smallcircles

baldur, 17 days ago to random

“Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation - The Verge”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

> suggests that Google hasn’t been entirely truthful about it for years

So this is what the SEO types have been shouting about

smallcircles, 11 months ago to privacy

#OpenResume, self-hostable, #privacy-focused, #AGPL-licensed parser and builder for #Resume's.

https://www.open-resume.com

https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume

smallcircles, 11 months ago to opensource

Keeping #OpenSource Open..

In response to #RedHat's corporate moves the #Rocky #Linux project found that they are still able to legally obtain redhat's sources based on the #GPL licensing conditions.

https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open

smallcircles, 1 year ago to random

"Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution"

From HN top-level comment:

"No real surprise. A good number of people who have grown up with the promise of the tech are pretty well disgusted by what it's turned out to deliver, which is mostly "A handful of multibillionaires treating the rest of us as sets of eyeballs to be monetized at all possible costs."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901537

smallcircles, 7 months ago to foss

#OpenSign a #FOSS #PDF e-signing alternative to the proprietary #DocuSign, #AdobeSign and #PandaDoc.

https://www.opensignlabs.com

#AGPL-licensed. More info, see the blog:

https://www.opensignlabs.com/post/opensign-the-enterprise-grade-open-source-docusign-alternative

See also HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052344

smallcircles, 11 months ago to internet

#Meta is already encrappifying the #Fediverse with their NDA shenanigans.

What an awful awful corporation it is.

smallcircles, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse

Added 15 #ActivityPub projects to the Delightful Fediverse Apps list.

https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps

Finally got rid of the backlog in one list. Now finding courage and time to update the huge backlog of the Developer Resources list.

Nicest project? I really liked #Illuminant, a server that allows you to connect with an #NNTP client to your instance..

https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/tree/README.md

smallcircles, 8 months ago to fediverse

Frequently frustrations about the Browser oligopoly rear its head on #Fediverse and people talk on creating alternatives.

Such projects exist. Chances for success may benefit from trimmed specs.

To discuss the ideas for a #WebLite, a project 1st started by @alcinnz on Codeberg, a #matrix chatroom was created:

https://matrix.to/#/#weblite:matrix.org

Anyone interested in lightweight #browser engines, and trimmed down #CSS #HTML and possibly #JS too is welcome there.

https://codeberg.org/weblite

#HTMLite #CSSLite

smallcircles, 5 months ago to random

#IETF RFC 9518 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

> "The extreme flexibility of #SOAP and its failure to provide significant standalone value allowed vendors to require use of their preferred extensions, favoring those who had more market power. Therefore, standards efforts should focus on providing concrete utility to the majority of their users as published, rather than being a "framework" where interoperability is not immediately available."

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#name-consider-extensibility-care

smallcircles, 5 months ago to fediverse

For #ActivityPub the question of "Why use #LinkedData?" has never been answered. There should be clear merits to wade through all the complexity that this choice brings, right?

Yes, its ultra flexible, and you can define your own semantic #ontologies, and theoretically it could provide a robust extension mechanism to AP protocol. Except that right now it doesn't.

What's the vision of a Linked Data #Fediverse? What great innovative #SocialNetworking #UX would it bring, that makes it worthwhile?

smallcircles, 11 months ago to wordpress

Based on #WebAssembly there's now the #Wordpress Playground that runs a wordpress entirely in the browser. Check it out at:

https://developer.wordpress.org/playground

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593

smallcircles, 9 months ago to random

#Fukushima nuclear plant will start to ditch 1 million tons of tritium-polluted water out into the sea.

> The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved the discharge, saying that the radiological impact on people and the environment would be “negligible”.

Yea, right #IAEA. This is just as trustworthy as #Shell concluding that the burning of #FossilFuels has negligible effects on the earth's atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/22/fukushima-wastewater-from-ruined-nuclear-plant-to-be-released-from-thursday-japan-says

smallcircles, 9 months ago to random

"humans. humans did this. not an ai. not some cold machine. cold humans. the simplification/corruption of discussion through misuse of “ai” has been happening for decades. the shift is that now it is being used to shield humans from responsibility. that cannot be permitted. humans did this."

-- catchnear4321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37198361

smallcircles, 1 month ago to fediverse

Call to Participate: Help update #WebFinger #RFC with the original lead author at the #IETF

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/call-to-participate-help-improve-webfinger-rfc-with-its-lead-author/4208

#ActivityPub #SocialHub

smallcircles, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Stop Blind Revenge.
Stop Mindless Bloodshed.
Stop Atrocious Massacre.

Remember Your Faith.
Remember History.
Remember Humanity.

Help Innocent People.
Help Defenseless Life.
Help Pervasive Peace.

Imagine a Better Future.
#HumanityNow 🕊️

smallcircles, 6 months ago to fediverse

#Fediverse / #ActivityPub contribution suggestion:

#Grimoire 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 #Svelte and #MIT-licensed.

smallcircles, 12 days ago to random

News on #Ladybird #browser and #SerenityOS

> "I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL"

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560768

cc @alcinnz

smallcircles, 3 months ago to random

About Megathread discussions on the Fediverse..

There are tons of valuable insights being microblogged around, available for participants & readers who happen to bump into them.

As microblogging goes they are fleety and slide towards forgetfulness and link rot as soon as posts are added.

Recording and summarizing these insights in a different medium is dilligent manual labor.

But can we even do this? Can we quote + attribute others' public toots or do we need ask consent for that?

smallcircles, 1 year ago to fediverse

Today's question for a resilient #Fediverse is whether various different initiatives are willing to collaborate and cross-pollinate, while keeping their independence.

There's great opportunity to increase the cohesion of the #GrassrootsFedi #ActivityPub developer community and creating strong joins:

1. @w3c #SocialCG working on #OpenStandards improvements

2. @fedidevs documenting existing fedi

3. #FEP process on @Codeberg

4. #SocialHub as forum

5. @dansup #FediDB

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ideating-organization-structure-for-the-grassroots-fediverse-wiki/3037

smallcircles, 5 months ago to fediverse

Followed-up to my 3-months old proposal for a bottom-up 3-stage Standards Process to guarantee a decentralized and open ecosystem. A process that goes:

#ActivityPub Ecosystem -->
#FEP / #SocialHub -->
#W3C #SocialCG

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-process-guaranteeing-an-open-and-decentralized-ecosystem/3602/30

This has urgency, or corporate takeover is assured!

“Any decentralized [ecosystem] requires a centralized substrate, and the more decentralized the approach is the more important it is that you can count on the underlying system.”

https://www.thediff.co/p/the-promise-and-paradox-of-decentralization

smallcircles, 1 month ago to random

In #LibrePlanet talk about #GNU #Taler the speaker Iván Alejandro Ávalos Díaz is warning us about our future in 2050 where we no longer have #Freedoms to choose our payment systems, pay with cash, or pay at all if we were behaving 'naughty'.

@Taler @NGI_Taler

Screenshot from the talk showing fictitious screenshot in 2050 showing that unfortunately PainPal has frozen your bank account due to 'suspicious activity'. Reasons are that the article are deemed to be against corporate interest to show you, you use encrypted equipment, and you might create competing financial systems.

smallcircles, 1 month ago to foss

Saddening me time and again is seeing individualism and fragmentation in #FOSS.

#Collaboration between projects that's so often low-hanging fruit, yet never happens. More anticipation of needs, helping each other, be stronger together. Yet it hardly shapes up to the extent that it could.

We seem to lack time to become sustainable, let alone 'win' from #Hypercapitalism. No time to seek collab as we prod on alone.

There are exceptions of course, and better collab tools are becoming available.

smallcircles, 30 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to Lisp

Make a game with Hoot for the yearly #Lisp #GameJam!

https://spritely.institute/news/make-a-game-with-hoot-for-the-lisp-game-jam.html

The #game jam co-organized by Dave Thompson, CTO at @spritelyinst, starts today and are an excellent opportunity to test-drive the #Spritely #Hoot project's #Guile to #WebAssembly facilities.

Get inspired by last year's jam, and join the 10-day event..

https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2023

smallcircles, 13 days ago to Bulgaria

#ChatControl 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/

#EU #EUCommission #Privacy #Dystopia

smallcircles, 6 months ago to terraform

After #Terraform, now it is the turn for #Vault - the popular secrets-management project by #HashiCorp - to be forked and relicensed from #BUSL to #MPL. The new project will be named #OpenBao and same as its terraform-cousin #OpenTofu be part of #LinuxFoundation.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/hashicorp_openbao_fork/

https://wiki.lfedge.org/display/OH/OpenBao+%28Hashicorp+Vault+Fork+effort%29+FAQ