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Freifunk Düren - Kleine Event Installation auf der Annakirmes 2019
Bis die komplette Annakirmes mit W-LAN versorgt wird, ist noch ein weiter Weg. Dieses Jahr haben wir eine kleine Installation am Zelt “Dürener Treff”. Drei Router sind montiert, zwei bauen einen VPN auf über einen DSL Anschluss, der per R...
Freifunk Bremen - Neue Testing-Version 2018.2.2+bremen1
Nach langer Zeit gibt es endlich wieder eine neue Testing-Firmware für das Bremer Freifunk-Netz. Die Version 2018.2.2+bremen1 wird ab heute an alle Knoten verteilt, bei denen automatische Updates auf Testing-Versionen eingeschaltet sind. Mit dieser ...
Freifunk Lippe - Wartungsarbeiten im Juli
Unser Hoster Netcup musste wichtige Sicherheitsupdates bei den KVM-Hypervisors einspielen. https://forum.netcup.de/administration-eines-server-vserver/vserver-server-kvm-server/p121256-umgang-mit-sicherheitslücken-zombieload-mds Dafür mussten unsere ...
Freifunk - qaul.net – The Conceptual Value of Testing
While working on the visn eventual consistency testing framework for the qaul.net project, I’ve run into an excellent example of one of the most important reasons to test software, in some ways more important than the discovery of regressions, ...
Freifunk - qaul.net – Strictly Typed Code in a Stringly Typed World
The new qaul.net HTTP API speaks JSON, as do increasingly many things. It allows you to express complex types, it maps well to most programmers’ mental models, it’s self describing, and there’s a decent library for it in every langu...
Freifunk - Load-correlated distributed bandwidth analysis for LibreMesh networks – #3: Completed test network and broadened scope of the work
The planned test network has been built, employing both fully supported (I just documented them in the tested routers list here) and common home routers (officially unsupported by LibreMesh but supported by OpenWrt). Employing non supported router...
Freifunk - BMX7: Wireguard Tunneling – 2nd Update
The second phase is officially over and within it’s time a lot have happened. First things first, this year’s Battlemesh took place in Paris and it was a blast, the wg_tun plugin saw some great changes and the documentation PR is closed. ...
Freifunk - GSoC 2019 – Upgrading the Meshenger App – Update 2
Meshenger App In my previous blog post, I had achieved the authentication at the initial handshake in the app. Since then there has been quite a lot of progress in upgrading the Meshenger app. Progress Till Now 1.) Refactoring of the codebas...
Freifunk - OpenWrt Firmware Wizard Update – 2nd phase completion
After 4 more weeks, there has been progress regarding the agenda. The agenda for the last phase was to create the web interface using which users could download appropriate images for their devices and build custom images too. What has been achi...
Freifunk - Retroshare for Android – Update 2
It’s been a month since the last post, so it’s time to summarize this period. In the previous post I showed the beginnings of my adventure with implementing the designed look of the application. That version looked as I intended, but it l...
