Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@dyn One idea with my hashtag proposal was that it would allow people to write their own bots that would add tags to posts themselves, and people who trusted the intelligence of those bots could follow their hashtags. Again this is just a proposal, no one has implemented my idea of allowing users to post private hashtags on other posts that others could follow.

@dyn Differences in design also make it harder to get amplified on here (which is a good thing). You don't have algorithms to game to get yourself in front of more eyeballs. Less of a focus on gaming engagement to spread a message. This leads to folks complaining at first about discoverability, but it's in service of the longer-term health of discourse. It means things happen more organically.

@dyn In many ways the fediverse is better suited than a centralized instance. Load gets distributed. Reported posts go to the local and remote instance mod. Mods on either side can block individuals or entire servers. Different instances have different mod preferences, folks flock to instances that match their mod prefs.

This happened a few years ago with Gab and the general response throughout a lot of the rest of the fediverse was to block the instance server-wide.

@accidentalciso Welcome!

@waldoj I had the same experience today! While I have been on here for years, now I find myself checking here before Twitter.

Musk's logic is that you only need half the employees if they work twice as long. By making remaining staff come into the office he can enforce his preferred 80-hr work weeks. I feel bad both for those who were laid off and those who remain.

@racheltobac Welcome!

We added a new option in #PureBoot called Restricted Boot that only boots self-signed kernels and distro-signed ISOs. I talk about how we approached this feature at length in this blog post: https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-pureboot-restricted-boot/ #firmware #security #coreboot #heads

@jhamner There is a great technology museum in Paris that has a whole room devoted to the technology of weaving. It also has an original silk portrait of Jacquard he made on his invention and used for demos.

@jhamner Easiest way is to perform a search for a hashtag and then "Pin" it so it shows up as a column.

@jhamner Thank you! I haven't yet had the pleasure of working with any sort of Dobby or Jacquard loom yet, just my standard 4-harness Jack floor loom and my rigid heddle. One day when I have more space I'd love to have either a full-featured Glimakra draw loom or a Dobby so I can do more complex patterns.

Time for an #introduction. I've been involved in #FOSS and #Linux since the late `90s. My career started as a sysadmin, pivoting to security. I'm the President of @purism and work on hardware and software to protect #privacy, #security and freedom.

I've written a number of books (https://kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.

I have many hobbies including #weaving, refurbishing mechanical #calculators, #3dprinting, #brewing, and many other things.

Is it weird that I don't know how to knit, but I want a #knitting machine (like a Brother KX-350, but a KH-930e would be cool too)?

@shawnp0wers And in the case of librem.one we even take it a step further and disable timelines so you only see content you explicitly opt into, and DMs because they aren't private. It's a pretty controversial stance in this community and you definitely trade off some positive benefits to avoid the negative. I guess in our case folks who don't care for our approach have plenty of alternative instances they can join.