Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

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Ready for my talk for the design/development students at Howest.

Will be showing a very early proof of concept of Small Web server setup for the first time.

3PM Belgian time.

Watch live at:

https://small-tech.org/videos/towards-a-small-web-howest-2020/

#SmallWeb #live #talk

@zleap @fsf_channel Nearly everything we do is released under AGPLv3 including the JS.

Watch me present a live talk “Towards a Small Web” to students at the Howest design/development programme in Kortrijk tomorrow (Friday, Dec 4) at 2PM Irish time/3PM Belgian time.

I will be demonstrating a very early proof-of-concept on small-web.org for the first time (setting up your own small web server in ~30 seconds).

Watch live at:

https://small-tech.org/videos/towards-a-small-web-howest-2020/

#SmallWeb

Just watched a pretty impressive demo of a #FOSS #livestream platform #OwnStream (nothing to do with ownCloud), already shipping with working chat.

https://owncast.online/

It isn't #P2P, but takes an #RTMP stream (hello, #OBS) and shares it on a rather nice looking webpage, from what I can tell. Early days yet, but already working surprisingly well!

If #PeerTube is more #YouTube like, then this is more like #Twitch.

Seems to be developed by @fribbledom among others.

Chinese probe heads back to Earth after leaving moon's surface

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/03/chinese-probe-heads-back-to-earth-after-leaving-moons-surface

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Themoon #Science #China #Space

In 2020, the world collectively spent approximately $1.8 trillion on its militaries. If that much money was spent on food, welfare, healthcare, and infrastructure, I doubt there would be much reason left for everyone to keep fighting.

Found an answer in the Announcement post when Markdown was introduced to Qoto:

> Keep in mind that while many other fediverse serves will view the rich text not all servers can or will and the formatting will be converted into html in a best-effort to remain compatible. For examples vanilla Mastodon instances reject all special formatting, but links from markdown should still be correctly rendered, but bold and other formatting will be filtered out on Mastodon. Pleorma and other software which allows rich-text should properly render the markdown.

So basically, it seems like links should likely work everywhere without a problem, it's just fancy text rendering that's likely to get stripped out elsewhere.

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RT AP Europe
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. http://apne.ws/2diX4EC https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1334084013649256452 #News #AP #Europe #Science #Shot #virus

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"In this demo I remotely trigger an unauthenticated kernel memory corruption #vulnerability which causes all #Apple #iOS devices in radio-proximity to reboot, with no user interaction. Over the next 30'000 words I'll cover the entire process to go from this basic demo to successfully exploiting this vulnerability in order to run arbitrary code on any nearby iOS device and steal all the user data"
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html #security

the #programming language #rust | #rustlang gets an increasing userbase in the #science community. So much in fact, that even the journal #nature has published an article on the topic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2

it's quite a natural fit, since scientists aren't the best coders. So while rust has a steep learning curve, you can still get results with speeds of C/C++ comparably fast without living in fear of segfaults (that is if the right libraries are available).

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