Posts by tallship@venera.social
(DIR) Post #AKdnlZKBWAArnqPYWW by tallship@venera.social
2022-06-18T13:42:42Z
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I don't subscribe to the less people allowed to own cars, and ride shares might really be a great way to go when several van pool to a central complex or business park, but they've never really enjoyed a relevant level of adoption, although they are efficient.On the other hand, * #public transit - especially metro rail systems in larger regions* #bikes (I concur with @koherecoWatchdog easier to sell than public transportation* #walkable neighborhoods - that sounds nice anywhere, but... especially anywhere By some measure, and compared to biking, one might suggest that you can reduce the #tracking just as much on #public transportation if paying cash at kiosks, but there's a lot of cameras on #buses and trains anyway, not to mention the terminals. This also increases the relevance of keeping a #faraday bag handy to hammer a wooden stake into the heart of the tracking vampire ;) In a world where it's more common that people work remotely from home, those walkable neighborhoods begins to sound really good, with #bakeries and #sushi bars and #corner grocers and parks... they sound pretty fine.People may also find that walking three blocks each morning to a community coworking space so they can sit and work in a professional environment with a kitchen and even daycare nearby, a few doors down the walkway. ⛵.
(DIR) Post #AOk8Byxgq9yT7E9Rdg by tallship@venera.social
2022-10-20T00:52:58Z
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Okay @hans , the short answer is yes. It's only communicates via ActivityPub at this time. The developer has put other protocols in his roadmap however 😀For a bit more in depth explanation though, I'm afraid that I can't do three discussion without (regrettably) introducing a bit of politics into the equation.First, SoapBox is just an FE (Front End -in Fediverse parlance), and used to be called SoapBox-FE. This implies that you can use it with any backend such as Pleroma, Mitra, and Mastodon. Perhaps s couple of others to some degree it another. I know that Truth Social uses the frontend with (defederated) Mastodon as their backend, for example.The "recommended", or native backend, or "-BE", is something called "Rebased". And that was originally called SoapBox-BE.So it's technically just Rebased that is talking ActivityPub.Here's s blog article explaining it's genesis in clear terms:https://soapbox.pub/2022/08/19/soapbox-be-is-now-rebased/ Moving along now...Okay now for the political part. It seems that certain factions of folks don't like Alex Gleason. Not my problem and I don't care. I find him to be a competent, affable, and approachable developer. Beyond those concerns, what and how he thinks doesn't matter to me.But there have been people that have cyber out of the woodwork with some rather vitriolic diatribe when I've expressed his impressed with his fork of the Pleroma backend.I don't much care for cowardly sorts, and often feel compelled to respond to nimrods berating me for advocating the usage of "evil" FOSS. I mean, it's not like I'm promoting Faceplant or Twatter or InstaSPAM, or worse, Microsoft, lolz.Anyway, my typical response is just to expose their hypocrisy by asking them to confirm that they also don't allow themselves to use JavaScript - because, as everyone knows, Brendan Eich is such a dangerous and evil man, right?That usually shuts them up faster than a flyswatter smacking a mosquito. They know that unless they're willing to endure an excruciatingly painful existence on the Internet that swearing if the use of such a ubiquitously integrated component of modern computing is nothing more than an exercise in folly (although I do respect those who swear off javascript for privacy and/or security reasons, but those folks are just fine running Lynx and Gemini or Gopher clients, and usually live on the CLI in a Korn shell running Emacs, lolz.No disrespect to Emacs folks, but I'm more of a Vim guy myself and i still often set tksh as my shell of choice.Anyway, Pleroma is widely considered a mess but many in the actual development community itself, with respect to the state of their team itself. It's also a good product, but due to politics, it has left their dev team in what some are calling disarray for the meantime. This is unfortunate, and has resulted in more than one fork that seems to have some potential. I'll post a link to one that, if this types of politics are important to someone, is another quality product, even though that developer is ambiguous about continuing support unlike Alex's project Eric is very much a solidly grounded business product.Personally, I think it's stupid to create a fork of a good product and try to run with that if you're reasons stem from ideological nonsense - we've all seen three fate if what happens when morons who didn't longer the name "GNU Image Manipulation Program" created a miserably failed fork of it called, "GLIMPSE", out of some deranged mission to change the face of linguistics and vocabulary for all.Children are mine that though, until they grow up.
(DIR) Post #AQdayo9tNrkb6NmhvM by tallship@venera.social
2022-12-15T16:55:50Z
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Well how 'bout that?https://mastodon.social/@wchr/109518078053188970
(DIR) Post #AQeY9K0Fjhf43cYcb2 by tallship@venera.social
2022-12-16T04:27:42Z
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After lying in wait until now as yet another, self-defederated, #deprecated, #legacy #monolithic silo based on mastodon - an identical model to #GAB and #Truth Social... #Counter Social has finally stepped from the shadows to challenge #Twatter on it's own turf - to what end? Another big #silo?Joining big #Fediverse servers does little to alleviate the #twittermigration and #twitugee problems.Here's what does:https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/Linboard/status/1603598950593744897#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #smallweb #self host⛵.
(DIR) Post #ARacrOEhYbRGFNvp7w by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-13T04:52:42Z
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♲ https://i.calckey.cloud/notes/99xev3ub96
(DIR) Post #ARcQY5B5NgVuVFBg4e by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-14T01:29:04Z
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What do you mean, "Had also..."???There's absolutely no context for whatever it is you're trying to say!It sounds like something I'd like to understand, but... Subject and Predicate Please!Oh I see what's going on here. You must be one of those naive #twitugees - yup, this is one of those 1 of 2 of 3 of constellated posts that are impossible to read because of all the messages in between your drivel in reverse chronological order. For cryin' out loud!I'm NOT going to hunt around and try to reassemble your reverse chronologically segmented diatribe obliterated by all the other Fediverse traffic in between each of those posts!You have no idea what that looks like to everyone else on the global Fediverse streams do you?I dunno how #Twatter works, but here in the #Fediverse if you have something of any length to say then you certainly don't use mastodon to do it - you get an account on a Fediverse server platform that is more capable and designed for authoring average and lengthy posts and articles.You can still keep all of your contacts and friends, and you can still make short little posts too.The Fediverse is the Fediverse and the networking works the same no matter what platform you're using - plus, more people will actually bother to read what you have to say if you just put each article into a single post regardless of how lengthy it is. I think you had something informative and interesting to read but you butchered it. Looking in another tab, I see as many as 11 posts by others separating your #HellThread, and that is truly sad that you think It's coherent.For you? I recommend you get off that mastodon instance, it doesn't serve your needs, and instead get an account on a #Friendica server; that will suit you nicely.Or a #Misskey or #Soapbox or #Calckey or #Pleroma or a #Hometown server. Any one of those will do nicely for you (and they're all more feature complete than mastodon).I don't mean to come off as being so harsh, but you're certainly not being a very neighborly Fediverse user scattering #unintelligible #refuse about the network like a #litterbug - especially when it would probably otherwise be something that many of us would find relevant and interesting.I'm dropping a link here where there's a plethora of resources that you can choose from to create an account without that stupid 500 character limit you're trying so hard to unsuccessfully circumvent.Please stop doing that. People that have been here for many years find it distasteful to say the least, and it just comes out like garbage on the busy timelines of other servers.Remember that all this attention to what the theme of your local server is about is barely significant at all - you're actually communicating across the world with people across tens of thousands of servers and you would be best advised to be on pretty much any decently administered server that is stable than trying to broham up with a bunch of folks locally that you'll interface with much less, and no matter what server you're on, you can always go and make friends on any other server you want anyway.Please be a good #netizen by observing common #netiquette in the Fediverse 👍I hope that helps, and again, I apologize for #harshing on you like that, but most of that kind of posting behavior was curtailed a long time ago, before all this new #Twatter #migration #landrush #nonsense happened a couple of months ago and people started complaining about it all over again. Please help in sparing us all from these #inconsiderate behavioral patterns all over again.Mastodon is far from the only option in the Fediverse, and it's certainly not the best (if there is one, lol), it serves its purpose well enough though, and that means sending out little blips of 500 characters or less in plain text, without any formatting and I can see that simply doesn't meet your needs... at all.I hope you have a lovely day, and when you find another server that accomodates the requirements for your journalism, do look me up because I'd be happy to read some of your articles 🙂Now here's that link, and like I said, Friendica might be a great match for you and it also has two way interfaces with #Twatter, #Diaspora, and other networks and features like #RSS, groups, chat, and... There's just too much to mention. And feel free to DM me to as I'm be happy to answer any questions I can to help 👍https://write.as/tallship/making-better-use-of-spaceI hope that helps 🙂#tallship ⛵.
(DIR) Post #ARhQKDtd8mmdHMDJCq by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-16T10:23:03Z
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Hey Aral, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I've been meaning to ask you what you think about mastodon's hashtag following feature?The way I see it, since it's designed to work with a local stream it's either...1. ) Fantastic! Because you can filter in all convos to a custom feed whereby you drill down on your local server whose administrator embraces the ethos of the deprecated, legacy silo systems, or...2. ) Virtually worthless, because it adds little to no relevance for small web, single user instances or small community instances that eschew the unethical premises that the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy disrespecting #legacy #silos built their #surveillance #empires upon... Because there's little to nothing in their #local feed anyway.Somewhere in the twixt of those two, perhaps?Serious question, that goes and speaks to the core nature of just what the #joinmastodon brand is really all about.Two decades ago #Faceplant quite prominently touted and published their immutable commitment to the vehement and zealous protection of #privacy for their userbase in the extreme. Could we be headed for a #facetodon or #mastobook phenomenon?#tallship @aral #branding #dystopianagenda You no can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔 #data farming #privacy mining.
(DIR) Post #ARldJMmMhmHCZjZpku by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-18T12:00:10Z
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"IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up."— Tim Paterson
(DIR) Post #ARmUXuFANPf7zLrnKS by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-18T22:13:11Z
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Yes you can try here:https://btrf.ly
(DIR) Post #ARmUYKZcTzTJeJdUoq by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-18T22:11:41Z
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Okay hekp be out here...Which one's #Wren, & which one's #Stimpy?#tallship #try and take over the world!♲ https://tech.lgbt/@prehensile/109710813762577339
(DIR) Post #ARouUEpMtGmDnJdCFM by tallship@venera.social
2023-01-20T02:11:36Z
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# takahe.md### 19 January 2023## takahē - A new Fediverse paradigmFresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms - first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub - **this is huge**, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single user "virtual Fediverse server instances", in consumer based home #LAN environments - let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.To my knowledge, ***this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached**.https://jointakahe.org/***If you hurry***, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, **Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server**. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @userone@SLD01.TLD01 *AND* @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 *AND* @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 - that, at least to me, can only be described as, **"The Bees Knees"**.I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant - *the cat is already out of the bag*.Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway - but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.There's a lot more. **Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI?** Of course I did!There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, *before your eyes*.Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #World Wide Web over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests - the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy disrespecting and #legacy #monolithic silos - owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, **Sunnyvale Syndrome**. This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributed network of services and sites truly belonging to the #individual participants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality - with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.It's dark, so *incredibly dark*. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you *apparently* have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, ***"It puts the lotion on its skin!"***And in a manner of speaking, following an *"Internet century"* (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where _Homo sapien_ drones existing in #Lords and Vassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...***Fast forwarding to the scene where...***Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later *rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth*.Kinda like the true story of the **Takahē**. And we too, *are beautiful*.I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow: @takahe I can be reached on Matrix at: `@tallship:matrix.org`via XMPP at: `tallship@jabber.org`and in the Fediverse at:`@tallship@public.mitra.social`I hope that helps! Enjoy!#tallship #FOSS #virtual hosting #multiple identity #DeSoc #Sunnyvale Syndrome #AOL Effect⛵.
(DIR) Post #ASFyk9aklcq2HqPjQe by tallship@venera.social
2023-02-02T02:50:23Z
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Playing around with #Relatica - it's pretty bitchen!https://write.as/tallship/relatica-the-new-desktop-and-mobile-fediverse-client#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #Friendica⛵,
(DIR) Post #AUCp6IdKT1866KmXrc by tallship@venera.social
2023-04-01T10:42:23Z
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Yeah, but why wait give years fur that in masto? #Takahē has that right now -and it's much easier to install and maintain too.Besides, in the real world, if you read my article, maid'smastodons are actually extinct, while the Takahē was only thought to be extinct until it was discovered to actually be extant, alive and doing alright 😉👍#tallship #Takahē Project #Fediverse #FOSS #multi tennant⛵.
(DIR) Post #AUDuAnJp10ojMDa2Jk by tallship@venera.social
2023-04-01T23:22:55Z
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@evan , why but something with actual utility - like #Friendica? Or other more capable, and featureful #Fediverse platforms that actually enable community and intelligible discourse not confined to constricted drive-by posts that can't even support other types of text formats?I'm really interested in hearing your feelings on this, as the rate of migrations away from mastodon continue to accelerate as people realize that there are many other more viable Fediverse platforms.#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #communities ⛵.
(DIR) Post #AWax23758g4QD2pYrw by tallship@venera.social
2023-06-11T21:36:31Z
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## Tapir updates... Moving right along!Tapir is coming along nicely, with continued active development and commits in just the past few days.I never get this right, #SmallWeb, #SmolWeb, or... Let's just say it's one of the latest in single user, exceedingly simple to deploy #Fediverse servers that you can carry around in your bookbag on your laptop, or conveniently on your desktop workstations.It's written in Deno, so, think Typescript/JavaScript/Node in a safe by default implementation.I'm personally looking forward to Adam hopefully showcasing his work and just how simple it is to get up and running during the upcoming #ActivityConf expected to occur at the end of October.He's got great aspirations for it and here's a bit of what the roadmap has at this time:* broad fediverse compatibility* install directly from a URL with one Deno commandrun with limited permissions (just --allow-net and a single folder)* sqlite and postgres backends* multiple personas (users) with one login and one home timeline (the main account can leverage OAuth)* personas can have different timeline styles (make it look like Pixelfed)* build your own federated timeline from multiple servers* post scheduling* sophisticated filter rules and a customizable home timeline algorithm* follow RSS feeds, Nitter feeds, maybe Nostr feeds* personal full-text search* a plugin systemMuch like what most Fediverse platforms enjoy, like #Friendica, #Mitra, and Takahē, Tapir accounts can be connected to by following, @-mentioning, replying to, and boosting posts or Quote Posting them. There's also a link for feeds.You too can follow along with the project by following now or asking questions of the developer at @tapir - even in this early stage of development, #Tapir supports most all of the features you've come to take for granted from a solid platform from which to engage in social communications with others in the Fediverse and beyond in much the same way as you already do from your #Pleroma, #Soapbox, and #Calckey accounts - without the hassles or uncertainty of having to depend upon someone else's infrastructure and all the baggage that comes with that.I'm not aware of a Matrix room or IRC support channel at this moment, but all in good time.Later I'll do a deeper drill down and publish an article, perhaps even be afforded the opportunity for an interview, and I'll be covering others in depth too, namely, #MicroblogPub and #Bovine - two other very fine and capable SmallWeb, er... SmolWeb, ummm... forget it, **single-user Fediverse servers**. 🤙I regularly showcase existing and emerging #DeSoc development in #Fediverse-city:matrix.org and circle back around every so often with updates concerning these free and privacy respecting decentralized technologies, everyone is welcome and the best insight into these software projects trends to emanate from others who offer their input and experiences. Maybe we'll see you there too...And remember, you can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔#tallship #FOSS #Takahe #ActivityPub @arnelson⛵.
(DIR) Post #AXhVR15PExw31sZV2W by tallship@venera.social
2023-07-14T22:28:28Z
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Let's pretend we're proponents of free and open source software, enlist an army of week intentioned FOSS developers to contribute to our project, and once successfully deployed in many enterprises across the industry...Pull the rug out and convert it into a proprietary product with a bunch of undisclosed, hidden code that we won't ever show you - Muahahaha...Yeah. I see this happening right now in several prominent and celebrated open source projects that you're probably completely oblivious to those sinister objectives.This is why the most ubiquitous desktop operating system in the world is Minix.What's that you say?Yup, Minix. But that's no secret, the cat was out of the bag on that one a few years back (after being secretly so for many years).Before you contribute any more code, translations, or documentation to a software project, consider this:https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.htmlNext up? How Minix became the most prolific operating system in the world today. Stay tuned!#tallship #FOSS⛵.
(DIR) Post #AXhVXeoeRHKtzDtw7k by tallship@venera.social
2023-07-14T23:39:00Z
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Here we go folks!How Minix got to be the most prolific desktop operating system in the world...https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/Now, there's another point to be made here, without specifically naming any projects currently abusing user contributions. Let's call this hypothetical project "hammer&anvil", itself a fork of a popular software project - but claims it's all about being free and transparent, wanting to distinguish itself from the project it's forked from by adopting GPL3 instead of a permissive license.Sure, the project's BDFL (let's call her "Strawberry Daiquiri"), says one day, "were forming a fork of project X because they've formed a company and I'm afraid what they are going to do with X because it's under a permissive license. This girl will be brutally transparent and completely run by the community under the philosophy of anarchy, but we're going to call it a sociocracy so you don't know that it's really just me making a proprietary product for my own ambitions".Well, Miss Daquiri decides to capture by capitalizing upon the sentiment that folks have for Copyleft - it's supposed to protect free software, right?Well, this fork (hammer& anvil) is a hosted solution - meaning SaaS, meaning, it runs elsewhere (other than in your computer) in the cloud as a publicly accessible service. Hmmmm.That means that the most appropriate Copyleft license is likely the AGPL, and not the GPL as one would expect fur a desktop or other local program that you actually download and install in your laptop or server.The GPL requires that when you distribute (give away or sell) your program, either by letting someone download or handing it to them on a USB stick, Etc., You must also make available ALL of the source code, including any changes you've made to the program.But if you run a modified GPL program as a service in the cloud you don't have to provide ANY off the changes you've made to the code.Hmmm.With AGPL you do have to supply your users with ANY code modifications you've made to the running service to which they have accounts...So let's just say that you fork Mastodon, and call it Glitch-Soc, modify it, and run it in the cloud for people to create accounts on and use (for free or for monthly subscription fees - it doesn't matter). ANY and ALL changes to the code base that you make MUST be made available anytime a user asks for the source code, because it's an #AGPL licensed product.And in reality, such is actually the case with this exceedingly popular and capable #fork. It's a fine product in it's own right.But had you changed the license to all contributions moving forward to #GPL, you wouldn't have to provide any modifications you made (unless you give or sell the software product itself on say, a USB stick or via download).Why? Because you're just allowing them to access and use your service, your not actually giving them the program to use for themselves elsewhere - so any modifications you made since forking under a different license (GPL instead of AGPL) isn't something you have to show them.You've essentially created a #proprietary product (if you're so nefarious as to hide your code changes by butt disclosing them), the only code of which you must supply being that which existed under the AGPL before you forked it.Both #Copyleft and permissive open source #licenses like #BSD and #MIT can be a good thing, or they can be abused beyond the intentions of the #FOSS inclined project contributors. Just make sure that you understand what can and cannot be changed where your intended purpose for the #distribution and #availability of source code is concerned....There are BIG differences between the ramifications of each #license and how they can affect transparency and distribution of your free gifts to the world.In our hypothetical scenario with hammer&anvil, the #BDFL, #Strawberry Daiquiri, has decided that she's going to launch a hosted service, and she's going to include things that you don't see and can't be aware of behind the scenes which, if disclosed, you would have nothing to do with - but you'll never know what kinds of scary things she's done with the product that only resembles the original on the surface, because Miss Daquiri will never have to show you the code she has added behind the scenes."Beautiful Victor, Beautiful." -The Monster, speaking to his creator in the film, 'Frankenstein, The True Story'.#tallship #licensing⛵.
(DIR) Post #Ad8EJPjgMRIe6FxsO0 by tallship@venera.social
2023-12-24T09:36:54Z
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Merry Christmast to all!And to all a good night!toobnix.org/w/m4B5Va2R8thqH4N2…⛵.