Posts by bmann@social.coop
(DIR) Post #AQ47zAvl1KZiWbOm92 by bmann@social.coop
2022-11-28T05:59:36Z
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Great CBC Spark episode where Nora Young interviewed @ntnsndr among others on whether now is the time for “rekindling the cooperatives movement in tech” https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-55-spark/clip/15951037-559-tech-solutionism-mutual-aid-cooperatives
(DIR) Post #AR6uv0jlhl2SC7pVsO by bmann@social.coop
2022-12-29T19:42:40Z
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I just realized that for #Mastodon and #ActivityPub broadly, we’re at a similar point as when I started working on #Drupal.One of our early contributions was improving virtual hosting, so one codebase could support multiple domains and sites. If lots more organizations are going to run their own Mastodon instances, similar architectural changes will help.
(DIR) Post #AR6uv1wvCL9bxCzX16 by bmann@social.coop
2022-12-29T20:08:26Z
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As @fm2279 points out, don’t containers solve this???No! In fact, that’s #opensource projects architecting for last gen approaches. Design for cloud scaling is different than manage this one Linux box, which effectively what containers give youhttps://social.coop/@bmann/109598725765137959
(DIR) Post #AR6uv2d6fUtk42jDlo by bmann@social.coop
2022-12-29T20:08:26Z
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The #DigitalOcean setup, with options for S3 compatible storage and managed Postgres, makes the best of the #Mastodon codebase architecture as it is today https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-spaces-mastodon-hachyderm/But one can architect #ActivityPub servers differently.
(DIR) Post #ARj73fEIkk2AJfC0qO by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:30:15Z
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The Internet Transition, @robin “we’re trying to run a planetary society that needs to solarpunk the fuck out of itself in a hurry on the collective intelligence of an 18th century principality that’s heard of the Enlightenment from some guy at the pub.” https://berjon.com/internet-transition/
(DIR) Post #ARj73fwc5zTmX5vOue by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:37:15Z
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This is an incredibly important post by @robin I've clipped a number of items in my site and stuck this quote on my blog home page.This term "Cambrian Governance" is very interesting. We can see it everywhere, from the NIMBY battles over housing zoning to copyright to all of the other digital vs physical and digital vs state nuances.
(DIR) Post #ARj73gRoE0Qu5qWJXM by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:38:54Z
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"Our collective mission today, and we don’t have much of a choice in accepting it, is to make the Internet really happen. The Internet has the potential to be more than a random pile of naive technologies operated by a handful of companies competing to be the best neocolonial reincarnation of the Dutch East India Company."— @robin
(DIR) Post #ARj73hxOc3IGm6J3PU by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:40:50Z
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"We can fix the failed state that is the Internet if we approach building tech with institutional principles, and an Internet that delivers on its cooperative promise of deeper, denser institutional capacity is what we need as a planetary civilisation"#CambrianGovernance— @robin
(DIR) Post #ARj73jXaixqBgeFTSy by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:41:36Z
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"the best governance model that is available in a client/server architecture is benevolent dictatorship."#CambrianGovernance — @robin
(DIR) Post #ARj73l7mpsO6bCBtWS by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-16T01:44:09Z
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And before the #Fediverse gets too smug on that last one, benevolent dictatorship is currently the main way that #opensource software gets managed, including and especially the current #Mastodon codebase#CambrianGovernance Besides different kinds of governance, there's alternate licenses too, like Cross License Cooperatives #XLC https://xlcollaborative.com/introduction
(DIR) Post #AS8sIkQFHY5ZYuTKGu by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-29T17:16:32Z
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@blaine @simon @mattb paper from Apple itself on Stable Diffusion https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/stable-diffusion-coreml-apple-siliconThere are several howtos and packages. I know you’re probably asking for ChatGPT~ish stuff rather than images. #OpenAssistant appears to be a good OSS direction https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
(DIR) Post #AS8x8l5USAsKV4ott2 by bmann@social.coop
2023-01-29T18:09:58Z
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@simon @blaine @mattb I’m keeping an eye on #OpenAssistantThe LAION group behind it is the German charity that gathered the images for the OSS stable diffusion stuff.
(DIR) Post #ASH5JvLS0X2xPQejom by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-02T16:12:01Z
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@blaine I’m wondering most about Twitter logins. But since that does the login on the Twitter site, they wouldn’t be turning THAT off?
(DIR) Post #ASHv1g53DWrMTGbd8y by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-03T02:08:32Z
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@simon @lucid00 @jonoabroad @blaine let me rephrase before Blaine twitches more: password managers are a necessary blight for super users. Passkeys as a mass market passwordless solution that increases security by default is what we’re betting on at @fission
(DIR) Post #AScBxIkJkRRpS8UrFw by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-12T20:49:34Z
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@xerz the Berty app has a pretty good (shipping) implementation of this, with #IPFS as the content addressing / sync https://berty.tech/
(DIR) Post #ASpGteU20qZgXNRAky by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-15T15:24:16Z
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There's work in progress to #ActivityPub enable Discourse forums -> https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/93Hat tip to @walkah for finding that!
(DIR) Post #ASxha7XyUsnsuas9Q0 by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-22T22:02:00Z
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The #IPFSThing 5 day gathering of #IPFS and related #DWeb ecosystems now has tickets on sale for only $99, but early bird ends this Fri, Feb 24th! Go buy your tickets! https://lu.ma/ipfsthing2023Brussels, Apr 15th - 19th, more details on the website https://2023.ipfs-thing.io
(DIR) Post #ASxha83Actl0TLT42i by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-22T22:04:01Z
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The #IPFSThing talks themselves are community-curated and organized into tracks.Want to give an individual talk OR help curate a set of talks into a track? Fill you the form and let us know!https://airtable.com/shr2Eq1juLJh0ri3i
(DIR) Post #ASxha8ZmfdqS6Uj6sS by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-22T22:08:55Z
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I’m helping to organize #IPFSThingIt was an incredible experience last year across protocols, projects and of course — people!We’ll have a good chunk of the @fission attending and presenting, there will be #UCAN, #WNFS, and #IPVM working group sessions.
(DIR) Post #AT6HoQOsLhX53KPq9g by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-27T00:47:18Z
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Snowy weekend on #BowenIslandLast night, towards the CausewayThis morning turning on to Melmore from Millerson the Causeway looking east towards the mainlandmy parents’ place in the snow