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smallcircles

@smallcircles@social.coop

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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jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:

"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

smallcircles,
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@fabio @Chocobozzz @Techaltar @dansup @thelinuxEXP @jwildeboer

Nice, I will add to my huge backlog on the delightful curated list: https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-funding/issues/1

(part of https://delightful.club).

Btw, yesterday there was a great talk by Iván Alejandro on and it was quite impressive as a Libre payment system.

The @Taler is supported by the new @NGI_Taler program.

See: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112389179396232495

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon

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    smallcircles,
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    @nadiaalbelushi @maegul

    There'll be a "battle of the protocols" of sorts, yea.

    What I find interesting are social aspects. You can have a superior protocol and growth-hack your apps to have millions of 'users' in the blink of an eye.

    But you don't get interesting culture that way. You don't get engrained norms and values that people respect, and that serve as a backbone to uphold a healthy social environment.

    Culture should be nurtured, it matures slowly, organically. Like a fruit it ripens.

    erlend, to fediverse
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    https://blog.erlend.sh/evergreen-content-gardens

    Social bookmarking is a novel use case for and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

    Things like are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

    Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.

    smallcircles,
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    @erlend @silverpill @bouncepaw

    Nice article!

    As you may know I started delightful project of curated lists. Though decentralized via sub-lists with independent maintainers, its still burdensome to keep lists up-to-date.

    One way around that and similar to the ideas in the artice, is using something akin to network, but federated. There's a on it here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/12

    Delightful project: https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful

    My fedi list backlog: https://notes.smallcircles.work/o6BVygPSSjCx5mU4cTFhPg

    smallcircles, to Signal
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    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,
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    Also see the same announcement made on the by @Mer__edith

    https://mastodon.world/

    @signalapp @EUCommission @echo_pbreyer

    darnell, to fediverse
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    Sadly, the 🇪🇺 will shut down next month (& I say that as an American 🇺🇸).

    👉🏾 European Union Surrendering Voice To https://darnell.day/european-union-surrendering-fediverse-voice-to-threads

    🥱 Too Long; Did Not Read:

    👉🏾 @EDPS announced EU voice is closing
    👉🏾 @EU_Commission has 100,000 followers
    👉🏾 social account will primarily be on Threads
    👉🏾 EU Voice should ask citizens & local businesses in for instance funding help

    smallcircles,
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    @darnell

    I saw your reaction to the EC's more recent toot: https://social.network.europa.eu/

    Gotta say that EC's messaging is quite confusing. Hope there'll be more follow-up soon.

    Yesterday I attended a @commonsnetwork organized event in The Hague about #Government and building #DigitalCommons, and among the crowds of representatives of many different institutions there, there was A TON of interest for decentralized #SocialWeb technologies.

    If there's opportunity, it is now.

    @EDPS @EU_Commission

    onepict, to random
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    For those who think we need an org to like merely give mental health support and when burn out happens to not give them any money at all. Just so long as the project is maintained.

    We live in a capitalistic society that does not value everyone being paid something even if they aren't contributing right now.

    Here's a thread on what one maintainer would have liked.

    https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112181868961681879

    Again the answer is Universal Basic Income. Not yet another "support org".

    Oh and ban billionaires.

    smallcircles,
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    @onepict @MediaActivist

    Yes, the state of our technology is such that excellent opportunities arise to facilitate and empower such local groups. I hope we'll continue to explore beyond the obvious social networking functionality into formation of rich commons-controlled collaborative social networks.

    rysiek, to Facebook
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    We are getting ready to expand our Torment Nexus experiences in your region.

    To help bring these experiences to you we will kidnap your firstborn, based on our legitimate interest.

    This means you have a right to object. If your objection is honored we might return your firstborn at some point.

    We have updated our firstborn policy. Pray we don't update it any further.

    smallcircles,
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    @rysiek

    "We have cut off your arms, thank you."

    Hidden fineprint: Use your arm to opt-out of this feature.

    aral, to ireland
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    Capitalism: a social system where the rich live and the poor die.

    Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’

    https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/05/20/irelands-two-tier-cancer-drug-system-i-can-give-one-drug-to-one-lot-of-patients-not-to-another/

    smallcircles,
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    @Vallaferescense @catarinac @aral

    Prime example is the guy, Ronald Plasterk, who almost became Prime Minister of the Netherlands.. patented under his name the cancer medicine he didn't invent, then earned 32 million Euro when selling his company. Amsterdam Medical Center and researcher who did the work, got nothing.

    Now he resigned his candidacy with a "I did nothing wrong, acted with integrity". And under hypercapitalism what he did is indeed normal, the norm. 😡

    https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/05/ethical-queries-cast-doubt-over-plasterks-hopes-of-becoming-pm/

    alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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    Developer's PSA: The way you & your culture do things isn't the way everyone does things! Be wary of cultural constructs, no matter how basic they may seem!

    Time & dates. Text. Punctuation. Names. Addresses. Iconography.

    What else am I forgetting?

    P.S. This is also a politics PSA. Very topical to NZ right now!

    smallcircles,
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    @alcinnz 😮

    janriemer, to rust

    #Coccinelle for #Rust

    https://rust-for-linux.com/coccinelle-for-rust

    "Coccinelle is a tool for automatic program matching and transformation that was originally developed for making large scale changes to the Linux kernel source #code (ie, C code)."

    #GritQL - GritQL is a #query language for searching, #linting, and modifying code.

    https://docs.grit.io/

    #ASTGrep - A #CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in #RustLang :ferris:

    https://ast-grep.github.io/

    #CodeTool #AST #Parser #DevTools

    smallcircles,
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    @janriemer

    I found Grit in a recent Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770908

    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,
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    In terms of renaming the patterns to be less emotionallly charged and more .

    I will use this terminology for now:

    : An exasperated reaction to a person who replies to someone else's post, offering advice or solutions that weren't asked for, or out of context.

    : A person reacting to someone's post and giving an explanation from the assumption that the original poster and/or other followers lack that knowledge, or posted just to showcase their smarts.

    @danhon

    smallcircles, to accessibility
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    Hi @matt 👋

    Yesterday in #LibrePlanet chat I named the #Makepad project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the #a11y side, i.e. could do with some #AccessKit on board.

    Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a #Rust appdev effort, called #Robius. Another project here is #Dioxus.. also in for @accesskit #accessiblity support.. maybe. 🤔

    Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?

    https://github.com/project-robius

    smallcircles, to android
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    I thought the battery of my ancient #Android phone had finally given out. Battery went from fully charged to empty in a heartbeat.

    However #Proton app was somehow stuck trying to fetch notifications, so I killed it, thinking this was a battery drain. It likely was.

    Along the way I found a real useful feature: Data Saver 😃

    After I turned this on my battery lasts for days now, and I don't get superfluous notifications anymore either.

    smallcircles, to ubuntu
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    Why is it so hard in and with 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?

    smallcircles, to random
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    Overcoming #HyperCapitalism is essential.

    Given all trend lines set by its voracious appetite, well beyond our planet's capacity, there is only one outcome should we not do so..

    The steady taking away of freedoms by elites as they quarrel amongst themselves to expand their turf, unfairly advantaged by the system itself.

    Then widespread conflict and war, empoverishment and famine.

    If privileged like me, still living free, know that looking away now will only help reinforce this bleak future.

    smallcircles, to webassembly
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    Interview with Ben Titzer, co-founder of the open standard.

    https://microarch.club/episodes/1000/

    smallcircles, to random
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    @neil @aral

    I liked the phrasing of Drew Devault, summarized as:

    "Permissive licenses offer freedom from obligations, copyleft offers guarantees of rights".

    https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112207523017836313

    smallcircles, to RSS
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    , a curated search engine for and feeds

    Created by @lown, BSD3-licensed on

    > Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage.

    https://raphael.computer/blog/openorb-curated-search-engine/

    https://git.sr.ht/~lown/openorb

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112958

    smallcircles, to random
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    🤔 Or... you can make your personal website like this!

    https://www.krazam.tv/ 😃 !!

    smallcircles, to random
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    War is as ugly as it gets. No acts of utter depravity are shunned.

    There are differences to justifications for committing these atrocities.

    In case of Russia, a madman brutal dictator, expansionalist nationalism, co-opted religion, and a population both brainwashed by fully controlled media, and any opposition violently suppressed.

    And the case of Israel? Wasn't it among modern democracies? Doesn't it have the freedom of media for people to inform themselves? Is Gaza then the people's choice?

    18+ smallcircles, to random
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    The horrible Apple ad is a good opportunity to highlight one of the amazing but also highly impactful animations by Steve Cutts.

    In this video featured on the official music clip of "Are you lost in the world like me?" by Moby and The Void Pacific Choir.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

    Content warning: animation contains scene relating to suicide.

    smallcircles,
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    Wake Up Call! ⏰

    is NOT the Future!

    Please allow the fabulous to elaborate a bit on that..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhR_zKUn6jc

    Wtebbens, to random
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    "How Holochain can help grassrooots movements against oppression"

    an article by Giulio Quarta of Commons Economy Roadmap
    https://commonseconomy.notion.site/How-Holochain-can-help-grassroots-movements-against-oppression-8de8d9b46ea74f82a138cf480585d023

    smallcircles,
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    @Wtebbens @katanova @GuerillaOntologist

    In Free Software movement, time is the most precious commodity. There's tons of very valuable FOSS project to contribute to. An abundance of choice.

    What the average crypto-averse person (including me) usually does is first 'skim' a new project that someone points out to them. If that project has 'red flag' terminology, then its often an immediate skip.

    Holochain has been often advertised to me as "worthy to check out", but I always bounced on wording.

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    @Wtebbens @katanova @GuerillaOntologist

    > All in all quite different from blockchain, don't you think?

    These days the 'smart' crypto scams avoid red flag wording in their beautifuly packaged websites and storytelling.

    This is the problem with Holochain and similar efforts, such as Safe Network.

    In their terminology they ooze Web3 crypto/blockchain vibes, while claiming to be very different.

    Thing is their complexity means you can fill your PhD figuring out whether the claim is true or not.

    shoq, to random
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    I sort of knew modern society was in deep finish trouble when every third reference I heard from young people was to a Harry Potter, X-Men, or Lord of the Rings movie.

    smallcircles,
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    @shoq @beans_please

    Indeed. The vulgarity has become much more pervasive. I was astounded when I visited my nieces kindergarten school about 9 or 10 years ago to see the entire garderobe hallway hung with Frozen backpacks for the girls and Spiderman backbacks for boys. Very few exceptions, and those maybe of people who couldn't afford these brands.

    Btw, typing "frozen" just now in gives zero indication it might have anything to do with water going below zero degrees Celsius. Sad!

    smallcircles, to random
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    Can us humble peasants move to a furtile #PostGrowth system when #HyperCapitalism rabidly feeds from the bleak industrial farmlands of #Distrust?

    In the huge Fields of the Majority where us wilfully oppressed forced laborers daily sow Seeds of Doubt for our masters. We see pellets hit the hardened soil, and pray in vain that something healthy will sprout this time. While we eat the bile that's served.

    In our dogmatic way of life can we discern patches of #Faith and #Trust to grow Humble Deeds?

    smallcircles,
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    showing Trusty the Clown, a wisp and whirlwind card with quite unknown effects.

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