Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.
People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.
Update: As many have pointed out, you can use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it
"Imagine easily replacing batteries and other components yourself, extending the phone’s lifespan without needing specialized technical knowledge. This, coupled with seven years of updates, would truly be a game-changer."
What we need is innovation in order to create a phone where you can remove the battery. This would be true innovation: doing something thought impossible, doing something that's never been done before. What a challenge!
@adamchainz@paulox there are several django based instances, i think #funkwhale is another. But as far as i can tell alot is still in alpha and none has seen significant adoption. Its a bit of a pity. With the large numbers of python enthousiasts and contributors such a stack could made a difference for building out the #fediverse
Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.
@molly0xfff what is fascinating (in a morbid way) is that it seems we have entered an era where the nature of technology ideas is no longer particularly relevant.
What is critical is to have tech talking points, some seed of a technology to spin a narrative. But it cant be anything humble: it must be stretchable into an "X will eat the world five times over" kind of level. #AI will run everything, #blockchain will account everything, we will all be 24/7 in an infinite #metaverse etc.
“Look, I know that Eisenhower didn't trade cow-lips for alien technology - but our political and commercial elites really did trade national resiliency away for IP laws, and it's a bargain that screwed everyone, except the one percenters whose power and wealth have metastasized into a deadly cancer that threatens the country and the planet.” - @pluralistic
"Electrifying, solarizing and adapting the world for climate resilience is fundamentally incompatible with a brittle, highly concentrated tech sector."
I like this sentence a lot. The sustainability transition (which is actually quite a bit more complex than just climate) is on a par with the agricultural and industrial revolutions as how profound it will be. I can only see it happening in a globally more balanced collective. A broad-based silicon agriculture of sorts.
"I don't know why ANYONE would use an Apple Vision Pro. It's stupid and anyone who likes it is stupid."
"Huh. This is actually pretty neat."
Look, I don't think the AVP is for me, probably, but if I had to pick a camp to hang out in, it sure wouldn't be the first one. It's an entirely optional tech gizmo; it's not worth villifying people over.
@danhulton there will be some people who will like VR goggles. But it doesnt feel that its going to be a mainstream UI - in the short term at least. The backlash is probably due to Apple fanboys overstating the case as they usually do.
@danhulton hmm, I don't really know. There is strong tech backlash in various quarters (imho broadly speaking justified) but whether thats what you are seeing in this specific case is another matter.
Most investment funds perform worse than the general stock market index. It is a lottery. For statistical reasons, a few participants always come out ahead. We call them "shrewd investors". Our only way of identifying such a random "shrewd investor" is that they have come out ahead.
@wagtail its a great idea as it would make potentially any django / wagtail installation a first class citizen of the fediverse, expanding functionality in various novel ways
There are already several django based activitypub servers (I am aware of #funkwhale, #takahẽ , #socialhome) and related #python projects (#bovine, #piefed) but it seems there is zero code re-use among them.
@wagtail@paulox lots of options indeed. Picking the brains of the maintainers of these projects probably advisable as a production ready activitypub implementation (that would federate properly e.g. with opinionated mastodon servers) seems to be a decent can of worms :-)
It might be useful to define what different levels of interoperability mean as more diverse implementations with very different motivations and use cases enter the network (that can never fully interoperate and would not need or want it)
There is probably something like the "minimum" interoperability that is required and useful but this is not jumping at you from the specification. Maybe thats why conformance testing is still lacking?
@smallcircles@manlycoffee what I would ideally like to have is a layered #activitypub approach (its core, mantle, crust if we use a geological analogy) where each additional layer provides enhanced functionality and eventually things split into continental plates that do their own specialties.
At the very core it could be something very simple, e.g., servers ping each other, exchange actor lists, basically just establish what the network is. Next level support #rss type notifications etc.
@devnull@david_megginson@davew@evan its when the neat, sequentially linked comments become a bushy tree if somebody replies to a comment higher up.
A busy "discussion" (that may last days or weeks) with many participants in different branches of the tree is very cumbersome to get an overview of. Like parallel, non-interacting universes.
Not to mention that every new joiner in the discussion reduces your available reply text length, but maybe that is a feature not a bug :-)