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   The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 18:21:38 JST The Real Grunfink
   I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.69 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. Again, this version has been possible thanks to the very valuable help from great people. It includes the following changes:
   
   Added support for subscribing to LitePub (Pleroma-style) Fediverse Relays like e.g. https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to improve federation. See snac(8) (the Administrator Manual) for more information on how to use this feature.
   
   Added support for following hashtags. This is only useful if your instance is subscribed to relays (see above).
   
   Added support for a Mastodon-like /authorize_interaction webpoint entry, that allows following, liking and boosting from another account's Mastodon public web interface. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /authorize_interaction to snac (see snac(8)).
   
   Some fixes to accept Event objects properly (like those coming from implementations like https://gancio.org/ or https://mobilizon.fr).
   
   Added some caching for local Actor objects.
   
   Hashtags that are not explicitly linked in a post's content are shown below it.
   
   Fixed broken NetBSD build (missing dependency in Makefile.NetBSD).
   
   The user profile can now include longitude and latitude data for your current location.
   
   Mastodon API: implemented limit= on notification fetches (contributed by nowster), implemented faster min_id handling (contributed by nowster), obey the quiet public visibility set for posts, other timeline improvements (contributed by nowster).
   
   Reduced RSA key size for new users from 4096 to 2048. This will be friendlier to smaller machines, and everybody else out there is using 2048.
   
   If the SNAC_BASEDIR environment variable is defined and set to the base directory of your installation, you don't have to include the base directory in the command line.
   
   Fixed a bug in the generation of the top page (contributed by an-im-dugud).
   
   Added support for Markdown headers and underlining (contributed by an-im-dugud).
   
   https://comam.es/what-is-snac
   
   If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
   
   #snacAnnounces
   
   This release has been inspired by the song Nine Hundred Miles by #BarbaraDane.
   
   
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:29:07 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • Stefano Marinelli
     You're welcome!
     
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     Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:29:08 JST Stefano Marinelli

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     @grunfink wow, this is a great release! Thank you!

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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:30:51 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • gyptazy
     Thanks! And again, thanks to you, because your relay service has been very useful to me in developing / polishing #snac 's implementation.
     
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     gyptazy (gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:30:53 JST gyptazy

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     You nailed it again, well done! Thanks for your continuous development on snac! The LitePub integration will make many lives of snac operators much easier and improve the overall fedi network where posts will be more visible to everyone!

     @grunfink

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     sergiodj (sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:08:01 JST sergiodj

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     @grunfink@comam.es Uploaded to Debian unstable and bookworm-backports. Thanks!
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:09:16 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • sergiodj
     You're welcome, thanks to you!
     
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     sergiodj (sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:26:55 JST sergiodj

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     • Paul Martin
     Yes. I've been waiting on the confirmation that removing NoNewPrivileges from the service file fixes the problem (I'm almost sure it does, but I'd like someone that's affected by the problem to say for sure). Once that's confirmed, I can upload a fixed version of the package.
     
     BTW, I'd love if these discussions were happening at the official bug tracker, too. I'm not very active on social networks in general.
     
     Thanks!
     
     CC: @grunfink@comam.es
     
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     Paul Martin (nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:26:57 JST Paul Martin

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     • sergiodj
     @sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net @grunfink@comam.es Have you had a look at the bug I raised about the systemd jailing on Debian preventing it from sending emails?
     
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     sergiodj (sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 09:56:48 JST sergiodj

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     • daltux
     @daltux@snac.daltux.net @grunfink@comam.es The builds have all finished and been uploaded. https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=snac2&suite=bookworm-backports . I'd say they'll take between 4 and 6 hours to be available everywhere? That's an educated guess, though.
     
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     daltux (daltux@snac.daltux.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 09:56:49 JST daltux

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     How long would you say until the upgrade is available to APT? I see version 2.68-1~bpo12+1 yet.
     
     BTW Thank you all for the amazing work.
     
     CC: @grunfink@comam.es
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 13:28:29 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • sergiodj
     • Paul Martin
     FWIW, there is a work in progress to change the email notification process from spawning /usr/sbin/sendmail to a direct connection to an SMTP server, so this issue will eventually fix itself.
     
     CC: @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk
     
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     sergiodj (sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 13:40:18 JST sergiodj

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     • Paul Martin
     @grunfink@comam.es @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk That'd certainly be a much better solution to this problem.
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:44:19 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • ティージェーグレェ
     Yes, this is a new bug, I wasn't aware. Thanks for reporting.
     
     
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     ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:44:21 JST ティージェーグレェ

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     As an aside, when I browse to https://comam.es/snac I can't help but notice a lot of repeats of your 2.69 boost announcement.
     
     Also, it seems as if all the repeated boosts have the same username? I am guessing, whomever last boosted it (it was Jay Hannah previously I think, but now since I boosted the release announcement toot, I see my handle on all the repeat boosts). I don't remember observing behavior like that before, so I thought I would mention it.