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Stefano Marinelli
8 October at 12:39

In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!

Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.

#OpenData #OwnYourData #Fediverse #CommunicationFreedom

In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!

8 October at 19:00 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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ben 🇵🇸 ui

@stefano what would you recommend as an alternative to Discord where you own your own data?

8 October at 16:08 | Open on m.benui.ca
Andy Piper
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@stefano

I can highly recommend to migrate away from discord uaing keet.io today or at least to mirror all discord communication using bots to something like cabal.chat 🙂

8 October at 16:26 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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matuzalem

@stefano back when I worked at a university, we had a backup server running an ancient customized version of Linux. Was not on the internet so we didn’t reboot it in over 5 years and we only did so to replace a hard drive.

8 October at 13:29 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Francesco P Lovergine

@stefano
I would extend the same concept to programming languages, but apparently, this is not a popular point of view. So, we now have a group of prime-time hypertrophic languages and frameworks with tons of new features (often not back-compatible) introduced at every release to cover the whole universe of applications and beyond (at least in the minds of the their teams).

8 October at 14:08 | Open on floss.social
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@stefano Great article. Unfortunately it is very hard to convince people to move from Linux to BSD. I often hear people saying that BSD is something they have heard about but they would never consider installing it. Simply because they don’t know it, but they know Linux. And why would they use something else instead, when hardware support is better and they get a system running a desktop environment out of the box? And when there is Docker and everything they think they need…

8 October at 17:33 | Open on nrw.social
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Bart Janssens 🇧🇪
7 October at 19:19

Has #AI become advanced enough yet to make #Microsoft #Outlook actually check spelling in the configured language?

7 October at 19:19 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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Stefano Marinelli
7 October at 13:03

When bureaucracy reaches new heights, and I have to send a certified email to myself as the admin of my own company to approve my own tax regime choice. 😂

#Bureaucracy #BeingMyOwnBoss #IHateBureaucracy

An image showing a man awarding a medal to himself, symbolizing the irony of bureaucracy where someone must perform official tasks for themselves.
7 October at 18:30 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
Jon

@stefano This is Silicon Valley right now.😂

7 October at 13:10 | Open on fosstodon.org
Armin Hanisch

@stefano you‘re sure that you didn‘t accidentally move to Germany? 😎😆🤣

7 October at 15:31 | Open on bildung.social
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Tara 🌷
7 October at 17:30

C'mon, please ... Not in my courtyard 🤦‍♀️

P.S. @stefano why don't you come over with some flyers "make your own CDN with Raspberry PI and NetBSD"? 😂

#london #cdn #annoyed #selfhost

Cloudflare flag in County Hall, London
7 October at 18:00 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
7 October at 11:09

Sitting in the sun is so nice!

It does make it hard to see the screen and get work done.

But it's just so nice...

7 October at 11:09 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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Tara 🌷
6 October at 19:08

I've read only today about a woman being kicked off a flight kicked out of a flight because she misgendered a flight attendant a couple of months ago. I won't enter into specifics of the story, nor comment on it as a pilot/captain.

But I will say some words as a human being because it's happened to me so much lately.

Please, do not misgender or deadname someone. Don't make fun of somebody's body or dressing, even if it might seem to you as an innocent joke.

It's humiliating and destabilizing. We are already fighting a big battle inside our brains, more than you can imagine and perhaps more than it appears from the outside. Not everybody is so strong.

Your words or attitude can change our day from a bright one to the day we might do something stupid.

It doesn't take much to be kind. In doubt, it's ok to ask.

#genderdysphoria #bodydysmorphia #misgender #deadname #transgender

I've read only today about a woman being kicked off a flight kicked out of a flight because she misgendered a flight attendant a couple of months ago. I won't enter into specifics of the story, nor comment on it as a pilot/captain.

But I will say some words as a human being because it's happened to me so much lately.

6 October at 19:17 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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sj_zero
Dirty Little secret most people don't know is that most web browsers are either written by Google (via chromium), or substantially supported by funding from Google to keep the search engine as Google.

One of the immediate outcomes of the recent antitrust suit against Google for this practice is therefore going to be that many web browsers are scrambling for new sources of revenue.

But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...
Dirty Little secret most people don't know is that most web browsers are either written by Google (via chromium), or substantially supported by funding from Google to keep the search engine as Google.

6 October at 13:09 | Open on social.fbxl.net
Ricardo Tavares

@stux @catsalad Money to hire less engineers and pay Mozilla’s CEO some more.

6 October at 13:11 | Open on phpc.social
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Adriano 🐡

@stefano It was an enriching read. I like your problem-solving philosophy. Thank you for sharing. Implementing a rock solid solution will always the better choice compared to the trendy one.

3 October at 16:21 | Open on bsd.network
JustDude 🌞

@stefano Thanks for sharing, detailed story and slides!

3 October at 17:47 | Open on mastodon.nl
pdnight

@stefano Would love to hear more details about those XFS and btrfs failures if possible. It's an interesting subject!

3 October at 20:35 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
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Justine Smithies
2 October at 17:21
Just testing from my first #snac2 account and getting the feel for things.
2 October at 17:24 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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4 August at 20:45
Despite everything, it's just me

(I remember reading a similar sentence, but I can't recall where.)
2 October at 15:45 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
Hirvox

@me "Despite everything, it's still you" is a description you get in Undertale when you look into the mirror.

4 August at 20:47 | Open on mastodon.online
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Cliffy Claus 🎅
1 October at 18:34

Just had to have a Zoom meeting with one of my supervisors and instantly realized she's someone that is famous and has been on a TV show and it's a TV show that my wife and I actually watch, regularly.

The odds of that happening are very small but very awesome all at the same time.

She's very down to Earth. Was supposed to be a 10 minute work meeting, yet it ended up being a 35 minute talk session about the her and the show.

@Thatmermaid_J you and I regularly talk about the show she's from.

2 October at 13:07 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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Dismal Manor Gang
2 October at 13:01

Daddy went out to take the morning photos. Of course I had to stand sentry so he wouldn’t wander off before waffles.
2 October at 13:02 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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Stefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account)
2 October at 10:11
Snac2 is an excellent software solution for accessing the Fediverse. It is lightweight, very easy to compile and install, has minimal dependencies, and the development is progressing along a clear, clean, and logical path - thank you, @grunfink@comam.es

Since last December, BSD Cafe has had, among its services, a snac instance - https://snac.bsd.cafe - which has been used sparingly, mainly by some for testing purposes. I’ve kept it as a 'testing' option.

In light of the interest it is generating (we now have stable users) and given that development is evolving to allow for both inbound and outbound movement, I have decided to designate it as a stable solution for accessing the Fediverse and to consider it a primary service of the BSD Cafe.

It has always received the utmost attention, I have consistently updated it promptly, and it has always been accessible, but I have also modified all the descriptions to clarify that it is a stable and definitive solution.

For more information, there is always a dedicated page on our wiki: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/snac.bsd.cafe

Stay Tuned!

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #Mastodon
Snac2 is an excellent software solution for accessing the Fediverse. It is lightweight, very easy to compile and install, has minimal dependencies, and the development is progressing along a clear, clean, and logical path - thank you, @grunfink@comam.es
2 October at 10:15 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
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