Notices by Amolith (amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz)

@freemo I'm the same way for the most part. The lack of integrity and the toxicity of what's considered newsworthy puts me off and makes it uninteresting. With tech, I've mostly developed my own opinion of the topics independently so the bias that's often present isn't a huge deal.

Just set #Nitter up 😏 Similar to (and inspired by) #Invidious, it's an alternative frontend to Twitter but without ads, tracking, or javascript. It doesn't use the official API so there are no rate limits plus you're never connecting directly to Twitter, and it's *much* more lightweight.

https://nitter.nixnet.xyz/
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

And Tiny Tiny RSS can generate public feeds for articles you tell it to. This means that, if people add my generated feed, I can recommend *any* article, whether the source is a direct RSS feed or something I've added from wallabag, and it will show up in their feed reader :thonking:

https://tt-rss.nixnet.xyz/public.php?op=rss&id=-2&view-mode=all_articles&key=xwyo245d7808aaaa0f1
🤯 🤯

Alright I'm impressed with this. #wallabag can generate RSS feeds of your unread articles. I didn't think about this before now but that means I can throw wallabag a link using the browser extension while I'm working on something and it will be downloaded to wallabag then to #TinyTinyRSS and from there, it's downloaded to my phone. With hardly any effort (aside from setting them up), I can read any article offline in a single app.

🤯

https://wallabag.nixnet.xyz
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
https://tt-rss.nixnet.xyz
https://github.com/torne/Tiny-Tiny-RSS

I've just set up #Nextcloud for any that are interested! Users get 10 GB by default; let me know if you need more and we can talk.

Before registering, make sure you read this page: https://nixnet.xyz/nextcloud/

It's available over clearnet: https://cloud.nixnet.xyz/

And over #Tor as a #HiddenService:
http://gauqtx73eylbbls2hpxe3cjmfscyzzwzlvcngooyf7o2646rnkk4itqd.onion/

#NixNet

I'm looking for an open source alternative to #Evernote. I've tried #Joplin, #Simplenote, #Turtl, and a few others but none of them quite cut it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The #FediWAN #Gaming Party is a group of peeps from the #Fediverse that get together and play some multiplayer games :blobnerd:

https://pad.disroot.org/p/FediWAN_Party

We've got a few FLOSS options, some free but proprietary listings, and a bunch of paid games so there's something for everyone :blobwink:

If you don't see one you want to play, feel free to add it in alphabetical order and list yourself under it! :blobhappy:

#unDraw is absolutely amazing for pretty much anything related to design!

https://undraw.co/illustrations

All the illustrations are free, you get SVGs, and you can even change the colour prior to download so they all have the colour scheme you want right ootb.

The license is even better. You can use them for free for both personal and commercial projects without attribution. I will likely give attribution anyway because it's just an awesome project but I do like the freedom they give.

https://undraw.co/license

I'm working on a talk for #SELF and this is the first slide:

I've seen URI before on a few websites but just assume it was meant to be URL. Turns out I was very wrong and I've been using the wrong term for years 😂

https:// = scheme
github.com = host
/tootsuite/mastodon = path

host = URI
path = URI or URN
host+path=URI
scheme+host+path=URI or URL

So if you're asking someone for how to get to their website, what you're really looking for is the URI; you don't want someone to spell out https;//joinmastodon.org, just joinmastodon.org. When you want a full link (like copy/pasted), it's more accurate to say URL but URI is still correct.

Just thought that was interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DNS + Root Certificate Hijack Proof and Demonstration

http://https-interception.info.tm/

This is a very easy-to-use demo and proof-of-concept server to show how *incredibly* easy it is have your private information stolen through seemingly benign methods.

I've got an article mirrored on my blog explaining it a little more in-depth if you're interested.

https://nixnet.xyz/dns-and-root-certificates-what-you-need-to-know/

Please boost to help prevent others from falling for these scams.

#DNS #RootCert #Hijack #Scam #Keweon #KeweonDNS

Before I go ruining my instance, is there any way to give a user their username back? I assume I can do something with the database but I'm not 100% certain.

Friend made an account, I promoted them to admin expecting to have to option to demote them if needed but I found that I didn't. So I had them delete their account then remake it. Only to find that their username was taken.

Anyone know how to fix this so they can have the same username?

(please boost 🙏)

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon