Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
It's not the number of supported feature who makes a system system simple, but the orthogonality of the semantics it's built upon.
I hadn't time to study #gemini yet, but there is at least one design error that I saw in the few things I've read about it, a design error that comes from HTTP: responses only provide the files requested.
Instead content responses should always provide (signed but not necessarily encrypted) cacheable chunks of sites in the form of a fs archive (tar.gz... or whatever)
This way the system would be harder to abuse for tracking: some would serve small sites as a whole on the first request and proxies would prevent the server to gain most of requests. Also such signed website chunks could be shared among users without need for a server or proxy.
My 2c, so far.
(obviously this might be wrong take on Gemini, and sorry if so... I'm very happy to be corrected and pointed to better documentantion)
I don't want to be annoying as I really appreciate your work and your business model, but... wouldn't it be safer for users to at least use an European CA?
(Now that I think about it, I wonder if any CA based in Europe actually exists...)
Uhm... and trust me: people can't realize HOW MUCH JavaScript sucks until they have to fix a bug into a 20 milions lines JS codebase that turned to be caused by... a bug in the garbage collector of a browser.
#JavaScript is not a Promethian technology.
It's a sadistic prank of Loki.
I've seen things that you human... 😉
Nevermind COBOL: rewriting ANYTHING in a bank is almost impossible.
ALL the banks I worked with either still internally use IE9+ or support it through crazy wrappers that switch the layout engine according to crazy euristics.
Fun fact: they would have the money to rewrite all of their infrastructure each 5 years, BUT the risks are so high that they setup huge stacks of patches one over another, all over the system.
> banks running COBOL software
> would be wise to take note
I guess you've never worked with or for a bank (except maybe on web frontend matters)...
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US Christianity
I would submit that religion is not incompatible with science.
But science IS incompatible with the peculiar American version of Christianity As Capitalism, the prosperity gospel, televangelists, and Christian Sharia Law.
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@freemo Did they ban twitter clients for hate speech? Because there's a lot…
It's not the clients/dev job to block stupid fucks' instances. It's the admin job. By the way, it's not even effective, it's either a FLOSS client and you can remove the block or a proprietary client and you trust it, and it's an open door for shitload of abuses (No way to make sure it won't block other instances on whatever arbitrary criteria they choose, for political reasons, money, or something else… ).
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@replikvlt @freemo @khird @madargon
or better yet, flag them as inappropriate https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2853570?visit_id=637342159017630272-4268623001&p=report_content&rd=1
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Thanks to this post QOTO is currently being linked from HackerNews in the #1 spot. Our instance is getting a lot of exposure as is this very important issue.
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@freemo@qoto.org
Wow, so a post I made here is at the #1 spot on hackernews! I am impressed. Over 500 comments too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275 h...
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@lanodan @sir @naruciakk @lord
Maybe the authors just appreciate that changes in protocol should be given some time?
I despise the move-fast-and-break-things mentality. Changing quickly isn't a sign of being alive, it's a sign of bad project management.
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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
First run of #Jehanne Operating System since the spread of #COVID__19 in Piedmont, #Italy.
Cleaning up the #GCC port.
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𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 
PGP-signed toots when?
We can sign our GIT-commits with PGP but not our toot?
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YunoHost is a version of Linux designed to make it as easy as possible to run your own server, either at home or remotely.
You can follow the project here (in English and French):
➡️ @yunohost
They also have a PeerTube channel (mostly in French):
➡️ @yunohost
You can download Yunohost from the official site at https://yunohost.org
It runs on new PCs, old PCs and Raspberry Pis.
#YunoHost #Linux #SelfHosting #SelfHost #Hosting #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #RaspberryPi #HomeServer #HomeServers
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Intervento di @mattruffoni@twitter.com per illustrare il concorso fotografico #wlm #wikilovesmonument dal 1 al 30 settembre le foto di monumenti e città italiane https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/tredici-tredici/2020/08/tredici-e-tredici-prima-parte-25-08-2020.html @WikimediaItalia@twitter.com
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@Shamar @haitch @ekaitz_zarraga @alcinnz @abbienormal @alexbuzzbee I like this sentiment. You make it sound like this is a question of literacy. That we need to make it easier to both read and write (as well as cite and annotate) might be a good way to explain the problem in more social terms. It also can lead people to see that, even if it is sometimes hard work, computing can be a _pleasure_ just like good literature.
Joined May 2019
