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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What do we want? Time machines!
When do we want it? That’s irrelevant.
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#SourceHut is the @delta Chat of software forges. Discuss.
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@martijn @aral currently working on a project to also aid distributed tool libraries as well - https://meansofp.org #meansofp
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@senfcall Welcome to the Fediverse and thank you for what you're doing with #BigBlueBotton! I am new to it, but was somewhat familiar with #Jitsi already. I'd be open to any thoughts you may have on comparison between the two. (It's great we have two open source video calling ecosystems now!)
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Closing libraries is how you burn books without lighting a match.
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@ploum
I simply worry that these tracking companies are doing more and more to further track people. It's not just our social media now, but also our families and friend's social media.
Anytime someone sends out information about me, it undermines my own efforts to stay private, and honestly this is what I worry about. They don't do it maliciously, but I can't seem to explain it in a way they'll get it.
So I don't think its a splitting of the web quite yet. I hope it happens eventually though
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Late night hot take
BTW Why do I insist of making my posts hard to parse by using these juvenile tryhard satire names? Because I'm a juvenile tryhard I guess. But also because the single most valuable things these companies own - arguably the only valuable thing - are their "brands". All their value comes from us slavishly repeating them, like the one word mantras of the capitalist cults they are. I, for one, refuse to shore up their stock values by doing so.
#FreudianTypo whether systems: when it isn't predictable if it will rain or shine today
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With all these spying appliances I shouldn't have to actually call to complain.
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@strypey IMO the goal of the fediverse doesn’t really exist, or rather “the fediverse does not exist as one entity”: personal difference differs, and so some people believe in openness, and others believe in safe space, these are all valid positions. Anyways, the fediverse seems to mostly get users (haven't necessarily bought into the concept) by Twitter/Reddit’s pushes, it does not pull in many users by itself, and that is the main problem.
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Y'all remember, before the internet, when people thought the source of stupidity was lack of access to information? Yeah. It wasn't that.
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@andrewfeeney Here's my "well actually" on this.
Snake Oil (the stuff actually made from water snakes) is an Omega-3 product, which we still use today for joint pain and arthritis.
Snake Oil in the US (the stuff that spawned the legend) wasn't made from snakes. Stanley's mixture included ingredients like camphor. You've almost certainly used modern equivalent like Vicks VapoRub.
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Me: “NORA SAID I SHOULD TALK TO A NORMAL PERSON ON THE BUS TO CHECK OUT WHAT THEY ARE LIKE!”
Rando on the bus: *moves to another seat*
Me: “OKAY BYE! I’M GOING TO GET A HAIRCUT!”
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Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".
It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.
Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.
You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).
The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.
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So, were these people so confused by the Mastodon UI that they genuinely couldn't find the block button? Or is this an intentional smear against Mastodon, by people who have some reason to make sure the fediverse doesn't succeed? I mean, once you've figured out what the reply, favourite, boost and bookmark buttons under each post do, there's only one left to try. The one that pops up a menu including all the moderation functions.
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@kissane
2) It could help to introduce people to the fediverse as an ocean, where it's normal to hop from island to island. Someone suggested highly moderated onboarding servers, where it's made *super* clear during sign-up that all accounts are deleted after, say, 3 months. By then, the person might have decided the verse isn't for them. OR, they've got to know the waters well enough to choose a server to move to, and the UI actively holds their hand during that first move.
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I posted about switching to Firefox as my "daily driver" browser as a little tiny step away from Chromium browser hegemony, and I had a ton of people in the replies suggesting I should just use Brave or Edge or Opera or Vivaldi instead.
I'm a little concerned that people don't realize just how pervasive this problem is. Every single one of those sits on top of the Chromium codebase.
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Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.
- 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
