Gregory's Server
I used to run a site called rss-extensions.org
Thankfully, the internet archive exists: https://web.archive.org/web/20060831071420/http://rss-extensions.org/wiki/Main_Page
There were so many!
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The hosted Jitsi service that many people in the Fediverse appear to prefer over, say, Zoom is operated by 8x8, a NASDAQ-traded public company. I wonder how this makes Jitsi somehow more acceptable to the Fediverse than Zoom. Yes, I understand that Jitsi has an open-source implementation, but if you use a commercially-operated freemium service like https://meet.jit.si that appears to make very little difference re privacy etc. What am I missing?
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  @J12t I'd rather support a company that is making FLOSS I want to avoid proprietary blobs, even in my browser I paid for a jitsi instance from 8x8 until they insisted my email address be visible in the conference room I still pay for and use a BigBlueButton instance from a 3rd party provider I know multiple people who run their own instances of jitsi or BBB specific to zoom, it had time limitations, insisted on installing a proprietary client and other service issues that disqualified it @J12t NDAs to cover Fediverse alpha testing ... that's not the way to go. Pointless anyway as it shows up in server logs. 'nuff said. Proton is a rare, very successful example we could learn from to make the #fediverse sustainable. Read how they do things and their reasoning why. One thing I want to talk about at the upcoming #FediForum is: Testing the Fediverse, and the FediTest test suite that I and some others have been working on. Hopefully we'll be able to do a show-and-tell of work-in-progress and get some feedback. Join us online March 19 and 20: https://fediforum.org About the E series of resistors: “For unknown historical reasons, eight older industry values (shown in bold) are different from the calculated values” That’s pretty funny. @J12t It was eye opening when I realized you couldn't get any random value of resistor. And further eye opening when you realized that 5% tolerances were the traditional "good enough" standard for most uses.. Which led to the further eye opening that a lot of analog electronics is the art of "good enough", as opposed to software which (at least I thought when I was younger) was the art of right vs. wrong. @J12t @snarfed.org “discoverable opt-in” sounds good, I'm glad to see that at least the debate made things better in the end, though I'm sure it hasn't been a walk in the park for the developer #Fediverse Hive Mind: anybody have a recipe how to mark up #html pages so that when they are shared in #mastodon, they show up nicely in people's feeds with pictures and title etc?   @J12t Mastodon reads Opengraph metatags. That's what you need to add to your html code, if I understood your question correctly. You'll have a nice preview card generated in Mastodon when someone pastes a link to your webpage. Hey @greg, we are wondering over in the Fedidevs General Matrix group how you settled on what appears to be a hierarchical account id scheme, e.g. semafor@flipboard.social vs semafor-politics@flipboard.social. Any insights you might be able to share? @J12t Thanks, just responded over on Matrix. Hope what I said makes sense Another interesting thing that @Flipboard is doing is creating a hierarchical topic space in the #fediverse by concatenating topics into user names. In plain speak: more than one user handle for the same account but different topics. Example: there is @Semafor, @semafor-semafor@flipboard.social and @politics-semafor@flipboard.social, probably more. Not sure yet exactly how the convention works, but it's needed just like blogs often have sub-RSS feeds in lower-level topic categories. @J12t @Flipboard That's an interesting approach, and one that has some appeal to me. Just how important are handle aesthetics? It is certainly nice to have @ devnull@crag.social but how much extra metadata can we stick in there before it becomes unwieldy? #nodebb right now exposes categories as cid.2@whatever but would cid.2.tag1.tag2.uid1.uid2@whatever be an antipattern? lol @J12t @Flipboard @Semafor unintentional side affect. The names are based on the magazine name. Many curators create multiple magazines with the name representing different topics. These are all groups (similar to how peertube has different channels per user as groups). Congratulations to @Flipboard and @mike to going all-in on the #fediverse making 1000+ “social magazines” followable from #mastodon and all the other fediverse software. This is actually a big deal. @J12t @mike @Flipboard This is great. How would I go about following these magazines from my mastodon app? Looking at the links from the medium post I see the option to open in the flipboard app or browser. Mozilla is "scal[ing] back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance" in addition to a bunch of other projects. Who is surprised? Mozilla, for years and years now, has started projects, made big promises, and then killed them again. Remember the phone? Persona? IoT? These are just the ones I'm remembering. And now they chase AI instead. Send help. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/
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@J12t tbf mozilla.social is tiny, at ~1300 total users, with an active user count half of the instance I help admin. Vivaldi's instance is more than an order of magnitude larger. So their Mastodon instance would be subsidized indefinitely if any work got done on it at all, and there are better stewards for that size of user base. I don't like the AI focus to be clear, but in the scheme of things to cut, this one unfortunately makes sense. Just returned from a #VisionPro demo. Trying to figure out what I make of it. Other than what has been said by so many so often: I think it's better to think of the #Apple headset not as a product yet, but as an experiment. The kind of experiment you get if you spend a billion dollars (or whatever it cost them, maybe more) on world-class engineering. But an experiment nonetheless. An experiment whose outcome is unclear to me at this point. So my impression is a decisive maybe ;-) So @snarfed.org gets todays’s prize for setting the #fediverse on fire with his #blueskybridge. Oh dear. @snarfed.org 2) as us geeks, we need to do a better job at explaining just what exactly the guarantees are that the fediverse makes to its users with respect to privacy, control over content propagation to other systems, and what it doesn’t. Also, what a malicious, sneaky actor can do today (and that’s lots!) And then we need to fix what needs fixing to align user expectations with reality, because there are … gaps, as we can see from the discussion. |
