tallship

tallship, 2 months ago to random

@Crazypedia

You do realize that you're not blocking bluesky, but rather, you're "de-federating" yourself and disenfranchising your users from vast portions of the Fediverse without consent.

You said:
"Pagan Plus will be blocking the blue sky bridge for automaticly opting unaware users into sharing and introducing the fediverse to bluesky’s moderation problems."

Ad an admin, that's certainly your prerogative, but you're not really blocking Bluesky - you're blocking everyday people - like you.

snarfed.org, 2 months ago to random

Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.

Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

tallship, 3 months ago to foss

Reprinted from the Fediverse-City Matrix room, with permission from the author (myself):

I was just participating in another discussion elsewhere on the connotations and perceptions relating to a global feed of the entire known Fediverse, as it pertains to what various platforms call it (in their selector tabs).

Lots of suggestions, and every platform uses a different nomenclature. Some use 'global', some use 'live', and there's a few others as well that try to convey that type of extremely busy feed.

But then I touched on the subject of Local feeds - not all Fediverse platforms utilize this type of concatenated feed. I related that the Hometown fork of mastopub was [at least one of] the first to incorporate this as both a feed, and a type of post that is localized to only that particular instance.

I also, because I've read his contention, included the Dev's reasoning on having such a utility as a feature - because he intended Hometown to be a Fediverse platform that could encourage a Highly localized "community".

So you can select the other various, common types of scope for a post when making a post, as well as posting something that is only viewable to other users on your local instance - thereby supporting the 'local community only' aspect that has eluded and mostly deluded users on other platforms.

Why "deluded", because having a Fediverse account in the minds of most folks coming from the deprecated, monolithic silo space is something that has been heavily promoted by Fedizens as one of the reasons why it's better to use the Fediverse instead of those impersonal deprecated silo systems.

And that's simply not true.

Take me, for example. I have several accounts and interact using them with different circles of people (I won't get into the power of recursive circles as they were implemented in gplus). So I'mma just use mastodon.social, one of the biggest monolithic-like silo instances in the Fediverse, as an example here.

People there, most often n00bs from the November Rain or later) talk about the sense of "community" they have there, when they're really only speaking of the connections they have by following and being followed by not just people on that instance, but across the entire Fediverse.

The sense of community that almost everyone in the Fediverse perceives is mostly a compilation of the follows and followers that they each have, and is unique to themselves alone.

For example, I prolly know 4 or 5 people on each instance I have an account on. My community is comprised almost entirely of the direct connections I have made with others across the Fediverse at large, and yes, people on platforms with 'local-only' feeds to see my posts, know them to be local, but so do folks on other instances watching their 'global feeds' (or home feeds where someone they follow includes a follow of my account).

So to me, in my experience, my community is comprised of those who I've made connections with and the people they are connected to, with very little traffic from the local instance I am on at any given time.

To think that you're going to have a community on mastodon.social consisting of people primarily from that instance is a bit naive, IMO, coz your default feed grows exponentially with foreign user's posts the more you connect with anyone - not just the people you follow that are local to your instance. You see something, you interact because it's interesting, pertinent, or relevant to you - you don't do that because you've discerned that you will only interact with local accounts... that just ain't natural, human tendency.

So the creator of the Hometown fork realized that one type of vehicle in the feature set to mark this kind of delineation was that of the ability to post and see in your feed, local only posts, with the overt assertion that Hometown is a fork that in part, is a platform that can facilitate the social diaspora consisting of a 'mostly local' community.

Even entire instances, named or stated as localized geographically or topically, as having publicly open registrations miss this mark in a big way - people for whatever reason, want a Fediverse account, pick a host/instance, by whatever criteria, and then inadvertently end up creating their own diaspora of social connections across the entire Fediverse anyway.

nostr, Bluesky (when it eventually fully supports other instances), Threads (yeah, I know, it's a bastard, lolz), Minds, and other, bigger instances or monoliths, don't try to capitalize on this notion of "Your instance is your community" because overwhelmingly, it just isn't the case in reality.

I'm not saying that there aren't Fediverse instances are successful in cultivating small communities consisting of connections with others on those particular instances, but the most successful of those are the instances that have actually disabled Federation on those instances, lolz.... There's lots of examples of that, which is kewl - to each their own.

But the tendency of everyone to follow the Ew! Shiny! paradigm of simply liking and following what you like irrespective of whether it's on your local instance or not is the lions share of how people interact with each other.

Your thoughts, observations?

Attached graphic attrib: A Jack Russell, happy as can be, sitting in the pilot's seat flying a Cessna, not knowing WTF he's doing.... but he's really happy! The caption reads: "I have no idea what I'm doing".

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #social_networks #community #local_communities #global_communities #connections #follows #followers

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tallship, 3 months ago to history

From the dark abscesses of the mind belonging to the most prolific butt-pirate in the world...

#tallship #history #homebrew_computer_club #world_domination

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tallship, 3 months ago to random

US announces visa ban on those linked to commercial spyware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-announces-visa-ban-on-those-linked-to-commercial-spyware/

> Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken announced today a new visa restriction policy that will enable the Department of State to ban those linked to commercial spyware from entering the United States.

tallship, 3 months ago to debian

Hot of the press...

https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-1-2-released-with-linux-kernel-6-6-lts-and-memtest86-7-00/amp

#tallship #clonezilla #Debian

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tallship, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Seriously...

This "Challenge" is completely safe (except for what it might unlock in your minds eye).

It will not cause you to choke to death on a tablespoon of cinnamon, or cause brain trauma due to you trying to prove that your TikTok cranium is harder than the ice of a frozen lake bed, or some other stupid fucking stunt that you saw so-called, "creators" on that platform inducing your to perilously subject yourself to harm.

No, it will only hopefylly enlighten.

https://zotum.net/channel/tallship?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly96b3R1bS5uZXQvaXRlbS9jYTIxMGVlNC1jNWQ2LTQ1OGUtYjk5NS1kYWI4OTIzMWQ5YTM

tallship, 3 months ago to random

David Mills has passed...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85

dansup, 3 months ago to Pixelfed

Pixelfed was forked, I joined their discord and gave them a piece of my mind

Forks fucking rule, I'm happy to see this. Open source is crucial to the fediverse, and while we all might not agree on everything, it feels amazing to desire to work with forks

Y'all are the real winners, even more so when devs like me do the unthinkable and bring awareness to forks

#peoplePowered #pixelfed #forks

Sandra, 3 months ago to random

Today I finally learned about xfe0e, a unicode magic code that tells modern devices to use plain text representation! So now my hearts ♥︎ can finally go back to their stylish style that WRNU and Story-Game veterans remember as my schtick since ages immemorial!

I've been actually typing that same playing card heart this whole time, it's just that modern devices started displaying it as a red heart (🤦🏻‍♀️) but xfe0e to the rescue I guess!

Yet another instance of this bullshit:

https://idiomdrottning.org/past-web

tallship, 3 months ago to random

@tallship

won banana too potato free tomato fore.

tallship, 3 months ago to random

You think?

Stupid goes all the way to the bone 🦴

#tallship #dumb_people #dumb_signs

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tallship, 4 months ago to accessibility

I thought I'd just take a moment to say hi to everyone - 2024 is off to a wonderful start 🤘 💀 🤘

Not that 2023 wasn't totally, awesomely kewl either, but it is in the rear view mirror now, and we're looking down the road before us with optimism and glee!

#tallship #A11Y #incognito_test
@silverpill @RyunoKi

tallship, 4 months ago to random

Yes, use the #mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script or run #huge, and nowadays it's #eliloconfig instead of /sbin/lilo nowadays ;)

https://claudiomiranda.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/a-new-beastie-and-an-old-slacker-epilogue/

Pro Tip: for a lightning fast #SlackPkg you can point your mirrors to a local store after setting up a cronjob for mirror-slackware-current.sh

I prefer to make use of /etc/slackpkg/blacklist and upgrade my kernels separately, since I often do custom compiled kernels anyway.

#tallship #Slackware h/t to @claudiom for the article \m/

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tallship, 4 months ago to foss

Shame shame shame on #Mastopub, Dr. Evil, and his evil #mini_me.

Evil is as evil does.

Even Google, at one point, could not proclaim their tagline, "Don't be evil", because it had become evil itself.

Straight from the Wiki, and hot off the press, old news is still news it seems:

https://fediverse.wiki/wiki/The_Great_Wall_of_Mastodon (hint: It's more like a parking bump, but it's still used by juveniles to erase and cancel themselves today).

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #DeSoc #ActivityPub #Subjugation #Privacy

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gabriel, 4 months ago to random

Big hype for a secret project ⏳ Coming soon!

grislyeye, 4 months ago to mastodon

Can anyone point me in the direction of an ActivityPub implementation suitable for client integration testing?

Something well maintained, current and easy to run as part of a test suite? Maybe something in a Docker container?

#mastodon #activitypub #webdev

tallship, 4 months ago to random

Christmas is a time of renewal and brand new things... Here's #Melanie with another "brand new key" with tidings of great joy for us all, sharing and spreading the #Christmas cheer. 🎅🎄☃️

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=mlAtdvCygcE&si=ntMQbyGEWWtCz5mg&local=true

#tallship #Peace_on_Earth #Love 💗

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arnelson, 4 months ago to random

dimkr, 4 months ago to random

I'm thinking about opening a #tootik merch store, because I desperately need winter shirts but also because I'd like to set up a "staging" instance for QA purposes ($5/mo) and collect some funds for work on PostgreSQL+Redis support and horizontal scaling ($$$/mo). Any recommendations other than https://www.spri.ng/?

claudiom, 1 year ago to retrocomputing

🎉 #FirstPost! 🎉

Nice to be here on this instance with my fellow #SDF members! Looking forward to connect with friends old and new! 😁

Now, an #introduction, As it says on the tin, I'm just your run-of-the-mill graybeard geek who loves tech, music, and the babies they make. 😝 I'm also into #RetroComputing and #ClassicComputing, so I'll try to post some pics from my stash. I run Linux, but I also #RunBSD. 🐧 😈 🐡 🚩 I don't do Windows unless I have to. 🙅‍♂️