Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca), page 2

Has anyone used #OpenVoiceOS? How well did it work? Any pitfalls you wish you'd been warned about?

I'm planning to run it on a #RaspberryPi5 .

#OVOS #RPi5

I see, clicking on the hashtags, that I asked similar questions about a year ago — it may be that I'm the local expert.

For what it's worth, I successfully installed #OpenVoiceOS on my #RPi5 in 2025, but I wasn't entirely happy with it, for reasons I forget. So it stayed in the basement, rather than seeing any real use.

@evan I did. Unfortunately, the test of my party wasn't very interested.

Quebec's Angine de Poitrine fills jazz fest site to capacity for free outdoor blowout
https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment-life/angine-de-poitrine-montreal-jazz-fest-free-outdoor-blowout/

"Speaking of which, it was a home run for the jazz fest: presenting a Quebec band at the height of its hype on the main stage and drawing the biggest crowd in years for a show that will go down in history as the night festival-goers were abducted by aliens."

@mtlgazette

#Montréal #JazzFest #AngineDePoitrine

@evan If Alice wants these hashtags not to be shared by #tagspub, it's entirely reasonable to remove those feeds. But I think you'll need to establish a general rule, and I'm not sure what that would be...

Maybe something like: "If a hashtag is rarely used outside a small group, then members of the group may make a request and the tags.pub will generally remove the feed for that hashtag."

@dansup Developing a way for creators to be paid for their work would be good for the Fediverse.

@evan Yes, I am most responsible to those closest to me: my family, then my neighbourhood, my city, my province, my country, my civilisation, my world.

@evan Never. I don't object to alcohol at lunch in principle, but it's never been a practice in the groups I belong to. Plus, if it were a workday, I'd be concerned about getting too sleepy to get things done.

@evan A sad story. Thank-you for bringing it greater attention.

Of all the possibilities I've listed above, I think Loops is the most likely. People seem to love short-form video, I don't think there's much lock-in to current platforms, and Loops is a serious attempt to do TikTok, but better.

Of course, many people like things as is; I trust they'll still be able to find instances that suit them, even if the Fediverse becomes much more popular.

I wonder what will be the next major driver of #migration to the #Fediverse? X/Musk does something that drives away users, or governments? It catches on at last in the EU? Bluesky blows up? #Loops⁩ goes viral? Facebook shuts down? #Threads makes sharing the default?

Many features people complained were lacking years ago are now in place, but it doesn't feel as if the Fediverse is growing much overall, ⁨https://fedidb.com/⁩ .

#Mastodon

@dansup This could make a major difference in the growth of Loops. Are you ready?

@dansup It's good to honour the ancestors; so many of the blessings we enjoy are not because of anything particular we've done, but because they were passed on to us.

@evan Special? More than a carpenter enjoys his work? Why?

(I'm interested in understanding the hostility to AIs I see around here, and I'm not sure if my own theory is correct; please do share better explanations.)

There's a great deal of opposition to #AI here on the Fediverse, to the point that there are people who don't want to run software that has had any contact with #LLMs. (For a rational set of arguments, see https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#why-not-llms .)

In the business of persuading people, you learn that it's important to understand not just what they belief, but *why* those beliefs appeal to them, what is the underlying emotional attachment. In this matter, I suspect it's because programmers fear job loss.

@evan No, but the server should indicate its policy about sharing content. That way if a person doesn't want to share, she can look for a server more to her liking.

@evan No. In principle, there's nothing wrong about collaborating with people you largely oppose on issues where you do have agreement. But those specific examples... haven't they all lost their minds?

(Though since I don't watch their shows or follow their feeds, maybe I'm not being fair to them.)

@evan
Which ActivityPub servers are compatible then? Any from https://fedidb.com/software ?

@jalcine

@evan A movie review app? Link?

@jalcine

@evan Body and soul together.