Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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@nonlinear @humanetech@mastodon.social
I think I like to take "explained" here as a kind of tongue in cheek absurdist minimilism. Obviosly explaining the philosophy, intention and consequence of QR codes would require a book. 😁
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Chilean voters resoundingly reject a new ‘ecological’ constitution
Draft charter had major implications for economic policy, climate, environment, research, and Indigenous rights
#ClimateEmergency
#pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CllimateChange #Chile
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We're celebrating OpenStreetMap's 18th Anniversary! #OpenStreetMap18
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/08/06/happy-18th-anniversary-openstreetmap/
Cake by @osmbd@twitter.com :)
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RT @danielolleCTO@twitter.com
Turning off 2G in China harder than it looks | Light Reading https://www.lightreading.com/asia/turning-off-2g-in-china-harder-than-it-looks/d/d-id/778630#.Yr_sW0Sf6zE.twitter
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/danielolleCTO/status/1543126725189685249
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I have been testing for the past few days three replacements for #Google's #Firebase notifications: #ntfy, #Gotify and #NextCloud's Unified Push project. A few observations after a bit of tinkering:
1. The idea behind #UnifiedPush is amazing. An open protocol to share push notifications over any asynchronous channel (websocket, Redis, MQTT etc.) is what open-source apps have needed for years. Sure, there will always be those who say "push notifications are a distraction, and I'm happy to ditch them". But individual choices/behaviors shouldn't shape the development of a technology - especially when people want a genuine open alternative to something that they like/need to use.
2. UnifiedPush support from individual apps is still scarce. So far I've only found the NextCloud app itself (which only supports UP-NextPush), #Fedilab and #Element. Support on #Tusky has allegedly been implemented in the latest release, but I haven't yet managed to make it work. Let's roll up our sleeves and make sure that more and more of the apps that we like support open notification services!
3. The notification providers' client apps themselves are still quite buggy, and documentation still very sparse. I have used UP-Example from F-Droid to test the UP services. Only ntfy managed to deliver notifications end-to-end to my devices. Gotify reported an "unknown error" without many details from the logs. UP-NextPush is still very unstable both on the client and server side and I couldn't manage to deliver any notifications.
4. The protocol (and the apps that implement it) needs to slowly be extended to cover as many as possible of the features that have been implemented in the past decade. Action buttons, icons from URLs, custom background images, updates to existing notifications etc.: a couple of these features have been (partly) implemented by 1-2 providers, but we need open standards (especially for action buttons and gestures) if we want to ensure inter-compatibility.
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Mathijs de Bruin blogs about why http://ipfs-search.com is needed
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Twitter is starting to block some instances of Mastodon... Spread the word!
Posts that completely misunderstood the #fediverse
From April 2017:
Six reasons Mastodon won't survive
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
According to a study done by #NordVPN:
Eight percent of (North American) internet users said they don't use the internet. Wait....
Actually interesting that from a sample of ~1000 people they found about half expressed desire to remove personal information from the Internet.
NordVPN's solution of course is to use a VPN 😉
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A little over a year ago, I closed my social media accounts. Here's what happened. #SocialMedia
https://silviamaggidesign.com/personal/life-off-social-media/
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Generally I post about managed hosting as this is the easiest way to create your own online services.
However, there are many projects out there trying to make non-managed hosting easier too:
https://yunohost.org is a version of Linux that makes it as easy as possible to install your own services. Once @yunohost is installed on a server, it lets you add lots of online services (https://yunohost.org/apps) very easily through a graphical interface.
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I think i remember being told to get on facebook, it's fun. 😛
You might have a point though, maybe lying to people is justified when you are trying to cure them from dangerous addictions 🙂
I was going to write up a list of alternative ideas, then I found this post. It'll do as my closing argument: https://medium.com/geekculture/fixing-the-broken-web-alternatives-to-dns-and-the-web-3-0-3adc3ef3f620
albeit hosted on a dns dependent, social media related, content monetising platform.
I think saying DNS is "fun" is a little like saying that the "A" in ADSL (and paying through the nose for upload bandwidth from your domestic ISP, if you can get it) is "fun".
Granted, in many parts of the world the asynchronous bandwidth is not such a problem as it was a few years ago when a domestic ISP wanted your 1st born for more than 128k Uplink.
Of course DNS is not a reason to use corporate internet value extraction services! There's no question of that.
I'd still object to promotion of the virtual real estate game on DNS as "fun". It's not fun. "owning" or "choosing", then "needing" your own dot whatever is a stupid idea that has been promoted since the dawn of the commercial internet, because it's extremely lucrative, and it promotes unsavoury practice like domain squatting for example.
My point would be rather that there has been a lack of "improvement" and no solution to solving this particular concrete problem, which I don't think needs vague analogies to be understood::
How to host decentralised communications services over which one has maximum control and minimal exposure to a 3rd party's ability to effect DoS. (for whatever reason)
BTW. Totally support what you want to do, as I said, no desire for a discussion over this to get antagonistic.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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