tallship

Slackware, OpenBSD, and a bit of a Debiantard.
FOSS and Privacy Advocate. Secure, Enterprise Cloud.

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2024-08-30 03:02:14

#Elon is a true rock star, regardless of the fact he doesn't pay guitar 🎸
Smashing the #poseurs one after the other, killing woke communism and extending true #philanthropy to those in need... Like this:
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1828527522637611437
#tallship #altruism #Go_Elon
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2024-08-05 05:48:59

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lolz. Less and less mastopub servers being deployed each and every day. Only a single solitary instance in this round of fresh #Fediverse servers... w00t 🤘🤠🤘
#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub
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2024-07-23 21:59:04

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@npub1pvx…fnat
Right of the bat you shoot yourself in the foot.
Masto client my ass. This is the #Fediverse dude. Get a clue.

2024-07-18 20:08:27

#KeyOxide Mobile 2.4 has been released
https://berkersen.dev/keyoxide-mobile-240
#tallship #FOSS #privacy #identity
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2024-07-18 09:19:24

Well if this isn't some fucked up shit!
It's a tabloid magazine, for cryin' out loud!
(Blocked in California, USA)
#tallship #bullshit #Total_Fucking_Bullshit
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2024-06-14 06:34:24

Have you ever received an HTTP 418 status code while browsing? If so, it may be because you were trying to put a square peg on a round hole, or vice versa.
Indeed, RFC 2324 Lays out the specification, and Oopsies! It turns out that an April Fools joke was canonized, yet with some utility

2024-06-09 06:06:40

Best alt-txt EVER!
#tallship #funnies #cat_lady #304
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2024-05-29 05:47:01

News from my alma mater...
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/meet-tritongpt-ai-that-loves-tedious-university-tasks
#tallship #TritonGPT #mundane #remedial
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2024-05-18 20:00:12

Content from Socialhome boosted or quote-posted in Hubzilla looks really nice and the inline media of articles is preserved as presented in the original post as well - very nice!
RT: https://zotum.net/hq/d071a370-de40-5298-92d7-3f19b88d0717

2024-05-16 21:44:23

https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/tree/README.md

2024-05-16 20:27:33

https://feditest.org/docs/quickstart/

2024-05-07 21:53:43

Christmas may not be just around the corner, but it's never to early to start shopping.
Here's a great stocking stuffer idea for the kiddies; something they can put to use right away after waking up on Christmas morning!
#tallship #Christmas #stocking_stuffers #Toys_for_Tots #Great_game_ideas
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2024-04-30 08:18:51

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@npub1c4d…gpuf
Understatement of the ages? :)
#tallship #RTFM
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2024-04-24 15:25:25

Still resonates to this day. #BASIC was a big deal. For a long time.
#tallship #FOSS
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RE: https://social.sdf.org/users/tallship/statuses/111501910747814277
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2024-04-11 17:09:05

Beautiful photograph of a magnificent hummingbird!
Every single hair follicle of every feather, its hue and luminescence, distinct and impeccable in detail.
RE: https://mas.to/users/Jgbird/statuses/112253430202443263
@npub1kj5…jrpq
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2024-03-24 18:10:15

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@npub1c4d…gpuf @npub1rkj…ufed
I "Think", the last stats I saw related 3 million Threads users - 3 billion for Faceplant I think, and no idea for InstaSPAM, but as I understand it, you need an instaSPAM account to use for your Threads account, IIRC.
Regardless, Lauren, it's easy to filter out all Threads traffic from within your user account on most platforms - even masto. Look around on the Fedi or merely do a search on the Internet, but for those interested, I do remember seeing a few quick tuts in blogs for both masto and the Pleroma family of forks.
Whatever Fediverse platform you use (Hopefully something superior to masto), you can always go into the support chans for that product and ask. Most have a canned tutorial for those who wish to remove / block Threads from their streams.
I've even seen a tutorial for Soapbox/Rebased (applicable to all Pleroma forks I think) that circumvents any blocks that Threads may have placed on your Fediverse instance. That may be obsolete now, I dunno. I do think this workaround needs to be performed at the server level by your admin though, and not your own user account level.
Why don't I have this at my fingertips? Because I've really no intentions of blocking Threads traffic at this time and actually welcome those colonies of subjugated chattel into the Fediverse - I'm optimistic that we can encourage huge numbers of those people, previously assimilated by the borg, into creating Fediverse accounts for themselves on safe and quality platforms such as Mitra, Friendica, Hubzilla, the Misskey and Pleroma family of forks, Takahe, Socialhome, GoToSocial, Pixelfed, etc.
Note that masto is NOT part of that list above ;)
Friendica already has integrated support for seamless internetwork communications between ActivityPub, Diaspora, and the Bluesky networks, which you can turn on or off at anytime from your user account. So that's a major plus.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Mitra #Friendica #Takahe #Socialhome #GoToSocial #Hubzilla #Misskey #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Pleroma #Soapbox #Akkoma #Pixelfed
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2024-03-21 09:44:30

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@npub1gv8…uu0q @npub15c0…hxke
You're doing great things Jon, and the longer Mozilla takes to embrace the #Fediverse the better it is for #Vivaldi.
But there's some glaring misgivings here that are often raised by people. Half the #Fediverse isn't mastopub - you should really consider replacing that icon in the panel with the Fediverse Logo, or even the ActivityPub Logo instead of the one you've currently got in that sidebar - It's quite misleading, and people who prefer using the more full featured and capable Fediverse platforms such as Friendica, Mitra, Socialhome, GoToSocial, Takahe, The Pleroma and Misskey families of forks, smolweb Fediverse platforms like Bovine, SNAC, Tapir, and many more, ... These stalwart #Fedizens and #Privacy_conscious people shouldn't have to look at some exclusionary elephant logo that completely misrepresents and dismisses the fact that the masses of these people don't even use that platform.
These Fedizens most certainly should not feel forced into being pigeonholed into an association, in front of others, which implies that they use masto.
Here's an example of what our diverse world of #DeSoc's #Fediverse_Logo looks like - that elephant thingy really only offers an homage to one single platform, losing user market share more rapidly each day, in favor of a better and more complete user experience with superior networking facilities.
Wishing you and the team all the very best, and looking forward to seeing the #logo in that sidebar that more accurately represents the community at large, and it also much nicer looking :)
I hope you continue to shepherd the trailblazing innovation that Vivaldi has shared and introduced, and join now with the trending wave of sites replacing that tired old elephant graphic for either of the logos that more closely and represents the unifying inclusivity and diversity indicative of the residents in our Fediverse.
#tallship #FOSS #Privacy #ActivityPub #Diaspora #Nomad #OStatus #ZOT
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2024-03-20 11:32:07

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And another journo gets it wrong again.

2024-03-18 08:50:06

Really now, why do people stubbornly adhere to the believe that Government entities require warrants to determine anything about you - like, where you are at this particular moment or the GPS coordinates of your location last Tuesday at 17:42hrs UTC? ... And pretty much anything else you can dream up about yourself: The content of conversations with others, everything you've purchased at anytime, what you are likely to eat for dinner this coming Friday, your medical records; you name it!
All without a warrant, even for local law enforcement.
And why would they bother, when they can just buy it from the #privacy_mining companies that you already gave it to for free?
#tallship #industrial_surveillance #privacy_farming #AYBABTU #Subjugation
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/RTP/statuses/112018299149948961
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2024-03-17 13:13:34

It will be interesting to track this....
https://newnet.net/hexchat-the-end-of-an-era-with-version-2-16-2/

2024-03-13 18:48:39

I loved this photo so much I just had to rip it from National Geographic Magazine and post it here in the fedi - Attrib is in the alt-text.
It looks like two medusae (is that correct spelling of the plural) making whoopie, in brilliant colors. the filename is actually brain-original-render_transparent-background-black_4x3.avif
Note that it's a .avif file - if you don't see it on your type of Fediverse platform you should click through to the original coz it's a truly brilliantly colored image. I thought about converting it but didn't bother.
I think it's supposed to represent the two hemispheres of the brain and associated neuralnetwork, but as soon as I noticed that I had hit a paywall I just ripped the image and moved on w/o subscribing to reading the article, the link to which is in the alt-text.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
#tallship
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2024-03-11 14:28:46

Prolly explains why, everytime I felt burnt out and sought out a different career path, then threw the switch and continued to clackity clackity clack down that other track...
I always came back. In fact, Looking back, it should have been obvious - why would someone go to bed with a technical journal or some textbook on IT by choice when they've left (or so they thought) that career for a new and unrelated one?
https://pa2.freeshell.org/pa2/Retirement/Retirement.html
#tallship #contemplation h/t to @npub1c9c…ppch for sharing :)
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2024-03-11 13:24:22

Yup!
I remember back when, this guy in the computer science department had a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Mind you, in the mid-80's, that meant things like chess programs that were difficult to beat.
Other cringe buzzwords that people don't use anymore:
- Intranet
- ASP (Application Service Provider - now just 'hosting providers' offering SaaS)
- Cloud - used to mean that nebulous thing on a data flow diagram or flow chart indicating the ju ju black magic betwixt place that sits between your telephone and the other end of the AT&T (before divestiture in 1984) or your respective country's PT&T.
My take, although I've caved and use the term just as loosely as anyone else nowadays, is:
"When your SMTP server is buried under a bunch of dirty laundry in your closet down the hallway, ... That's in the cloud.
having said all that though, there's still the terrible notion looming, in some time period, of:
./kill_sarah_connor.sh
#tallship #ASP #SaaS #Cloud #AI #ephemeral_buzz_words
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RE: https://aus.social/users/ajsadauskas/statuses/112076660183778379
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2024-03-11 11:34:09

TIL...
There's a really odd sort of internal embarrassment that comes over you when you see a little breadcrumb, say, "That's not right, but it's a global publication"; you reach for the google and swing by the University of Michigan.
For a moment, denial. Then, a bit shaken, you realize, ... "I've been doing all wrong my entire life!"
> An ellipsis ( ... ) consists of three evenly spaced periods and is used to indicate the omission of words or suggest an incomplete thought. In general, an ellipsis should be treated as a three-letter word, with a space, three periods and a space. (Western Michigan University is ... nationally recognized and internationally engaged.)
> Never delete words that are central to the original meaning. Do not use ellipses at the beginning or end of direct quotes when writing a news story.
> Other guidelines and examples
> When the words before an ellipsis make up a complete sentence, place a period before the ellipsis. (Western Michigan University is a student-centered research university. ... ) When the phrase preceding an ellipsis calls for a question mark, exclamation point, comma or colon, the correct order is: phrase, punctuation mark, space, ellipsis, space, next phrase. (What is a healthy university? ... The ability to think beyond our individual and limited view.)
You learn something new everyday - for me, this one was a doozy.
#tallship #grammar #oopsies
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2024-03-11 02:17:32

@npub10tx…crtk @npub1u00…pzgc
I still detest "EV", and I'm still really upset when HackerNoon's IP underwent serious ransom attempts, and the only thing that saved them was that way back then, they took the initiative to scrape backups of all of their publications and republished it elsewhere. Medium was threatening their very existence. It's never seemed very open to me.
Most folks I guess don't recall that fiasco. I dunno. Just my guts and how they feel when I hear Medium to this day.
It's so good to read you here on the Fediverse, why you chose a masto server instead of something like Friendica or Mitra or any Pleroma/Misskey family member of forks I can't quite glean, but hey.... At least you're here, and I don't mind visiting your website for your 'blogs' :)
I don't mind at all, really.
I can appreciate what you posted, truly, but this kinda stuck out to me. It's seemingly so pertinent to the subject matter:
You said:
> End-of-year festivities are the most challenging, so along with sobriety, I’m beginning to embrace solitude.
I dunno.
And I'm not talking about you here; but rather, me. At some point in my existence, as a successful business owner in a small town, right on the state highway's commercial district with redlights every couple of blocks lolz ... (not really, but it sure felt that way), something crept into the dark abcesses of my mind.
- I can have these kinds of thoughts.
- I'm having these kinds of thoughts.
- There's a freaking difference between "Solitude" and "Isolation".
But truly, and honestly to you right fricken' now, I knew I didn't know that difference.
I already thought that I could pigeonhole and categorize, weigh, measure and....
Nope. Not even fucking close!
But it planted a little gamete in my brain. It started to grow, I didn't really welcome it, but I really should be a celebration of life when there's a diploid.
And it grows. Eventually, I'm a would be um.... news disseminator? I certainly don't rise to the occasion of any title that would suggest that you should read my shit, but I'm beginning to come to terms with the "Solitude" that you so evince as something sacrosanct.
There's a huge difference. There's people like me - "You People", waddaya mean?
Nevermind wut, lolz.
So one day, and totally unrelated (Hand to god it's the fricken' truth) to anything else, it occured to me that, not only am I mortal (I came to this conclusion between 24 and 28 years of age, I dunno, 'hand to god' I swear I dunno when)), but I can't truthfully, for myself, independant upon whatever any other bitch in this world told me to believe, or at least spew narrative of, that I'm really breaking down the world of what I am and what I could have been with what I convoluted through to get where I've arrived at this moment!!!
That moment! Not this moment! A moment years ago, completely not related to how I might feel today.
A moment that everything got clear for the first time since I was prolly in 3rd or 5th grade in school.
There's isolation. And there's solitude. Alright, let's put those two in the mix of what I've been feeling for years and just see what we come up with. Okay?
Well, after a life of living in seemingly mile high skyscrapers and being able to imagine my view from the corner office I have is 40 miles.... After years of lying to myself about this is what I or anyone else would want, I did what any confused, single father who raised his own daughter to the age of consent (She graduatated high school on time | she was not pregnant | and she was not on fucking drugs) would do...
I, in my pathetic, singularly created self-imprisonment would do ... I regressed to a loser piece of shit anyway. The only solace I had was a thriving child that, for better or for worse, didn't fall very far at all from the God Damned Oak Tree - MUahahahahaha. My kid. My itty bitty baby forever and ever..... I saw that I didn't fuck that up.
OH..... what an accomplishment!
Then I pulled the pin on the grenade.
My last contract was for a company that had somehow (I never understood this stuffs) made themselves a public company by making GoDaddy buy them. As soon as everything was done and they were now a publicly traded company, Everyone who either hired me or was associated with C-Level or above roles.... Well they just went 💥 and then, there were none. Maybe one or two, but completely different departments not related to anything techical.
I refused to move to Arizona - way to far from the #Beaches_of_Super_Sunny_Southern_California for this South Bay Boi.
There were a couple of pivitol Orange County gigs that took me a couple of weeks for a chunk "O" cash, but this was it... This was the maker for a hiatus that found me doing the Jeremiah Johnson thing - as totally fucking insane as that sounds (and in reality, might be).
I"mma skip over those six years. four of them totally devoid of human contact (mostly).
There is indeed a difference. But you are growing your own Jalapeno's and Tomatoes, and I'm not good at melons, but a few Canatlope and one or two watermelons? Oh that goes so well with the squash and greens and roots/tubers like carrots or horseradish, I dunno, my garden! Greens,
I'll skip over how I eventually got from an air conditioned machine room in skyscrapers worthy of being flown into by crazy bitches that "don't need to learn how to land", to a veritable Grizzly Adams kinda self-imposed *Solitude, but suffice it to say that I had actually, and voluntarily and with the purpose of a federal mission, placed inserted myself into a place of *Isolation.
It's not bad. Not that bad. Not what you expected.
That's okay, we can take our mind if we try, and cogitate between the bliss of solitude and the approaching bleakness of isolation, and there's indeed a huge dichotomy there, with much shared real estate between the two in your being. In your mind, and yet, you know in your heart that you'll still be mostly functional in the busy debauchery of an after curfew underground club in Hollywood - just like you used to live ... But you're outside looking in now.
Wow.
You start to contemplate your value, and in the end, it surprisingly isn't about your value in society, no, no, no, lolz; it about your value as a fellow inhabitant, with your contemporaries....
Your contemporaries, are comprised of half by those citizens that will eat you, and half by those citizens you shoot so you can eat them.
And then, one day (in my particular insignificant existence) you are approached by a cattle rancher who remembered you were way fucking out there in the mountains and might still be unaware of the news and the fact that you're about to be incinerated in the next 18 or so hours ...
Well, I'll always have that which has proven to be just about as influential as being reared by two loving parents. I've been screamed at my mountain lions that fortunately for them, were too much of a pussy to try and kill me, which would have resulted in their suicide by human.
I've survived a cute little encounter with a big fucking bear (fortunately, NOT a grizzly), when I walked across my kitchen to grab a bulb or garlic for whatever other animal I was about to cook for myself - she (I think she was a she, who knows?) gave me the most uninterested look through the two french glass doors that I've ever seen - so as she turned to lumber away unhurriedly, I still didn't begin to process the sheer terror of realizing that she had no concept of things like windows, and that I was within reach of her swipe that could have removed my face, even through the glass of the doors.
I dunno, shit changes us. Don't it?
I don't believe for one minute that what you're achieving is solitude for the sake of rehabilitation with respect to alcohol. I call bullshit!
What I see, and yes, regardless of how your voyage back from somewhere in the abyss of alcoholism, I see a fellow... I don't have a real word for this. A fellow epiphanyist's duh (Doh! Not EVEN a real word) moment and subsequent repercussions.
Oh yeah, it's good to see someone see those planes. That's not so much a result of recovery from substance abuse, that's an event of enlightenment that most folks don't ever get to hold and cherish ...
Your isolation may be the result of your own self-flagelation. Your isolations may be the result of your inadvertency. Your isolations may be the result of circunstance beyond your influence. It doesn't matter though, when it's an edification from which you rise. A cleansing of some sort, perhaps?
Now, continue to rise :)
Take ownership of your own solitude without the chains of isolation. You no longer need that.
You are of the fortunate. And I'm very happy to see that kind of power in others.
Congrats - Continue - Thrive, my friend. Fair winds and following seas.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse
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2024-03-07 11:53:39

Ever seen one of these?
I had a classmate that used to bring his to class every night. Just slung his satchel w/the keyboard over his shoulder and carried this in his arms up the elevator and down the hall to class.
It's a Pronto Series 16, running at a blazing fast 8Mhz, and that's a 5.6 MByte removable hard disk there too. Pronto Computers was located in Torrance (my hometown) just down the street from Epson and Ashton Tate (dBase II, III)
Heck I can't even remember the guy's name, but he worked in some local aerospace company and fancied himself an ubergeek; if this box is any indication he sure was, lolz.
So what's so special about this machine? Well, if you ask any 50 people about an IBM compatible computer that ran on an intel 80186 CPU they'll prolly all tell you there was never any such beast - but there was, and this was it (I recall it was fast as fuck, so they prolly pioneered manufacturing production machines that were ahead of their time, while IBM and the clone manufacturers decided to skip a generation and take their time working on a platform that leveraged the 80286.).
The hard disk was light years ahead of its time too - portable Zip Drives (100MBytes) didn't appear on the scene for another ten years, but this was an actual miniature hot swappable Syquest HDD spinning at I believe, the standard of 3600 RPMs.... I can't be sure though, but it was nice listening to that quiet buzz saw sound just singing along.
We were in a Pascal class together, so he would show up, insert a disk, boot to UCSD P-System and off he would go. The rest of us would too, but we had those noisy 5&1/4" floppy disks that made all those cute noises in our IBM 5150 PCs (4.77MHz 8080 CPUs), lolz.... Well, we did have a few XT's w/HDDs, some VT-52 like terminals for the PDP-11, and some 3270 terminals too connected to a mainframe at the main campus in Sandy Eggo.
His #Pronto was a screamer for sure, and I'd only ever seen an amberchrome monitor for mini computers at work, which were much larger. The graphics (Yah, we actually called them graphics at the time) were superior to what we could do w/o an expensive #Princeton_Graphics #CGA card and matching .51mm dot pitch color monitor too.
I had lots of minis, super-minis, and a few mainframes at work, but in the personal computer world there was literally nothing that could perform like this 8MHz 186... nothing. It was a screamer!
But alas, after him spending close to five grand, the IBM 3270 PC/AT was soon to be released, relegating that guys 186 hot rod to the annals of forgotten songs and unsung heroes. The new #AT_Class machines kinda trickled in though, so if you wanted one of those you got to the computer lab early. They also supported HD Floppies w/1.2MB storage - a vast improvement over that of the earlier, so-called Double Density 360KB floppies, although there were some issues moving data between those two formats that required a few tricks - like loading an earlier command.com (kinda like sourcing another shell once you ssh into a box)... Okay I'm rambling.
I kinda liked that guy, and kinda didn't. Most of the other students didn't care for him too much. He was arrogant and one of those, "Mine's better than yours" sort of person, but he was competent, friendly with me, generally speaking, for a guy who was wound real tight, and I could tell he didn't get any pussy, so I kinda felt sorry for him too.
I should mention that there technically were a couple of other manufacturers out there during that era shipping 80186 computers, but I've never seen any of them and don't know anything about them.
Well, that's about it for that era, I just thought that I'd share that little bit of computer history with everyone. I hope you enjoyed reading about this truly innovative machine and it's brief time on the market.
#tallship #IBM #Pronto_Computer #retrocomputing @npub1sny…ax7g :)
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2024-03-07 09:48:13

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Beautiful!
#tallship #phanpy #FOSS #Fediverse

2024-03-04 21:39:56

Dits and dahs are still alive and well in maritime amateur radio...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/ann-hermes-morse-code/677468/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Another feel good story :)
#tallship #ham #ham_radio #amateur_radio #maritime_communications
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2024-02-29 02:40:55

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@npub108p…yev6 , That is just so fricken' bizzare, lolz....
Thanks for bringing today's best smile to my face so far (even if I didn't ask for it).
#tallship #wtf? #bizarre, but a welcome break in the day's monotony ;)
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2024-02-28 11:11:07

Muahahahaha! When you piss of the fricken' Pope!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/28/24085445/google-ceo-gemini-ai-diversity-scandal-employee-memo
#tallship #ABC #oops_you_broke_the_google!
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2024-02-28 09:02:40

ah.... Good ole Norton Commander - Live long and prosper 🖖
#tallship #FOSS #mc
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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/blackvoid/statuses/111976062318485844
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2024-02-27 08:41:04

Automatic..... indeed.
RE: [[https://mastodon.social/users/jv/statuses/111993293351402800]]
@jv@mastodon.social

2024-02-27 03:19:28

So... lemme get this straight:
#Elon flawlessly delivers again:
- he got NASA's new Lunar Lander to the moon no prob.
#NASA, on the other hand:
- Forgot to unlock the laser range finder's latch (following the pre-launch checklist 3 times)
- Odysseus descended at 6mph instead of 1, w/a lateral speed of 2mph instead of 0.
- So... with 6x the lateral inertia due to 1/6th the gravity... oopsies! fall down go boom?
And Elon:
- can routinely, vertically land a 230' tall rocket on a barge, floating in the ocean.
- I should have accepted that job at SpaceX when they kept sending me offer letters... It wasn't any further away from home, but it was the middle of summer, and my office overlooked the beach, literally on the Redondo Beach Pier - I just couldn't pass on all those bikinis.
My friend Robby Workman once said, "Ultimately, shit will happen. It also happens to fly farther when using tools."
- 19 May 2009 20:31hrs PDT
The Chinese did a spectacular crash and burn on the moon just a couple of months ago with their lander.
By that measure, NASA and IM did pretty good, considering, sort of.
At the time, Buzz Aldrin was quoted as saying that he and Neil only had 15 seconds of fuel left after committing to land even though they were a few miles off course. It is still dubious whether Armstrong was going to land regardless, in one of those, "Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead", moments.
Point being in all of this, I don't think there's really ever been a completely flawless exercise in outer space, not that close enough counts as in hand grenades and horseshoes alone, but really folks, once again, might I remind y'all...
"Ultimately, shit will happen. It also happens to fly farther when using tools."
Or is it the best laid plans of mice and men?
Hey, we're doing our honest to goodness best here!
For a full discussion on the matter check this out:
https://fosstodon.org/users/AkaSci/statuses/111983095115479499
#tallship #NASA #Odysseus h/t to @npub1huv…hxlv for a fascinating thread!
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2024-02-25 13:45:41

Now here's something really special - I don't come across things so refreshingly kewl this often. I follow and test with AlienBob's Ktown endowed LiveSlack CDs but I've been running my own installed from scratch Slackware -current workstations (or moving them to new machines) that I've continued maintain w/bleeding edge software for many years.
This is more like the latter (My warm and fuzzy, just how I like it, personal OS install) than the former (LiveSlack CD) - You're getting the benefit of seeing how someone else sets up their machine to incorporate their daily business flow, with all the kewl tweaks and progs right there for you to moll over. You can run it as/is or take it as a starting point to diverge from, incorporating your own style and improvements for years to come.
You prolly wanna bookmark this for sure and I know that I'mma spin this up myself this week!
A couple of things that I feel are pertinent to mention:
- You start off with a running system, like any #LiveCD, but already tweaked with plenty of customization and integrations to make this a plug and play daily driver right out of the gate.
- It's a great way to skip over the parts that led you to believe it was too much work to justify getting started with #Gentoo.
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #distro h/t to @npub1ceu…2h6d - You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/mid_kid/statuses/111992204446239696
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2024-02-19 19:25:53

Receive (Wax OFF)
#tallship #Bell #receiver
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2024-02-19 13:10:39

Yes source based distro's have been around since the very beginning - in fact, MCC Interim Linux and #SLS weren't far from that mark, except that they merely tried to make it a bit more convenient by packaging up tarballs to be exploded during installation. And there's always #LFS.
If you think about Slackpkg - and you consider that you can actually re-install the entire system by compiling every single component of the default (full) install with the evocation of a single command, followed by the customization of your entire system by installing every kind of software imaginable through the use of #sbopkg or some other automated, dependency resolving package manager that uses #SlackBuilds (which are downloaded, then exectuted, and subsequently download the latest release of he software package desired, which is in turn compiled, packaged, and exploded) - you actually have a fully source based distro installed on your box.
That's right - Slackware is (can be forced to be) an entirely source based distro installed on your device.
And choosing to convert from a point release to Slackware -current switches you from a point release to a #Rolling_Release distro.
*Debian Testing, aka at this time, Trixie is a rolling release. #Arch_Linux is a rolling release, SourceMage and Lunar Linux are source based distros based on #Sorcerer_Linux, the original fully source based Linux distro released when Linux was only about 8yrs old in 2000, and the #Gentoo or #Funtoo source based Linux distros.
SystemD my ass. That has nothing to do with nothing in that conversation - it's completely non-sequitur and truth be told, most source based distros (Arch, Gentoo) support the type of init system that *YOU CHOOSE. For Debiantards such as myself, well..... There's #Devuan - and that's very refreshing to actually have control over your system again with true init scripts. But I rarely use Devuan, even though I've been associated with the initiative since its inception, after leaving the #Mageia team several years ago.
As I state in almost all of my profiles, I'm a Slacker, since 1993 (Slackware Linux), and I'm also a bit of a #Debiantard. On the BSD side, after leaving #Jolix (386BSD) for Slackware, I've pretty much settled on either #OpenBSD or #Dragonfly_BSD, w/the awesome #HAMMER2 FS. I still have a lot of love for #FreeBSD and of course #NetBSD - where I spend a lot of time in my proper #Korn Shell....
But what the heck does any of this have to do with a comparison of using Gentoo Linux being akin to using SystemD?
I don't like SystemD - but if you're a realist, that doesn't mean you forgo using distros that only have that init tooling. You just roll with the punches and keep following the innovations that support you - NO ONE STILL RUNS WINDOWS XP in production - at least, no one outside of state mental hospitals, that's just insane to do in a forward facing business environment.
But a lot of companies do leverage OpenRC, SysVinit, etc., instead of SystemD - that's not going away, and SystemD itself and Poetering have their own up and coming challengers.
SystemD is (supposed to be, originally) a way to boot your box. Yes, it's indeed encroached upon other landscapes since, but not all of those constructs are even considered by many mainstream distros - it's not a fact of life. Other init systems thrive in the UNIX world to this day and will continue to do so.
Likewise, Source based Linux distros are just one among many distros that exist, and may or may not leverage SystemD as their init systems - to really get a good grasp of this, I recommend doing a few Arch Linux installs - with and without SystemD as the base init system. Heck, even Debian still supports your regular, good old #syslog, and at every turn during your updates, reminds you how to keep it enabled since the whole journalctl crap just isn't as elegant, IMO.
Personally, I think more concurrent options are usually better - space is cheap. Storage no longer costs a dollar a meg. or worse, like it was when I was a kid, a few thousand dollars a meg. That's right... MegaByte - Not TB for penny's!
Okay so now I'm waiting to hear back from the OP and see just what the heck they meant when I got triggered. In the meantime....
Enjoy installing and using #Sorcerer_Linux, or the subesquent forks of it's surviving lineage like #SourceMage and #Lunar_Linux - you're now a part of mainstream source-basedLinux History once you do 🤘 💀 🤘
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #distros #Sorcerer
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RE: https://social.sdf.org/users/tallship/statuses/111957857148746923
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2024-02-15 06:18:37

Big skillet = a couple of eggs frying along with a couple of slabs of bacon.
Small skillet = prolly two or three russet potatoes frying w/garlic, onjions (sic), and pepper - after breakfast (whatever time I decided to make it, obviously noonish or early afternoon judging by the sunlight/shadowing) those potatoes will serve as a cold snack or a side dish w/supper after a quick reheat.
The Kettle has boiling water, and I often would move it to the wood-fired heating furnace to keep hot, using it to make tea at various points of the day and night. The Stanley cooker doesn't stay hot for long. It's firebox is small, and consumes a lot of wood. You can see at the left rear that I have a heat exchangers with hot water pipes, but all it does is produce small amounts of tepid water, and not even that when it's cold outside.
This must have been a warm day, because I have the one of those kitchen doors open off the side of the cabin. Those are the same doors I met a big black bear through. That's another story, with a video, but suffice it to say that by the time I realized that bears don't know what windows are, and it was only two steps away from being able to rip my face off, I continued getting more and more frightened after it casually lumbered off and it finally dawned on my how much peril I was actually in... and became more frightened, and more frightened, and then I strapped my 1911-A1 to my chest and didn't even sleep without it or take it off for a couple of weeks. Dead bears are better than Dead Bradley's, and I suppose I could eat that fucker if it could eat me (although I've heard various stories as to whether they taste good or not).
Oh, back to the hot water heat exchanger - I installed a propane fueled on-demand water heater that fed the shower.... If you're going to have only one amenity that is a guilty pleasure of convenience... let it be hot fricking water. You can thank me later for that wisdom :)
#tallship #black_bear #valentines_day #stanley_stove #hot_water #winter #off-grid #iron_skillets
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RE: https://pixelfed.social/p/tallship/663615049356885463
@npub1krr…3vla
#note1c6n…59vy

2024-02-13 11:47:48

lolz....
Yes, I recall Sandra Bullock telling Sylvester Stallone:
"All restaurants are Taco Bell Now!"
#tallship #industrial_surveillance #advertising #spam #privacy
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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/_elena/statuses/111923753460975543
@npub1cz0…0kuz
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2024-02-13 06:55:20

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@npub1u27…3qfq @npub1gsm…5y8l @npub1uqc…32yu @npub1ztp…zha0 @npub1efu…6upq
Johannes, There isn't one - they're talking out of their ass.
They're just making noise and emotionally distressed to discover that this is how the #Fediverse currently works, and always has worked - and it's not just the #ActivityPub portions of the Fediverse, or even the Fediverse - it's the entire #Internet...
"If you affect a public post, you have no expectation of privacy".
For those who still feel some sense of having been offended, I welcome them to unplug their computers and toss their iPhones and Androids into the trash. That's really their only option, and they'll come to that realization some day, maybe, and it is of no consequence for anyone else in the world if they don't.
#tallship #FOSS #networking #privacy #ignorance
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2024-02-10 07:54:59

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@npub1g7t…n6x7 @npub1g8e…qdqf @npub1cxc…akj4
Collating reams of journalist accounts is a good thing.
The problem I have with most of the folks on that list is that it's almost misleading, in some respects. The old Twitter mentality is persistent with the perceptions of these journalists (that's our fault), and as a result, we get a tease and a link, and depending on the particular Fediverse platform or client we're using, we may or may not get a link preview.
The volume of journalist published information is minimal, much akin to what things like Lemmy and Kbin, HackerNews, or Reddit might afford us - and it's unnecessary. A list of external, 3rd party news resources is great, but I am here. Right here - In the Fediverse, with my Fediverse client (That's my reader), and a shitload of journalists who themselves have already migrated over. I have RSS, ActivityPub Follow and alert capabilities, and can appreciate journalists actually publishing their articles here, in the Fediverse, much more than elsewhere that I have to travel to, so to speak... and maybe hit a God damned paywall.
I think part of the problem here is that many of the journalists flowing into the Fediverse are indoctrinated with the old mastodon/twitter decrepit shortcomings that left them with little capability other than to publish elsewhere and link to it from here. I don't want to have to go somewhere else to read the things that interest me - and there's no need. All the tools are here. In the Fediverse. Now.
Most Fediverse platforms don't constrain the users and publishers like the old mastopub way of doing things. i.e., lack of #Markdown or other #Rich_Text capabilities and the inclusion of inline graphics or other multimedia file types in articles, or that persistent, cringy, paltry, 500 character limit that the draconian mastodon interfaces are constrained with, along with their inability to Quote-post. This is why the so-called #mastoforks have been so successful, overcoming many, if not most of those barriers, although they're still almost indistinguishable from the typical #mastopub interface.
We're building critical mass amongst journalists, and this is remarkable, yet we need to encourage greater awareness initiatives on just what the Fediverse platforms have to offer nowadays (and it's only getting better).
Those journalists that I've had the pleasure of admiring here have for the most part, leveraged things like one of the Misskey family of platforms with multiple link previews per post, and quite the rich formatting of their text to make their articles pop with life and entice the reader to visit.
Another issue? Many of these journalists and commentators publish their articles and provide links, but they resolve to paywall sites. I think we need to rethink our ability to, at the instance level for each and every individual user, block shit that links to paywalls. We already have several good browser plugins that do so.
The sooner we sufficiently inform the lions share of these journalists to the opportunities they have on Fediverse platforms that are more contemporary and capable than mastodon, the sooner they can get down to the business of focusing on the monetization of their repertoire here in the Fediverse (and keep ALL the money earned); in turn, we (the rest of us) get quality, original, unique content here, compelling even more folks from the world of the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolithic silos to come and co-exist here with us as fellow Fedizens.
Already, several Fediverse platforms enable the full immersion into the ecosystem here with facilities for monetization - either native to the platform or as a plugin. For example, one of the quickest ways for a journalist to take advantage of a "Substack", "Medium" or other popular monetized platform in the Fediverse is to merely create an account on one that provides these utilities - Like WordPress or Mitra or WriteFreely - create an account, plugin your donation/subscription payment info, and start publishing interesting, informative, original content :)
***One thing we as consumers of the news can do right now, is take the time to individually contact each person we can on this list of journalists and let them know these things. Point them to this article with a link, or to the actual resources that they can experiment with and deploy their unbridled and untapped resources to reach out and in turn themselves be reached.
I'll leave links below, to a couple of the Fediverse platforms I've referenced above. If you're viewing this post on a platform that is one of the Misskey family of forks, then you'll see the graphic below as well as all of those link previews for all of those resources.
Enjoy, and I hope that helps!
#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #news_aggregation #journalism #journalists #publishing
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2024-02-09 23:38:07

I couldn't have said it better myself, lolz...
@npub1uyx…dmcm You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
#tallship #app_stores #monopoly #fail_army #hard_fail h/t to @npub1wuw…pjs5 for bringing this hilarious parady forward and boosting it! You can haz #Cheezburgerz too! 🍔
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RE: https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek/statuses/111902201884516807
@npub1uyx…dmcm
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2024-02-06 00:22:58

yippie kai-ay motherfucker!
w00t!
I must have missed this announcement with the last release of Mitra - it's pure awesomeness to see alt-txt for A11Y - or maybe I should say, Mitra-Web?
#tallship #accessibility
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2024-01-29 07:15:32

About twenty five years ago, we laid out the keels for a new adventure - The Twin Brigantine project, in the parking lot of the #Los_Angeles_Maritime_Institute, next to the #Los_Angeles_Maritime_Museum, in the old ferry building that was, along with a pontoon bridge, obviated by completion of the #Vincent_Thomas_Bridge connecting the mainland to #Terminal_Island.
Up until that time, #LAMI operated and sailed the 70' gaff-rigged topsail schooner, Swift of Ipswitch (previously James Cagney's personal yacht) for it's youth sailing program. It took a few years to complete the Irving and Exy Johnson, sister Brigantine vessels built and outfitted by dozens of volunteers over the duration of the program. At some point, another gaff-rigged schooner was borrowed and enlisted, the136' Bill of Rights filling the need for accommodations of a youth sailing program that had greatly expanded over time, with many ups and downs, achievements and disappointments, but building two square rigger tall ships for and by a non-profit organization dedicated to youth educational programs for the community, a truly novel pursuit, eventually came to a close as a great success.
This photo shows the 113' brigantine Irving Johnson, on 23 March 2005, and which, after less than three years of service, she had run hard aground on a sandbar following several storms that affected local charts, leaving them partially obsolete - in short, on her way into the Channel Islands harbor, well... sadly, the pic speaks for itself.
Another year and two million dollars later to repair structural damages and flooding, the #Irving_Johnson once again joined her sister ship, #Exy_Johnson, in the pursuit of education as #school_ships, something that Irving and his wife Exy (Electa), following no less than 7 circumnavigations together, pioneered and championed in the 20th century aboard their three successive sailing ships - a #schooner, a #brigantine, and a #ketch - each named the #Yankee.
#tallship #youth_sailing #education
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2024-01-27 05:47:54

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You're very welcome. We all, each of us venture to various corners of the #FOSS #DeSoc world, and happen upon things others mind find useful. I'm very glad that I'm occasionally able to share things with the community that some find interesting, or even moreover, useful :)
#tallship #Minds #nostr #Fediverse
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2024-01-21 04:51:16

"I knowed his ma. They was good folks. He was full a hell, sure, like a good boy oughta be…He done a bad thing an’ they hurt ‘im, caught ‘im an’ hurt him so he was mad, an’ the nex’ bad thing he done was mad, an’ they hurt ‘im again. An’ purty soon he was mean-mad."
- J.S., who really just wanted to be a fucking marine biologist, as evidenced in his conributions to Between the Pacific Tides, by his friend Ed Ricketts, yet much to his chagrin was relegated to authorship in depression era grit fiction, notable for his brutally honest naturalism, social commentary on extreme hardship, heartache, and subsequently immortalized in pen and celluloid.
Now you fucking know, bitches.
#tallship #lit #history #memoriam and #heroes, both celebrated and vilified; yet still one of my all time great inspirations as an artist. But just who was it he invoked that was so injuriously transfigured?
Can you haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔 Can you? I doubt it. lemme know :p
photo credit: Hanna Shandra - https://presentacionesjhm.blogspot.com/2016/11/flabellina-iodinea.html - My confidence in your inability to grasp this is epic. Prove me wrong.
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2024-01-18 09:43:58

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@npub13wq…35s0
Ah man, that sucks Gabe. I'd give you a ride or something but I'm no longer in Northern California at all, back in L.A.
I'mma boost this coz I know a few folks up there in the bay area, and maybe one of them can lend a hand.

2024-01-09 07:31:42

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@npub1gjq…70st @npub1df0…7gmw @npub1n5v…kmf5
Okay the pic above in this thread was posted on a masto server, and boosted here by me. I can see no way to reveal the alt-text from here on my Mitra account.
Normally, a hovering the pointer momentarily with a mouse-over will bring up the alt-txt (mastodon and forks).
Alternatively one may need to click on the photo which brings it into focus, and then one can do a mouse-over (pleroma and forks).
Friendica, Misskey, Takahe, Hubzilla, Pixelfed, and others have their own similar or same methods to reveal the alt-txt.
#tallship #A11Y #test
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2024-01-09 06:36:04

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@npub1l08…5mv7 @npub1df0…7gmw
Okay this is a reply to a post from Pleroma that I've boosted on Mitra. I can't seem to find anyway to view the alt-text.

2024-01-09 06:27:15

Post for Andre'
image attached, no alt-text provided.
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2024-01-07 08:42:54

Some lighthearted optimism in the #Fediverse:
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
#tallship #FOSS #Privacy #DeSoc
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2024-01-04 10:45:39

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@npub1r9j…4h54 @npub1wwt…ljy2
>...obviously things are way more nuanced and intricate than my 500-char toot can ever convey.
As are many of the topics you broach, yet cannot fully convey due to a silly 500-char post limit imposed upon you.
Perhaps you'll consider migrating to a Fediverse instance that supports the ability for you to actually convey your thoughts in discourse and meaningful discussion.
If you haven't gleaned already, that I'm encouraging you to do so my friend, then this is me recommending that you do - there's much benefit to be received by the rest of us Fedizens if only you aren't constrained to posts rarely more suitable than that of shitposting or passing on links with nary the textual space to introduce them.
Some decent contenders that might suffice nicely for you Arnold might be:
Venera.Social, or Wizard.Casa, any instance running Pleroma or one of its forks like Akkoma or Soapbox/Rebased. The UX is much nicer too on those platforms, IMO.
If you prefer the UI you're currently working with, than I can wholeheartedly recommend you switching to a Hometown server. It's a very stable, well maintained, and actively developed Fediverse server platform, Darius isn't going anywhere either, and if you ask, he would likely consider granting an account for you on his Friend.Camp instance.
Even #FediTips has left the platform you're currently using, presumably out of frustration:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106681745636570615
Just a thought anyway :)
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Friendica #Mitra #Hometown
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2023-12-26 10:48:03

OMV does not contain ANY (0%) code from FreeNAS. I did implement
everything from beginning. Nevertheless, the most code from FreeNAS has
been done by myself at the end. Show me any piece of code you think it
is from FreeNAS. Please do not shout out lies if you talk about
something you did not know.
- Volker Theile
(January 14, 2012 at 7:40 pm)
#tallship #FOSS
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2023-12-26 08:15:57

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Lost the + sign on both sides of that equation coming across from #Gemini

2023-12-26 08:05:11

"Ask Bill why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a
dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that."
- Dr. Gary Kildall.

2023-12-19 22:38:55

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@npub1df0…7gmw
Well then, that's simple enough lolz...
Thanks for that tip!

2023-12-19 08:23:01

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Some Fediverse platforms already correctly render Gemini URI's as valid links

2023-12-19 08:22:04

Test post...
Gemini URI's should resolve as links:
gemini://git.skyjake.fi/
Gemini aware browsers will either open the page or launch Lagrange or other default Gemini browser

2023-12-17 23:51:14

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That's interesting. There's really no universal manual as to how some aspects of the network's privacy considerations are to be handled.
One thing I think you might be interested in Mike, is how Mitra handles private/DM type messages @ instead of what some platforms call "unlisted" or "public", etc. I discovered this by accident some time ago, and found it particularly refreshing.
Okay so it goes like this - You receive an @mentioned message to your inbox along with one or two other persons from a masto account. Then, you go to respond, I had never considered the negative privacy concerns possible, but I did want to bascially, for lack of a better term, "cc" myself on another platform, so as to keep myself in the loop on the conversation.
I can't remember now, but it was probably because I didn't want to be limited to 500 Characters in a private conversation between three friends. I was able to add myself no problem, and received the so-called cc message on that other platform.
Well, later on, a similar situation arose, and I think I was going to add someone else to a conversation we were having in private - it didn't work. The error message, as I recall, was as crappy as any I've ever received, but I couldn't add that other person - I was on a Mitra instance (this account, actually). When I inquired, I was informed this was a security/privacy feature...
At first, my reaction was a bit dubious, but then I thought, what if someone was in an @mention private DM with one or more folks and at some point, someone with nefarious motives decided to add an additional resource to the conversation - that would be tantamount to breaking the understood convention of privacy when sending emails between people privately and off-list.
I did put it in a list somewhere of standard testing suites for evaluating Fediverse (or other) network communication platforms/protocols, but sadly, since moving back to the Los Angeles area I haven't really had the time to be very active in the community - today was kind of an exception due to a cancellation wrt a social event that was scheduled.
Anyway, I'm not sure what Hubzilla or Streams has in the way of accommodating those privacy considerations, but thought I'd mention it if it hadn't been something that needed to be addressed in the past :)

2023-12-17 23:34:04

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@npub1u9s…fy35
OH! Cringe!
But true, lolz.....
>"At the end of the day, distros DON’T matter that much and anything is better than Windows… even snaps =)"
That having been said, I'm a firm believer that "Friends don't let friends run ewb00ntew!" Yah, that's kinda a little disparaging tagline I came up with a decade or so ago. I think it's cute, but it does express my sentiments.
I was sooooooooo tired of answering the same question for about twenty years, searching for new ways to say it, and shifting from one fav distro of mine to another, and then back again. But I really failed to acknowledge the need for #n00bs to experience instant gratification to hold their interests long enough to just ditch the #Satan of Redmond (Windows) for that of freedom and privacy in the form of one of the most incredibly steep learning curves I was actually expecting those people to climb after having their questions answered.
#Slackware still tops the list to this day - it is so powerful and.... yes, simple - but that's what us sysadmin's say. Concepts like sbin/lilo and fdisk partitioning or manually editing etc/fstab real quick coz I know what I want as special mountpoints over NFS or whatev.... "OH the Horrror!", is prolly what any of those n00bs seeking to escape the apron strings of #Microsoft likely said, right before making a pinata in my effagy to bludgeon.
#Debian, and I am a proud and self-described Debiantard, isn't (wasn't) really much better back in the day, even with auto provisioning of partitions and the #GUI based install it sported... "non-free-firmware... huh? Why am I looking at a blank terminal with a command prompt's blinking cursor, instead of pretty little windows with a mouse pointer?"
#Arch_Linux, #Gentoo, and others not historically worth mentioning at this time weren't any better, because they were better, and far superior to the semi-n00b-friendly distros at the time. #Redhat 5.0 - 7.22 weren't that bad actually, the newcomer could actually fumble their way past the installation (and even choose the Redneck language for foshizzles and giggles), but like you mention above, obsolescence loomed imminently with gobs of #RPM Hell, especially if you went out to somewhere like RPMfind.net or another place where you could do an rpm -ivf <packagename> and then discover you broke your google... (prolly Alta Vista back in those days), but you could seriously want a really good application and find out that you have to put the lotion on its skin - or at least have a current copy of the AutoTrader to take your mind off the predicament that landed you in the bottom of a pit.
Enter #LMDE... Lemme say that again: Enter LMDE!!!
Now I had something I could recommend to n00bs that split the difference between a rolling distro and a plug & pray installation! All that non-free firmware that was so confusing for so many back then (can't get your display to work, can't this or that and aaarrrrgggghhhhh).
LMDE tracked Debian Testing but installation was as easy as just installing Mint with all of the firmware you needed - people started thanking me twice (they always thanked me once, and then a week later swore to unleash painful, bloody vengeance upon me for burying them in documentation that they could in no way comprehend). The problem, previously, was one of the tenants of my religion - "You can do it right.... Or you can do it twice!"
The truth was, they couldn't even do it AT ALL the first time, and I'm telling them to use a simple distro like Slackware or Debian - nevermind the the 3 stages of Gentoo (They don't even offer those staged platforms anymore, it was too involved for even seasoned aficionados of source based distros).
There was SuSE, but it was as ephemeral as Redhat, and for a while in those early days, I was able to wholeheartedly recommend Mandrake Linux, which had a beautiful DE and easy install, but they went public just prior to that big "POP" of the dotcom bubble and were vaporized.
Yes, When Mint came along I was elated. I could recommend LMDE, and the user could install and easily manage their desktop - and it was a rolling distro too!
Then came the realization by Clément Lefèbvre that without considerable funding there was no way the team could even have a life of their own or watch their kids grow up if they continued to support what was almost effectively two separate, but equally in appearance, distros. I must applaud the Mint team because they did gracefully migrate the LMDE folks back into the mainline Mint over a period of a couple of years.
Then I stopped recommending Linux Mint - "Friends don't let friends run ewb00ntew!"; Remember? Then, a couple of versions back, I caved with the announcement that Clément had decreed those evil "Snaps" would be disabled (If you tell me what you want what you really really want... as the Spice Girls said...). Yes, of course, you could manually enable it - just like Shuttleworth hiimself defended the Shopping Lens malware because the users could simply disable it - Huh? Disable shopping Lens? How in tarnation could a n00bie even know what to look for in the package manager to make that malware go away????
But I digress. If you really wanted to, you can enable Snaps in Linux Mint, but it's disabled by default - and for good reason, as you pointed out. Now, it's been a couple of years since I've looked, coz I no longer can be persuaded to answer that question anymore (um.... Okay, I'm back to recommending Slackware, Debian, or Arch again, but prefer to just set up a laptop for friends and say, "see? Just like Windows, huh?"). But here's what I would really like to see.
Now that non-free-firmware (since the pre-Bookworm vote in the community) is a very easy option in Debian proper, I would really like to see Linux Mint migrate back to a Slick Debian and just fricken' ditch Ubuntu altogether. My thoughts have always been that the firmware was the major issue that prevented them from getting 100% behind the upstream in the first place (I could very well be wrong about that).
Things I like about Ubuntu??? Um..... gimme a sec... Lemme think... Errr...
- Byobu
That's it. #Byobu. And IMNSHO, that's really just a pretty skin over #tmux anyway, but it's got some kewl status widgets you can embed at the bottom of the screen. Speaking of #screen, Byobu IS NOT screen - it's tmux underneath, but it does default to ^A instead of the tmux default of ^B, but that's easy enough to change. What I really like about it is that it's a bit more user friendly in that you can customize it for your users and have it AutoStart sessions as soon as they log in - but there I go again, imposing what I think is kewl on people who really just need things as close to point and click on next ==> next ==> next ==> next as we can get it for them.
You see it wasn't all that long ago that even Windows needed an occasion tuning from your local PC Field Tech, much like our pianos do. I see no reason why we can't at least instill the responsibility for having a third party on retainer for quarterly or bi-annual maintenance of our Linux laptops either - I mean, just look how assimilated everyone still running Windows has become since Windows is free to pillage your privacy in the wake of Win10 forced updates?
Well, I'll close now, but did want to mention that your profile's stated mission sounds really refreshing to me - and I might just doing a copypasta of the link to your profile the next time someone asks that age old question.... Which Linux distro should I start off with?.
All the best!
#tallship #FOSS #Privacy #Linux
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2023-12-17 21:26:38

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@npub1enm…hjlf
Well.... God damnit, that's just fucked up, immature childish, and hateful behavior!
I wonder if it rises to the woke levels of
- Micro aggression
- Exclusionary
- Discriminatory
- Unethical
- inequity
Certainly, it's yet another example of stealing the choice of users to determine their own destinies and removing their freedoms promised under the philosophy of FOSS.
Those cowardly bastards who led the dev of #Tusky learned their lesson the hard way when their nefarious hard-coded blocks within the client itself got them removed from the Google Play Store at least twice for similar malware practices a couple of years back for breaking the laws concerning truth in advertising, spawning a multitude of forks that supplanted that client in the PlayStore; reducing their ratings from that of a near perfect rating to a measly one or two stars for such deceptive business practices a couple of years back.
At the very least, it's a perfect example of self-exclusion, serving only to further isolate by painting themselves into the proverbial corner of isolation.
Hm.... maybe a subroutine that checks for this upon failures to boost, quote-post, or reply with the textual error of something like: "That server instance has elected to block themselves from large aspects of the Fediverse" would help avoid people becoming frustrated by such dystopian actions that are detrimental to the network?
Anyway, thanks for the heads up :)
#censorship
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2023-12-17 20:06:06

Since I can't seem to pull this up in search from either server - Firefish.Social or Neenster.org, I'mma just tryna post the direct link to my post on Neenster:
https://neenster.org/@tallship/posts/AcuWpqAvtCOweIr4Oe
My confidence is low that this will work. even though I have reciprocity follows between these two accounts of mine.
#tallship
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2023-10-21 08:40:15

Uh, Oh! We've Ratcheted up to a threat now on Adblock and UblockOrigin...
Soft landings usually mean it doesn't hurt very much at first, then perhaps the event becomes more frequent and escalates to something that looks like the attached screenie...
When this happens, you may wish to avail yourself of some of the alternatives below.
Once you get here you're faced with trying options or even becoming disenfranchised. Switching to another browser is a prudent test, some have suggested pasting links into Incognito Mode tabs or logging out, while others have claimed that stock Brave Browser seems to humming along for them; and third party utils from among the list that follows:
#### Web based:
- Invidious
- Piped
#### Android (both are available at F-Droid):
- LibreTube
- NewPipe
#### Desktop:
- FreeTube ( Linux | UNIX | Windows):
#### Browser extension (a native, local, cross-platform solution):
- AdNauseam
This last option is a simple browser extension that is apparently quite popular with folks, levying its own ethical pressure upon those who would force-feed you with data mined ad generation. The README file has some great information on the methodology incorporated.
On #Android, I haven't been presented with any of these foreboding pop ups warning me about blockers. I typically use #Brave or #Vivaldi Browser, they're stock, but I use the YouTube app more than I do any one of my browsers on my phones.
I also run the #DuckDuckGo "App Tracking Protection service". This is NOT #FOSS, so your choices are either installing from the #Aurora or Google Playstore, yet there's no requirement to use the #DDG browser to enable this protection - it's not for your browsers though (even DDG), it is designed to work with pretty much everything on your Android EXCEPT browsers; i.e., almost all of your installed apps, seamlessly, and since most folks stream YouTube videos through the Google YouTube Android app, I surmise that it targets and obliterates ads in the app (I haven't confirmed the veracity of that, it's merely supposition, but it blocks zillions of attempts by installed apps to phone home).
I'm Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, personal observations, and concerns; other toolsets or applications that meet your needs, and why you may have chosen those particular types of tools.
I hope that helps!
#tallship
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2023-09-15 12:28:52

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@npub14nx…75qg
Thank you for putting out that query - short answer is...
Yes. You definitely have a use case here, but first, being just a little familiar with your product I'd like to welcome you to the #Fediverse even though your arrival coincided with the November Rain phenomenon that was much todo about nothing, and in the end, most Twitugees simply returned there after creating accounts here - I'm glad you stuck around! You're product is FOSS, and this is a #FOSS world here in the Fediverse, so it makes sense, this being your natural home and where people can expect to find you :)
Ever since I decided to ditch the proprietary Evernote, I've been using a #Vim Plugin that uploads my buffer to a Gist in an easy peasy way - it would be really kewl if I had a way to send (encrypted or unencrypted) notes to myself as a Fediverse DM, or share some of them with a select group of others in such a manner - Maybe (if it's textual in nature) actual clips I've saved. The graphics, well, if they are uploaded as a graphic that will work too, and they can even be sent to #Pixelfed accounts (if there is a graphics or movie file).
So, you're concerned about having to setup a centralized server or something that your userbase can be recognized on or something? Perhaps like a relay of sorts? I don't think that's the way to go actually. It sounds like a lot of heartache that might not even surivive beyond the intial proof of concept is rolled out - Spam being just one reason that makes the likelihood of failure a distinct possibility.
Here's what I think you can try doing, and it will alleviate any grandiose plans you may have been kicking around - Keep it in the client. A feature mechanism that either lets you clip and post it as an #ActivityPub NOTE to a user's actual instance (server) where they already have an account - You can collect the user's Fediverse account credentials and use that to post to their own existing account - no additional infrastructure is required on your part.
Those posts can be a single post to oneself (a private Fediverse DM to themselves) or it can include a list of recipients - just like any other post you can make.
This will also afford you the absolute maximum in #Spam_control too! You don't have to accept any registrations obo your Fediverse features - you're merely allowing people with existing Fediverse accounts to enter their credentials into your client and then your users make the decision as to whether they want to use your existing store or their Fediverse account to publish the clips to their stores there.
Since you've been around here for a while now, I'm sure you've realized how severely limited mastodon is when it comes to ways you can exploit the existing capabilities in the Fediverse - I've already mentioned Pixelfed, but there's a lot of other platforms that support HTTP signatures necessary for backfills and e2ee constructs; the support for BBCode and/or Markdown; post containing text with character counts greater than the paltry 500 characters that masto can muster, #LaTEX (actually, only Misskey and Firefish support that at this time AFAIK); local only posts (shared only with those who have accounts on the same instance), and a host of other unsupported features in masopub.
I appreciate that you made the effort to address this as an ActivityPub and Fediverse capability, and not simply, "yet another mastodon branded feature". Especially when mastodon won't be able to take advantage of many of the advanced features you already offer that other more capable Fediverse platforms can make use of :)
Platforms like #Friendica, #Firefish, #Mitra, #Hubzilla, #SocialHome, #Soapbox, #Peertube, Pleroma, #Epicyon, #Castopod, #WriteFreely, #Quanta, #Drupal and even #WordPress - those latter three have potentially, especially ambitious use cases with clips and notes being able to be actually published on platforms already built for long form or 'blobs' to be pushed to them. Hubzilla, #Streams, and Friendica have special features to accommodate your products notes too :)
If you focus on adding support for people to enter their Fediverse account credentials, or multiple accounts like #Takahe and #Fedilab and #Misskey support, Then those are the servers you need right there! The spam problem remains as it is with the particular instances, since they control the new account registrations.
There's also the rapid adoption of #smolweb and single-user focused Fediverse platforms too, such as:
- MicroBlogPub
- Tapir
- Bovine
- And of course, any platform, now matter how heavy or resource intensive can be deployed as a smolweb or single-user instance (even the klunky kludgey mastodon). And speaking of which, there are several popular forks that don't have these limitations that are very popular like #Hometown and #Glitch-soc, Etc.
There may even be some use cases for #Lemmy and #Kbin too, as link/discussion boards too - perhaps posting from a users vault/store to those platforms? There's a lot of different possibilities but ActivityPub can open up a huge market for you while at the same time Fediverse is exposed to large numbers of people who will discover that they too may have a good use case to adopt for themselves a Fediverse account :)
tl;dr: Basically, yes! there's a huge use case for your thoughts there - and if you're reading this on a Mitra, #Pleroma, Soapbox, #Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Misskey server, you'll see some very pretty formatting in Markdown - if you're reading this on a regular mastodon server (not one of the really good and popular forks), then... not so much - but at least mastodon does degrade Markdown and HTML somewhat gracefully :)
Well I hope that helps and do feel free to reach out to me via my contact methods listed in my profile or in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and I'm sure that we can get a few of some of the more prominent Fediverse platform devs to round-table with you for some wire framing sessions.
I'm confident that you'll find a lot of support in your endeavor to achieve this initiative.
Well I hope that helps. Enjoy!
#tallship #Notesnook #Federation
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2023-08-25 07:18:26

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@npub1sat…8vnx @npub1trd…ussx
There's a few that are good, but regular #OBS is, IMHO, the very best and what I usually recommend that people run on their desktops. They went to #Flatpak a couple of years back to simplify and standardize installations, and there's a Windows version too if you're into that kind of kink.
I should also mention #Prism_Live but it's a Windows only thang. #Android too, I guess, and is easy to #multistream:
https://prismlive.com/en_us/pcapp/
#tallship #FOSS #streaming
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2023-08-20 09:49:16

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@npub1uqj…jnvy
Just outside of #Rawlins? Would that be #Wamsutter? It's been years since I've been there, even though I've owned the town of #Barrel_Springs since just after high school.
So, you use a #Fediverse account on a masto server instead of Takahē as your primary? Why?
Since I wrote that comprehensive article about the project I've checked back a few times, but after the Webapp UI was removed and the development seemed to grind down I've been unsure of it's future or potential. I looked but couldn't find a #Matrix or #XMPP support room or other #FOSS based news channel. Is there a discussion channel other than, or bridged, to your Discord community that is active?
I'm still thinking of publishing another showcase for #Takahē since it's passed the 0.9.0 milestone, in preparation of the general release (in conjunction with a video and presentation perhaps, on the multi-tenant integration), but a few months ago you were promoting Bluesky and I'd like to get a feel towards where things are headed before a another deep dive.
All the best and looking forward to hearing back at your convenience :)
#tallship
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2023-08-10 02:01:16

I've been seeing this question come up time and again over the past several years, and it's understandable when you consider that often, the people asking it come from the deprecated, legacy silo space.
"When I follow someone, why don't I see their older posts?" - or some variant of that.
For example, when you follow someone on Faceplant, you see everything going back historically; because it's a silo. One theoretical host (server) with a centralized database that everyone using that host/service has in common.
When you follow someone in the #Fediverse, you begin to see their posts in your timeline/feed moving forward from the point in time that you follow them, because we're talking about the database local to the Fediverse server instance where your account is.
Okay kiddies, let's be real careful with this - again, Be really mindful, and especially careful here. You can accidentally DoS your box very easily if you're not, but here's a useful tool for those occasions where you want a history you might not normally have:
https://github.com/AdamK2003/masto-backfill
#tallship #FOSS #federation
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2023-08-10 01:21:13

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@npub1kja…e5gq
I wholly concur.
Considering the global nature of federated timelines in #Fediverse platforms, I don't feel that it's very much of a stretch to say that it should be a default option/feature of all Fediverse servers - to be certain, they too, are #messaging_platforms.
Thanks for bringing this notion to the forefront :)
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#tallship #translation #FOSS