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@p @do @lanodan The more I learn the more I realise computing peaked in the late 80s and early 90s.
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@torresjrjr It's not a "decentralized wiki." It's a decentralized encyclopedia P2P encyclopedia network, like the blogosphere, but for encyclopedias.

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I realized social media it's ok that you post nothing when you don't want to. because if you push yourself. It's going to be saying something you don't mean it. in that way. It’s not you.

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Today in digital archaeology: I wanted a PDF calendar generator and found one from 2009 that seemed nice, but the website had long ago disappeared. Luckily the internet archive had crawled it, and since the code was GPL'ed, I was able to update it to build on a modern system and produce page-a-day agendas for my e-ink tablet. github.com/osresearch/DynamicT

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@mnmlsm
TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer

omar.website/tabfs/

Years of terrible news headlines and fraud stories have made me allergic to hearing . Looking into it now, I can't believe what I've been missing!

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wanna see which servers are banning who? Wanna know how many masterdongs blocked you? Check this link and find out TODAY

https://fedisus.dokku.hackr.org/
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@activitypub
#activitypub #fediverse #3D

We had a wonderful tour through federated three dimensions!
Thank you all speakers there @datatitian

Everyone, check out web.immers.space for the decent(ralized) metaverse, it is mind-blowing.

And for transparency:
Chris will reappear here starting at around 7:50 pm CET
meet.jit.si/ScatteredConsequen

You can also enter via #rC3 2D world ActivityPub assembly “hangout” tile.

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Just launched a first draft of our website with a little info about what we're cooking: bonfire.cafe

TL;DR: Bonfire will be:

1. a pre-configured device
2. a fediverse identity hosted service (which syncs between the fediverse and the device whenever it comes online)
3. apps (web apps but they run on the device instead of the cloud)

@vim
I've been drafting a blog post on "emacsification", or the convolution/unification/sigularity of user interfaces, and my own wishes.

This has put a greasy, foot long spanner in the works.

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@vim
Simple Vim Key Binder for Windows

github.com/pit-ray/win-vind

> win-vind provides the lightweight Hybrid UI System of CUI and GUI.

My dream has manifested itself in front of me and I don't know whether to love or hate it :')

So I've been informed there's been a corona case in the workplace where a close family member works (care home).

And I've had a persistent, dreadful, undiagnosed cough for over a month, with a poor prospect of hospitalisation.

Our caution can only do so much at this point.

So... will 2021 be my last? It feels plausible and near, and I don't like it.

:/

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What's Freeze Peach?
I like my peaches fresh tyvm!
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@p
This has always been my biggest worry. Mastodon is especially notorious for not just keeping control away from the end user, but also gaslighting said user.

Instead of a message saying "Communication with this server isn't possible because of a block on this server.", it just pretends people don't exist.
@r @alex @torresjrjr

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@r000t @r @alex @torresjrjr Yeah, the users and the other admins. I remember the witches.live admin doing that lengthy freakout, "PLEROMA ALLOWS FASCISTS TO CONDUCT PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE" because she thought that if she blocked FSE, FSE would somehow know this and stop fetching posts. Gargulon actually argued against disclosing server blocks and kept them out for a long time (allegedly because this would "enable harassment") but it just means that nobody knows if they've been blocked, especially not the server in question.
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@torresjrjr @r @alex

> Ideally everyone would have their own instance, and federate as they wish.

This is the goal of cofespace.com, I want to push the ratio of users to admins as close to 1 as possible.

> Obviously there's a huge barrier and cost to that

Handshake problem, sure, but it's doable. The protocol might have to change to scale that up. (It's got to change to scale up anyway.) The problem is, as Alex noted, the P2P solutions aren't ready yet. (I've used twister.net.co, very cool but somewhat heavyweight; it's almost as involved as running Pleroma yourself. It's pretty quiet there, too: this is where the party is right now.)

I've got a project I'm hacking on intermittently that fixes the handshake problem but it'll be a minute, it's not top of the list.

> The cost per freedom goes up for massive instances

I'm not sure what this means.

Git builtins for email.
Bookmark it! Preserve the bazaar!

git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Appendi :git:

> Many Git projects, including Git itself, are entirely maintained over mailing lists. Git has a number of tools built into it that help make this process easier, from generating patches you can easily email to applying those patches from an email box.

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