I recently installed Telegram desktop to my Mac. The disk image has this really cute illustration in it.
Daily Journal 📓
Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
Supernote is an e-ink tablet that is currently Android 11 powered but will have a customizable & open Linux release. $299USD per-order, plus you’ll need a $~70 pen.
Gitlab has a backlog item for enabling ActivityPub support. There isn’t a lot of consistency in this stuff yet, don’t know if they’ll confirm to what ForgeFed is designing, or just aim for “can subscribe in Mastodon” (really, they should be supporting both).
Talking about Ente, it turns out people are interested in solutions for Photo Sharing, so I wrote up a notes page about some apps that I know of, and what I currently use.
ForgeFed is a project to work on federation for software forges, built on top of ActivityPub:
“imagine you could host your Git repos anywhere you want…but still be able to open issues and submit pull requests against repos hosted elsewhere”
Threads is rolling out a beta of user accounts opting in to enabling federation. Evan Prodromou announces he is part of the beta @[email protected]
Added a notes page for Stewart Brand’s Pace Layering concept. “The fast layers innovate; the slow layers stabilize. The whole combines with learning continuity”
Ente just announced open sourcing their full backend.
It’s an end-to-end encrypted “alternative to Google or Apple photos”, licensed as AGPL.
Their client code had always been open source, this completes making the entire service available.
Apple released a game porting toolkit that has been improved by Whisky:
app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very friendly interface. That removes pretty much all of the work out of the process, to the point where all I had to do was download Whisky and drag it into my Applications folder.
Dan Moren writes at Six Colors that maybe Apple should make running PC games on MacOS great with this method.
@[email protected] made a theme for his site that makes it look like chat threads. It’s powered by his very interesting Oddmu wiki / memex.
Ben Werdmuller is adding asides posts which are pretty similar to how how I think about my journal post types.
This is the longest time I haven’t posted journal updates in a while! Still at EthDenver until Sunday, maybe I’ll put some notes on that EthDenver page. I’ve got lots of tabs open from the people and projects I’ve met.
And lots of progress in inviting people to Causal Islands
Landed in Denver. I’m here for the week attending EthDenver and the many community side events happening. Talking to people about Fission’s Everywhere Computer.
I think the word bridge is now at the level of trigger word for people.
What if I call Misskey a bridge to Mastodon?
It means something socially and technically to some group of people which is disconnected from how it works.
Networked communications are absolutely social discussions — not just tech.
But if you disregard how the tech actually works, you’re not going to get very far with social discussions either.
Steve Klabnik writes up his own take on How does Bluesky work
I think the separation of concerns between atproto and BlueSky are very meaningful, as having a “killer app” for the network gives a reason to use it. It also is a form of dogfooding, making sure that atproto is good enough to be able to build real applications on.
Rui Carmo writes up his experiences with LLMs etc in Living with our machine sidekicks. Here’s his comment on trying to import his 20 year old digital garden:
In my experience, summaries for personal notes either miss the point or are hilariously off, suggestions for related pages prioritise matching fluff over tags (yes, it’s that bad from a knowledge management perspective), and “chatting with my documents” is, in a word, stupid.
Congrats to the Bluesky team on opening up federation yesterday! Read the blog post announcement
I almost got a PDS up and running yesterday for my birthday.
I’ve been talking to Nathan Schneider and Robin Berjon about running a co-op PDS, Sky Coop.
Manton from Micro.blog intends to enable the service as an atproto PDS:
The long-term plan for Micro.blog is to fully support AT’s PDS — Personal Data Servers. Any blog hosted on Micro.blog would plug into Bluesky seamlessly, with data portable to other AT Protocol hosting providers.
Micro.blog already functions as an ActivityPub server, and currently supports cross-posting to Bluesky.
Following on Paying people to work on open source is good actually, Chad Whitacre proposes Software Commons as the big tent definition of open source in his post Towards Software Commons.
From the Wikipedia definition:
The software commons consists of all computer software which is available at little or no cost and which can be reused with few restrictions. It includes open source software which can be modified with few restrictions. However the commons also includes software outside of these categories
I like it!