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trevorflowers

@trevorflowers@widerweb.org

I make tiny art machines.
I used to make other stuff.
Tiny dogs run my life and I'm OK with it.

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trevorflowers, to random
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In case you need to make the case that RTO is usually misguided:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

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Tell me again how a platform locked to an exclusive app store protects us from apps that obviously and broadly violate the content policies.
Well, as soon as the press finds out then we're protected.
From those three apps.
๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ’ช
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/
https://m.slashdot.org/story/427690

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I'm pleased to see the creation of a non-profit for the development of open tools for smarthomes. I hope that they manage their finances and community as well as their repos.
https://building.open-home.io/announcing-the-open-home-foundation/

liaizon, to fediverse
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I don't see any posts about it but I just came across https://loforo.com which is a photo sharing site that has joined the . You can search for @username already and it seems like there is an active photo sharing community there already.

The first account I came across is @hormeza, so hello there!

trevorflowers,
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@liaizon I can't see how the money works. There's no pricing or mention of anything except "free".

trevorflowers,
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@liaizon Oh sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything shady. I was idly wondering because I'm curious about how the fediverse works.

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@liaizon Based on their blog they seem like a company with paid coders. So, I wonder about how that money and hosting costs are paid.

liaizon, (edited ) to debian
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Exciting day at #MNT Research working on the Pocket Reform! Today I am attaching CPU modules to adapter boards and then attaching adapter boards to logic boards. Almost ready to start flashing the system image (hello #Debian) onto them soon after @mntmn finishes the final touches!
#OSHW

trevorflowers,
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@liaizon @mntmn I enjoy these build updates. Thank you for sharing.

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    trevorflowers,
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    @josh Ooof, from the sidelines that does seem like a heavy weight to pull.

    trevorflowers, to random
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    I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

    trevorflowers, to random
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    Today we are happy to announce the "ha ha you gave us free work kthxbye" license.
    https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

    trevorflowers, to random
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    Honestly, I'm kind of impressed with how Apple are loudly giving no fucks about the EU app store ruling and how both customers and developers feel about it. A stable duopoly is quite a thing, isn't it?

    trevorflowers, to random
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    Just FYI: If your build process depends on an IDE (Eclipse, VS Code, etc) and there's no CLI option then there is almost no chance that I'll use your tech. That's a big red flag that you've made a series of bad decisions regarding complexity and the relative importance of your work to anyone else.

    trevorflowers, to random
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    When you leave a service because it takes VC money, here's a handy link for people who don't understand.
    https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

    josh, to community
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    TIL about another community on Slack who is now being asked to pay thousands to preserve basic functionality ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

    Proprietary tools that offer a lot for free, without fail, will squeeze you. And unfortunately, because of their nature, a lot gets left behind when you inevitably migrate.

    When we select tools for our communities, we need to think over longer time horizons.

    FOSS options like Matrix for chat and Discourse for forums are the better bet.

    #Community #DevRel #OpenSource #FOSS #Matrix

    trevorflowers,
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    @josh Yep. My long-running Slack group of friends just moved to a private IRC server because of this. I mean, we were never going to pay so I guess it's a good business move. ๐Ÿคท
    https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/

    trevorflowers, to random
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    So long, Slack, and thanks for all the fish. For years I've been in a low traffic Slack group with a few old friends. We used to live in the same city but now we're all over the place. Anyway, Slack's decision to hide the back-scroll unless we pay has worked as they planned and driven us freeloaders into the arms of a private IRC server, Ergo. It's open, pretty easy to deploy if you're also a linux weenie, and works with a variety of clients.
    https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/

    trevorflowers,
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    @luis_in_brief I agree in general but this particular group of friends use chat as a way to work together on projects, including collecting links and notes. The backscroll is handy for that kind of thing. I'm not sure whether Ergo will let me set some channels as ephemeral and others as durable but I'll look into it.

    trevorflowers, to random
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    A person in a forum I read just suggested that there's a category of person who writes FOSS who is being "philanthropic" in that they're donating their free time and skills (a luxury!) with no expectation of direct reward. There are many reasons that people work on FOSS but I like the idea that there is a specific and positive term for unpaid people hacking for fun and a general belief in sharing: philanthropic coders.

    trevorflowers, to random
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    Admin note: I have and will continue to block hypercorp federation with this instance. I do this not only because I detest them (read history, please) but because it's the only humane approach for users here and on every other instance, including the hypercorp instances.

    trevorflowers,
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    If you have friends who are annoyed that their hypercorp account doesn't have access to this or other blocking instances, please recommend that they find a non-hypercorp (and non-fascist, natch) instance because life's too precious to lick boots in your free time.

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    โ€œit was Facebook traffic that warped most digital media executives into futile aspirations of moguldom, and itโ€™s the fast-receding tide of Google search traffic that has turned those same characters into frantic, mewling content goblins, desperately trying to force-feed AI-generated affiliate garbage into a robot that hates them.โ€ https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23993135/twitter-breaking-news-history

    trevorflowers,
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    @KevinMarks It also contains this gem: "Facebook inflated its video metrics, a bunch of digital media executives carelessly pivoted to video in the hopes that they would become essential content suppliers to Mark Zuckerberg, and then he imperiously killed them all because he realized it was far easier to negotiate with an infinite supply of individual burned-out Instagram influencers. This is the BuzzFeed-shaped media wreckage we live in today."

    trevorflowers, to random
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    It's so interesting to find out what browser-oriented devs believe are the big tech wins from the past ~5 years. The first list in @baldur's article, below, has only a little overlap with my personal list. Though to be fair, I'm no longer "in the game" as the kids never said.
    https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/the-itch/

    trevorflowers, to random
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    I recently used the Firefox extension Stylus to set news site img tags' CSS to 'display: none' and I think it's reduced the stress I usually feel when catching up with world events. I also reduced the intensity of sites with bright white background colors by setting them to 'background-color: grey'. Thank goodness for user agents that actually support their users, right?

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    The ebook reader from @nantucketebooks is one of the better options I've found on the web. Here's Cory's "Down and Out" as an example. I've found that they regularly add new ebooks.
    https://nantucketebooks.com/ebooks/doctorow/downandout/

    trevorflowers, to random
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    I'm not enough of a protocol or encryption wonk to have a firm opinion on the newly published RFC for this alternative to #DNS named #GNS but I sparkleheart the design goals. From a cursory reading, it seems like it isn't a boil-the-ocean solution (unlike so many other GNU initiatives) so perhaps it can gain momentum in niches and work its way out from there.
    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html

    trevorflowers, to random
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    This is consistent with my experience using Google sites before, while, and after I worked at Mozilla. I don't believe it was a conspiracy among the rank and file. I do believe that various product leadership teams knowingly made decisions that caused these problems.
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/

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