Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Check out this interactive timeline of Facebook's history. You can see the trouble brewing from its early days.

Share this with folks who want to learn about Facebook's history. And tell them that alternative technologies are emerging! We can #DecentralizeTheWeb--one person at a time!

https://prettyzucky.com/

Jami/Ring, finally functioning peer to peer communication client at http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jami_Ring__finally_functioning_peer_to_peer_communication_client.html - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/ohq06qwww5 #freepost

The Tragedy of Commons was a thought experiment made by a proponent of unregulated capitalism, how ever several sociologist have shown it to hold no real truth in real systems. A sociologist/economist Elinor Ostrom got a Nobel prize for her work on looking at cases of commons in the real world.

mood: abolish borders and nations and then build an intercontinental high speed rail network, so i can finally hang out with everyone i love <3

Transcript for Eben Moglen’s Keynote at re:publica 2019 at https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/jun/17/transcript-for-republica19/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/mblsx86ubo #freepost

We are organizing an all kerala mapping campaign.The primary agenda is to add more content to OSM in the light of last flood It will be organized in 10+ phases.On each phase we will focus only on one set of parameter. The first phase will focus only on relief points like hospitals, schools and major buildings.
We are planning for 1000+ contributors. We will run a distributed call centre network to coordinate the activity. We have done the same call centre setup during last flood time.

WordPress, osCommerce, miniBB, MyBB, and many more CMSs use MD5/SHA-1 to "securely" store passwords by default:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-quarter-of-major-cmss-use-outdated-md5-as-the-default-password-hashing-scheme/

– 60% of the CMSs use outdated or inefficient hashing schemes
– no CMS used scrypt or Argon2
– 14% of the CMSs didn't use salt, and 37% didn't employ iterations for their hashing function

#cms #password #storage #md5 #sha1 #security #infosec #cybersecurity #wordpress

Could you recommend me any books (fiction/nonfiction) that helped you to either

* self-reflect,
* strongly reconsider the relation between yourself and the society you live in,
* or grow/change as a person?

If yes, which book(s)?

(Boosts welcome, I guess.)

My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home.
I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening!

She laughed. I laughed.
Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.

I have a sizable DVD collection that it's time to rip to the computer. I still believe in owning your media, but the convenience of online services makes it easy to stop caring about these things...

For the arguments about the environmental impact of physical media- I agree, but DRM and "streaming" make it such that only by owning your media can you be assured you'll have it!

I gave a short (15 min) talk at CSVConf last month about federated social media, trust, and how we can better define community boundaries. In particular, I discuss the importance of local-only content that never federates, and the ability to tag other servers as "trusted" and federate things only to those servers. That last idea is something I call "neighborhoods".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxBu5Tktm1g

Non-youtube direct mp4 here: https://tinysubversions.com/talks/csv-conf-2019/video.mp4

People can moderate their own space here, because it's actually their's. That's the entire idea of this whole Fediverse thing.

If that bothers you, like what are you even doing here?

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Michabo v0.1. Sources can be retrieved from the Michabo Git repository. A pre-built binary for Mac users has been attached to this post.

I was planning to do a pre-built Windows version, but was unsuccessful in getting OpenSSL to work with Qt on Windows. Help with that is certainly welcome for future releases!

Michabo is a performance-oriented desktop client for Pleroma and Mastodon instances. With the exception of media handling, which is still a work in progress, the client implements most of the features one would expect in a fediverse client.

The primary goal of the client is to bridge between the fediverse and the desktop computing experience. This goal is only partially realized as yet, and I intend to write a more detailed blog soon about how this design goal is ultimately realized.

Michabo is free software, built by the Pleroma community and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.

Right now here are Michabo’s primary deficiencies:

No integrated support for viewing attachments (attachments are handed off to external viewers, with your web browser as the ultimate fallback)

Attachments without preview thumbnails are handled suboptimally.

The Attachment Grid Layout System could really still use some love.

Special timelines such as Pleroma’s Direct Messages timeline are not yet supported.

Composing messages with a custom scope are not yet supported (but the scope will be copied).

With that said, I’ve been using Michabo as my primary desktop client for the past few days to fairly reasonable success.

Please report any bugs you encounter to the Michabo bug tracker.

Michabo running on a Mac
Michabo.dmg

i'm wanna lift things up i like today

if you are organizing a co-op or a cooperatively managed group you need to know the work of Cooperation Jackson. They are literally leading the way that social transformation and collective action can work together. they literally wrote down everything they are doing, and it's incredibly inspirational:

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi

https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/2018/2/15/jackson-rising-at-last-a-real-strategic-plan

@thegibson what if we had, like, a World Wide Web, but NOT all running on one computer in Jeff Bezos' basement

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

#Debian 10 #Buster to be released on July 6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/06/msg00003.html #FreeSoftware

Today I learned that #Scuttlebutt now has realtime chat apps, a #CLI client called #Scat and a GUI one called #Gester:
https://github.com/stripedpajamas/gester

https://twistedsifter.com/2019/06/when-you-ask-your-photographer-friend-to-babysit-your-cat/
~When You Ask Your Photographer Friend To Babysit Your Cat~