smallcircles

smallcircles, 1 year ago to fediverse

Fedi devs and other interested folks.. Who's in for a Spring #ActivityPub / #Fediverse Gathering, #Montreal, June 2023?

If you are interested then fill out the #Poll by @how on the #SocialHub community forum:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/spring-activitypub-fediverse-gathering-montreal-june-2023/3120/3

smallcircles, 1 year ago to random

"Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution"

From HN top-level comment:

"No real surprise. A good number of people who have grown up with the promise of the tech are pretty well disgusted by what it's turned out to deliver, which is mostly "A handful of multibillionaires treating the rest of us as sets of eyeballs to be monetized at all possible costs."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901537

smallcircles, 3 months ago to random

The modern trend of.. plain old #feudalism.

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-billionaires-bunkers-buying-islands-prepping.html

smallcircles, 4 months ago to bluesky

Regarding #Bluesky opening signups, one person on HN comments:

> The account portability is probably the biggest problem with the #fediverse right now.

And while that may be true from an end-user perspective, imho it is not the biggest problem. The fact that for a new dev building an #ActivityPub app is like a Viking trying to discover America is problematic. While #ATProto has the Holland-America line where you can check in for the ride.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882

smallcircles, 26 days ago to mastodon

#Mastodon.. a "mutuals only" communication mode?

smallcircles, 7 months ago to Youtube

When #Youtube figures out how to make #UBlockOrigin ineffective is likely a time of big influx and uptake of #Peertube on the #Fediverse.

The privilege of enraged people with regards to the fine volunteer maintainers who spent sweat and tears to serve us with #Adblock software stood out:

> And then one of the moderators actually deleted their Reddit account. “The ID in the post wasn’t updated because my mother was hospitalized,” they said

Discussed in this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061642

smallcircles, 1 year ago to random

Beware that #Matrix is fiddling with archiving public (world-readable) chatrooms and publishing that in a searchable manner at https://archive.matrix.org

This already happened, while opt-out is still being discussed. Bad.

The bot that does this is:

@ archive : matrix.org

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive/issues/47

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive/pull/239

#Privacy

smallcircles, 10 months ago to random

Doomscrolling is real. There's.. a lot to report on. Both the awareness-raising and continuous exposure to gloom are thoroughly depressing. It is nonetheless needed.. to an extent. Too much exposure stifles people into inaction and turning away.

Solution focus is much rarer. Or it is just that good news doesn't sell. It is an uplifting passtime. I like to be in a spirit of "realistic optimism" or "optimistic realism" better than being a doom prophet.

smallcircles, 9 months ago to random

Why aren't #AdBlockers called #WebUnblockers? :blobhyperthink:

smallcircles, 8 months ago to random

@Jermolene hi Jeremy 👋 saw your follow. Nice to e-acquaint :)

I once had this discussion on an - for me - ideal mix of wiki technology and social web. And then took notes into an idea at Social Coding Movement to patiently wait for its time to come. Maybe it interests you in context of #TiddlyWiki ..

It is called #Semmy: Social Knowledge Fabrics

https://discuss.coding.social/t/semmy-social-knowledge-fabrics/76

smallcircles, 7 months ago to random

@protonmail one big improvement to your mail app would be that when someone mails you with one of your alias addresses and you reply, that it doesn't default to your personal #protonmail address, but still use the same alias. Now we've given away a personal address reserved for other uses. Also in contacts list you should be able to specify the preferred alias to use when sending mail to that contact.

smallcircles, 7 months ago to foss

#OpenSign a #FOSS #PDF e-signing alternative to the proprietary #DocuSign, #AdobeSign and #PandaDoc.

https://www.opensignlabs.com

#AGPL-licensed. More info, see the blog:

https://www.opensignlabs.com/post/opensign-the-enterprise-grade-open-source-docusign-alternative

See also HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052344

smallcircles, 19 days ago to random

TIL about #CopyFarLeft licensing..

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft

Like the Peer Production license:

> "The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity."

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

smallcircles, 4 months ago to random

Wanna be a true star? Then #DareToBeDifferent than the usual extreme elitist snobbery in that scene. Nice job. #DitchThatBling

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/12/taylor-swift-green-little-lies-dress-58-pounds-scottish-designer

smallcircles, 7 months ago to fediverse

I filed a #FediverseIdea named "Community has no Boundary".

The idea is to define a standardized #ActivityPub vocabulary extension for "Community", based on as:Group where the members (as:Actor) have a collection of as:Relationship to other actors.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/47

Both custom + standard relationships supported e.g. http://purl.org/vocab/relationship

Native community support on the #Fediverse would allow us to move away from the technnical notion of "instances", talk about #community instead.

smallcircles, 8 days ago to Signal

Meredith Whittaker president of @signalapp on #Xitter announces #Signal will leave #EU market if #ChatControl regulation by @EUCommission comes into effect.

MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551260

#EUCommission is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in how good regulation is followed by dystopic stuff, eroding trust.

smallcircles, 4 months ago to random

These 5 one-way tickets to Mars will be worth every penny.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer

smallcircles, 6 months ago to random

> "Why don’t children leave the house?". Because of screens.

(Quoted from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370203 )

I'm probably old-fashioned, but it saddens me a great deal to see how many children are so highly addicted and always glued to their device, that the world outside hardly arouses any interest to them.

I know extreme cases. Children to whom a bright sunny day is near meaningless, nature is unattractive, vacation is a nuisance because one is supposed to do other stuff than stare at a screen.

smallcircles, 2 months ago to mastodon

The "Read more" feature in #Mastodon web UI to cut off long posts leads to a great deal of unnecessary network traffic, and waste of energy.

I read a thread, then see a comment with a "read more". So I click that post. Now the whole thread is refetched with focus on that comment. After reading I click the top post again, as I want a view of the whole thread. Everything refetched again, and I continue reading, until the next "read more" comment is bumped into.

smallcircles, 2 months ago to foss

Today, and this is no April Fools, I am delighted to announce a new curated list to be available as part of the #delightful project.

Presenting:

💎 Delightful Transit

"A curated list of delightful #FOSS #transit APIs, apps, datasets, research, and software"

https://delightful.club/delightful-transit

The list has been carefully compiled and is maintained by @PiCla and contains a wealth of resources.

Thanks a lot for this great work, Pi-Cla 💕

Boosts appreciated.

smallcircles, 1 month ago to random

Hi @liaizon

I see you don't have a Social Coding movement account. I just posted a thought on moving delightful-funding under the Fediverse Futures org on codeberg, and into maintainership of our team.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/request-for-delightful-funding-co-maintainers-to-socialhub-members/527/3

And also relates to https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/separate-curated-funding-resources-vs-socialhub-funding-activity/4123

cc @laurenshof

smallcircles, 1 month ago to fediverse

Call to Participate: Help update #WebFinger #RFC with the original lead author at the #IETF

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/call-to-participate-help-improve-webfinger-rfc-with-its-lead-author/4208

#ActivityPub #SocialHub

smallcircles, 1 month ago to ubuntu

Why is it so hard in #Ubuntu and with #Gnome to show thumbnails of the screenshots I made, so I know which image to select without painstakingly opening them one by one from separate file window?

There's many images in my screenshot dir, all having thumbnails, except those created in the last 5 days. Why no thumbnails here? Why?

#AskFediWhy

smallcircles, 28 days ago to loom

Cap. An #AGPL-licensed self-hostable alternative to #Loom:

https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap

Implemented in #Typescript and #Rust.

smallcircles, 5 months ago to mastodon

Slight #Mastodon improvement: Allow people to see the toots from their old account instead of redirecting them to the /auth/edit page if they still have a valid session (which they have, unless they log out).