I am curious about the fediverse outside of lemmy. Is there any good documentation or recommended services? I’ve seen talk of mastadon, matrix, and kbin but I don’t understand how use them with my current Lemmy account....
Kbin – Link aggregation and discussion, sort of like Reddit
Mobilizon – Event organisation, the Fedi’s alternative to Facebook Events
OwnCast – Video livestreaming with a chat window at the side, very much in the style of Twitch
PeerTube – YouTube-style video sharing site which uses P2P technology to allow even small servers to have videos go viral, as the more people view a video the more bandwidth it gets
PixelFed – Photo sharing site, similar in style to Instagram and Tumblr
I think it’s worth noting that Mastodon is by far the most mature. Everything else is buggy and may not always work the way you might expect but I think many are still worth using if you can put up with the quirks.
▶︎ Easier navigation between files in diffs
▶︎ Ability to leave comments on your own draft diffs/files before publishing
▶︎ New extension hooks
▶︎ Improved Single Sign-On
Okay, this is kinda weird, but does anyone have just the case of an old Apple II display that they're interested in getting rid of? I've got a crazy project idea...
Ideally the case would be in good condition and the display would be dead (I wouldn't want to sacrifice a usable one).
To my inexpert eye, this power supply from the Apple IIe I bought on ebay looks to be in pretty good shape. All the output voltages look good. 1984 datecode on the sticker. Machine happily boots.
Should I be considering defensively replacing the caps on this nearly 40 year old device?
Looking at the ATF15xx 5v CPLDs and was going to just have some of @whitequark 's EVBs fabbed, but nobody has TQFP parts in stock right now.
The magic of open hardware meant that I could just grab the design files, fire up KiCAD, throw together a footprint, adjust the symbol for the PLCC variant, and widen and reroute the board to make room for the larger footprint.
Having a nice, clean original design to work from was an enormous time saver. Yay.
I am so sorry for lack posting. I like sharing #projects here. But I learned that life with a toddler is kinda restricted in the recreation part of life. 😅 So I just get to make small stuff, where I feel like posting about, is kinda not worth it. But today grandma is playing with the little one for a few hours so I got around to hit the oak slabs in my garage (sitting there about 2yrs now 😱) with woodworm-ex before they are completely turned to dust. #woodworking
I finally packaged up all the design files from my ZX81 Mechnical Keyboard project and published them on github, should anyone else want to make use of them. Enjoy!
I wrote in a bit more detail about what's changing at #Reddit, why it affects you, and how you can archive your data into a searchable #SQLite archive with a #Python tool I built (one of my recent #projects) and #Datasette.
ich hab demnächst einen börsengebundenen stromtarif und daher was gebaut, um die strompreise der nächsten stunden anzuzeigen, daß man auf einen blick sehen kann, wann man zb den geschirrspüler einschalten sollte. #projekt#projects
On Monday, I’m giving a #presentation to some #graphic design #university#students all about #sound, and how they might start to incorporate it in their #projects, so I put this little #demo together about how I make use of it as a #blind person. I have an hour to talk, so this is just what I’ll open with. the rest of the time will be live chat and Q&A.
In doing something like this with absolutely no visual aspect, I want them to start thinking about, and understanding the benefit of incorporating sound in new ways, how sound can help tell a story, and how together, visual plus audio can perhaps make something special.
The inside of my mouse (warning: it's disgusting) the plastic has been worn away where it rubs on the microswitches. Should be able to make some sacrificial 3d-printed spacers to bring all the switches back to life.
My first instinct was to make a simple shim that I'd CA glue to the appropriate pad but I think I'm gonna get a bit fancy and try to make it clip on to the H shape.
Does anyone feel like sitting down in front of the computer and playing around with their notes a bit?
I just wrote down how I set up and try to maintain my (academic) reading list in #Obsidian using the #Projects plugin by @marcusolsson and #Zotero. Might post it again after the holidays, but for now, here's the description of my approach for those who asked. Thus, fulfilling my promise from this thread: https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109557676423033978
I've finally managed to format my references from #Zotero so that they show up in Projects without any problems. Now I can finally create a reading list and easily track and change the status of books from within the Projects view.
Wonderful. Can't wait to continue reading for my dissertation next year and finally track what I want to read or have read each week. But for now, it is a reading break here!
This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more.
This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.
When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.
Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.
Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.
Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.
Reading up on ActivityPub and investigating what'd be involved in building a simple single-user Fediverse compatible blog thing (probably in Go). It's not looking like a terribly complicated project.
WhatsApp is working on cross-platform messaging (www.theverge.com)
fediverse services - links
I am curious about the fediverse outside of lemmy. Is there any good documentation or recommended services? I’ve seen talk of mastadon, matrix, and kbin but I don’t understand how use them with my current Lemmy account....
I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?
Applications, social media interfaces, instances, I’m not sure what the correct word is 😅....