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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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strypey, to random
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"When more than 15 percent of your words (except verbs and proper nouns) are three or more syllables, readers work with difficulty to understand your message. To reduce larger words, consider these tips: a) Use about instead of approximately; use rather than utilize; b) Convert nouns ending in –ion into verbs. Use “We considered ...” instead of “We took into consideration ...”; c) Replace endeavor with try, aggregate with total, and optimum with best."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about/submissions

#writing

strypey,
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@harshad
> I use a custom dictionary of top 10k English words (+ domain specific words) when writing documentation and code

That's a great way make technical writing in English more accessible!

> The word list and configuration is included in the repository

Can you link me to an example?

@float13

strypey, to random
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How do I add @monocles search to Fennec (FireFox fork available in @fdroidorg )?

I tried following the instructions here:
https://monocles.wiki/index.php?title=Monocles_Websearch

In Settings>Search I found Add search engine>Other, but I wasn't sure what to put in the 'Search string to use' field.

strypey,
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@monocles
Just solved my own problem :)

"If you don't know which search string to use for a particular search engine, you can access its website in a new tab, do any search and use the resulting URL as a reference."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-my-default-search-engines-firefox-android?as=u&utm_source=inproduct#w_add-a-search-engine

Might be good to have specific instructions on that wiki page for FireFox-based browsers, both desktop and mobile.

@fdroidorg

strypey,
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@ninja
> So in Fennec, put this: https://monocles.de/search?q=%s

That works, thanks. I've set Mojeek as the default for now, but good to know I can easily switch to Monocles as needed without typing in the address bar :)

@monocles

strypey,
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@monocles
> Just solved my own problem :)

Oops, no I didn't. Doing a search from monocles.de produced this in the address bar:

https://monocles.de/search

@fdroidorg

strypey,
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@monocles

Getting persistent failure to display results for the last few hours. Error message:

"Sorry, no results found!

Some engines are not working as expected!

Debug info

Node : None

  • qwant (unexpected crash)"
strypey, to random
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More stuff in the #Signal chat app that doesn't work without proprietary software (unless they've replaced these non-free dependencies in the last 3 years):

"...maps and automatic facial recognition don’t work; there’s a separate patch for OSM support 110 which the Signal developers were not keen on merging. You will simply have to survive without Google’s binary ML-Kit facial recognition for now"

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/ive-degoogled-signal-messenger/10443

#OSM #FacialRecognition

strypey,
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"Just donated to f-droid, unfortunately not to Signal as they require full name for donation."

🤦‍♂️

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/ive-degoogled-signal-messenger/10443/44?u=strypey

strypey, to internet
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"But social media also exposes movements to many vulnerabilities. The solidiarities it generates are often superficial: movement use of social media can easily devolve into repetitive messaging in echo chambers without collective gains in narrative power—a change in the stories and values that hold sway in society—or a translation to real-world militancy."

, , 2022

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

strypey,
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"This reliance on corporate platforms has transformed movement media strategy. Rather than devoting energy to a collective enterprise, individual movement organizations prioritize “getting their message out,” a strategy governed by social capital, competition, and a political economy of clicks. This strategy may sometimes be necessary to achieve certain short-term ends, but it is deeply detrimental to the long-term project of building a meaningful and shared resistance."

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

strypey,
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"In November 1999, the Seattle IMC helped cover and coordinate the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. During the four days of the meetings, the new IMC website received over 1.5 million hits, outpacing CNN for the same amount of time... The model captured the imagination of activists and journalists, leading to the rapid development of local IMCs from Seoul to São Paulo and the birth of the global Indymedia network."

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

#Indymedia

strypey,
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"The people who took part in Indymedia saw themselves as participants in the social movements of the day. Paying homage to the Zapatistas, they referred to themselves as IMCistas. Building on the Zapatista concept of “many yeses,” Indymedia emphasized building connections between different movements and struggles. The media infrastructure would be a connective tissue, linking a plurality of voices, histories, and visions into a global 'movement of movements'..."

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

strypey,
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It blows my mind that in late 2022, as Titter was being torn apart by its new owner, authors who are clearly in favour of the left having our own online media infrastructure (like we did with Indymedia) still felt compelled to say...

"But we can’t simply abandon social media. It is too dominant, too ubiquitous, and, occasionally, too useful."

strypey,
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@screwtape
> In about 1999 Google proposed to sell Excite.com itself for 10**6 USD

... which at the time was all it was worth, given that they hadn't invented AdSense yet, so they had no idea how they were going to monetize the thing. I remember we all loved it at the time because it had no ads 😂

strypey,
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@screwtape
> though my point was that a grassroots movement that was roughly one Google corporation of social power in 1999

Fair point. In '99, both were experimental startups with a single website and no commercial viability. One mistake the Indymedia network made IMHO was to tie ourselves to a strict volunteer-only, non-commercial policy. If we had embraced a platform cooperative approach we could have employed our tech people and other specialists, who ended up drifting away to get day jobs.

strypey, to random
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Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

strypey,
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@alcinnz
Thanks for the tip. Funny how we've circled back to the very thing that algorithmic search was meant to improve on ;)

"Indexes only user-submitted and moderated sites, rather than indexing the entire internet with all of its spam, "search engine optimisation" and "click-bait" content."

https://searchmysite.net/pages/about/#search-engine

Jimmy Wales was, as usual, way ahead of us in 2006 when he tried to launch Search Wikia.

strypey,
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@samwilson
> that seems very much related to Bing not indexing things very quickly

You'd think DDG would be actively working on alternatives to depending on their competitors as their back-end (first Yahoo, now Bing). Anyone heard any talk of that?

mnl, to random

I had to use google for a minute before I could setup kagi and holy shit I’m glad I don’t to use that thing again. What a bunch of garbage results for everything I searched (mostly how to setup stuff on Linux). Flabbergasting…

strypey,
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@screwtape
> do you think the damage is hostile

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence ;)

> search business model was vulnerable to LLM generated lure-posts?

It's always been an arms race between the search devs and the SEO devs. I suspect what's happened is that web search platforms have become collateral damage in the social media wars. The politicization of the difference between information and mis/disinformation puts a thumb on the scales.

@glitzersachen @mnl

strypey, to internet
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"We believe #Gobo needs to allow users to:

  • Read and post to multiple social networks from one open source client.

  • Pick and choose between algorithms for filtering and sorting the posts from all these networks.

  • Design (and potentially share) different algorithms for filtering and sorting.

  • Use third-party services to assist in filtering and sorting.

  • Audit the performance of these different algorithms as well as the third party services."

https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/11/09/gobo-2-0-all-your-social-media-in-one-place/

#SocialMedia

strypey,
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@screwtape
Did you read the linked article for context? I still have no idea what your point is or how it relates to the Gobo app. Explain like I'm 5.

strypey,
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@screwtape
Where the social silos provide RSS feeds, I presume Gobo will use them. The short-term problem they're trying to solve is that most of them don't.

@icedquinn

me, to internet

I've been hearing a lot of (mostly negative) rumblings about #BlueSky and I've been trying to find out what all the noise is about.

What I'm struggling to understand is why they felt the need to reinvent the wheel by creating the #AT protocol. What does it supposedly do that #ActivityPub does not?

I don't really see a way to see this as anything other than an attempt to be deliberately incompatible for some reason.

Most of what I've been able to find online is either from tech media which glosses over all the relevant technical details, or from BlueSky's official statements which don't seem to answer it either.

strypey,
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@tragiccommons
> I abandoned writing an ActivityPub client when I realized that the the Activity vocabulary was so poorly defined

Sounds like your perspective is similar to this?

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

My understanding is that improvements to the AP and AS specs are under discussion, and as with any open standard, detailed feedback is welcome. This is one place to find out more:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/activitypub/5

@me

jwildeboer, to fediverse
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The #ActivityPub standards that’s behind #Mastodon has no notion of #cw content warnings. Mastodon decided to use the subject field for that. Not saying it’s right or wrong, but this decision makes interoperability a problem.

strypey,
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@sl007
> Meanwhile I was told that neither the forum nor matrix is official

... from the POV of the formal W3C standards process. But standards are, in practice, a working consensus of implementers. Wherever a critical mass of you gather, useful standards incubation work can be done. Running the outcomes of that through a standards body is useful for getting broader adoption. But my understanding is that can't happen until there is working code as a reference for the spec.

@jwildeboer @evan

strypey,
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@jwildeboer
> I had to dig deeper

Ae, the garden is a bit of a jungle at present;) Definitely needs a tidy-up. A lot of stuff got neglected over the last couple of years, most likely because of pandemic stuff. With the flush of new growth over the last few months, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in doing some digital gardening. I always find SocialHub a useful place to get a feel for what's going on.

@sl007 @evan

raccoon, to internet

🧵 [1 / 15]

So, is all the hype now and a lot of people are falling for the olde "invite link" trick which not only paints, what is ultimately going to be another social media shitshow, as an exclusive club, but also sneakily turns everyone's curiosity into a vessel for word-of-mouth advertisement to ride piggy back on.

Well, maybe the AT Protocol is at least better than . So, since it is on [1] , let's have a quick look and ... Aww shit! Thread time..

strypey,
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@raccoon
> It's a thread under post 2

Can't see it. If nobody on the server I'm on is following the other people in the thread, would I see those posts? I presume I would, unless they're blocking me or the server I'm on, but I'm often surprised to find Mastodon doesn't work quite how I expect.

Lando, to random

In these weird and chaotic internet culture times, I think about how Aaron Swartz would react and get sad.

strypey,
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@Lando
> In these weird and chaotic internet culture times, I think about how Aaron Swartz would react and get sad

Why? I'd like to think Aaron would be excited by the dark cloud of meteor dust which might be about to drive the DataFarming dinosaurs to extinction.

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