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I get questions from time to time asking about the sailboat ⛵ emoji I terminate most of my posts with in social media and beyond. Got one yesterday, and figured it's as good a time as any to take my response, copypasta it, and push it to the Fediverse where I can pin it and just link to in the future when I need it. So without further adieu here's pretty much the gist of any response I make when that question arises... > "Ah, yes. Thanks for asking, I don't mind at all really 😀 Okay tl;dr... My daughter was born in 1996. That effectively ended my life at sea, since I raised her from birth, alone and on my own until she left the nest to head off to university after graduating high school Prior to that I had literally spent half my life onboard seagoing vessels, either working as a diving instructor, researcher, or liveaboard on one of my many progessively larger sailboats each time I purcahsed a new home for myself. At the time it was a 102' steel brigantine called "God of Thunder - an actual square rigged tallship, if you will. The sailboat emoticon is coincidental to my long standing handle, and IMO, *cute*. It's also, perhaps more importantly, a very easy visual when scanning through posts for someone to say, "Here's one from that guy", lolz. It does follow a long standing tradition of people customizing their signatures going back to Usenet, majordomo listservs, etc., but takes up a single line instead of the 'other types' of gawdy signatures spanning several lines with ASCII art that was once so popular in mail and webforums, Telnet/SSH MOTD's; not to mention the irritable nature of such signatures when followed by PGP signings. Not being plain text, it also does two other things - enables me to quickly find my own posts in a sea of others (no pun intended), and raises the eye level conveniently so that the meat of the body of any message is separated from any messages/posts that follow. I also use it as a *reaction*, generally to mean that I like or agree with someone else's comments in forums and chat systems like this and Matrix. I suppose I could also characterize the existence of a sailboat emoticon as being standard in pretty much any online social construct as fortuitous, since I have always identified so closely with the connotations I derive from seeing it, and a reminder that someday, eventually, I'll return to that kind of life. In the meantime, since I've returned here to my homeland in SoCal after the better part of a decade off-grid in the mountain wilderness, I'm within walking distance of prime spearfishing kelp beds at the bottom of the cliff near my house. <insert sailboat emoji here> ."
⛵ . I get questions from time to time asking about the sailboat ⛵ emoji I terminate most of my posts with in social media and beyond. Got one yesterday, and figured it's as good a time as any to take my response, copypasta it, and push it to the Fediverse where I can pin it and just link to in the future when I need it.
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Let's pretend we're proponents of free and open source software, enlist an army of week intentioned FOSS developers to contribute to our project, and once successfully deployed in many enterprises across the industry... Pull the rug out and convert it into a proprietary product with a bunch of undisclosed, hidden code that we won't ever show you - Muahahaha... Yeah. I see this happening right now in several prominent and celebrated open source projects that you're probably completely oblivious to those sinister objectives. This is why the most ubiquitous desktop operating system in the world is Minix. What's that you say? Yup, Minix. But that's no secret, the cat was out of the bag on that one a few years back (after being secretly so for many years). Before you contribute any more code, translations, or documentation to a software project, consider this: drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Don… Next up? How Minix became the most prolific operating system in the world today. Stay tuned! ⛵ . Let's pretend we're proponents of free and open source software, enlist an army of week intentioned FOSS developers to contribute to our project, and once successfully deployed in many enterprises across the industry... Pull the rug out and convert it into a proprietary product with a bunch of undisclosed, hidden code that we won't ever show you - Muahahaha...
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Here we go folks! How Minix got to be the most prolific desktop operating system in the world... lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-u… Now, there's another point to be made here, without specifically naming any projects currently abusing user contributions. Let's call this hypothetical project "hammer&anvil", itself a fork of a popular software project - but claims it's all about being free and transparent, wanting to distinguish itself from the project it's forked from by adopting GPL3 instead of a permissive license. Sure, the project's BDFL (let's call her "Strawberry Daiquiri"), says one day, "were forming a fork of project X because they've formed a company and I'm afraid what they are going to do with X because it's under a permissive license. This girl will be brutally transparent and completely run by the community under the philosophy of anarchy, but we're going to call it a sociocracy so you don't know that it's really just me making a proprietary product for my own ambitions". Well, Miss Daquiri decides to capture by capitalizing upon the sentiment that folks have for Copyleft - it's supposed to protect free software, right? Well, this fork (hammer& anvil) is a hosted solution - meaning SaaS, meaning, it runs elsewhere (other than in your computer) in the cloud as a publicly accessible service. Hmmmm. That means that the most appropriate Copyleft license is likely the AGPL, and not the GPL as one would expect fur a desktop or other local program that you actually download and install in your laptop or server. The GPL requires that when you distribute (give away or sell) your program, either by letting someone download or handing it to them on a USB stick, Etc., You must also make available ALL of the source code, including any changes you've made to the program. But if you run a modified GPL program as a service in the cloud you don't have to provide ANY off the changes you've made to the code. Hmmm. With AGPL you do have to supply your users with ANY code modifications you've made to the running service to which they have accounts... So let's just say that you fork Mastodon, and call it Glitch-Soc, modify it, and run it in the cloud for people to create accounts on and use (for free or for monthly subscription fees - it doesn't matter). ANY and ALL changes to the code base that you make MUST be made available anytime a user asks for the source code, because it's an #AGPL licensed product. And in reality, such is actually the case with this exceedingly popular and capable #fork. It's a fine product in it's own right. But had you changed the license to all contributions moving forward to #GPL, you wouldn't have to provide any modifications you made (unless you give or sell the software product itself on say, a USB stick or via download). Why? Because you're just allowing them to access and use your service, your not actually giving them the program to use for themselves elsewhere - so any modifications you made since forking under a different license (GPL instead of AGPL) isn't something you have to show them. You've essentially created a #proprietary product (if you're so nefarious as to hide your code changes by butt disclosing them), the only code of which you must supply being that which existed under the AGPL before you forked it. Both #Copyleft and permissive open source #licenses like #BSD and #MIT can be a good thing, or they can be abused beyond the intentions of the #FOSS inclined project contributors. Just make sure that you understand what can and cannot be changed where your intended purpose for the #distribution and #availability of source code is concerned.... There are BIG differences between the ramifications of each #license and how they can affect transparency and distribution of your free gifts to the world. In our hypothetical scenario with hammer&anvil, the #BDFL, #Strawberry Daiquiri, has decided that she's going to launch a hosted service, and she's going to include things that you don't see and can't be aware of behind the scenes which, if disclosed, you would have nothing to do with - but you'll never know what kinds of scary things she's done with the product that only resembles the original on the surface, because Miss Daquiri will never have to show you the code she has added behind the scenes. > "Beautiful Victor, Beautiful." ⛵ . Here we go folks! How Minix got to be the most prolific desktop operating system in the world... lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-u… Now, there's another point to be made here, without specifically naming any projects currently abusing user contributions. Let's call this hypothetical project "hammer&anvil", itself a fork of a popular software project - but claims it's all about being free and transparent, wanting to distinguish itself from the project it's forked from by adopting GPL3 instead of a permissive license.
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@byteduck Bottom line: only an idiot would choose discord as a support channel for their #FOSS protect - especially a Linux distro! Why you would even consider using discord is beyond the comprehension of most #FOSS and #Privacy advocates, and the best case scenario results only in fracturing your user base and disenfranchising a huge swath of the community that will simply disregard your project as hostile and as a whole without user support. teddit.net/r/privacy/comments/… stallman.org/discord.html I hope that helps! #tallship #open source #privacy #tracking #surveillance ⛵ . ♲ i.calckey.cloud/notes/9aqdjsdf…
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Playing around with #Relatica - it's pretty bitchen! write.as/tallship/relatica-the… #tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #Friendica ⛵ , Playing around with #Relatica - it's pretty bitchen! write.as/tallship/relatica-the… #tallship #Fediverse
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#Friendica on your #Android, and #Linux, #Mac, or #Windows desktop - no messy browsers required!
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takahē - A new Fediverse paradigm Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century. That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts. In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population. The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms - first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub - **this is huge**, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single user "virtual Fediverse server instances", in consumer based home #LAN environments - let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors. To my knowledge, ***this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached**. jointakahe.org/ ***If you hurry***, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program. Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎 And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, **Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server**. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking! A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @userone@SLD01.TLD01 *AND* @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 *AND* @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 - that, at least to me, can only be described as, **"The Bees Knees"**. I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant - *the cat is already out of the bag*. Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway - but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space. There's a lot more. **Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI?** Of course I did! There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, *before your eyes*. Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr). The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #World Wide Web over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests - the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy disrespecting and #legacy #monolithic silos - owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, **Sunnyvale Syndrome**. This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributed network of services and sites truly belonging to the #individual participants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me. For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality - with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities. It's dark, so *incredibly dark*. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you *apparently* have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, ***"It puts the lotion on its skin!"*** And in a manner of speaking, following an *"Internet century"* (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where _Homo sapien_ drones existing in #Lords and Vassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?... ***Fast forwarding to the scene where...*** Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later *rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth*. Kinda like the true story of the **Takahē**. And we too, *are beautiful*. I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow: @takahe I can be reached on Matrix at: `@tallship:matrix.org` via XMPP at: `tallship@jabber.org` and in the Fediverse at: `@tallship@public.mitra.social` I hope that helps! Enjoy! #tallship #FOSS #virtual hosting #multiple identity #DeSoc #Sunnyvale Syndrome #AOL Effect ⛵ . takahē - A new Fediverse paradigm Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful
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And the beat goes on The beat goes on Drums keeps a pounding a rhythm to the brain... invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=gf6qd… La de da de de, la de da de da #tallship #Brussels #qatar #same ole same ole ⛵ . And the beat goes on The beat goes on Drums keeps a pounding a rhythm to the brain... invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=gf6qd…
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Nitrogen is 79% of the air we breath. So of course it's dangerous to the environment - we should start by removing all of it from the air we breath and we'd be healthier, since 99‰ O² isn't toxic to humans at STP (sealevel - 2 atmospheres absolute), but at 3 atmospheres absolute... Well, distress, seizures, unconsciousness, and eventually, certain death, are common side effects. So yes, Oxygen, at increased partial pressure will kill you dead. But fortunately, it's mixed with almost 80% Nitrogen... Wait! Oh yeah, Nitrogen bad. Bad bad bad - Nitrogen causes climate change. Very bad juju indeed. Not only that, but after removing all of the harmful nitrogen from the air we breathe, we'd also have to eliminate gas furnaces and wood fireplaces, cooking over open fires, electricity (sparks), and I don't know how we can legislate lightning out of existence, but if we don't, we would be incinerated like White, Chafee, and Grissom, the brave astronauts of Apollo 1. Anyway... It looks like it might get really bloody this time... www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-19… Nitrogen is 79% of the air we breath. So of course it's dangerous to the environment - we should start by removing all of it from the air we breath and we'd be healthier, since 99‰ O² isn't toxic to humans at STP (sealevel - 2 atmospheres absolute), but at 3 atmospheres absolute... Well, distress, seizures, unconsciousness, and eventually, certain death, are common side effects.
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Great article! And one that almost any consumer can easily understand and digest. At least for about the first third of the article. I do, however, believe that it's "beckoned call", and not "beck and call", and the jelly simile is a bit overly abstract, although valid. And arguably, UNIX was misspelled. I would alsorecommend rephrasing the following, "Nobody understands the entire things any more:", to perhaps "Nobody comprehends the entirety of these things any more:" I also don't completely concur with lies #3 and #4. Near the very end of the article, the solution is finally provided for the almost seamless conversion from .pst files using an IMAP server (OfflineIMAP works well too), and that deserves it's own discussion, but I feel by that point the author had long since left most n00bs in the dust. www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/1… All in all, while I applaud this work of the author, I feel the editor fell down on the job. This could have been a four part series with ample review of the basic premise at the beginning of each part; reaching an even wider audience with greater circulation. #tallship #FOSS #open source #Linux #UNIX ⛵ . Great article! And one that almost any consumer can easily understand and digest. At least for about the first third of the article. I do, however, believe that it's "beckoned call", and not "beck and call", and the jelly simile is a bit overly abstract, although valid.
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Share and share alike! Full disclosure, just a fan here, with no official affiliation to the project 🙂 mitra.social/ ⛵ . Share and share alike! Full disclosure, just a fan here, with no official affiliation to the project 🙂
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It's like that new movie...
Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers - Volume IV www.theregister.com/2022/09/21… |