I do not currently have XMPP setup on this Instance.
It really depends on what you mean by "login to the server". There is an XMPP addon for Friendica, though it requires the admin (me) to set that up. It also requires that I setup an actual XMPP server as that is not an integral part of a Friendica Instance. This adds an XMPP interface to the Instance to be used for messaging instead of just DM (Direct Messaging, which is very poorly implemented on the Fediverse in general).
If I setup XMPP then you would be able to use XMPP from the Instance though you would not be able to access the Instance via an XMPP client that is not how the addon works.
IRC is already setup on the Instance. I may consider adding XMPP when I have time though it is not something that is very popular these days (like IRC is right 😉 but I do not have to setup another server for that addon).
I was actually considering setting up a Matrix Server for the Instance, would you prefer XMPP over Matrix?
In any case you will not be able to access this Instance, or any other Friendica Instance, via a XMPP client. As they do not support any of the current protocols for the Fediverse. Please keep in mind that every second party App I have tried is Mastodon centric and work poorly for Friendica. Currently there are no Friendica specific apps. I use a PWA on my mobile devices in lieu of an actual app. A lot of popular apps are little more than a very limited webui in any case so this is not really an issue.
Hello my friend, I'm Israa from Gaza and a mother of three. I'm sorry to be writing to you so hesitantly, but I've lost everything and I'm living a harsh reality. My three children need food, warmth, education, and medical care. Every contribution from you makes a huge difference in our lives.🇵🇸✋🏻🥺💔 #Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #save gaza children #SupportGaza #Humanity #HelpUsSurvive #life .
In the stillness after a night of bombardment, Israa, a devoted mother of three, and her husband lost not just a home, but the sense of safety that every family deserves.
It won't work in Toolbox because Toolbox runs as a rootless Podman container. Buildah is the low-level tool used to build the network-tools container image. It executes Dockerfile-like instructions (e.g., FROM, RUN, COPY) without needing a daemon, creating each image layer efficiently and securely Buildah requires specific kernel capabilities and access to the host's container storage (/var/lib/containers or ~/.local/share/containers) to create and mount filesystems, which are restricted when running inside another container for security and isolation reasons.
That is not actually a pod, it is an OCI Container. There is a difference. It is explained in the book I gave you. It is tempting to think of containers as pods since the name is podman, though they really are just containers. You can build pods with podman though those are used with kubernete and not just podman itself. I do not believe you will need a pod or kubernete any time soon 😉.
@Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸 They failed in the past , the UN saved them with that line they now trespass and even shoot on UN peace keepers of all nations.
Hey folks, the vagaries of distributed server systems tanked me once again!
My Friendica account, which I use to manage all my federated social media accounts, was on a server that crashed with unrecoverable backups last week. This is technically a new account with the same name, content, and photo, but it's still me, I promise!
Anyway, follow me. Let me follow you. Help me rebuild my online life once again!
The name "chess" is derived from the Arabic word shatranj, which itself evolved from the Persian shatranj (from Middle Persian chatrang), ultimately tracing back to the Sanskrit word caturanga, meaning "four divisions of the military" (elephants, horses, chariots, and infantry). The Arabic term shatranj was introduced to Europe through the Islamic world, particularly via Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and influenced the development of the game and its terminology in Europe. The word "checkmate" comes from the Arabic shāh māt, meaning "the king is helpless," further highlighting the Arabic linguistic influence on chess.
mat means dead in Arabic not helpless btw. Sjeik mat, meaning the sjeik is dead. Chess-Mate
the California age verification law for operating systems, including Linux, does not require users to provide ID or undergo any form of verification.
The law, known as AB 1043, mandates that operating system providers collect age information during account setup, but it only requires self-reporting—users simply enter their date of birth or select an age bracket. There is no requirement for photo ID, facial recognition, or any other form of identity verification. As noted in multiple sources: as theregister.com/2026/03/13/opi… The system relies on user honesty, and users can lie about their age with no consequences. The collected data is intended to be used by apps to determine age-appropriate content, but the OS itself does not verify the information.
Some Linux distributions are exploring minimal implementations (like a D-Bus interface or local config file) to comply without storing sensitive data.
In short, it's a declaration-based system, not a verification system.
The issue is escalation. It is easier to amend a law than to create it. If they came out in the beginning demanding proof then no one would approve of it. So they try to make a law which has requirement for an age signal. This gets their groundwork done. Let me give you an example.
In the United States the attempt to pass a law for Income Tax, which is unconstitutional in the the United States, was defeated over three times. When they finally made a condition that it only effected millionaires it got passed. Over the years just taxing the incomes of millionaires was not enough. So they extended the law to the middle class, and then to everyone. It is much easier to amend an existing law to their purpose than to get one passed that is as restrictive as they want it to be. Yet, they know when they get their foot in the door their mission is on the way to fruition.
Given time they will find, as they already know, that an age signal is not enough to protect the children (as they are selling it), so they will make the requirements more stringent until there will be a whole industry of Age Verification Providers. Anyone that wants to use a device with an operating system on it will have to verify with a provider which will demand a copy of their ID, Birth Certificate, etc. Our use of these devices will then be irrevocably connected to our Identification. Privacy will no longer exist.
Yes, they are trying to set the groundwork that will let them create the ultimate surveillance of the Internet. Where they can tell what each and every person on the internet is doing at any time. Where privacy will not even be an illusion. And we are supposed to trust that our governments will not misuse this information as they have misused all of the other power we have given them historically. I am not confident at all that it will not be misused. The only faith I have in our governments is that they are greedy and corrupt and will misuse every power we give to them.
By the way, this effects us directly as Fedora users. Fedora is funded by Red Hat and Red Hat is owned by IBM. Because IBM is based in Colorado where such laws are being passed as we speak you can be assured that Fedora will have no legal choice except comply or end their distribution.
I imagine, but it does not effect him directly. As he produces no OS, he is only the maintainer of the Kernel he created. So he is under no burden by these laws. Only those that use his Kernel and then distribute the distro they create.
I may be going back to home rolled (Linux From Scratch) Gnu/Linux after all. As it is not effected as long as you are not distributing an OS this age verification does not apply. We can still use our own OSes that we build, on our hardware.
Well, it is not like when I first started home rolling Gnu/Linux. There are great resources out there. I suggest you get copies while they still exist, even if you do not use them right away.
By the way, systemd is an early adopter of this age verification, if you have not heard. If you use systemd in your own OS build be sure to vet their sources.
There are books for building with systemd and SysVinit even though I prefer systemd, I believe I will revert back to SysVinit.
@Fou mhm, search engine AI Yes, building your own operating system is a viable — and increasingly relevant — way to maintain full control over your digital environment, especially as laws like California’s AB 1043 lay the groundwork for system-level user tracking.
You can create a custom Linux-based OS tailored to your privacy, performance, and usability needs.
Most approaches fall into two categories: 1. Remix an Existing Distro (Recommended for most)
Use tools like:
Debian Live (live-build): Customize Ubuntu/Debian ISOs, add/remove packages, apply branding. Archiso: Build from Arch Linux, ideal for lightweight, rolling-release systems. SUSE Studio (web-based): Create custom openSUSE images with GUI tools. Cubic (Ubuntu-focused): GUI tool to modify Ubuntu ISOs easily.
These let you strip out telemetry, enforce encryption, harden the kernel, and embed privacy tools (e.g., firewall rules, Tor, OpenSnitch) by default.
this is the easy approach instead building from scratch.
Yes, but if you are starting with a corrupt base system that has age verification built in then you better know what you are doing to get rid of it. One way to learn how to do this is by experimenting and learning with Linux From Scratch. This way at least you will know where to look in the distro you are using as a base in order to sanitize it.
Keep in mind that moving forward some distros packages may require age signaling to work. So you would need to build your own packages anyway. This is probably not going to happen in the near future. Yet, that is what I would have said about OS age verification last year too ...
@Unus Nemo @Fou No it's not gonna happen soon beyond that age verification but there are options at least for the savy. I'm learning about containers not making an OS image on my own so wish me good luck. Also I want it to be immutable but that is not an issue if I make it myself.
You are in luck, because by default OCI containers are immutable. We add the persistence to them where needed. So you will have no issue with making it immutable as that is the default.
Keep in mind that a container is to protect your host from the container, not vice versa. If your host system is compromised then the container is compromised as well. No matter how well you make your container.
@Fou Or kept in USA only not outside of it, why should I care for a law out of California, Colorado while I live in EU ??? I bet the Chinese have their own systems unaffected
Why should I care if the Nazis are killing the Jews? I am not Jewish.
Besides it effects you. As I stated above Fedora is funded by Red Hat, Red Hat is owned by IBM which is based in Colorado. Which means after 1-Jan-2027 Fedora will have to age verify. This will indirectly effect many that do not believe it effects them.
This also effects the many distros based on Fedora.
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Now I can use additionally containers on the same network and they will automatically resolve each other by name via aardvark-dns. Expose my Pod with Quad9 instead of 8.8.8.8 Manage containers as systemd services using Quadlet for auto-start and better integration on Fedora Atomic as well.
This is a known issue between privacy and other network types on the Fediverse. Because they do not all use an agreed upon protocol to verify users when you make something private on one Fediverse network it will exclude your friends on other networks. The same would be true if you posted something private on Mastodon, even though we are considered friends Mastodon has noway of verifying our identity so it would just block us.
Many of the privacy settings on Friendica or any other type of Instance are not going to work across the whole Fediverse. Unless it is your intention to keep everything so only those on Friendica Instances or logged into our Instance it is best to turn those settings off. Until the day when privacy on the Fediverse has a unified way of implementation across network types.
If you wanted to share something that only those on this Instance, or a Friendica Instance can see then it would be fine. Though quite often we want all our friends on the Fediverse to be able to view our posts.
Keep in mind that all propagation off this Instance is considered anonymous guests. So you essentially kill your posts ability to propagate to your friends off of this Instance by turning that feature on.
The sad part is that even when this is fixed it may be a very long time before we can reap any benefits. As over 90% of the Instances on the Fediverse are using outdated to ancient Instance versions and never upgrade.
If we subscribe to the belief that our reality is what we accept from our perception of our environment, which I do, would it be equally true that we are victims of our environment, and punished by our misperceptions?
@Unus Nemo Nice view of life, but there are that know no thing else since childhood survival and don't see themselves as Survivors as that is the only choice left and as such victimized by that choice.
Whether you feel as if you survived or are a victim is always your choice. If you feel you have not option except to accept being a victim you made a choice. I would suggest rethinking and changing that choice.
Now after RAG and all the effort of configs and system message AND prompts now I have to set question per prompt with context. Namely that prompt needs context from this rfc or that manpage or whatever which makes it accurate but quite not what I wanted.
I need to solve this, the answer is per prompt new thread with reference to this or that documentation. Sys message tells it to look there and if not fall back on normal given knowledge from source, but the context matters more> hence the prompt in my case is important for accuracy as I catched all his 2nd continue thread answers as pure lies if it comes to high grade things. Repeating prompts with addition is a way out of many others. Contentious seen from the context perception of each single prompt following!
It might seem on the surface that words, spoken or written, are quite fundamental, easy to understand. Is this really the case though? In all reality words are most misleading. Perhaps I should explain.
I was first introduced to the wonderful world of programming when I was 9 years old (46 years ago as of this writing). My middle school had just gotten some Franklin Ace 2000s (Think Apple IIe clone) and my father bought us a Commodore 64 for the house. While my siblings were most interested in playing games on the Commodore I wanted to program. Armed with books like Jim Butterfield's 'Machine Language for the Commodore 64' I began writing my own BASIC wedges and creating portable software from the Commodore 64 to the Apple IIe (which had similar CPUs in the 6502 family based on the Z80). I loved programming. It gave me a space that I felt like I had some control and my life was not just a tail spin of undesirable events.
I occasionally get asked about my moniker Unus Nemo. If you are familiar with Latin then you already know that Unus Nemo means no one. Though that is applicable my moniker is multi-faceted. Meaning there are several reasons that I chose this moniker to name myself. As opposed to my given name which I was labeled with at birth.
The recent database loss on Rogue Project's Friendica really woke me up to just how fast all my posts can disappear. Even before that I have been meaning to make more use of my blog for posts that I would like more persistence. I initially created the blog when I first came to the Fediverse. I stumbled upon Mastodon after my exodus from Meta and thought I would need to provided links for longer posts, as I am a little on the verbose side 😉. Well, my five minutes on Mastodon was not a surprise. I have never liked a microblogging environment. I found out about Friendica and quickly jumped on board. I was having a difficult time finding a stable Friendica Instance with an open registration so I did the most reasonable thing I could think of. I got another VPS and started a Friendica Instance. I was initially going to make it a single user Instance though I thought that would be a waste of resources and decided to open registration. I am going to tell you now that I fully understand why a stable Friendica Instance is not so easy to find 😉. I have learnt a lot in the last year of maintaining Rogue Project's Friendica and I definitely understand the frustrations of other Instance admins.
So I am now going to share my blog with the Fediverse. Rogue Project's Blog, I have comments turned off on the blog so I do not have to spend time managing spam. Feel free to comment here, or share a link yourself and mention me in it if you want my feedback. The entire blog is static so you can link to any category or individual essay, poem or rambling at your discretion. There is no login and there are no ads of any type.
Hallucination checks completed 100% correct and works even (for the sake of a test), answer prompt way too long to screenshot but it did it due to the manuals fed. at time of screenshot it was still busy as the downside of this all is response speed if it gets it feeds from official doc's.. Again as I said checks ok and it works. Privately, no API. And free.
The mocj script to test in it's testing environment I replicated from it's answers and the improve this script thing lasted about 45 mins for end response.
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@Unus Nemo No thank you, happy with my refurbished Mac OS normal pc to run Linux on it. Many people I know would not bother all that nor even understand what their pc can do soon, they brake the PC as we knew it indeed.
@Unus Nemo Suffice to watch the video till the end.. 😉
Does anyone else has some laggy youtube as me since a few weeks while I installed additional codecs yesterday it went slightly better but not what it is > while if visiting a site as Al Jazeera and watching the video there goes smoothly.
I have had no issues with You Tube, watch it daily. I do not judge the messenger I evaluate the evidence given. How I feel about Braxman's other opinions mean nothing in regards to the information shared in this video. It is a fallacy to consider the source rather than the evidence being presented. Perhaps his opinion of Session is poor. I do not care as I did not share that video. What I care about is what he shared in this video. I find it to be accurate and to the point.
@Unus Nemo What the people care of are the least of my concerns neither what they think of me. I'm not threat level 5 so far I checked I'm traceable with just 1 aspect and that is more than enough. Even my router I managed to DNSCrypt it even after reboot or power shut downs. A choice of roaming the net and that is not necessarily meaning I'm a bad guy as that is prejudice and a thing I learned many many years before to maintain my privacy as much and as long as possible. If I were a professional I would even maintain another persona as real person. The very ground reason began from a security viewpoint. Prof Messer is responsible for this! 😀 And Kevin Mitnick as well a bunch of other guy's
There are other free AI chatbots you can choose that are faster, , have better privacy protection, get better reviews, don't target you with advertising, and don't allow the Pentagon to use their technology for killer robots or mass surveillance. Consider, for example, Proton's Lumo, Mistral's LeChat or Anthropic's Claude. quitgpt.org/
Personally, I would avoid all corporate chatbot Instances and use local AI, I understand that not everyone has the technical skills to set this up. Though the Ollama project has gone a long way to making this accessible to most everyone. Ollama is a user friendly wrapper around llama.cpp.
The point being is that if you have somebody running around metaphorically killing off another person’s family members any rational individual will understand the desire to retaliate.
As you saying an eye for a community is Israel’s modus operandi. That a synagogue is targeted by an outraged relative is a tragedy and it’s wrong.
But a nation that claims to represent Jewish identity is ethically cleansing the region for greater Israel
Finding those on self host will be a challenge as unless one of their posts propagate to our Instance it is not likely that they will show up. Give it time.
For over a year now I have maintained Rogue Project's Friendica Instance. I have had ups and downs. Sometimes it was smooth sailing and other times it was a storm. This week catastrophe hit. I was trying to deal with severe database bloat. My database had nearly filled my SSD of my VPS. I have a VPS with more than enough resources and this should not have happened. I was merely, due to inexperience, trying to maintain way to much persistence of federated data. I was in the process of trying to migrate from using my database as my main storage to the new file system storage that Friendica made available as of Friendica 'Blutwurz' 2026.01. I was attempting to truncate the storage cache in the database when disaster happened. I lost my whole Instance. I tried for days to extract the 2GB of data that was supposed to still be in the data file with no success. I finally just restarted my Instance. It is a fresh start and lessons learned. The database had grown to over 178GB and that prohibited my being able to download backups. I pay $50.00 USD a month for just 100GB of data and it would have cost me more than I could afford to download the backups. This was one of the reasons I was concerned about the bloat. The other was the impending shut down of the Instance when the database maxed out the SSD.
I do not take it lightly that my users lost all their data on my Instance. I am a seasoned System Administrator and I knew better than to operate without database backups. I just did not have the resources as things got out of hand. Between trying to maintain the Instance and work full time. When the Instance bloated there was no easy fix. I have taken preventive measures so that this cannot happen again. My storage is now on the file system so the database will stay manageable and I will not lose user data again. I have also setup more aggressive clean up measures and backups just in case of hardware failure on my VPS part. This is a very sad thing and I hope that Rogue Project's Friendica can rebuild and move past this.
Unus Nemo
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Yet, KISS's Beth will always be one of my favorite ballads 😉
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