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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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18+ smallcircles, to random
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The horrible Apple ad is a good opportunity to highlight one of the amazing but also highly impactful animations by Steve Cutts.

In this video featured on the official music clip of "Are you lost in the world like me?" by Moby and The Void Pacific Choir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

Content warning: animation contains scene relating to suicide.

smallcircles,
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Wake Up Call! ⏰

is NOT the Future!

Please allow the fabulous to elaborate a bit on that..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhR_zKUn6jc

douginamug, to firefox
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Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

smallcircles,
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@rosano @douginamug

Delightful humane design curated list has a bunch of related things to try. Either an alternative client, or a 'declutterer' like Youtube Search Fixer (I haven't tested this one myself).

https://delightful.club/delightful-humane-design/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hey, which app allows an to be used as a ?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112414539433136490

#❓

smallcircles,
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67

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/67

smallcircles,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" can be filtered on, for instance. And #❓ can be alternative for for instance.

smallcircles,
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@hazelnoot neither on Mastodon. It does not recognize as a hashtag link in the web UI.

smallcircles,
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@julian

Hmm, on your end.

First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the #emoji thread, but no emoji showing in #Mastodon at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.

How did it look on your end?

smallcircles,
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@mikedev as it should. Nice!

smallcircles,
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@tyil thus far only streams app supports them.

Why use emoji at all? I'm in favor of a culture that gives more care to emoji's rather than carelessly strewing them around.

They can convey meaning well, like the "boosts appreciated" custom emoji. They can be used in addition to other textual hashtags that aren't always as accessible in their meaning either. There are cultures around emoji use, that give meaning in certain contexts, and those cultures are part of social fabric and cohesion then.

smallcircles,
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@tyil fair points. I am suggesting emoji should be usable as hashtags, but not prescribing how they are best used. Like for public square broadcasts.. probably not so appropriate.

I have use cases for them, and they are in the realm of "personal social networking" where people know the context and meaning.

mcc, to random
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Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646

smallcircles,
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@mcc

Gender meanders beautifully. Why do folks wanna dam it in, make it straight? What's wrong with them? Rigid flow imagined in rigid minds. Unnatural.

demiurg, to fediverse
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I have the feeling that Activity Pub and other new 'protocols' have a different meaning of the term 'protocol'. I mean these APIs and services would not be handled by the IETF. Or do I miss something?

smallcircles,
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@demiurg

Imho AP serves more as a kind of "protocol framework", and it still must be completed to be fully production-ready. Current early adopters are all working with alpha versions and flavours thereof.

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re https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/112287359872818229 :

happy and thankful to announce that dokieli is among the projects receiving funding to contribute its bit for the open internet.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Some details on what we'll do is described at https://nlnet.nl/project/Dokieli/

Will continue to contribute to open web standards ( see e.g., https://github.com/linkeddata/dokieli/blob/main/README.md#specifications )

smallcircles,
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@csarven @liaizon

Congratulations on your funding, Sarven 🎉

Dokieli is a most interesting fedi project that ventures beyond regular social media use cases that still dominate the field. Thus an application that invites exploring new areas of the social web, where there exists great potential. Thank you for your efforts!

dentangle, to random
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Linus demonstrating that any clear and well-reasoned proposal can still be attacked using nothing more than SHOUTY CAPS and calling it "idiotic".

Deftly ignoring direct questions, and side-stepping all attempts at logical discussion by deliberately and repeatedly mis-quoting the other person.

@kees I am in awe of your patience and calm 😉

https://lore.kernel.org/all/202404291502.612E0A10@keescook/

smallcircles,
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@dentangle @jens @kees

Gotta say.. just Wow! What a behavior this shows. Literally stamping on an idea. Bringing full authority to bear and minimize any chance of people more broadly starting to muse on merits and possible drawbacks to take into account. Absolutely toxic stuff.

liaizon, to random
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"Roam the Wilderness of Autonomous Social Networks"

Requesting feedback for this as a title for a tour of the fediverse I am giving in September...

smallcircles,
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@liaizon

I like the title. Though I consider "autonomous" be a tease and small barb towards traditional corporate non-social Social Media.

"Autonomous" is like automated, robotic in the visual image I get when hearing the title. But that's the fun there. Fedi is about autonomous people doing the things they love, and on their own free volition. No algorithmic steering and influencing there. So the exact opposite of that mental picture.

You could make that a theme in the presentation visuals.

smallcircles,
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@liaizon yes, I can see that, and also you are giving the presentation in an autonomous zone I saw/think.

For regular folks and also techies the connotation is different, I think.

But that is an opportunity for some wordplay around that 😃

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tom's HARDWARE: Cookies?

me: No!

tom's HARDWARE: Yess. Cookies!

(Note to self: Should avoid @tomshardware site next time)

smallcircles,
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@mihamarkic @tomshardware

Thanks. Yea, the cookies don't trouble me. I have my ad-blockers and stuff. It is the principle that troubles me. This cookie dialog had a literal "I withdraw my consent" which I clicked. Ignoring that just shows that they care at all.

neo, to apple

Hating goes mainstream https://world.hey.com/dhh/hating-apple-goes-mainstream-fe740007

smallcircles,
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@neo

Creativity now sits in an ugly slab of future e-waste apparently, selling its body to undoubtedly.

Goes to show that in the dystopia that is unfolding the earth is flat, everything is shallow, thinly-sliced, narrow-minded. And with that they are completely out of their depth.

Let an apple be fruit again, inspiring humans when it falls from the tree.

#🍏

smallcircles,
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@neo I couldn't resist 💩 to Tim Crook.

https://twitter.com/humane_tech_now/status/1788480272838676529

dansup, to fediverse
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?

smallcircles,
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@hobs great, thank you!

@dansup

smallcircles,
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@hobs @dansup

Ohh, those are nice finds.

Looking in the SE github org, there's also their Design System, and it is MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks

That can be a) giving a good headstart in designing an alternative, and b) depending on how it is exactly licensed, be great to "fork" the brand assets (if they are also just MIT, they maybe aren't protected as they usually are).

alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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Developer's PSA: The way you & your culture do things isn't the way everyone does things! Be wary of cultural constructs, no matter how basic they may seem!

Time & dates. Text. Punctuation. Names. Addresses. Iconography.

What else am I forgetting?

P.S. This is also a politics PSA. Very topical to NZ right now!

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz depends how fresh it is ;p

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz 😮

EDPS, to random
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Two years ago, embarked on a pioneering journey launching a pilot project of two decentralised social media platforms: & .

18 May will mark the end of the project. Time to review the results of this successful story.

Read Press Release https://europa.eu/!yJqDgK

smallcircles,
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@how @EU_Commission @EC_NGI @NGIZero

There was some hint (or maybe I misinterpreted) of some follow-up for the and pilot.

Nothing concrete mentioned and no further official announcement. Maybe @EDPS could provide more insight if this is indeed the case?

Meanwhile it is HIGHLY ironic that
@vonderleyen is a mirror operated by Federico Leva in Finland together with numerous other unofficial bridges. Frequently confused with official accounts.

https://federicoleva.eu/en/

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