Update: FOSS Alternatives Video Conferencing: https://itsfoss.com/jami/ Google Project Zero security examination of WebRTC: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/adventures-in-video-conferencing-part-1.html WebRTC is the “new web browser based video conferencing kid on the block” and it is pretty cool: in theory possible to run one’s own server […]
You can not include links to pics – you will have to embed the Base64-encoded-version of your pic in the /etc/mumble-server.ini 1. open a picture in GIMP e.g. 2. shrink it down to like 100-300px in width. 3. ramp up […]
2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]
dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server next you will get 3 questions: Autostart mumble-server (murmurd) on boot? -> answer no Allow mumble-server to use higher priority? Password to set on SuperUser account.
what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]
vendors & users can do: keep firmware and apps as up to date as possible this requires that vendors also publish patches for critical security problems for old devices (!!! AVM Fritz does it, Samsung & Apple can too!) install […]
All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]
second take on trying to get a xmpp server (OpenFire, Java) client (Pidgin, C (C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)) up and running. at least this time with partial luck (was able to login via pidgin) but it […]
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]
Phone in the cloud: “telephone system in the cloud” or “telephne system as software” is the “latest shit”. SipGate Basic (in English: https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/ / in German: https://www.sipgatebasic.de/) gives one a local VoIP land line number. One can have: a virtual […]
Update: 2020-03 it is very very confusing. on the one side the whole world is moving towards https SecurityLab, [25.03.20 15:55] “Mozilla implements an additional HTTPS Only mode in Firefox 76, in which the browser will only accept encrypted connections, […]
the affordable 100% Open Source phone: update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel […]
really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]
what happened to the “modular” computer called EOMA68? eoma68 ain’t dead yet (article from 2021) but it has gone soooo slow that it might probably just never ship. which would be a bummer for the 1,058 backers 🙁 maybe developing […]
while this is not exactly the same as “free hardware”… it is still a step in the right direction. http://www.oshwa.org/ Here is a list of OSHWA approved hardware projects: http://certificate.oshwa.org/certification-directory/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gJHfoIyvU_ZUnMPu5pVvUQTfMr3ObmwplwwQRIbIy9Y/pubhtml/sheet?headers=false&gid=0 1 UID Project Name Brief Project Description Link […]
XMPP: https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-setup-an-openfire-xmpp-server-on-centos-7 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ejabberd-xmpp-server-on-ubuntu Project Name Platforms Apache Vysper Linux / Windows AstraChat Linux / macOS / Solaris / Windows ejabberd Linux / macOS / Windows IoT Broker Windows Isode M-Link Linux / Windows jackal Linux / macOS Metronome IM Linux […]