Our voice phone systems are seamlessly federated. You can call people across carriers, over national boundaries, instantaneously, and the only friction is slightly more numbers to dial.
@evan it really sucks actually. I just moved to Berlin and I can't keep my phone number to tie it to any provider here cause the routes are country specific. So to make an analogy to the fediverse it's like only being able to move to a new account INSIDE an instance or maybe only between mastodon and not between mastodon and WordPress etc
@evan I now have a Berlin number. I can't text or call US numbers cause the plan I have doesn't allow it. I would have to pay 2 times as much if I wanted to text message a US number
I'll be the moderator for the session on "What's neXt? From Mastodon via ActivityPub to the Fediverse or Social Web" on the PublicSpaces conference next week in Amsterdam!
Surprised how little #monome posting is on the fediverse. It's one of the oldest and most used #oshw devices there is. Would love to see that community more present here! I had the pleasure of meeting @eigenform at the MNT studio the other day and was reminded what an interesting project that Monome is.
@openvibe but you think new users will know or care what either of them are? for the uninitiated they are all just meaningless brand names. maybe if you are trying to make content for new people you can say something like for it works for many networks and communities
Ugh, here was a weird tank of a computer, a Gridcase 1535 EXP, with plasma display (that did not look all that much better than this awful photo). It was unpleasant to use. No idea what I did with it, probably gave it away.
It ran DOS. I think was used in some network field maint.
do you reckon i could get @frameworkcomputer to put trackpoint on their laptops by sending them a helpful reminder on here once a day, every day? maybe twice a day? what times would be good
Musk & Trump's ties are deepening. They've discussed a possible advisor role for Musk should Trump win the pres. election. Musk & N Peltz have briefed Trump on a data-driven voter fraud project & anti-Biden efforts.
They discussed ways to give Musk formal input & influence over policies related to border security & the economy (Musk has no expertise in...), both issues on which Musk has grown more vocal.
I started a personal document with a list of questions about the MNT Pocket Reform I want to be able to answer quickly. If you have any "simple" questions you have feel free respond here and I will add them.
Going to be hanging at @republica with the #MNT crew tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm to celebrate the beginning of the Pocket Reform shipping out to their new keepers! Come say hi if you are there!
The Great Netfix is a movie re-distribution system by A Video Store After the End of the World that performs and reforms the asymmetric relations of cloud-based media ownership, consumption, labour and automation.
You too can become a worker in A Video Store After the End of the World, by picking up one of our VHS data packages.
Visit us at Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.
He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.
Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.
@NR404Guy@splorp woah this is amazing. I have a newton with a dead battery I would love to try to get working someday. This is a perfect thing to get running on it!
@splorp@NR404Guy the battery was left inside for years and years and exploded goo all over so the screen is also destroyed. I wanted to try complete disassembly at some point and see what I can salvage
