Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
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It's still only mid-morning, but "ruin-time library" might already have won Typo of the Day.
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Looking back, the most interesting moment of my biology and zoology degree in the last millennium was when the chair of developmental biology offered an optional course on the history of eugenics.
That's when I realized that science and technology are inextricably linked to politics.
Wanting to keep politics out of science and technology discourse ensures that the next generation forgets about the link and ends up propping up crimes against humanity.
Sure, there are those who will always support evil for profit. But all those who cry after the fact: Nobody could have known this would happen! Yes you could have known, you ignoramus, if only you had accepted the discussion of politics in your calm, and polite spaces.
@kayla
Great! Do you have a write-up or notes on your experiences? Could be valuable, especially since I too have an AMD mini-ITX around unused (Kabini APU). I want/need to build a "NAS+" (personal media replication, security footage recording, bookmarking, chat, maybe a blog served from the home? #SelfHost #EMail fantasy too?)
@shine
@jaromil as an OK Devuan user, I do wonder if more drastic steps are warranted, like #HyperbolaBSD . I value #Debian's solidity, which is diluted in Devuan though.
@mathias no tool exists for this, but I imagine having all data as a Bittorrent seed and having peers clone it and reseed it would be great. Or IPFS. Or Perkeep.
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Maybe the secret why the #deltachat project with "just" a dozen active contributors succeeds in delivering cross-platform apps, instigating the #chatmail server network and spearheading the #webxdc app paradigm, lies in asking the right questions:
- Is it really needed?
- Can we not do it?
- Is there a simpler way that requires less changes?
- What is the interesting next impl step that is already interesting itself for users, without requiring first completing a big refactoring project?
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@strypey Delta's crypto is much more thoroughly audited in comparison, likely has less metadata to worry about, and Matrix devs admitted to leaving a side channel open so I think the entire project should just be written off at this point
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@praveen
> Delta Chat is relatively new and I don't use it
The app itself, yes. But as @lps says it uses email protocols, which are older than XMPP, and even older than HTTP!
I've been using Delta for about 5 years, with an email account I was already using with friends/ family. Many of them try it, because they can use an existing email account.
FYI I've been trying to get people I know to use XMPP since it was called Jabber, before it was standardised at the IETF. With almost no success.
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A couple of questions, is the Prav co-op plan for each person with an account to pay a subscription? If so, will this be a requirement for use, or an optional way to support the service?
As you said in an earlier post, not everyone can afford to pay. Which is why Snikket's hosting service charges per server, not per account. The assumption is that a group of people can find a way to fund that cost more easily than each individual alone.
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@praveen
> For now I'm focusing on XMPP as I think replacing WhatsApp is more important right now
Fair. 2 questions;
1) Are you familiar with the @snikket_im project to build a modern, easy-to-use chat experience using existing XMPP software? (Full disclose: I've done little bits of paid contracting for it)
2) Why XMPP, and not Matrix, Delta.Chat (E2EE chat over email protocols), or Sup messenger (E2EE chat over ActivityPub)? Just curious.
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So a data researcher at #huggingface decided to scrape a million bluesky posts as a dataset.
Then proudly announced what they did.
Then apologised and took it down. 😐
This is what someone brought up in a culture that hasn't been brought up to consider consent does. The kind of culture that declaims it's easier to ask for forgiveness after than permission.
I say a culture, but I shouldn't sugar coat it. This is what being brought up under white supremacy does.
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@jalefkowit I'd reply with "Something was fixed." and forget about it until they tell you something detailed.
(I wouldn't really, obviously, but I'd want to.)
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After almost two weeks of non-stop programming in #Erlang, I noticed that Erlang has a fantastic built-in debuggger that you can invoke right from the shell with `debugger:start()` 😎
@alex first up, its great that some places have referendums! Anyway, maybe the impact of public opinion on politicians shouldn't be underestimated. In India's capital, #Delhi, the long-running incumbent govt. scrapped the dedicated bus lane as soon as it won, because people didn't like giving up their toys.
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@mhoye Motifs of protein sequence can be conserved at a low level, i.e. just because something looks like something else, it need not be the same or even have the same function. The passage you quoted and successfully misrepresent does not say that certain covid proteins are venom or rabies, nor does it imply it. They share analogues, like most proteins do. You would be surprised how many human vital DNA elements (forming protein after translation) are suspected to be of viral origin.
One could say we are part retrovirus, and one would be correct. But that says as much about humans as the fact you quoted.
Needless to say: I'm pro masks. But don't make up bogus justifications.
@deadsuperhero
Hi. Do you see any change in the very apparent NIH syndrome in the open social software development space?
This is in the context of Mike Macgirvin's specs and designs and rationales being ingnored repeatedly then and now; and he has apparently even stepped back from atleast his AP #NomadicIdentity efforts, which he had to start rather than developers standing on the shoulders of his work.
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@rabble You might be interested in reading about some recent efforts I’ve written about. A lot of people are very passionate about figuring out how to fill in those gaps, and there’s some fascinating movements happening in the background.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/extending-activitypub/
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/
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@ricmac @evanprodromou @rabble @timbray @osma Hey, thanks for the write-up! Pretty wild to get mentioned next to so many superstars!
One other piece I wrote about is also worth considering: Nomadic Identity. https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/
The SocialCG also has a data portability initiative that is studying this problem from the perspective of identity: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-data-portability/
Finally, it’s worth noting that ActivityPub has an often-ignored secondary API that’s literally half the spec, for Client to Server interactions. It’s under-utilized, but in fact could be the basis of Single Sign-On for ActivityPub: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-to-server-interactions
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@LALegault @TheAdmin You can just block any user or bridge domain yourself (and there are really only 2 generic bridges). They're just like a normal fediverse instance for that matter.
And use the normal reporting tools for your admin to see any actual violations of your server rules, so they can also do the same that they would to any fediverse accounts or domains.
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I'm gonna start calling Bluesky 'Wayland' since it's supposed to replace X but it's missing half the features and kinda sucks and most of the people who advocate for it do so for political-emotional rather than technical reasons
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
