Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

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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

https://www.science.org/content/article/chilean-voters-resoundingly-reject-a-new-ecological-constitution

#ClimateEmergency
#pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CllimateChange #Chile

We're celebrating OpenStreetMap's 18th Anniversary! #OpenStreetMap18

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/08/06/happy-18th-anniversary-openstreetmap/

Cake by @osmbd@twitter.com :)

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.

Mathijs de Bruin blogs about why http://ipfs-search.com is needed

https://blog.ipfs-search.com/introducing-ipfs-search/

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Twitter is starting to block some instances of Mastodon... Spread the word!

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/

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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#SelfHosting #HomeGrown #GrowYourOwn