Notices by small circle 🕊 in calmness (smallcircles@social.coop)

Anyone working with printers in their #activism should know about tracking dots. This project helps deal with them.

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

@alcinnz webware?

@alcinnz I am thinking I need to dig up some old Greek language words from the foggiest parts of my old brain. 😅

Has a dictatorship any place in a future EU? Asking for Turkey.

#Nespresso.. why pay 9 Euro/kg coffee, when you can also pay 110 Euro/kg? What else?

@alterelefant yes, the marketing is brilliant. Couple of Hollywood famous actor promoters, nifty colorful tiny cups that decouple our thinking of how little coffee is in it, and promoting lazy consumer habits. Have cheap machines initially, then make them pricier (a la printers and ink cartridges).

At least the coffee is reasonably drinkable. We also have Nescafe pads for making undrinkable bile, to fake the lifestyle. 😁

#FOSS is the great accomplice of #BigTech dominance, by not considering its impact on society and by generally not being produced sustainably. FOSS does not defend its market position, dumping itself on the market and leaving the rest to chance. The vultures know how to make good use of this. FOSS does not worry whether its customer segment - the #Commons - is reached, and evil players are kept out.

Big tech manages to win through ‘free’ in their delivery model, where FOSS sees itself losing.

@cstross all the sci-fi lovers realize that the heroes quest is only for the hero.. the rest dies :)

What a shameful US betrayal of Ukraine witnessed today!

#GlobalSwitchDay 🦸

I just left the #Whatsapp group I shared with my neighbors, overcoming the #FOMO and - after a previous #announcement 2 weeks ago with a lot of background information - left a final goodbye with a strong #nudge to get informed on the rationale of my 'silly utile' behavior. BUT as us #fedizens know..

💰 one dime + 💰 one dime = 💎 2 cent!

The text is in the alternative text, should it be inspirational for your own rallying cry today.

Highly recommend: Add a ref. to @aral talk!

@frankstrater @dansup

I think one thing that held further adoption of @peertube back is that almost every fedizen when passing along a vid in a toot, uses the copied/pasted vid URL inline in toot text.

Almost no one take the 2sec. to look up the URL in their Mastodon or other microblogging client, and *directly* interacts on the video, by liking and adding interesting discussion threads below these videos (and imagine all the cool cross-refs to recommneded other vids that could be made here).

@frankstrater @dansup @peertube

Other than that.. I started calling current AS/AP fedi the "as soon as possible" fediverse, where necessarily early app implementations served as the de-facto reference implementations for the #W3C #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub open standards.

At serious cost: Ever increasing #ProtocolDecay and subsequent #WhackaMoleAdoption i.e. retaining app-by-app interop pipes against moving release targets.

When is Video domain getting standardized? That's my question.

@bhaugen yes, social coding movement is going to be 'emerged', or is already btw. as it stands now. It grows / progresses, or it waits patiently for proactive to evolve it further, in tiny increments or large leaps.. it does not matter. It is a timeless entity.

#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens

and

#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss

and

#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience

and

#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction

The typical #FOSS #dev lifecycle:

1. #showerthought idea
2. git init, start #CI pipeline
3. code, don't forget #TDD

It is great for doing what you love to do as a coder: #coding. It is less great if over time your coded work becomes popular, and all kinds of boring other considerations must be dealt with.

One easily ends up in a #OneManArmy situation, and if not delegating timely, on a burnout vector.

This kind of ad-hoc #ShowDontTell also leads to #TechnosphereMyopia: tech-only perspective.

I started referring to the AS/AP or #ActivityStreams / #ActivityPub based #Fediverse as the "as soon as possible" #fedi.

It's the federated universe that was the lowest hanging fruit in the #FOSS community, where individual projects are great at producing compiled #code and #OpenSource #repositories to inspire others to produce more compiled code.

The fedi we can't get is the one where we all #collaborate and #cocreate at the level of the #OpenStandards #ecosystem, where the true potential is.

@aral thanks dearly Aral 🙏

Just rewatched this for the 3rd time, and its not only the clarity of voice, eloquent expression, eye-opening analogies, but also fiery energy to convey urgency.

Most rare of all in our talk talk talk #society: 50% is pragmatic #solution-oriented. Take that, politics!

Hashtagging this loud and clear:

#Decentralize using #smalltech on #smallweb, for #sovereignty and #autonomy, basics support for #freedom and #HumanRights.

Just #peopleverse! 👆 :boosts_appreciated:

💞
I'd like to take 2 seconds this morning and thank all the #commons janitors who do the ungrateful and unseen work of trying to increase #fedi's #cohesion and #culture.

#Janitors are #People who find it important to connect people. They spread bits of #information they find to other people for whom it may be useful. Usually in hopes that #attraction occurs between formerly unrelated parties, such as #stimulating a #collaboration between #fediverse projects.

Janitors *weave* #SocialFabric.. ✊

In #CalmTech principles

> A technology called Internet #Multicast may become the next WorldWideWeb (#WWW) phenomenon. [..] Multicast at the moment is not an easy technology to use, and only a few applications have been developed by some very smart people.

https://calmtech.com/papers/coming-age-calm-technology

Some of these smart people are here on #fedi, enabled by @nlnet and #EU funding working on exactly this nextgen internet technology stack

Thank you @librecast for your hard work and efforts 💞

https://librecast.net

@clacke @Natasha_Jay

Thanks. Also looked up the #Dutch version where "elephants' path" is indeed 'official'.

#French: chemin de l’âne

#English: desire line or desire path

#German: Trampelpfad

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olifantenpad