Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@corbet So, what's the downside to going login-only? Most social media and news sites are like that these days. Pure nostalgia for the wide-open Internet is not a good enough reason. We used to have http: at one point too, but we moved on. Do you reap anything from that openness?

today I learned about Transclusion (https://tiddlywiki.com/#Transclusion)

So this is something I did not understand when I started using tiddlywiki: the tiddlers are meant to be quite short. But, I thought, sometimes I need all the information at a glance in one tiddler.

So it was only today that I learned that you can cut up a big tiddler into smaller ones (ctrl+e / "excise") and use transclusion. which means the content of the new tiddler is shown in the old, as if it was one big text.

So I guess I'm famous now :)

https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html

To be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught. We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...

Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point. This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites. But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...

After one month on https://primal.net/p/npub13lwl6mn9g5jz8czr8sr2wg2z9hd49nlxhxs7u007eju4llm9nktsy6rngu I have 1 follower who is likely my account from bridging to the Fediverse.... when i joined my account auto followed over 200 mostly #bitcoinbrows... this is not a good experience so far #nostr

@asrg @aaron @marcusb @mike @Fingel Are there anti-AI strategies that don't just add MORE energy/water use to the process?

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange We spent many years trying to correct a video game's release date, just because its author gave the wrong one in an interview done 10-20 years after the fact (which is a more reputable source than the game's own documentation, naturally).

We only managed to resolve it because someone who happened to be an experienced Wikipedia editor walked into our community and proposed to clean up the article for us while dealing with the editor politics.

At this point, I honestly encourage specialized communities to build their own wikis, treating Wikipedia as a kind of "jack of all trades, master of none" place.

I started with #Ventilo and quickly moved to #Mumble (murmur) before #Discord even existed.
It has been a #SelfHosted 'free public service' for over 10 years and will remain that way.

A reminder that if we love RSS it's not enough to use feed readers ourselves. We also need to reach out to our favorite blogs and sources to advocate for access to feeds.

Many websites and blogs don't provide RSS feeds, even those by organizations and projects that do want to disseminate information and do outreach.

https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/ive-been-advocating-for-rss-support-and-you-should-too

#rss

I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.

#OpenSource

Meanwhile the stallman report account (report_press@) is still live on mastodon.social

Might be worth looking at Hubzilla or the streams repository. Both provide WebDAV enabled photo albums and media access is synchronised with your fediverse profile and posting audience. Anybody within or outside the fediverse can be given upload permission. Those using these platforms have automatic cross-instance single sign-on. Those outside these platforms or outside the fedi will need authenticated link to upload.

These links are easy to generate. I used to have one for my mom before she passed away a couple of years ago.

Of the two, the streams repository is likely to be the most approachable in terms of ease of use.

Can't help much with planning.