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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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aral, to random
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No, you don’t understand, I’m only in the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party so I can change it from the inside.

aral,
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@ryanrandall 👌

MarkRuffalo, to random

“Anyone insisting that you ‘calm down’ about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.”

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/calm-down-narrative-climate-change-crisis-oil-industry-environment

aral,
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@MarkRuffalo “Calm down” is the mating call of the privilege bird.

Sheril, to random
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Too many people I work with in policy describe the rise of misinformation as a dangerous new phenomenon.

Yes, social media has recently added countless new opportunities & dimensions, but circulating rumors & lies have been plaguing us for at least as long as we’ve been around to record them. Just look to the history of medicine or nutrition.

Humans believe & widely share all sorts of stories that aren’t true. It’s not new.

aral,
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@Sheril Zombie Jesus and the invisible sky fairy would like to have a word.

PacoVelobs, to random French
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@aral picture me, searching for a light hosting solution, vaguely remembering something about small and web in the same sentence.
Reading a great article, checking the author and realizing it's you.

Thanks for writing https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

aral,
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@PacoVelobs 💕

aral, to SmallWeb
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Got ’s¹ secret generation working in the browser as part of the last piece of the puzzle I’m working on right now for deploying places via .

Your secret is the key to your identity on the Small Web (or at least to some aspect of your identity you wish to portray or explore at a given Small Web place). It’s an ed25519 private key base256 encoded and presented using a well-known set of emoji.

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
³ https://codeberg.org/domain/app

aral,
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@shauny Yeah, we can look at optimisations later. My goal right now is to realise something that doesn’t exist yet (a peer to peer web). I look forward to working on the myriad of ways we can improve the experience incrementally once we have that foundation.

aral,
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@grob Good feedback, thanks. (This is just the very first draft so there will many, many revisions, I’m sure.) :)

aral,
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@cyberlyra Thank you so much. I’m breaking things daily at the moment but I’ll be sure to ping you when I don’t feel like I’d be wasting your time :) Really appreciate it.

aral,
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@grob Exactly ;) You shouldn’t be handling it any way but to paste it into your password manager and fill it in from there when you need it.

The whole idea is that it’s nigh-on impossible to write on a post-it note and stick on your monitor :)

(The final page will also lead to information what a password manager is and why it’s important to have one and have some recommendations to lead folks in the right direction.)

mckra1g, to random
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Hey hi there, me again and still cranky. I've been watching digital vultures prey upon this particular event, trying to get hapless souls to give them their credit card information for non-existent tickets. For my own sanity's sake, I try not to have too many pet peeves, but thievery REALLY FROSTS MY CUPCAKES. Fuckers.

aral,
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@mckra1g Sending you lots of love from across the pond. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

aral,
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@mckra1g 💕

aral, to random
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Might’ve found the cutest little mochi pillows for my reading nook 🥰

aral, (edited )
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@Hey_Beth Ah, could be a radish. I just see them both as yummy mochi ice-creams :)

rtn, to random

@aral I'm pondering alternatives to github and I've heard a lot about codeberg. What's your experience this far? I recall you had some problems in the beginning?

aral,
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@rtn There are hiccups every now and then but I’m willing to put up with them if it means I’m supporting an alternative that’s working hard and getting better every day :)

ayo, to random
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Cozy is the open-source alternative to pocket.com

There, I said it 🤪

https://github.com/ayoayco/cozy

aral,
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@ayo Nice!

Alternate name suggestion: Hygge :)

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge)

aral, to random
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When wolves say to sheep “Can’t we all just get along?”, it’s not because they want to be friends but because they prefer obedient prey.

aral,
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@Homebrewandhacking This. Actual sheep aren’t stupid enough to hold the gate open for a wolf.

aral, to random
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I swear some of you would sign an NDA with Satan if he asked nicely.

aral,
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@bitflipped Sad but true.

aral, to norge
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Folks, apparently a Norwegian instance (snabelen.no) won’t be “associating with” me because of my position on not welcoming Meta and surveillance capitalists to the fediverse (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110621068046632124)

Please feel free to consider whether you want to associate with them accordingly:

https://mastodon.ar.al/@cbt@snabelen.no/110621662756744170

aral,
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@Twelve They don’t see anything wrong with Silicon Valley people farmers or surveillance capitalism in general. They’re the kind of people who would be excited if Meta/Facebook offered them a job. Mark Zuckerberg is an inspirational figure for these folks.

aral, to SmallWeb
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The has a new logo…

💕

Yes, that‘s it, the two hearts emoji, that’s the new logo.

“Wait, what?! That’s not a logo, anyone can copy and use that!”

Sure, go right ahead. We’re not playing the same game as Big Tech with their trademarks and whatnot :)

PS. I just updated the placeholder site at https://small-web.org with the new logo and the Small Web protocol will use it as the namespace. e.g., my.small-web.site/💕/id → my identity (ed25519 public key for the cryptography nerds) :)

aral,
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We will have freedom… and emoji! Lots of emoji!

🐱 💕

aral,
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@MariaLiv (Just updated the post to fix the link.) :)

aral,
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@antolius Thank you :)

💕

aral,
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@mookie :awesome:

aral, (edited )
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@MariaLiv Haha, reminds me of the Schnailmail snail :)

(http://schnailmail.com) ;)

💕

Update: fixed the link :)

aral,
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@mray Ssshh, don’t tell anyone but they’re all made up rules ;)

And thank you :) 💕

aral, to random
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Rich folks be like: “We want to see how far we can push things before they bring out the guillotines again.”

Well, fuck around and find out, you muppets. Not long now.

aral,
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@hardworkingamerican My premise is that anyone who allows themselves to become and remain a billionaire is fine with what that means (benefitting exponentially from and perpetuating an unjust, inequitable, and exploitative system).

Everything else is PR.

filipesm, to random

Also, @aral, on the https://web0.small-web.org website, there's a bunch of spam, but I think this one especially should go lol (bonus negative points for linking to Meta, which links the website in the link graphs and whatnot)

aral,
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@filipesm Ah, I haven’t had a chance to clean that up in while. Thanks for the heads up, will do so when I get a chance :)

JohanEmpa, to random

Started writing a Statement on Big Tech :flan_hacker:

It's a draft and feedback is welcome

https://community.mastodon.green/draft-statement-on-big-tech/

aral,
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@filipesm @JohanEmpa 💕

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