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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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nkizz, to random

inspired by an @foone post, I've been working on a Mastodon to POP3/SMTP bridge that enables email clients on retro and modern machines to read and post to Mastodon. It supports images (both posting and viewing), replies, and HTML/Unicode. Plus it's written in rust, for the hacker cred. Check it out, I'd love to see what machines can talk to it!

https://github.com/nkizz/mop3

aral,
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@nkizz @icd @foone Neat :)

aral, to random
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Github down? I hadn’t noticed.

Might be a good time to check out Codeberg.

https://codeberg.org

Bonus: You can follow them on the fediverse at @Codeberg

aral,
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@elliot It’s my daily driver.

@Codeberg @gitea

valere, to random
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The last experiment in progress on Youtube

aral,
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@valere “Protecting yourself from being tracked by us is not allowed on YouTube.”

CC @noybeu

ActionRetro, to random
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Hehe, Linux on a tiny potato

aral,
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@ActionRetro 😍

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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@steely_glint Frankly, I couldn’t give two shits what they use. I’m just pretty sure I won’t be using the same one.

aral,
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@alexl What’s the shortcut, Alex?

And shortcut to what, exactly?

aral,
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Since folks are asking and replies don‘t always federate properly:

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

aral,
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@alexl What does “waging war between the poor” mean? Who’s doing this and how are they doing it? Are Element poor? They have at least $30M in VC.

Also, raising awareness is a huge part of what I do. How do you propose we raise awareness without challenging crap like this? How does anything change if we remain quiet?

I’m sorry but, if anything, I’m more confused that before. I don’t understand what you’re criticising and why.

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,
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@devnull @ohne_sonne @melunaka But if you go and speak at a freaking police conference, sell your wares to them, and then brag about it that says something rather different, no?

aral,
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@carlschwan Looks at self. Wonders, “do I even exist?"

We don’t. We would never.

(See, it’s really not that hard. Depends what you’re about. We’re not an enterprise software company but a not-for-profit working to safeguard human rights.)

https://small-tech.org

aral,
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@ianbetteridge Oh, that’s ok then :) phew!

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.

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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@ff0000 Want to make it as easy as possible but running Domain (to enable the hosting of Small Web sites and apps) will always require some technical knowledge and organisational investment of time and resources (as opposed to running Small Web sites and apps, which should require none).

aral,
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@konstantin Yep, exactly. But gotta start somewhere :)

Hadn’t heard of Mollie. Will check them out, thanks :)

aral,
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I’m sure you’re all riveted to hear my next niche micro-update on finding a payment solution to integrate into #Domain¹ but I’m actually reconsidering #Paddle. The more I think about it, the less custom logic there is in Domain to handle payment providers the better. A very lightweight abstraction over embedding a #payment form and handling #webhooks should make it easier to add others in the future at the cost of more setup in the payment provider itself.

¹ https://codeberg.org/domain/app

#SmallWeb

aral,
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@ff0000 Good to have the validation, thanks.

I’m going to start implementing an integration today and see how it goes :)

aral,
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@Gustodon 💕

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.

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 💕

kaye, to random

Ok so I have a slightly embarrassing question

What's a good text editor for Linux,

  • that supports regexes,
  • and has a graphical user interface designed sometime this millenium,
  • and that isn't emacs or vim,
  • please don't recommend emacs or vim
aral,
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@kaye I use Helix Editor but that doesn’t have a GUI (it’s modal. Modern, but modal.)

Otherwise, VSCodium runs on Linux. I believe Sublime Text does too, although that’s proprietary.

Good luck on your search and do let us know what you end up using :)

aral, to random
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Sexual predator or US President? Why choose when you can have both?

https://www.inkl.com/a/YlMoaphnxmn

aral,
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@koen_hufkens sigh (you’re likely correct. I want a new planet now, please.)

aral, to random
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Man, corporations have really done a number on society, haven‘t they?

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