tallship

@tallship@venera.social

Slackware, OpenBSD, and a bit of a Debiantard.

FOSS and Privacy Advocate. Secure Enterprise Cloud Computing.

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darnell, to random
@darnell@one.darnell.one avatar

Divine Riches: The Richest Pastors In The World, Ranked https://flipboard.com/@therichest/divine-riches-the-richest-pastors-in-the-world-ranked-3rr0gcgou9t0tq30

tallship,

@darnell I'm sure he's got a hot little yummy Jessica Hahn of his own. At least he doesn't look like that little troll - Jim Baker, or perhaps worse, Sam Kinison, who really sent her onto page 6.

It is page six over there on the other side of the pond, isn't it?

Anyway, I thought she was fantastic in Sam's video cover of "Wild Thing":

yewtu.be/watch?v=3wAm2HAx7i0

A bit of trivia (there's a lot for this vid): Billy idol almost got his ass kicked for dribbling his spit on all the other rockers from that balcony ;)

c_chep, to random French
@c_chep@piaille.fr avatar

On devrait aller chercher plus loin dans la fusion food: le French Tacos au haggis.
Genre Haggis-kebab-frites-boursin-sauce bbq-sauce billy burger.

tallship,

@c_chep Haggis Tacos...

I'd say that sounds really really grotesque, but I like beef tripe and have done the whole half day prep thing just to make some awesome menudo. But that's not haggis, which I've been told by many is rather disgusting.

Notwithstading the fact that I do like tripe - if you take the hours of preparation to correctly ready it for serving up as the yummy, fatty, tender meat in menudo - but I still don't think it would be very good in a taco. Lengua is good, cabeza too, those are awesome filler meat for tacos, along with the more trad al pastor, asada, carnitas, etc.

But Haggis? Here's the problem. There's very few things in this world that are edible, that I've discovered, are nasty vomit inducing foods - Chitlin's may be one of those food stuffs, while in general, offals aren't really a turn off for me in general.

Perhaps the first time I tried chitlins I spent the night in my truck in 4 feet of snow instead of my warm toasty cabin - I just couldn't continue to throw up any longer. In fact it didn't take long before the smell of sizzling pus first overtook me, yet taking a bit of the chewey intestine didn't really taste bad at all, as I recall, before the aroma caused my own alimentary canal to erupt violently in a rapid succession of projectile vomiting.

Imagine the smell of a horrid wound, penetrating the flesh all the way to the bone, sitting in the same dressing for a week, and then you remove it - the odor knocking you over. That was chitlins for me.

Why? Well, my good childhood friend said, "Oh yum, chitterlings!" you didn't cook it right.

How so? Well, I figured it came from a pig, and it's the offals. So, like lamb-fry or chicken gizzards & hearts I figured I'd just dump some into my big iron skillet with a big ass dollup of bacon fat and fry it up!

Apparently, the recommended method is the same for chitlins as it is for tripe; you put it on a low boil for several hours. Regardless, because of he PTSD left over from that episode, even thinking about chitlins for a couple of minutes makes me queasy.

Tripe, on the other hand, well, I was taught right by my next-door neighbor when I was a little kid. She was the matriarch in a large, extended family of children, but mostly grandchildren, that she and her husband were raising, and to a small degree, me too. So menudo is part of my regular cuisine.

Haggis is stomach too though, just not beef stomach lining, right? So those offals might be akin to tripe and therefore, more likely to register on my yummy scale instead of my barf-0-matic vom-meter.

So I'm still looking forward to trying out haggis to see if I like it - but Ill be sure to try it in a traditional setting, along with it's preparation.

Fine dining opportunities are few and far between in Humboldt, California, but this is one of the finest establishments for Mexican cuisine in Eureka, California - a roach coach called, The Taco Boat. More info in the pixelfed parent link below.

You can scoop anything you like into a flat and folded disc made of masa and call it a taco, I suppose - but that don't make it so. Like me buying a little jar of lumpfish roe for a couple of bucks and calling it caviar - technically, I suppose so, but we know better, don't we?

pixelfed.social/i/web/post/679…

coach trucks tacos o rama

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tallship, to fediverse

@fediversenews

!!Moderation request!!

I come home to find my feeds/streams flooded with vitriolic politicial drivel emanating from a group to which I belong that states emphatically that it doesn't tolerate off-topic traffic.

The stated purpose of this Fediverse group on my home Friendica server is stated as follows:

This is a Friendica group dedicated to news. What are the advantages of a group over a hashtag?Groups can do things that hashtags can't. For example, groups:

  • are moderated
  • can re-share content
  • can speak as a group

Joining and contributing to a Friendica group is easy. To share your posts to @Fediverse News, follow these steps:

  1. Follow @Fediverse News
  2. When sharing Fediverse news, tag @Fediverse News
  3. The @Fediverse News group will then re-share your post

This is an actively moderated group. Be sure to stay on topic, or your posts will be removed.

As per the instructions for this Friendica / Fediverse group, I'm notifying the moderation team by CC'ing the following address with this complaint and request to remove the vicious hate that's been spewing into the group here all day long while I've been away working:

@atomicpoet

People who sign up for a Fediverse News site should not be subjected to hatred being fomented, propagated, and bantered about with respect to unrelated matters, such as (abominable) off-topic, political vitriol.

  1. ) Posting announcements concerning the onboarding and subesquent federating nature of a public figure's account on threads.net is a relevant matter to the Fediverse, Fediverse Technology, and Fediverse News.
  2. ) acerbic comentary, name calling, ad hominem, and libel, as has consumed the group today, is not - those posts are a cause of severe harm and should most certainly, IMO be removed as per the terms/rules quoted above.
  3. ) The level of cacophony and pejorative hate speech permitted to continue throughout the day today is shameful. This is not the place to engage or encourage such juvenile behavior, let alone permit it to foment and spread across the Fediverse as it has today!

Moderation Team: Thank you, in advance, for taking your time to address and resolve this matter, returning this group to the decorum it usually enjoys with people conversing and observing the principles of civil discourse.

Discourse -hominem speech

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LordsofHardwired, to random
@LordsofHardwired@med-mastodon.com avatar

I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

tallship,

@LordsofHardwired @Allonon Yeah and the prevailing winds are such that you either opt to get an Infulenza and Wuhan Flu shot each season.... or NOT; it's one, or the other, both, or none - same as it's ever been - water flowing underground (David Byrne).

tallship, to foss en-us

Let's pretend we're proponents of free and open source software, enlist an army of week intentioned FOSS developers to contribute to our project, and once successfully deployed in many enterprises across the industry...

Pull the rug out and convert it into a proprietary product with a bunch of undisclosed, hidden code that we won't ever show you - Muahahaha...

Yeah. I see this happening right now in several prominent and celebrated open source projects that you're probably completely oblivious to those sinister objectives.

This is why the most ubiquitous desktop operating system in the world is Minix.

What's that you say?

Yup, Minix. But that's no secret, the cat was out of the bag on that one a few years back (after being secretly so for many years).

Before you contribute any more code, translations, or documentation to a software project, consider this:

drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Don…

Next up? How Minix became the most prolific operating system in the world today. Stay tuned!

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tallship,

Here we go folks!

How Minix got to be the most prolific desktop operating system in the world...

lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-u…

Now, there's another point to be made here, without specifically naming any projects currently abusing user contributions. Let's call this hypothetical project "hammer&anvil", itself a fork of a popular software project - but claims it's all about being free and transparent, wanting to distinguish itself from the project it's forked from by adopting GPL3 instead of a permissive license.

Sure, the project's BDFL (let's call her "Strawberry Daiquiri"), says one day, "were forming a fork of project X because they've formed a company and I'm afraid what they are going to do with X because it's under a permissive license. This girl will be brutally transparent and completely run by the community under the philosophy of anarchy, but we're going to call it a sociocracy so you don't know that it's really just me making a proprietary product for my own ambitions".

Well, Miss Daquiri decides to capture by capitalizing upon the sentiment that folks have for Copyleft - it's supposed to protect free software, right?

Well, this fork (hammer& anvil) is a hosted solution - meaning SaaS, meaning, it runs elsewhere (other than in your computer) in the cloud as a publicly accessible service. Hmmmm.

That means that the most appropriate Copyleft license is likely the AGPL, and not the GPL as one would expect fur a desktop or other local program that you actually download and install in your laptop or server.

The GPL requires that when you distribute (give away or sell) your program, either by letting someone download or handing it to them on a USB stick, Etc., You must also make available ALL of the source code, including any changes you've made to the program.

But if you run a modified GPL program as a service in the cloud you don't have to provide ANY off the changes you've made to the code.

Hmmm.

With AGPL you do have to supply your users with ANY code modifications you've made to the running service to which they have accounts...

So let's just say that you fork Mastodon, and call it Glitch-Soc, modify it, and run it in the cloud for people to create accounts on and use (for free or for monthly subscription fees - it doesn't matter). ANY and ALL changes to the code base that you make MUST be made available anytime a user asks for the source code, because it's an licensed product.

And in reality, such is actually the case with this exceedingly popular and capable . It's a fine product in it's own right.

But had you changed the license to all contributions moving forward to , you wouldn't have to provide any modifications you made (unless you give or sell the software product itself on say, a USB stick or via download).

Why? Because you're just allowing them to access and use your service, your not actually giving them the program to use for themselves elsewhere - so any modifications you made since forking under a different license (GPL instead of AGPL) isn't something you have to show them.

You've essentially created a product (if you're so nefarious as to hide your code changes by butt disclosing them), the only code of which you must supply being that which existed under the AGPL before you forked it.

Both and permissive open source like and can be a good thing, or they can be abused beyond the intentions of the inclined project contributors. Just make sure that you understand what can and cannot be changed where your intended purpose for the and of source code is concerned....

There are BIG differences between the ramifications of each and how they can affect transparency and distribution of your free gifts to the world.

In our hypothetical scenario with hammer&anvil, the , Daiquiri, has decided that she's going to launch a hosted service, and she's going to include things that you don't see and can't be aware of behind the scenes which, if disclosed, you would have nothing to do with - but you'll never know what kinds of scary things she's done with the product that only resembles the original on the surface, because Miss Daquiri will never have to show you the code she has added behind the scenes.

"Beautiful Victor, Beautiful."
-The Monster, speaking to his creator in the film, 'Frankenstein, The True Story'.

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tallship, to SmallWeb en-us

Tapir updates... Moving right along!

Tapir is coming along nicely, with continued active development and commits in just the past few days.

I never get this right, , , or... Let's just say it's one of the latest in single user, exceedingly simple to deploy servers that you can carry around in your bookbag on your laptop, or conveniently on your desktop workstations.

It's written in Deno, so, think Typescript/JavaScript/Node in a safe by default implementation.

I'm personally looking forward to Adam hopefully showcasing his work and just how simple it is to get up and running during the upcoming expected to occur at the end of October.

He's got great aspirations for it and here's a bit of what the roadmap has at this time:

  • broad fediverse compatibility

  • install directly from a URL with one Deno command
    run with limited permissions (just --allow-net and a single folder)

  • sqlite and postgres backends

  • multiple personas (users) with one login and one home timeline (the main account can leverage OAuth)

  • personas can have different timeline styles (make it look like Pixelfed)

  • build your own federated timeline from multiple servers

  • post scheduling

  • sophisticated filter rules and a customizable home timeline algorithm

  • follow RSS feeds, Nitter feeds, maybe Nostr feeds

  • personal full-text search

  • a plugin system

Much like what most Fediverse platforms enjoy, like , , and Takahē, Tapir accounts can be connected to by following, @-mentioning, replying to, and boosting posts or Quote Posting them. There's also a link for feeds.

You too can follow along with the project by following now or asking questions of the developer at @tapir - even in this early stage of development, supports most all of the features you've come to take for granted from a solid platform from which to engage in social communications with others in the Fediverse and beyond in much the same way as you already do from your , , and accounts - without the hassles or uncertainty of having to depend upon someone else's infrastructure and all the baggage that comes with that.

I'm not aware of a Matrix room or IRC support channel at this moment, but all in good time.

Later I'll do a deeper drill down and publish an article, perhaps even be afforded the opportunity for an interview, and I'll be covering others in depth too, namely, and - two other very fine and capable SmallWeb, er... SmolWeb, ummm... forget it, single-user Fediverse servers. 🤙

I regularly showcase existing and emerging development in -city:matrix.org and circle back around every so often with updates concerning these free and privacy respecting decentralized technologies, everyone is welcome and the best insight into these software projects trends to emanate from others who offer their input and experiences. Maybe we'll see you there too...

And remember, you can haz ! 🍔

@arnelson

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tallship, to fediverse en-us

@gabak @fedidevs @fedidevs

What underlying infra are you looking at building this upon - , , ?

Perhaps a small, uber portable compliant ANSI C single-user system built on top something like ?

And what are your possible solutions of mind for those who already self-host their own accounts? Should they have to rent another or create yet another hostname for additional servers, A RRs, and AAAA RRs, at their homes for each ?

I'm not seeing the utility here. Maybe explaining it a bit differently so the net of doing it that way is clear?

I dunno, it just seems kind of a lot of redundancy in creating all those , , and stacks.

All the wonderful user Fediverse platforms currently in popular use notwithstanding, it might be more economically viable and to just take a family of five and their three bots and just put them all on the single instance of whatever Fediverse platform on their own Raspberry Pi... maybe?

Interesting idea Gabe, but I'm having trouble seeing how this is simpler or better than the current methods of just self-hosted forks of , , and other lightweight platforms that would seem to make it so much easier already 🙂

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