Step away, look at alternatives that respect you as a person (https://switching.software/ is a great place to start) and learn about the issues, https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ by @shoshanazuboff@twitter.activitypub.actor is a great place to start on the latter.
RT @behind_thecode
“How did I become a good developer? The only answer is you have to build things.”
We had a chat with @SaraSoueidan, an award-winning front-end developer, author and speaker from Lebanon. https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/interview-sara-soueidan
With the update of the site to use my new (work-in-progress) theme with #IndieWeb support, I have now completed both Level 1 checkpoints from IndieWebify.Me:
- Get your own domain name
- Set up Web Sign In
https://kevin.thecorams.net/2019/12/indieweb-level-1-reached/
Happy to see that @sir's https://useplaintext.email is now the top search result for "plaintext email"!
(At least on . It probably varies more on Google)
(and special shoutout to the graphic by Fosstodon's own @ohyran :) )
Did you know, you can narrow down the suggestions from the firefox address bar using the following characters :
^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
* to search for matches in your bookmarks.
+ to search for matches in pages you’ve tagged.
% to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
# to search for matches in page titles.
$ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
? to search for matches in suggestions.
I just pushed up tag v0.1.5 of my Basic Hugo Theme.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/2019/11/basic-hugo-theme-v0.1.5-released/
This is the first version that I'm semi-officially announcing. I think it has all of the building blocks that I intended to use in a very basic theme, and the theme documentation is more-or-less complete.
I suppose I should go ahead and call it version 1.0, but I'll wait to see if any more flaws in it shake out from using it as the theme for my Personal Siite.
I think I need to rename my recently launched website. @torproject already uses the tag line of "Take back the internet", so it doesn't seem right for me to use the same one.
I'm not trying to take back the whole internet, anyway. Just my little #IndieWeb #POSSE corner of it.
This is kind of amazing.
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RT @Gurdur
An aerial view of a sheepdog as it demonstrates fluid mechanics, and it also shows a sheep is a particle, while a flock is a wave.
Success! My new personal website -- https://kevin.thecorams.net -- has a verified rel="me" link to my Mastodon profile, allowing it to show up as verified in said profile.
@aral on freedom and the Internet, Facebook & Google, their business model & the silion valley surveillance capitalism model.
Listen to him, now with French, English & German subtitles
https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0
RT @Dailybits
Small tech demo from @aral with his personal portable webserver that's in the public and is serving a public chatroom. See his blog https://ar.al/2019/11/11/small-technology-foundation-personal-web-prototype-01-a-mobile-portable-personal-web-server/ #CreativeVille2019
NEWS: Eben Moglen Delivers “FreedomBox Turns Ten” Speech
To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of #FreedomBox's birth, Eben Moglen delivered a speech. He stressed this idea: regular people can change the web through collective social action.
Details: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/nov/19/freedombox-turns-ten/
Check out this blog post by @bob titled, "FreedomBox at Ten."
Bob Mottram: "If the last decade was the birth phase I hope that the 2020s will be the time when running your own internet services, individually or in small groups, becomes quite normal."
Read his full post here: https://blog.freedombone.net/freedombox-at-ten
NEWS: #FreedomBox has been added to the DistroWatch database!🎉🎉🎉
This means that our operating system has received official recognition by DistroWatch and is listed alongside the world's major Linux and BSD distributions.
Our page on DistroWatch:
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freedombox
It is proven! I am kcoram on Keybase: https://keybase.io/kcoram/sigchain#d3648ed7c3bf8611ec7a1997112745d14c448599d047bcd7d8a39454ec98737d0f
If you haven't seen it, my latest video is live on LBRY! https://beta.lbry.tv/what-s-holding-linux-back/5ef0176f63c9fdcd3f351bbb0348a7ce36c0674e
I was interviewed for Marketplace today about running your own social network site! You can catch me on NPR stations today or just listen/read here:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/
⚠️ WE SHIPPED IT! 🎉
You can now follow remote profiles on Pixelfed instances that have enabled the feature.
1. Search the full url (ie: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed)
2. Click the follow button on the results page
3. You will start seeing posts from that account on your home timeline