runv.club news

What changed on the server, newest first. There's an Atom feed if you'd rather follow along in a reader.

Proofs

Some of you are also on Mastodon, GitHub, Codeberg or your own site, and now there's a way to show that it's the same person behind all of them. Type runv proof add with the address of the profile, and runv.club checks it.

On GitHub, Codeberg and GitLab there's often nothing to do: if one of the SSH keys you log in here with is also on your account there, that counts. Anywhere else, the profile needs a link back to runv.club/~you, like a Mastodon profile field or a rel="me" link on your own site.

What checks out goes up at runv.club/proofs/you/, and on runv.club/proofs. That page links back with rel="me" too, so if you put it in a Mastodon profile field, Mastodon gives it a green check. Every proof is checked again once a day.

One more thing for the careful: anything you sign with your SSH key can now be checked by anyone against runv.club/~you.allowed_signers. help proofs shows how.

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Photo galleries

Every member now has a photo gallery. Put pictures in ~/pics, from the shell or with scp *.jpg runv.club:pics/, and type pics. They go up at runv.club/~you/pics/, and every gallery is listed at runv.club/pics.

Phones write a lot into a photo: where it was taken, down to the street, the phone model, the time. None of that goes up. The gallery gets a new copy made from the picture alone, turned the right way and resized. The originals stay in your home, and ~/pics is kept private to you.

Captions go in ~/pics/captions.txt, one line per photo. JPEG, PNG and WebP work. If your phone saves HEIC, share the photo as JPEG first. help pics has the rest.

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you@runv.club, in your own inbox

Your runv.club address can now be forwarded to the inbox you already use:

runv mail forward set you@example.org

A code goes to that address, and nothing is forwarded until you confirm it with runv mail forward confirm CODE. Add --keep to keep a copy here too, and runv mail forward off brings it back home.

Spam is turned away before it reaches the server, each address gets at most 100 messages a day from outside, and mail goes on signed so your inbox can tell it really came through here. If your inbox refuses everything for three days, forwarding switches itself off and you get an email.

One honest note: forwarding is never perfect, and Gmail in particular is wary of it. For anything that really matters, give people your own address. help mail has the rest.

That finishes the first part of the list.

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lemmy.club, and a new channel

Two changes today, plus a fix.

lemmy.club

Members can now get an account on lemmy.club, a Lemmy server federated with the rest of the fediverse. It runs on a separate machine, but the account comes from your shell: type runv lemmy, pick a password and confirm the email lemmy.club sends you. It uses your runv name, and nothing goes to lemmy.club unless you ask for it. help lemmy has the rest.

#runvclub

Our channel on tilde.chat is now #runvclub. If you use chat or chat.runv.club, the bouncer already moved you there. If you connect some other way, join #runvclub.

Smaller things

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