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gr0k

@gr0k@gr0k.net

Linux Nerd. Web developer. Photographer. Electronic Musician. Occasional Writer. General Creative.

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adaspota, to random

My prose poem "A Dream of Mirabella" is featured in the Surrealist Journal Peculiar Mormyrid Issue #4. The theme of this Issue is Surrealism and the Sea.
My piece appears under the section Nudibranchia.

Artwork by Alex Januário

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-david-spota-issue-4/

gr0k,
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@adaspota wow! I've just discovered this journal thanks to your post, and am already entranced. Looking forward to reading your work, and exploring more of the amazing work inside!

gr0k, to random
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Seth Godin on the money again:

Of course, as we race to fill in every moment with swiping, surfing and clicking, it’s easy to forget that we’re allowed to leave some blank spaces. In fact, not just allowed, but if we want to live well, required.

https://seths.blog/2023/05/nihil-hic-deest/

atomicpoet, to random

Whoa! Vice is heading for bankruptcy!

That magazine was a big chunk of my teens and 20s—for which I had a love/hate relationship.

Hipsterism is officially dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/01/vice-media-group-bankruptcy-report

gr0k,
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@atomicpoet good riddance to them.

fox, to random
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    gr0k,
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    @fox I rarely have to deal with anything but GDPR notices, and haven't for about a decade: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger.

    gr0k,
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    @fox Nooooo! :( I wonder if it's got something to do with the sites we visit, or my using DDG over Google?

    gr0k,
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    @treelzebub @fox I haven't yet needed pi-hole, tho have heard great things from friends who use it. Perhaps my browsing habits have saved me? (avoiding FAANG, preference for independent providers, private browsing, etc)

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    @fox @treelzebub Grrrr, I do hate the web chats... I wish there was a good way to block them.

    With regards to notification requests, they got to me also so I have turned them off. If you've not already and are able to ignore them, you can disable them completely https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1141800

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews

    This take is annoying.

    But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".

    How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?

    No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.

    That story isn't being told.

    https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110314382066961654

    @fediversenews

    gr0k,
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    @atomicpoet @fediversenews There's definitely something to what @gruber is saying. With manual account approval on mastodon.social and it being pushed as the default, I'd love to see the abandonment rate... Perhaps it's different when signing up through a phone? But getting someone all excited about trying a new social network is hard enough. Now they have to retain that excitement for an unknown amount of time, and then care enough to engage at some later date... Not much fun...

    gr0k,
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    @atomicpoet totally agree, tho that is also where I can see where @gruber is coming from - the "simple" thing. Even some of my more technical friends struggled to understand how to get started with the Fediverse, but they could figure out how sign up to Mastodon. Hopefully collectively we can come up with some appropriate verbiage - or perhaps it's just a matter of time. If you dropped the word 'tweet' into a casual conversation even 10 years ago people would look at you funny.

    gr0k,
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    @MetalSamurai @atomicpoet @gruber for sure. I am no fan of bluesky. Doesn't change the fact it's easier to onboard when you reduce the decisions a user has to make.

    gr0k,
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    @shoq @MetalSamurai @atomicpoet @gruber that's why we're here, and others are elsewhere. I'd like to say it's just 'cause we've been 'round the block, but many others have by now. Who was it who said give me convenience or give me death? We've taken a different approach. But people will be people.

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews

    Here's the problem.

    Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.

    But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.

    This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.

    Very concerning!

    @fediversenews

    Growth of mstdn.social

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    @atomicpoet @fediversenews I tried to sign up to mastodon.social for a side project today - still waiting on the manual account review. I went to mastodon.social because this is just a side project and I wanted to peek the new features, but I should have preferenced one of the smaller servers on principle.

    atomicpoet, to random

    The discussion shouldn't be "Mastodon vs. Bluesky".

    It should be "*key apps vs. Bluesky".

    gr0k,
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    @atomicpoet or just a well established interconnected social network based on a truly open protocol, vs an unproven, siloed service that hasn't yet delivered on its promises and is run by a known bad entity.

    atomicpoet, to random

    I kind of like the fact that 2nd largest Fediverse platform, and the fastest growing one too—Misskey—doesn’t use Mastodon’s API.

    gr0k,
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    @atomicpoet I don't understand why people aren't leaning more on ActivityPub, and investigating pre-existing implementations for maximum compatibility where it doesn't suffice. We have the W3C ActivityPub standard, is there a way to propose inclusions where they are required?

    EricMahler, to random

    I’ve been getting more into movie soundtracks/scores over the past year.
    Y’all have any favorites?

    gr0k,
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    @EricMahler The Assassination of Jesse James soundtrack from Nick Cave & Warren Ellis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=da-S57RjkTU - an absolute masterpiece

    shoq, to internet
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    @atomicpoet There's another somewhat smelly thing Jay Graber and #bluesky are doing. They're calling AT "open source" to suggest "hey, no worries, big money hates open source. You're safe from corporate bullying!"

    What's not said? It's an MIT license. You can take it, throw huge money into your own version, add massive new features, and then NOT publish the source code (legally). This seems to fit @davetroy's thesis that this is all a puppet show, much more staged than we want to believe.

    gr0k,
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    @shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy there's nothing shady about an MIT license. Mastodon has already been used in this way (Truth Social, and more). This is an issue with bad actors with bad intentions, not the MIT license.

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    @shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy You did specifically call it out tho. Is there a better license they might have used to lesson your suspicion? It seems to me when there's bad actors (and like you I do think BlueSky are smelly actors) they will be bad regardless of the license. The MIT is a net positive for humanity.

    atomicpoet, to random

    Sorry, the sabotage of Twitter is not a “disaster for democracy”—it’s the logical and inevitable endpoint of surveillance capitalist control of our communications infrastructure.

    Those who control a message’s delivery system control the message.

    Twitter was always owned by surveillance capitalists—it NEVER served democracy.

    gr0k,
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    @atomicpoet yes!!!! Thank you. This message is worth repeating from time to time. I'm not really sure how people have got it twisted.

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