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Maybe consider either something purpose built for the occasion like an obfuscation system / sanitizing system that removes privacy mining & tracking like invidious does, or simply choosing a #Fediverse platform that is actually designed from the ground up for just this sort of thing like #PeerTube, of which there are thousands of instances, and can actually clone YouTube content with a single click and sanitize it so that it's safe for people to view. It's kinda obvious dude.
On the #Android side of things, #FediLab does this automatically to protect its users via this very mechanism (leveraging Invidious). That way you can still utilize ABC's (Google's/YouTube's) bandwidth for CDN/content delivery for the user.
Fedilab can also utilize PeerTube directly, natively.
Just sayin', coz as shitty a solution like mastodon is, putting all that burden upon a single, deprecated monolithic silo instance like mastodon.social isn't really a solution at all, it's using a single Fediverse server's hosting subscriptions' bandwidth to serve your customers on that providers' dime - @[email protected] 's dime.
Even twenty years ago we called that sort of #scraping "stealing", and it's considered stealing to this day. 🤘💀🤘
Are you comfortable making Eugen's company, as corrupt as it is with no less than two founders of #Twitter on it's new BoD, responsible for paying the bandwidth charges for YOUR users?
I'm just saying, bruh! This shit ain't free, and you know that. Duh!
#tallship #FOSS #Invidious #ActivityPub #WebTorrent #Bandwidth_Stealing #Ethics discussion at #Fediverse_City_matrix_org
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h/t to my friend @mjj for bringing this to my attention.
In other news, Google was, for lack of a better term, convicted for being a monopoly, just a couple of days ago in a court case brought by the Attorney General of (I think) Iowa - I'm sure there will be others here reading this that know more about that and what's to be expected next in the fake world of justice, but so far so good 👍
Anyway, point being, One man can make a difference in the world, and everyone should consider contributing to #OSM.
#tallship #FOSS #Crowd_Sourcing #Open_Street_Map Thanks Morten!
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RE: https://norrebro.space/users/ovelarsen/statuses/112938719158882540
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h/t to my friend @mjj for bringing this to my attention.
In other news, Google was, for lack of a better term, convicted for being a monopoly, just a couple of days ago in a court case brought by the Attorney General of (I think) Iowa - I'm sure there will be others here reading this that know more about that and what's to be expected next in the fake world of justice, but so far so good 👍
Anyway, point being, One man can make a difference in the world, and everyone should consider contributing to #OSM.
#tallship #FOSS #Crowd_Sourcing #Open_Street_Map Thanks Morten!
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RE: https://norrebro.space/users/ovelarsen/statuses/112938719158882540
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h/t to my friend @mjj for bringing this to my attention.
In other news, Google was, for lack of a better term, convicted for being a monopoly, just a couple of days ago in a court case brought by the Attorney General of (I think) Iowa - I'm sure there will be others here reading this that know more about that and what's to be expected next in the fake world of justice, but so far so good 👍
Anyway, point being, One man can make a difference in the world, and everyone should consider contributing to #OSM.
#tallship #FOSS #Crowd_Sourcing #Open_Street_Map Thanks Morten!
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RE: https://norrebro.space/users/ovelarsen/statuses/112938719158882540
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Sunset on the waterfront in Lunenburg with the masts of Spirit of Bermuda, Picton Castle, and Blusenose II. #spiritofbermuda #bluenoseii #pictoncastle #landscapephotography #sunsetphotography #novascotia #lunenburg #boatphotography #tallshipphotography
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Today in 2013, #Tallship 'Astrid' sinks, #oysterHaven, nearr #kinsale. All souls saved
#coast #corkCoast #ireland #irish
#IrishMastodon #mastodaoine
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Oh my, lolz. With specificity, I recommend you checkout the archives in the Fediverse City Matrix community where so many Fediverse lead devs share, and then there's dozens of news articles and blog posts I've covered over the years with respect to #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, and #FOSS daemons in general.
But real quick, I can offer a couple of nuggets for you to take a look at and evaluate for yourself...
Android:
- Relatica is one of the finest clients for Friendica, not to take my recommendation lightly because I rarely recommend any client specifically designed for a single platform.
- Fedilab is IMO, perhaps the best, supporting your deprecated mastoSilo, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, and most other Fediverse platforms and their families of forks.If the devil is in the details, then translation leveraging via #LibreTranslate, lightning fast cross boosting/liking/bookmarking/scheduling, quote posting, dynamic character count limits per account/server, multiple input methods and just way too much to list.
A few years back when many apps were getting booted from the playstore, the trust of their userbases eroding for their crippleware practices when several of them, and most notably tusky, hard coded blocked lists of Fediverse servers that their users could not log onto. This violated truth in advertising laws and it's water under the bridge now but the stain remains, and #Fedilab was almost singularly the app that refused to violate the spirit of #FOSS or alienate users. Get it at F-Droid.
Web:
- Without a doubt the best experience is almost universally the native web UI. Some exceptions do exist, and have even spawned entire Fediverse server projects. This is unfortunately why I don't use the excellent platform #GoToSocial very often, although I like it, and I no longer use Takahē much nowadays either since they dropped their excellent web UI.
- Phanpy is a fav of many #Mitra users, although I can't use it because it breaks webfinger addresses through what @cheeaun calls "short usernames", often rendering identification extremely problematic on a regular basis. I prefer the good looking native web UI for Mitra anyway, mitra-web, because Mitra is a privacy conscious publishing platform that does indeed natively support #Monero based subscriptions for anyone in the Fediverse (think substack or medium but respecting privacy - even anonymity) - I believe Ethereum support has already been completely dropped. Maybe you can still login that way. There's been quite a few specialized projects spawned from Mitra, perhaps not in small part due to it's stubborn commitment to only open standards, like FEP-ef61, along with #Streams - the bleeding edge in Fediverse technology, actively developed by the same dev that created #Friendica, arguably the oldest extant Fediverse platform 🙂
- I would be remis in my list if I didn't include Pinafore, once considered the most cross-server compliant client, but like anything built with frameworks that are replaced wholesale, the dev felt it just wasn't worth it to go through and completely modernize the entire base (there's a blog post about why).... Well, there's a lot of pretty little third rate semi-crappy clients nowadays, and a few top notch ones too. I'm only giving honorable mention to a few that I recommend you familiarize yourself with for grounding :)I really like #SocialHome too, another full on Fediverse publishing platform, but the web UI is really the way to go.
On the publishing platforms in the Fediverse, the real beauty Stones when articles are boosted to other platforms that also support #Markdown, #LaTex, #MFM, etc. And of course they can also do whatever that shitty one trick pony 'mastopub' can, literally a cheap Twitter clone that strives to itself be the next deprecated monolithic silo (just check the list of Twitter cofounders on the board).
Desktop:
I'm only going to mention Sengi real quick here, there's a few, but here's a bit of advice from someone who's been administering #Linux servers since 1992 and #UNIX in general since the 80's - avoid snap and flatpaks and appimage unless you're rolling your own or there's just no choice for your skill level.
Depending upon your particular distro, look for usually a
.debor a.rpmpackage (you can thank me later, as you'll get the full featured experience as the dev intended that's the native package for your Linux distro).Okay I kinda like Whalebird too, it's what I use for GoToSocial and I like it for #Misskey flavors too, including #Iceshrimp and #CherryPick🍒 is a fav in that family too.
I've tested very little of anything in Windows however, and completely, categorically dismiss anything Apple 🍏 that's Post-Woz 😜
If you have alterations related to historical aspects of any of these platforms or apps that long predate the existence of masto, feel free to hit me up and I'll see if I can't point you towards some good resources.
I hope that helps! Live long and prosper 🖖
#tallship #nomadic_identity #Fediverse_clients #Takahe
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ASP, Intranet, and other mostly forgotten terms of trends harkening back to the ghost of Internet past. Yeah, how 'bout that?
But one of my favs, "BSOD", experienced an overnight resurgence in the lexicon over the breakfast table yesterday.
Even after most folks had long since forgotten this NT phenomenon's affectionate derision, it remained a commonly recognized "oopsie" not resulting from operator failure, yet regardless, one that evokes shuddering waves of guilt within the user.
Have you been Microsoft'd lately? Does your bum hurt? We've been telling you so for decades yet you just continue bending over and begging for it.
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #AYBABTU @eloy
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RE: https://hsnl.social/users/eloy/statuses/112818128697453981
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ASP, Intranet, and other mostly forgotten terms of trends harkening back to the ghost of Internet past. Yeah, how 'bout that?
But one of my favs, "BSOD", experienced an overnight resurgence in the lexicon over the breakfast table yesterday.
Even after most folks had long since forgotten this NT phenomenon's affectionate derision, it remained a commonly recognized "oopsie" not resulting from operator failure, yet regardless, one that evokes shuddering waves of guilt within the user.
Have you been Microsoft'd lately? Does your bum hurt? We've been telling you so for decades yet you just continue bending over and begging for it.
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #AYBABTU @eloy
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RE: https://hsnl.social/users/eloy/statuses/112818128697453981
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ASP, Intranet, and other mostly forgotten terms of trends harkening back to the ghost of Internet past. Yeah, how 'bout that?
But one of my favs, "BSOD", experienced an overnight resurgence in the lexicon over the breakfast table yesterday.
Even after most folks had long since forgotten this NT phenomenon's affectionate derision, it remained a commonly recognized "oopsie" not resulting from operator failure, yet regardless, one that evokes shuddering waves of guilt within the user.
Have you been Microsoft'd lately? Does your bum hurt? We've been telling you so for decades yet you just continue bending over and begging for it.
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #AYBABTU @eloy
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RE: https://hsnl.social/users/eloy/statuses/112818128697453981
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That's right buoys and gulls, notwithstanding the fact that the announcement is about an assassin engaging in an act of terrorism, it's really just an academic distinction - As Mysk points out, look at item "Q" in the graphic if you were under the delusion that you had an expectation of privacy.
It's says nothing about whether you're a bad person or not, but rather, that all of your data is subject to wholesale farming on your Apple 🍏 device.
#tallship #privacy_mining h/t to @mysk for propagating privacy awareness
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@ai6yr I believe #HackerNoon (and maybe the EFF) released a #chromium plug-in that removes SERPs to paywalls in Google, but last I checked it didn't work when using #StartPage or other resources which, sadly, rendered it virtually useless.
Nothing for #Firefox ESR though, and it didn't work well in #Vivaldi when I tried it. Maybe those who ride the MS Windows train have a different experience.
But imagine, instead of having to say "paywall" all of the time, to alert people, we just install tools that completely vaporize sites like the Las Vegas Review Journal and the New York Times, and interdict before their URLs can be displayed in SERPs across any browser or search site?
I guarantee you that no one would miss them. They become immediately irrelevant because they no longer exist to anyone - so their news... Isn't.
Information gathered from the AP Wire and other sources comes from elsewhere instead of those decrepit privacy mining operations, and it's still better up to the minute information than we had when most all of the people were still searching on #Yahoo and #AltaVista.
Sanitized search data and paywall blockers is a great step to initiate for ourselves to break the back of encroaching orwellian dystopia.
I'm interested in hearing about solutions from others that implement or partially achieve these goals to thwart industrial surveillance, and please feel free to boost + sharing is caring, tracking is stealing.
#tallship #paywall #ENG #publishing #data_mining
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Having @mikedev totally onboard with FEP-ef61 is a super big deal, not to mention that only fully open standards will be implemented, averting capture by special interest lobbies.
I see cracks forming across the ice of the barren mastolake ;) 🪵🪓
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Streams #ActivityPub (and beyond) #DeSoc #Nomadic_Identity #FEP
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Having @mikedev totally onboard with FEP-ef61 is a super big deal, not to mention that only fully open standards will be implemented, averting capture by special interest lobbies.
I see cracks forming across the ice of the barren mastolake ;) 🪵🪓
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Streams #ActivityPub (and beyond) #DeSoc #Nomadic_Identity #FEP
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Having @mikedev totally onboard with FEP-ef61 is a super big deal, not to mention that only fully open standards will be implemented, averting capture by special interest lobbies.
I see cracks forming across the ice of the barren mastolake ;) 🪵🪓
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Streams #ActivityPub (and beyond) #DeSoc #Nomadic_Identity #FEP
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Having @mikedev totally onboard with FEP-ef61 is a super big deal, not to mention that only fully open standards will be implemented, averting capture by special interest lobbies.
I see cracks forming across the ice of the barren mastolake ;) 🪵🪓
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Streams #ActivityPub (and beyond) #DeSoc #Nomadic_Identity #FEP
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Here's an interesting (production) initiative encompassing several aspects of publishing and #DeSoc, including technologies involving #Jekyll and ready to deploy #CMS systems, or existing continuous delivery methods with at least one popular web based #Git provider.
Social integration with multiple Fediverse powered protocols is a large part of this active project's focus - i.e., intercommunication in the clearnet web, #IPFS, and other ambitious delivery and target systems is rather unique in a world where projects generally choose one medium or network to accommodate the publishing requirements of authors and participants in social networking.
Of particular note is that nowhere on this web page will you see any mention of mastocrap - no cute little elephant logos or icons either! It's correctly using the non-exclusionary #Fediverse logo and verbiage, with aspirations not even exclusive to the #ActivityPub protocol.
Personally, I find this to be one of the most refreshing and far sighted approaches to publishing social media in live environments populated with real people from most of the more populated corners of the Internet.
It's not a single thing, or even some lofty 'all in one' or 'one size fits all' project - it's more like a pragmatic attitude for the delivery and interaction supporting communications across #heterogenous environments that is a moving target, shifting and being shaped by other successful singular disciplines.
I call things like this, ... Elegant.
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Here's an interesting (production) initiative encompassing several aspects of publishing and #DeSoc, including technologies involving #Jekyll and ready to deploy #CMS systems, or existing continuous delivery methods with at least one popular web based #Git provider.
Social integration with multiple Fediverse powered protocols is a large part of this active project's focus - i.e., intercommunication in the clearnet web, #IPFS, and other ambitious delivery and target systems is rather unique in a world where projects generally choose one medium or network to accommodate the publishing requirements of authors and participants in social networking.
Of particular note is that nowhere on this web page will you see any mention of mastocrap - no cute little elephant logos or icons either! It's correctly using the non-exclusionary #Fediverse logo and verbiage, with aspirations not even exclusive to the #ActivityPub protocol.
Personally, I find this to be one of the most refreshing and far sighted approaches to publishing social media in live environments populated with real people from most of the more populated corners of the Internet.
It's not a single thing, or even some lofty 'all in one' or 'one size fits all' project - it's more like a pragmatic attitude for the delivery and interaction supporting communications across #heterogenous environments that is a moving target, shifting and being shaped by other successful singular disciplines.
I call things like this, ... Elegant.
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Here's an interesting (production) initiative encompassing several aspects of publishing and #DeSoc, including technologies involving #Jekyll and ready to deploy #CMS systems, or existing continuous delivery methods with at least one popular web based #Git provider.
Social integration with multiple Fediverse powered protocols is a large part of this active project's focus - i.e., intercommunication in the clearnet web, #IPFS, and other ambitious delivery and target systems is rather unique in a world where projects generally choose one medium or network to accommodate the publishing requirements of authors and participants in social networking.
Of particular note is that nowhere on this web page will you see any mention of mastocrap - no cute little elephant logos or icons either! It's correctly using the non-exclusionary #Fediverse logo and verbiage, with aspirations not even exclusive to the #ActivityPub protocol.
Personally, I find this to be one of the most refreshing and far sighted approaches to publishing social media in live environments populated with real people from most of the more populated corners of the Internet.
It's not a single thing, or even some lofty 'all in one' or 'one size fits all' project - it's more like a pragmatic attitude for the delivery and interaction supporting communications across #heterogenous environments that is a moving target, shifting and being shaped by other successful singular disciplines.
I call things like this, ... Elegant.
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Have you ever received an HTTP 418 status code while browsing? If so, it may be because you were trying to put a square peg in a round hole, or vice versa.
Indeed, RFC 2324 Lays out the specification, and Oopsies! It turns out that an April Fools joke was canonized, albeit with some utility. Turns out, even if someone's not trying to pull your leg, by telling you "I'm a Teapot", it's likely you're gently being encouraged to look for a resource other than the way in which you're asking.
For example, you ask for a coffeemaker and receive the error, HTTP 418 (I'm a Teapot). It's certainly nicer that a 404 and yet indicates that there is content where the page you've just asked for exists.
This is in some ways a concern that many have dug their heels in over, clinging as intransigent as ever when it comes to #tmpfs discussions beginning twelve years ago on the #Debian Dev list.
Often, in practice, cron is used to clean out unneeded clutter in
/tmpor/var/tmp, as well as other methods. An issue I have is with the systemd defaults including/var/tmpin tmpfs on some implementations because temporary files here are intended to be persistent across reboots.By default, systemd cleans out files in
/var/tmpby default after 30 days, and this can be problematic, while the default is 10 days for/tmp./var/runand/var/lockare also Incorporated - But I digress.After well over a decade, about half of the major Linux distros have migrated to tmpfs: Arch, Fedora, and some versions of SuSE number among the most familiar. Others have not: Redhat, SLES, and other "Enterprise" focused distros, along with Debian, ... Until just recently, when much to my surprise during routine updates I noticed the switch to tmpfs has now occurred.
w00t 🤘🤠🤘
With respect to Slackware, does it use the traditional disk based method or the RAM based tmpfs? The answer to that of course, is "Yes, of course, it absolutely does!"
"Which one did you say?" I actually didn't, lolz. As is usually the case with Slackware (and Arch and Gentoo), it's really however you want it!
In Slackware, the implementation is much more elegant however. You simply mount /tmp on a ramdisk (again, leave /var/tmp alone - these files are intended to be persistent across reboots, and for possibly much, much longer than a mere 30 days).
Okay so back to Debian. If you're one of those fraidy cats that doesn't believe, or rather, isn't competent or confident enough to run Enterprise production machines on rolling distros, I've got good news for you! You won't be needing to concern yourself with this until Debian 13 is officially released or you're forced to upgrade to it in the next few years. Lucky you!
For the rest of us however, already running #Trixie, it has indeed arrived. Welcome! Here's the problems...
You may, depending on what daemons you run in production, want to tweak your defaults. i.e., 10 days may be less than appropriate for your company's needs. Remember, #cron is your friend. It's also why Slackware's approach was referred to as elegant, because you have to take into account what it is you want or need before you implement it.
For example, since you already know that you don't want temp files to survive reboots in /tmp, there's really nothing faster than disk space residing in RAM anyway.
On the other hand, Poettering doesn't make up the rules for the developers of this world or sysadmins. If you're not careful you can wind up right back on a spinning disk platter again, since the default for #systemd is to allocate 50‰ of your RAM for tmpfs, if you don't have ample memory, you go to SWAP.
Oh, the irony :p
When you're in an HA environment where your UNIX boxes have uptimes exceeding 800+ days, and the only reason to reboot is to install a new kernel, Poettering's 30 day default storage for tempfiles in
/var/tmp, or for that matter, a default for files in/var/lockor/var/run, ... is absolutely absurd - this is why we have cron and shell scripts (and Perl/Python).tl;dr: This is why I started of with that amusing simile about HTTP 418, because if you just trust systemd to hold your hand, you just may find that one of your mission critical Enterprise services informs you that it's been told it's a #Teapot 🫖
That's not a good thing when 5, 500, or 50,000 people expect their shit to just work without ever having to know your name as the person who makes that happen for them.
Disk based storage is the safe bet; that's why #Redhat still does it that way. But it's certainly not the most performant, and requires the steady fingers of a competent systems administrator for the care and feeding of the tmp file systems - otherwise, like so many n00bs have discovered (in the days when hard drives didn't exceed a Gigabyte in capacity), you may wake up one day to find that you've hammered your filesystem, everything is running, but nothing is doing anything it's supposed to be doing - now,
rmandduhave become your best friends until the moment you discover that rotating your log files and keeping /tmp clean is actually part of your job...Even as a casual workstation user on your personal laptop. It's your job.
For those interested, here's an example of the systemd defaults for tmps should you wisely consider the beneficial consequences of responsible planning for managing the size of your growing tempfile directories, from the Arch Wiki:
/etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf # see tmpfiles.d(5) # always enable /tmp directory cleaning D! /tmp 1777 root root 0 # remove files in /var/tmp older than 10 days D /var/tmp 1777 root root 10d # namespace mountpoints (PrivateTmp=yes) are excluded from removal x /tmp/systemd-private-* x /var/tmp/systemd-private-* X /tmp/systemd-private-*/tmp X /var/tmp/systemd-private-*/tmpUmm... 10 days,
/var/tmp? IMNSHO, that's maybe just a tad (way more than a tad) aggressive.Although I've so far only alluded to it, I actually do recommend that you consider removing
/var/tmpfrom any cleanup schedule too, instead using cron and shell scripts, along with a little proactive monitoring to keep that part of your tempfile systems clean.And remember: "You may be short, and you may be stout, but unless it's April 1st, don't let anyone call you a Teapot." 🫖
For further reading you can checkout the [LWN article here] (https://lwn.net/Articles/975565/?ref=news.itsfoss.com).
As always, feel free to boost and share this with others (sharing is love), and I'm always interested in hearing your thoughts and suggestions in the comments.
I hope that helps. All the best!
#tallship #FOSS #Linux #Slackware #Arch #Gentoo #SuSE #Fedora
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All US presidents have access to basically all national security secrets and take all of them with them when they leave office.
That's just... It's just, duh!
And no, we actually aren't entitled to know what they know. Again, that's just... duh!
Cease with the childish, juvenile, emotional and reactionary responses that serve no purpose other than to ruffle your own feathers; it will help keep your blood pressure down which leads to a longer, healthier life 🧬 that you really should enjoy and take in all the beauty while you're here.
It's just a fleeting moment really, and you can decide to be miserable or happy - they're mutually exclusive.
I truly hope you are able to find peace within yourself, because the world has always been just as it is now and that's never going to change - you have to be the change, and it starts with a smile 😊
#tallship #life_is_wonderful #be_happy #embrace_the_beauty #reject_the negativity
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First, Mostr, the #Fediverse bridge between #ActivityFed and #Nostr.
Next, Bridgy Fed, the Fedivese bridge between ActivityPub and #Bluesky.
#w00t :)
So Ryan, thank you for this most valuable tool to bring people around the globe together in #DeSoc - creating (and curating, as you have) ***Bridgy_Fed is one of the very best things that the Fediverse has to offer people on both sides of the protocol divide, and I really don't think that there are enough Thank you's to go around for all of the selfless effort you've put into this service.
So as meek and perhaps insignificant as it may sound, THANK YOU!
#tallship #bridge #interprotocol_communication #FOSS #Thank_You
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RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-05-20_53092