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Seeing some takes that locate tech’s mass layoffs’ silver lining in the fact that fired workers are now free to make startups + retake tech from the bigs But startups don’t compete w big tech anymore. They license big tech infra & compete w each other to get acquired by big tech https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1616887234606530561

Today sustainability is seen mainly in terms of “paying the maintainers”, long after we should know better and first address the dynamics of inclusive governance. Getting Back to a Social Frame

Web3 is a set of expectations, about what the internet can and should be: native money, assets, ownable identity and media, transparency, automation, control, privacy, new institutions and more meritocratic and equitable outcomes. “Web 2.0” vs. “Web3”

• Since they speak about the need for global, decentralized governance structures, I’m surprised there’s no mention of The Network State. It’s by no means a a flawless thesis, but it very effectively paints a picture of what building internet-nations will look like.

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• Primavera de Filippi throws down with a counter-meme to Balaji’s Network State. ==Commons over exit.== #plurality – Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr

  • The slide image says:
  • Coordi-nations
    • Voluntary communities of value-aligned individuals
    • With a common, yet implicit agenda for society
    • Collective identity, relying on self-determination
    • Exist alongside other nation states, but introduces new layers of sovereignties to domains that are not inherently territorial

One thing I’ve noticed is that everyone is going to great lengths to make something that replaces the clients we’ve known for years. That’s an excellent goal that eases a transition in the short-term, but ignores how a new open standard(ActivityPub) can be leveraged in new and different ways.

Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you’d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be Mastodon instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone’s Micro.blog, or maybe another person’s Tumblr, or someone else’s photo feed. There are many apps and servers for you to choose from.

==It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline.== That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint.

• Nov 17th, 2022 https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-linux-macbook-pro/ id:: 63c3c7ed-965d-4a8c-9445-964606df6563
• Feb 23rd, 2022 How to Dual Boot macOS Monterey and Ubuntu on Mac | Step By Step Guide | No Virtualization Required #video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUulXVZIBI
• Mac Linux USB Loader https://www.sevenbits.io/mlul/ — likely stale, from 2017 or 2019

Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.

Recently, the Open Collective CTO François Hodierne spotted an upsurge of activity in Mastodon Collectives on the platform. Many instances rely on crowdfunding to cover costs, and are seeking open source, community-oriented, transparent fundraising solutions that meet their needs.

• I suspect one of the reasons for this is that Pinafore is written in Svelte v2 and Sapper – both of which are deprecated in favor of Svelte v3 and SvelteKit. Not only is there no migration pathfrom Svelte v2 to v3, but there isn’t one from Sapper to SvelteKit either. (And on top of that, I had to fork Sapper pretty heavily.) Anyone making a bet on learning Pinafore’s tech stack is investing in a dead framework, so it’s not very attractive for new maintainers.

First off, ActivityPub does have a client-to-server API, but as far as I can tell, it’s not really worth implementing. Mastodon is the 800-pound gorilla in the fediverse, it doesn’t implement this API, and other servers (such as Pleroma and Misskey) implement their own flavor of Mastodon’s API.

I suspect that barring urgent intervention, within two decades, most of interactions on the internet will be fake.

• I think we will need to sign everything to signify its validity. When I say sign, I am thinking cryptographically signed, like you sign a transaction in your web3 wallet.

Any AROEP heads here read The Redemption of Time, the fanfic paraquel that was so good that Liu made it canon and published it under his mark? @basche42

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picking a server is also like picking your landlord. Do you trust the admin of the server to host your identity? Do you think they have the technical know-how to maintain and secure the infra as needed? Are they making backups? What if they get lazy, and you’re stuck on a 2-year-old version of Mastodon lacking all the new features? Do they have a plan for financially supporting the infra? Or are they running an overloaded server that is extremely slow?

Apple is said to prefer hand tracking as an interface, but is experimenting with alternative input devices such as a wand and a kind of thimble.

Apple also wants to enable a transition between the Mac screen and the XR display: If you pull the 2D Maps app from the Mac screen, it can show a 3D model of a city in XR mode.

• Or as Ryan said, “The shared workspace will straight up be a Bret Victor [Seeing Space](Seeing Spaces).”

I wrote the End Poem for Minecraft, the most popular video game of all time. I never signed a contract giving Mojang the rights to the End Poem, and so Microsoft (who bought Minecraft from Mojang) also don’t own it. I do. Rather than sue the company or fight with my old friend, who founded the company and has since gone off in the deep end, I am dedicating the poem to the public domain. You’ll find it at the bottom of this post, along with a Creative Commons Public Domain dedication.

It’s only slightly clearer to me why a businesswould choose a native app over the web. I wrote up why I think a business might go that route about a year ago, and I didn’t even do a good job of convincing myself. The problem is mostly all the examples out there. All the biggest and best apps around have chosen the web. Figma, Slack, Discord, GitHub, Spotify, Netflix, you name it, the biggest successes have picked the biggest platform first: the web.

• Do they though? This is just platform owners, being able to make a choice at a very large scale
• From the perspective of people with native app skills… it’s way easier to just build a native mobile app

URLs are of the web, not native apps. URLs are what makes search engines a thing. Farewell to global, helpful search

Easy to deploy applications are table stakes. Easy to secure and manage data is the new north star. id:: 63b6f2ae-1301-4748-8db1-18d40c938ea0

Applications only exist to process and create experiences around data, and if a platform wants to set itself apart from the others, focus on the data.

Kelsey Hightower on Twitter

Disconnecting this tool and connecting another is a trivial-enough thing that does not warrant the trouble of transferring ownership to someone else.

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• The self-hosted microfeed instance is deployed via GitHub Actions and runs on Cloudflare’s serverless platform, taking advantage of products like Pages, R2, D1, and Zero Trust.

  Your microfeed instance can distribute content through a customizable website, an RSS feed (compatible with podcast RSS), and a JSON feed. And with the simple, yet powerful admin dashboard, adding new content to your feed is a breeze.

The principle behind it is ‘decentralization’, but decentralization is heavily dependent on indexing. Thats why Google was made and became so popular. A good search engine is less critical to a centralized net.

Until then, I am not your supplier. So all your Software Supply Chain ideas? You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpster. And remember. I am not a supplier. Because THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”

• .DS_Store
  database/tweet.db
  database/tweets.js
  img/*

• My tweets are over 60MB and the database ends up over 50MB — the #Github limit for individual files is 50MB
• Those images are cached images, I also don’t want to check them into Github

• Video request error ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './video/970011759846178816.mp4'
• Repeated for every video. I haven’t uploaded much raw video to Twitter, so this is fine
• Also a handful of images with 404

• I do have a Twitter developer account that has v2 access, so I went in and created a new Bearer Token, and added it to the local .env file
• I ran it to test, and since my Twitter archive is from Nov 15th, 2022, it did grab new tweets

• Retweets id:: 63b23c86-9850-453a-ae84-15471f94a2f9
• Replies (oh god, I guess I’m a Reply Guy!)
• Sites Linked To
• RTs, Likes, Emoji, Hashtags, and swear words
• And, my first tweet!

• fission app register --name bmctwitter
• That gets me a fission.yaml and auto-detects _site as the build folder
• I’ll map twitter.bmannconsulting.com to it

I was asked over on mastodon whether I had any recommendations for studying either the period of computer history post-WW2 (thus “post invention of stored-program digital computers”) or even pre-WW2 (thus “all the random stuff we used before then”).

It is very small and lightweight open source app that runs nicely on services like Glitch , but it has most of what you need to host your own personal social media account.

It’s got a microblogging tool, to make posts. You can customize the design with HTML and CSS. You can follow people on Mastodon or other services and interact with posts and send messages. People can follow you on Mastodon, or with RSS. You run it on your own server so you own and operate the data and the code and the whole service. And you can hack the code and make it weirder so that we can all be part of a better, more diverse and more interesting web. https://hackers.town/@benbrown/109605510788355449

• Page Rules? Redirects? Transforms?
• I first deleted the logseq.bmannconsulting.com subdomain, then brought it back and pointed it at bmcgarden.fission.app
• TODO Figure out how to get #Cloudflare to redirect logseq subdomain to root bmannconsulting.com #BMC
• There aren’t that many logseq subdomain links in the wild

• I even have a 2022 version to link to https://2022.bmannconsulting.com/colophon/