"The fourth power law (also known as the fourth power rule) states that the greater the axle load of a vehicle, the greater the stress on a road caused by the motor vehicle."
"The ratio of the car to bicycle is 160,000 to 1.
This means that after 160,000 crossings, the bicycle causes as much damage [to the road] as the car does when driving on the road only once." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_p…
Do you wish there was a multi-column TweetDeck-style interface?
There is! It's called the "advanced web interface" and you can activate it any time you want. It lets you add many specialised columns, subscribe to hashtags and all kinds of stuff suited to large wide displays.
Log into the website, go to Preferences > Enable Advanced Web Interface, tick the box and click "Save Changes".
(To restore the default single column interface, do the same thing but untick the box instead.)
This used to be the default interface on Mastodon, and very old articles about the platform will have screenshots of the multicolumn interface.
@lutindiscret yes, but you need to keep a few things in mind for a perfect experience: 1. set it up on one device then export a backup and import it on the other device 2. double check the setting "Copy to self / BCC self" is active
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* Adapt It Mobile: translate between related languages * Customer Database: Simple Customer Management * Inure App Manager: app manager with lots of details, a terminal & more * Octi: Monitor and synchronize information between multiple Android devices
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@smoon Věřím tomu. Byl jsem tam clít jednou, jen jako fyzická osoba, a byl to podobný bizár. Posílali si mě tam po několika místnostech s papírama pro razítka.
I've reported from my migration to my new home here at floss.social that there were issues with bookmark import. Now I can happily report the issue was solved after just 2 weeks. Thanks to the Mastodon team!
Steps to reproduce the problem Export bookmarks from server A Try to import the resulting file to server B Wait for them to show up ... Expected behaviour All bookmarks show up (or at least those t...
@downey Who knows. I just thought if I reported there's a problem I should also mention when it was addressed. I do not plan another migration in the near future, so for now the download suffices for me (for which I'm using mastodon-backup now, and get it packaged for DEB/RPM so others can use it easily, too – testers welcome, packages seem stable now: github.com/kensanata/mastodon-…) @hugo
As discussed in #78 we will go about packaging mastodon-backup for Linux distributions – a task I've adopted. Attached you'll find the first packages to test (I had to rename the files to *...
@downey Yes indeed. I even integrated it with my Mastodon article (in the section on backup & migration). Contributed a few scripts (see the `contrib/` sub-dir and take the still open PRs into account for that as well). Hope to get an easy set-and-forget guide for it soon, once packages are confirmed to work fine and my other PRs are merged.
Oh, and still hope @kensanata finds time to introduce an option creating an "export archive" of the archived content, opening it for more viewers…
Sehr geehrter Damen & Herren, es ist soweit. Wir haben eine Instanz eingerichtet, die sich an Podcasts richtet.
Die Idee ist: Accounts sind hier Podcasts (keine Personen!), damit Hörer*innen ihren Podcasts (nicht den Podcaster*innen!) folgen können.
Wenn ihr mit der Idee etwas anfangen könnt, ihr euch umschauen oder sogar um einen Account bewerben wollt - hier geht es lang: podcasts.social/about/more
Dictionary was my first serious #GNOME application; I wrote during the 2.14 development cycle (late 2005) it to replace the old gdict utility that was written for GNOME 1.2 and ported to GNOME 2.0
For my sins, I ended up maintaining the gnome-utils package starting with GNOME 2.14 (2006), until we split it up for GNOME 3.4 (2012)
Other people picked up the project, but in the end there's just so much you can do with a DICT client; people are always surprised once they find out how hard, complicated, and expensive it is to actually have a dictionary, so punting to other projects is the simplest solution
For a while, I hoped people would pick up the code, drop the awful DICT client implementation I wrote, and replace it with a Wiktionary view. Alas, it wasn't meant to be
So: godspeed, Dictionary. You did good by me, and I am happy I wrote you. You were the best I could do as a new contributor, and I hope other people found you useful, even for a little bit
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@aral Hmmm, well, maybe based a little more criteria like stability, uptodate version, etc...
Basically I could imagine a general distribution based on: - legislation (where is the server located)? - is it stable? - runs reasonable recent version? - is registration open and what type of registration (invite only, free, registration through 3rd party like LDAP/SAML)? - paid or free?
This should be best determined automatically before offering the user a server.
In other words, the bug where desktop (test version 1.33) kept scrolling to the top of a chat is solved now thanks to @jikstra. That was one of the blocking bugs that are delaying the desktop 1.34 release.
In Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport you can find three phase sockets, so you may run your portable induction motor while waiting for your flight. I think Mr. Tesla would be happy 😁
@ttyS1 nope, neutral and earthing is provided by bottom contacts, barely visible on the photo. See this Wikipedia page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indust…
We're seeing a huge influx in new users of our app! Thank you everyone for chosing to try out #Tusky!
If you can afford to, it would go a long way for our project if you'd donate the equivalent of $1/month (but at a yearly base so $12/year, because it lowers fees!)
✅ Done. A little bit weird that after contributing there are just buttons to share it via Twitter and Facebook 😵💫. I'm here for I don't want to be on Twitter and Facebook 😎
Thanks for the reminder. I'd accidentally had an expired card there so this year's donation wouldn't have gone through. Fix'd! Thanks for all the awesome work.
Thanks for the reminder, done. It's an awesome app! 👍
Also, I wouldn't mind if you could have a look at 'With 17.0 beta 1 it's no longer possible to refresh under the timeline' 😇 github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…
With the previous versions I was able to refresh the timeline "above" my currently last read toot. So I would scroll the "load more" button to the top of my timeline so it's...
I'm sorry, I didn't want to sound demanding. I just heard that Husky will not be maintained any longer and I liked it's style. Tusky works just as well.
@fell there's history there that most people probably don't know. Which is fine. But they forked from us, and we have no desire to maintain their stuff.
En + des Gifs qu'on peut insérer , pour les presbytes ( les vieux quoi) c'est écrit plus gros et ça c'est avantage non négligeable 😂 Merci donc @kiri ( ayé j'y suis arrivée tavu?!?)
With Mastodon 4 there is the option to edit a post after it has been posted. Tusky should support it. Tusky Version: 19 Android Version: LineageOS 19 (Android 12) Android Device: Mastodon instance ...
is there a place to get tech support for the tusky app anywhere? would love to use it on android but won't let me login despite having correct password & cookies turned on (as instructed).
Your point is taken. To clarify my remark a bit. In the Fediverse is no Big Tech lurking on your data to create a profile and sell that as many times as possible. However if your on someone else's instance a rogue admin can still gather all the data on that instance (even the DM's I suppose).
At least with ActivityPub you get a choice in who is able to read your DMs. I think too many people assumed that even Twitter messaging was private, and somehow that (incorrect) model applies here.
A guide on data protection obligations, challenges & pitfalls for Mastodon Users & Instance Admins - GitHub - clening/MastodonPrivacyGuide: A guide on data protection obligations, challenge...
I've seen people raising this on twitter like its "a bad thing". When in reality it's no different to any of the "town hall" social media platforms. Posts and DMs aren't encrypted. They're not losing anything they already have.
I've come to think that it's actually a good thing if social media sites don't have end-to-end encryption. Otherwise, you're providing an organizing tool for bad actors.
@mathew But we’re talking about end-to-end encryption and private messaging. Removing the ability for people to communicate privately wouldn’t do anything to stop bad actors, it would just make private communication illegal. And guess who are great at doing illegal things… that’s right, bad actors :)
What it would also do, of course, is allow corporations and governments to further skew the power dynamic in their favour and, eventually, to erode the very concept of personhood.
I have no problem with end-to-end encrypted messaging for 1-on-1 communication, or 1-to-small-group.
Where it becomes problematic is if you imagine K*w*farms or 8k*n, but decentralized enough to be unstoppable, and with everything encrypted so that nobody would know what was going on until it was far too late.
I think people building social networks need to put more effort into making sure they're not building or enabling a more effective K*w*farms.
@Linux_in_a_Bit I don't think anyone cares enough to go through the work of digging through DB to read DMs lol honestly not even sure it is possible never looked. @architect is the only one who's ever touched the dB on lr to repair records.
@omnipotens @Linux_in_a_Bit @architect Of course it is possible because, again, it is unencrypted. And unless you run your instance on physical hardware in your bedroom, folks in the data center and at your hosting provider are among the ones who could have access to them. Given that the privacy (and thus safety) of the people on your instance is concerned, I would expect a much less cavalier attitude towards this from a server admin than “no one cares lol.”
We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.
(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s…)
Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:
The Small Web.
@pavsaund I’ve gradually shifted into that camp as well. Spent years running my own Nextcloud server and got tired of all the tiny things that kept popping up. At the end I bought managed Nextcloud to be rid of them and one day realized: that’s what Dropbox has been all along.
I’m not saying Nextcloud should not exist because there’s Dropbox. My point is that running/owning alternatives to Big Tech should be as hassle free as using Big Tech itself.
(Apart from perhaps that we should also be looking at designs that aim to make doing what you describe as easy as possible. It’s much easier to set up a system that’s explicitly designed to serve one person than one that is designed to serve 1-100,000 people. The complexity involved is orders of magnitude less in the former.)
Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:
The Small Web.
@pavsaund I think we should promote “hassle free Mastodon” experiences instead of “run your own server”. The latter screams “work I don’t want to do” at me.
The underlying implementation can stay the same. It’s a matter of packaging the thing, meaning: you tell customers that they pay for and create a Mastodon account but under water you spin up a new instance for them.
In this scenario you are creating personal servers for everybody without them knowing (because they don’t care).
@Gargron I was thinking similar thoughts the other day. It should act like a clearing house and entry point - orienting people then encouraging them to move.
@kraehenpost Maybe it’s naïve, maybe it’s ~ a decade of thinking about the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(It comes down to your definition of “working.” If we manage to recreate twitter.com on mastodon.social, I wouldn’t define that as “working” but as “failed.”)
The greatest challenge for Mastodon now that it’s getting mainstream attention is to figure out how to resist “embrace and privatise”.
Tomorrow Google announces Gastodon. What do you do to stop it becoming Gmail?
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@Gargron how do you think the discovery problem should be handled in a small web perspective? The thing Twitter (and Big Tech in general) does really well is to solve that problem, and I don't see a great answer on Mastodon except for directories of individuals... Of which there are multiple in various states of maintenance.
as a newbie - it is very hard to find instances, and very hard to find people. Neither of those are architectural issues (ish), they are fundamental to adoption though.
> A single instance that can scale to host hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people
means that running an instance for couple thousands or hundreds people is becoming way cheaper, and as a result, more accessible.
This is the exact problem that, for instance, Matrix has. It's voracious, and a nightmare to work with, so just anyone from the street can't afford to host it. Whereas XMPP servers like ejabberd or Prosody can serve tens of thousands of users from a matchbox computer like rPi. So I can be confident that they will handle my needs easy-peasy.
And Mastodon as well is such a beast, that code optimization is way overdue. I think we should welcome it when the software is trying to get better, not bash its creator for it.
@jay @Gargron Big Tech is designed to scale vertically because their success criteria is continuous (ideally exponential) growth*. It’s that ideology/success criteria that drives their client/multi-tenant server design. When you adopt that design, you inherently adopt the success criteria that created it. And if that ideology/success criteria are not aligned with your own, you have a problem on your hands.
* with finite resources (an interesting one to think about… 🤔)
This is short-sighted in my opinion. Mastodon should be resource efficient enough that everbody can host it from home on a Raspberry Pi. Purposefully wasting resources will not lead to more decentralisation.
@Gargron By this criterion, recent developments have optimised a lot! In the last week we've had almost 200k new users, only 6k new users in a month on mastodon.social. fedidb.org/network/instance?do…
Personally, I've been working on making efficient p2p database indexes and finding a way to represent ActivityStreama in them so that we can start bridging between fedi and p2p. 🥰
If I may politely disagree? Many of the same optimizations that could help mastodon.social have more users also make it so that running a different instance is cheaper.
It's worth differentiating "scaling by being able to use EVEN BIGGER hardware" (not so awesome in this view) vs "scaling through optimizations" which is a strict win. It's great if you can host a good-sized instance on a $100 machine.
This does make sense to me. As I learn more about the #fediverse I'm becoming more interested in the smaller instances. I, for one, welcome this mindset shift.
The idea of setting up my own instance is appealing... but I don't think I fully understand the required investment yet.
What if newly created accounts get assigned to random servers by some algorythm or by giving people options considering characteristics of the account ( language, topics of interest, country/continent, etc )? Maybe even having the same account mirrored in more than one server?
I agree, but the hard part is the vast majority of people aren't techy enough for this.
As such...I do wonder if there is a hole in the ecosystem for an easy "create your account on one of these pre-configured domains" site, kind of like freedns.afraid.org does it.
That way users would maybe be spread out among those pre-configured instances rather than the singular monolithic one.
You can feel the problems even as a tech enthusiast... and get used to it so you don't view it as a big problem. But normal people who are not tech enthusiasts are less likely to go through that effort and have a more difficult process
I think we need Decentralized Identity to finally happen more than anything. There's no reason why, in this age, the Fediverse still works like E-mail. With all our data and identity stored on a single server identified with a traditional user@domain URL.
Once you can use your private key to interact with your identity on any server at any time, that's when #decentralization can really kick off. Mastodon.social down? No problem! Just seamlessly continue from another server...
@Gargron The mega instances are great for on-boarding as they provide a gentle introduction to the concept of federation. If there's a hard limit we shut the door to new citizens of the fediverse and that's not worth it. There should be a point where dot-social users are encouraged to migrate out. A gentle reminder from the admin, or a mandatory donation to the server maintenance fund after year 1 would keep its user growth in check.
While I agree that decentralization is the goal, I think optimizing both the code and the network is necessary to drive down the cost/user and improve performance (~experience). Some of that is technical, and some is social.
I haven’t found the smaller communities that are centered around the things I’m interested in. Even if I stood up a server, the people I wish were in the fediverse are sufficiently non technical that convincing them to try it and onboarding them is a big lift.
@shine I kind of had this on my to-do list for years to make my own website which already has notes, photos, podcasts, events, likes, etc. ActivityPub aware like aaronparecki.com/ does which would bridge the IndieWeb with the Fediverse. Some day in the future perhaps.
the problem is that as long as deploying an instance is not zero effort (which it never will be), there will always be end users (most of them in fact) who rely on centralisation - simply because they wouldn't be able to do it on their own. turning this around: if you don't optimise for scale, you lock these end users out.
The more complexity you add to handle vertical scale the harder you make it for individuals to self host.
All that said, Mastodon is what it is. Likely too late to change course now. But hopefully we’ll see more interest in single- tenant fediverse clients going forward.
the twitter migrants mostly don't want to think about 'instances' and 'federated structure,' they just want to write something fairly short, push the button and have a wide audience of other people see their messages. I understand the concern, but I also think that not as many people would make the switch if we didn't have the big catch-all instances. Overall usage is important, it is a social network. Maybe people can start out there and move after getting more used to the platform.
i've had thoughts about reworking the old concept of relays into a sort of overlay network -- joinmastodon could essentially work like an irc network in having servers that users connect to round-robin, but discovery could be handled at the central gateway service. that way if the central service goes down, you can still use your server, you just get a less complete view of trends and it becomes slightly harder to find profiles. then it should matter less where you sign up.
I just realised there's whole "hashtag communities" like #astrodon over at mastodon.social. Wondering if smaller instances would be interested in reaching out to those people and letting them know they can switch? That particular instance is extremel…
One thing that would help me move off mastodon.online is a way to migrate accounts that works in an adversarial environment. So, “I don’t have any access to my old account, but I do have this certificate.”
I like the idea of moving my account around freely between small instances, but I feel like I need to be picky because I don’t have the energy to deal with them shutting down or having weird admins.
Smaller instances are more likely to die out. It's better to have fewer ( in dozens or so) instances that are more reliable, IMHO. Thousands of servers just confuse people and make the network less efficient
@Gargron It's an interesting challenge to solve. Probably there could be an onboarding flow which distributes new users across instances which somehow qualify, e.g. uptime * user satisfaction index * user retention vector. (Thinking loud here.)
@max We want to drink a beer in a crowded pub, never in an empty pub. We live in cities or villages and not alone in the countryside. People are social, we want to belong to a group. That's why people flock to mastodon.social.
It doesn't help that most of the media has been reporting and promoting Mastodon as an open-source Twitter alternative without mentioning the fediverse or it's decentralised nature.
TBH I think Mastodon might have a problem if everybody picks the "same" server because that is the place "to be". The distributed nature of the network should be invisible IMHO.
I have to agree. Not that we should make it "impossible" to have instances beyond a certain size, but it's better to have more instances than to have big instances that "work". Making the big instance more efficient is only good, if it helps making it easier for people to start their own small instance.
@ottona Well, you lose your old toots. I did this migration process mere hours ago and it was more painful than it should. With a bit of UI/UX work it can be improved though. Ideally it should be a couple of clicks if we want to nudge people towards moving to other instances.
Yes you want fewer people/server and many servers. BUT, you also want those servers to be able to serve as backups to a few other small servers, too. A decentralized torrent like redundancy to minimize impact of single node failure. THAT's old school small web. :)
@Gargron as a recent escapee from #twitter it was helpful to have a wide-open mastodon.social that has accepted me until I find my footing and figure out where my people are. Many I meant to follow went to instances that are now full. Having a (temporary) central clearing house might be useful though I see the sense in encouraging it to stay temporary.
Moving from a centralized mindset to a decentralized one isn't trivial. I agree that we should foster more servers with fewer people, and here in Portugal many have registered in a local instance, but what exactly is "fewer"? And aren't the more generic servers always going to be more crowded than the niche ones?
@astrojuanlu @ottona Yeah, I went through the migration process yesterday and it was surprisingly painful.
Lost all my Toots from the old instance, and it would not let me transfer my followers because there was some backlog processing taking place at the time.
Really a terrible experience that should have more work done to improve it.
So the process is currently to manually export your data, run the migration feature, and manually import your data back?
(If so, yes, this is very confusing and I would likely have lost five years’ worth of posts had I not seen this and tried it myself too. I’d expect a migration feature to migrate all my data. The flow should guarantee this.)
way back when Opera tried to do a similar kind of thing with the browser running a few services as servers tied to your username. Worked pretty well. Could sync browsers, leave notes, run a little blog. As long as you turned it on, the browser connected to their server and it functioned like dns to direct you directly to the endpoint.
I’ve long felt it’s a good thing to have a limbo instance to collect the confused masses as they migrate so they learn and form a basis for understanding it. People who are ready to get it already go to smaller instances.
This partly made me decide to create my own instance of Mastodon. It's really nice how you can have your own little corner but still connect with everyone else.
@tamitha Related to those though a bit of an aside: I use masto.host and have recommended it to a number of people to bootstrap small instances. One reason is I appreciate masto.host’s Hugo’s stance that he never wants to host a large fraction of the Fediverse. He’s made commitments and promises that at enough percentage he refuses new business to encourage instance diversity. I believe he does encourage large instances to split, too. (Not for technical reasons.)
I mean, Mastodon.Social is here for those who want a more traditional social media experience. I too am generally pro #SmallWeb, but most of us newcomers are mainly just looking for a twitter replacement, and so Mastodon.Social has to grow to accommodate the new crowd,
my only issue with this is when instances close. Yeah, most times they give you time to migrate your follows, but your toots, images etc die with it. There should be a way to migrate all of that too.
@astrojuanlu @ottona @Gargron You can manually import your Following list, Blocking list, Muting list, Domain blocking list, and Bookmarks.
Your Followers rely on the old server being able to handle the request, which I had issues with.
Your Toots are not portable at all, and there is a feature request from 6 years ago asking for this over on the GitHub but no work has been done on it as far as I can tell. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Toot import should be fairly straightforward, but the concern becomes that it could allow abuse. I think the following constraints on imported toots should be sufficient: Imported toots just show u...
@nosherwan I reckon big is not necessarily bad as long as the culture is healthy and as long as is it easy for folks to start up their own. Not everyone wants to be a builder.
the more (small) servers people start: the population on Mastodon will get more 'diverse'. Wouldn't that cause a bigger load on each server as it needs to maintain more federated connections? Or does it work in a complete different way? (just getting curious 😉 )
I wouldn't see it to bleak though. When I arrived here, I welcomed the presence of a bigger server to get started. Soon after I looked for peers (for me in science), got signposts, and ended up at the present server, which is much smaller.
I am sure that many others will have the same journey.
I know you advocate the "small web", and well, such journeys may make people more comfortable with the idea in the medium and long run!
a good start on this front would be an official Docker image. As someone predisposed to self-hosting, my expectation is that a mature service has a well-maintained (multi-architecture) Docker image ready to be deployed, configurable with environment variables.
The biggest issue I had setting up a server was to provide a way to send emails. The complexity of the software itself, while no laughing matter, is a problem which can be solved nicely with docker.
@Gargron my issue is that the global federated timeline is too confusing and there is zero translation option. At times i had to mute people who mass post on languages i dont understand :(
@simeon @pavsaund Thanks! A mastodon-instance-per-person would likely qualify but is unrealistic and would be both overkill. Mastodon’s architecture mirrors that of Big Tech. It’s a server capable of supporting one to several hundred thousand people on a single instance. That’s very different from a system designed to support just one person. The latter has orders of magnitude less complexity and requires similarly fewer resources.
@simeon @pavsaund Running Mastodon on an instance of one is like buying a hotel to live in just for yourself. Sure, you can do it, but it’s going to cost you. In the Small Web model, we all own our own cottages and it’s the collection of cottages that makes the villages.
I’m guessing the key difference is that you can always move instance.
This way it can fit everyone - both the specialist and the generalist.
Having large generic instances is also a good way to get started - for example I’m almost sure I’m on the wrong instance; yet I don’t really know which one would be the ”right” yet.
it sounds like you're not necessarily against big servers, but cautioning thay they might push the direction of the protocol or make it harder to cultivate an ecosystem of smaller ones. i would say it needs to be easier to start smaller ones and i'm not sure how that becomes zero-effort or within reach of less technical people. systems like these easyindie.app are useful for making it simpler but it's still requires server admin; is smallweb possible without it?
when I decided to switch to mastodon from birdsite, this was my experience:
* Google mastodon * look at the very limited list of "endorsed instances" * find almost nothing applicable other than the general ones, with furry and foreign making a large appearance * join the largest general instance I could find, because who has time to read 3 blog posts to understand why it doesn't matter?
@Gargron I'm new to mastodon today. I think that makes sense, but it's a pretty big hurdle to figure out which community makes sense on day 1, so I went with the default knowing I can move later. The community belonging concept feels tough to me right now as I exist and want to communicate in multiple communities, and I'm not sure how I would decide to join one today if targeted communities existed for all of my interest areas.
@Gargron These optimizations will allow me (and others) to run an instance as a virtual machine with 8GB RAM that ist still likely to support a few thousand users.
Yes. I am often asked whether I want to grow toot.bike real big. I guess no. I'll probably just close applications at one point when one dedicated machine can still comfortably handle everything.
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If you use the Firefox browser – or a privacy-respecting Firefox fork, like LibreWolf (librewolf.net/) – take a look at the LibRedirect extension (libredirect.github.io/). It automatically redirects links/embeds of surveillance capitalists like Google (YouTube, etc.), Instragram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. to community-run instances that remove tracking, etc.
I think what stresses me out with LibRedirect is how it interacts with NoScript - the number of new actors you trust with your data becomes very apparent. Sure, Google won't map you, but instead you're trusting a bunch of smaller actors with your data, and to not do anything malicious :/
I've been using this with limited success. Sometimes what you get through these links seems broken / doesn't load correctly, while some features exist in the "full" version only.
Still, an awesome idea! And I like not going through captchas everytime I want to read something on one of the corporate services.
@FOxyShelby Only as safe as the sites that are included. So, no, I wouldn’t call it safe. But so few things are these days. As always, know your threat model and decide accordingly (easier said than done, I know).
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Hey, it's not your video, and probably not Creative Commons so YouTube link is cool. Though if it could be pushed to a smaller "small web" type system would be nice. Just gentle nudges seem good.
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This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Two projects were finished successfully.
Did you hear the news about Mr #Musk's suggested changes to the "blue tick" (a.k.a. "verified badge")? If not, you'll be delighted to know that we are finally turning it into a paid feature, making that green check mark extra special! ✅
As a symbol of our transparency at #Twitter Inc., we will also introduce semi-transparent verification badges. The opacity of the badge will depend on your selected Twitter Verified plan. For only $10 a month, you can get a verification badge with 20% opacity!
Vor allem polizeiliche Beobachtungspraktiken mit Big Data haben laut Forschern das Potenzial, bei Bürgern "auch ein Gefühl der Verunsicherung" auszulösen.
„One might wonder how a punycode decoder that overflows on an example string from the RFC makes it into a cryptographic library released in '21.“ #OpenSSL
Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustrator, sparking a debate about the ethics of reproducing a living artist's style. I talked to that artist to see how she felt about it, and the person who made it. waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diff…
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
Wow, a kicker of a last paragraph. After dancing uncomfortably around the first artist's objections, they went and did the same thing to another artist. They could have just... not.
What an interesting reading, thanks for your work.
I agree with your statement on this. The issue is a bit harder to address than classic #peopleFarming. How can an artist choose to opt-out from this? @aral
@archos Já mám na RPi "jen" Libreelec a mám k tomu úplně jinou oboustrannou klávesnici (MX3) Na serveru (HP Microserver) mám pak OpenHAB. Ale v zásadě nevidím důvod proč by to nemělo fungovat.
How can we improve LibreOffice's user experience, based on data that users provide, while respecting their privacy? Let's discuss this: design.blog.documentfoundation…
What comes to your mind, when you ask yourself why people use LibreOffice? A “stunning user experience” is likely not in the top list. And unfortunately we share this problem with a lot of user facing Free Software.
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@liberachat I had a brief internet outage today, and when I came back I am not able to join irc.libera.chat. It says my ip has been banned because it is on some .org site. That should not be the case because I have had this ip for years, and never used it for spam of any sort.
It's #NaNoWriMo, and we're once again opening certain features to everyone this month, which are normally only available to Pro users:
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Na serveru (HP Microserver) mám pak OpenHAB.
Aral Balkan
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