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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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smallcircles, to random
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Sustainable FOSS is the practice of talking about sustainable FOSS.

smallcircles, to DuckDuckGo
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Did someone else also notice that is much worse than before in finding good results, esp. in queries related to software development? I find that most of the time I have to add !g bang to fallback to search.

smallcircles, to Bulgaria
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the saga continues.. 😫

Read @echo_pbreyer latest article on this nightmare:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

smallcircles, to random
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Hey there @FOSSCell 👋

Just found your https://fossmeet.net .. nice site 👍

One nit: you reference to your mastodon channel via mastodon social. Why not directly via floss social?

smallcircles, to random
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Virtue-based economy.

smallcircles, to android
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I thought the battery of my ancient phone had finally given out. Battery went from fully charged to empty in a heartbeat.

However app was somehow stuck trying to fetch notifications, so I killed it, thinking this was a battery drain. It likely was.

Along the way I found a real useful feature: Data Saver 😃

After I turned this on my battery lasts for days now, and I don't get superfluous notifications anymore either.

smallcircles, to random
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involves the devious practice of passing people 💩 turd sandwiches wrapped in glossy paper, and have the recipient be happy and surprised when opening them.

Because only outward packaging is all that matters, the superficial layer. Hypercapitalism aggressively teaches to look no further. To not see deeper value and meaning. For its practioners, which we all are to an extent, superficiality is thus the "Return on Lack of Investment" we get in return.

We may value more.

smallcircles, to accessibility
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Hi @matt 👋

Yesterday in chat I named the project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the side, i.e. could do with some on board.

Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a appdev effort, called . Another project here is .. also in for @accesskit support.. maybe. 🤔

Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?

https://github.com/project-robius

smallcircles, to OpenAI
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OMG the thugs at decided they better steal Scarlett Johannson's voice after she declined a contract to get voiced by her.

Two days before launch of she was approached again by Sam Altman, Head of Crooks. And refused again.

To then find her overly uplifting, encouraging, positive sounding voice creating the uncanny valley in these demo's.

When approaching OpenAI by her legal councilors the voice was suddenly pulled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

smallcircles, to random
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Seeing your toot on roleplaying and mechanics reminded me of a vid by Yan Cui I watched in 2015 and which got me really excited for graph db's, @hrefna

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/game-economy-graph-db/

Years later similar excitement was triggered by @cwebber Fantasary and imagining being able to build that stuff on open standards decentralized social networks.

https://spritelyproject.org/#fantasary

smallcircles, to random
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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, to ubuntu
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Why do I have to figure out how to simply do a right-click with my touchpad, now that my mouse battery ran dry, ?

Touchpad settings are really obscure in what switch I should toggle. Or is right-clicking old-fashioned now and not supposed to be done on a touchpad?

smallcircles, to foss
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Advocating for #Wasmcloud to adopt a OSS-first approach and use #LinuxFoundation #OpenBAO as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236

@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least #OSS and preferably even #FOSS in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.

#WebAssembly #wasm #Vault

smallcircles, to ai
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OMG! Some startup launched, and they offer over a million stock images in the . Well, "photography".. you be the judge.

(And I'll do that too: 🤢 )

https://torrentfreak.com/ai-startup-launches-ever-expanding-library-of-free-stock-photos-and-music-240413/

Image shows a person standing in front of a desk where another person sits. Does the man have "Free Willy" exposed in front of their crotch? Nope, it is just a chopped off finger.

smallcircles, to firefox
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Ha, it is only speculating, but Linked-freaking-In not showing the preview of @Tutanota article on choosing the best (hint: ), makes me a bit suspicious of intent. Article has all the data.

https://tuta.com/blog/best-private-browsers

know they have a 💩 browser too, promoting the of a cliff.

Top HN comment on 's article explains how shitty Edge, as a reminder:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429370

smallcircles, to random
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for prolific ponderers. Prepares the way for others to play.

smallcircles, to Amazon
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Freaking again.

I posted @waag article calling for to not transfer the infra for the .nl to AWS.

https://waag.org/en/article/why-moving-nl-domains-amazon-bad-idea

Then I got this 'helpful' hint to "increase my engagement" 🤢 ..

Yeah right, engagement by scammers. I miss the "Are you mad?" button in this design.

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"Can improve the user experience of decentralized ecosystem?"

https://www.liquid.surf/2024/2/7/Can-FedCM-improve-Solid-login-flow

This article by folks working on a based app called Liquid Surf mentions the specs of the 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.

Idk relevance to and , but the work looks interesting:

https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/issues/240

smallcircles, to fediverse
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/ contribution suggestion:

bookmarking app.

The maintainer of Grimoire is aware of the fedi and sees merit in having an integration within the app.. https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire/issues/4

Grimoire is built in and -licensed.

smallcircles, to privacy
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It's quite popular to use https://shields.io to add #Badges to your README in #git code repositories, and in many other places.

This makes #Shields potentially a #tracker. I just noticed that the shields website does not have a #privacy policy. Given the service it provides it is required to have one for #GDPR-compliance. They do use 3rd-party services that need mentioning. The issue to add a PP is still open since 2019:

https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/4225

What alternative #Badge service do you use?

smallcircles, to random
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Black bloody Friday is coming again. Buy nothing, if you can afford too ✊

#BlackFriday #HyperCapitalism

smallcircles, to random
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? That is that Meta thing, right?

Ehh, oops.. I meant . My bad.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/foriverse-alignment-on-forum-softwares/3830/7

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Ugh.. finally forced to use in order to discuss some buggy behavior in a project.

It is a freaking Christmas tree 🎄 and somewhere something notifies me in the many ways this is possible. I will spend this day trying to find where exactly.

🙏

smallcircles, to foss
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Way to go! #Ladder is a #FOSS alternative to 12ft.io that can be self-hosted as a proxy that allows bypassing of your everyday #paywall ..

> Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy and informed decision-making. While media organizations have legitimate financial interests, it is crucial to strike a balance between profitability and the public's right to access information [...]

Plenty of features, #GPL-licensed.

https://github.com/kubero-dev/ladder

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