Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

I have been testing for the past few days three replacements for #Google's #Firebase notifications: #ntfy, #Gotify and #NextCloud's Unified Push project. A few observations after a bit of tinkering:

1. The idea behind #UnifiedPush is amazing. An open protocol to share push notifications over any asynchronous channel (websocket, Redis, MQTT etc.) is what open-source apps have needed for years. Sure, there will always be those who say "push notifications are a distraction, and I'm happy to ditch them". But individual choices/behaviors shouldn't shape the development of a technology - especially when people want a genuine open alternative to something that they like/need to use.

2. UnifiedPush support from individual apps is still scarce. So far I've only found the NextCloud app itself (which only supports UP-NextPush), #Fedilab and #Element. Support on #Tusky has allegedly been implemented in the latest release, but I haven't yet managed to make it work. Let's roll up our sleeves and make sure that more and more of the apps that we like support open notification services!

3. The notification providers' client apps themselves are still quite buggy, and documentation still very sparse. I have used UP-Example from F-Droid to test the UP services. Only ntfy managed to deliver notifications end-to-end to my devices. Gotify reported an "unknown error" without many details from the logs. UP-NextPush is still very unstable both on the client and server side and I couldn't manage to deliver any notifications.

4. The protocol (and the apps that implement it) needs to slowly be extended to cover as many as possible of the features that have been implemented in the past decade. Action buttons, icons from URLs, custom background images, updates to existing notifications etc.: a couple of these features have been (partly) implemented by 1-2 providers, but we need open standards (especially for action buttons and gestures) if we want to ensure inter-compatibility.

Mathijs de Bruin blogs about why http://ipfs-search.com is needed

https://blog.ipfs-search.com/introducing-ipfs-search/

Unendlich

Twitter is starting to block some instances of Mastodon... Spread the word!

A little over a year ago, I closed my social media accounts. Here's what happened. #SocialMedia

https://silviamaggidesign.com/personal/life-off-social-media/

Generally I post about managed hosting as this is the easiest way to create your own online services.

However, there are many projects out there trying to make non-managed hosting easier too:

https://yunohost.org is a version of Linux that makes it as easy as possible to install your own services. Once @yunohost is installed on a server, it lets you add lots of online services (https://yunohost.org/apps) very easily through a graphical interface.

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#SelfHosting #HomeGrown #GrowYourOwn

Fediverse shows that humanity lost their attention and some people live inside their screens. No doubt if you own many computers (or screens as I simple call it), you become an addict.

I become an addict in the 90s, and only the recent 5-6 years I realized my mistake.

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/kzimmermann/statuses/107940182322276863

After about 14 years of hard work bringing open source into cellular communications in #osmocom, at seemingly impossibly small budgets, it pains me a lot that @sysmocom@twitter.com we now have to turn down customers / funding for more open source due to lack of developer capacity :(

[Full-time] Senior Software Developer (Osmocom cellular protocol stacks) at sysmocom GmbH / osmocom.org https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10884/senior-software-developer-osmocom-cellular-protocol-stacks-at-sysmocom-gmbh-osmocomorg/ #jobs

Heute ist Weltfrauentag und internationale Einhornwoche.

Bonne nouvelle (enfin !).

Le Parlement européen a voté pour des #batteries réparables et remplaçables dans tous les appareils électroniques grand public.

https://repair.eu/news/the-european-parliament-carves-the-path-to-removabe-and-replaceable-batteries/

Kapitalistische Wunschfee

You use a #FreeSoftware OS. From what age does a computer "gets old" for you?

#oldcomputers #retrocomputing

Reaching people on the Internet
#meta

Yeah #Zoom, enlighten us:

Why is the freaking Zoom app listening to our microphone when we are not in a meeting?

"Because we are a #privacy and #security nightmare club that only care about the big bucks that your #surveillancecapitalism harvested data allows us to exploit."

This is of course not their answer, because being a wolf, why whould you talk to the sheep you have for breakfast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266894

Go good, go #FOSS !

Have a #Jitsi #BigBlueButton #Matrix or other proper tool.

Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta cannot process Europeans' data on US servers.

https://www.cityam.com/mark-zuckerberg-and-team-consider-shutting-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe-if-meta-can-not-process-europeans-data-on-us-servers/

My take in thread: 🧶