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I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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reiver, to opensource
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I've been in the scene for a long time. From BEFORE this was even called "open-source" — back BEFORE the phrase "open-source" even got coined and became common.

Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most software —

reiver, to random
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Talk about what you love, not what you hate.

anji, to random

IMO ActivityPub-based applications should have as a core principle this: Locally cached content from remote instances should always try to reflect the complete state of this content on the remotes.

It's regrettable a comprehensive apub synchronization scheme was not somehow part of the protocol specification.

And so we keep seeing boosted Mastodon posts with missing replies, incorrect fav/boost counts, etc. :sadness:

reiver,
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@anji

The protocol could be extended.

You just need enough of the Fediverse application developers to implement it.

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Just curious, what's the word on/purpose of/story behind the other services?

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I think Calckey was originally an English localization of Misskey.

(Misskey's native language is Japanese.)

But Calckey added some of its own features, too.

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Some newspapers do have that, though.

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RESEARCHERS:

“We don't know why Koreans aren't having children.”

...

KOREANS:

“The cost of buying a home is too expensive.”

“In the [Korean] country side, homes are more affordable but there are no jobs.”

“In Seoul there are jobs but you cannot make enough to afford a home where you want to live.”

...

RESEARCHER:

“We just don't know.”

...

KOREANS:

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reiver, to random
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Attractiveness bias in the legal system

https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bias-in-the-legal-system

"When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. […] I was so wrong."

reiver, to random
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has a small number customers who has been helping us alpha-test it.

Yesterday the drive-space filled up one of our customer's servers.

I didn't expect anyone's drive-space to fill up this fast.

We have been planning to build a alert system that lets customers know the drive-space is filling up before it is too late.

But we hadn't had a chance to build it yet. (We have so many other things to build.)

We better build that alert system now 🙂

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https://www.skeletonclaw.com/image/710734055173472257

reiver, to random
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All this image caption-text (i.e., alt-text) on Mastodon and the Fediverse is very likely going to be used to create AIs.

It is what AI specialists call "labeled data".

reiver, to random
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The (current) design for the Magic-Code screen.

reiver, to SmallWeb
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What is Gemini?

I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.

So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.

But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.

Here goes —

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Back in the 1990s it was not uncommon to still see Computer Terminals in use.

A Computer Terminal kind of looks like a computer; but they aren't computers.

You can kind of think of them as a combined monitor & keyboard.

They connected to a computer located somewhere else.

Sometimes many Computer Terminals connected to the same computer all at the same time.

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An important thing about many Computer Terminals is that — a lot of them (probably most) could only display text!, and only in a single color!

Although I suppose it is 2 colors, if you also count the dark color of the screen.

And also, that 1 color of different Computer Terminals could be a different color from each other.

So (with some exceptions) the Computer Terminal world was very monochromatic & text oriented!

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Why is that important‽ —

Because, back then, even when computers that supported graphics were common — software, protocols, and other computer technology were still designed for this monochromatic text-oriented world.

This includes early Internet protocols such as telnet, gopher, and others.

And even though gemini is a newer protocol — by being heavily inspired by gopher — gemini is also designed for this monochromatic text-oriented world.

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So let's talk about gopher (before we talk about gemini ).

Before the 1990s, text-oriented applications that showed some screen of text, and gave (menu) options for going to other screen of text, etc, were common.

It is during this era that gopher was created.

One can speculate that gopher may have been yet another Internet protocol that copied things that already existed elsewhere.

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Gopher was created back in the early 1990s.

I remember using it back then — during the 1990s.

The World Wide Web was also created in the early 1990s.

For whatever reasons, the Web became the popular thing, and gopher didn't.

Back in the mid- to late 1990s and early 2000s — things that people used to do with gopher, got replaced with the Web-based systems.

The Web became ubiquitous, gopher didn't.

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Over time what the World Wide Web is was expanded.

The Web started off as a simple monochromatic text-based system with options for going to other text screens, etc — just like gopher.

But over time the Web incorporated more and more and more features. Today the Web is a cross-platform application platform.

But this increased ability of the Web made certain things possible that has made many people unhappy —

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This is why —

You get spied on.
You get tracked.
You get your privacy taken away from you.
You get turned into a product, and sold.
You get your online identity taken from you.
You get censored.
You get manipulated.
You get your source of income taken from you, because it suits someone else's interests.
You get controlled.
You get everything taken away from you.

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Many people feel the Internet is broken.

Many people feel the Web is broken.

Many people feel Social Media is broken.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/109286852247165614

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Some people who feel the World Wide Web is broken reacted to this.

They left the Web.

They left the Web and went to gopher

This caused a small revival of gopher.

But —

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It seems like the people responding to this poll (so far) skew towards those who experienced the Internet in the 1990s and earlier.

Which might suggest there are a lot of people on the that not only remember the , but might want to support, bring back, and re-create & restore the best parts of the "old Internet".

https://social.librem.one/@mcneely/109338225935485076

Via @mcneely

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or ?

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It used to be (more) common for people to write HTML in a way where it would (also) look good in a Terminal based web browser.

It used to be (more) common for people to write HTML & CSS in a way where it would (still) look good if the CSS was not applied.

It used to be (more) common for people to write HTML & JavaScript in a way where it would (still) look good & (still) work if the JavaScript wasn't executed.

Those don't seem to be the norm nowadays.

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