Posts by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
(DIR) Post #AUU5lusMwmQKcrusHw by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-04-09T18:49:44Z
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@simon Yes, it was obvious that it would bring massive change. The direct changes were predictable (e.g. always-on culture) but the indirect effects (e.g. app stores defunding the open web) were less clear, as ~always.
(DIR) Post #AUYc0w0gzDm5eXr1ge by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-04-11T17:27:07Z
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The content of the essay is interesting but more than anything it revealed to me that the FSF simply isn't an org I think about even though I am deeply engaged with free and open tech and culture. I'm increasingly anti-capitalist and pro-sharing and yet ~everything put out by the FSF reads like fantasy role playing. It's not even that they're wrong, they just can't get it done.https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html
(DIR) Post #AX05tSUCs2tLqw2XuS by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-06-24T01:05:47Z
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@webmink The linked article (which is excellent, thank you for linking) doesn't mention Fedora. Do you happen to know whether there's any change in that relationship?
(DIR) Post #AXMMy2C0Vy8OVl5Vq4 by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-04T19:02:38Z
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@john Ignoring the merit of transitive blocking of mega-instances for a minute, I think it's important to acknowledge that the fediverse is by design disintegrated and that's a very good thing. There are already islands if instances that barely connect with the wider fediverse and peninsulas where admins are quick to block instances. The fediverse was never meant to be a fully connected graph because centralized SM has repeatedly proven that we don't all get along.
(DIR) Post #AXaVqVYbeIYAifCuSe by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-11T14:48:23Z
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@john It's great that you recognize that you're willing to turn the fediverse into an unsafe place in order to stick it to a few rich dudes.
(DIR) Post #AXajIgwaHeW5UheNe4 by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-11T17:19:02Z
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@john I'm trying hard to see how else to read what you've written. In the third toot in your thread you wrote that you're clearly in the "growth and replacing corporate SM" camp and not in the "keep it safe camp". What am I missing?
(DIR) Post #AXao8ORugv590cDGfQ by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-11T18:13:04Z
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@john Ah, ok. I think I see the disconnect. I assumed that you were trying to stick it to rich dudes but it seems that instead you think that the people on corporate social media need your help. They don't. They're empowered folks choosing the usual cycle of "jump on a new platform, wait for enshittification, repeat". The people who aren't aware of the fediverse are busy doing other things and aren't bothered enough by corporate SM to spend time looking for alternatives. No white knights needed.
(DIR) Post #AXcVkLjFkC0KlNd2NE by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-12T13:56:19Z
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@john You write that it's ungenerous to see your actions as white-knighting and then in the very next paragraph you write that many people are having a problem and that you'd like to change it. Do you see the irony?
(DIR) Post #AXpfOPYpH4lgyL2eyO by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-18T22:14:08Z
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@webmink That's a historical revision. "Open source" wasn't created to make software free (as in speech). At the time there was already a term and licenses for that. If you hadn't used the word "freedom" then I'd have no argument with your words.
(DIR) Post #AXqITADbdlXf37NDua by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-19T00:02:13Z
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My read of this is that browsers will be "untrusted" and often denied access by services unless they're packaged and signed by a "trusted attester" like, just to pick two major corporations totally at random, Google and Microsoft. So... yeah.https://chromestatus.com/feature/5796524191121408
(DIR) Post #AXvmd1Ugtw0zImmXOi by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-21T20:49:37Z
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If this latest move by the Chrome team to discriminate against browsers that weren't compiled by "trusted partners" (like, say, MSFT and GOOG) doesn't convince you to switch to a non-Chromium browser then I have a hard time imagining what will.
(DIR) Post #AXvmd2b6nYk6iynB2W by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-21T20:55:26Z
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If that's implemented then the clients and sites that use it will be on a different platform than the open web. GOOGweb? Corpweb? Chweb? I dunno.
(DIR) Post #AXvvzBF8EaJVUq9128 by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-21T22:50:17Z
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@ondra Project Fugu is a contentious topic. There is disagreement about whether the web should have feature parity with native apps, whether increased browser complexity has eliminated competition from any group without GOOG's resources, and how much power GOOG has to dictate new APIs regardless of other browser teams' objections. Frankly, it has more nuance than can be discussed in microposts.
(DIR) Post #AXxkCDnRF43i2vYxxA by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-07-22T19:47:36Z
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@ondra I use Firefox every day on every device. It's fine and where there is a problem it's almost always because the site dev wrote exclusively for Chromium. It simply isn't true that there's no alternative for the great majority of web usage. At the very least you could use FF (or derivatives) and on the rare occasion the site is GOOG-only then fall back to Chrome.
(DIR) Post #AYrrciLwrLFDDpOlBA by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-08-18T21:22:29Z
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I know that this is a shocking realization but it turns out that NFTs weren't about paying artists after all. It turns out that Plain Old Monies (POMs) were a better deal. Who could have foreseen this? 🤷 https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/17/23836440/nft-creator-royalty-fees-are-dead-opensea-optional
(DIR) Post #AbJNwxUfdrV5IAfbVI by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-10-30T23:23:59Z
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I know that folks use not-Linux on their 'puters for many reasons but I just want to put it out there that I've used ~every OS and nowadays I love the stuffing out of sway (a tiling window manager) on fedora (a linux distro).All I'm saying is that it's possible and it can be nice.
(DIR) Post #AbKk6gffR2k2AAol3w by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-10-31T15:41:18Z
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@seanmcbeth Indeed, Gnome and KDE are heavy these days and the major distros include the kitchen sink. One reason I switched to a tiling wm like sway was to drop most of the visual clutter. It does mean that I use the terminal for some things that are GUI in Gnome and KDE but I'm OK with it.
(DIR) Post #AbVgcjTxKHtbtpjrEW by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2023-11-05T22:24:08Z
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@seanmcbeth Solid work.
(DIR) Post #Ahw4bIKqAjbChdi3No by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2024-05-05T21:56:00Z
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Foo Fighters?! They're so old it's more like Baz Fighters amiright?
(DIR) Post #AnHB4hdUCiAeDIwXWC by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
2024-04-04T21:45:07Z
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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.