Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

I’m rather saddened that works for a decentralized web for everyone to interact with each other had exist back in the early 2000s and their impact can still be seen today, yet most of us (youngsters) aren’t aware of them.

Wheel reinventions like ActivityPub are great, but I wonder if we can bring back web feed now that static site hosting is virtually no-cost. Feed readers are dying but even Google is trying to revive them.

The problem is with comments: a dynamic server to accept them would disqualify the staticness and low cost. Of course an ActivityPub implementation can support this (many generate RSS already), but static servers are way more efficient than a Fediverse one, and not everyone has an account of the later for a seamless adoption.

Emails, on the other hand, are universal and also federated. Converting a mailing list thread to RSS/Atom or HTML should be trivial, although comments won’t be expected to be rendered immediately due to the static nature. This comes with naturals advantages though: one can monitor comments before publishing and self-archiving the site with comments (e.g. via #IPFS) is trivial.

Unlike dynamic commenting systems, ones backed by emails can easily outlive the website. It doesn’t have to be a mailing list, one can extract comments from a private mailbox just fine; also those mboxed can be migrated from one list to another. All it takes for a reader to comment is to know the current address.

Is this the permanent web we’re all looking for, laying right in front of our eyes?

"On the evidence, the US regards the publishing of the evidence of its war crimes to be a worse offence than committing such crimes in the first place."

- #GordonCampbell, 2021

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2112/S00029/on-why-we-should-oppose-the-persecution-of-julian-assange.htm

#JulianAssange #WarCrimes #WhistleBlowers

@kensanata Here in Ireland, the DD system is used by libraries. This means that all the English language stuff is organised by topic, but all the stuff written in our native, national language, Gaeilge, gets shoved in together, unsorted.

Well, sorted by well-meaning library staff, but the DD system makes no provision for Celtic languages, just "Gaelic Interest" or something.

It's just galling that people make out like the DD system is a clever ontology.

The potential demise of the Feneas.org services reminds me again that the success of federated networks depends on reliable instances, and avoiding re-centralization requires more instances, not bigger ones. This means server-side software needs to be as easy as possible to set up and maintain, and we need easy access to ways for people to learn how to host servers.

#fediverse #decentralization #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

NFTs are clearly a direct response to a modern world in which it's rare for anyone to actually *own* anything, instead renting/streaming it all from five companies

so, of course, instead of taking the message from this that we're living in a fucking serfdom and that's not okay

these bros are just like "well *I* wanna own things so I'm gonna set up a system where a lot of people lie to me about how much I own this monkey to make me feel better"

seems like 90% of what techbros do is respond poorly to how hellish the world is by creating a magical illusory internety alternative to everything

Do I have any #sparc64 friends that would like to help me port #dlang to sparc64?

I believe there is only one remaining blocker, but I don't know enough sparc64 assembly to do it right I don't think.

Boosts welcome.

"They say disk space is cheap. This is not true, not for the root devices of modern computers. Built-in storage has in fact been shrinking." ♥

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

> The [Apple Computer] garage is a bit of a myth. We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there.
> The work was being done—soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables—at my cubicle at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino. That was an incredible time. It let me do a lot of side projects - Steve Wozniak

The Apple I computer was "slacking off at work" in action. Just imagine doing this today, good luck on not getting your copyright claimed by the company. #retrocomputing #apple

I drream a native #gnome framework made with a browser copied form the #smalltalk browser

For browsing files hierarches

But also email folders

toots (the articulation of categories in ths case could be invented)

forums

trees of todo tasks

git trees

databases

whatever

things could be represented logically with vocabularies and triples and managed by a system wide service

And then the same browser could allow you to browse anything

#daydreaming

Political polling would be much more insightful - and potentially more useful - if it asked people how they would vote on specific issues in a hypothetical referendum, and abandoned the narrow focus on the hypothetical electoral fortunes of political parties.

#NZpolitics #PoliticalPolling

7 years after the release of the #Fairphone 2, the company is still providing security updates and improvements to the phone. Kudos to them!

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp2-fairphone-os-and-fairphone-open-21-10-0-rel-2/78115

@freemo
You're wrong. Apples could fly, not people.
@Science @funny

@digital_carver There are plenty of reasons to hate science nerds, and yes this is one of them :)

Here I sit, broken hearted,
Tried to shit, but only farted.

Could be worse, you must admit,
than if you try to fart and instead you shit.

#biden #USPol #BidenPoopyPants
#Biden #PoopyPantsBiden #lgb

@fitheach @kensanata So....no. All devices should not have the same current and voltage.

Imagine a larger device, something that has a much higher current draw. Then imagine having to use the LARGE powerpack for that device for charging your Switch, or powering an external USB hub.

That's why they are not standard, because the upper ranges would end up defining the standard, leading to needlessly large supplies.

And that's why the connectors are not standard either, to prevent overdraw.

website made by someone who describes themself as "a dipshit who doesn't know how to use computers" and hosted on a raspberry pi or some random VPS: loads instantly, well designed, easy to navigate

website made by fortune 500 company, with teams of designers, programmers, and servers in 8 countries: takes a full minute to load, layout shifting around the whole time, breaks if you have 1 browser add-on, the page you want can only be accessed via a third party search engine, gets worse every year