Asno @asno@qoto.org

Why #freecad matters.

So, the EU's #DMA says that the tech giants will have to expose open APIs for interoperable comms - but what does this actually mean in practice? Here are our initial thoughts on how you might actually implement it, and why the DMA is good news. ✨🔮✨ https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/29/how-do-you-implement-interoperability-in-a-dma-world

@niconiconi
I cant speak to the book but i am intimitly familiar with modeling of transmission lines. A transmission line is modeled as a series of inductors with capacitors across them. So there is both magnetic induction and electrostatic capacitance at play and both are equally significant.
@Science

Web design in 1993 versus web design in 2022.

Both accomplish the same goal: display a text with an article.

One does it right. The other one doesn't.

Pretty interesting how #Nichjou featured a reasonably accurate vintage Japanese bicycle in one 「かっこういいと思う物」 segment. (Photo source)

. #bicycle #cycling #anime @mastobikes @bicycling

"Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay": https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867419/google-execs-million-salaries-raise-sec

Remember 'Don't be evil'? It's time we stop feeding Big Tech with our data. Here are some great alternatives: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/ 💪😎

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.