Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

It feels like the goal of the past 20+ years if distributed computing should have been to move the base abstraction away from “server”.

Do we need a "which lasts longer, Twitter or this head of lettuce" tracker at this point?

Love the idea that @Raspberry_Pi account is hosted on its own instance running on a Raspberry Pi.

#RaspberryPi #Inception

Amazing chart on the growth of Mastodon.

Graphic by @estebanmoro

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."

Did you know that the European Union had an official Mastodon instance where only official EU institutions could open an account?

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

No need to pay for a blue checkmark, accounts on this instance are, by definition, officials.

That’s Fediverse done right!

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#cities #cityplanning #urbanplanning

Perhaps it's time to start calling "Elon's Folly".

The thing about music made between 1950-2000 is that it offended parents.

Parents were outraged by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, AC/DC, Eminem.

I'm a parent now. Rather than being offended by new music, I'm offended it doesn't offend me.

I have been using #kdenlive for all my video editing since 2020. Every single one of my lectures went through kdenlive. It is of great value to me.

They are currently running a fundraiser. Of course I donated. You might consider donating, too!

If you do not know kdenlive: check it out, it works great!

https://kdenlive.org/en/fund/

Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die

https://ar.al/2022/08/30/dear-linux-privileged-ports-must-die/

#Linux #PrivilegedPortsMustDie

OK it is really late here, but today's reveal of the first JWST image of the galaxy cluster SMACS-0723 was amazing, and I am still digesting it. There is so much stuff going on, it is absolutely breathtaking!

Just to get an idea of what an improvement this is over Hubble, over at The Robot Report, they show this beautiful side-by-side view of the previous best image taken with Hubble, and tonight's result. It's wild.

#JWST #Astronomy #Astrophysics