Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘Cow Vigilantes’ in #India Are Attacking #Muslims and Posting It on Instagram - https://www.wired.com/story/cow-vigilantes-india-instagram/ "Instagram has become a key avenue for #Hindu nationalist “cow vigilantes” to share their violent exploits with a wider audience, and even raise money." "cow vigilantes"... #2024

@Scott M. Stolz

Right now there is no way for an admin to change the server keys and not mess things up for existing channel names. Same applies for the user, except it would just mess up their channel.

My understanding is that the Zot/Nomad protocol can handle all the things discussed on this thread. But there was a deliberate clipping, or handicapping of the code to not allow re-use of channels... this was to be in line with, or compatible with, the rest of the fediverse.

The Zot/Nomad network does not need a specific server ID, as it is server independent. It does not care what server your using, it just needs your guid/private key hash.

On the other hand AP (activity pub) protocol 'does' need a specific server ID. This difference is why Zot/Nomad can introduce a security hole in these other networks... as it would become fairly easy to spoof channels on the other networks.

Having to handicap your code to suit other networks is unfortunate... the Zot/Nomad protocol seems to be ahead of the game, and just waiting for the rest to catch up.

You know, TINA ("there is no alternative") is just as much a lie when applied to party politics as it is with regards to economic systems. Just sayin'.

So cool - using my Forgejo instance's inbuilt Docker container registry capability rather than relying on hub.docker.com to store my containers for deployment. Feels good to ditch those training wheels. Forgejo is cool.

@puck @billbennett @lightweight this is it. Cloud is supposed to be commodity. But of course clouds want to "add value" and differentiate - so they build services developers want on top. And so developers then target those services, and their solutions aren't portable any more, so then clouds stop being interchangeable commodities.

Every executive (including one at a >$2B company) I've spoken to so far has told me that I should describe Hermit Tech as an "AI Accelerator" on my company website even if all I want to sell is competent software engineering, which I refuse to do, so I guess I'll just go fuck myself.

#^https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2024
Quote:

"Telling the time by sundial and history not only was custom, but also was understood as following God’s time. The idea of overriding traditional timekeeping because of the needs of the modern world seemed positively sacrilegious. “People…must eat, sleep and work…by railroad time,” wrote a contributor to the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel. “People will have to marry by railroad time…. Ministers will be required to preach by railroad time…. Banks will open and close by railroad time; notes will be paid or protested by railroad time.”

The mayor of Bangor, Maine, vetoed an ordinance in favor of standard time, saying it was unconstitutional, that it changed the immutable law of God, that the people didn’t want it, and that it was hard on the working men because it changed day into night. Those planning for a switch to standard time tried to ease fears by providing that Americans would operate on both local time and standard time, with both times represented on clocks."

I've just realized that all arbitrarily large communities now contain some percentage of people that really dislike me, and I can't decide if this is great or terrible.

I'm not advocating for defenestration, but it gets results where proceduralism can't.

@dynamic @lightweight

Correct. Since an API interface is used, a user account on the remote service is required. Friendica connects the Fediverse account with the remote service. You can use all functions permitted by the API interface, such as following other users, liking, commenting, or creating your own posts and allowing others to comment on them. The platform supports text, image, and video files. There are no restrictions on the range of participants you can follow.

An exception is Twitter accounts. Due to poor API conditions for retrieving posts, the Friendica project has decided to no longer support bidirectional interfaces. However, sending posts is still possible.

Advantages:

You only need one dashboard for all messages from all networks.
The instance acts as a kind of firewall between you and the remote network.
There is no third-party service between you and the remote instance.
You don’t need a special mobile app to use Bluesky with your Fediverse app.

If you are familiar with PHP, SQL, and APIs, you can integrate additional external services via your own add-on at any time. These add-ons can also support custom processes. This is potentially important for organizations as it allows them to optimize their workflows.

I don't want to spoil it before it ships, apparently tomorrow, but I just moments ago had an interaction with a core Debian project in which I went from asking in an IRC channel where I should file a feature request to being told "normally the bug tracker, but let me just implement that" to "it should merge and be in unstable tomorrow" in 18 minutes.

i hear no lies!

"We should probably be a bit more worried than we are.”

That's a climate scientist in a story this week about global warming causing a “massive surge in wetlands methane”.

Just "a bit more worried"!? The cautious impartiality that's drummed into scientists is not what the world needs now. Perhaps the journalist didn’t quote the expletives?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/534034/tropical-wetlands-are-releasing-a-methane-bomb-threatening-climate-plans

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #methane

Nothing hits like a barbecue, especially when it’s about good salmon and even better company. That’s why I came thousands of miles to Coast Salish Territories, aka Seattle, to get a taste of some freshly caught Coho from the Quilcene River, grilled to perfection. This isn’t your average cookout. This is the Salish Sea Assembly, an unapologetic, hard-hitting gathering of land defenders, artists, and radicals from across Turtle Island, hosted by Savage Fam’s Ant-Loc and fearless land defender Kanahus Manuel.

Check out this video report by Amplifier Films’ @franklinlopez to see what went down.

https://kolektiva.media/w/htX7sfBA4T6SCWiqunjCKK

Why am I here and not on #Bluesky or #Threads? Because here I am on my own instance, hosted in the EU, and not on a centralised service from the US (which both Bluesky and Threads are) where soon a Trump government is installed that can easily force both Bluesky and Threads to hand over full access to all my data. That's my personal risk calculation. Yours might be very different. And that's perfectly fine!

I've had a few programmers from third-world countries reach out, and a persistent problem is "buying even a used laptop is $500, which is extremely expensive in my local currency".

Anyone have any giga-brain ideas on the cheapest possible development environment that doesn't freeze up? We'll not stress about the availability of parts in different parts of the world for now.

Ah yeah, I was trying to get @subMedia to bid on #AlexJones' properties. I guess the Onion is more flush. Whatever... these are some good fuckin news!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/parody-website-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-out-bankruptcy-court-documents-2024-11-14/

@lightweight I think it's a variation on the embrace extend strategy - back in the day, MS software would read your format but not export it, and Threads syndicating your posts but not letting people reply seems like the same kind of one-way gate to bleed people off.

Crazy, too, that it's not used much more widely when you realise that with NextCloud + OnlyOffice you
- host your own data, so *no* data sovereignty issues, and
- you can control the interface, language, etc. (it's all #libre software!) so this platform undermines digital colonisation as is aggressively perpetrated by 'bigtech'. You know: the folks pushing the software *all* our kiwi kids have to use *every day at every public school in NZ* - see https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards. The MoEd is complicit.