The Late Night Linux Family

Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-374/

#podcast #linux #opensource

Feb 24 at 1:44amMastodon for Android
Show threadCritter (he/him)Feb 24
@latenightlinux I haven't used it yet so can't speak to its quality but I have come across https://stoat.chat/ as a potential open source discord replacement. I glanced at its codebase a while back and was intrigued by what they're building
Stoat

Stoat is the chat app where you are the main character.

Show threadOKD   🚴 📷Feb 28

@latenightlinux

On the off chance of being the 251st person to recommend fluxer:

Same GUI as discord.

It even has young people shit like Plutonium instead of Nitro...

...but missing native mobile apps might be a heavy obstacle for now.

Currently, you can use it on iOS and Android as a progressive web app via Chrome and Safari.

Selfhosting is possible and its license is GNU AGPL v3

https://fluxer.app/

#fluxer #discord #selfhost #foss

Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first

Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

Fluxer
Show threadNumerfoltFeb 28
@patnat @latenightlinux I thought I heard that Fluxer was vibecoded, isnt it?
Show threadOKD   🚴 📷Feb 28

@Numerfolt

Heard nothing like that.

The dev apparently used the bug bounty of 2000€ for fixing a bug in Discord to fund his own company developing fluxer.

@latenightlinux

Show threadGubbinsFeb 28
@Numerfolt @patnat @latenightlinux Apparently not vibe coded as such, but the author does describe using LLMs to aid their development:
https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-chat-app/#:~:text=The%20LLMephant%20in%20the%20room
How I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app

Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

Fluxer Blog
Show threadTaasz/WoofMar 1
@patnat @latenightlinux Have you been able to self-host it? I know it's a work in progress, I wasn't able to pull the fluxer-server docker image successfully, I assumed it just wasn't quite ready yet..
Show threadOKD   🚴 📷Mar 2

@woof

No, it's still a 403 Forbidden for the ghcr.io image.
Seems like the ghcr.io fluxer-server image needs a Bearer Token and docker login to pull.

Used my Github PAT to login and now it's "Manifest unkown".

Seems the image was removed or renamed.

EDIT: There's a Dockerfile in the fluxer_server subdirectory of the repo.

The Dockerfile requires Build_args like BUILD_NUMBER, _SHA and _TIMESTAMP.

Still looking to find them.

#fluxer #selfhost