happyborg

Working on #decentralization, #p2p and #dWeb tech, online #privacy and #security, #CopyLeft, #FOSS #Rust.

The #fediverse is a lifeboat, #p2p is the shore.

#nobridge #noaitraining #norobots

dWeb Blog: https://toast.happybeing.com
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/happybeing
Github (deprecated): https://github.com/happybeing
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2026-05-17 13:32:53 UTC

#FediHelp! #ssh key managers for Linux please, based on...
I'm setting up a #HomeLab including three #Proxmox nodes with various VMs and containers (Inc Docker), an OpenWrt router. Plus a cheap VPS for remote access using #Pangolin, but I don't know how it plays with #ssh yet. So maybe this is a dumb question?
Clients will be a Linux laptop and maybe a couple of Android phones with a terminal app.
Any advice about apps you have used yourself? 🙏

2026-04-23 17:54:51 UTC

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I'm not sure I'm getting the issue but... for builds of various kinds, including websites, I used a bash script which both did the build and uploaded the result. You could include any git commands you like in that rather than use his commands to trigger the script. Later I moved to doing something similar with CI, first on GitHub and after deciding to leave there, on Codeberg.

2026-04-12 15:19:21 UTC

#DeltaChat is looking good. More friends too!

2026-04-12 14:19:21 UTC

I'm good to go with #DeltaChat - see profile:
https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

2025-11-25 17:16:41 UTC

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Did they cover Publii? It's modelled on WordPress and works well IME. Certainly not complicated - I can get a new site up in a minute.

2025-11-14 10:22:23 UTC

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My partner cancelled a #Vodafone mobile contact by email and years later was taken to court by a debt collector, but won. Though the experience was awful. In a private room with just their lawyer and my partner she was verbally bullied and threatened, but didn't give in.
This is on Vodafone IMO, for not cancelling, then selling the debt despite all the emails they had and which the judge accepted made the debt claim spurious.

2025-11-14 10:17:53 UTC

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I had this cancelling broadband once and refused to call them.
Instead I wrote a letter saying i was cancelling the contract and that it was not acceptable to me to be required to do anything else, and threatening legal remedy should they fail to cancel.
IIRC they wrote back saying they did this because they needed some information from me (really?) but it went through anyway.
My default is always to write letters because it creates a record that's hard to refute.

2025-11-10 14:59:35 UTC

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Yeh, makes sense. Good you got an answer, thanks for letting me know.

2025-11-07 22:31:41 UTC

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Thanks for sticking with it. It's early days so much to improve, but the point is that this works and is great for users (privacy, control and security for data, no censorship etc) and developers (use standard web skills/tooling, no hosting/domain costs or maintenance, free scalability).
Every version of every website or app published remains accessible forever too. So no link rot, no loss of access to your data or your favourite app.

2025-11-07 22:23:49 UTC

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That's great, thanks. Let me know if it is taking too long and I'll ping them.

2025-11-07 22:11:36 UTC

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this seems to relate to an area that has been changed in the network recently. Would you be able to report this in a post at forum.autonomi.community? If you can, others will pick it up from there and take a look.
Thanks again, this is really helpful.

2025-11-07 22:08:30 UTC

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Ok, that's good, thanks.
It might be that the network is a bit unreliable because it is undergoing an upgrade and lie of people restarting nodes can make it a bit unreliable, or it might be a new bug resulting from the changes.
See how it is in a day or two. I haven't been using it today myself.

2025-11-07 21:51:36 UTC

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Hey, thanks for trying it out.
Unfortunately at the moment that's expected. If you wait it should load the website after a while. I'm looking into how to avoid that but it has been difficult to find the time lately.
If it doesn't load at all, please let me know what OS and Browser you are using.
Also what version of Dweb!

2025-11-07 18:47:26 UTC

My #AutonomiDweb App has been updated to improve performance.
Use it to access a world of #decentralized websites and dynamic web apps hosted on the #p2p cloud that is the #Autonomi network.
No gatekeepers, domains, hosting services, surveillance, data breaches, censorship etc. Just you, and a fully encrypted storage network.
https://forum.autonomi.community/t/the-autonomidweb-app-one-click-access-to-autonomi-websites-and-web-apps/42431/58?u=happybeing

2025-09-29 23:48:11 UTC

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I've read the replies but not your blog.
I resent that my privacy is routinely violated by anyone and everyone - because -commercial anti-social media has blinded everyone to its creating a place of no-privacy for reasons of profit and control.
I turn my face away from passers-by who want to photograph or video me as part of their 'day out', because I expect that content to be made available *globally* without a thought for me. Soon
#UKLabour will make live face recognition compulsory.

2025-09-22 21:50:24 UTC

#Trump's #fascism is characterising #autism as an illness, while many autistics feature as outstanding figures in numerous fields, including during the fight against #Hitler in WWII.
#science
#Farage is a mini-me Trump and will keep following his lead.
#ReformUK

2025-08-23 22:41:39 UTC

Businesses replacing people with #LLMs are burning the furniture to keep warm.

2025-08-15 14:20:24 UTC

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We need a better option, something as easy and effective as Medium etc, but which avoids the need to know about hosting, servers or to be under the control of anyone else (benevolent dictators included).
That's the idea between #AutonomiDweb though it is not quite there, and will need to grow content before a lot of folk will take it seriously.

2025-08-15 13:02:44 UTC

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FYI: I was about to read this then realised it's on Medium.

2025-07-04 18:11:45 UTC

Apparently #KierStarmer says he shares Trump's 'values' as Trump starts setting up a network of mass concentration camps and funds a new #Nazi style SS with more money than any other US law enforcement agency.
WTF planet is Starmer on?
He and #UKLabour are a malevolent force and need to be removed from power asap.

2025-07-04 18:01:11 UTC

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I support #PalestineAction because I'm against #genocide and #WarCrimes such as starving, bombing and shooting a civilian population.
Unlike #YvetteCooper and #KeirStarmer and this #UKLabour government who are still sending weapons to the criminal Israeli regime.
None of that will change because they've made it illegal for me to say so from tomorrow.
#UKLabour is anti democracy in UK and pro mass murder of #Palestinians in #Gaza, and pro #apartheid in #Israel.
Why?

2025-07-03 12:27:57 UTC

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What's Weblate? I'm learning to use your CI but haven't come across that.

2025-06-19 22:18:26 UTC

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Back then "Thinking Machines" seemed to be a joke so I never batted an eyelid and wss just interested in what they did do. And nearly got to play with their kit.
Revisiting the name today I wonder.

2025-05-27 13:23:11 UTC

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If you might be interested in implementing those projects where you also have access to p2p storage on top of local fs, I have a way forward without OPFS.

2025-05-20 20:50:15 UTC

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I mean no remote server, hosting etc. You install dweb, run 'dweb serve' and so you do have a local server.

2025-05-20 19:32:31 UTC

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See also p2p: #ScratchChat, just published needs no server, intermediaries and is end-to-end encrypted.
More here:
https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg/114541811455576193

2025-05-20 19:28:59 UTC

My secure peer-to-peer chat app works and no-one is more amazed than me! 🎉
#ScratchChat is live on Autonomi so anyone can chat to anyone. No server, hosting, signup, intermediaries, surveillance or censorship.
This is secure, anonymous chat on a #p2p network in a 64kB HTML file that runs in a standard browser.
Follow my address: a83c68c0d90c592037b769bb5cfaa7f669db39a7c23f02b0b52abf3bd50293e93b790383155de26b22fab9b15d0cdc0b
github: https://github.com/happybeing/dweb-app-scratchchat
#Decentralized #dapp #WebDev #App
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2025-05-16 21:23:55 UTC

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> If you demand sovereignty, privacy, UX, reliability, and scale, then everything is hard
Autonomi delivers all of these *and* makes it easy.

2025-05-14 08:48:34 UTC

I'm close to sharing my most ambitious decentralised app for #Autonomi yet.
It's a single 40k file of HTML that loads from the secure anonymous p2p network and talks to it over a REST API provided by a local #dweb server that I created.
It's going to be fun: a cross between chat and Mastodon/Twitter/X type #SocialMedia
I delayed release to support avatars, but nearly done now.
Secure, encrypted, #p2p social media. Simple to install and join.
Follow hashtag #ScratchChat

2025-05-12 08:26:11 UTC

Why does anyone here still use Google search?
It's easy to get away from that garbage and avoid ads and sponsored links completely, so why do you continue to use such a poor search service?

2025-04-16 10:27:20 UTC

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That's the same way I argue against all these dark patterns: what if you did this in a personal relationship - what would happen?
Simple example: you send me a message that I can't reply to, and if I don't do what you ask you repeatedly send the same instruction in increasingly forceful and believable tone.
That's how my fucking Doctor's practice now operates and it is abuse FFS.
@npub1fay…3mrl

2025-04-03 18:59:46 UTC

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dweb for Autonomi aims to achieve this. My project:
https://github.com/happybeing/dweb/blob/main/dweb-cli/README.md#contents

2025-03-11 13:01:51 UTC

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great, I'd do this myself but have too many things to do making it possible with 'dweb'.
This may help, but won't work until I release, hopefully in a day or two: https://github.com/happybeing/dweb#dweb

2025-03-11 12:49:11 UTC

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Would love to have this on Autonomi too.

2025-02-20 09:49:04 UTC

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you have much to learn glasshopper.

2025-01-29 10:18:22 UTC

Maybe someone should make a list of all the things the US oligarchs' #AI chatbots won't talk about so we can compare with China's #DeepSeek.
We certainly can't expect mainstream media to do that.
I'm serious, all these models need to be characterised and compared on not just how rubbish they are, but the censorship and distortions they are being used to implement.
Same for the social media platforms etc.
#LLM

2025-01-14 19:33:29 UTC

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Of course I understand those points and that you think you are doing it in the best way you can.
Reality though is that tolerating and as I point out, providing *support* to Nazis, racists and bigots by helping their enablers (Meta and X), is what leads to people like Trump and Hitler overturning democracy through legal means.
Democracy is easily lost when not enough people stand up for its values.
Let's all be more like South Korea and less like Russia, Hungary and the USA.

2025-01-14 15:17:08 UTC

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I pay you £60 per year but avoid Patreon for the same reasons I don't want fedi touching #Meta or any other anti-human sociopathic entity.
So you selected for people who are already ok with supporting sociopaths, for whatever reason.
Please #defederate #fedi from anti-human sociopathic systems like #Threads. Not doing so literally supports those entities and the racists, Nazis and bigots they foster and amplify.
WTAF @npub1j7t…kn6q?

2024-12-13 14:13:21 UTC

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And ok, I'm interested in this too and building an app related to that for Autonomi which is still in testing so not ready for you yet. When it is, next year?, it might be just what you want.
Right now my goal is an rclone backend to deliver versioned backup. Earlier though I demo'd versioned websites and I'm figuring out how to incorporate both, and other features into a cross platform app. File sharing is obviously part of the potential here.
@npub1jr3…jk6p

2024-12-13 10:54:02 UTC

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Possibly not what you have in mind, but Flying Carpet is awesome for moving stuff between devices regardless of type and OS.
@npub1jr3…jk6p

2024-12-13 10:37:14 UTC

To get me to pay them money, #TheGuardian told me how many articles I read this year.
Tracking me without my consent. 🤔
That'll be a no then. #Ethics and meeting legal obligations are important to me, a simple test for deserving support, especially in #journalism.
They're still embedding Tweets as well. 🤦‍♂️
#privacy

2024-12-05 14:15:15 UTC

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I had a problem finding software to test the integrity of filesystems when I created a FUSE mount for a decentralised filesystem a few years ago.
I'll face a similar problem soon, for the latest incarnation which will use rclone instead of FUSE, so it would indeed be interesting to run Bonnie against a range of rclone backends, including my p2p based fs. I'll let you know if I ever get that far.
Thanks for making this such an interesting read.

2024-11-16 13:05:07 UTC

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Nothing owned centrally is decentralised whatever it claims.
But #Bluesky has turned out to be another centralised system with a #decentralized paint job.
Decentralisation is extremely hard, not just technically but in every aspect. VCs for example cannot be involved. Anyone with a capitalist mindset will also be prone to replicating that unconsciously - which is almost everyone whether we realise it or not.
It will happen IMO, but is taking its time!
@npub1fdr…lvhs @npub1h4e…hnn5

2024-10-31 09:29:19 UTC

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I've not used it yet but been looking at implementing a new backend for it and I'm pretty sure it claims sync both ways.
@npub1st2…t0mv

2024-09-28 10:29:38 UTC

"Targeted" in #IDF speak means #Israel obliterating and entire neighborhood of a densely populated area of a capital city with the personal authorisation of #Netanyahu, using bombs recently supplied by the USA.
#Lebanon #WarCrimes #ICC

2024-09-26 13:25:02 UTC

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Iroh sounds interesting. I've been hanging and working in this space for a decade but only just heard of you so want to know more about n0 before digging into or building on iroh.
I'm sensitive to licensing and the kind of organisation doing the development. BSD style is a stretch for me while AGPL is ideal.
What kind of organisation is n0, why Apache licensing and why have a 'legal' page that is empty?
Do you see any drawbacks with non GPL? No debate wanted, just your perspective.

2024-09-21 20:40:35 UTC

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Capitalism is suicide.

2024-09-20 16:57:43 UTC

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Not read, but all that's needed here is to swap the battery.
That seems easier than the pager attack for targeted assassination, and potentially for more widespread attacks.
I don't think it's wise to dismiss or underplay the significance of this attack, not only but also not least because it is a war crime.

2024-09-17 14:58:55 UTC

Yay, the connected device in your pocket is now a bomb that can be detonated remotely.
It's not clear what exploded, but causing a lithium battery to short circuit seems plausible.
Can anyone confirm, I'm not going to test this theory myself?
If so, I'm kinda glad #Israel has exposed this, if not the manner used.
#InfoSec #mobile
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/hundreds-of-hezbollah-members-hurt-in-lebanon-after-pagers-explode

2024-09-15 09:41:48 UTC

One of the most important steps that you can take to resist the enclosure we are being subjected to by wealthy shareholders, is to protect your privacy.
This is what they are tearing apart, and the reason is that it gives them power over us, and enables them to control and exploit us.
So if you value #freedom, stop giving away data about yourself, your friends and family, your ideas etc for free.
Use web not native apps, build #FOSS, support #encryption, local rather than cloud etc.

2024-07-03 15:43:22 UTC

#Discord I'm out.
I tried to friend someone in a group I've been active in for months alongside using Discord for several years for various software support (#Svelte, #Rust, #Tauri, #Servo and others).
I've never run a native app or given up my phone number to Discord, Twitter, Facebook etc. but Discord want it to verify my account. As each of the others tried to do before I left them.
It's nonsense. They don't need that to know I'm legit.
It's all abuse of #privacy so I'm out.
#DarkPatterns