Post @post@qoto.org

@mathowie public forums > non-public chats

How did the internet even think otherwise? So many years of great discussions lost.

Discourse just released a major update and I'm 100% dead serious when I say it's phenomenal and feels like using a good 2004-era PHPbb forum, but updated for today's social interactions.

Honestly, I wish every company, newsletter, website, etc, would stop using Slack and Discord for fans and instead adopt Discourse, having organized topics and threads is so much better than an endless chat stream that scrolls off into nowhere instantly.

https://discourse.org

Many people care so much about their knowledge management tools, as if the world will end if they lose their notes.

For the past 15 years, I have lost and rebuilt my entire archive several times. It’s not the end of the world. If you are healthy, motivated to do it, and have reliable Internet, you can do anything.

#knowledgemanagement #pkm #notetaking #obsidian #logseq

The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness. Joanna Thompson reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/

In roughly the past half-decade, Microsoft went from nowhere to overwhelming dominance of text editors with VSCode, ownership of majority of code hosting (and open source dev) with GitHub, ownership of the dependency stack used by most devs with npm, control over the most popular single language with TypeScript, and is trying to position copilot and ChatGPT as inevitable parts of the future dev process. Nothing negative for the ecosystem will come of this, as the last half century teaches us.

Probably an unpopular #knowledgegraphs opinion right now, but I still think RDF1.0 is the only spec that really drives interoperability forward.

RDF1.1 with Named graphs, RDF* and property graph-like systems, and the likes are interesting technology for managing triples within a machine, but not for sharing triples across organizations.

So many people are on fediverse instances related to their profession that it feels like we're medieval English villagers with last names matching our jobs.

Dick Baker? He's a baker. Jane Carpenter? She's a carpenter.

dick@infosec.exchange? He's in infosec. jane@hci.social? She does HCI.

#PhysicsFactlet
White noise is very common in nature, but it is by far not universal. Many Physical phenomena produce noise with different power spectra (e.g. blue or red noise). As a rule of thumb white noise is the "least correlated" kind of noise (you can think about it as the "most random", but notice all the inverted commas here 😉 ), blue noise is more uniform, and red noise has more slow variations.
#Visualization #Noise #Physics

Just to clarify, I’m not going to #FOSDEM, I’m going to #OFFDEM.

I don’t attend, speak at, or legitimise so-called “free software” (or “human rights”, etc.) conferences that let surveillance capitalists like Google launder their reputations by sponsoring them. I’m only taking part in OFFDEM, which was created in reaction to FOSDEM’s lack of principles and ethical backbone.

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#FOSS #surveillanceCapitalism #whiteWashing #reputationLaundering #institutionalCorruption

Pretty desktop imo

oh my goodness, this is delightful: a service for providing better previews when sharing mastodon links in Messages https://mstdn.link

@nilesh @post @aral I'm pretty comfortable that the #AGPL protects users of SaaS services from being locked into #FOSS commercial services. Yes - they might have a lot of data to move if they want to abandon the commercial provider they've chosen, but there's always an escape route if desired. The same is not true for proprietary or SaaS built on weakly (not #Copyleft) licensed components.

Found this article describing the sorta new creepy ass transnational governance of "multistakeholderism" i.e. Davos + WEF useful : https://tinyurl.com/76xn7v4m ... BUT even better seeing the groups confronting their bullshit this week with specific issues like climate justice and debt relief in global south. ( birdmusck ) https://twitter.com/DebtforClimate

Holy #Krapitalism batman, did #Zelinsky REALLY Say THAT !?? RT > https://twitter.com/dilanpcook/status/1618336418824343553

Attempting to install Fedora Silverblue on my Pinebook Pro…

🤞🤓

#pinebookPro #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #towBoot

@post @nilesh @aral I agree. #Copyleft is by far our best defence, although it's just *part* of the equation. Weak #FOSS licenses are not a good fit - they are predicated on the idea that all software value is derived from proprietary code, and make it easy to close what was originally open. And that's dumb.

@lightweight This isn't at all surprising to anyone involved in #FOSS, but for some reason #leftists completely sleep on this and don't get it, completely out of touch, still stuck in old ways, for the most part.

«La dictadura perfecta tendrá la apariencia de democracia, una prisión sin muros en la que los prisioneros nunca soñarán con huir. Un sistema de esclavitud donde, gracias al consumo y la diversión, los esclavos amarán su esclavitud». (Texto: Aldous Huxley. Ilustración: The Modern World, de Pawel Kuczynki)