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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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Mike...
#Fugg it, and Fugg them - they don't play nice in the sandbox anyway, and can take their little broken toys and go home.
Just concentrate on:
1.) Doing it right (as you relate you are).
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2.) Doing what you can (within reason) to accommodate and interoperate with the other prominent, responsible projects. A few I would note would be:* Friendica
* Mitra
* The Pleroma family of forks
* The Misskey family of forks#Masterblaster runs #Bartertown!
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Wow. I find this scrying back to 26 May 2021
I scry, with my little eye..
Enjoy the stroll down memory lane, but a dark day it was
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Freenode Commits Suicide - Evacuations Underway - Breaking News!
[**PLEASE BOOST**]
A few hours ago, under the direct intervention of the Crown Prince Andrew Lee of South Korea, beginning with about 700 IRC channells, Freenode staff began hijacking and purgings all channels that had mention of "Libera" in their channel topic.
https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse2
More details in a minute, but first, just a short list of the sort of channels that have been seized by Mr. Lee in what can only be described a suicidal and vindictive usurpation of some of the most prominent names in the world of computer software:
#wikipedia
#intel
#python
#ubuntu
#rust
##linux
#openbsd
# fosdem
#clearlinux
The Gentoo channels, Haskel, Weechat, etc., etc., ad nauseum...
Basically, the pillars of the software world, Linux, C, major Fortune 500 companies - you name it. POOF!
Earlier articles on the subjects of what has been widely characterized and regarded as a hostile takeover of freenode in the Media were published here over the course of the past few days and fortunately, our registered projects with freenode and Libera were previously announced as having been secured as well.
Only one of our channels has been affected, because the second wave of hijacking was administered by what we can only presume to be a misbehaving, poorly configured bot, in that it seized ownership of channels that merely had mentions of the string "Libera" or "Libera.Chat" by anyone in the channels.
We received the following **Apology** from Andrew Lee with this statement, at 21:15:30hrs PST, posted directly in one of our channels affected by this second wave of hijackings:
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-rasengan- [Global Notice] In the recent policy enforcement, some channels were erroneously included. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us in #freenode-services or [email protected]. Thanks for your patience and choosing freenode!
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To that we say, Fuck you freenode, and Fuck you very much Andrew Lee - go eat a fucking dick you punk ass bitch!
By tomorrow, the usual news media outlets will have published freenode's Obituary.
I'm going to post more discussion links to follow below, but suffice it to say that the Earth is indeed flat for freenode, and that ship has sailed over the edge into the abyss.
In the meantime, we urge everyone who has long standing friendships and associations with others still there to find them, and let them know where you'll be following the vacuum left after this implosion.
R.I.P. freenode
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814
https://pleroma.envs.net/notice/A7d3VZuH1myJ6gJS2C
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comparison of channels that have had their topics forcibly changed to reflect that they remain the official channels for registered projects (Libera string removed from topics):
https://archive.is/uHw1g
https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode&chat=libera&num=100
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https://www.teddit.net/r/haskell/comments/nl74hc/freenode_has_unilaterally_taken_over_haskell/
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=freenode&sort=byDate&type=story
Twatter is litterally on fire, it's such a mess that I just selected some random post that embodies the type of activities going on there:
https://nitter.fdn.fr/Slatzism/status/1397468106918928386
It's total and complete fuckery.
#tallship #Vger #freenode #libera #irc #FOSS #andrew_lee #fuckery
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From my PoV, it's certainly a license that's preferable to that of BSD or MIT. There's a solid reasoning behind this HERE.
After all, even Tanenbaum himself was surprised to discover that MINIX is the most ubiquitous of all operating systems:
> "I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS."
The SSPL being akin to that of the AGPL avoids that sort of dreadful situation, ensuring protections for the end users that not even the GPL affords them where #SaaS is concerned ;)
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Eat what you kill, but exterminate that which poisons the earth.
#PETA is #Satan - thank God for #cannibals - if you ever wondered what they were good for, now you know....
Culling the #scum called PETA. I hear they're quite tasty!
#tallship #miscreants #subversives #gouls #inhumans -yup, that's PETA - they are #scum
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@caekislove Take it from a technologist that lived for over four years so fucking off-grid without seeing humans for over a month at times, who had to mount beam antennas in hundred foot trees just to have a 4g connection….
You do live like this my friend. You actually fucking do.
Yes, it’s fucked up.
I’m simping with you. #We_are_not_free, and indeed one day some fucking woke bitch motherfucker will reinvigorate and champion the production of Soylent Green - rationalized by the Beyond Meat vegan #PITA #Bolsheviks and their #Communist #lobbyists.
To them I say, “yah, it’s beyond meat motherfuckers. It’s cannibalism!”
My Daddy always taught me that you eat what you kill, but he wasn’t taking about people that get in the way.
#tallship #soylent_green #cannibals #subversives
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I've seen this on four social networks in the #Fediverse now in just over a week - #ActivityPub, #ZOT, #nostr, and #Movim/XMPP. These memes are going around, but what about those privacy disrespecting, deprecated legacy silos like #Faceplant, #Twitter, and #InstaSPAM or #Reddit - Why is it that we're preaching to the choir instead of to the sinners of the #SunnyVale_Syndrome?
Go forth, save those poor souls over on the silos, Tell them that they're pork bellies. Muahahaha!
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Least we forget how far we've come in just a short time and where the horizons might lie...
Yes they're definitely not ignoring us lolz.
#tallship #Pixelfed #InstaSPAM #FOSS #Fediverse
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Amen!
Death to all of the deprecated, privacy disrespecting legacy silos of the surveillance state!
We lost another maverick Independant service this week after 23 years of community service - Gigablast.
#tallship #Twatter #Faceplant #InstaSPAM #Reddit #Medium #YouTube #Quora #Google #Apple
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Exactly how I feel about #social_media in general - I have more than enough to do throughout the #Fediverse (every aspect of the things in life occur here)... So why would I waste my otherwise free time on things like Twitter or #Faceplant or #InstaSPAM?
Thank you so much for your input and valuable insight! 👍
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Hi Derek!
And greetings from the remote mountain regions of #Humboldt where we export the genetics for those 🌺 flowers 🤘💀🤘
Anyway...
I'm trying to your post in which you both misconstrued and misinformed the reader with alarmist, and generally misunderstood narrative.
Specifically, and respectfully:
>***"I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet."***
Although we'll go over both sentences, the part that I really take exception to is the first one:
- "I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US."
I quoted you twice for emphasis, because what you said is simply NOT TRUE, at all Derek, but who would want to run a single user mastodon server instance anyway?
Okay a select few, but it's not economical to do so - here's why:
It's such #bloatware and a #resource_hog compared to other, more capable and featureful #Fediverse servers, like #Pleroma, #Takahē, #Epicyon, #Akkoma, #Calckey, #Soapbox, #Friendica, #Socialhome, #MicroblogPub, #Misskey, #Smithereen, and the list goes on and on for a while; a veritable laundry list of platforms endowed with more feature rich, more resource and energy conserving footprints.
You could call mastodon the white elephant in the room when it comes to kruft, waste of energy and resources, or lack of the most desired features by it's traditional userbase (although people are nowadays migrating their accounts to these other Fediverse platforms in ever increasing numbers).
Like you, I'm also a staunch proponent of Section 230, as it was originally intended and written - to protect publishers, NOT editors. But most of the conservative agendas to which you refer only seek to remove protections for sites that cross that line between that of #publisher to that of #editor anyway - so as long as you don't interfere with a user's #speech those deprecated silos would have nothing to worry about.
It's the Marxist/Leftist agendas in Congress that you need to worry about - they're proposing complete evisceration of section 230 - and yes, that would jeopardize, probably even put those monolithic deprecated silos out of business for good.
- I see very little that is bad about killing a rabid animal... Or a fox in the henhouse.
But... riddle me this Batman:
What would be so bad about that? It would destroy the surveillance plutocracy and data farming of individuals and their identities by those socalled, "Big-Tech" subjugation engines like #Faceplant, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, #Twitter, and to a large degree, #Google too... (It won't do anything to stop the likes of Amazon or Apple though wrt their surveillance programs).
All if that, while at the same time encourage the migration of people to a fully decentralized and safer social media network where there are either no platforms (only censor proof protocols), as in #nostr; or #federated #SmallWeb and single user #ActivityPub platform instances; or those #Fediverse platforms that vow not to #molest_users who #publish on those platforms by imposing draconian #editorializing (censorship) upon their users.
Either way you can certainly look at this as a win-win situation for the #individual in #social_media networking. The question really is therefore, "How badly do you wish to punish the privacy disrespecting subjugation farms that comprise that deprecated, monolithic silo space?"
I hope that helps, Enjoy!
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This post was selected to be shared with the #Fediverse_City community.
https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.org
All are welcome to join and participate!
#Pixelfed is an amazing #Fediverse platform rivaling even the most popular proprietary deprecated silos like #InstaSPAM, #Imgur, and #pinterest.
Thank you Dan for the wonderful creation you've enabled the #FOSS community and beyond to enjoy!
#tallship #image_sharing #gallery #collections #DeSoc #ActivityPub⛵
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@DaemonFC What?
oic...
You're apparently referring to people who don't self-host where it's patently obvious that's not a bright idea.
Okay, but, why would you expect it to be any other way - because you trust a big corporation (Automatic) that publishes #FOSS?
Remember that this is a moot point for those who self-host and #WordPress is by far the most ubiquitous one-click solution across the spectrum of independent hosting providers 😎
WordPress.com isn't any different than any other privacy disrespecting, deprecated, monolithic silo.
#tallship #silos #privacy #dystopia #despotism #censorship #Automatic #Faceplant #InstaSPAM
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Hi Daniel, that's a few questions, which begs that question, "Why the heck would I use a mastodon account?"
One reason, certainly isn't because I can currently ask or answer questions, including tags and addresses I'm CC 'ing in less than 500 characters - because we can't, generally.
So you're really asking if you can carry the feature sets already supported by most #Fediverse platforms to a resource hog that turns out to be good for little more than short bursts of text and pasting links to 3rd party resources located somewhere else, here's what might help...
In mastodon, there are some links that will imbed images and some that won't. It's willy nilly, and depends how you do it. Every platform handles this a little differently, so settling on one that meets your needs on a platform by platform comparison is prudent.
Those such as #Soapbox, #Calckey, #Friendica, and others actually do support much of what you're asking.
Currently, yes you have to do what others already do in the #silo_space when it comes to linking different types of media platforms. i.e., #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, #YouTube, #Reddit...
Analogs are those #Fediverse platforms already mentioned above and others such as #Pixelfed, #FunkWhale, #PeerTube, #Lemmy, #OwnCast, #Castopod, etc.
There are currently a few ways that people are achieving what you're pondering.
#ZOT has nomadic profiles and in #Hubzilla you can enable the #ActivityPub addon. But your nomadic profile doesn't include anything related to your other #ActivityPub based Fediverse accounts.
Since you inferred merely adding additional hosts for each of those Fediverse platform analogs under your gultsch.social domain, you might want to consider adding #OIDC support to your Fediverse servers. This can provide you with #SSO capabilities. Some organizations currently do that.
And there's also what #Minds is doing, although they still haven't managed to finish integrating ActivityPub into their platform. They've layered #Nostr into Minds. A few Fediverse platforms are experimenting with doing that very same thing too.
The "ActivityPub"way is, of course, what you mentioned - find the video and and comment or boost it from another account, but many platforms like SoapBox and Friendica will generally render the image or video linked. Calckey will render previews of at least 3 links per post.
So it's not really that much different, when posting links, to how the deprecated, privacy disrespecting, legacy monolithic silo platforms do it, but you also have the opportunities to follow, comment, boost, and #Quote_Post other people's (and your own) content from across the Fediverse.
Kinda kewl, but in most cases, unless you layer something like Nostr or OIDC on top of your infrastructure, there really isn't a way currently to use a single user identity enabling you traverse all of your accounts across the platforms and share, boost, etc.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #internetworking #DeSoc
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@colinsmatt11 @shaman @Hyolobrika @gabriel
I recently saw a request from someone describing themselves as a prolific photographer in the #Fedilab #Matrix support room, asking if the devs could add a feature to use the EXIF data for the alt tags - they cited extremely non-trivial effort to do that manually.
It obviously issn't for everyone, with most folks preferring to fill out the alt data for the images they upload themselves, but it made a lot of sense for a #prolific_uploader of images in #Fediverse posts.
I'm glad you brought this up, because it's exactly what I was thinking when I became aware that stripping the EXIF data was the default on #Friendica, and disabling that feature is an "opt-out" option.
I don't even know if there's still such a site as #Foursquare, but about ten years ago it was a popular "check-in" site that integrated with #Faceplant.
You would basically do a check-in wherever you were and people could track you via lat/lon or physical address or the business name IIRC, and you could include pics too I think - that's one use case.
Another very good one, snapping a pic and then later uploading it as a Fediverse post in #Friendica (there's an OSM geolocation plugin), which I gather could generate a map based on the EXIF data in their photo.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen pics and wondered where the photos were taken. #Pixelfed should have such an option (does it?) w/OSM mapping toggle on upload.
I don't think any other Fediverse server platforms have that.
Extrapolating that EXIF data for the alt tags in photos uploaded as part of posts (with corresponding maps even) sounds like a great idea - but preferably not as a default setting lolz.
On another note, there's a shitload of really stupid dope farmers here in Humboldt county posting pics of their weed fields on #InstaSPAM, and then wondering why they're getting helicopter flyovers and "Abatement Letters" from the county, followed by the caravans that roll up the mountain, raid, and destroy their crops lolz.
That's what apps like #ImagePipe are for (stripping EXIF data before posting publicly). ImagePipe is available at F-Droid, BTW. 😜
@Laurien (pls pass on to Sir Spencer - he'll get a kick out of that!)
#tallship #FOSS #privacy #geolocation #EXIF #check_in
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Just change the names already Dan - don't be obtuse. Prepending with an "i" is poking the bear, the consequence of which is an obvious and certain death.
They have the resources to end everything you've been doing for years with armies of legal teams, just because it will be fun to watch you suffer through an eternity of legal proceedings until even the relevance is irrelevant.
Is this the hill you want to die on?
What about us users?
#tallship #FOSS #InstaSPAM #Pixelfed
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I am a bit disappointed when I witness this type of bullying, and it's not just people that have nothing to offer in the way of a #free_market or lacking a brand for themselves that engage in such #dogpiling.
Trying to define what the Fediverse is in terms of social acceptability is an exercise in futility at best, and in the extreme, it is hate stemming from #envy or projection by those afflicted with self-loathing.
The Fediverse is a #censorship_resistant communications network - go forth in #commerce, go forth in hate, go forth in sharing your backyard barbeques with the family and friends, or promoting your creativity - sharing your printings, photography, electronic project gizmos; these are all #brands, things that define what you care about, and what you are about. It's not a bad thing. It's s good thing, usually.
It is a place where so-called #Big_Tech and #mega_corporations can #participate - but they cannot dominate - it is antithetical to their desire and ambitions of #dominion over the #marketplace.
When your #brand is about capability, personality, product or services that you derive an income or admirer stream from, that is #positivity.
When you pile upon others for having a #dream or #vocation, and denegrate those with s vision for themselves and their talents, that too, is part of your brand - if this is you, then your brand is that of a hater.
It can be frustrating for people entering a social space to feel free enough to #share aspects of themselves with strangers, especially when you're just trying to find your bearings and #navigate that space, and coming face to face with negative personalities that enjoy belittling others. But those people really are quite the vocal minority.
There have always been list bullies, #trolls, and general malcontents in every corner of the online world. That's not going to change. Certain types of mediums seem to exacerbate the extent of their influence, like mediums where only short, hit and run messaging is the constraint.
Short messaging platforms can be ideal for pushing out a quick synopsis of your thoughts and ideas, but there's no reason why you should seek to be constrained by the lack of a platform ability to enable more comprehensive coverage of anything you have to share, market, sell, or produce, because in the #Fediverse, there are many platforms to choose from, and almost all of them afford you with the same ability to communicate your messages, creations, and ideas across the entirety of this space.
In the article below, written by a student endowed with a wealth of said positivity, I suggest reading it while replacing nouns like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #YouTube, and #InstaSPAM with nouns such as, #Friendica, #Pleroma (or mastodon), #PeerTube, and #Pixelfed, respectively; since those are some of the close corollaries we currently enjoy here in the Fediverse, remembering that anything you publish on any of those platforms can be shared and propagated natively across the entire Fediverse - and of course, far beyond.
For the creative types of you out here, say, your thing is selling personalized Converse All-stars with custom paint jobs, it's important to realize that your actual reach when you post far exceeds that which any deprecated, legacy silo systems have the potential for, because that post with the photo of your latest set of "Chucks" crosses the boundaries of one type of social networking platform - it's like if you publish a short video at YouTube and it automatically shows up on InstaSPAM and Twatter, without ever having to make a separate post, or posting a product of your latest commissioned painting (part of your brand) on InstaSPAM and suddenly, everyone following you on #Soapbox, mastodon, #Misskey, and Friendica servers sees it too.
Such is the breadth and reach of publishing anything about you, yourself in the Fediverse - worldwide, in the global feeds of everyone else's Fediverse accounts... And we're only growing, as we continue to retire those old deprecated, legacy silo systems.
Ah, but what about all those #meanies, lambasting you for "breaking the rules" and marketing your image and product brands?
News flash! There are no such fucking rules - only imaginary restrictions envisioned by some people with small-minded, defeatest, insecurity issues, and misery loves company. Those haters and self-loathing unfortunates would like nothing more than to instill such negativity in you, perhaps for personal, or even political reasons.
If you let those worthless, insignificant, but very loud and vocal sorts dictate your happiness and success in any endeavor you choose, whether to simply make friends around the world or marketing whatever it is that you do best and are passionate about, then it might be best if you just unplug your computer, trade in your #Android for a flip-phone, and get a job at the local smelting plant (no offense to steel workers), never again dreaming or aspiring to harness the infinite power of your imagination.
So what to do about these curmudgeon-like trolls and list #bullies that have always been a part of the online, let alone everyday life landscape? The same thing you do in every other situation in your life - ignore, mute, and block them - unceremoniously, without acknowledgement or response. These sad excuses for people have no power whatsoever except that which you grant them, and the Fediverse arms you with the #tools to #filter out their voices entirely.
This doesn't mean that you necessarily disappear from their timelines and feeds. You probably won't, but just as it is when you go to your local ☕ coffee house or grocery store, workplace, or enter your classroom, you filter them out of "your" existence, and suddenly... They cease to exist.
I recently published an article in response to one such dogpiling and so-called, "cancelling" event. Those self-hating projectionists actually believed that by propagating a campaign of negative publicity against another creative newcomer's brand - in this case, Raspberry Pi, they could achieve 'cancellation' of that company and its product line here in the Fediverse. Fat chance.
These semi-organized malcontents actually even published a blog article (linked to in my aforementioned article), documenting their success in destroying that brand, along with it's employees and product line.
The reality however, is much different, in fact quite the opposite affect was evidenced, sort of a #Newtonian "equal and opposite reaction" #physics principle.
These children went so far as to demand from Fediverse server administrators what you may occasionally see hashtagged as #Fediblock - a block of other users and instances at the server level by any Fediverse server admin that will listen, or can be brow beaten into submission... But rarely does anyone pay that sort of nonsense any mind at all. Such measures are reserved for people and instances that most average, everyday folks find offensive - like militant leftist sites, personalities, or kiddie pr0n pedophiles and others cut from the same cloth.
At best, when haters like them folk claim to wage battles against those regular people and #communities that they despise, issuing calls for the ominous sounding "defederate them!", the only thing they actually achieve is "self-cancellation", by virtue of painting themselves into a corner when they "defederate" themselves, and that is usually followed by many of their registered users leaving that instance - in this case, everybody loves Raspberry Pi computers, which you can buy for under fifty bucks.
What did the good folks at Rasberry Pi do to deserve such ineffectual wrath from these hateful sad sacks? Only two things:
First, the company rep, responding to one of these agitators stated the obvious, more or less saying, 'If you don't like us then feel free to unfollow us', and when that resulted in a rather ascerbic retort from the professional hater, the Rasberry Pi spokesperson committed the cardinal sin of simply #blocking the troll.
That's it. No biggy, poof! You're gone. Nothing is worse to these maladjusted losers than being unceremoniously ignored with the forever button. It is comical, but it is also sad. One's mission in life should not be to make others as sad as they themselves are.
Don't let anyone belittle or condescend you. The worst (best) they can do is remove themselves and others like them from your timeline feeds, where you don't actually care to see them anyway - so it's win-win 👍
So just know, your going to hear from your fair share of bullies, trolls, and other types that derive a sick and twisted pleasure from harming others - but this is about you, your products, services, brand, and your happy life in the real 🌎 world.
It is a simple matter to ignore, dismiss, disappear them, and move on - millions of good people, other brands, and customers or new friends want to meet and greet to know you!
https://ylai.state.gov/get-social/
I hope that helps! And have a wonderful time in the Fediverse!
#tallship #brand #bbq #creator #artist #trade #commerce #market #marketing #social
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And you should return the favor by never posting unsanitized Twitter links to the #Fediverse either 🙂
I recommend you do a search for "IndyWeb POSSE" program. Which explains the philosophy behind only posting Fediverse links into the deprecated legacy silos, and never posting unsanitized links from places there like twitter into the Fediverse.
Basically, you do a disservice posting links in the Fediverse that lead people to the very monolithic, privacy disrespecting silos that they've already left behind.
Instead, if you even bother to use those deprecated legacy silo systems, post links bringing the people there at places like twitter to content that exists here in the Fediverse, thereby providing incentives to create accounts on Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #FunkWhale, #MicroPub, #Mitra, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Soapbox, #Quanta, Etc., Thereby joining the Fediverse 👍
If you find that you really must post a link leading to one of the deprecated silos, then please consider #sanitizing such links. i.e., in the case of Twitter, you can use the very popular #Nitter by just replacing the "twitter .com" with "nitter .net" in the URL.
If you're on #Android, #Fedilab does this "automagically" for you if you have safe posting enabled.
If you're on desktop, there's a whole list of similar sanitation tools you can use for #Reddit, for example, by changing the domain in the URL to #Teddit .net and similar tools for #InstaSPAM, #Quora, and many others too. For #YouTube, you can use #Invidious.
A long list of these privacy protecting utilities is provided at:
And you can install Fedilab from F-Droid too:
You can also install the #UntrackMe app at F-Droid for generating safe links when not posting to the Fediverse - desks details are at three Fedilab website above.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #POSSE #Indyweb_POSSE #privacy #fdroid
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Almost forgot to mention Darius, #Keyoxide is perhaps the best method for verification in today's #DeSoc world of the #Fediverse and even the deprecated legacy monolithic silos like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, etc.
https://fosstodon.org/@keyoxide
I hope that helps! Enjoy 🙂
#tallship #FOSS #identity #cryptographic_proofs
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There's a few that are good, but regular #OBS is, IMHO, the very best and what I usually recommend that people run on their desktops. They went to #Flatpak a couple of years back to simplify and standardize installations, and there's a Windows version too if you're into that kind of kink.
I should also mention #Prism_Live but it's a Windows only thang. #Android too, I guess, and is easy to #multistream:
https://prismlive.com/en_us/pcapp/#tallship #FOSS #streaming
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And here is their response...
It did bring a smile to my face.
#tallship #Vons #overpriced_motherfuckers
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Try roasting beets, whole or cut up, on the BBQ grill or in the oven on a cookie sheet.
I like to cut them in half or quarters on the BBQ or into irregular slightly smaller pieces in the oven (six to eight pieces per large beet), and season accordingly to your preference - I prefer a little salt and some savory seasonings like thyme, marjoram, basil, or oregano. Steak and asada seasonings are good too, and mixing whatever you season it with in a measuring cup with EVOO a bit of balsamic vinegar is typically how I mix those seasonings. Then stir and apply with a brush.
Don't be afraid to let them char a bit for character, again, to your preference of taste. When finished, they should be tender and melt away in your mouth.
Some folks aren't into the flavor of olive oil, but don't fret! melted tallow or lard works just as well, better even, for crispiness on the outside, without any intrusive flavors - but please don't use any seed oils, that defeats the purpose of eating healthy. These beets are still delicious this way even if you don't baste them with anything or even season them at all.
You can thank me later, or invite me to your next backyard BBQ.
#tallship #foodpr0n #beets #roasted_beets
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Watching #FindingYourRoots tonight, I learned Chef Jose Andres served on the Spanish Naval training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano.
The program briefly flashed a picture, but I instantly recognized the #TallShip from when it visited Port Canaveral in May of 2013.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_training_ship_Juan_Sebastián_de_Elcano
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Ah, @youronlyone - There we have it Yuki, from the Man himself that created #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Streams, #Red_Matrix, #Zap, and #ZOT (and so much more)!
Thanks Mike! Not just for that tidbit, but all the remarkable things you've done for us!
Kindest regards,
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Ente completes CERN sponsored audit
This includes (especially so) Ente Auth.
I wanted to bring some awareness to this because when I think of MFA I typically think of TOTP Authenticators. Like my friend Eric Hameleers (alienbob), I bent the knee way back and adopted the proprietary, closed source product Authy by Twilio.
Why? Because there were considerations to raise, such as, "What if I drop my phone in the fricken' toilet?", or, "I want my authenticator to support installs on multiple platforms and sync" - Actually, both of those considerations are really the same thing. The mess about this really was that Google Authenticator and others didn't sync, existed on a single device, and I had no need or desire to enjoy passwordless authentication offered by Microsoft for some resources.
Authy provided multi-devices w/sync, on #Android, #Linux, and #Windows, okay I guess, and my phone(s). And then Ente Auth came out, they were working on the desktop version and close to a release, it sync'ed with multiple devices and second best of all, it was the first truly cross-platform (Okay I never tried running it on a BSD) authenticator - it could sync between a Linux box and a Windows desktop and an Android - that's everything in my Universe, and actually, who cares about Windows anyway?
Just about that time, as I started considering the move, Twilio informed everyone that Authy support on Desktop was going Bye Bye!
So the choice at that point was Easy Peasy - migrate nowwwww!!! And so I fired up my rarely used wYnd0z3 box and got an alert - "This desktop version will be retired soon, you need to update to the lastest version as soon as possible"... in so many words.
Hmmm... Yeah, I dunno. I think I'mma do some online searches, this sounds fishy to me. And oh boy did it stink to high heaven. I'm glad I checked that out and found a little blurb (over on Reddit, IIRC) that covered the steps required to export everything, a script, a hacked up patch, and voila! done - got it!
There was one caveat there, for those who ventured into those same murky waters that I had - DO NOT APPLY THE TWILIO UPDATE!!!* For those who did, they found out quickly that the a patch no longer worked, they could not perform the export, and this was by design since the export had to be performed on a desktop version of Authy, effectively subjugating the non-daring with the typical enshittification that we've always known as #Vendor_Lockin.
By the time Eric apparently got around to making the move to #Ente_Auth from #Authy, the laborious process was entirely manual - one site at a time, which you can READ ABOUT HERE.
You really gotta watch these sneaky proprietary types of folks.
So anyway, fast forward a bit to where we are now, and although I mentioned my second fav reason to select Ente Auth, I didn't disclose my fav - which should be obvious: It's #FOSS. And not just that, but #Self_Hosted FOSS, if you prefer to keep things close to your breast.
Anyway, that's the backstory and the long way around my announcement here that you an read up on the Audit of all Ente products here:
https://ente.io/blog/cern-audit/
So, IMNSHO, There's really no reason to choose another authenticator, really, truly, there just isn't.
I hope that helps. Enjoy!
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As Stevie Wonder I've said...
🎼🎶🎵🎶 Boogie on Reggae Woman... 🎶🎵
#tallship #Christmas_Tree_Lighting #Retro_Computing #Women_in_Computing
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Oh man, I feel your pain.
A could if my most prized Linux collection possessions are the very two first releases of Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux (LGX) and the first two print editions of "The Linux Bible - the GNU Testament". I was a bit startled to find out what those would actually cost me off i ever wanted to replace them.
The other thing I've had an alert in for about ten years now is a "Memotech" keyboard for the #Timex_Sinclair computer 🖥️ I found one in the past twenty years and they wanted over two hundred dollars for it. In hindsight, I should have jumped on it, but I figured I'd find another one for twenty bucks or so. You live and learn 🙂
You know what? I should boost your inquiry for the Walnut Creek Slackware CDs into the SDF Mastodon server! There's serious #retro_computing folks there, and they maintain a comouter history museum.
I've been a member there for eons. You can't get an account there on our mastodon server unless you're an actual SDF member, but I'll be happy to boost your request there.
Okay #Matrix. In very liberal terms, Matrix is considered by many to be part of the #Fediverse. In more strict interpretations it isn't. Matrix is it's own (and optionally secured by e2ee) communications protocol including chat via text, voice, and video, for one on one and groups - kind of like Slack or discord or IRC but with a very privacy centric focus and built with #FOSS. i.e., it doesn't run on #ActivityPub protocol, but it's very popular with many millions of users.
Here's a good homeserver to join, managed by an #OpenBSD and Matrix developer who's a really nice guy. NOTE: He hosts on his home network so occasionally it goes offline for an hour or so when his ISP's DHCP server changes his IP address.
It's s very performant and well managed server. You can signup at this link:
https://bancino.net/element/#/welcome
There's an easy to read explanation of everything here:
https://joinmatrix.org/guide/#get-started
I would recommend that you start off with the #Element client if you're using #Android, which you can get here at F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/
There are a lot of guys Matrix clients, like #SchildiChat, #FkuffyChat, a good #WeeChat plugin if you use that for IRC, #Nehko, and others; but Element has ALL features is completely cross-platform - Android, iPhone, #Linux, Mac, Web, and Windows. So it's a good client to start with.
Now, about a third of all Matrix users have accounts on the Matrix Foundation's #Homeserver, and although they recommend you choose from among three thousands of other homeservers, you are welcome to create an account there too.
Stay away from their main Matrix room though - there are several thousands of people in there and can bog your system if your machine had limited resources.
The main site to get Element for any type of computer, phone, or operating system is here:
https://element.io/
I hope that helps!
#tallship
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Backports
This time for #Hams...
Yup, #Radio_Amateurs, I thought I'd share a little treasure trove with you all, as I figure many may not be aware of just how vast this resource is.
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications #DLARC
Their description:
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community..
As an added bonus, I've included a huge archive link for thousands upon thousands of manuals for just about any electronic device you can think of, from the Manuals Plus Collection that was rescued when that company went out of business a couple of years back.
- Feel free to boost for the benefit of your fellow Hams and electronics hobbyists 🔩 ⚡ 📻
Enjoy!
#tallship #Ham_Radio #Manuals_Plus_Collection
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