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1) A sailboat in distress was rescued at sea by 18th century wooden merchant ship replica
“Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue”
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Yet the reality that you and I know, is that these are the death throes of their quest to revert what has already passed.
#tallship #thoughts #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #remote_work #telecommute
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Yet the reality that you and I know, is that these are the death throes of their quest to revert what has already passed.
#tallship #thoughts #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #remote_work #telecommute
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Wow!
Somebody just threw a like on this old post of mine from a few years back.
Many of the links in the thread aren't alive anymore, or have moved elsewhere, but I'm going to boost it via direct link here because it appears to still have an attached zip file of probably one of the nicest Gopher clients for Windows I've ever used - Gopher Browser for Windows v1.2, by Jaruzel which I don't think is available any longer.
It's very attractive, intuitive, compact in size, and accepts slang (forgives you for not using proper Gopher syntax), unlike #LaGrange, a more fully featured and beautiful Windows client for both #Gopher and #Gemini protocols.
https://gleasonator.com/objects/e3b98342-7075-4189-ba62-c165f5863d6d
You may need to scroll up or down a bit. Lemme know if the d/l doesn't work (it used to).
There's also a bunch of other info there in that thread as well, much of it relevant and some of historical #Fediverse significance, and a few SSH capable #BBS clients too 🤘😜🤘
For those of you who are #Emacs folks, I highly recommend the #Elpher Gemini and Gopher client, which you can get from #Melpa.
I hope that helps!
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Thank you for putting out that query - short answer is...
Yes. You definitely have a use case here, but first, being just a little familiar with your product I'd like to welcome you to the #Fediverse even though your arrival coincided with the November Rain phenomenon that was much todo about nothing, and in the end, most Twitugees simply returned there after creating accounts here - I'm glad you stuck around! You're product is FOSS, and this is a #FOSS world here in the Fediverse, so it makes sense, this being your natural home and where people can expect to find you :)
Ever since I decided to ditch the proprietary Evernote, I've been using a #Vim Plugin that uploads my buffer to a Gist in an easy peasy way - it would be really kewl if I had a way to send (encrypted or unencrypted) notes to myself as a Fediverse DM, or share some of them with a select group of others in such a manner - Maybe (if it's textual in nature) actual clips I've saved. The graphics, well, if they are uploaded as a graphic that will work too, and they can even be sent to #Pixelfed accounts (if there is a graphics or movie file).
So, you're concerned about having to setup a centralized server or something that your userbase can be recognized on or something? Perhaps like a relay of sorts? I don't think that's the way to go actually. It sounds like a lot of heartache that might not even surivive beyond the intial proof of concept is rolled out - Spam being just one reason that makes the likelihood of failure a distinct possibility.
Here's what I think you can try doing, and it will alleviate any grandiose plans you may have been kicking around - Keep it in the client. A feature mechanism that either lets you clip and post it as an #ActivityPub NOTE to a user's actual instance (server) where they already have an account - You can collect the user's Fediverse account credentials and use that to post to their own existing account - no additional infrastructure is required on your part.
Those posts can be a single post to oneself (a private Fediverse DM to themselves) or it can include a list of recipients - just like any other post you can make.
This will also afford you the absolute maximum in #Spam_control too! You don't have to accept any registrations obo your Fediverse features - you're merely allowing people with existing Fediverse accounts to enter their credentials into your client and then your users make the decision as to whether they want to use your existing store or their Fediverse account to publish the clips to their stores there.
Since you've been around here for a while now, I'm sure you've realized how severely limited mastodon is when it comes to ways you can exploit the existing capabilities in the Fediverse - I've already mentioned Pixelfed, but there's a lot of other platforms that support HTTP signatures necessary for backfills and e2ee constructs; the support for BBCode and/or Markdown; post containing text with character counts greater than the paltry 500 characters that masto can muster, #LaTEX (actually, only Misskey and Firefish support that at this time AFAIK); local only posts (shared only with those who have accounts on the same instance), and a host of other unsupported features in masopub.
I appreciate that you made the effort to address this as an ActivityPub and Fediverse capability, and not simply, "yet another mastodon branded feature". Especially when mastodon won't be able to take advantage of many of the advanced features you already offer that other more capable Fediverse platforms can make use of :)
Platforms like #Friendica, #Firefish, #Mitra, #Hubzilla, #SocialHome, #Soapbox, #Peertube, Pleroma, #Epicyon, #Castopod, #WriteFreely, #Quanta, #Drupal and even #WordPress - those latter three have potentially, especially ambitious use cases with clips and notes being able to be actually published on platforms already built for long form or 'blobs' to be pushed to them. Hubzilla, #Streams, and Friendica have special features to accommodate your products notes too :)
If you focus on adding support for people to enter their Fediverse account credentials, or multiple accounts like #Takahe and #Fedilab and #Misskey support, Then those are the servers you need right there! The spam problem remains as it is with the particular instances, since they control the new account registrations.
There's also the rapid adoption of #smolweb and single-user focused Fediverse platforms too, such as:
- MicroBlogPub
- Tapir
- Bovine
- And of course, any platform, now matter how heavy or resource intensive can be deployed as a smolweb or single-user instance (even the klunky kludgey mastodon). And speaking of which, there are several popular forks that don't have these limitations that are very popular like #Hometown and #Glitch-soc, Etc.There may even be some use cases for #Lemmy and #Kbin too, as link/discussion boards too - perhaps posting from a users vault/store to those platforms? There's a lot of different possibilities but ActivityPub can open up a huge market for you while at the same time Fediverse is exposed to large numbers of people who will discover that they too may have a good use case to adopt for themselves a Fediverse account :)
tl;dr: Basically, yes! there's a huge use case for your thoughts there - and if you're reading this on a Mitra, #Pleroma, Soapbox, #Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Misskey server, you'll see some very pretty formatting in Markdown - if you're reading this on a regular mastodon server (not one of the really good and popular forks), then... not so much - but at least mastodon does degrade Markdown and HTML somewhat gracefully :)
Well I hope that helps and do feel free to reach out to me via my contact methods listed in my profile or in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and I'm sure that we can get a few of some of the more prominent Fediverse platform devs to round-table with you for some wire framing sessions.
I'm confident that you'll find a lot of support in your endeavor to achieve this initiative.
Well I hope that helps. Enjoy!
#tallship #Notesnook #Federation
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@mastodonmigration @tchambers @mho
Collating reams of journalist accounts is a good thing.
The problem I have with most of the folks on that list is that it's almost misleading, in some respects. The old Twitter mentality is persistent with the perceptions of these journalists (that's our fault), and as a result, we get a tease and a link, and depending on the particular Fediverse platform or client we're using, we may or may not get a link preview.
The volume of journalist published information is minimal, much akin to what things like Lemmy and Kbin, HackerNews, or Reddit might afford us - and it's unnecessary. A list of external, 3rd party news resources is great, but I am here. Right here - In the Fediverse, with my Fediverse client (That's my reader), and a shitload of journalists who themselves have already migrated over. I have RSS, ActivityPub Follow and alert capabilities, and can appreciate journalists actually publishing their articles here, in the Fediverse, much more than elsewhere that I have to travel to, so to speak... and maybe hit a God damned paywall.
I think part of the problem here is that many of the journalists flowing into the Fediverse are indoctrinated with the old mastodon/twitter decrepit shortcomings that left them with little capability other than to publish elsewhere and link to it from here. I don't want to have to go somewhere else to read the things that interest me - and there's no need. All the tools are here. In the Fediverse. Now.
Most Fediverse platforms don't constrain the users and publishers like the old mastopub way of doing things. i.e., lack of #Markdown or other #Rich_Text capabilities and the inclusion of inline graphics or other multimedia file types in articles, or that persistent, cringy, paltry, 500 character limit that the draconian mastodon interfaces are constrained with, along with their inability to Quote-post. This is why the so-called #mastoforks have been so successful, overcoming many, if not most of those barriers, although they're still almost indistinguishable from the typical #mastopub interface.
We're building critical mass amongst journalists, and this is remarkable, yet we need to encourage greater awareness initiatives on just what the Fediverse platforms have to offer nowadays (and it's only getting better).
Those journalists that I've had the pleasure of admiring here have for the most part, leveraged things like one of the Misskey family of platforms with multiple link previews per post, and quite the rich formatting of their text to make their articles pop with life and entice the reader to visit.
Another issue? Many of these journalists and commentators publish their articles and provide links, but they resolve to paywall sites. I think we need to rethink our ability to, at the instance level for each and every individual user, block shit that links to paywalls. We already have several good browser plugins that do so.
The sooner we sufficiently inform the lions share of these journalists to the opportunities they have on Fediverse platforms that are more contemporary and capable than mastodon, the sooner they can get down to the business of focusing on the monetization of their repertoire here in the Fediverse (and keep ALL the money earned); in turn, we (the rest of us) get quality, original, unique content here, compelling even more folks from the world of the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolithic silos to come and co-exist here with us as fellow Fedizens.
Already, several Fediverse platforms enable the full immersion into the ecosystem here with facilities for monetization - either native to the platform or as a plugin. For example, one of the quickest ways for a journalist to take advantage of a "Substack", "Medium" or other popular monetized platform in the Fediverse is to merely create an account on one that provides these utilities - Like WordPress or Mitra or WriteFreely - create an account, plugin your donation/subscription payment info, and start publishing interesting, informative, original content :)
***One thing we as consumers of the news can do right now, is take the time to individually contact each person we can on this list of journalists and let them know these things. Point them to this article with a link, or to the actual resources that they can experiment with and deploy their unbridled and untapped resources to reach out and in turn themselves be reached.
I'll leave links below, to a couple of the Fediverse platforms I've referenced above. If you're viewing this post on a platform that is one of the Misskey family of forks, then you'll see the graphic below as well as all of those link previews for all of those resources.
Enjoy, and I hope that helps!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list
#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #news_aggregation #journalism #journalists #publishing
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Indeed it is.
Consideration is most relative with respect to conceptually, the #Fediverse - certainly, NOT masto.
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@sim @dielan @lain Here's an article I posted not to long ago showcasing the damages caused by this "big Silo" marketing campaign and branding by the #MastoPub folks...
Enjoy!
https://gleasonator.com/objects/11125a73-46eb-4fbd-9a58-b15f21b7f8a4
#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #mastobrand
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TIL...
There's a really odd sort of internal embarrassment that comes over you when you see a little breadcrumb, say, "That's not right, but it's a global publication"; you reach for the google and swing by the University of Michigan.
For a moment, denial. Then, a bit shaken, you realize, ... "I've been doing all wrong my entire life!"
> "An ellipsis ( ... ) consists of three evenly spaced periods and is used to indicate the omission of words or suggest an incomplete thought. In general, an ellipsis should be treated as a three-letter word, with a space, three periods and a space. (Western Michigan University is ... nationally recognized and internationally engaged.)
> Never delete words that are central to the original meaning. Do not use ellipses at the beginning or end of direct quotes when writing a news story.
> Other guidelines and examples
> When the words before an ellipsis make up a complete sentence, place a period before the ellipsis. (Western Michigan University is a student-centered research university. ... )
> When the phrase preceding an ellipsis calls for a question mark, exclamation point, comma or colon, the correct order is: phrase, punctuation mark, space, ellipsis, space, next phrase. (What is a healthy university? ... The ability to think beyond our individual and limited view.)"
So... Strike that. So, ... There's always a space before the ellipsis, yet no grammar checker has ever gigged me for that, reinforcing the belief I had been doing it right for all these decades :/
You learn something new everyday - for me, this one was a doozy.
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Hi Jerry,
I'm glad you asked. Short answer is, instead of losing a relevant percentage of your viewership strictly because they refuse to watch BOTH the ads you yourself include as segments in your videos to promote your paying sponsors, AND the ads that ABC (Google/YouTube) injects midstream through "server-side ad insertion", you can, as the video producer:
- Include copyright/licensing card at the beginning of your videos that use Creative Commons licenses of the *No Derivatives type, superceding anything that Google tries to impose.
- Truncate your videos with prominent links and explanations following a teaser sequence as to how to actually support you as the producer, whether you're monetized or not, by providing them with the links and directing interested viewers to the #FOSS platforms where they can watch the rest of this video uninterrupted along with all your other videos... for free, and without tracking or invasive privacy mining ⛏️ techniques being imposed upon them and included with their video viewing experience.
- You have to be the creator that demands a moral and ethical delivery network that doesn't have your viewers like sheep to a slaughter - which is what you're doing when you are the enabler of evil like Google.Notwithstanding the fact that most content on open platforms like YouTube is garbage, if you think this is an unworkable business model, then all that means is that you're a lame-o and your videos suck dick because it's the model that works wonderfully for the lions share of producers who actually publish quality material and enjoy huge followings
I hope that helps! Enjoy 🙂
#tallship #Fediverse #PeerTube #business_models #business_products #monetization #content_creation #Video _Production #VoD
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@shaman
What a douchebag...Fired? That's it? He could have at least been arrested for "some kind" of public health related misdemeanor. Geez!
#tallship #miscreants #criminal
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
As the saying goes, "Real BOFH use tar and rsync!"
The blog article is an excellent treatment of using tar along with SSH to effect a reliable backup plan and schedule.
Another couple of great fav GoTo solutions of mine have always been Duplicity and Duply for those not comfortable rolling their own scripts w/SSH, tar, and/or rsync :batman:
Thank you very much for sharing this @nixCraft !!!
#tallship #DR #backup #tar #rsync #SSH #Systems_Administration You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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@smallcircles @neil Are we really discussing this now? And Is it the FOSS project you know that I'm thinking of? 🙂
I've been mired in the issue tracker lately, but I've only got so much time to spend.
Here's my take. MIT and BSD licenses are nice but subject to capture, and designed to work in a world that was generally without patent trolls in a sharing, institutional education environment.
Scientists share - corporations rip you off, injecting proprietary closed sourced code into MIT licensed code they don't have to show you (a mere copyright notice stating that the product contains at least some freely licensed code will suffice in satisfying the licensing terms)... And if there's a novel "process" involved (i e., federating capabilities) they patent YOU and YOUR COLLEAGUES work for themselves.
A few years back, I was stunned to find out that #Microsoft was receiving about $7 from every single #Android device shipped for #patents they hold related to Linux.
But again, I digress...
Okay...
Basically, and for my part, I say "Copyleft", in the most general terms, and if it's software that is well suited as a self or commercially hosted SaaS offering environment, then #AGPL - but then, that begs your question: AGPL v3 or later, or AGPL v3 only?
Yes, if you say, "or later", then you run the risk of unfavorable licensing at some point in the future, but that's not a certainty.
But it is a constant, distinct possibility. Always has been.
Being a pain in the ass to go from "3 only", or to "or later", or to some other constraint is an inconvenience - that's all. Time, labor, money. That's pretty much it when it comes to re-licensing. That cost goes down if #CONTRIBUTING.md specifies that contributors agree to the project re-licensing their contributions under some other #Copyleft license at some point in the future.
To answer the rest of your question, I'mma just gonna get all #Socratic on you...
1. ) Do you trust #RMS and the #FSF? - that used to be the question to ponder, because you were actually assigning control to them.
2. ) What would #Linus do?
Actually, what did Linus do?
He chose #GPL v2 a long time ago when he re-licensed the #Linux kernel.
He also chose GPL v2 "only" - and you can search on #PeerTube for videos that have him explaining why, and further, why he is happy that he didn't choose, "or later", and how he feels that, in retrospect, that would have been a very bad thing.
So here's my 2¢, and I've already expressed this in my typical "IMNSHO" fashion a couple of times before in the project's Matrix room (if we're talking about the same project), but I'll give it again here one more time.
A.) Do it now, rather than later, or do it yesterday if that's possible yet (you may need to consult H.G. Wells or Einstein in that regard).
B.) Use a Copyleft license - specifically, I'm advocating for AGPL - but as long as it's Copyleft, preferably AGPL v3, my immediate concerns are alleviated. Whether that's "only", or "or later", that's of very little import AFAIC.
C.) Ensure that CONTRIBUTING.md states that the project is at liberty to contribute patches to the deprecated, antecedent project in the form of patches gifted to them under the terms of the MIT license - after all, we want to be good neighbors and software stewards in the #FOSS space
I've already discussed the simplicity of doing so in chat and consensus was roundly in favor with this approach, and also in doing it now.
D.) Hard fork now.
Finally, there had been much concern expressed from several of the other project members that we're going to suffer recruiting issues by not being able to insure to potential new contributors that their efforts won't be subject to #corporate or #special_interest or #trademark lobby #capture, where they could likely see their blood, sweat, and tears released as #closed_source #proprietary products, until such time as we do re-license under a Copyleft license.
I hope that helps! 🙂
#tallship
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A bit more for any #TallShip fans out there. It was the #CisneBranco, which means White Swan in Portuguese. It was a handsome vessel. We did not get to see it under sail.
(Don't know how to add a "loop" iphone image here on Mastodon, but the wind was pretty intense that day.)
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@duck
Yes my friend, I'll be happy to give my 2¢ 🙂
There's another one in the FOSS world too, IIRC, and on the deprecated, legacy silo side a lot of discordant discordians, of their own accord, and suffering from discordance (oh, i can be a punster sometimes), have migrated in large waves, en masse, as their **communities** (I refuse to call them servers) moved from discord to "Guilded"
#Guilded is a much more lax, permissive, and welcoming platform and they've made it very attractive fur s lot of so-called 'influencers' and big gaming, streaming, and cosplay communities to jump ship, so to speak.
Other than that, it's the same exact model, with a prettier face, and we all know that's fleeting. There will come a time when, like any other proprietary platform that gets too big for its breeches, Guilded will forget that it's the users that are important, instead of merely a bother.
Anyway, I haven't looked at #FOSScord at all in sbout six months. The project lead of Revolt was actually over there, reluctantly digging their devs out of some problematic issues they were having here and there.
They had a really ambitious roadmap (including some form of federating between instances), an unrealistic timeline to achieving that, and still aren't ready for primetime - I'm rooting for them however 💫
Here's my **Community** over at Revolt, complete with invite code, even though it's open to the public:
#^https://app.revolt.chat/invite/TAfhhpRK
I'm not there much. But enjoy. I've got some mods that take care of bad actors, but without someone there promoting them, why fun m during goes quiet after a while. I'm probably going to get more active there once I get a couple off other priorities out of the way over there next couple of months.
Anyway, it offers some pretty decent looking examples of what you can do, and it's pretty much on par with discord.
There's a lengthy blog buried, but you can find it, where the creator exiplains why he has no plans to incorporate federation, and it's easily self-hosted. I like it a lot, butt there discord look and feel never really impressed me that much in discord, so if you like discord, this should be a shoe in fur you're open source project because it's got all the bells and whistles and even bots, dinner if which can bridge to other networks too, skyhigh I've let my bots fall into a state of disrepair to some degree lolz.
Give it a whirl! It really is nice 👍
#tallship #Revolt #RevoltChat Oh, and it's 100% #FOSS -
Don't trust those "little buddy heaters" and their cousins of having CO2 sensors and low #Oxygen cutoffs that their marketing indicates you can bank your life on.
You can fucking die.
I used a few of these for several years, when I lived completely off-grid, in the mountain wilderness far from the nearest humans.
They're really convenient and quick to heat a small area, or anything close to them, in just a few minutes, and you can pick them up at any Target, Walmart, Big 5, Tractor Supply, Etc., for $40 - $50.
Basically, you warm your environment, sitting on your cot and warming up your feet and toes before turning it off and burrowing into your subarctic bedding. You can leave the pilot going all night so all you need to do is twist and click it on on the morning, but seriously, why bother?
Sharp (and more importantly, observant) girl in the video - although there's no way to be sure, she just may have saved the lives of everyone in that fricken' tent.
https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/kaSwF2jru3A?si=u8a0HRKlqPxb_A8T&local=true
#tallship #asphyxiation #camping_safety #CO #Carbon_dioxide
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know what I'm sayin' homeslice?
#telephreak12 #defcon27 #tallship #grayhat #piraten #phreak #cheezburgerz!
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#Dropbox????
Why not #NextCloud (there are plenty of free instances) or #Syncthing my friend?
#FOSSies should be #dogfooding.
You no can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔
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OH! Cringe!
But true, lolz.....
>"At the end of the day, distros DON’T matter that much and anything is better than Windows… even snaps =)"
That having been said, I'm a firm believer that "Friends don't let friends run ewb00ntew!" Yah, that's kinda a little disparaging tagline I came up with a decade or so ago. I think it's cute, but it does express my sentiments.
I was sooooooooo tired of answering the same question for about twenty years, searching for new ways to say it, and shifting from one fav distro of mine to another, and then back again. But I really failed to acknowledge the need for #n00bs to experience instant gratification to hold their interests long enough to just ditch the #Satan of Redmond (Windows) for that of freedom and privacy in the form of one of the most incredibly steep learning curves I was actually expecting those people to climb after having their questions answered.
#Slackware still tops the list to this day - it is so powerful and.... yes, simple - but that's what us sysadmin's say. Concepts like
sbin/liloandfdiskpartitioning or manually editingetc/fstabreal quick coz I know what I want as special mountpoints over NFS or whatev.... "OH the Horrror!", is prolly what any of those n00bs seeking to escape the apron strings of #Microsoft likely said, right before making a pinata in my effagy to bludgeon.#Debian, and I am a proud and self-described Debiantard, isn't (wasn't) really much better back in the day, even with auto provisioning of partitions and the #GUI based install it sported... "non-free-firmware... huh? Why am I looking at a blank terminal with a command prompt's blinking cursor, instead of pretty little windows with a mouse pointer?"
#Arch_Linux, #Gentoo, and others not historically worth mentioning at this time weren't any better, because they were better, and far superior to the semi-n00b-friendly distros at the time. #Redhat 5.0 - 7.22 weren't that bad actually, the newcomer could actually fumble their way past the installation (and even choose the Redneck language for foshizzles and giggles), but like you mention above, obsolescence loomed imminently with gobs of #RPM Hell, especially if you went out to somewhere like
RPMfind.netor another place where you could do anrpm -ivf <packagename>and then discover you broke your google... (prolly Alta Vista back in those days), but you could seriously want a really good application and find out that you have to put the lotion on its skin - or at least have a current copy of the AutoTrader to take your mind off the predicament that landed you in the bottom of a pit.Enter #LMDE... Lemme say that again: Enter LMDE!!!
Now I had something I could recommend to n00bs that split the difference between a rolling distro and a plug & pray installation! All that non-free firmware that was so confusing for so many back then (can't get your display to work, can't this or that and aaarrrrgggghhhhh).
LMDE tracked Debian Testing but installation was as easy as just installing Mint with all of the firmware you needed - people started thanking me twice (they always thanked me once, and then a week later swore to unleash painful, bloody vengeance upon me for burying them in documentation that they could in no way comprehend). The problem, previously, was one of the tenants of my religion - "You can do it right.... Or you can do it twice!"
The truth was, they couldn't even do it AT ALL the first time, and I'm telling them to use a simple distro like Slackware or Debian - nevermind the the 3 stages of Gentoo (They don't even offer those staged platforms anymore, it was too involved for even seasoned aficionados of source based distros).
There was SuSE, but it was as ephemeral as Redhat, and for a while in those early days, I was able to wholeheartedly recommend Mandrake Linux, which had a beautiful DE and easy install, but they went public just prior to that big "POP" of the dotcom bubble and were vaporized.
Yes, When Mint came along I was elated. I could recommend LMDE, and the user could install and easily manage their desktop - and it was a rolling distro too!
Then came the realization by Clément Lefèbvre that without considerable funding there was no way the team could even have a life of their own or watch their kids grow up if they continued to support what was almost effectively two separate, but equally in appearance, distros. I must applaud the Mint team because they did gracefully migrate the LMDE folks back into the mainline Mint over a period of a couple of years.
Then I stopped recommending Linux Mint - "Friends don't let friends run ewb00ntew!"; Remember? Then, a couple of versions back, I caved with the announcement that Clément had decreed those evil "Snaps" would be disabled (If you tell me what you want what you really really want... as the Spice Girls said...). Yes, of course, you could manually enable it - just like Shuttleworth hiimself defended the Shopping Lens malware because the users could simply disable it - Huh? Disable shopping Lens? How in tarnation could a n00bie even know what to look for in the package manager to make that malware go away????
But I digress. If you really wanted to, you can enable Snaps in Linux Mint, but it's disabled by default - and for good reason, as you pointed out. Now, it's been a couple of years since I've looked, coz I no longer can be persuaded to answer that question anymore (um.... Okay, I'm back to recommending Slackware, Debian, or Arch again, but prefer to just set up a laptop for friends and say, "see? Just like Windows, huh?"). But here's what I would really like to see.
Now that non-free-firmware (since the pre-Bookworm vote in the community) is a very easy option in Debian proper, I would really like to see Linux Mint migrate back to a Slick Debian and just fricken' ditch Ubuntu altogether. My thoughts have always been that the firmware was the major issue that prevented them from getting 100% behind the upstream in the first place (I could very well be wrong about that).
Things I like about Ubuntu??? Um..... gimme a sec... Lemme think... Errr...
- Byobu
That's it. #Byobu. And IMNSHO, that's really just a pretty skin over #tmux anyway, but it's got some kewl status widgets you can embed at the bottom of the screen. Speaking of #screen, Byobu IS NOT screen - it's tmux underneath, but it does default to ^A instead of the tmux default of ^B, but that's easy enough to change. What I really like about it is that it's a bit more user friendly in that you can customize it for your users and have it AutoStart sessions as soon as they log in - but there I go again, imposing what I think is kewl on people who really just need things as close to point and click on next ==> next ==> next ==> next as we can get it for them.
You see it wasn't all that long ago that even Windows needed an occasion tuning from your local PC Field Tech, much like our pianos do. I see no reason why we can't at least instill the responsibility for having a third party on retainer for quarterly or bi-annual maintenance of our Linux laptops either - I mean, just look how assimilated everyone still running Windows has become since Windows is free to pillage your privacy in the wake of Win10 forced updates?
Well, I'll close now, but did want to mention that your profile's stated mission sounds really refreshing to me - and I might just doing a copypasta of the link to your profile the next time someone asks that age old question.... Which Linux distro should I start off with?.
All the best!
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The short answer is that, "It's not about the air purifier - it's about getting you to install something that tracks and quantifies you, and data mines your privacy."
In this case, you're not getting something for free - like Faceplant or InstaSPAM, you're actually paying money for the exclusive privilege of making yourself the product.
On another note, I feel your pain. I was almost incinerated in the #August_Complex fires in #Humboldt.
#tallship #FOSS #privacy #pwn3d
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For twenty plus years now, when someone sends me a contact to sign as a PDF, if I'm interested, i read it, and considering my signature will be the first if I agree, i consider it a proposal, which I modify accordingly, sign, and send back.
It's amazing that almost no one takes the time to read those contracts - they just countersign and send me back the copy with their signatures.
Sometimes, shit hits the fan! And when it does they start with the threatening or intimidating language, saying "you signed the contract", to which i respond, "Yes I did asshole - did you read it?"
#tallship #handshakes #contracts #liars and #cheats - # comeuppance #Brundlefly
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Comes up with a login prompt. I gather one needs an actual account to see the public content there?
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First discovered in 2002, paleontologist draw comparisons of #Dinocephalosaurus_orientalis with other aquatic species having no modern day analogs - why did the entire family of #Tanystropheidae or the genera exhibiting these morphological functionalities not continue?
Perhaps just as interesting is the convergent evolution (especially with respect to their necks) between that of Dinocephalosaurus and members of the Tanystropheus genus. A close resemblance on the surface, yet Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was strictly an aquatic species.
I've included an artists reconstructive rendition of Tanystropheus longobardicus for comparison between the two, but note that Dinocephalosaurus had four flipper-like feet of the same size, and unable to exist, or at least thrive in a terrestrial environment, where Tanystropheus exhibited larger feet in the rear - not unlike your hands being smaller than your feet.
And yes, as Yuki (@youronlyone) offers up as a contemplative inference, the whole "Dragon" and "Loch Ness Monster" corollaries are uncanny, raising questions as to why would pre-industrial societies actually have such fables, or in the case of the latter, claims of sightings, if not rooted in some previous observation by humans?
Dinocephalosaurus was extant from the late #Paleozoic (late Permian period) through the early #Mesozoic (early Triassic period) eras.
#tallship #Dinocephalosaurus #Triassic #Tanystropheus #Tanystropheus_longobardicus h/t to @youronlyone for bringing the latest news on this matter to me - I'm always fascinated with things related to #marine_biology - especially #Opisthobranchia
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RE: https://c.im/users/youronlyone/statuses/111985758251416307
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OMFG! I was still in high school then and his untimely death was such a shock!
I dunno who #Bruno_Gerussi is/was, but if he was prominent it is quite likely that there's some semblance of a collection in the #wayback_machine at https://archive.org :)
Well my friend, you know I'm a foodie so if you find more than the #Galloping Gourmet and other contemporaries do hit me back, okay?
#tallship #Food_Pr0n #the_seventies #celebrity_chefs
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Tallship sinks off Oysterhaven near Kinsale, 10 years ago today. Youth sail training vessel, all saved.
Diesel tank accidentally filled with water, engine stalled, too close to shore to sail out of danger.
📷📽️Sinking, salvage & demolition:
https://corkcoast.com/astrid/#tallShip #rnli #sar #corkCoast #astrid #ircg
#IrishMastodon #CorkMastodon #mastodaoine #Chorcaí #cork #kinsale #wildAtlanticWay #ireland #sailing #sailTraining
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"That's not true!", "That's a lie!", "That's not what that said before!", "This isn't right", That's definitely a retcon"....
Have you ever pulled up a Wikipedia page, only to stare in stark disbelief, that what you're seeing isn't actually the truth, or knowing that the page has been altered to reflect a completely different narrative than was was factually correct in an earlier incarnation of the page?
You may have just been victimized by a phenomenon known as #retcon, and one of the founders of #Wikipedia has been working on a set of solutions to rectify such #disinformation.
https://reclaimthenet.org/encyclosphere-search-page-extension/
I can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔
#tallship #FOSS #DeSoc #webtorrent #search #capture #encyclopedia #retcon
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I personally feel that this is the optimal delivery and update methodology for future software distribution.
I've written about this at length in several articles, and more and more service daemons and client software are taking advantage of this form of direct from the developers method of delivery - not just Android apps.
#FairEmail is one such app that even states in the docs that this is the preferred method, although they do support a total of four methods:
- Google PlayStore - crippleware due to google funding source restrictions. In all cases, this is by far the worst distribution point for software, if not with respect for the product that the developers want to deliver, but also with regards for the privacy of the users who are tracked, mined, and themselves repackaged as a quantifiable inventory item.
- F-Droid custom Dev's repo - 2nd best option, because this is built with the developer's keys when the developer decides to push the product, and contain all feature sets that the developer chooses to include.
- F-Droid repo - 3rd best option, since it is signed with F-Droid's keys and typically lags by some measure of time with respect to release dates, considering that F-Droid staff pushes these out on a best effort basis, according to the time they have available to do so.
- Direct from the developers Git repo - This is the best method. They push a release and the next time you open the app you're notified of an update.This is part of the magic of Slackware's philosophy too - Patrick and team don't church it up like most distro's do (Debian and AlmaLinux quite often, quite heavily wrt customizations, use Apache or Nginx HTTP servers as examples). Slackware tries to package up software as close to how the upstream intends it to be.In earlier articles I've published on the topic, I've focused at times on a solution to a theme proffered by #Moxie_Marlinspike, who denigrates the open source model somewhat, for being at a great disadvantage when compared to that of proprietary solutions that can update and evolve protocols, APIs, etc., on a whim, because they're centrally managed and controlled by a single dictatorial source. Microsoft is one such classic example. You simply have NO CHOICE as to when you must allow your software to be EOLed, evolve, or update itself.
Using this model, however, where a central repo, or a distributed, CDN type of repo mirroring is deployed at the origin by the development team itself, FOSS has no problem upgrading even things like protocols as they evolve. Of course, it is ultimately up to the operators of the software to allow updates and the prerogative of the developers to establish the level of nags that users of the software will experience until they permit the updates to occur, but that's beyond the scope of the basis of advocating for this type of delivery model.
Okay I think I'm bordering on hijacking this thread, so I'll make a comment about these types of shennigans by Google, and how one one hand it's certainly a huge frustration, if not an impediment to being found and adopted by users, but moreover, a predatory practice by one of the most egregious violators of personal choice in the free market of consumerism and commerce.
It may hurt being pulled like that, but IMO, I don't think there's anything preventing the good folks behind #Snikket from pushing out the kind of crippleware that google wants them to, while at the same time pushing banner splashes in the app that explain just how fricken' useless it is under the terms necessary to distribute it via that medium, and encouraging users to install it instead by following the instructions at the #git_repo for a fully featured, #e2ee secure messaging platform.
IOW, there's always a silver lining - wear this dejection as a badge of honor and as the evidence to support the fact that you're on the right track!
#tallship #FOSS #privacy #crippleware
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For twenty plus years now, when someone sends me a contact to sign as a PDF, if I'm interested, i read it, and considering my signature will be the first if I agree, i consider it a proposal, which I modify accordingly, sign, and send back.
It's amazing that almost no one takes the time to read those contracts - they just countersign and send me back the copy with their signatures.
Sometimes, shit hits the fan! And when it does they start with the threatening or intimidating language, saying "you signed the contract", to which i respond, "Yes I did asshole - did you read it?"
#tallship #handshakes #contracts #liars and #cheats - # comeuppance #Brundlefly
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For twenty plus years now, when someone sends me a contact to sign as a PDF, if I'm interested, i read it, and considering my signature will be the first if I agree, i consider it a proposal, which I modify accordingly, sign, and send back.
It's amazing that almost no one takes the time to read those contracts - they just countersign and send me back the copy with their signatures.
Sometimes, shit hits the fan! And when it does they start with the threatening or intimidating language, saying "you signed the contract", to which i respond, "Yes I did asshole - did you read it?"
#tallship #handshakes #contracts #liars and #cheats - # comeuppance #Brundlefly
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@SDF Hi @dantappan 🙂
And yes indeed! First thing is to sign up for s few account with the SDF.org PubNIX, a nonprofit for over 35 years now, and several resources behind immediately available to you, including free bootcamps for TOPS-10 and Plan 9.
This is why I love the Fediverse and putting 5 pubic service related matters - if I can deliver awareness to just one person I've done a good deed for the day. So yes, SDF.org and we have all kinds of perks and member related benefits!
#tallship #SDF #PubNIX #Community Resources
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