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djsundog

@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Trying to break things that need breaking, deliberately and after much reflection, make things in a likewise manner, and generally reshape the various worlds I inhabit to be slightly more habitable.

into music, retrocomputing, people, caring, and thinking.

dislike capitalism, cryptocurrency, terfs, nazis, fascists, racists, & edgelords.

Support me: https://liberapay.com/sundog/

My posts are licensed CC-BY-NC-ND - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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djsundog, to random
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Good morning fediverse :cofepats:

Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.

:blobpats:

djsundog, to random
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what's your favorite weird, non-conventional, absurd, sketchy, or otherwise interesting group of folks you ended up involved with, and what makes it your favorite?

ajroach42, to random
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The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.

Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)

djsundog,
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@ajroach42

so, hot take, but I think the answer is "other human curators" and I think it can work even though it sounds like an ouroboros type impossible system.

the trick is that the curation focus of one curator needs to source from curators with slightly different yet often (for various definitions of often) overlapping foci, and at least some curators need to be sourcing from direct sources - the people making the thing that needs discovering.

djsundog,
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@ajroach42

and I think we have to duplicate work a lot to avoid over-amplification of a subset of voices creating a quieting effect on the majority of voices.

if I curate music recommendations, ideally our curation system should not allow my voice, or any voice, to dominate that space. some mechanism to turn off the attention tap once a curator hits some audience size kind of thing.

djsundog,
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@whitneymcn @ajroach42 webrings are absolutely a reasonable model for human-scale discovery and definitely a form of curation-based discovery - someone somewhere is deciding which sites get added to any given ring, based on whatever basis they choose.

djsundog,
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@whitneymcn @ajroach42 add a "directory of webrings" layer (of which there should be multiple directories obviously) and promote strong local per-site search capabilities and you're well on your way to a decentralized yet discoverable web imho.

djsundog,
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@whitneymcn @ajroach42 directories are just curation too! but I feel like directories should probably have a lighter touch than a webring? like, opt to add more pertinent listings rather than find more ways to limit the scope. but maybe that way lies madness and web crawling again, and I'm not convinced we really need much of that.

djsundog, to random
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over 25 years ago I met my wife online, playing a word game in a gussied up irc channel.

almost three years ago the two of us moved across the country to live in a small mountain town with folk I met in the fediverse.

the best parts of my corner of the so-called "real world" are so good because I sourced them online.

I am just saying. the world I live in is not the world I was born into in very real, tangible, and lasting ways, and anyone who discounts online interaction as "not real" is the one at risk for losing touch with reality.

djsundog, to random
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my new fun fedi game is to just block any account that posts a web comic from anywhere at all with alt-text of "cartoon" or "comic" or some other super short nonsense.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Elon should implant Neuralink into the brain worm hole of Bobby Kennedy.

djsundog,
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@StillIRise1963 ok, but consider: we could implant Elon into the brain worm hole of Kennedy and be rid of them both

djsundog, to random
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NOAA always says critical infrastructure operators have been notified about geomagnetic storm activity, so if you didn't get a call from NOAA you're no longer on call, I make the rules.

djsundog, to random
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good morning fediverse :cofepats:

toot-lab is back online, for now at least. storm came through and walloped the hell out of the north Georgia mountains.

gonna be a manual labor kinda day in Sundogistan - three or four down trees and chaos all around but so far seems everyone is safe and well.

be safe out there, fedi

:blobpats:

djsundog, to random
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Steve Albini wrote one of the most important pieces that a musician pondering entry into the Music Industry can, and absolutely should, read a half dozen times before progressing beyond the local scene.

The Problem With Music: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

RIP Steve, you were one of the best the industry had. 🤘

djsundog, to random
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here's a thing: divesting ourselves of the use of services that decide to start feeding our stuff into the AI maw? that's good. finding alternatives that respect us, even if it takes a little more effort, good.

but we don't have to wait for the corporate overlord in question to fuck up before getting out from under their control. there's no rule. we can just stop using their stuff whenever.

djsundog, to random
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there are a couple new digital billboards in Ellijay that trigger a thought every time I happen to pass them: access control cannot be that stringent on a billboard way out here

djsundog,
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@vfrmedia our area here is particularly not dense, but these signs are someplace that would be pretty conspicuous for me to loiter for long even without a lot of folks around.

ajroach42, to random
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My afternoon plans.

djsundog,
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@ajroach42

If you're not considering making a film:

Consider making a film! Make a short one. A poem read over something you like looking at. Or a funny one. Or an epic space opera with shit props. Or you and three friends sitting around a table doing an improv rpg scene. We have come closer to universal access to the tools needed to do so than has ever existed before. Everyone should make a film or two. Young folk should make a hundred.

djsundog, to random
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gonna make a t-shirt that says "my cool counterculture community is hosted on discord, an alexa top 1000 property, owned and operated by discord inc. under proprietary license."

djsundog, to 3DPrinting
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CC-BY 3D model of a weighted keyboard octave for synths

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3760403

mcc, to random
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I wonder how much prep work it would take to create a situation where I successfully streamed an MPEG-3 file over IPv5 using software written in JavaScript ES4

djsundog,
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@mcc oh! the yaks you will shave

djsundog, to random
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tomorrow afternoon we in New Ellijay will be getting together to celebrate the grand opening of the finest bookstore, record shoppe, and coffee stand in the entirety of Gilmer County, GA, US, Hemlock Bazaar

a whole bunch of Analog Revolution artists will be swinging through to play some live music throughout the afternoon and evening.

if you're nearby, come on out and help bring the new space officially into New Ellijay with our usual verve and grime!

djsundog, to random
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I'd play a $10 cover charge to see two Cake cover bands on the same bill if they were "Bold Marquees" and "Stupid Band Names" if only to chat up the person behind that level of long game pun.

djsundog,
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@lilithsaintcrow that'd get me up to a $20 cover for sure, and I'd probably end up buying merch to make me laugh at some random moment in the future.

djsundog, to random
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at some point in history there was an orangutan that stuffed a bunch of not-tasty leaves in its mouth and chewed on em then smeared them on an injury and every single other orangutan thought that one was bonkers.

djsundog,
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or did they? maybe orangutan society is more accepting of differentiation than human society trends to be.

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