Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

We (the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, plus me and my wife, both visiting scholars there) are putting on this salon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA this coming Monday at 11am Pacific: https://events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop/event/644997-ostrom-workshop-beyond-the-web-salon-series-roger It's free, and online as well as in person. Registration is required for t he online side (it'll be zoomed). Sign up at that link. The speaker is Roger McNamee, former advisor to Mark Zuckerberg, and then the author of the bestseller, Zucked.

So this is when one starts Rabbits of Mastodon.

#rabbitsofmastodon

I’m John. I’ve fallen down the open source supply chain security rabbit hole. My current focus is around leveraging threat model and architecture information to facilitate automated context aware decentralized gamification / continuous improvement of the security lifecycle / posture of open source projects.

- https://gist.github.com/pdxjohnny/07b8c7b4a9e05579921aa3cc8aed4866
- https://github.com/intel/dffml/blob/alice/docs/tutorials/rolling_alice/0000_architecting_alice/README.md#rolling-alice-volume-0-introduction-and-context

https://mastodon.social/@pdxjohnny/109320563491316354

Many talks from this years #LinuxPlumbers conference are now up on #YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/c/LinuxPlumbersConference/videos

The new "bluechecks will fix everything" system over on the other site seems to have, maybe, a few bugs that a competent trust & safety team might have been useful in working through...

Currently seeking guest speakers for our local #GirlsWhoCode club here at Michigan! Speakers are typically #WomenInSTEM who discuss their career paths and take questions from high school students. Presentations are about 10-15 minutes plus time for questions. Club is virtual so anyone can be our guest speaker! DM me if interested! #WomenInScience #Science #ScienceMigration

Gratuitous self-promotion - a Q&A I wrote with Patrick Ohly, highlighting his work on Kubernetes (#IAmIntel)
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/Q-A-Patrick-Ohly-Talks-About-Chopping-Wood-and-Kubernetes-Logs/post/1426064

Apologies Salt-n-Pepa

(Hey yeah, I wanna toot, baby)
Ooh, how you doing, baby?
No, not you, you, the #federated one, yeah
What's your name?
Mastodon? That sounds sexy

Uh, here I go, here I go, here I go again
Geeks, what's my weakness? (FOSS!)
OK then, chillin, browsin, minding my business
Yo Musk, I looked around and I couldn't believe this
I swear, I stared, my tab my witness
The server had it going on with something kinda, uh
Federated, moderated,
I'm not shy, so I asked for the instance

Tech bro? No that don't make me
See what I want sign up to it swiftly
Felt it in my hips so I swiped back from the app of Twits
Then I tapped for the app, make me wanna do posts for it
Pin them like a intro post should be pinned
Came to my timeline then I found all my friends
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
Can post from a shell? Well, makes me wanna toot toot toot

Where my tech women at?

This stuff is never free anywhere but the scale of Big Tech insulates you from it somewhat.

I actually think it’s good to be reminded that our ability to communicate comes with a cost – in terms of resources, environmental impact, etc., not just money.

But, equally, it also makes the case that a system optimised to host hundreds of thousands of people on a single instance is not also somehow magically optimised to host just one person.

The latter is the problem I’m exploring with #SmallWeb.

What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?

You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀

It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).

#fediverse #mastodon