Meta/Threads/Facebook/Instagram has made their own symbol for the fediverse, so we better have a good argument for why this is not representative of us because we are quickly gonna see a lot of this icon...
Starting to volunteer for the SocialHub's initiaitive for Fediverse conferences, I just submitted a thread to encourage people to consider joining the steering group.
A gentle reminder re the Call for Participation for the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at #FOSDEM (Brussels) on February 2024!
We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware
and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more
secure. If youre working on improving today's systems taking declarative/minimalistic approaches then submit! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2024-devroom-proposal
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?
@steve@smallcircles@evan Personally I resent the need to interact with GitHubs world (and by symmetry empathize with others needing keys to numerous other git forges to participate).
I consider it a positive thing that SocialHub emerged and would like to think that things intersect in nicer ways than the silos which repos can easily become.
Also, I dont think there is a need to be dependent on SH but would encourage cross posting (working across fediverse tools and instances is the pinnacle)
Very interesting long read on “value capture” — when measurements like grades, citation counts, or step counts take over the true values (learning, writing, health) you actually care about. Also related to “stop the numbers game” by David Parnas (“Counting papers slows the rate of scientific progress”).
Who spends £3bn to maintain a NUCLEAR weapon that has a dysfunctional guidance system? Yep, you've guessed it - the Westminster government. With an
accuracy of ±3000 miles, they have no idea where it will come down.
A remnant of England's post imperial sense that they are a global player. #trident#ScottishIndependence
@natacha@XavCC Id like to propose something but Im already committed to doing a talk at a minor coding meetup at the ULB during the same weekend.
In any case, I will definitely be be at OFFDEM in any case.
TBH, Im particularly worried by triggers given the consequence of extensive gaslighting prior to Feb 2023 - by those I had previously trusted . Should I survive volunteering with my devrooms (Guix Days; Minimalist and Declarative Programming); and DJing with you lot that will be a big win.
Imagine the #fediverse had a hashtag dictionary, based on the existing folksonomy, that app makers could easily implement. One that did things like merge legalisation and legalization into one tagspace, searching on either as a tag gives you results from both. Or respected capitalisation, so apps didn't #NowHere into #nowhere.
@strypey Ah shit, what you need is a prefix with folksonomic properties.
This is infact what my #qiuy annotations are supposed to provide.
That way you have both the prefix and the tag with their own behaviours of semantic divergence. Increasing the layers adds one type of complexity but ameliorates another kind.
@JamesBaker
Remember this?:
> ... "Death on the Rock" as part of a decade of "unprecedented conflict between government and broadcasters over ... investigative documentaries".[93] Margaret Thatcher "utterly rejected" the findings of the Windlesham–Rampton report. After the reforms brought in by the Broadcasting Act 1990, the process of bidding for ITV franchises was overhauled in an attempt to introduce greater competition. In the subsequent auction, Thames Television lost its contract;
I was scheduled to give a talk on Nazi history, but thanks to a typo from someone who was getting the program info over the phone, I'm now going to be talking about a dog.
Its worth pointing out that during this period of time Thatcher was buying masses of coal from Soviet states to undermine the local strikers.
Politics, eh?
Um... if you take this Pepsie challenge, I promise I will never give you a Harrier JumpJet no matter how many Pepsi points you think you've earned. And I'm really only looking for a couple (two) names, Any other backstories are a total bonus.
If you're wondering, well... I'm wondering just how much we lose in the generational abstractions that occlude truths as facts or popular fictions as the years pass.
For example, I really have no grasp of why boys the age of my grandpa wanted to fuck Gracie Allen so badly - I did see a lot of George Burns' later movies, and I got to thinkin' many years ago when my dad sat me down and made me both listen and contemplate the song, "I Wish I was 18 again" by her widower.
Don't be obtuse! Of course I dismissed it, but even then as an 18 or so year old boi, I realized that at some point in my life I would realize that what my father was subjecting me to was so fucking significant (and fleeting), that I would eventually come to understand what he was conveying to me.
And now we have a clueless population of snot-nosed children yet again, for the innumerable time since time began, that is incapable of comprehending a simple paradigm - NO asshole - Not of Burns and Allen. Geez! But if you need to start there then okay, please do that.
It's like one of those little maze puzzles you penciled in the escape route for when your parents took you to one of those stupid restaraunts that had the foresight to keep the kids quiet by occupying their interests while their dinners were cooking. The alternative was others enduring the wailing lamentations of snot nosed brats who wouldn't wait patiently on their favorite dish to be plated and delivered to their table.
Well, whatev. Most folks are cowards, and your likely amongst them - but if your'e not, please feel free to accept this challenge to give me just two names - unrelated personnas that have left indellible marks upon the subtext of everyday everythings that you may not even know you invoke and stand upon the shoulders of each and everyday.
The hints are there, you can be distracted, sidelined, and offer up something other than what I'm actually looking for and even that would be most excellent!!! I'm merely hoping to help you excercise your mind, recollections, and ability to research things that are buried deep within the Dark Abcesses of your Mind.
Wanna play? I'll continue to engage you if you like, if you miss the mark, or even better, bring out aspects that I've not thought of myself as to how these things became and remain so significant to me even to this very day.
"Jim, your mission, if you choose to accept this, is..." Don't let that fucking tape self-destruct in five seconds!
@tallship
Does this work?:
> Derek Bailey and John Cage allowed me to do informatics without the paradigms that IT and social systems foster on our respective communities.
> I infact got to meet Derek as a young student, shortly before he died.
> He was forgiving of a naive youth asking him why there had been so much attention to him in the preceding months.