🚀 Burn After Reading v0.1.6 is now available for StartOS. Live demo sites available at: https://burnafterreading.net and using Tor at http://burrrrn6i4g4feosxlliwgfn5ocdznkxxkcfu5ftnwyzxk7fdbwfibyd.onion Burn After Reading is a free, simple, fast, standalone pastebin service for sharing messages and files using ephemeral links.

🥳 Announcing TWO new services on StartOS! 1. Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image AI, similar to Midjourney 2. FreeGPT is a chat AI, similar to ChatGPT Both are self-hosted and uncensored, running privately on your own server, accessible from anywhere.

ℹ️ Pro tip: after updating to StartOS v0.3.4.4, be sure to use HTTPS (instead of HTTP) when visiting your StartOS UI over Tor. It is way faster!

ℹ️ Pro tip: after updating to StartOS v0.3.4.4, be sure to use HTTPS (instead of HTTP) when visiting your StartOS UI. It is way faster!

Crazy simple guide for running StartOS on your Mac M1/M2 at near native speeds. Total setup is 5-10 minutes! This is a great way to experiment with StartOS or to run a permanent server. https://blog.start9.com/running-startos-on-apple-silicon/

By popular demand

🎉 0.3.4.3 is live with meaningful improvements to Tor reliability. Bitcoin version 25 is also live! This version of Bitcoin obsoletes Bitcoin Proxy, which has now been removed from the Marketplace. As always, make a backup before updating. Enjoy!

📣 Announcing SimpleX Server (https://simplex.chat/) for StartOS, now available on the Start9 Registry 📣 Brought to you by #[0] 👏 TLDR: SimpleX might be the most promising solution to simple, private, decentralized messaging yet! So far, it does direct messages, group messages, calls, voice messages, and video calls, and everything is e2e-encrypted and can be self-hosted. Like Nostr, SimpleX is neither P2P nor federated. It uses servers to relay messages. You define which server to use for receiving messages, and your contacts define which server to use for receiving messages. Every conversation is likely to use 2 different servers! Servers are simple relays adhering to the SMP protocol; they do not store profiles, contacts, or groups, and they only retain messages until they are delivered to clients. Read about the SMP protocol here:

GitHub

simplexmq/protocol/simplex-messaging.md at stable · simplex-chat/simplexmq

⚙️ SimpleXMQ - A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks. - simplex-chat/simplexmq

SimpleX was designed with Tor servers in mind, and since servers do not connect to each other, there are no issues with interoperability:

Privacy & security

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