Re: [Jami] [Jami Android - 20190531-01]

2019-06-02 Thread bill-auger
the nick 'lautre' is registered; but it probably should not be, if you did not enter a password - perhaps this is a bug or perhaps someone else had already registered that same nick http://ns.ring.cx/name/lautre as a side note: i notice that the 'lautre' nick has associated fields for

Re: [Jami] bug report location, process?

2019-04-18 Thread bill-auger
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:19:29 -0400 Greg wrote: > I see three tabs: SFL / Standard / Register yes, i assume 'SFL' is for Savoir-faire Linux employees the options to sign in with your github or gitlab credentials are merely for convenience - if you do not want to use those, simply use the

Re: [Jami] audio video does not work

2019-02-23 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:25:37 +0200 ni wrote: > It requires me to log in yes - most every website that allow people to post information, requires a login identity On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:25:37 +0200 ni wrote: > Authorize Ring's Gitlab to use your account? > Which I do not know what entails.

Re: [Jami] [Jami Android - 20190127]

2019-02-04 Thread bill-auger
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 22:53:24 +0530 Mohit wrote: > I just downloaded and installed Jami. But it's not showing any > contacts. How can I invite my friends? if you just installed the program the clearly you have no contacts yet - you can add contacts by searching for them by nickname or ID and or

Re: [Jami] [Ring Android - 20180805] reset password

2019-02-04 Thread bill-auger
FWIW - its more than just "backup your credentials" - i would go the full stretch to explain why it must be so - password resets are the expected norm because centralized service are the expected norm - unless the merits of de-centralization are also explained, then the extra responsibility of

Re: [Jami] [Ring Android - 20180805] reset password

2019-02-03 Thread bill-auger
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 15:11:51 + Mats wrote: > Is there some way to reset account password? > can not remember if i sat a password when registering. the ring password protects only the optional ring nickname association - the ring account does not require one - the account can be restored on

Re: [Ring] How can dotsrc.org help the Ring/Jami project?

2018-12-14 Thread bill-auger
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:25:11 +0100 Anders Trier Olesen wrote: > Can we help the Jami project by hosting some kind of service? there are 2 services you could host: the DHT service and the nickname service - they are both intended to be distributed services - the more nodes, the better

Re: [Ring] access Ring account without PIN

2018-10-27 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:59:54 +0100 Pierre wrote: > One way to avoid this problem would be for the ring application to issue > a message to the user on the first launch, suggesting him to get the PIN > number. that is another misunderstanding - the PIN number is only used to add a new device and

Re: [Ring] access Ring account without PIN

2018-10-26 Thread bill-auger
i had a brief conversation with Dorina some months ago where i suggested that the ring website should be much more clear about account creation/migration/restoration and the critical importance of making backups before disaster hits i have personally answered this question to users countless

Re: [Ring] [Ring Android - 20180916]

2018-09-20 Thread bill-auger
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:41:03 +0200 Yiannis wrote: > Hello After creating the ring acount without password how you can enable > one? IIRC, ring accounts do not have passwords - only if create a nickname, that will require a password - DO NOT FORGET THAT PASSWORD EVER - it is indelible and

Re: [Ring] password

2018-09-19 Thread bill-auger
you can never recover a password - an account can be restored if you know the password and you kept the backup file - this sounds like a bug though - what computer and OS are you using?

Re: [Ring] Anonymous mail ?

2018-09-11 Thread bill-auger
if you are talking about this message, that is just another user reporting a bug - that person, for some reason, does not want anyone to know her identity - perhaps it is bill gates and he does not want anyone to know how much he secretly loves GNU you can block messages from any email address if

Re: [Ring] Salute

2018-09-05 Thread bill-auger
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 10:46:27 +0700 Thuận Nguyễn-Thái wrote: > contribute to Ring, what should I do? the official client is a GTK program; but most of the functionality is in the daemon - there is a QT client that is part of the KDE project but it is not related to the ring team there is a

Re: [Ring] How can I "recover password"?

2018-08-05 Thread bill-auger
it is not possible to delete account and it is not possible to recover a password pgp4iJKOKCU1J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Ring] Issue with Video Chat

2018-07-11 Thread bill-auger
also, if you installed this program via your distro's package manager then the proper place to report the bug is to the distro package maintainer pgp_A0R9zo7uS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ring] Account recovery

2018-06-19 Thread bill-auger
firstly, you never need to "log in" - just start the program and it logs in secondly, the temporary password is used for adding a new device to an existing account - you must have a properly configured and running (logged in) instance of ring to do that lastly, in order to restore an account,

Re: [Ring] [Ring Android - 20180524]

2018-06-02 Thread bill-auger
it is not clear what you are actually asking to happen - the GNU license permits you to make any modifications that you desire - you do not need to ask permission to put our logo on the program and you do not need to give anything for the service - the service itself is also open-source and you

Re: [Ring] Are the Arch linux packages gone?

2018-01-19 Thread bill-auger
there are a number of things that need updating on the ring website - i am not sure who to address though signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ring] Please OpenSUSE to Was: Ring installation packages for Debian 8

2018-01-16 Thread bill-auger
On 01/16/2018 11:42 AM, Klaus Vink Slott wrote: > As the original build on OBS is no longer active, it is still maintained - the current version for opensuse is 20171213 - but the maintainer is apparently not interested in packaging for other distros

Re: [Ring] Ring installation packages for Debian 8

2018-01-15 Thread bill-auger
On 01/16/2018 01:00 AM, bill-auger wrote: > ubuntu 'universe' package is also over a year old > (20170803) derp - sry, not a year old, but 13 releases ago nonetheless signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ring] Ring installation packages for Debian 8

2018-01-15 Thread bill-auger
i should add that ring barely supports debian 9 or ubuntu today - the ring package in debian main is from 2016 which i dont think will even work anymore - the ubuntu 'universe' package is also over a year old (20170803) so other than compiling from source, users must be subscribed to the ring

Re: [Ring] Save an account on Linux

2017-10-28 Thread bill-auger
sry i just realized i was not specific enough - to be clear 'ring-backup' directory should be created before - in order to keep the two source directories separated mkdir /media/MY_USB_MEMORY/ring-backup/ cp -r ~/.config/ring/ /media/MY_USB_MEMORY/ring-backup/ cp -r

Re: [Ring] Fwd: Recovery Username

2017-10-03 Thread bill-auger
Jafferson - user nicknames can never be deleted - they are an intrinsic part of a blockchain which is indelible if you still have the keys for the account and if you remember the password then it may be possibly to re-claim the nickname - but if you deleted the account from your device

Re: [Ring] Searching for Ring icon

2017-08-18 Thread bill-auger
On 08/17/2017 01:03 PM, inderau...@arcor.de wrote: > search for Ring.svg application icon in 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 and 128px. Could > you help me? > > > Wish you a beautiful evening! > there is only one logo file - SVG images do not have pixels or sizes - the 'S' stands for 'scalable' - you can

Re: [Ring] How to recover RING account?

2017-08-07 Thread bill-auger
no doubt it needs some work - to be honest i cant remember much about it now - that was over 6 months ago - it was compiled from the commands that i ran manually which did work for me to reclaim my nick when my dring.yml got deleted dumb question, but did you fill the ./toto.dat credentials?

Re: [Ring] How to recover RING account?

2017-08-07 Thread bill-auger
On 08/06/2017 09:51 PM, Philippe Gorley wrote: > If you rebase the patch, I'd be happy to take a look at it sometime this > week. > ok - i'm not yet familiar with gerrit but i rebased using the handy "rebase" button on the gerrit website - i hope that was adequate - i also edited the file on the

Re: [Ring] How to recover RING account?

2017-08-06 Thread bill-auger
there is a script for restoring the dring.yml when the keys are still present - unfortunately it has not been merged into the codebase - but it still in code review https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/c/6164/ note it has an error near line 191 - the following 3 lines:

Re: [Ring] Ring 1.0 coming soon, username blockchain reset

2017-07-19 Thread bill-auger
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 06:56:48PM -0400, Adrien Béraud wrote: > however blockchain usernames registered before 2017-07-15 are lost. could someone please clarify these points regarding the invalidated nicknames: * to be clear, 2017-07-15 was only a few days ago so this means that more than