Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

Just upgraded multiple nodes on my home network to the new @OpenWrt version... and nothing broke. I did my homework and tried to avoid known pitfalls, sure - but that never happens. It feels like the laws of nature are suspended today.

Really proud of Signal, of this piece, and so happy to help lead an organization willing to be honest about what others hide: the incredible cost of developing consumer tech, and why it’s so hard (but rewarding!) to build tech that doesn’t rely on monetizing surveillance.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Twitter was radio of the 1930’s.

The #Fediverse is shortwave.

Boost if you can hear this frequency.

Stop. Putting. Important. Info. In. Discord.

Put it on the actual web, where it is searchable.

Every day it becomes increasingly more appealing to me to build my own private compute network that only rarely connects to the public world, and does so via exclusively decentralized protocols. I'm so tired of this idea that we need to do so much more, so much faster, than we already do. The embedded priority of acceleration into so much of tech is a distraction from critical thinking and actual problem-solving.

@pluralistic riffs on it too: ""openness" is a necessary precondition for preservation and access, which are the necessary preconditions for recall and revisiting." https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting

Apple announces that it will adopt the RCS messaging standard via a software update "later next year", bringing iMessage-style features to cross-platform texts (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
http://www.techmeme.com/231116/p35#a231116p35

I had forgotten what the internet used to be like 20 or more years ago.

But it's just occurred to me that a couple of hours ago I asked a bunch of random strangers a fairly random question (about repairing a broken watch) and quickly got back multiple helpful and informative replies.

This is what the net used to be like, back in the days of usenet and email lists and the early web forums. And most people have probably never experienced it at all, their impression of social media being very different from those of us here on the Fediverse.

PS: It's probably very unfair to call you "random strangers". Even in just the 18 months I've been here I've found and chatted with people I'm happy to call friends, even though I've never met them face-to-face.

#Fediverse #BeKind #Friendliness #ThankYou

@georgetakei maybe someone with a brain told him that the office leaves him, not the other way around: he did not get to keep it.

Wow, I hadn't seen this Flickr Commons project before (@flickrfdn). I have relied on Flickr a lot in serializing my Web 2.0 memoir — so many great memories were put onto #Flickr back in the 2000s. So I'm pleased they have launched a Commons. -> "Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…" https://www.flickr.org/

#30DayMapChallenge Day 14 Europe.

Shipping routes through the fjords of #Norway. (North is to the right, West is up). Going from approx Bergen to Molde

Enjoying the work of Slartibartfast. The bright track is probably the Hurtigruten

Very important questions about where #Mastodon is failing discussed by @kissane:

"Doing human networks at mass scale isn’t a baby game, as the moral brine shrimp in charge of the big networks keep demonstrating. Running online communities comes with all kinds of legal and ethical obligations, and #fediverse systems are currently on the back foot with some of the most important ones."

// Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t //
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

Fediverse referral traffic is not big enough to build with yet; that’s just the reality. But that’s obviously because direct following and being online at the same time is basically the only discovery mechanism, and that’s why it’s a pleasant and healthy network to BE ON, which is way more important than the day-to-day publisher business case.

The publisher case for fediverse is long-term. Relationships. Trust. The two virtues that will bring success are patience and endurance.

We're only a week away from the 35th anniversary of Buran's only orbital flight on 15 Nov 1988, which is the perfect time to share the story of the first Buran orbiter in photos, from manufacturing, through the flight, to the destruction of the orbiter.

Let's start in 1983.

The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday

https://www.unixtimestamp.com/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.unixtimestamp.com/

#linux #programming #unix

This just blew my mind My respect for the modern tech I use just went up a level

Pixelfed is an Instagram-style photo network on the Fediverse. You can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon and vice versa.

For example, @Iancylkowski is a Pixelfed account, but you can view and interact with it entirely in Mastodon too.

To create a Pixelfed account, find a server at:

➡️ https://pixelfed.org/servers

You can use Pixelfed through the web or apps.

The official apps aren't ready yet, but there are good third party ones such as @vernissage for iPhone/iPad and @PixelDroid for Android

Every so often I have this 'bloody hell technology' moment when I stand in awe of how things work.

I might be passing where the fibre cable goes into my house, or looking at the access point in the ceiling.

This evening my moment was, ‘bloody hell, if you had said to me 20 years ago that I would be running a server on something the size of a deck of cards using a flash card, I wouldn't have believed you’

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data