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This thread highlights one of the things I don’t like the most about people on the fedi: the insufferable arrogance of people (usually tech folks) who think this place should stick to their narrow vision and openly disparage anything that deviates from from that.

The beauty of the fedi is we can literally do anything we want here. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. There is enough space on the internet for us to have our own special little places.

The dogma I see from people complaining about not wanting ads, when you are literally promoting stuff in your bio or not wanting influencers when we boost the sentiments we agree with and saying everything should be free when being on the fedi costs money is so ridiculous it’s beginning to border on straight up bigotry. It’s ok if one doesn’t like these things, but fighting to keep them out of the fedi because of that is replicating the centralized environments we say we allegedly one to get away from.

Not having these things is not what differentiates the fedi from centralized platforms. Giving people the tools to build whatever experience they want safely is what is going to put this place over the top.

Anything less than that and it’s just recreating less featured versions of stuff we already have.

Mekka does a good job of laying out why basing the direction of the fedi based on what we don’t like is a losing game, especially when those dislikes are based on shallow and myopic points.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113…

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Mad Villain

My dislikes of places like TikTok outpace my likes, but one of the things it has over the fedi is diversity of content, which is ridiculous to me considering it’s a closed platform with wonky curation.

I can fun stuff, serious stuff, comforting and informative stuff all together because it has a variety of people from all walks of life sharing what they think is interesting.

The fedi has always fought against this diversity while claiming this place is ‘better’ while refusing to acknowledge the tooling is worse, safety is an after thought in most places and most fedi projects are managed by untrustworthy people.

I believe in the fedi becoming the de facto experience on the web, but there is a lot of to do to get there. We still haven’t realized the potential of this place because, quite honestly the platforms we have at the moment are not good enough for use by people who don’t have extensive experience in tech. And that’s not even getting into the inherent bigotry of the fedi for anything not white.

This place still just lacks the basics when it comes to building dynamic communities.

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Just learned about Emissary, the social web toolkit.

At first glance, it looks like an extensible server that lets you define/extend ActivityPub types with your own, or with custom workflows/access rules.

Now I have to keep myself from going down a million rabbit holes with this. Tempted to dust off my old federated Steam/Itch game/digital project distribution idea, seems a whole lot more doable with something like Emissary than entirely from scratch.

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Think it's got a bit of a problem knowing what language I want.

[deangelisdf/write2audiobook: A powerful tool designed to convert text-based documents into engaging audiobooks. Perfect for anyone looking to make reading more accessible, whether for people with visual impairments or for those who simply prefer listening on the go.](github.com/deangelisdf/write2a…)


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🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!

We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.

This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!

notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22…

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

#linux #foss #opensource #apps #gnome #arm #gstreamer
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Custom Maps Help

I've been playing around with Google Maps lately to create custom maps.

I don't like google but have no experience with any other apps and have never tried mapping of any sort before.

I'm trying to create a map layer(s) that has historic sites, stone circles, woodland, cemeteries, UNESCO sites etc. So if I'm traveling I can stop and see them.

I've created my own Google Map using lists of sites from Wikipedia. This has gone ok but leads to a lot of data cleansing and the functionality isn't great.

I've seen this website but it isn't as complete as the Wikipedia text lists ive imported: hmdb.org/

I'm completely new to this and have no experience. Are there any good resources out there for me to use or contribute to?

I'd like to de-google as much as possible.

P.S. do I need to enable developer mode or root my phone to install open street map now?

Thanks!

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NAME THE MAN. I will not be surprised to learn the man is a xenophobic piece of garbage and that this attack is a direct result of the CAQ policies of hate, fear, and division in this province.

3 men injured after man with knife walks into Montreal-area mosque: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ma… #cdnpoli #polcan #assnat #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #CAQASTROPHE

#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #polmtl #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli

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I just remembered the famous story about how the original ARM processor had extremely low power consumption by accident, so much so that it could run off leakage current. [1] I wonder if any recent ARM application processor (not a microcontroller, but something with an MMU that can run Linux) has power consumption that low. And if so, how does it fare on benchmarks?

[1] Hacker news thread with citations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…

The ARM chip was low power essentially by accident. The designers wanted to keep... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #IAQ advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.

When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #MatrixConf have been monitoring the air quality, adjusting ventilation, and noting when things are concerning. I never even had to ask!

The trick is making the invisible visible, and giving people the tools to make informed decisions.

... and in case you're curious, here are the live data feeds for the event!

LAB Green: aranet.cloud/public/b7v923hk
LAB1: aranet.cloud/public/r52ec3cg
LAB3: aranet.cloud/public/wnh5g37q
LAB4: aranet.cloud/public/v8m3c3w3
Organizer Room: aranet.cloud/public/dx9vb3r9

A screenshot of a dashboard showing CO2 levels across five rooms in a conference. CO2 levels are running between 508 and 693, with some dramatic spikes here and there. (The REALLY dramatic spikes are when someone picked up the sensors to inspect them up close. Don't worry, our rooms never actually had 6000 ppm CO2! We maxed out at about 1500 ppm CO2 yesterday.)
#iaq #HealthAndSafety #matrixconf
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

rudokemper.github.io/google-ma…

A screenshot of the "Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps" tool.

Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps

rudokemper.github.io
@Organic Maps
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ArcaneChat (previously known as #DeltaLab) an alternative Delta Chat client for #Android is now available in official F-Droid store!

If you already have it you can securely continue to upgrade it now from F-Droid (or #IzzyOnDroid) thanks to #ReproducibleBuilds which ensures the apk matches the source code and not me nor F-Droid is manipulating the binary 🎉

f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.d…

#encryption #decentralization #anonymous #email #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #fdroid

Screenshot of the app's chatlist with header text: "Secure Encrypted Chats"
header text: "No phone number or any private data required"
an screenshot of a conversation in a family chat, some visible features: voice messages, images, emoji reactions to messages. There is a header text at the top: "reliable instant messaging"
screenshots showcasing in-chat mini-games one of a chess game another of 2048 tile-merging game, a header text between the two screenshots says: "interactive mini-apps in chats"
#android #email #fdroid #encryption #anonymous #decentralization #deltachat #DeltaLab #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid #arcanechat
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#blocklist update:

Added ts.net to my spammy-subdomains.txt list. While I have been aware of this for the past year, the number of subdomains on fedi has increased and the spam risk is too great (at least one person reported spam).

I should have added this months ago, to be honest: free easily-created subdomains and partially-managed hosting (networking) all in one for a product with sufficient popularity without heavy moderation of spam generally spells out a terrible place way to run an instance. Get a domain name.

For more about spammy-subdomains, see the supplementary blocklists section of my fediverse blocklists.

#BlockList
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Seirdy

blocklists

Moreover, I’ve had an increase in requests to add entries to shared blocklists. I normally don’t take requests for shared lists except in extreme situations, and in those cases I only do overrides as part of the process documented in the article. If I think an override is controversial, I ask a couple sources most likely to disagree; if multiple sources are opposed to adding an entry that overrides consensus, I don’t.

The point of FediNuke is to show what basically everyone agrees should be blocked, and that leaves out a lot of awful (and less-awful) entries. The goal isn’t to make a blocklist that’s enough; it’s to make a blocklist whose entries you probably agree with. As the docs say, this list is not comprehensive. It’s a huge compromise. There’s a reason why our blocklist isn’t just FediNuke; FediNuke is a list to compare other lists to, or a starting point for blocklist-skeptics. If you choose to trust FediNuke (and it’s fine if you don’t; I’m not “making” anybody use it on principle), then your list should eventually be a superset of what you import from it.

#FediNuke

#fedinuke
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