Asno @asno@qoto.org

Falls ihr das nicht kennt: StreetComplete ist eine App, die es super leicht macht, Daten zu OSM hinzuzufügen – Ladenöffnungszeiten, Hausnummern, Straßenbelag, Radwege, Beleuchtung, Brückendaten und noch viel mehr.

Es macht (mir zumindest) mega Spaß, und bringt mich dazu, meiner Umgebung etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.westnordost.streetcomplete

Are you ready to quit Facebook and Google? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/22/tech-trust-survey/

We've got some recommendations for you: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/ 💪🤩

What are yours?

Hi!

We've just created this mastodon account to communicate about the #unifiedpush project.

UnifiedPush is specifications and tools that let mobile users choose how push notifications are delivered. All in a free and open source way.

#SchildiChat is a fork of Element (which is the most widespread @matrix client) that focuses on simplifying the user interface and the last version (1.2.0.sc42) supports #UnifiedPush !

It should be in the main @fdroidorg repo soon :)

First version of NextPush has been released [1] !

It is an #unifiedpush Distributor that works with a #nextcloud application [2].

The android application can be found on the repo [1] and hopefully soon on #fdroid !

[1] https://github.com/UP-NextPush/android/releases
[2] https://github.com/UP-NextPush/server-app

Coming up on 1 year on the fediverse.

I started out self-hosting my services with a nextcloud. It was really great having access to a service like that anywhere I went. It was a shock to realize that when you run your own service you can use it however you like -- there's no admin to complain that you're not using it the way they want.

Shortly after, big tech started their shenanigans in earnest -- Once they've banned the sitting president of the united states, there's no chance of escaping the censorship.

I started out on alt tech, minds and bitchute. They were fine, but you could see that all it would take is someone to change their minds about how to run the site and suddenly we're back to square 1. On supposedly free-speech minds, one of my posts got reported and at that point I just wasn't interested anymore.

Around the same time, Google had been warning they were going to shut down hangouts. Over my life, I've had a lot of services I use shut down or change such that I can't use it anymore, and it's getting annoying.

I started to go about figuring out how to start up my own service.

I tried Friendica at first. There are some things I really liked about friendica. Once I got the interface working the way I liked it was definitely a looker, and I still prefer the way it shows threads by default. Unfortunately, I found that friendica was very heavy on the back-end to the point that I wasn't able to know for sure if my posts were getting out there. If I had a beefier server it probably would have been fine, but I didn't.

Next I moved to pleroma, and it was much more responsive.

Today I'm running pleroma on the back-end with soapbox-fe as my front-end. Along the way I also set up a peertube instance, a searx instance, an invidious instance, a Matrix homeserver, an xmpp homeserver, and a lotide instance.

It's really cool! Essentially, most of the tabs I have open now are from my own services.

There's lots of interesting people on here so content isn't really a problem. Some people have reported my posts, but that's because they're literally stupid. Every report I've seen is "I disagree with this guys politics!" which was summarily ignored.

The only service I still routinely use from big tech is youtube, though now mostly through my invidious instance. I spend a lot of time on my peertube instance, however.

I'm pretty sold on the fediverse ecosystem at this point, and I'm totally sold on self-hosting. Nobody will get rich off of it, but what I envision is someone coming up with a box that you can install in your house that will allow setting up and maintaining self-hosted services automatically, and then everyone would be independently using their own services that communicate with others' self-hosted services.

I grew up on the Free Internet. I don't care to live on the locked down Internet. I like seeing ideas I don't agree with. I like seeing things that make me feel uncomfortable. I like seeing things I think are wrong. I like seeing things that make me think and maybe change my own views. This is the last best bastion of freedom left.

I feel bad for maintainers of #log4j now that their hard volunteer work is widely ridiculed for serious #security flaws that were found.

This while every corporate club and your grandma used it in their million $$ projects without anyone thinking of doing a security scan or otherwise contributing to the project with time or funds.

A lessons-learned for the corporates:

"Nurture before you milk!"

And keep on nurturing. For god sake, can't you do anything sustainably?

https://ariadne.space/2021/12/11/to-secure-the-supply-chain-you-must-properly-fund-it/

So Protonmail decided to leave mastodon and focus on twitter instead.

So much for alternatives.

#protonmail #twitter #mastodon #liars

New project released: the #keyoxide cli is now available through #npm 🎉

Details at https://yarmo.eu/post/keyoxide-cli-released

Verifying identities is now as simple as running 'keyoxide verify test@doip.rocks' in the terminal.

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

Someone should bring back the Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a British proto-GPS invention from the early days of the automobile, and market it to retrogrouch gravel cyclists #MastoBikes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-564133/Fancy-driving--earliest-wind-sat-nav.html

@tuxcrafting
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Hidetaka Hirose, 1944-2020

Hidetaka Hirose, the genius behind C.S. Hirose, died early on Saturday. For 40 years, he built bicycles that were custom-built for their riders in every way: Not just size, geometry and tubing selection, but even the components.

Hirose bikes were always beautifully balanced. I had the privilege of riding a few, and seeing many more in action. He had an intuitive understanding of frame geometry that allowed him to tune each bike to its rider. They all handled beautifully, whether they were mini-velos with small wheels, cyclotouring bikes with a big handlebar bag, or bikes intended for a full camping load.

Before you could order a bike, Hirose-san invited you to join his Hirose Owners’ Meeting – a bi-annual, two-day cyclotouring journey on small backroads in the high mountains that he had scouted on his own weekend trips. Hirose followed his riders in his van and watched them pedal. This allowed him to build bikes for them that matched not just their bodies’ dimensions, but also their riding style. It also made for great riding, wonderful camaraderie and great food at traditional inns.

His small workshop in Kodaira (Tokyo) was filled with fixtures, gauges and tools. Many of them he had made himself. There were hundreds of them. He even built his own frame jig, which enabled him to work on both sides of the frame.

Hirose was not just a framebuilder, but he made his own components. He simply enjoyed making things, but his goal was always to improve, not just replicate. He liked desmodromic derailleurs (with cables pulling in both directions), and he made his own 10-speed-compatible versions of the classic Cyclo. Just as impressive was his desmodromic conversion of the Huret Allvit (above), a derailleur known for excellent shifts that were spoiled by its heavy action. Hirose’s desmodromic Allvit shifted smoothly, with a light touch and with a precision that the originals could only dream of.

Hirose also made front derailleurs, and he designed the mechanism and cage shape to match the rider’s pedaling style. It was all part of a true custom bike. The one shown above was also desmodromic. When I tried it at one of the Owners’ Meetings, I was impressed how smoothly it shifted over the wide range of the bike’s triple cranks.

As remarkable as Hirose’s bikes are, the man who made them was even more remarkable. Deeply passionate about bicycles, music and many other things and always smiling – we will miss him.

His shop, C. S. Hirose, is now run by his long-time customer and friend, Mr. Okada.

#cycling #bicycle #framebuilding #hirose

@awlt @mastobikes

In the west, California's burning because of drought, hollywood egotism, climate change, and a mismanaged water crisis fueled by Silicon Valley "ball and chain" of inflated tech stocks making everything worse... .

In the Gulf of Mexico, Cat 4 Hurricane Laura is set to land between Houston and New Orleans... 4' - 7' storm surge putting everybody knee-deep in "uncontainable" losses spread around as thin as oil can... that's the truly "unfortunate" thing about that industry; toxic oil-drilling contaminates spread far and wide, and they cannot be isolated to the industry that much deeper underwater ...

So "of course" the finanical markets are cashing out as wannabe tech elites cash out at the peak of their own deluded insanity. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

Another request from a friend.

#calligraphy #handwriting #copperplate

Just a quick appeal:

@peertube , the Fediverse's video sharing platform, is having a fundraising drive to get PeerTube v3 done, which features lots of major improvements including video livestreaming.

You can find out more and donate to the crowdfunding on the roadmap page:

https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #LiveStreaming #LiveStream #Streaming #YouTube #Twitch #Alternatives #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre

Students shouldn't be forced to use Zoom, Skype, and other nasty proprietary software to access an education. Support their #UserFreedom: sign our petition! https://u.fsf.org/34d