Notices by binfalse (martin@mstdn.binfalse.de), page 8

how to #troubleshoot the troubleshooter?

@sendung @jlelse
hehe, #bullseye! :angry_trump:
hard to know what you get in the end, as usual. different levels of #uncertainty

i for sure wouldn't trust the image of crazymax, unless he's a good friend. i've seen many popular accs being sold or #hijacked..
if #mozilla would be an official acc at #dockerhub, i'd probably also have sufficient #trust in that image.

but... most trustworthy is the sources and a #dockerfile from mozilla's repo. so i need to (automatically) build the image myself

@jlelse there is an image @ #dockerhub called #mozilla/syncserver, but that is inofficial. not sure who built it and what's in it...
basically, everyone could create an account with the name "mozilla" :)

and i'd never use an image by some unknown #3rdparty (like crazymax) for such #sensitive information... who knows what's in the image? and what's in there next week?

@Wolf480pl @ck @aral
and in the end you need to #trust the browser anyway, don't you? i mean, how can you make sure they are not collecting all the data in the background, whether or not you enabled sync..?

that's why i'm not using #chrome - they are for sure collecting everything there is to collect...

for #firefox i'm at least not sure ;-)

i'd still recommend to #questionthat individually.

Run your own Private #Firefox #Sync Server :firefox:
https://binfalse.de/2019/01/04/run-your-private-firefox-sync-server/

blogged as a #followup from yesterday https://mstdn.binfalse.de/@martin/101360297771580532

@schnittchen @jalcine @krono and @dgold politely convinced me to elaborate in an article :)

@Xyc0 yes, that's what it looks like ;-)
curl also gets a time out on :80

but even on :443 the page doesn't work for me... it says " Error fetching updates" (do you need cookies or anything?)

@mase @fdroidorg thanks! please keep us updated :)

just let me know if you want to use my sync server for temp testing

@Xyc0 what's they.com? #they use an invalid cert... ;-)

@mase it is supposed to work on #android, but i can't confirm that...
i'm using #orfox and #fossbrowser, which however do not support sync.
there is no pure #firefox in the @fdroidorg repository (and #google #play #store is not an option). just tried #icecat but cannot sign in to sync (probably related to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50960)

@nev but i can't figure out how to point #epiphany to my private #sync server...!?
the settings seem to be #hardcoded..?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/blob/master/lib/ephy-sync-utils.h#L33

do you have any #experience with that?

@nev #cool, didn't know that! can it #sync out of the box? does it only sync with other #epiphany instances, or also with #firefox instances?
ah you know what... hold my #beer, i'll give it a try! :doomguy:

@mase yes, they discontinued #weave (aka #sync 1.0 or 1.1) because it was too #complex and #unreliable...

now it's sync 1.5! 👨🌾
and it seems to be working well. (though, i didn't test everything, yet...)

with #floccus you can only sync #bookmarks, can't you?

just setup a private #firefox #sync server. pretty straight forward... :firefox:

1. build a #docker image from https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
2. #deploy it somewhere
3. configure identity.sync.tokenserver.uri in #about:config to point to your new location
4. login at `about:preferences#sync` (you still need a #mozilla account, unless you also run a private account server)
5. sync and check about:sync-log for #error|s

should i #blog that in more #detail? :think_bread:

@fribbledom just used #sync3c to grab all the #35c3 #videos - and it's working #great! #thanks #64G :borglove:

@salixlucida or #tor! :tor:

but that doesn't make them #respect people's #privacy... 🤨

no content for #eu people... #dsgvo #gdpr 🤦♂️

is that #youtube-ng?

and they still set #cookies and include #trackers...

@ishara
Strange here as well... Did @tom79 change something in #mastalab that transfers significantly more data?