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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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ivory, to random
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Ivory for iOS/iPadOS 1.4 is out on the App Store! It will slowly roll out over the next few days, but if you want it now, go to the App Store and manually update.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Our next task is getting the Mac app out and then we will continue with the items on our public roadmap: https://tapbots.com/ivory/#roadmap

Illustrated meme of no one in line for the booth titled, “FEATURES EVERYONE HAS BEEN ASKING FOR SINCE DAY ONE!” While everyone is in line for the booth titled, “NEW ICONS…”

aral,
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@ivory Thanks for all the alt-text features, folks :)

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aral, to random
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Encrypted messaging provider: “We make our money selling this to the police.”

Tech folks: This is cool and normal.

aral,
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@devnull @ohne_sonne @melunaka Thought it was part of the thread but apparently it’s not.

This is the post: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110310853505977058

aral, to SmallWeb
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Anyone here know anyone from Paddle that you can put me in touch with? (Or share your experience with them?)

I’m reconsidering whether Stripe is the right solution for the initial payments option in Domain (https://codeberg.org/domain/app) or whether it makes more sense (and would be easier for folks who want to run their own Domain instances and become Small Web hosts) if I integrated a Merchant of Record (MoR) solution instead.

aral,
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@giuseppegv Thanks, Giuseppe 💕

@ff0000

aral,
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The initial integration of Paddle into Domain is now complete. I’m happy with how it turned out.

Now the only (“only” he says) bit left is reimplementing the provisioning and setup of Small Web servers running Kitten (or Kitten apps).

It‘s getting there…

:kitten: 💕

aral,
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@ff0000 I’d say you can play with Kitten for that right now (and please report any issues if you run into any while you do) but until Domain is ready, deployment won’t be easy.

aral,
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@Sdevore My eventual goal is to support multiple so it’s on my list too. But need to start with one :)

aral,
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Yep, it looks like I’m going with Paddle (https://paddle.com) as the first supported payment system for Domain*.

(Barring any issues with getting our use case approved.)

So, asking again: does anyone know anyone that works at ? Would love to talk to them about what we’re trying to do with the Small Web and Kitten ** and Domain and hopefully have them support our use case.

aral,
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@ff0000 Thanks!

Kitten will always be for developers and hosting Domain instances will always be for folks with technical knowledge but I am trying to make every component in the system as simple to use as possible. That’ll be something we never stop iterating on :)

If we keep that philosophy throughout, then using the things we make with Kitten (and using Domain to obtain them) will hopefully be easy for folks who use technology as an everyday thing to do everyday stuff.

💕

aral,
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PS. Just noticed and fixed the typo in the “Stay Small!” section. It now reads:

“(e.g., one where cities can use tokens to provide their citizens with access to the commons from the commons, etc.)”

(That’s just one example based on the work we did with the City of Ghent a little while back to prototype how something like that could work. In addition to not taking payments, you will also be able to use tokens – not cryptocurrency; just pre-generated tokens that you can distribute to folks.)

aral,
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@ff0000 Thanks; that’ll be hugely useful, appreciate it :)

riley, to random
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It's just so strange to me how many people are not receptive to being told

"Hey maybe we shouldn't have all of our computers based on proprietary operating systems and APIs controlled by a single corporation"

"Hey maybe we shouldn't have web traffic directed and organized through search by a single corporation"

"Hey maybe the way that we talk to each other online shouldn't be owned and controlled through algorithms and advertising managed by a single corporation"

aral,
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@riley As someone who’s been doing just that for the past ten years (the telling people part, that is), I have ten years of empirical evidence to back up your statement :)

lightweight, to random
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Just listening to RNZ and Peter Griffin. Why does anyone think 'Startups' are a) a good idea, and b) deserving of taxpayer funding? Isn't that just trickle down economics?

aral,
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@lightweight @alcinnz https://moo.nz/@j 💕

mirjam_diala, to random
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I'm working on a talk and I'm in this weird place where it's basically Schrödingers talk for me: Nobody has seen it yet, so it could be great or aweful - I've lost all feeling for that at the moment.

Do other know this feeling?! Like: "Hey this is really good... or absolutly rubbish, could go both ways 🤷‍♀️"

aral,
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@mirjam_diala Oh wait, I just realised, we’re both speaking at NewCrafts this month, aren’t we? And, damn it, we’re on at the same time. (I only just put two and two together.) Well darn, yours was one of the talks I really wanted to catch.

In any case, here’s to seeing you in Paris soon :)

aral,
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@mirjam_diala I have a feeling you’re going to be just fine. Because, clearly, you care and, in the end, that’s all that’s matters.

(And thank you for the kind words. It helps tremendously when you make nearly every possible mistake in one go if you’re self-critical – to a fault? – and willing to learn from them. My second talk was immeasurably better. And then it just took giving a few hundred more…) :P

Do share it with us if it gets recorded. Would love to watch it :)

aral,
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@mirjam_diala Haha, yay! See you soon :)

aral,
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@mirjam_diala Have you done a run-through yet? Sometimes you just have to present it to tell (doesn’t help, I know) :)

Case in point: The second-worst talk I ever gave was the one where I realised I wasn’t interested in the topic half-way through giving it.

(The worst talk I ever gave was the first talk I ever gave. Made every mistake you can make: crammed too much in, overran terribly, someone fell asleep, etc. In retrospect, was the best learning experience ever.) :)

nattiegoogie, to random

Watching @aral et al rage against the machines, this has been on my mind for awhile.

Bear with me.

Corporations are not evil.

They are constructs; artificial life forms defined and designed by us, just trying to survive in an artificial ecosystem we created for them.

When we see "evil" corps rise to the top, and "good" corps go bankrupt...that is just an indication that we have designed them poorly.

A bad algorithm.

We do not need to "fight evil corps".

We need to redefine what a corp is.

aral,
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@nattiegoogie I’m not sure where even to begin…

The corporate form is the way it is because it was designed by the wealthy in their mission to get wealthier and avoid individual responsibility for their actions. It is not broken. It is working exactly as designed. It is not a failure, it is a tremendous success (within the success criteria of capitalism).

The last thing we need is to try and repair the brand. They’re trying to anyway with B Corps, etc.

aral,
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@nattiegoogie (I agree with you that corporations are artificial life forms – well, as “artificial” as anything can be that’s created by something “natural” like us. Where we differ, clearly, is that I see them as an invasive, parasitic species.

You take a group of people, absolve them of individual responsibility and then tell them they must extract value from anyone and anything on an ever-increasing scale… what have you created if not an institutionalised psychopath?)

aral,
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@nattiegoogie (And it’s not like we need corporations. There are other means for people to cooperate and create things that don’t result in extreme centralisation of wealth and power. There are cooperatives. We can fund and create things from the common purse for the common good. Thinking we need corporations is a profound failure of imagination. Corporations need us. We don’t need them.)

breadandcircuses, to politics

A group of 18 European Parliament Members have issued a statement officially calling for .

Here is part of what they wrote...

We believe that the current economic model, based on endless growth, has reached its limits.

Firstly, continuous economic growth, especially based on the consumption of fossil fuels, is leading to catastrophic global warming.

Secondly, the infinite pursuit of growth relies on the depletion of natural resources, the destruction of biodiversity, and the accumulation of waste and pollution. This also poses risks to our health, our economies, and our societies writ large.

Thirdly, the current economic model is contributing to social inequality and exclusion. The emphasis on economic growth has not translated into equal distribution of wealth or opportunities. Instead, it has resulted in a concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few leaving many behind.

Fourthly, the current economic model is inherently unstable and prone to crises, as seen, for example, during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The pursuit of growth at all costs has created a global economic system that is fragile and vulnerable to shocks.

We need an economic system that prioritises human well-being and ecological sustainability over GDP growth, one that recognises that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.

We also believe we need to find new ways of organising our economies without relying on the continuous exploitation of resources and the constant increase in production and consumption.

We call for more pluralism in economic thinking within EU institutions and for its alignment with the scientific evidence of climate, ecological, and social sciences.

We call for economic models and other decision-support tools to be more diverse, more comprehensive, and more readable for citizens.

We call for decision-making processes to be aligned with our common policy objectives rather than on the basis of the variation of GDP figures.

FULL STATEMENT -- https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/10/moving-beyond-growth-is-not-only-desirable-it-is-essential

Names of those who signed on as co-authors: Philippe Lamberts (BE), Bas Eickhout (NL), Ville Niinisto (FI), Manuela Ripa (DE), Marie Toussaint (FR), Ernest Urtasun (ES), Kim Van Sparrentak (NL) — Greens/EFA; Manon Aubry (FR), Petros Kokkalis (EL), Marisa Matias (PT), Helmut Scholz (DE) — The Left (GUE/NGL); Pascal Durand (FR), Aurore Lalucq (FR), Pierre Larrouturou (FR) — Socialists & Democrats (S&D); Sirpa Pietikainen (FI), Maria Walsh (IE) — European People’s Party (EPP); Katalin CSEH (HU) — Renew Europe (RE); and Dino GIARRUSSO (IT) — Non-attached (NI).

aral,
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@breadandcircuses This is exactly what we need. Gives me hope to see it :) 💕

joshuafoust, to random

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    aral,
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    @joshuafoust She’s going to work for Elon. What more needs to be said?

    Ok, ok, if you really want to cringe, watch this love fest:

    https://together.nbcuni.com/insights/news/twitter-from-conversations-to-partnerships/

    parsa, to random

    They sell services, not the messages you idiots!

    aral,
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    @parsa So (a) learn to read. And (b) fuck right off.

    buitengebieden, to random Dutch
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    An orphaned puppy got adopted by a mother cat...❤️

    video/mp4

    aral,
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    @buitengebieden @RIDDLES Aww 🥰

    ana_valdi, to random
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    💜 De lo mejor que se ha escrito sobre decolonialismo:

    "[U]na de las mayores limitaciones de nuestra época sea esta apuesta identitaria y estática por lo Otro [...]. ¿Cómo vamos a unirnos si la teoría dominante no hace más que separarnos?"

    https://jacobinlat.com/2023/04/16/the-department-of-decolonialism/

    aral,
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    @ana_valdi “Denouncing colonial universalism does not mean renouncing universalism … Have we radicalized emancipation in anything with our renunciation of the universal?“ (Auto translation.)

    Spot on and so relevant to what we’re trying to achieve in creating decolonial technology that’s universal not because we’re at its centre but because the local communities that own it can interoperate.

    CC @VjosaMusliu, I have a feeling you’d love this.

    Thanks for sharing 💕

    chrisgerhard, to random
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    "The subsequent apology will come with air quotes."

    Just perfect.

    Labour, Lib Dem & SNP voters face arrest
    https://www.newsbiscuit.com/post/labour-lib-dem-snp-voters-face-arrest?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    aral,
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    @chrisgerhard You know they would if they thought they could get away with it.

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