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@prologic @adi The new one, I'm slightly ashamed to admit. ๐\n\nI just don't have the chops to make something that looks somewhat professional without a (bloated, I'm sure) crutch like Squarespace. ๐๐
@prologic Tandem bicycling for the visually impaired. This was a chance for our new volunteers to practice with our tandems.\n\nI helped found it back in 2016, but have stepped back a bit in recent years. I'm building them a new website, though: tandemonium.fun\n\nNeed to blog about the day now and link to the video.
Huh. Strange. I think my avatar is actually based on a PNG; as @prologic said, webp was yarn's decision. :-)
@stigatle Lovely! ๐๐\n\nGlad you found us! Welcome! ๐๐
Boy, it's been a steep learning curve, fighting with scalable vector graphics (SVG) over the last few days. Didn't have @xuu to fix my logo this time. ๐\n\nStill very much a work in progress, but at least I can switch to a dark theme by default now. Next step would be making it theme-sensitive, I guess.
@vain @movq Really good points. I mean, realistically, they need to believe in this; if they're looking for a bit of good PR and wiggle-room, they'll find plenty!
DevOps Humble Bundle\n\nI think there's enough in this to justify ยฃ20. Plus it supports a good cause.
Great post!\n\n> ... The downsides of extending support obligations for proprietary software in contrast to directly opening up aftermarket economies and reuse possibilities through the publication of source code under a Free Software license is manifold: what time span of support seems appropriate for electronic devices in general and others in particular? Is it three years, five years, seven years? Will the decision of today still be valid and up to date at the end of this decade? Even worse, this approach does not fundamentally help one of the core problems of our digital societies which is an e-waste overflow of often still pretty well-working devices that have only been thrown away because a proprietary manufacturer decided to stop support of the device. An extended support obligation does not solve this problem at its core - it just postpones the often unnecessary growth of e-waste for a certain time. Last but not least it takes away the freedom of manufacturers to not continue support for a certain device if, for example, it does not sell well enough...\n\nEcodesign Directive: FSFE calls for Device Neutrality and Upcycling of Software
@aman It's different, but in a good way. ๐ Welcome! ๐
@adi Morning! (For half an hour more.) โ๐
@prologic lol. Sorta. Pleroma, but I certainly have a plethora of problems, thanks to it! ;-)
Ordered some heatsinks for my rpis. Curious to see how effective they'll be; the USB clip fan I have on them now is cutting a good 20โ off my maxed-out 3B+.
Highly mixed feelings about this new That's Humanism campaign from Humanists UK. (Disclosure: I consider myself a humanist.)\n\nPros: 1) So clear in the effort and energy invested in it; 2) not fusty or cult-like; and 3) Stephen Fry (which should be first, obviously).\n\nCons: 1) It's that dang style of art that, now that I watched that video I linked to a month back or so, I can't actually take in anymore; my eyeballs just slide off it, bored; and 2) while they do talk about community and supporting one another, I can't help but feel that, overall, the primary message is one of individualism.\n\nI'm not sure the world needs more of that, right now.
@prologic Ah, the quoting markdown works too; wondered how @adi was doing it. :-) Good to know!
Couldn't agree more.\n\n"... During a pandemic, rapid behavioural change is crucial, so people cannot be asked to โkeep calm and carry onโ. *They need clear information if they are to take the crisis seriously enough to listen and to know how to act.* In early March 2020, that was my message on social media, in the media and, ultimately, to the Danish government..."\n\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2 (emphasis mine)
@adi Ah, looks like it; not officially, anyway. The list is more dynamic than you might think. My model dropped off the supported list earlier this year, for example. (But I'm still very happy with just getting updates for v17.1; it's still miles better than the ancient version of Android I was running on a Samsung J5, from 2016!)
@adi The 4 wasn't out when I was in the market. Quite a few people said I should hold out, but I was impatient. :-)
@adi Just expensive, for what you get. But I love the idea, and will definitely be looking forward to where they go in the next few years.\n\nEthically, I was just as happy grabbing an old phone that had already been built five years ago. Much cheaper too: a quarter of what I would've spent.
@eldersnake @adi Yeah, I second this. I'm one behind the latest Android release, thanks to LineageOS, and mine is a first-gen Pixel!
I've been thinking a lot about how we as a society partition and signpost communal spaces; how we attempt to ensure not only that everyone is safe, but that they _feel_ safe, and welcome.\n\nI wonder whether we're seeing the end of communal changing areas, restrooms, etc. In care work, my focus was person-centric; that's fine on the scale of that charity, but can we really design a public space with that as a goal? I don't know. But Professor Stock isn't the first person to express misgivings in this space, and, beyond what I too feel is a defence of liberty itself, I find myself coming back, again and again, to questions that echo her concerns.\n\n"... A university has no obligation to shield impressionable minds from opinions they may find challenging and even offensive. On the contrary it has a duty to ensure that a full spectrum of views are aired without restraint. It is no hyperbole to say that the defence of Professor Stock, a cogent thinker and valiant voice for womenโs rights, is now the defence of liberty itself."\n\nhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-kathleen-stock-trans-row-assault-on-the-academy-nlfhggt00
lol. Partnership opportunity? ;-)
@eldersnake Oh, good to know; haven't had that issue yet, but I'll keep this in mind now.
@prologic Nice! Broke my (long!) silence on birdsite to retweet that! (And quickly logged out again!)
@eldersnake Good point re CalyxOS! And, yes, I certainly had to wade through a lot of "You'll definitely want to install GApps" information before I was comfortable experimenting with LineageOS. For me, Aurora Store as a stop-gap in a few cases fits the bill nicely; and the rest is history: bloody love it! ๐
Wow. A huge reason to avoid GApps on LineageOS!\n\n"โฆ LineageOS sends similar volumes of data to Google as these proprietary Android variants, but we do not observe the LineageOS developers themselves collecting data nor pre-installed system apps other than those of Googleโฆ"\n\nSource: An LWN article about a Trinity College study (my emphasis)\n\nBtw, I find that summary to be poorly worded; one could be forgiven for assuming that the bare LineageOS install sends heaps of data to Google. I donโt think this is actually what theyโre saying, having read what I think are the relevant parts of the paper. They did use GApps on their test device, and talk about how all Play Store usage is tied to a Google account.\n\nIโm not saying that the spoofing done by the Aurora Store app is bulletproof, but I do think that that configurationโwhich I runโgets you much closer to the /e/OS level of protection than this study implies.
@prologic Nice. :-) The last one isy favourite. :-)
@stutteringsteve Yeah, that's correct. I had been running it on an old desktop, but, more as an experiment than anything else, I recently moved it over to the 3A+ in the foreground there.\n\nyarnd is so slick, it's running with a barely-noticeable dip in performance. ๐
@maya Correlation does not equal causation, and, Mr A / B believer, please tell me you've heard of cognitive bias.
Oh, sorry; forgot to reply. Yeah, fingers crossed she's on the mend, but today's nap was still punctuated with plenty of coughing. :-(
Usually it's the user's software that's being referred to, in that context, I believe. So, what you and @movq code! :-)
@eldersnake Ah, OK. That's... remarkably straightforward. I should've thought of that. >.<\n\nTa!
Oops. That was directed at you, @quark. ๐
Nice touch with the description, btw. ๐ I'm on Season 4 at the mo, and so, actually get the joke. ๐ถ
I think I missed something in the last week or so: how are folks adding custom stylesheets to their pods? I see @adi and @eldersnake have them, and, from the looks of their landing pages, it seems like yarn.social generated the paths to their CSS file. Is it a pod management setting that isn't in the master branch yet?\n\ncc @darch
@movq Congratulations! ๐๐๐\n\nI missed mine, I've just realised. ๐ Back in June, I can hardly believe! I'll have to plan for my pod's anniversary instead, on 25 Jan. ๐
The gold was last counted in 1996! And an audit of the central bank has been stalled many times. Is it still there? Unreal.
@prologic Agreed. So, yeah, that was a poignant example, for me, of how untenable the situation is there at the moment. 400% inflation, a 48-hour warning that all the patients in the ICU of the country's top hospital would die if they couldn't source electricity(!), etc.
@darch That was my first look at text with the logo. (I always read yarns in reverse order. ๐)
@darch @prologic Agreed. I'll be yoinking that, once this is a ready to go. ;-)
Made to the Lit Fest here. Thoroughly enjoyed The Times Leader Conference, where they decide on the three opinion pieces for the paper; Monday's, in this case.
@prologic Ugh. Terrible night. Abby's poorly. Meant extensive. ๐๐
@prologic Nice to hear that my instincts on this are inline with your (excessive!) experience. ๐๐ค\n\nThis was the first example, in *ages*, of an HN500 article I found before it ended up on that list; I'm normally always late to the party. ๐
@prologic Neat! Hadn't heard of them before. ๐
@adi Indeed. :-) That's a good, long run for a regular blog too!
"... He worried that so much emphasis on the ethical and political dimensions of economics might make the subject feel like a different discipline altogether. โThe question is, do you want the students to feel like theyโre coming out of, you know, to be blunt, a sociology class or an economics class?โ Gruber said..."\n\nhttps://rss.nfld.uk/share/0d894626259ea12b2436b12873669e4ba2a2ed98\n\nYeah, hot take, this crap is a significant factor in just about any global problem you can name.
@movq So much love for this! (And not just 'cause it feels like it could've been shot on Endor. ;-) )
A mate just surprised me with tickets to see TOOL in Brum next May, as UK settlement prezzie! ๐ฎ๐คฉ๐ค\n\nSpeechless! ๐ค
@prologic @eldersnake What about a party / mingling / conference mindset? Sidebar? Breakout?\n\nI like fork, but I'm trying to be helpful. ๐๐
@mckinley @laz Ah -- reading this convo backwards ๐ -- I think I'm actually running a simple Prosody server as part of my Jitsi Meet set-up; exploring that has been on my to do list for more than a year now. ๐
@mckinley @laz @prologic Wow! So cool! And what a mature set of documentation! ๐๐ค๐\n\nI might have to try running a server. I also like the way they're looking for a nominal fee to use their server(s); I think folks expecting free services is a path that leads to problems.
I'll tell you what @prologic, looking at my Pi 3A+ beside my 3B+, and all the shenanigans I'm having to do to keep Pleroma up on the latter while the former -- little brother, really! -- ticks along happily running yarnd, really encapsulates what yarn.social is about, I think, for me, anyway: \n\nYarn.social ๐ขก Social. Simple. \n\n๐๐ \n 
Just wrote a quick script to restart Pleroma -- restarting the database as well, and killing the inevitable epmd straggler after that -- as a cron job, twice an hour. What a kludge. I feel... dirty. ;-)\n\nHowever, Pleroma has already federated some old events that it was obviously too poorly to pick up beforehand. So, result?
@movq ๐๐๐๐ค๐จโ๐ค๐บ
(Head on a swivel) Who... should... I... follow... *collapses* ๐คฏ๐ต๐
@prologic Ta! ๐คช I've had more โ now. ๐๐
@jlj @prologic Still waking up, clearly. I'm on Android / LineageOS. >.<
@mckinley @eldersnake Yeah, I'm liking LibreWolf so far -- it's been a few weeks -- and I'm posting this from Fennec, which I installed around the same time so I could experiment with the Bypass Paywalls Cleanly add-on.
Cosmopolitan morality trades off in-group for the world, separating benefits and protection\n\nSignificance\n\nContemporary world challengesโpandemic response, climate change, migration, global poverty, and trade policyโrequire comparative moral judgments (tradeoffs) between oneโs own and other nations. Such choices distribute benefits and protect security for just the national in-group or the whole world. In representative surveys from eight countries, most respondents are willing to sacrifice national well-being to aid foreigners, more to protect from harms than to redistribute benefits. This disaggregates two dimensions of moral cosmopolitanism (benefiting versus protecting), distinguishes it from adjacent constructs (such as group identity), and demonstrates links to attitudes and behaviors. Cognitive associations (global, inclusive words) reflect cosmopolitan thinking; making the world salient can elicit cosmopolitan behavior, at least temporarily. Understanding this global perspective can guide its enhancement.\n\nVia National Affairs
@quark @prologic I've often wondered this! And he welcomes all new arrivals in a timely fashion too, as far as I can tell! ๐คฏ
@prologic Yeah, agreed. Initially I didn't notice, as I was following the yarns account; had to stop: too chatty! ;-)
@adi I really like it! Particularly how everything a new user would need is 'above the fold'. :-)
Now listening to ๐ถ *Divine the Rest (John Supko)* by NOW Ensemble ๐ต
We're proving right now that people's efforts alone can create community, without advertising. Yes, there are limits to how this will scale, and what it will ask of its members even now, but let's talk about that, as opposed to jumping straight to "We need to commoditise the attention here now, or this will die."
Yeah, I think it's like a creative wiki.\n\nJust wish these projects considered how differently we perceive and interact with the world: first impression is that it's unnecessarily visually focused; could be wrong, though, I suppose.
Are.na looks interesting, but fairly inaccessible: no syndication, even for their blog; exporting to PDF, zip and HTML; exclusive apps, etc.\n\nAnyone used it? It's certainly piqued my interest, regarding its longevity alone.
@lyse @prologic @xuu Oh, jan6? Interesting. Just trying to get Abby back to sleep, and then do the same myself; give me a few hours. ;-D
I feel like conflating sustainability with advertising is unhelpful, particularly given the attention this *New Public* project seems to be receiving.\n\nExcerpt from A Field Guide to Social Media:\n\nDecentralized Logic: What if social media worked more like email?\n\nPros:\n\n Decentralized technology means that these platforms emphasize autonomy and privacy. \n\n There is no central entity that controls user data, meaning centralized governance and surveillant advertising in the tradition of Facebook are essentially impossible. \n\nCons:\n\n Finding sustainable revenue models for decentralized platforms is an open problem and a significant barrier to growth and sustainability.\n\n Developers need incentives to create compelling platforms and, because decentralization (along with the entrenched positions of the dominant platforms) effectively rules out targeted advertising, new revenue models will have to emerge that can support sustainable growth.
Oh no!\n\nYou've always struck me as an upstanding person, for what that's worth. :-)
@lyse Thank you. :-) Pretty chuffed!
@lyse fastidious_anb @prologic (#7zwkh2q) I don't know what happened to him; his Mastodon instance didn't last longer either. :-(
@adi Oh, missed these questions: Discord runs OK on my Linux desktop, but I don't do it often; I use the Android app when I want to see what's up with those friends. I only use Slack on work's MacBook Air, which runs fine on 8GB of RAM.\n\nOh, and I've just moved my pod to a Pi with 500MB of RAM lol. Seems happy, so far, which is yet another 'selling' feature of yarn.social, I think. :-)\n\nYeah, overall, I have no idea what's normal these days. I think it's safe to say I'm under-powered, on that front (and others, no doubt!). ;-)
@adi Ah. Bought another 8GB for my main desktop last year, bringing it up to 16GB. That Dell actually has 2GB(!). My netbook, running Synapse, has 1GB. Same for my beleaguered Pi that's sort of running Pleroma.\n\nA bunch of zombies, really, is my army. ๐๐ง
@adi On my web server? Not much. It's a 15+ Dell my mother-in-law had that was gathering dust. 4GB, maybe?