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@adi @prologic @eldersnake Sorry, just saw this. Yeah, nothing there yet, but nfld.uk works, for when I get around to building a site. :-)
It's becoming a bit of a game: what will land on the scaffolding platform outside my bedroom / office window (from the massive construction project that is the block of flats up against us)?\n\nToday it was a full clip of nails (for a gun) and a pair of prescription glasses!\n\nMost days, it's just stones and clods of dirt — from the guttering up there somewhere, presumably — making it feel like I'm working below an impending avalanche. _sigh_
If it is public money, it should be public code as well. I support this call for more public code under a Free Software licence: https://publiccode.eu/
@adi @anthk @prologic Yeah. :-P\n\nIncidentally, I've since seen in my feed that OF has done a 180; surprise, surprise. ;-)
@prologic @anthk 100%. What's with platform seppuku in 2021 anyway? Maybe I'm overstating what Twitter's decided -- I hope I'm not ;-) -- but Freenode for sure, and OnlyFans, probably. Mad world.
@prologic @anthk Oh, cool! On both fronts. :-) OK, done. :-) It's already faster than Floodgap. ;-)
@prologic @anthk That would be a pretty big PR, wouldn't it? :-)\n\nThe gateway is my fault: couldn't think of another way to subscribe to that feed, in the moment; open to (interim) suggestions, though! :-)
@anthk Good idea! Hope it was a nice walk. :-)\n\nAnd, welcome! :-)\n\ncc @prologic
@anthk "Hola. Pues debido a un ligero fallo, tengo que volver a configurar el cliente, pues lo hospedaré via Gopher y suelo usar un "tilde" remoto para ello. En unos días estará listo. Un saludo."\n\nOK, great! See you around soon then! :-)
@prologic I do, but need to get to work. :-P Later?
@prologic Not crazy. Just trying to wrap my head around the implications. Does it scale? Sounds like, over time, it wouldn't look like a typical IRC server; which doesn't mean that the protocol can't handle it, of course.
@maya Heck, yeah! +1\n\nIn before times, I'd happily spend days in secondhand bookshops, but I was never sure about the academic books I came out with.
@prologic That'd be awesome! I figured you're probably running the gold standard of this stuff, if the gold standard emphasises a small footprint and ease of administration. ;-)
@prologic Well... good question. I've been playing around with syncing calendars and contacts, between my desktop and phone, and work (in the case of my calendar). Looks decent, so far. And I'd like to extend that out to my wife too, with her own account, eventually.\n\nBut, ultimately, photo management is the biggest challenge: I'd need to upgrade my home storage considerably before that could realistically be self-hosted, and even then I'd want to have some sort of off-site solution too. But I also need a solid backup option more generally; Backblaze, maybe?
@prologic Ah, I see. I'll keep that in mind. I'm pretty motivated to get off Google stuff, though; willing to sacrifice quite a bit. ;-)
I'm self-hosting Nextcloud now! Can't believe it's taken me so long to try it out. I'm a bit worried about my soaring expectations, actually; if I can sync my work calendar with it, oh my, the elation at *finally* dropping Google Calendar... 🤞🙌
@jlj Aurora Store is... *astonishing*. I'm surprised it isn't talked about at least half as much as (the also to be lauded) F-Droid.\n\nTo be fair, I haven't dug deep on what I'm giving up, even by using it with an 'anonymous' token; but, for someone who'd really just disabled the main G apps on their vanilla Android phone, this is a _huge_ step on the journey to dropping Google (while still talking to family and friends).
@johanbove Yeah, I suspect so; although I've only dabbled in IPFS to date.
LineageOS, with no gapps, is now running nicely on my (new to me, first generation) Pixel. 2016 feels like a leap ahead, for me, and really good, I must say.
@adi No worries!\n\nOh, and, ouch, yeah; can't please 'em all, I guess. Anyway, yeah, as I said, keep it up! :-D
@nttp Wow. Very interesting. First I'd heard of it, but, yes, looks polished. :-)
Interesting, indeed.\n\nReminds me of a secretive organisation, that builds in networks by deliberately doing intakes as sizable groups that it then uniquely identifies as a cohort. Recruits are then tested, individually, but also in teams. Bonds form over the year. Then graduates are spread all around the organisation. A strong, internal network, outside the org chart, useful for busting groupthink, as well as the more traditional GTD.
"... Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement..." Wolin, on his coined Inverted Totalitarianism
"So the US set out to reduce the Taliban’s ability to profit from the drug trade. But in effect, the US eliminated competition from government-friendly regions of the country, which INCREASED the Taliban’s ability to profit from the drug trade. A disaster. 15/19" Jeffrey P. Clemens, Twitter thread\n\nFrom the moment the US made the assumption that the organisation that chooses not to actively expel my enemy is also my enemy, circa 2002, they were lost, in my opinion.
If I were to do it all again, I'd get directly involved, for the long haul. This stuff doesn't work, part-time, and that's all I can give, after my family, right now. That'll change in a few years, though, I'd imagine.\n\nI'd like my kids to have more hope than me.
I contributed to a political party that was founded in that fight and the fallout, for more than a decade afterwards. Nothing came of it. The party disbanded.
@search_social @prologic Interesting. I mean, in my case, the battle was lost: that particular bill didn't pass -- because the parliamentary session ended; nothing to do with us or our efforts -- but a different bill of similar effect was passed, a few years later.
I was more thinking it didn't reflect well on me.\n\nBut, yeah, absolutely, re your other point.
Ha ha. Well, I should start by saying that most of my run-ins are straight-up CoC violations: telling people about my community where advertising isn't allowed.\n\nBut last night it was for being incendiary on the subject of our encroachment in wildlife territory across the globe, and how that will define our lives in the years to come re disease.\n\nThere was much talk of horrible death and cussing. CoC violations again, I guess.
I seem to be enjoying getting banned from Telegram groups--got my third(?) ban last night--and being threatened with it in Session groups.\n\nI feel this isn't a good look. And a possible sign of a deteriorating mental state.
@prologic Well, I haven't really kept up with this space. I didn't even know about Carrier-grade NAT, for example; it sounds like it would mess up a lot of the self-hosting I do through residential broadband.\n\nAnd I didn't realise that the US DoD, Prudential and Ford had such a big chunk of the IPv4 address space.
@markwylde I wish accessibility was more of a priority.
@prologic @osnews @markwylde Oh, very positive indeed!
@prologic I participated in some activism around copyright reform, 20 years ago, in Canada; met with my MP, did a bit of advocacy. It's tough to get anywhere. And then they just try again, with new legislation, a few years down the road. Pretty crushing.
@buttking Interesting. Yes, from a UX perspective, that could certainly be clearer. cc @prologic\n\nIf you just follow the link back to the pod's landing page, top left, it should reset.\n\nAnd welcome!
@mk Intriguing. Going to be repairing electronics?
@prologic Is that to shorten them up, you mean? To save characters? It's a good point. I usually just want to be transparent, so people have an idea what they're visiting. If I am low on characters, normally I've use this: https://envs.sh/ -- in fact, I even run a copy of this locally, as they suggest on the main page: https://git.envs.net/envs/pb
@prologic Ah, yes, excellent point; love that about pods.
@hecanjog He's lucky all his tenants are incredibly patient, and neuro-typical, one presumes. Or, let's say, I've worked a lot of people would completely lose their *%$£ the first time that happened, never to be seen (by him) again, likely.*
"... [A]n attempt at systematizing skill and knowledge transfer so thoroughly that people begin to conceive of it as the task of school, rather than a normal consequence of work. Because of this shift, childhood contains the age where one can intuit very well how the world works while being prevented from acting upon it meaningfully. Instead of an adolescence full of rites of passage... we have made it full of waiting, and doing work... that nearly everyone knows is fake..." https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
@darch Ah, right; knew someone coherently objected. ;-) Yeah, I hear you; some relaying / forwarding would be nice.\n\n(I love Delta Chat!)
@prologic That's some grisly dogfood. ;-) Third time's a charm?
@prologic Yeah, slowly coming to that realisation, re email. Think it's been down for a few weeks. Sent you a replacement. In the meantime, yeah, I'm stepping back from my original opposition to the private messaging... Well, I think it was @adi who really didn't like it, wasn't it? Anyway, yeah, agreed: there are certainly use cases.
@anths @xjix I also support them, for the record, and had my second jab three weeks ago.
Not sure what I was on about: the OTP releases install for Pleroma was very smooth (this time).\n\nAnyone who wants to dip a toe in the Fediverse is welcome to at: https://pleroma.nfld.uk -- I've got manual approval of registrations on for the moment, just to be safe, but you needn't worry about justifying the ask with an essay or anything. ;-) Now, to figure out how all this stuff *actually* works. :-D
@prologic Yes, absolutely. I use Nitter for this now, but, even moving around between different instances, it gets rate-limited regularly, which isn't a transparent experience when you're interacting via RSS vs live. Self-hosting it is on my To Do list.
But I guess you have more important things to do with your time. Sorry for cluttering your feed.
@anth It's irresponsible, blanketing with "a lot of false statements here." Thanks for treating us like peers. :-/
@prologic I landed a tech job a month before lockdown. All my mates from care work got it. Crazy lucky for me.\n\nAnd, I'd heard about a riot; didn't realise it's been three! D:
@prologic Agreed. Could've stopped. Horses and the barn now, I'd say.
It's such a *%&#show, and governments share the lion's share of the blame, as far as I'm concerned. It was another thing to be gamed for their advantage, until it was too late.\n\nAnd don't even get me started on their complete abdication of the responsibility to inform their constituency, in a timely, clear, and concise fashion.\n\nUtterly shameful. Five minutes on Session or Telegram makes me mad enough to eat my phone. And I can't blame the doubters.*
That said, I too believe that this will be incorporated into a jab, like influenza, to be fought in perpetuity. And people won't take it. And they'll sneeze all over public transport. And continue to endanger the vulnerable all around us. :-(
And the possibility of the vaccinated continuing to spread the disease is the CDC (and others?) being cautious, as I understand it. The trials focused on vaccine efficacy, unsurprisingly, so they're suggesting belt and braces until that testing is completed.
The rushed theory is false, as I understand it. They've been working on coronaviruses for a long time, and were largely successful in conducting in parallel many of the steps that were done sequentially in slower times.
@maya It's all relative, and, by the sounds of it, both people and infrastructure are buckling and expiring. No laughing matter, as you say.
@maya Ooo, hadn't heard of that one; looks promising!
@maya I have a memory of one person/project mentioning it in the last five years. Might've been a webring, of all things.\n\nI think that pretty solidly proves you're correct. :-)
@prologic @lyxal Ah. So is that true of everyone blogging on the old system?
@von Good, thanks. :-) Welcome back! :-D
@prologic Good points, on all fronts. :-) Not suggesting we need redundancy, btw; just that it's a part of resiliency, itself often part of a decentralised network that has some sort of service level agreement, or similar expectation.
That said, though, there is no redundancy whatsoever. I haven't spent enough time in this space to know how much redundancy/replication and federation are supposed to be a part of any and all things decentralised. I mean, there's a network's ability to sustain attack on its infrastructure, and then there's its ability to maintain the pseudonymity of its clients, writ large and under such attacks. So, in a nutshell, maybe I am using the term incorrectly when talking about *yarn.social*. :-P
@lyxal Nice! I've had that 'push-back' about decentralisation as well, in response to my using it with *yarn.social*. I wouldn't say, by extension, that all open source projects could then fall under that definition, since, starting with the simplest argument, not all projects are code that's to be self-hosted and publicly-facing. But, even beyond that, many of those projects won't be designed to 'federate', in the loosest sense. And I think *yarn.social* does federate in that sense, and is therefore a valid example of a decentralised social platform.
@alip Haven't read the linked piece yet, but, gut-feel, not cool, CB!
I'm now running *yarnd*! A small -- but very exciting -- step forward for the rebranding! :-)\n\nA very smooth transition, @prologic, FYI. Cloned the new project, built it, set up new symlinks, decided to create a new systemd service, stopped the old one and started the new one (pointing at the same pod instance).
@prologic I'm assuming you're talking about LibreTranslate: self-hosted is actually their preference; or at least registering an API key with their instance.\n\nI'm actually thinking about running my own instance; 'cause I have lots of free time. 🙄😉
@sario528 It worked! Welcome, fellow *^C*-er. ;-)*
Well, happy to see you, regardless! :-D
FWIW, I can match that $50/mth contribution too. :-)
@lyse Attempted to. My four-year-old fancies himself a modern-day Attila or some such, though: sacked before the moat was even half finished. ;-)
@lyse Ta! :-) Just had a wonderful day at a beach. (Literally, for my kids!)
