@cyberlyra Nice! Re. the tangent at the end of your article, on Minecraft, I've had some success dabbling with the FOSS version MineTest, after a friend's child was bought the MS version. MneTest has an active community and variety from near-clones to quite different games. Hosting is a bit clunky but simple enough. Been wondering how I could present the idea attractively to school friends' families. What would it take to introduce the idea and convince them to try it and like it better than their MS subscription? Maybe some trivial but wow!-factor personalisation? "Look: there's your street, your park, your school!" Or something cool that simply can't be done in the MS version? My weakness here is I'm not passionate about socialising and game playing! My strength is I'm passionate about self-agency through FOSS, and could set something up technically. Feel like this is the thing kids code clubs should be doing. Thoughts?
This article by folks working on a #SolidProject based app called Liquid Surf mentions the specs of the #W3C Federated Identity Community Group.
And in particular how this CG - having Big Tech members - could improve their specs so that small identity providers are also taken into account properly.
@smallcircles Yes ... My own blog post tries to bring the issue to light succinctly: https://wrily.foad.me.uk/sign-in-with-big-tech-only-or-sign-in-with-whom-i-prefer ... In short, the proposed new standard is to make a slicker browser flow for Sign-In-With-Xxx buttons. The critical defect is the present proposed standard threatens to bolster the BigTech identity providers: if this becomes a standrad as-is, then sites will only offer "Sign in with Google" and "with Facebook" and the like. We need an amendment to make the browser offer, as additional options, the user's choice of identity provider(s), be it large or small players. Our help is sought to review, test and push for this amendment.
No matter the background, for humans or cats: Tell us about your #foss#event and help everyone by adding an event to the list for 2024: https://foss.events/new-event
@foss_events I'm feeling refreshed on seeing a row of icons on your web site for "social" contact methods, source code, etc., that are all FOSS. So rare, even in the freedom software community. So beautiful!
@aral@devnull I saw the screen shot before reading the comment, and my first thought was, "Hurray! At last someone has seen sense and not presumed to provide a default, because this is meant to be a deliberate choice." BTW, my junk box contents includes some physical toggle switches that have a centre off position.
@eibhear@josh@reflex Matrix moving to external standard auth (OIDC) is a fantastic thing for us self-hosters. As someone struggling to host multiple services, each with its own different auth system, I can’t wait: SSO capability will simplify the UX, closer to the mainstream experience that Big Tech users find so convenient, so friends and family might stand a chance of using our services.
No need to fear being left to figure out the migration alone. Thousands of us will be doing the migration together when it happens, with an upgrade path and plenty of support, I’m sure. It’s not there yet but search for example for “matrix-authentication-service” in the FAQ section of the https://areweoidcyet.com/ web page to get a feel for how it’s likely to be done.
Serious now. #Github is becoming a one-stop-shop for #development, that uses#FOSS to expand its dominant position. Gradually locking people in, with rich feature sets. Good #CodeForge alternatives exist, and can soon integrate with the #Fediverse via #ForgeFed protocol.
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@roland@smallcircles What we need is for each hosting site to allow a project to Bring Your Own Domain. For example my project would bring git.my.example.org to a hosting provider and adjust our DNS records to point to it, and visitors to my project would see only my domain not the hosting provider’s domain. Right now that’s possible (by paying the hosting provider to run a whole instance of any software forge) but it’s not efficient (we want our project to use just small additional resources inside an existing forge) and multiple single-project forges also don’t currently have a way to share user accounts for collaboration, and cross-project search and “stars” and so on. Wish we could upgrade to the bring-your-own-domain model, like is commonly available from email providers.
Maybe I'm behind the times but I just came across https://www.tldraw.com/ and it looks amazing. If you're familiar with #Miro then it's basically an open source Miro clone.
In essence, an infinite digital whiteboard that you can add anything to.
According to the docs https://tldraw.dev/ you can "use the Tldraw React component to embed a fully featured and extendable whiteboard in your app." That's very cool.
@Brendanjones My first question these days for a new collaboration tool, more than what features it currently has, is: what's their attitude to inter-op? Is it like, "obviously we include a chat feature, our own little chat silo which we invented here, and obviously we provide a server for you to share drawings, our own little silo server"? Or is it like, "obviously we make it easy to plumb in to your own matrix chat rooms, and obviously we make it easy to plug in to your open file sharing protocol (WebDav, NextCloud) for sharing your drawings"?
@openandroidinstaller Lovely to be able to install a freedom-OS like /e/-OS or LineageOS in this way. One thing I want to add is functionality to install apps (especially system apps), and disable some pre-installed apps, after installing the OS. Especially to install things like f-droid, f-droid privileged extension, Titanium Backup, DAVx5, syncthing, nextcloud, bitwarden, authenticator, tailscale, etc. as system apps, and to replace some default app choices.
Whereas SignaturePDF is just a web-app, and less sophisticated, OpenSign looks like a commercial service (OK, that's fine) that just published its code (last week, 55 k lines). I hope it is not just "published source" but that the team behind it keep it "open" in spirit and keep up the self-hosted option as a viable option.
@openedtech@CEDO Some possibly useful outreach materials, introducing organisations to the idea of open tech. I've talked recently about how I feel a big part of our challenge is introducing the principle and existence of open tech to people who simply haven't heard or thought of it. These materials introduce open social media; I'm thinking we could adapt them to introduce ed tech. Personally I find it far easier to adapt than to start afresh.
Interesting. @csdummi and @tomat0 started #GuildAlpha at social coding movement. The idea is to have a group of collaborating people who together select a #FOSS project to work on for a period of time and make a significant improvement. Then move on to the next project.
@smallcircles@oblomov@flancian Been thinking myself how I want my browser bookmarks and my fediverse bookmarks and my matrix bookmarks (not implemented) and my ... bookmarks all saved in my personal bookmarking/read-it-later/reference-tracking storage, that's independent and not tied to any particular source app (such as web browser) or protocol (fediverse, matrix, etc.). Features like adding tags/categories and notes, and whether to save the associated content in a read-it-later cache or in a personal content archive, and tracking whether I've read it and how old it is, should be common features across all input sources. Bookmarking as a #SocialTechPattern ?
@eichin@flancian@smallcircles@oblomov It's vital to frame personal generic bookmarking, like anything in this class of #SocialTechPattern , as an open protocol. The protocol might be inspired by an existing service API such as https://pinboard.in/api/ . But the protocol must be more than just open-licensed: I would also require it must perform zero-config discovery of one's own personal service end-point.
I'm seriously considering defederating from #fosstodon at this point. I'm applying a limit for now, which means if you're on that instance, I may not see you.
Mike Stone (effectively) doubles down on moderation principles based on keyword, not context. Additionally, he confirms limiting accounts without notification is part of the policy, effectively shadowbanning accounts.
@jens This whole sorry situation just reminds me that the moderation "story" and tooling is weak and in need of development, both socially and technically.