Anyone know Ukrainian's that need digital space for keeping files safe? I have an FTP server hosted in the Netherlands and I can give away 3 times 10 GB (30 GB). It's not a huge space, but it might be enough to keep some family data safe? PM me if interested.
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:: http://steve-jansen.github.io/ guides/ windows-batch-scripting/ part-2-variables.html :: Saves the JSON files to IPFS @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS :: script global variables SET me=%~n0 SET parent=%~dp0 SET folder=export SET event=https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/ukraine-server/api/ukraine SET page1=%event%/export_events/deeprows SET file1=%folder%\export_events.json SET page2=%event%/export_associations/deeprows SET file2=%folder%\export_associations.json SET page3=%event%/export_sources/deepids SET file3=%folder%\export_sources.json SET log=%parent%\%me%.log :: Generate the ipfs key with `ipfs key gen --type=rsa --size=2048 bellingcat_ukraine` SET ipfskey=k2k4r8k7lcogpmkq9mkf3ykg1rexvhmxcinz5z91k8v49gbem6ivjp1v SET ipfskeyName=bellingcat_ukraine ECHO %me%: %date% %time% started... ECHO --- >> %log% ECHO %me%: %date% %time% started... >> %log% curl %page1% > %file1% curl %page2% > %file2% curl %page3% > %file3% SET size=0 call :filesize %file1% ECHO file 1 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof call :filesize %file2% ECHO file 2 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof call :filesize %file3% ECHO file 3 size is %size% >> %log% if %size%==0 goto :eof ECHO "Files copied..." :: copies the files in the folder as they appear on the original site COPY /Y %file1% %folder%\export_events\deeprow >> %log% COPY /Y %file2% %folder%\export_associations\deeprow >> %log% COPY /Y %file3% %folder%\export_sources\deepid >> %log% SET ipfshash=''; SET ipfsbase32=''; FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%f IN (`ipfs add -q -r %folder%`) DO SET ipfshash=%%f FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%f IN (`ipfs cid base32 %ipfshash%`) DO SET ipfsbase32=%%f ECHO CID: %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO https:// %ipfsbase32%.ipfs.dweb.link >> %log% ECHO %me%: Pinning... >> %log% ipfs pin add %ipfshash% >> %log% :: ECHO %me%: Pinning to Pinata >> %log% :: Turned off in favor of web3.storage @REM ipfs pin remote add --service=Pinata --name=%ipfskeyName% %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Uploading files to Web3.storage... :: See https:// web3.storage/ docs/ examples/ getting-started/ node C:\Users\johan\Projects\IPFS\web3-storage-quickstart\put-files.js --token=%WEB3_STORAGE_KEY_PC1% %folder% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Publishing to IPNS key %ipfskeyName% ... >> %log% ipfs name publish --key=%ipfskeyName% %ipfshash% >> %log% ECHO %me%: Done! Check the log curl-to-ipfs.log for details. :: Thank you https:// stackoverflow.com/ a/ 11479359 :: Set filesize of first argument in %size% variable, and return :filesize set size=%~z1 exit /b 0 :: force execution to quit at the end of the "main" logic EXIT %ERRORLEVEL%
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The OneDrive site at https://
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Server upgrade today: 2048 GB Ram and two CPU cores. Not sure if I really need it, but that seems to be the standard these days and the "upgrade" was free - for now. So why not.
Can I run a small and private Mastodon instance on a QNAP NAS server? Let's find out.
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Why do I believe Gemini is great for personal Internet presences? First of all, it's a real grass-roots initiative which I am very excited about.
If you're reading this, chances are high you are already using Gemini. But for history reasons and to share my opinions of Gemini I would like to offer you here some views of mine.
Collecting some of the strong-points of Gemini from my perspective of having some experience with Gopher and running personal websites.
And on top of this, the young Gemini community is driven to make this a success!
I'm sold.
ps. I published this first in plain text on my Gemini capsule and now that I copy paste this into a HTML document I can really tell just how easy it is to publish on Gemini.
"Any Database Server can be accessed remotely and many can serve huge databases. But a server needs a machine, and human resources associated with its operational management. Such costs are detrimental for pay-per-use model of the cloud and especially to a new popular with developers class of Serverless applications."
Element is another encrypted chat app for the security conscious to consider, offering not just end-to-end encryption but also decentralized storage, so your message data isn't held in one place by one company – you can even set up your own server, if you want to. decentralization, internet, matrix, syndicated, tech
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See this page if you have a Twitter account and want to control what kind of ads you get served: https://
It contained over 300 keywords, some of them I totally did not know why they would be added to my profile, some clearly wrong (Loud Orange Face was in there too) - so I started curating the list. The UX of this page is terrible.
In my case, there are over 300 checkboxes in a long list and there is no way to go through the process of unchecking the boxes easily because on EVERY click a POST request is sent to Twitter, which creates a brief moment where the user needs to wait before they can click on the next checkbox.
So obviously when a lot of people do this at the same time, especially now after watching the Social Dilemma documentary, clearly this page was not designed with that kind of traffic and server load in mind.
Was it done deliberately to discourage people to maintain this list? After 10 clicks or so the server is responding with error 503 ("Service Unavailable" or "over capacity") and none of the changes you make to the list is actually stored. I only noticed this after a reload. Yes, you can happily click further ignoring the error toast notification, but none of your changes will be saved.
This smells like a dark pattern, doesn't it?
Uninstalled ManyVerse to see if I would miss it. Also deleted the pub server. Don't know if anyone was actually following my ManyVerse account. So not sure I can restore it.
We’re facing the end of the cloud. It’s a bold statement, I know, and maybe it even sounds a little mad. But bear with me. The conventional wisdom about running server applications, be it web apps or mobile app backends, is that the future is in the cloud. decentralization, decentralized web, internet, syndicated
Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance.
@frankmeeuwsen Bedankt voor de follow! 😀 Ik zal een oogje op mijn apache server logs houden om te weten te komen of je ook met Twtxt te keer gaat.
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Trying to obtain an Access Token for IndiePub with IndieAuth to be used in IFTTT requests so I can link other Web Services with my site.
I was able before to get a token using https://
This post is about trying to solve this issue.
Got the endpoints of my server using:
https://
After entering all the fields in "Gimme A Token" and going through the process to get the access token, I end up on https://
What is causing this "client mismatch"? Did Known get safer or is "gimme-a-token" broken?
Going to reach out to Seb and Marcus in the next days.
Found that Greg had a similar issue with Monocle some months ago: https://
So I can rule out that "Gimme-A-Token" is broken.
Thanks to the greate people on the #knownchat IRC channel (thanks Aaron, Greg and sknebel) I have a pointer towards htaccess and http/https redirecting. Looking into that now.
It seems that for a correct IndieAuth authentication, I had to add a hard-coded "me" url in the head of the Known head.tpl.php file so the Known homepage would always have this link:
<!-- Hardcoded me url --> <link href="https://social.johanbove.info" rel="me" class="u-url">
This resolved the https://
But unfortunately I'm still getting "Client mismatch" errors with "Gimme a token" most of the time. I did manage to get once an actual token which I can now use again for IFTTT PESOS syndication.
"sudo apt-get install minidlna"
The steps described by Christian Bundy help me restore the corrupted stream data in my Scuttlebutt "server" data today.
Are you able to use any version of ssb-server or Patchwork? This looks to me like your flumedb views are corrupted (see flumedb/flumedb#32), but I've only ever personally seen this when running my flumedb deletion scripts. You can regenerate all of your views by deleting everything in ~/.ssb/flume/ except for log.offset, but I might make a backup so that we can try to debug them. Sorry, that's a total pain for Scuttlebutt to just randomly explode without warning, hopefully just moving/removing your view files will help? I'm sure you already know, but I'd recommend that you make a backup of ~/.ssb/secret and ~/.ssb/gossip.json before running rm anywhere near your SSB folder. It wouldn't hurt to make a backup of ~/.ssb/flume/log.offset either, but it's not quite as important as the first two.