GpgFrontend
Mastodon
GpgFrontend | Mastodon | |
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13 | 1,226 | |
424 | 46,020 | |
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9.4 | 10.0 | |
10 days ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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GpgFrontend
- GpgFrontend: Open-source, Cross-platform GnuPG Front end
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My PGP/GPG Public Keys
- GPGFrontEnd - https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend - Gpg4Win (For Windows users) - https://www.gpg4win.org/download.html - Kleopatra (For Linux users -> Best-suited for KDE users) - available in most distributions' package repositories
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Mastodon's Privacy: Who actually holds your data in Mastodon
If there is enough text space for OpenPGP payloads (they can get quite large), you could secure your privacy by using this tool https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend and copy and paste that into Mastodon chats.
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Twitter Working on End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages
Use this https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend on top of it, then they need a $10 wrench to get the private key. This way you and only you have the private key.
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gpg4win command line automation
In my experience, I have not seen much luck in automating GPG on the Windows platform. Instead, almost all automation is either done via GPG on Linux. GPGFrontend might be your answer, and it has seen relatively recent updates.
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Is there a FOSS app for encrypting files that works between Android and Windows?
You can use GPG on every platform. On android, there is OpenKeyChain and on Windows you can use something like this. GPG keys can also be used to sign stuff. You can upload them to key-servers and sign files and emails with it.
- GpgFront End โ A Free, Open-Source, Powerful, Cross-Platform OpenPGP Crypto Tool
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Reddit is actually the worst social media with Facebook in term of privacy.
If you want to digitally sign and/or encrypt messages on such a forum you can use a tool like https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend
- Take the initiative to protect privacy in your own hands
- Share an easy encrypt&decrypt tool
Mastodon
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
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Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the worldโs top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didnโt Read).
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.
- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
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Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884
The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.
If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.
The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.
HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.
Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.
Suggestions?
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CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example
Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?
[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
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You Can't Follow Me
Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....
- Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
What are some alternatives?
opmsg - opmsg message encryption
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
scrypt - The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in the Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
Misskey - ๐ An interplanetary microblogging platform ๐
EncryptPad - Minimalist secure text editor and binary encryptor that implements RFC 4880 Open PGP format: symmetrically encrypted, compressed and integrity protected. The editor can protect files with passwords, key files or both.
Lemmy - ๐ A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
plugins - Officially supported Psi plugins
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
rnp - RNP: high performance C++ OpenPGP library used by Mozilla Thunderbird
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working