I found that Arduino in the monthly cleaning...
Could you suggest some use for it? I don't throw it away, although I know it's extremely limited.
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262325233
I haven't read those yet...
MIT Press Book collection is intriguing. I read "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist", deep and insightful. And "The Stuff Games Are Made Of", by an academic creator I like, is slightly presumptuous, but insightful as well.
Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262341202/
So, when technology, monetary power, decision-making, and other sensitive topics are put together, it's tricky to have a single definition.
A quick search on 'Distributed vs Decentralized' gave:
> Decentralized systems offer power to the many, not just the few.
> \n Distributed systems can enable resource sharing and improve efficiency and performance. These systems can function with or without a central authority.
From the first result on Google: https://www.hivenet.com/post/decentralized-or-distributed-whats-the-big-difference
ChatGPT says:
> \n While both federated and decentralized platforms involve distributed systems, they differ in terms of control and decision-making. \n The key characteristic of a distributed platform is the distribution of workload and data across multiple nodes, allowing for parallel processing and faster response times.
From a long response of about 3,500 characters. It's not a simple topic to grasp.
Why Google and GPT? I think those are the first sources for many people now. Perhaps not the most trustable sources if you ask me.
So I think having your vision on the topic would be enlightening. But losing it in the emerging flow of twts would be a shame.
So, when technology, monetary power, decision-making, and other sensitive topics are put together, it's tricky to have a single definition.
A quick search on 'Distributed vs Decentralized' gave:
> Decentralized systems offer power to the many, not just the few.
> [...] Distributed systems can enable resource sharing and improve efficiency and performance. These systems can function with or without a central authority.
From the first result on Google: https://www.hivenet.com/post/decentralized-or-distributed-whats-the-big-difference
ChatGPT says:
> [...] While both federated and decentralized platforms involve distributed systems, they differ in terms of control and decision-making. [...] The key characteristic of a distributed platform is the distribution of workload and data across multiple nodes, allowing for parallel processing and faster response times.
From a long response of about 3,500 characters. It's not a simple topic to grasp.
Why Google and GPT? I think those are the first sources for many people now. Perhaps not the most trustable sources if you ask me.
So I think having your vision on the topic would be enlightening. But losing it in the emerging flow of twts would be a shame.
What's the difference between Federated, Distributed, and Decentralized?... And also the difference between platforms, systems, services, and such.
I remember we discussed that a few months ago.
I think you should have a post in your blog or similar as a future reference.
From the main page:
> Smol Pub is tiny blogging service.
> Web interface and CLI to manage your posts.
> Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.
> Storage for your images.
> Write custom CSS for web.
> Attach your custom domain with SSL.
> Export your posts.
> No JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology.
I was using Gohugo and it was so painful to start writing, and push the HTML to the server, that I stopped writing. It was almost impossible to fix a typo on my phone or simply push a quick text.
Smol.pub is a typical blogging platform but compatible with Gemini, has a customizable interface and it just works.
And although is too simplistic, Gemtext works for me as an alternative to Markdown.
I wrote a bit about that here: https://text.eapl.mx/writing-in-2021
I don't know what are you thinking of exactly. Yarn Pods?
As an example, my blog is 'hosted' on smol.pub with a perpetual key for 5 USD. I think that's subsidized, m15o is paying to keep the lights on. But I like this service so much, that paying 0.5 or 1 dollar per month is nothing!
Compared with the effort of paying 2-5 USD/month for a VPS, setting up a Go environment, updating dependencies in a language I don't master, tweaking things, and maintaining everything for a personal smol.pub instance. I tried to run it once, and I quit after a few hours.
As has been discussed, these services are 'centralized', although having mirrors hosted by volunteers syncing somehow, would be a good idea. So if one server disappears you can jump to another.
I lost track of Registries, but they seem to be down, which is an example of that problem:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html
And I'm aware of this kind of CSVs made by 'scraping a social graph', but they seem to be manually updated:
https://github.com/tkanos/we-are-twtxt
I was using 6 USD servers from Digital Ocean, but saw that on Vultr they start at 2.5 USD.
VPS are great to learn, although paying a dollar for a service with no maintenance makes sense to me by all the time we save. The problem exists when you don't use the service that much and have to pay anyway.
This is a good transitional one, IMO
https://pixelresort.gumroad.com/l/twitter-x
https://emojigraph.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-t/
Paying for a service you are not using (that much) is a weird feeling.
But it's a weird feeling too not paying for a service you are using ๐
twtxt?I chose the hash emoji #๏ธโฃ, which has many variations: https://emojipedia.org/keycap-number-sign/
and I liked the tweoji one, I think it has a good license: CC-BY 4.0/MIT
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji#license
It would be nice to choose an Emoji/Image/Icon as a convention. What do you say?
twtxt?
#ohMyGosh #prayForMeAgain
https://www.are.na/about
I'm checking that a few of your twts are still dated in a future time. For example, this one I'm replying to appears to me like 16 minutes after the current time.
I got to say that I implemented that possibility just for your twtxt feed, so it's not a big deal ๐
Have a good weekend everyone!
To know why I dislike it, I had to use it.
Briefly used https://3speak.tv since a few Latin 'YouTubers' I followed, said they were migrating to those platforms as they were earning more than the benefits from Ad impressions and Subscriptions, with less effort. They were receiving 'likes' more like a tips model. "I like your content, create more, take a dollar".
All my content on YouTube is for free, so sincerely don't know if that's true, or if it was for a short period of time, but _may_ be right.
Perhaps instead of using TW/FB with my students, I could motivate them to join twtxt, run their own servers, and host their own data.
Teaching them how to make money without the dependence of giant corporations, which is not easy, but it's feasible.
Well, that's all that was on my mind, but it's always an interesting topic to discuss with my friends while we drink a beer ๐ป or a good wine ๐ท. Cheers!
Proof-of-stake, Proof of authority, Proof of weight, and many more.
They are re-centralizing a decentralized system to hold monetary value (not digital cash, since that's another topic).
Finally, when we mix a social network/media/platform with all those abstract technologies developed in the last 15 years to hold monetary value, we are in a crazy world of unfulfilled promises, but which people want.
I understand why that exists. Why generative AI is a trend now. Why Crypto was told as a future, and such.
So, answering the question:
> How many people truly believe blockchain social networks are the future?
I think there is a significant amount of people. I saw it at events and conferences. If many people believe in that, and somehow benefit from it, it's enough to start a movement. I've seen that in traditional streaming, video game stores, Roblox, and many more.
I think that Social media is toxic enough when attention and personal information are sold in exchange for a fun platform, and a free way to get in contact with friends and family.
But also it's a tool for companies, big and small to sell stuff, which starts as something good, a way for small creatives to earn money from their craftsmanship.
But as has been discussed, soon an enshittification process begins.
> As if likes, upvotes, hearts, and subscriptions werenโt narcissistic enough, letโs make people think someone wants to pay them with crypto to view their random posts online.
I'm with you on this idea. It _could_ be a pyramid. But the promise of earning real money also happens with traditional platforms (Meta, TikTok and such).
When real money (or crypto money, or worthless digital points) is in the equation, strange behaviors start to appear in creators and followers.
Disclaimer: I briefly worked for a small crypto company in 2021 on the controversial Pay-to-win model using Enjin, Ethereum, and such. I received payments on crypto and paid people in other countries, being cheaper and easier than national services. I don't think I'm a crypto-bro, and I don't want to work in that area anymore.
I don't like to say "everything X is evil" or "everything Y is good", based on beliefs, ideology, and tech-religion. But people need those. Even I need something to believe in. Decentralization is my current value.
I think that's the radical point of Crypto vs Not-Crypto.
"You are with us, or against us."
As a technology, blockchain is, IMO, an amazing tool for decentralization, excuse the comparison, similar to BitTorrent. Proof of Work is problematic and it's showing that when many people use it, it's an environmental disaster.
http://example.com
https://example.com gemini://example.com
ftp://example.com spartan://example.com
newprotocol://example.com
https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/phpub2twtxt
I thought I fixed it ๐ค
#infiniteBugFixing
https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/phpub2twtxt
I'm thinking of renaming the project and moving it outside of Github to make it more friendly for the community (Sourcehunt perhaps?).
But for now, you can find the crafted version for myself in that repo.
I'm not a pictures person, so I push like 1 photo a year, but I adore microblogging: https://text.eapl.mx/microblogging
I use each service based on the kind of people I'm talking to, mainly to start conversations or share thoughts.
Twitter was like the default for creativity and arts ๐จ๐ป, the reach and discovery of new people and content is decent (based on followers only), but a lot of people moved to Masto due to recent problems we all know.
No one uses Threads here (luckily) and I like twtxt a lot, but none of my close friends are here (yet) ๐ฌ
pubtwtxt (web app to push twts to your twtxt file) has too many changes and different goals now (self-hosting a micro Web platform for a single user), that perhaps it should have a different name like twtxt-php ๐ค
Anyway, any suggestions are welcome!
Anyway, there is an undocumented feature to see someone else's timeline
https://eapl.me/twtxt/?url=https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt
But it's not finished yet, so it only shows some of the followers
https://eapl.me/twtxt/?hash=red3neq
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isnโt - Erin Kissane's small internet website
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
And it happened as well with the CLI tool I used: https://github.com/rsc/2fa
So I had to make another on Python to support more chars (and to improve the fuzzy search like on some mobile apps). Is anyone interested in that? Could be useful for you.
Now I have to find a use for it =P
https://thecanine.itch.io/winluncher=
https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/phpub2twtxt/blob/master/docs/03-hash-extension.md
> Hey tell me about this I found on your feed? ๐
Sure! By the way it would be great to have your thoughts!
I have started drafting those here:
https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/phpub2twtxt/blob/master/docs/02-metadata-extension.md
Those are: emoji (like on Gemini Station, an emoji instead of an image), lang (default language for every twt in the file, or specific for a single twt, like on Masto), version (to indicate which version of twtxt spec the txt file is using).
And I was checking that the hashing spec is prone to be extended from 7 characters to 10 or 11, so it would be great to know when that would happen.
Nice to greet you!
It makes me think a lot about my biases, public and private...
Well, I think it's moment to start finishing the work week and prepare for the weekend. ๐คจ
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Interesting how information collides with politics and ideology ๐ค
Buuut, that's nothing to worry about (yet).
We should start switching from 6 digits to many more, 10 at least or 16.
TOTP and lookup secrets as first factor authentication
https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/2979
I'll take the opportunity to do so ๐ด
Not that bad, although I don't want to work on the PHP client that much. Anyway, it has the min features to take a conversation, so it works as a minimalist client. ๐
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/GuitarFreaks_and_DrumMania#GITADORA_to_GITADORA_HIGH-VOLTAGE_(2013%E2%80%93present)
I random song I found these days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgN5rhrx9M
https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader
This premise is appealing:
"Open source is broken and developers working full-time in the open have a hard time making ends meet compared to employed equivalents.
Taking a step towards one possible solution for open source precarity, Rad Reader will be 100% open sourced on reaching 350 purchases."