on my blog, but #lowdown ¹ is a fantastic tool to convert markdown files in different format. Currently using it to convert markdown to gemtext in order to bring back my web blog to #gemini "soon-ish"

¹: https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/

Folks who have a single-person #GoToSocial instance: what's your setup/hosting situation?

I want to try it out but am waffling about whether to go with managed hosting, or a VPS, or what. I may honestly start off by self-hosting with #Yunohost on my old netbook simply because it's the easiest and cheapest.

#AskFedi

There are no known security issues with "Siacs OMEMO" / OMEMO v0.3¹ despite of what some very loud Signal fans would like you to believe. It has been audited by a third party² who took a longer look at it than all of the Signal fans combined.

Yes, #OMEMO v0.7+ (or TWOMEMO 😜) is a cleaner spec with more features (most notably Stanza Content Encryption). That’s why we wrote it. I’m a co-author. That doesn’t mean v0.3 is insecure.

¹: https://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/xep-0384-0.3.0.html
²: https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf

#XMPP