MozWire
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MozWire | Mastodon | |
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26 | 1,226 | |
530 | 45,916 | |
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2.3 | 10.0 | |
12 months ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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MozWire
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Mozilla.social is live and open to registration
> think they don't support plain wireguard/openvpn from CLI, you're stuck with a client not available for your officially supported OS...
This is possible, I had good results with https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire
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MozillaVPN exclude list either doesn't work or I'm doing it wrong
If you're happy working directly with wireguard there's https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/ which will give you wireguard configs for MozillaVPN.
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is mozillavpn cli friendly?
I've written a tool to use Mozilla VPN from the command line: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
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Mozilla VPN - Transmission Server; Can I salvage this? What is the best case scenario?
You can use this: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
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DMCA Notice from Google Fiber should I be freaking out the way I am? I was using QB with TorGuard, but the kill-switch must have not worked.
I wrote a program to be able to get wireguard config files using MozillaVPN you may be interested in: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
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Mozilla VPN without official app possible?
Not sure if this works with 10.13, but you can try: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire
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Mozilla VPN bro working on mobile (iPhone iOS 16) since software update. Have uninstalled, turned phone on and off etc. it blocks all my traffic. Turned it off and got flooded with notifications. Anyone else experiencing issues?
The Mozilla VPN app never worked for me. What I do is use Mozwire to get WireGuard configuration files and use the default WireGuard app works fine.
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Thinking about rolling release
Hello, shameless plug here, you may be interested in this client for Mozilla VPN: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
- Mozilla VPN Manual Wireguard Configs
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Question about open source (sorry if I sound dumb)
Lastly (shameless plug) you can use Mozilla VPN without using the official client and use https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire.git (here the difference in terms of trust with MozillaVPN is mainly that MozWire is much smaller and so can be audited easily and MozWire is much easier to compile than the official mozilla vpn client).
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 world’s 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; Didn’t 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?
network-manager-wireguard - NetworkManager VPN Plugin: Wireguard
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
mozilla-vpn-client - A fast, secure and easy to use VPN. Built by the makers of Firefox.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
wireguard-vyatta-ubnt - WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
prometheus_wireguard_exporter - A Prometheus exporter for WireGuard, written in Rust.
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
boringtun - Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
libvopono - Backend crate for vopono.
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working