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Well... Reddit may not yet have been shown the door, but it has certainly been handed its hat.

Think about it. platforms such as the projects for Kbin, Mbin, Lemmy, Lotide, and now...

https://join.piefed.social/ and the repo is here: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/

Be sure to check the Link below in the link that @jeze left and sign up!

Pretty kewl, IMO. Thanks for sharing Elley 😀 it looks really nice and I created an account for myself. Seamless federation with the others too - very nice 😀

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #PyFedi #PieFed

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RE: https://kzoo.to/users/jeze/statuses/112168259370814891

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Ever seen one of these?

I had a classmate that used to bring his to class every night. Just slung his satchel w/the keyboard over his shoulder and carried this in his arms up the elevator and down the hall to class.

It's a Pronto Series 16, running at a blazing fast 8Mhz, and that's a 5.6 MByte removable hard disk there too. Pronto Computers was located in Torrance (my hometown) just down the street from Epson and Ashton Tate (dBase II, III)

Heck I can't even remember the guy's name, but he worked in some local aerospace company and fancied himself an ubergeek; if this box is any indication he sure was, lolz.

So what's so special about this machine? Well, if you ask any 50 people about an IBM compatible computer that ran on an intel 80186 CPU they'll prolly all tell you there was never any such beast - but there was, and this was it (I recall it was fast as fuck, so they prolly pioneered manufacturing production machines that were ahead of their time, while IBM and the clone manufacturers decided to skip a generation and take their time working on a platform that leveraged the 80286.).

The hard disk was light years ahead of its time too - portable Zip Drives (100MBytes) didn't appear on the scene for another ten years, but this was an actual miniature hot swappable Syquest HDD spinning at I believe, the standard of 3600 RPMs.... I can't be sure though, but it was nice listening to that quiet buzz saw sound just singing along.

We were in a Pascal class together, so he would show up, insert a disk, boot to UCSD P-System and off he would go. The rest of us would too, but we had those noisy 5&1/4" floppy disks that made all those cute noises in our IBM 5150 PCs (4.77MHz 8080 CPUs), lolz.... Well, we did have a few XT's w/HDDs, some VT-52 like terminals for the PDP-11, and some 3270 terminals too connected to a mainframe at the main campus in Sandy Eggo.

His #Pronto was a screamer for sure, and I'd only ever seen an amberchrome monitor for mini computers at work, which were much larger. The graphics (Yah, we actually called them graphics at the time) were superior to what we could do w/o an expensive #Princeton_Graphics #CGA card and matching .51mm dot pitch color monitor too.

I had lots of minis, super-minis, and a few mainframes at work, but in the personal computer world there was literally nothing that could perform like this 8MHz 186... nothing. It was a screamer!

But alas, after him spending close to five grand, the IBM 3270 PC/AT was soon to be released, relegating that guys 186 hot rod to the annals of forgotten songs and unsung heroes. The new #AT_Class machines kinda trickled in though, so if you wanted one of those you got to the computer lab early. They also supported HD Floppies w/1.2MB storage - a vast improvement over that of the earlier, so-called Double Density 360KB floppies, although there were some issues moving data between those two formats that required a few tricks - like loading an earlier command.com (kinda like sourcing another shell once you ssh into a box)... Okay I'm rambling.

I kinda liked that guy, and kinda didn't. Most of the other students didn't care for him too much. He was arrogant and one of those, "Mine's better than yours" sort of person, but he was competent, friendly with me, generally speaking, for a guy who was wound real tight, and I could tell he didn't get any pussy, so I kinda felt sorry for him too.

I should mention that there technically were a couple of other manufacturers out there during that era shipping 80186 computers, but I've never seen any of them and don't know anything about them.

Well, that's about it for that era, I just thought that I'd share that little bit of computer history with everyone. I hope you enjoyed reading about this truly innovative machine and it's brief time on the market.

#tallship #IBM #Pronto_Computer #retrocomputing @SDF 😀

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IOW - the reader doesn't have to leave their comfy Fediverse client, experience or venture into unsafe outside networks or sites with trackers and other data mining engines.

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A mission statement? As a decades long FOSS and Privacy advocate, it's really not much of a question to me. My immediate answer is, "But, of course." We should strive for a UX that users will adore. Fact: I love Faceplant - I do! I don't use it, and stay in a galaxy far, far away, but I'm not gonna lie and say it's not one of the niftiest UIs in existence. Everything is smooth and just the right amount of opaque and glossy and smooth scrolling through the stream, wall, timeline, *whatev.

If we make it pretty, then that's going to win adopters from the general public. And if we gain people from the general population.... pretty kewl.

  • Make it functional
  • Make it featureful
  • Make it pritty (sic)

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The Fediverse isn't a single, particular protocol powered network - OStatus, ActivityPub, Diaspora, Zot6, Nomad, Etc. #DeSoc is a horizontally scaling, logical network topography. It's the foundational concept that disrupts a monolithic architecture. Both are great, but when you're talking about human social intercommunications it sure sounds a heck of a lot more safe when there's one, three, or twenty seven accounts on a single Fediverse instance than twenty seven hundred or thousand user accounts. I'd argue that with that many active user accounts, you're really accommodating the deprecated, monolithic silo model.

I was successful, very recently, in encouraging a popular sharing service to completely drop the mastodon logo and stop using it. The project lead related to me that of note was the fact that all of the folks who had galleries had different #Fediverse addresses, not half of them actually mastodon addresses. All of the mastodon logos have now been replaced with the Fediverse logo. AND - THAT - IS - AWESOME

#tallship #FOSS #publishing #Socialhome


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New: We published body camera footage of a sheriff in Idaho hunting for 'obscene' books at the library to use for a political stunt last year in which he announced he was holding two stolen books hostage at a public meeting.

Those books were actually stolen from another library. The sheriff returned them mutilated, and they have not been returned to circulation

https://www.404media.co/police-bodycam-shows-sheriff-kootenai-idaho-hunting-for-obscene-books-at-library/

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Cops randomly investigating books on library shelves is scary, intimidating, and has a chilling effect, obviously. It shows that extremist censorship groups have allies in law enforcement. Here's a speech from his tour guide from last year. In this presentation she also explains that libraries are running a communist plot promoting “social justice,” the “children’s version of Black Lives Matter,” and books that are “filled with white shaming”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iLRw-qQLI

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This is one small county in Idaho, but this is happening everywhere. It's, at minimum, an incredible waste of time and public resources. Libraries that are already stretched thin are having their time and resources monopolized by these groups, and are being threatened with the specter of lawsuits, fines, etc. I reported just a tiny portion of how crazy this is in this *one county*, because to report everything requires explaining dozens of hours of public meetings https://communitylibrary.net/board/?ref=404media.co#agendasandminutes


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#Python : Batteries included

#Perl : Flint and tinder included

#Java : PHB included

#PHP : Notepad included

#C : Screw you

#Rust : Arcane eldritch data guardian forbidding memory blasphemy included.

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#CPP : Just because something is included, it doesn't mean you won't still get a linker error.
#cpp
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#Javascript : Philosopher's stone included(but unstable one)
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🚨 Pixelfed admins: please update ASAP to v0.11.11

More information will be published on Feb 25 to give admins time to update.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/security/advisories/GHSA-gccq-h3xj-jgvf

#pixelfed #security #release

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Okay, have just submitted a PR to a fediverse project to fix a critical security vulnerability; CVE score is like 9.9/10.

More news once administrators of this servers using this project can upgrade safely.

Update: CVE was in @pixelfed, and the advisory is published here: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/security/advisories/GHSA-gccq-h3xj-jgvf

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Reminder: we wouldn't have the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution without one UT student in 1982 being pissed about getting a C on a paper and being like, nah, that was an A paper, I'm going to get that damn amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified and then he did.

https://www.kut.org/politics/2017-03-21/he-got-a-bad-grade-so-he-got-the-constitution-amended-now-hes-getting-the-credit-he-deserves

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Well this is a really fucked up #Rug_Pull!

At the time, I searched and searched and could not find any #FOSS solutions to achieve what I figure most everyone who must use #MFA / #2FA needs, namely:

  • A Linux desktop version
  • An Android version (F-Droid or .APK - not from the Google playstore
  • A Windows desktop version

Does anyone have suggestions as to how to achieve this, so that it syncs between all of your devices?

There are plenty (even FOSS versions) out there, but none of them that I know of that sync between all of your devices. If you lose your phone... oh well! But with Twillio you could just install it on a new phone and it would sync over all of your accounts from one of your other devices, laptop, whatev. I know it's proprietary, and that's a bad thing, but like I said, I couldn't find a single FOSS solution that had this very basic functionality of syncing between all of your devices.

Do you know of an authenticator that syncs between all of your devices? Feel free to boost and ask around, people shouldn't have to carry a phone around with them everywhere, let alone use a phone for your multi-factor authentication when your working on your desktop, and using your desktop/laptop to authenticate/signon to your accounts. That's just ridiculous.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030477/authy-desktop-app-shutting-down

We only have 7 months to migrate to an alternative solution. The Desktop version goes EOL and then dark in August.

If you have any suggestions, please do let me know

#tallship #Twillio #authenticator

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Try ente Authenticator @ente it is actively developed and they are going to launch a desktop app soon. They also release new features and updates weekly.
https://github.com/ente-io/auth.
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Thank you so much!

This is what I was looking for!

All #FOSS and #Syncs w/various devices.... at least on desktop soon ;)


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Yes, use the #mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script or run #huge, and nowadays it's #eliloconfig instead of /sbin/lilo nowadays ;)

https://claudiomiranda.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/a-new-beastie-and-an-old-slacker-epilogue/

Pro Tip: for a lightning fast #SlackPkg you can point your mirrors to a local store after setting up a cronjob for mirror-slackware-current.sh

I prefer to make use of /etc/slackpkg/blacklist and upgrade my kernels separately, since I often do custom compiled kernels anyway.

#tallship #Slackware h/t to @claudiom for the article \m/

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I’ve been using the “new geninitrd command” (quote from 15 release notes) on one of my #slackware 15.0 systems. Works for me, but that machine is mostly stock

http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/15.0.php

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The new @pixelfed docs site is live and will be evolving quickly over the next few days and weeks! ✨

https://pixelfed.github.io/docs-next/

#pixelfed #docs #activityPub #mastoApi

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There are a number of Mastodon apps for old computers of the 1980s and 1990s:

:apple_old_logo: Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/

:apple_old_logo: Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:commodore: Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

:ms_dos: MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:IBM: MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

😛alm_OS: PalmOS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

:windows95: Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

#RetroComputing #ComputingHistory

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p.s. Just to add some context, most of these computers had their own federated social network in the 1980s/1990s through BBSes. BBSes worked a lot like Fediverse servers: you connect to your favourite BBS from your computer, read and post messages there, then different BBSes would exchange user messages with each other (through "FidoNet") forming a single global network.

There's a good documentary series about it called "BBS", you can watch all the episodes on PeerTube:

https://fedi.video/w/p/h6CMyFnbdPZXpaRpMCBKdk

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I can’t help but wonder how they are dealing with https…
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I believe some of them need a proxy server of some kind running on a modern machine. I run Macstodon in BasiliskII, and on the host Linux machine a TLS-terminating proxy for it to use.
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Some of those had httpS support. It would be only a matter of extending the certificate protocols.

But some of those others, that is a valid question.

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we mostly use "ssl strippers" proxies (for the computer with a network card).
The Mastodon for Apple II program uses a serial to network proxy, based on curl. This part takes care of json decoding too, and the rest (UI and logic) is done on the Apple II.

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Christmas is a time of renewal and brand new things... Here's #Melanie with another "brand new key" with tidings of great joy for us all, sharing and spreading the #Christmas cheer. 🎅🎄☃️

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=mlAtdvCygcE&si=ntMQbyGEWWtCz5mg&local=true

#tallship #Peace_on_Earth #Love 💗

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82 years ago today, 2,335 American servicemen and women were murdered in a terrorist attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The response completely obliterated the government responsible for that cowardly act, an unconditional surrender of the enemy, heralding in a new age of peace, friendship, and trust between the adversaries who came to embrace their mutual interests, rather than their differences.

Today's children have a lot to learn from that as they idolize terrorists.

#tallship #war

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Because there really isn't.

And remember... Ding dong the wicked bitch is dead!

God bless you all and remember not to take what you have or the people that love you for granted.

No alt image description necessary, just listen to the wisdom that Dorothy shared with us all, and set aside some time this coming week to give thanks for all the things you and yours have been blessed with.

#tallship #Thanksgiving #no_place_like_home

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A couple of years back in Eureka with a lady friend who was showing me around on a cultural stroll.

This back alley mural is an homage to Eleanora Fagan, one of my great musical influences, and one of the most celebrated jazz singers of all time.

At the bottom of the frame you'll notice the two rails, the wooden cross ties long since buried beneath the asphalt of the alley. I stood wondering for a very long time why there was literally no clearance for passing trains.

#tallship

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The Missus and I are going to #PuertoRico. She has #fibromyalgia (severe, chronic pain and fatigue) and is often fairly limited, physically. I wonder if folks familiar with PR across the fediverse can recommend activities for us (other than the obvious beach time) that will give her fun experiences without over-stressing her body. We will have a vehicle.

I know this is a niche question, so I appreciate your boosts to reach folks who can help!

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The Piggy Opera!

I made the mistake of originally publishing this photo at http://www.viewbug.com/photo/5280904 back in December, 2013 - don't do that! Viewbug kinda really sucks and you can't even download your own photos. Here's the specs I have on this:

From, "The Piggy Opera", Concordia Elementary School, San Clemente, California.

The tell tale signs of a child who still sucks her thumb is apparent in this portrait of a girl with a starring role in a school play.

KODAK DC4800 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Aperture f/4.5 Shutter 1/250

* We didn't really have a #Fediverse back then, although we did have a few platforms that still exist and are the major parts of the Fediverse today, such as #Friendica (had a couple of name changes since then), StatusNet/PumpIO, etc., but none of that is really important.

* This is the first photo of a series - I'm prolly going to try out "collections" and make this part of one. I still have a bad taste left in my mouth from the #gplus days when they launched collections, but I digress.

* The Piggy Opera was her first grade school play, and from an age of innocence that eventually evolves into some awareness on the childs part that I think most parents loathe - we always wish for them to remain the "Itty Bitty Baby" that we carried everywhere on one arm; and this was in the last months of when she was still light enough for me to carry her everywhere.

#tallship #ginger #piggy #The_Jennifer #Piggy_Opera #Children #closeup #closeups #faces

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Ah... now that was enough wood for about three weeks.

Oak, Doug fir, and Madron, bucked and split and stacked up on my porch like a solid wooden brick, 7½' high x12' wide x 6' deep.

That's a lot of fucking fire #wood!

Everything I cooked and all of my heat came from that wood stack.

#tallship #off_grid #rural_life #Humboldt

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Only $99 - My dad bought one. I still have it. Nobody else on my block had one. He also bought me a Timex Sinclair computer when those first came out.

So I would have been about 11 years old. By comparison, my daughter had a supercomputer about the exact same size when she was 11.

I posted earlier on this here: https://friends.grishka.me/posts/452946 , but for some reason I'm unable to boost it here.

#tallship #Sears #calculator

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At 11 years, I had my own fan favorite, a fellow SoCal son, who led many laps, but in second place after a pit stop I witnessed on live television something that didn't quite strike me the same until years later - school children watching on live TV, Challenger was go at throttle up.

It's been 50 years and now Swede Savage has received the accolades and recognition becoming of champions.

Here's the fiery crash:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=-t7V4eX3hrY&local=true

And his unborn daughter's story:
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/indycar/a44022701/indianapolis-500-becomes-a-haven-to-swede-savages-daughter/

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I was surprised just now to discover that N6NHG is now a silent key.

He was perhaps the worlds greatest, and certainly the most notorious, social engineer.

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/kevin-mitnick-n6nhg-infamous-hacker-silent-key.874825/

I figured I would have heard it somewhere else besides QRZ, and of course, much sooner.

#tallship #ham #free_kevin

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Yet another example of how development in a vacuum can ultimately fail, and it's inferior to #Open_Source models of collaboration and auditing.

Some folks, you just caen't reach, lolz.

Stupid goes all the way to the 🦴 bone! You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

#tallship #proprietary #deprecated_silos

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The big news here isn't the headline, it's what's buried in the article itself - an article that links and clings to non #Fediverse, deprecated silo resources like Twitter to pad the results of cooperative studies between these two universities.

Of particular note is an apparent broken promise to #open_source the technology on one hand, and the infinite power that #FOSS can play when millions of eyes are on the prize with cooperative development.

https://decrypt.co/149272/chatgpts-performance-is-slipping-new-study-says

#tallship #AI

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The big news here isn't the headline, it's what's buried in the article itself - an article that links and clings to non #Fediverse, deprecated silo resources like Twitter to pad the results of cooperative studies between these two universities.

Of particular note is an apparent broken promise to #open_source the technology on one hand, and the infinite power that #FOSS can play when millions of eyes are on the prize with cooperative development.

https://decrypt.co/149272/chatgpts-performance-is-slipping-new-study-says

#tallship #AI

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I am an ascerbic motherfucker.

That's prolly why, so my life, i do things for those to whom i an endeared, and then unleash really infamitory insults towards those that offer culturally infamitory attached upon those who would denigrate my life choices - to those if you who do that to others? Fuck you! Such my fuckin' dick!

Here's a delectable plating of Pacific wild caught salmon with a medley of mustard greens with shrooms and store bought cherry tomatoes (apologies, i usually only do shit that i actually grew myself) along with stuffed mushrooms and jalapenos (look elsewhere as to how o make the stuffing).

Fuck you PETA, fuck you vegans, suck my fucking dick! This is really yummy and I'm not advocating that anyone eat processed food like you do.

On the other hand... Give it a try bruh, i think you'll really like it biotch!

Yum yumz!

#tallship #supper #yummies #dinner #reisling_wine #Scarf_City #be_kind #you can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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If you can't get the gist already, here's the total pic with broccoli, mushrooms, onjions (sic), cheeses, stuffed jalapenos and shrooms, salmon (Pacific caught wild salmon), and plenty of God damned reisling...

Hey! I'm in #SuperSunnySouthernCalifornia motherfuckers! If it comes from the ocean and ain't extremely toxic then I'll prolly eat it whether it's cooked or not!

I think you'll love this dish, but if you don't, i'm all about trying your recipes too!

Lemme know, k? You can do this too!

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"Alice in Wonderland" - excerpts from the 1915 film.

Freaky Deaky, imaginative, and every bit as interesting as the moonshot in the Jules Verne movie that was it's contemporary.

#tallship #historic #silent_film #cinematography #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Just published a post on how you can compile #Rust to #WebAssembly for use with #Webpack, #Nodejs and #Deno. There's also an included repository and CodeSandbox demo. Take a look!

https://grafbase.com/blog/getting-started-with-rust-and-webassembly

#rustlang #node #javascript #typescript #webdev

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**That's the exact same story I think most of us have**. The adage used to be, **"Get Redhat certified and know Redhat. Learn Slackware and know Linux."** Most differences are in the package management systems. There may be different directory trees to traverse, and slight differences in the init scripts but that's simple enough if you learn Linux independent of a specific distro. Nowadays I tend to recommend #Mint to #n00bs, #Debian proper to those who will be longtime admins, and #Arch Linux to those who will be #UNIX Gods. #Slackware still holds it's own and is often my go-to. Back then, we had #386BSD (Jolix), #MCC Interim, or #SLS, or later, #NetBSD, but we knew UNIX would take over the world... And then Slackware sprang upon the scene followed shortly thereafter by #Sorcerer Linux and Debian GNU/Linux. #Redhat was pretty much an afterthought and rethink of #Yellowdog. Thank you so much for your thoughts and recollections! 🖖 I so look forward to hearing all manner of stories like this! #tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros ⛵ .


Oh man, this brought me way back. Two of my colleagues in the beginning of 2000s recommended me #Slackware as the best distribution to kick-start my #Linux journey. Initially I was sure they were trolling me as it took me good 3 months to get to the point I was able to launch X, but I’ll remain forever grateful as I learned so much because of it… To this day my muscle memory defaults to checking out man pages instead of Googling things 🤷🏻‍♂️😄

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Disappointed really. I thought Threads was going to bring some innovation to the #fediverse and force projects to re-think everything they were doing. But no, it's just another lame text/plain Twitter clone. It's making me question everything I know about Darwin when it's the defective-by-design projects that survive and thrive - and the strong and capable are pushed to ever smaller and darker corners of the fediverse.

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I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is *SO GOOD* and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been **perfect** for the examples in the Fonts chapter.

Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.

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## Tapir updates... Moving right along!

Tapir is coming along nicely, with continued active development and commits in just the past few days.

I never get this right, #SmallWeb, #SmolWeb, or... Let's just say it's one of the latest in single user, exceedingly simple to deploy #Fediverse servers that you can carry around in your bookbag on your laptop, or conveniently on your desktop workstations.

It's written in Deno, so, think Typescript/JavaScript/Node in a safe by default implementation.

I'm personally looking forward to Adam hopefully showcasing his work and just how simple it is to get up and running during the upcoming #ActivityConf expected to occur at the end of October.

He's got great aspirations for it and here's a bit of what the roadmap has at this time:

* broad fediverse compatibility

* install directly from a URL with one Deno command
run with limited permissions (just --allow-net and a single folder)

* sqlite and postgres backends

* multiple personas (users) with one login and one home timeline (the main account can leverage OAuth)

* personas can have different timeline styles (make it look like Pixelfed)

* build your own federated timeline from multiple servers

* post scheduling

* sophisticated filter rules and a customizable home timeline algorithm

* follow RSS feeds, Nitter feeds, maybe Nostr feeds

* personal full-text search

* a plugin system

Much like what most Fediverse platforms enjoy, like #Friendica, #Mitra, and Takahē, Tapir accounts can be connected to by following, @-mentioning, replying to, and boosting posts or Quote Posting them. There's also a link for feeds.

You too can follow along with the project by following now or asking questions of the developer at @tapir - even in this early stage of development, #Tapir supports most all of the features you've come to take for granted from a solid platform from which to engage in social communications with others in the Fediverse and beyond in much the same way as you already do from your #Pleroma, #Soapbox, and #Calckey accounts - without the hassles or uncertainty of having to depend upon someone else's infrastructure and all the baggage that comes with that.


I'm not aware of a Matrix room or IRC support channel at this moment, but all in good time.

Later I'll do a deeper drill down and publish an article, perhaps even be afforded the opportunity for an interview, and I'll be covering others in depth too, namely, #MicroblogPub and #Bovine - two other very fine and capable SmallWeb, er... SmolWeb, ummm... forget it, **single-user Fediverse servers**. 🤙

I regularly showcase existing and emerging #DeSoc development in #Fediverse-city:matrix.org and circle back around every so often with updates concerning these free and privacy respecting decentralized technologies, everyone is welcome and the best insight into these software projects trends to emanate from others who offer their input and experiences. Maybe we'll see you there too...

And remember, you can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

#tallship #FOSS #Takahe #ActivityPub @Adam Nelson

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Is there any #xmpp room to share new projects like this?
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Bovine is a no user ActivityPub implementation. Here, I'm using user in the sense of something a human being can use without effort. Posting via a REPL or a shell command takes more effort than necessary.

However, bovine supports multiple actors (in the ActivityPub sense) being hosted on different domains, all with the same bovine installation. Some people call this multitenant or something.

All these ideas are still somewhat murky and might only exist in my brain. If you want a "vanilla bovine account" and possibly an explanation on how to use it, ping me .... best on Matrix or something.

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I woke up Monday and while lying on my bed during my waking moments, looked up through my bedroom window to see this.

Odd, that it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't seen a 🌴 palm tree in six years.

I'm finally back home in #SuperSunnySouthernCalifornia 🌄

This pic, I took just a few minutes ago on the balcony. To the west is Catalina Island, outside my other bedroom window.

Let the summer begin!

#tallship #Los_Angeles #Palm_trees #SoCal



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Rest in peace Tina...

You were the source of so much of the inspiration that touched, guided, and shaped my artistry.

You will be loved and missed very much by millions, forever, not the least of which being me.

#tallship #music #Tina #tiny_dancer #inspiration



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For my brother OMAC Kara Batunia...

Thud Kara Bah Nimana!

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Thanks in no small part to a lot of fricken' people - you know who you are.

You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

https://coding.social/

https://discuss.coding.social/

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/please-promote-your-socialhub-it-is-important/2941

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Slackware #OpenBSD



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ejabberd 23.04 has been released !

This a big new release with many changes including support XEP-0425 (Message moderation), realtime block lists and several SQL improvements.

You can read more here: https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-23-04/

#xmpp
#xmpp

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I've released bovine 0.1.1, my basic python utility library for the FediVerse. From a technical stand point, it should be good enough now that you only need to use stuff described in the documentation. From an organization stand point, I've created a Codeberg organization so the new repository is: https://codeberg.org/bovine/bovine.

Finally, the thing you might care about the most: Tutorial: A simple FediVerse Server has been expanded and might serve as an introduction to ActivityPub and Webfinger now. HTTP Signatures are hidden in the library, nobody wants to see them anyway.

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It's Freaky Friday everyone! I hope you're all looking forward to this evening's lineup on aNONradio 🍕&🍻's

In the meantime, here's a blast from the past. As t-shirt and ceramic coffee cup junkie I used to require all outside sales reps to send me one or the other before I would take their calls and listen to their pitches.

Here's one example, out of my closet - from the Clinton era. Big-Tech before they had the sense to have domains & websites lolz.

#tallship #SyncSort #Backup_Express



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Fresh out of the oven, Hot chocolate chip cookies!

From our friends next door at #Movim:

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We are happy to introduce Join Movim.

Discover and explore all the existing public Movim servers and add yours to expand even more the federated network 🌍 !

An up-to-date Movim instance is required if you want to add yours to the list. The registration process is quite straightforward. The servers list is refreshed each hour.

Visit https://join.movim.eu/ to discover and explore this exciting new tool. Enjoy!

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#tallship #FOSS #federated #DeSoc #XMPP #Fediverse?
We can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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And let's not forget the other forums contributing to the advancement of #FEP and #SocialHub - the @fedidevs and @fedidevs groups that anyone can join, along with the Fediverse City Matrix room at:

https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.org

To join one of the groups, merely follow to receive the discussions and @mention them to post! - from any Fediverse instance like #Hometown #Takahē #Pleroma #Akkoma #Soapbox #Friendica #Socialhome #Misskey #Quanta #Calckey #Epicyon #Misskey #Foundkey #MicroblogPub #Mitra and even #Hubzilla (you need to activate your ActivityPub addon for your user account).

Easy Peasy - be part of the winds of change as we grow out and improve our #Fediverse! Stay abreast of the latest breaking news! Bring forward your requests and ideas - the Fediverse belongs to you...

Remember, the Universe does not exist, independent of the thought of the participant 🙂👍

#tallship #FOSS #DeSoc @smallcircles @trwnh

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RT: https://social.coop/users/smallcircles/statuses/110178027330676844


Hurray! The #Fediverse is evolving and the #FEP's keep coming 🎉

@trwnh has just PR'ed the following enhancement proposal that deals with an improvement of the FEP process itself:

#ActivityPub
FEP-9606: Using w3id.org/fep as a namespace for extension terms and for FEP documents

Check it out at: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-9606.md

And provide your feedback on #SocialHub at: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-9606-using-w3id-org-fep-as-a-namespace-for-extension-terms-and-for-fep-documents/3098


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Hi @Flipboard. Is there any way to turn-off #InfiniteScroll? I want to read the links in your footer but… infinite scroll… I can't find a setting to turn it off.

Or, maybe, moved your footer to the sidebar or something, so the infinite scroll is not pushing it away? #suggestion

There is ‘Content options’ in the settings but it's stuck, maybe the setting for the infinite scroll is there? (see attached screenshot)

Thank you for the assistance.
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Ahh, I found another way to do it, visit any profile (or your own) where there is not infinite scroll, and the footer links are acceessible.

So, I guess there's that workaround.

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“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.” (‘The Cashing-In: The Student “Rebellion”’ by #AynRand, 1965 https://a.co/0VCaAfk)


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@bravegpt @adam

Here's a little ditty that might interest a few folks out here in the Wild, Wild, #Fediverse...

It's a Brave Search add on for your browser of choice - i.e., #Vivaldi, #Chromium, #Firefox, #Edge, #Brave, #Opera, and more (oddly enough, I didn't see #Kiwi on the list).

It's called #BraveGPT and after installing it whenever you choose to use #Brave_Search it includes a sidebar with your search results from #ChatGPT along with the regular #SERPs you expect.

https://github.com/kudoai/bravegpt

It's pretty new, and there's also links to other projects like a similar facility for #DuckDuckGo too.

But there's another question that this raises for myself - what happened to userscripts and greasemonkey?

Lemme know what you think, k?

#tallship #FOSS #search #search_engines



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Search engine Neeva has a built-in AI search (that you can turn on/off), and it cites its sources with footnotes, so you can navigate to one part of the search result (plus it's not making sh^t up, like ChatGPT.)
No ads. Does not sell your info. What's the catch? Subscription-based. Created by ex-Google execs. https://neeva.com/about

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Hi @dajb

Just a heads-up. This was posted to #SocialHub: An announcement to federate #OpenBadges in the @communecter project. I made mention of your expertise on the subject.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/communecter-implements-activity-pub-for-posts-events-people-and-groups-looking-for-projects/3065