Notices by Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:17:18 JST 
Giacomo Tesio
@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social
Indeed if you were leading #Guix, I'd likely be a user and contributor (I think you know I have the technical skills required).
And I also know other people working there, people I respect despite not being always aligned with their opinion (for example I had a long debate with a friend that work on Guix a few months ago about the right to be mentioned with the preferred name by a transitioned trans developer whose code was archived with their dead-name and #SoftwareHeritage was refusing to update. I think hackers have the right to be named as they wish in their works and no script, tool or hash chain matter more than this right).
Yet there's a huge difference between a technical or even philosophical argument and a (politically motivated) personal attack in form of a shitstorm.
Courtès might even be the best #scheme hacker out there, with a solid architectural vision of how to make #linux more reliable.
But I chose free software for political goals that he actively damaged with that attack to RMS. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:10:37 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social
The #Guix leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.
I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for this personal attack to a neurodivergent #hacker such as #RMS.
It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend Minsky's memory from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on #BigTech social media) against RMS himself.
Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed an even worse attack built on top of lies.
These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.
Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among #Stallman fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly protected commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to #opensource and to the current use of #FreeSoftware by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.
Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for #GNU system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by #ESR to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of #hackers.
But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.
So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 19:15:41 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social
who control the platform own users' minds, what they can read, who can read them, what goes viral, who becomes influencer, who is harrassed and what opinion spread among each segment of population.
#Bluesky is just like #twitter: even without #musk, you can only serve the owners' interests, either with what you write or what you read.
With true #decentralization and chronological timelines people don't get reduced to servants.
To me this is much more important than "following" people. In fact, I don't find bootlickers much interesting, and to get a huge number of followers on centralized platforms you must serve their owners' interests one way or another. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:00:21 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social
Don't trust Bluesky's fake decentralization. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 22:27:29 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@grunfink@comam.es
Actually that would enable #snac usage in a specific educational use case: schools.
I think kids and teens might be able to learn how to use social-networks in a defederated #fediverse instance, being able to do their typical errors in a protected environment.
However I know no school so brave to experiment on this, because of all kind of issues they might have to face, from sexting to bulling.
Yet, I think that it might help kids grow more aware of the risks and implication (and maybe even more #privacy aware).
On the technical side: you could have a defederated Snac if you make it available over a VPN or local network only. Also, I suppose that messing crypto keys would isolate the instance's inbox. All hacks, though.
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 08:42:24 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@nemobis@mamot.fr
I mean that the license was instrumental to attract certain kind of people and keep other away.
It worked very well in this regard, with two exceptions: you and a developer who I respect but blatantly violated the license creating a derivative work under AGPLv3. However by his own admission, he didn't even tried to read it.
You were the most enigmatic of exceptions. I think we were (and are) in deep agreement from a political perspective, yet you seemed too fond of gatekeepers' rethorics around license proliferation.
I wonder if after OSI push for OSAID you opened your eyes about the real goals of such gatekeepers.
In any way, I still hope we will find new occasions to do politics together again. 😉 -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 01:24:13 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@nemobis@mamot.fr
Incidentally, that was exactly the first choice I did when I created the #MonitoraPA observatory.
And I successfully used the #HackingLicense to that aim.
Yet, you hated it.
Maybe you didn't understood the kind of people the observatory was for?
(despite we were quite explicit about it)
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 00:32:38 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@mdione@en.osm.town
Guys, you cannot imagine how much I can relate!
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DNS are quite fundamental to the Internet, @_elena@mastodon.social so unfortunately a proper configuration is a sort of rite of passage, just like learning that it might take a couple of days for any update to propagate, so getting them right in the first place is just as wise as tricky.
Fortunately you are not going to face the burden #Google's #GMail imposed to all of us by self-hosting your email server, that is way worse than a website or a fediverse node!
Consider self-hosting your email server like the last level big-boss in your favourite adventure game.
Anyway, if in the future you'll want to try a simpler (and likely cheeper) alternative Fediverse software, I just published a short tutorial on snac here: https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html
It also discuss some of the vulnerabilities of the #fediverse that you might not be aware yet (but that can all be mitigated by #selfhosting your instances, so you are on the good track anyway 😉 ) -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 20:27:19 JST
Giacomo Tesio
Finally out a little #tutorial about running your own #fediverse instance on cheap shared hostings with @grunfink@comam.es's #snac.
https://www.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html
#permacomputing #retrocomputing #hacking #cgi -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 02:57:33 JST
Giacomo Tesio
@grunfink@comam.es I have a couple little feature requests that I think might slightly improve the usage of #Snac with cgi-fcgi on cheap shared hostings:
1) add to server.json an option to configure a folder where to write logs (or at least to save them in a dedicated folder in base dir) instead of standard output. Within such folder, I'd name them after the start date of the server (e.g. snac_2024-12-13.log). When the option is not defined, I'd preserve the current behavior (log to stdout).
2) when running as a server, acquire an advisory lock on the pid, and if you cannot acquire the lock, just exit because someone else is still handling requests for that basedir. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 02:57:31 JST
Giacomo Tesio
As for 1) I just noticed the log/ folder that exactly does what I need, sorry for the noise @grunfink@comam.es
2) might still be useful on race conditions, when two different requests to cgi-fcgi find that snac is not running at the same time and both try to start it: we don't want to have two instances of snac racing so the second should happily exits. -
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Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 09:52:07 JST
Giacomo Tesio
Hello from my brand new #Snac instance running as a #FastCGI on a cheap shared hosting.. without FastCGI support!
Turns out all you need is good old cgi-fcgi and a starter script. I'll send you a PR with a proper example as soon as possible.
I think this shows how Snac is the cheapest and easiest to install #fediverse server, lowering the bar to self-hosting #privacy friendly instances for schools, group of friends or families.
And using it from #fedilab is just as easy as any other instance.
Thanks for the great work @grunfink@comam.es!
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