I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.
I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
This is a proposal for how to migrate all your stuff along with you when you move instances.
The gist:
Send a request to move along with a set of stuff you'd like to bring with you. Moderators (optionally) can, approve, send back a change request, or deny. If the changes look ok, start the move, if not, hey you avoided incompatible moderation. Should be possible to layer in any kind of bulk actions you might want: "everything except my DMs," "strip attachments," "only my favorite posts," "nothing," etc.
keep a public collection of move events signed by both the source and target for durable, portable proof that you are the same person as the old account
the new instance crawls your old account and grabs whatever you specified, and then posts a mapping from old URIs to new URIs.
other instances can then immediately remap the URIs so e.g. future interactions get sent to the right place, and then gradually update their local versions over time, spacing out traffic.
Just using existing ActivityPub mechanisms. There are 6 new terms.
Bonus: lays the next steps to migrate to content addressed URIs, decouple accounts from instances, and merge and split accounts.
PR: #692 - WIP: FEP-1580: Move Actor Objects with a `migration` Collection - fediverse/fep - Codeberg.org Fedi thread: jonny (good kind): "Alright it's late and i need to go to bed, but he…" - neurospace.
As free Windows 10 support ends today, consider upgrading to a Linux operating system! You will continue to be protected with security updates, but you will also gain total freedom for your device.
Doesn't have to be Fedora - look around for the Linux distro that works for you. :)
Ah yes, the "switch to Linux" posts are hot and heavy today for obvious reasons (Windows 10). If only I could, but, yeah... Linux desktop accessibility is a complete non-starter in my field of work as things stand now. There are no accessible Linux-based DAWs (Reaper is accessible with the help of OSARA on Mac and Windows, but not Linux), and even basic two-track audio editing is pretty painful. Never mind many other general purpose and UX things. At least Debian has an accessible installer with braille and speech support out-of-the-box.
But but, just donate to the people working in accessibility, where you want to see improvements. That's the key... At least people said that in response to a similar post I made... Yeah bleh, if I had the money you know.
<philpem> isn't amd64 a third-party 64-bit patch on a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit enhancement of an 8-bit processor, originally derived from a 4-bit calculator chip by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition?
“You’re ABC fake news, I don’t take questions from ABC fake news,” Trump said as a reporter shouted a question at him. “After what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States—I don’t take questions from ABC fake news.” trib.al/L8ObEpd
I am rather amazed as to the bad state of share sheets on both iOS and Android -- don't know which one is worse. Try sharing something. You quickly find yourself scrolling through a bunch of apps, some of which are related and others are not. Why is there no “search” field? :)
On this day 12 years ago, Dexter, our family dog, died. A schnoodle weighing about 25 pounds, he wasn't my favorite dog we had over the years, to say the least.
He was 13, and by then, had quite a lot of issues.
Back then, I was spending about half my time in North Carolina and the other half in New York (I hadn't yet moved here).
I left for NYC probably about a month prior, figuring this would be the last time I would see him, and I was right.
He didn't do that much for me. I was a lot more sad for Mom when he passed than I was about the actual dog, but I will most definitely not have that kind of reaction when Watson, current silly little family dog, makes his way across the Rainbow Bridge, whenever that happens. He's almost 13 now.
Speaking of dexter, though, in 2008, I recorded this thing, which I called "Dog Vs. Horn". I was making bad/silly noises with a cheap Chinese double French Horn. Dexter was in a closed bedroom across the house.
Completely coincidentally, this was also the day twelve years ago when I woke up in all kind of pain, which eventually lead to me having my eyes removed. Yeah, not a fantastic day, all things considered.
References racism, slurs, violence as part of article about Young Republicans in USA.
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What do leaders of Young Republican groups talk about when they think no one's eavesdropping? Leaked private messages suggest they use racist slurs, joke about slavery and gas chambers, and share violent fantasies. According to @politico: "Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator."
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@prism What was even more interesting is how our vice president reacted, basically dismissing the voices who condemned those so-called young republicans.
I finished working on a metal song entitled "Anaesthesis" last night which is probably the darkest piece I've ever written. Content warning: heavy mental health stuff. files.jantrid.net/music/NthDeg…
@prism Thanks. If you're interested, there is more like this on the two albums I released with a friend under the name "Electronight Alchemy". The three most similar songs are probably It'll Be Alright, Scourge, and Always Greener. I'll provide direct YouTube links to those songs below, but they're also on all the other streaming services. youtube.com/watch?v=wUtr1Lh5ic… youtube.com/watch?v=siHnYrHda-… youtube.com/watch?v=Ytlaw5u_H8…
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Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed AI strategy.
@SnowyCA it's excruciating. But a lot of "don't". I also mention that maybe there are other priorities that it's not sustainable, unethical, etc. Why not supporting Canadians. etc. Also reiterate that their questions are loaded.
asking about sovereignty. I had to remind them that even our fighter jet can't be maintained by us. Let alone the billions spent annullay on US cloud or foreign proprietary software. Or how we can't provide equitable access to basic telecom and transportation across the country. etc. I wasn't nice about the minister.
Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
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no idea about the [GNOME] foundation part, but we are certainly halting any kind of hw partnership on the gnomeos side if they keep promoting DHH
[Kyle Gospo]
Same position, we've been quiet but Bazzite and Bluefin will walk if they continue](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/713453 "Screenshot of two messages
[anonymous]
no idea about the [GNOME] foundation part, but we are certainly halting any kind of hw partnership on the gnomeos side if they keep promoting DHH
[Kyle Gospo]
Same position, we've been quiet but Bazzite and Bluefin will walk if they continue")
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