cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47843635

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47843624

I have been working on an Android App quite a while now, starting from a simple idea.

A messenger where messages travel directly between phones with no servers in between. Using direct WebRTC encrypted connections (SRTP/DTLS), there are no servers that stores, reads, or relays content. Group chats use a gossip protocol where members relay to other members.

The only infrastructure the app touches is a signalling relay to set up the connection (no message content), a push notification to wake up a sleeping phone (also no content), and a TURN relay for restricted networks (encrypted packets only).

I wrote a detailed white paper explaining the full architecture: https://www.mindtheclub.com/white-paper.html

The app is in Open Testing on Google Play (1,000 tester cap): https://www.mindtheclub.com/beta-signup.html

I’m interested in this community's perspective on whether the architecture holds up.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/49694546

I currently run all my self-hosted apps either on Podman in a VM or in LXCs on Proxmox. For hardware, I'm using a Chinese-made mini computer with an Intel N150 and 16GB of DDR5 RAM that I bought before the whole AI hype started. I also have a Synology NAS that I use mainly for media and photo storage.

I've been thinking about tinkering with Kubernetes in my homelab for a while now (I already use it extensively at work, so I'm quite familiar with it), and I started looking around for used hardware to use as bare metal nodes. Nothing fancy—I'm looking for 1 or 2 mini servers or SFF with at least 16GB of memory and a decent CPU (4–6 cores). But with current prices, even decently priced used hardware (~200–250€) is quite difficult to find in Europe, and most of it is HP stuff with Lenovo being a rare breed around here. I won't even get started on newly bought hardware...

If you've bought hardware in this market recently, how did it go for you? Or are most of you holding out for now, waiting for better times?

Hello self-hosters,

I have been building Journiv, a self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app for people who want to own their personal memories, journals, mood/activity tracking, photos, and related life data.

A few months ago I added Immich integration, which allows you to browse your Immich library from Journiv and attach photos/videos directly to journal entries. That integration was focused on connecting self-hosted photos and videos to the written story behind them.

I just added the next piece: People Tracking with optional Immich face sync.

The idea is simple:

Immich is great at preserving the photo/video itself. Journiv is meant to preserve the story around it. Now Journiv can also help track who was part of that memory.

With the new People feature, you can create and manage important people in your life family, friends, kids, parents, coworkers, etc. Attach them to journal entries. Later, you can filter your timeline by a person and see the memories you’ve captured with them over time.

If you also use Immich, Journiv can use Immich’s people/face data to make this easier.

When you attach an Immich photo to a Journiv entry, Journiv can check the Immich people/faces associated with that asset. If those Immich people are linked to people you track in Journiv, Journiv can automatically suggest or add them to the journal entry.

The goal is not just to store photos or journal text separately, but to connect them together into a more meaningful personal archive: what happened, when it happened, where it happened, and who was part of it.

Would love feedback from the self-hosted community on this feature.

• Watch the demo video
• Blog post with more context
• Get started: Install Journiv
• Immich integration docs
• Release notes
• Demo images from Pexels

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1149341/pope-leo-warns-of-risks-from-a-i-including-fueling-warfare-in-42300-word-encyclical-call

• Longer Article;
• Full Text.

At the presentation of his first social encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV appealed for artificial intelligence to be placed firmly at the service of humanity, warning against technologies that foster domination, exclusion and war

Bambu Lab has signalled it views the reverse engineering effort as legally distinct from the open source debate. The company cites DMCA Section 1201 and WIPO Copyright Treaty Article 11 – which obliges signatory nations to provide legal remedies against circumvention of technical protection measures. “This is not a uniquely American legal concern,” the company says, “it reflects a broad international consensus on protecting secure systems.”

Also they apear to only check user agent in their so called authentication: https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab/blob/main/bambu_response.md

They are claiming copyright over an open source license due to their cloud authentication.

https://forum.bambulab.com/t/setting-the-record-straight-on-cloud-access-and-community

First and foremost, we fully support the open-source community and will continue contributing through Bambu Studio. We deeply respect the AGPL license. Modifying, forking, and redistributing code, as seen with OrcaSlicer and many other projects, is fully respected. We have no issue with this.

Also to be very clear: this is not about OrcaSlicer itself or any other legitimate forks.

The concern is specifically around a separate fork that attempts to impersonate an official Bambu Studio client in order to access our cloud services.

We have observed instances of this being shared publicly. Technically, this involves injecting falsified identity metadata into network communications so that an unofficial client appears identical to an official one to our servers.

This type of method introduces serious risk. If used maliciously, it can generate DDoS-like load patterns, overwhelming our cloud infrastructure and negatively impacting service stability for all users. We learned this before.

It is important to distinguish between rights to the code and access to the service. Open-source licensing governs the code, but it does not grant unlimited or deceptive access to Bambu’s private cloud infrastructure. Our cloud is a private service. Access to it is governed by a user agreement, not the AGPL license.

L’ambiance devient estivale partout pour ce week-end de la Pentecôte. Les températures s’envolent, gagnant entre 10 et 15 degrés par rapport au début de semaine d’est en ouest. Elles atteignent des valeurs de 9 à 12 degrés au-dessus des normales de saison. Ce temps, très chaud et remarquable pour la saison, s’annonce durable.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1149220/men-named-chris-or-talking-animals-more-likely-to-be-star-of-the-film-than-older-women

More of the UK’s top films from the past three years feature a lead actor called Chris than have a female lead actor over the age of 60, new analysis from the country’s first national anti-ageism campaign reveals.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/49683540

Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but his family is making sure fans will still be able to hear from the Prince of Darkness for years to come.

According to a report from the Daily Mail published on Friday, May 22, Ozzy’s widow, Sharon Osbourne, and son Jack Osbourne revealed plans for an AI-powered digital avatar of the late Black Sabbath rocker. The hologram will reportedly allow fans to interact with a virtual version of Ozzy using his voice, likeness and personality.

“You can ask [the digital] Ozzy anything, and he will answer you in his own voice – and the answers will be what Ozzy would have said,” Sharon, 73, said at the convention, per the publication.

“We’re going to take it all around the world. People can talk to him and he will talk back. Elvis died 50 years ago, and everybody knows Elvis. I just want that for Ozzy,” she added.

However, not everyone was on board with the projects.

“They’re still trying [to] squeeze money out of this man. Let him rest,” one X user wrote.

Another added, “Im sorry that’s ghoulish as f**k, I grew up listening to the man and Alice Cooper in my early teens, but no to this.”

Continue reading HERE

Un livret géologique du Tour 2026 : pour les médias, les diffuseurs et tous les amateurs de géologie.

Le retour du merveilleux livret du Tour publié par la Société géologique de France. Rédigé par Patrick De Wever avec la collaboration de Pierre Thomas et Olivier Dequincey.

Hey everyone! I've been building BritChat (britchat.co.uk) — a completely free, no-adverts social chat site for British people across all four nations.

It has live chat rooms (Lobby, The Snug, The Lounge), 15+ British games you can play to earn coins, a daily British content card, Poker tables, a daily wheel spin, posts and private messages, and The British Vault — 74 sections of British culture, history, music and icons.

No sign up needed to try the chat. Would genuinely love to hear what Brits think of it!

🇬🇧 britchat.co.uk

Hey everyone! I've been building BritChat (britchat.co.uk) — a completely free, no-adverts social chat site for British people across all four nations.

It has live chat rooms (Lobby, The Snug, The Lounge), 15+ British games you can play to earn coins, a daily British content card, Poker tables, a daily wheel spin, posts and private messages, and The British Vault — 74 sections of British culture, history, music and icons.

No sign up needed to try the chat. Would genuinely love to hear what Brits think of it!

🇬🇧 britchat.co.uk

Today's game is Halo. We got our group back together for a game and did a few matches on Coagulation. I watched some episodes of RvB and really wanted to do a few games of CtF on that map.

I learned a fun new thing I could do in Halo 2, which apparently I can just let the enemy team get in the Warthog with me. We used this and had a few funny moments together where I got some friends in the warthog with me and I helped them get the flag. It was a private match so it was just us messing around.

My personal favorite part was when I got stuck in the enemy team base, and asked one of them to give me a ride home. They then drove me home in the warthog and dropped me off.

Speaking of Coagulation, this is an interesting map. I feel like it's part of a rare breed of map that's just weirdly large in a good way. Even I feel like its counterparts such as Valhalla are fairly small in comparison. It's an interesting thing I thought about, though it's entirely possible I'm forgetting a map.

Of the final match I'll detail, we did Sandbox CTF. I think I mixed up the maps though. This one was an interesting experience. I don't usually do Halo 3 CtF. This one was an interesting map for it because you have those slopes on each end, so you have to climb down the slopes and then backup on the other end. Then you have the open flat area with rare cover to cross. it just makes for an interesting game overall. I kind of want to see a take on this though like what people do with TF2 maps where they ramp up a certain trait of the map. I've seen it done to a few maps before but I'd love to see it done to others too.