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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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smallcircles, to privacy
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Yes, you can ditch now..

https://organicmaps.app

is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a -respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on this app is gonna blow out of the water (hopefully ;)

smallcircles, to fediverse
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For the question of "Why use ?" 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 , 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 ? What great innovative would it bring, that makes it worthwhile?

smallcircles, to fediverse
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🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the ?

😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.

😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how won once more.

🎯 Use apps instead, created by the public for the public.

🌻 Keep the Fediverse open.

smallcircles, to foss
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This is nice to see..

A student can't afford to pay the $8 per month for sync, so builds a alternative. Then posts to HN and says "I probably violate ToS, so will take down the repo if asked".

Then the Obsidian CEO replies. Explains they aren't VC-funded and the $8 bucks subscription keeps the light on. Applauds the work of the student, points to other open ways that content sync can be handled and gives advice "if you rename, there's no ToS problem". 👍

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37247767

smallcircles, to random
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nuclear plant will start to ditch 1 million tons of tritium-polluted water out into the sea.

> The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved the discharge, saying that the radiological impact on people and the environment would be “negligible”.

Yea, right . This is just as trustworthy as concluding that the burning of has negligible effects on the earth's atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/22/fukushima-wastewater-from-ruined-nuclear-plant-to-be-released-from-thursday-japan-says

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Today's question for a resilient is whether various different initiatives are willing to collaborate and cross-pollinate, while keeping their independence.

There's great opportunity to increase the cohesion of the developer community and creating strong joins:

  1. @w3c working on improvements

  2. @fedidevs documenting existing fedi

  3. process on @Codeberg

  4. as forum

  5. @dansup

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ideating-organization-structure-for-the-grassroots-fediverse-wiki/3037

smallcircles, to ubuntu
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Time to move off has finally come. So many to choose from, though. Makes my head spin 😵

I need one with:

  1. Great support (maybe get that webcam working finally)

  2. Smooth & slick / (I'm less of a terminal guy)

  3. Focus on , security-first approach (but not the ones that are made for James Bond)

What do you suggest?

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Witnessing another occurrrence of the anti-pattern this morning inspired me to write some thoughts about this social behavior that is so common on our that is based on mechanics.

On the forum I created a category for (or ) patterns, and the "Reply Guy" is the first entry in what might be turned into a pattern library collection.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-considering-the-reply-guy-anti-pattern/530

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Frequently frustrations about the Browser oligopoly rear its head on and people talk on creating alternatives.

Such projects exist. Chances for success may benefit from trimmed specs.

To discuss the ideas for a , a project 1st started by @alcinnz on Codeberg, a chatroom was created:

https://matrix.to/#/#weblite:matrix.org

Anyone interested in lightweight engines, and trimmed down and possibly too is welcome there.

https://codeberg.org/weblite

smallcircles, (edited ) to privacy
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⚠️ alert!

☠️ Gadgeteering

is derived from and applies to tech companies that introduce highly -invasive devices into our world. Cashing in and be damned.

A is also the naive or careless person who wears these and is either oblivious of the detrimental externalities of the tech to society, or criminally negligent of those (usually -following hipsters).

Gadgeteers lead us to .

smallcircles, to UI
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: Designing modern with and

Prepare to get nerd-sniped by this impressive presentation by @rikarends at conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg

Or directly check out the (old version of their) IDE, here running in the browser..

http://makepad.dev

https://github.com/makepad/makepad

Only feedback after watching the vid: Please, don't let AI handle .. maybe take inspiration from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson (Google Doc 😬 link at the bottom): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696

smallcircles, to webassembly
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Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components

https://runno.dev/articles/wasi-web-component

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37287339

smallcircles, to reddit
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Heard on HN re:

> We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with . We formed connections and communities and friendships [but] those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348134

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hey, which app allows an to be used as a ?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112414539433136490

#❓

smallcircles, to foss
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Good news.. @excalidraw

The latest version of looks like it is starting to become a true open alternative to for collaborative sketching and sticky notes sessions.

Plenty cool features, , self-hostable, stores stuff locally / syncs encrypted, save & export, etc.

Check it out at:

https://excalidraw.com

smallcircles, to mastodon
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There's a lot of focus on to migration, but the overall story is quite a bit bigger I think.

The offers huge opportunity for independent journalism in a world where so much of media are consolidated and in the hands of shady mogul billionaires. In other words Fediverse is both a threat to existing business models, as well as market opportunity.

Though I don't know if it applies, this toot was triggered by: https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/111207098660272388

smallcircles, to Bulgaria
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@EU_Commission despairs on erosion of trust in

Then launches the next trust-eroding dystopic program.

As Jean-Claude Juncker put it:

> We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

I'm pro-European 🇪🇺 , care about and . My faith is severely tested.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

smallcircles, to random
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About Megathread discussions on the Fediverse..

There are tons of valuable insights being microblogged around, available for participants & readers who happen to bump into them.

As microblogging goes they are fleety and slide towards forgetfulness and link rot as soon as posts are added.

Recording and summarizing these insights in a different medium is dilligent manual labor.

But can we even do this? Can we quote + attribute others' public toots or do we need ask consent for that?

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hi there @ashleykolodziej 👋

I'd like to give a heads-up to movement where I'm involved and plan to revive the notion of or Social experience design, esp. for the .

https://discuss.coding.social

Your toot triggered a nice discussion in the repo: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/44

So much chatter on is either deeply technical or app-specific. The field of SX may offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective, focus on methods, guidance and best-practices.

smallcircles, to random
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Ultra weird. I pasted a toot by @arinbasu1 in Translate. This one: https://social.arinbasu.online/objects/8af7f48d-ac82-47e8-9c3b-7e9cd691c4f9

And the auto-detect didn't work, and provided a totally BS Dutch translation more indicative of some dodgy 😱

WTH happened? I might have some malign extension injecting that, but I only installed official and trustworthy ones.

(Also in English translation for the img caption it capitalized one occurence of "How To Make Your Money" that was lower-case in Dutch)

smallcircles, to random
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Either screwed up or they have something weird going on and activated the "Ghost Town" algorithm on their content feed 😆

I notice that for days there are actually zero new posts, and timeline seems like an iceberg.

Heard some frustrations by people who try to stand out on that platform.

Don't tie your fate to Bermuda Triangle proprietary platforms. Your dingy may be swallowed below the dark waves at any moment.

smallcircles, to random
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A good online privacy-respecting tool to plan a meeting. There's one that allows participants to specify availability ranges.

I checked Framadate, but here you must pre-select specific dates and times.

Have used such tool before, but forgot the name 😬

Anyone?

smallcircles, to fediverse
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#ActivityPub app developers take note..

A #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal has reached FINAL status:

FEP-f1d5: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software

" #NodeInfo is a #protocol intended to standardize upon a way to provide server-level metadata to the public. This enables tools and clients to utilize this metadata to assess server health or facilitate end-users choices about servers and software to use on the Fediverse."

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-f1d5.md

smallcircles, to mastodon
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Should ?

I can't hear you..

SHOULD MASTODON GIVE UP GITHUB???

Now I hear you! 😃

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub

Serious now. is becoming a one-stop-shop for , that uses to expand its dominant position. Gradually locking people in, with rich feature sets. Good alternatives exist, and can soon integrate with the via protocol.

Weigh in on the discussion, add upvotes, emoji and feedback to:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/27765

smallcircles, to random
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be like "Oh, you fiddled with your notification settings? This is an opportunity for us to apply some and push every fart someone leaves on our network down your throat"

No, you are wrong LinkedIn. I wanted less notifications, not more. But what can you expect when you expose yourself to 🤷

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