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lightweight

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

FOSS, OER, & CC. Nerd on many levels Democratising HigherEd by day, increasing digital, intellectual, & physical autonomy, equity, & agency always.

I build, read (mostly scifi), bake, percuss, sing, strum, ponder, advocate, & use OxfordCommas.

SelfHost w/ DockerCompose & Linux DoughnutEconomics Degrowth Equity
AntiColonial Herpotology Biodiversity Cycling SwingDancing Ultimate DiscGolf.

In Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa NZ
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Wanting to breathe new life into an Android-powered phone? See https://www.sustaphones.com/ ! I've been running LineageOS (and CyanogenMod before it) on all my phones for the past decade or more... but it's a hassle to set it up... this new system promises to make it much more accessible to less technically confident folk: https://openandroidinstaller.org/ You can install your preferred OS ROM... I'm planning to use it when I upgrade my OnePlus 6T from Lineage 20 to 21 in the next few weeks.

lightweight,
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@Datenproletarier @GrapheneOS I don't see any evidence that GrapheneOS currently supports any OnePlus phones... am I missing something?

lightweight,
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@Datenproletarier @GrapheneOS ah, I know little about the original site or its allegiances.

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Went out for a walk last evening around dusk in my parents' neighbourhood in Pennsylvania... lots of big houses, lots of US flags, lots of big pickups/SUVs. Only saw one TV on in a house as I walked past... but it was playing Tucker Carlson. This is bible thumpin' Trump country. How can people here really be so disaffected, credulous, & ignorant? (I'm no Christian, but how can you claim to be a Christian and not revile Trump?!)

lightweight,
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I should note that my parents are serious outliers in this community - they do candlelight peace vigils weekly on the courthouse steps & get bottles thrown at them from passing double-cab MAGA be-bumperstickered pickups. They definitely have allies, but they also get plenty of polite-but-cold smiles from 'nice' (white) people.

lightweight,
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Took this photo near my folks' place... Honestly cannot believe how people could think this OK, unless their entire world view is (mis)shaped by FOX News and their associated mind-numbingly idiotic pundits.

lightweight,
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I would expect (and hope, dearly) that someone in Aotearoa voicing such views would be pitied and/or have substantial peer pressure applied on them by their community to pull their heads in - and given urgent psychological aid (via the public welfare system, while we've still more or less have one)...

lightweight,
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@vfrmedia not sure if it it's better or worse that people here feel empowered to share their depraved pro-MAGA views.

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I encourage everyone to install a geoIP plugin into their browser so they can see where websites they visit are hosted. I use this one on Firefox, my main browser: https://webextension.org/listing/country-flags.html It's fascinating to see how many Aotearoa NZ government websites are actually hosted overseas, mostly in the US. Similarly all NZ political party campaign websites, because they all use Nationbuilder, an expensive, US corporate owned Software-as-a-Service. It's important that we realise this stuff...

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For folks still actively using #Github for their #libre software activities, this is worth a read: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ I left Github shortly after Microsoft announced they were acquiring it (I should've done so sooner). Now I host a few Gitlab (Community Edition) instances and my own personal Forgejo instance. Both platforms are great (I prefer the fully #libre nature of Forgejo, though).

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@billbennett good to hear you on RNZ today, by the way. Nice work.

lightweight,
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@strypey @billbennett I'm guessing you've both seen this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg An essential watch to understand what we're up against (and colossal own-goal the EU is slowly realising it's perpetrated). This is also quite an important document: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

lightweight,
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@strypey @billbennett Fwiw, I use QOwnNotes to manage a large collection of MD files (and sync across machines via my NextCloud, using NC's Notes app for editing on mobile or on the web)... Works great, but it's not a 'website' as such.

This - Silverbullet - might interest you, though: https://silverbullet.md/ - the video's a good quick intro.

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@strypey @billbennett dunno. I run a HedgeDoc, but I haven't used it much. I think the inter-page linking might be an advantage, and the syntax. and ability to make it a standalone read-only site... (HD might allow those too). And because I'm familiar with @hibbittsdesign I should also mention Docksify-This - https://docsify-this.net/ - which might address many of your use cases.

lightweight,
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@billbennett you might be misinterpreting what a hacker means when they refer to a 'hacker mindset'... They certainly don't mean 'hacker' as the media mean it.
@strypey

lightweight,
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@billbennett I didn't notice any indication of that from what I watched. There is, of course, the option of coding related to it if you're wanting to repurpose/extend it, but not for its primary designed use cases...
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Lots of folks in Aotearoa NZ will know of Don McGlashan - a documentary on him is being created, and the producer is trying to fun the release. I've just made a modest contribution, because I'd love to see this! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirleyhorrocks/don-mcglashan-a-life-in-music

strypey, to random
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"...free-ish alternatives include Quay.io (currently free for public repos) and sr.ht (2$/mth, but at least not open-core, unfortunately no plan for a container registry). And of course, you can painfully self-host GitLab, sr.ht, gitea, pagure, or whatever it is the current fancy gitweb."

https://anarc.at/blog/2022-09-06-deleted-gitlab/

Another option is @Codeberg, an instance of Forgejo (originally forked from Gitea).

BTW is this your blog @Anarcat?

lightweight,
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@strypey 'painful' is a very subjective term. Self hosting Gitlab (Community Edition) or Forgejo is almost trivial for someone with even a little enthusiasm for learning a little. The cost is vanishingly small in both $ & time, in my experience. @Codeberg @Anarcat

lightweight,
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@Anarcat @Codeberg @strypey Sorry to hear it. Perhaps, then, it's an issue of your methodology. The 3 Gitlab (and one Forgejo) instances I've run for the past few years take me a few minutes a month (applying updates) and each costs a (small) fraction of a $10/month VPS rental, as the VPSs all run many other things as well...

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Interesting to see that this InternetNZ-funded survey report about NZers' internet use & impressions contains (fleeting/dismissive) mention of Mastodon but fails to mention any form of the words 'corporate' or 'colonialism' once... https://internetnz.nz/assets/Uploads/New-Zealands-Internet-Insights-2023.pdf Seems like the typical unquestioned assumption that total foreign corporate dominance is A-Ok for Aotearoa/NZ.

lightweight,
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the 'use a password manager' stat (27% of respondents) is grim.

lightweight,
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@LovesTha yup. Even my family members refuse to do it... think it's too much hassle.

lightweight,
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@LovesTha yes - most people are dangerously naïve about this stuff.

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Crash from the past: https://billbennett.micro.blog/2024/02/22/crash-from-the.html

lightweight,
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@billbennett turns out, if they're completely locked in enough & are deprived of any other points of comparison, paying customers don't seem to give a shit about whether their software works or not. Just so long as they're part of the herd.

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@Score2 @billbennett pretty much almost anything else. I only use libre/open source software, and I'm quite sure the options I use are at least as good technically, and vastly better from a policy/liability perspective.

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