@aral When I wrote the Outreachy website, I used the word "comrads" instead of "users". People is a good word too.

@aral love this idea

@aral I like: this instance has 1000 members, and 20 people online

Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.

Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.

I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.

#decentralisation #centralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

Also, now that I’m back at my computer, here’s a non-YouTube link to Greta Thunberg’s “The Climate Event” talk on an Invidious instance:

https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=ropBOwPvmLM

#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg

@aral yeah, that’s also why many CEOs regret going public: changes might happen, but mostly in the direction of shareholders’ interests 😖

Still, if you think about individuals working in big tech, they have a chance to learn a lot, grow, help others, and bring different points of view both in and outside the company. And while big companies usually do not stray too much from their paths, people can and at some point they might bring something which is valuable to everyone.

@aral TBH, I suspect that the butler has a better chance of shanking the king than a techie does of changing #BigTech from within.

Getting away with it would be the hard part.

@aral
"You don't change the inside, the inside changes you."
Applies to anything.

@aral Wanted to say: Just edit the net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, until I read the article 😜

@aral or you could just run a reverse proxy

@aral Desktop linux. We use it heavily in embedded devices!

See:

https://social.gitea.io/@gitea/108833229447552270

and

https://social.gitea.io/@gitea/108833264943472414

#GitHubGate #Gitea #dataPortability #lockIn #GitHub

@aral so that's how they made their choice finally. Interesting 😃

(Context for readers : they are migrating from Phabricator which is no longer developed)

@aral I don't know what Gitea is. But I use Blender and contribute $ when I upgrade and hope this means it continues.
Blender is awesome!

@aral Woah! That's awesome!

@aral

Suggestion: let’s make April 11th, the #fediverse #profileDay (#deetsDay?) (411*, get it?) :)

A day in which we all make an effort to update our profiles.

Thoughts/suggestions?

(I realise the first one would be a year away but there’s nothing stopping you from tending to yours today) :)

* slang for information or “deets**” (from the telephone code in some counties for directory information)

** slang for details

@aral
[German]

viele Konten ohne Profilinformationen

Leute, wenn ihr wollt, dass wir euch folgen, erzählt uns bitte ein wenig über euren Account. Ihr müsst kein Foto von euch posten oder euch identifizieren, wenn ihr das nicht wollt, aber nehmt euch bitte einen Moment Zeit, um euer Profil zu pflegen, damit es etwas darüber aussagt, warum es existiert und was wir erwarten können, wenn wir ihm folgen.
Es ist auch hilfreich, wenn du einen #neuhier post machst.

@aral as a moderator for an instance I see an aweful lot of accounts which are created and not used any further. That's even more annoying.

So just a quick follow-up: this is still nowhere near ready for everyday use by everyday folks as you basically need to use the console/ssh to install apps (Software is not currently working). Just a heads up.

If you’re a dev, sure, play with it and maybe even help make it better. I’ve switched my sim card over to it as a small experiment to see how much it changes my everyday experience.

#pinephone #postmarketOS

@aral How about reliability receiving calls? Some calls would silently be rejected and if they did come through, the speaker would mute itself as soon as the phone was restarted, so I'd miss the first few seconds until I could turn it up

@aral

BreakingCode News: "With the pilot distracted at the wheel, the copilot thought it had a license to violate the unsuspecting passengers. Some paid to have their trust betrayed"

@aral What other crimes can be commited without consequences by fronting them with an AI? I want to pioneer this field

@aral embrace and extend....

@aral exacly.

I hate how tankies turn a blind eye to all the opression, racism, survaillance, genocide and all the things they criticize in "the West"/Europa+US.

@aral The old consultancy addage, of "if you're not part of the solution, there's a lot of money to be made perpetuating the problem" 🙄

@aral The new screenshot feature has easily been my favorite addition in GNOME 42. It's so good

@aral On my Mac it is: Shift + Cmd + 4 + two goodwill wishes to Tim Cook + wiggle, all while my knees shake as I hope I have not angered the Apple overlord.

My Linux box is KDE, and, like with Gnome, I just ask politely while I set my own keyboard shortcut.

It’s been a while since I used Gnome, but your screenshot makes it look cool 😎!

@aral the same was previously possible by default hotkeys (Shift+PrintScreen). Sad, that those were dropped. :-(

@aral
Overall, work silently = good design; fail silently = bad design.

It's one of Unix philosophy design principles, by the way: if a program fails it should make as much stink about it as possible.

@aral or you can send it on your phone with KDE Connect :blobfoxthinksmart: