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mckinley
Reply to #ghroc5q
Actually, it looks like notifications using Google's service *can* be encrypted end-to-end. I don't know if this is used much in practice or if you can tell if the notifications on *your* device are encrypted. There seems to be some conflicting information out there.

Even if the content is encrypted, though, you're still giving quite a bit of metadata to Google by using their notification service.
5 days ago
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mckinley
Reply to #ghroc5q
It looks like ntfy.sh can work either through the OS's notification service or by maintaining its own connection to the server in the background. For privacy, you definitely want to use "Instant Delivery" and self-host the server.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/faq/#how-much-battery-does-the-android-app-use
https://docs.ntfy.sh/faq/#what-is-instant-delivery
5 days ago
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mckinley
Reply to #ghroc5q
@movq I haven't done any app development, but I know notifications on phones are indeed dependent on cloud services run by the OS vendor which talk to servers run by the app vendor on your behalf. This is supposedly better on battery life, but it conveniently lets your OS vendor read all your notifications.

Mobile XMPP clients usually implement notifications using XEP-0537 and it goes like this:

```
Your XMPP server -> Client vendor's notification server -> Client OS notification server -> User's device
```

It's not end-to-end encrypted so servers will usually just send a dummy message through (You received a message from juliet@capulet.lit!) so you have to open the app to see the (hopefully) encrypted message.
It's a similar flow on both iOS and Android and I assume Matrix clients work the same way.
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
Sorry folks, it was a total disaster 🤣 Had to disable the new feature 😢

- ran out of disk space
- blew up the db on this pod (_corrupted_)
- lots of missing features and. broken shit™
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #2nqa6vq
And we're back!
5 days ago
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prologic
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
@xuu You got any time/energy to help me test this? 🤔 There's a process for indexing an existing archive too...
5 days ago
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prologic
Okay, I've built full search capabilities for `yarnd` 😅 Let's see how many bugs I've created 🤣
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq I _think_ my daughter might be finally 🤔 She's 9 now and getting into table tennis 🏓 whoot whoot! 🥳 So... Maybe...
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
Yeah nothing being logged, so all the "golden paths" are being executed hmm 🧐
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
@bmallred I don't think so. Let me check my pod's logs now though that I know you're pulling me feed.... One sec...
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@prologic That must be hard indeed. 🤔 Are the kids old enough to be interested in this kind of stuff? (Are kids in generall still interested in this? 😂)
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Yeah I'll see if I can get back into this, everytime I see you post stuff like this it makes me want to go out again 🤣 Bit hard for a blind guy to do it all, but still I try 😅
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
The weird this is I still see your profile as

> bmallred may not follow you

I _assume_ you share your followings publicly, I see them on your feed, so I _assume_ so. I was going to debug this on my side too today to see if.I goofed something up but my pod is rather busy so I hadn't done that yet 😅 (_actually working again finally on search_)
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
@bmallred D'oh 😅 Just in the nick of time haha 😜 Good o, I'm very pleased this all works across very different pieces of software 👌
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@prologic Right! I think I remember 😅
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Oh that's hilarious 😆 I have the exact same setup (_minus any filters, I only have those for my Celestron NextStar 4SE telescope_) 🔭
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@prologic Thanks 😅

This is my setup, I *think* I posted these before:

It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 (originally bought for bird watching, not a telescope) with a special adapter so that I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The sun filter is just a generic filter for 100mm scopes. The tripod isn’t very good and actually rather annoying. 😂

It’s not a very complicated setup. 🤔 Being able to mount the camera directly is crucial.
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Wow! 🤩 That is impressive! 👌 Do you mind sharing how you went about doing this? 🙏
6 days ago
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movq
I was able to take a photo of the large sunspots that made the news these days:

https://www.uninformativ.de/pics/photo/astro/2024-05-11--IMG_7512-sun-AR3664.jpg

It’s not a super high quality shot, my scope isn’t good enough for that. Still cool to see. 😎
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ghroc5q
@aelaraji It would appear so. 🤔 (I’m too lazy to set that up, though, I rather just don’t use notifications. They’re not *that* important in this case.)

I was not aware that I needed a cloud service for something as (seemingly) simple as local app notifications. 😳
6 days ago
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movq
Another thing that doesn’t work anymore after blocking network traffic from my Android phone: Some push notifications.

I run a Matrix server for our family. I use “FluffyChat” on my phone. Traffic from the phone to my Matrix server is allowed and chatting in FluffyChat works.

But I don’t get any notifications anymore on new messages.

So, what’s going on here? Does FluffyChat, which only really needs to talk to my own server, rely on some cloud service *for notifications*? Seriously? 🤔 How does that work, does this cloud service see all my notifications or what?

Anyone around who did app development on Android? Can you shed some light on this?
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Look forward to the results 🤞
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #p7gbjzq
Oh so it really does hit some stupid arbitrary endpoint at AWS 😱
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #2du5cpq
(The old device I’m referring to was a handheld device. It was not built into the car and was not running 24/7.)
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
I’ll make an experiment: I’ll keep blocking all the phone’s internet traffic and then we’ll see how bad the GPS performance will get in a couple of hours/days. 😅 (If I got it all wrong and it still works fine, that’d be great!)
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
@prologic Regarding the static URL: The hostname at least is a CNAME record and resolves to something at cloudfront. What I meant was that I, as a user, cannot configure this URL anywhere in the Android UI. 🤔
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
@prologic Hmm, have you used a GPS device 15, 20 years ago? I had one in my car. It would take a long time until it got a first “fix” of your location. That’s because it can take up to 12 minutes until you have gathered all the data directly from the satellites. These days, GPS trackers on smartphones get a fix within seconds, maybe 30 seconds tops, because they get pre-seeded with (approximated) satellite positions via A-GPS.

We also not only have the USA’s GPS these days but also other satellite systems like the EU’s Galileo or Russia’s Glonass. A-GPS helps you get “in contact” quickly with *more* satellites, which enhances the precision quite a lot.

So, yeah, you *can* use it without A-GPS. But it would be very annoying and imprecise. I bought a new phone last year and A-GPS was broken on that one (I saw no internet traffic at all), which made it basically useless, to the point where I wouldn’t want to use it at all. I sent it back and bought another model.

To my knowledge, the only way to use GPS without something like A-GPS is to have it turned on all the time, so you get regular updates directly from the satellites.
6 days ago
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prologic
Hey @bmallred 👋 Can you see this? 🤔
6 days ago
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prologic
I will be deleting 14 inactive and unused accounts (_for >3 years_) on my Gitea instance git.mills.io at some point over the next few days. One of those accounts is yours @adi -- If you'd like to keep it, I suggest you sign-in 😅
6 days ago
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6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
I can't imagine it's a static URL either, it surely has to be a unicast address of some sort. Relying on a static URL sounds like an utter disaster to me 🤔 I'd have to read the open spec on this...
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Surely it isn't as bad as this though right? 🤔 I mean reading the Wikipedia page on A-GPS, it sounds to me like it sends enough data to the nearest tower to give you enough data to warm-up the GPS receivership, presumably with GPS coordinates of the tower itself? I can imagine this data payload would include the Date/Time, IEMI and possibly your SIM details and Phone number (_why not_). It could be worse 🤣
6 days ago
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movq
One thing I’ve learned from locking down my Android phone (see #pknsrda):

The data for assisted GPS does not come from *Google* or, better yet, *A PUBLIC SERVICE*, but from a server hosted by the *hardware manufacturer*. Without regularly fetching fresh A-GPS data, the GPS performance is *much* worse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS).

This means that the hardware manufacturer has (more or less) direct control over whether I’m able to use GPS or not. This isn’t an Android setting, it’s buried deep within the device, no way to change the URL. If that manufacturer decides one day to cut me off, for whatever reason, or goes bankrupt or whatever, then I’ll have to buy a new phone.

And of course, this data transfer is encrypted as well, so I don’t know what my phone sends to those servers.

All this smartphone business is such a clusterfuck. I should have never bought one of those things.
6 days ago
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movq
Reply to #dvnigcq
@prologic Thanks. I expected this to take *much* longer. 😅
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #dvnigcq
@movq Welcome back! 🤗
1 week ago
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movq
Reply to #dvnigcq
Whoohoo, it’s fixed. 🥳 Now I can look at funny pictures again!

I took the opportunity to remove some dependencies on the internet from my workflow. Actually, outages like these are healthy.
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #dvnigcq
@movq Haha cya 👋
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #xd77bfq
@mckinley Yeah pipes and shell pipelines are a powerful and easy to use tool 👌
1 week ago
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1 week ago
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mckinley
Reply to #xd77bfq
@prologic I know, right? It's a very elegant solution to the problem using standard command line utilities. It was too hard to find. I went through 3 or 4 Stack Exchange threads from my Web search before I found somebody linking to this answer. People were misunderstanding the question and suggesting all kinds of crazy methods including weird, proprietary, GUI Windows software.
1 week ago
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movq
Reply to #dvnigcq
This is going to take a while … See ya in a couple of days/weeks.
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #rvzajtq
@aelaraji What was the blocker for using Gitea? 🤔
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #rvzajtq
@aelaraji You can also file issues in Gitea too 👌
1 week ago
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prologic
@aelaraji I _think_ you tried to email me with an encrypted GPG email? 📧 Unfortunately the inbox you sent to (managed by Google Workspaces / GMail) isn't equipped with any GPG or my keys so I had to decrypt by hand, which sux. Are you on Signal?

Alternative message me on Salty IM (https://salty.im) at `prologic@mills.io`
1 week ago
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movq
I have a day off, national holiday.

What happened so far:

- Internet outage since early in the morning. Still going on.
- Unable to reach a human being at my ISP, so I hope they mean it when the computer voice says "we know it, we're on it". 🤣
- systemd (PID 1) crashed. Might be partially my fault, but meh.

I take this as a sign to not do any computer stuff today. 🤣
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #xd77bfq
@mckinley Ahh that is clever indeed 👌 You're essentiall creating FIFO pipes with `>(..)` 🧐
1 week ago
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prologic
Reply to #tspghga

> Deeply questionable legality aside, do any of you use Copilot? Has it had any material impact on your programming work? Is its use allowed by your employer, or do you only use it for personal projects at home?

No never and I never will!
1 week ago
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