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travisfw

@travisfw@fosstodon.org

Always showing up for the conversation on designing, in Doctorow's words: an "enshittification-resistant digital nervous system."

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Quinnypig, to random
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I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

tyil,

@f4grx @Viss @gsuberland @Quinnypig There never was a private company you could trust for that to begin with. If you want to have any control, you host your own solutions using completely free software.

HighlandLawyer,
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@Quinnypig

habibcham, to random
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Building ActivityPub: Day 1 https://activitypub.ghost.org/building-activitypub-day-1/?ref=building-activitypub-newsletter

btaroli, (edited ) to privacy
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Secrets in Your Data

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/

I was elated to see , , and featured! I’ve long been a devoted user of all of them.

leswarden, to mastodon
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Good #NOVA show that also mentions #mastodon in the topic of how to improve web security by ‘de-centralizing’ the web. #websecurity #datasmashing

Watch Secrets in Your Data | NOVA Season 51 | PBS SoCal https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/nova/episodes/secrets-in-your-data-q1cvql

cliffwade, to random
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Thread 🧵

@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone that is willing, able and has time to help us with infrastructure related things.

We are looking to fully self host our instance so that we have full control over everything related to the instance. This means we need/want someone that has experience running a self hosted instance and has the time to help Kyle with things when he's not around to do various things. (cont...)

KevinMarks, to random
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“As tech gets more complex, things seem to get more intuitive locally, but overall the arbitrariness keeps going up. The number of YouTube videos explaining arbitrary shit keeps going up.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/14/arbitrariness-costs/

vjprema, to random
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Communication through concepts is lossy.

When you talk/write, you compress a rich part of experience into abstract symbols.

Then, someone else decompresses them in their own mind based on their own conditioning, experience and available cues/context (e.g. tone of voice, body language or the listeners own frame of mind at the time).

It's so easy to get hung up on words, "truth", accuracy and semantics, but forget about the other persons decompression factors that are hard to change or see.

andybaio, to random
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me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
monkey’s paw curls
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112439941615950550

pamelafox, to random
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Almost all bday party invites for my 4 year old specify "No gifts please" or "No gifts necessary" - and I totally get why, I added it to hers as well. Are we moving towards a society that's not so into gifting? Or is this only a thing at certain income levels?

slott56, to til
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The New River is the second oldest river on the planet. I’ve only recently come to understand the real significance of the Appalachians. I was born and raised in and around these mountains, and they were always just — you know — mountains.

They reach back something like 350 million years. Predating dinosaurs? Really?

fediforum, to random
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Mark your calendars!

The next FediForum, the unconference for the people who move the Fediverse forward, is coming up September 12-14, 2024.

The most recent Fediforum in March had the largest attendance ever of developers, users, moderators, and many other people interested in building a better social media environment. We will build on this in September, for the first time in a 3-day event. We'd love to see you join us and your peers.

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

sgt1372, to CA
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Never did get out to try to see the aurora but a lot of nice pics of it are posted here, especially the one of it over the GGB:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/northern-lights-bay-area-california-19453755.php

ajroach42, to random
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The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.

Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)

ajroach42,
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Human curration is what makes bookstores and record stores work.

Staff picks move books, even at a big chain. Reviews move books on Amazon, and get people to theaters.

But what incentive is there for people to undertake the act of intentional curration?

Film reviewers get paid to publish in magazines, but most magazines aren't turning a profit anymore.

No one gets paid for Amazon reviews. Rarely does anyone make money on their zine or their blog.

How can we support the people who help us find things?

gvwilson, to random
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The two hardest problems in computer science are compassion and organizational change. [thanks SL for the correction]

NanoRaptor, to random
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The one true USB3 connector.

michelle, to random
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Wrote a thing: https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

freedomofpress, to random
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The flood of press freedom violations at campus protests is a national embarrassment.

Journalists should be able to freely report on protests without fear of being arrested or attacked.

Police and others who interfere with reporting on protests must be held accountable.
https://freedom.press/news/press-freedom-under-attack-at-campus-protests/

dxos_org, to random
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Office Hours are happening today at 11am PT / 2pm ET. We'll show some Composer demos, talk about roadmap, and we'd love to hear what you're building.

Join up!

Daojoan, to random
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The Human Tenure Trap is a systemic issue that plagues entire industries and even governments.

Politicians facing re-election prioritize voter-pleasing policies over tough long-term challenges.

How do we escape the trap?

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-human-tenure-trap

alcinnz, to random
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Pluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents" (07 May 2024) - Cory Doctorow:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

Pretty much describes what gets me into browser dev... I'm sure we all think we know what's best for users though...

vmbrasseur, to climate
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Plastics production alone will doom climate goals

Manufacturing plastics is a highly emissive process. The world needs to shrink production rapidly to stay within the 1.5 °C global temperature rise.

https://www.sequencermag.com/plastics-production-alone-will-doom-climate-goals/

triskelion, to email
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I'm looking for a privacy-focused provider with IMAP support. Preferably email-only provider (without calendar or cloud storage integration). No weird spam filtering system, zero-access encryption for data at rest, OpenPGP for encryption, 2FA, custom domain support, no personal info required for signup and accepts payment with cryptocurrency. Plus, it should perform well on the assessment at https://internet.nl/test-mail.

fission, to random

We just posted a farewell to our blog about winding down operations of the company https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

Thank you to everyone for your support, interest, & collaboration over the years.

We're proud of the UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM stack we developed, and hope to see them have continued growth across different ecosystems as open source standards and implementations.

boris,
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@travisfw heya! The humans formerly of Fission are still around, and various Fediverse servers are still up.

@expede is my cofounder and the protocol inventor.

The UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM specifications and code are open source and available in their own repos, and usage and adoption continues around them to varying degrees.

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