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hai peeps, i made a signal group consider joining!
https://signal.group/#CjQKIM_EtSC_D792V7qgxpQG2wDuSWSC6ON7NlBnrTYChxSYEhATBDp49lvA9Pz2NZKmCiQO
its also replacing my irc server as the place to talk about tech, altbot, and other things!
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Guess whose back, back again,
#AltbotsBack tell a friend!
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okay guess who spent an hour reviving their irc server
chat.micr0.dev is back!! its a smol tech community i started about a year ago that was active for a bit and then kinda fell off. bringing it back as the main place other than fedi to talk about my projects and just hang out
web client: https://chat.micr0.dev (no install, has a PWA that works on phone, and acts as a bouncer too, aka it stays connected when you close the tab so you dont miss anything)
or connect directly to irc.micr0.dev: 6667, or 6697 for tls (BYO bouncer so you can see msgs people send when youre not there!!)
i also set up push notifs so its now the best way to reach me along with email lol
also you can auth your nick with your ssh key instead of a password, bc i wrote a bot for that like a year ago and i like it more this way :3
#general #dev #help #wellness-ping #altbot or just come say hi!!
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A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
v2.0 is now out.
It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but it's still there.
Three new security modules, all optional, stack as many as you want: PIN, authenticator 2FA, and passkeys.
The PIN has a duress option. Enter that one instead and your contacts get alerted immediately, while your screen says everything went fine. (really proud of this one. tweaked to the point of obsession so that response time for a duress PIN matches a normal one. nothing on your screen or in the timing gives it away.)
Also added vacation pause and custom alert messages, both of which people asked for.
v2.0 got a full security review before release. The check-in path is much harder to spoof now. Details in the release PR.
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
oh and btw, the person who went missing, for whom I made this originally, turned out to be okay. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort to find them, but I did actually find them. I thought you might want to know that.
Patched the bug where Signal usernames were limited to 2 discriminators, added an extra step in signup to hopefully make less ratelimit issues.
Since there is still a big signup wave know service can be patchy, but for those who have already signed up signal rate limits don't affect you so everything works! Once you've signed up.
Did the update on my pc right after I woke up, and now typing this as I walk to uni, will try to get to any other issues after uni
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LocalMathy is now on F-Droid!! :D
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.micr0.localmathy/
for everyone who missed the first post: it's a math tutor that lives entirely on your phone. fully offline, with no account and no api, where nothing gets sent anywhere. now built from source and signed by f-droid!! so you don't even have to even trust me
type out a problem, or snap a photo of it, and it walks you through solving it step by step. it's mainly a tutor, not an answer machine, the whole point is you still do the thinking, just with something to compare against with a proper solution at 2am
it runs a small reasoning model fully on-device (~2.1GB) and honestly it's still kinda wild to me how capable these things are on a phone already. you can also bring your own model file if you'd rather use a different one
(also icon on the listing is coming in the next update, f-droid pulls it from a fresh release so it's a few days behind. the app itself has one I promise lol)
free and open source forever <3
source: https://github.com/micr0-dev/localmathy
github releases if you don't use f-droid: https://github.com/micr0-dev/localmathy/releases
still early days, bug reports, and feature requests are very welcome!
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