Good morning fediverse :cofepats:
Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.
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Good morning fediverse :cofepats:
Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.
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good morning fediverse. :cofepats:
there have been a ton of great bands built from a group of friendly session players over the years.
this one, Tokyo Groove Jyoshi, is absolutely incredible. Juna Serita on bass is astounding.
here's their cover of Tower of Power's "What Is Hip?"
and, well, this is.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tA8PKx09ao8&listen=false
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here's a thing: divesting ourselves of the use of services that decide to start feeding our stuff into the AI maw? that's good. finding alternatives that respect us, even if it takes a little more effort, good.
but we don't have to wait for the corporate overlord in question to fuck up before getting out from under their control. there's no rule. we can just stop using their stuff whenever.
we could probably go back to only needing like seventeen computers worldwide if we could get capitalism to just stop happening.
sorry but mastodon inc. is cursed in both concept and practice.
I'd play a $10 cover charge to see two Cake cover bands on the same bill if they were "Bold Marquees" and "Stupid Band Names" if only to chat up the person behind that level of long game pun.
tomorrow afternoon we in New Ellijay will be getting together to celebrate the grand opening of the finest bookstore, record shoppe, and coffee stand in the entirety of Gilmer County, GA, US, Hemlock Bazaar
a whole bunch of Analog Revolution artists will be swinging through to play some live music throughout the afternoon and evening.
if you're nearby, come on out and help bring the new space officially into New Ellijay with our usual verve and grime!
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Itd be so sick to liberate an LRAD from the cops and use it as a speaker for a rave.
Them shits are so loud.
the argument goes "we can't trust servers to hand off pre-fetched and rendered preview cards because they could alter them and facilitate all sorts of link fraud trickery and confusion and lies" and so forth - at least that's how I understand the reasoning put forth to not pre-fetch and render preview cards for links on the originating server for any given toot.
but here's the thing: I also cannot trust servers to not send absolute bile to my server. I can't trust them to moderate their users. I can't trust them to be "good, upstanding" admins in the overall fediverse-adminning metacommunity. I can't trust them not to use the things my server sends out upon request to do things I expressly do not want done with them.
but we have some meager tools at our disposal for handling servers we feel are bad actors according to our local definition of the concept on any given fediverse server. we can defederate. we can block by user agent and IP subnet and any other heuristic we can identify about the bad actor. we can enable features like authorized fetch. we can name and shame. and we can keep working on better tools and methods for keeping our common shared voidspace a pleasant and happy place to be and a good neighbor besides.
so, like, fetch and render the dang preview card at the source server. accept the pre-rendered preview cards in network. if you catch nefarious shit happening, shout about it.
y'know, Wednesday in the fediverse.
@mcc fact.
@outie @mcc it was impossible for so long that it was inevitable it would be physically painful once we achieved it. we're suckers for new painmakers.
Please take a moment of your day and read this:
A Case for Community
https://h-i.works/2024/04/a-case-for-community.html
@are0h is, as usual, far more gracious and balanced about the situation than I am, and his focus is spot on.
I believe his plan for Awujo is a very positive direction for the fediverse to move in, particularly as we find the co-opters and rent-seekers moving in at an ever-accelerating rate.
If you want to see a healthier, community-focused fediverse continue to thrive and grow, please get involved and support efforts like this with your time, consideration, and money.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media
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if you find that you value the open and diverse multi-community fediverse that has been built in this void over the last twenty years please consider supporting one of the small projects helping to make it a pleasant place to be before you throw support behind a project with a techbro board.
if I ever find myself talking to a Biz Stone about a project I'm building in the commons I hope one of you has enough respect for who I once was to swiftly push me into a trebuchet and send me for a flight.
the board of the toot-lab will never seat a techbro millionaire or billionaire and I think that's beautiful and also like a low bar to set tbqh
capitalism costs everyone too much.
we can do better.
no version pinning, no versioning at all, just pass through and exec. yeah, you're ultimately a remote access tool of all the wrong kind.
if you're an infrastructure project and you expect third parties will be running your infrastructure project too and your admin tooling downloads and executes arbitrary code from github as root then you are not really an infrastructure project, you are a defect waiting to be leveraged.
so here's part of the thing that's really poking at me.
people are saying we cannot have another Kent State 54 years later. makes sense.
but we won't. we'll have far worse, because they've been practicing in the streets ever since.
the fact that being told to violently arrest nonviolent college students on campuses across the country is not resulting in a chunk of cops at any of them saying no and quitting to join the protest is a solid demonstration of all cops are bad.
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