Heyhey everyone,

I am going to switch from my Synapse instance (back) to Continuwuity in a month. The main reason I've been using it is to chat with family who are only on Whatsapp and iMessage (Yes, I tried getting them someplace else. Whatsapp ended up being that other place). Though I'm also in groups on other Matrix instances.

The main annoyances I had with using the bridge until now are:

1. I need to open the app every two weeks on my second phone (which tends to get lost when I need it).
2. The time my server went out for a couple of days also made me unsure of self hosting a bridge. I don't mind if I can't see some support messages for a couple of days, but I do mind not being able to get texts from family.

Compared to just using the app it's a difficult proposition. But on the other hand I don't have anything proprietary installed on my phone and I'd like to keep it that way if possible.

There is technically a third option by hosting an iMessage bridge, but I don't have a spare Mac. And while my second phone is an iPhone, there is no documentation on how to bridge via a 64-bit iPhone. In this case however, there would be no two weeks access requirement.

I'd love to hear you guys' thoughts and maybe some other way to tackle this!

Cheers!

Edit: Thanks everyone for the help! I've heard some awesome suggestions. I opted to keep using the bridge. Apparently you don't need to open the app to refresh the biweekly timer, just run it in the backgroud. I happen to have a device that is on more than often enough for Whatsapp to refresh that timer in te background.

Hello everyone!

I've been hosting Ente on my server for a year or so, and it has been going well. But last month I discovered that some images and video's on both my own and shared albums are blacked out and I cannot click on them directly.

For the ones I could download, I deleted the original ones afterwards and uploaded them again. This did fix the issue, but there are way too many images for this to be done manually, not to mention the ones that error out when downloading. There are also some images that do display correctly on my Android phone and my family's iPhones. Though the latter issue might be explained away by the (lack of) needed codecs on my Fedora system.

I checked my hard drive's health using smartctl. The self test completed with no errors, and the SMART test passed. I also updated the Ente containers but the issue persisted.

There is no agency or anything. I have a cold backups for the volume from two months ago and an a simple plaintext one from last year. So it's luckily not a major issue, but I am a bit worried the issue may reappear after reverting.

Has anyone else had this issue? Or some pointers to where I could be looking?

Cheers!

Hey everyone,

for a secops class we're expected to do some preliminary evaluation of some SIEM and/or SOAR services. Some cybersecurity firm that gave a guest lecture was raving about both Darktrace and Sentinel, so our group figured we'll look into those at least.

Has anybody had any particular experience with those? Or if you have any other services in mind, that would also be helpful.

I have gone through their sites and I'm scouring through forums to have an idea on sentiment on the current services. (Which at the moment seems to be that none are exactly ... popular) I'm not trying to get others to do our work; we're basically only after actual user experience, which we can't really get ourselves.

Cheers!