Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Rediscovering the Small Web

"Today's web is mostly commercial. The smaller web of individuals has neither the resources nor the will to compete for visibility and audience the way the commercial web does"

Another great post by @neustadt - welcome to Mastodon by the way, a part of the new small web!

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

Free Software & The Environment - Ben O'Neill at LibrePlanet2020: https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2328/patriotsat1335.webm

(raw video link)

Algorithmic suggestions and filter bubbles harmed me so much before when I was using google and popular social media, but I managed to escape it. I have a friend who thinks everyone wants to be a rapper based on what he sees on social media and youtube. And this view of the world is really influencing many of his decisions in life. For people out there the entry point to any kind of knowledge is google (which gives them what they want to see). How can you destroy the human mind more.

Stop siloing/posting content (or blogging) on @Medium if you care about ranking on silo search engines https://pawelurbanek.com/medium-blogging-platform-seo (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/9361202c-73a6-4b63-ab88-7f71ee90535a)

New Blog Post: Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service

https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-service

#100DaysToOffload

Pushing forward Debian on mobile devices
https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/2020/05/msg00000.html
#debian #debianmobile #mobian

Peertube has launched a campaign for Peertube V3!

https://framablog.org/2020/05/26/our-plans-for-peertube-v3-progressive-fundraising-live-streaming-coming-next-fall/

Please consider to donate so they can ship this release, with new features (like livestreaming!!)

#peertube #fediverse

Maybe there's a blog post in this, like "Simplicity is the easiest path to accessibility on the web"

New Blog Post: Going From User to Contributor With FOSS

https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/going-from-user-to-contributor-with-foss

#100DaysToOffload

Here are our plans for #PeerTube's v3 (#live streaming for this automn!)
▶️ more info on the framablog https://framablog.org/2020/05/26/our-plans-for-peertube-v3-progressive-fundraising-live-streaming-coming-next-fall
▶️ read and support the roadmap https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

A quick Google search shows that for many people, including journalists, "going down the rabbit hole" still means "coming to believe in dangerous, false, nonsense"

https://www.google.com/search?q=down+the+rabbit+hole+conspiracy

This is why it worries me that for some non-trivial fraction of the English-speaking online population, "going down the rabbit hole" now ALSO means "innocently learning some complex and previously unknown, yet true' set of facts"

I don't like that these two meanings are getting blurred. Don't like it at all.

My dream career is already taken

The Mediocre Programmer

This book is about helping you along on the journey of being a mediocre programmer. Together we'll uncover some of common misconceptions we have about programming, failure, and growth and come to understand that the act of programming and development is something we undertake each day and improve in small ways. It's these small changes that over time transform us from being mediocre programmers into better programmers.

http://themediocreprogrammer.com/

#mediocreprogrammer

y'all going to laugh, but I really believed it. I drank the kool-aid. this was the mid-00s, a tech company with a motto "don't be evil" still felt daring rather than cringe – for an alienated techie like past me, at least; my politically aware friends tried to warn me; but I didn't realise that Google leveraged its fine-tuned advertising machinery also for recruiting, and I swallowed the whole thing.

Some of you people actually think Microsoft isn't going to screw you over and it shows

Replacing Digital Capitalism with Digital Socialism

"Unfortunately, current legislative proposals by US legal scholars and Congress promote a capitalist model where "many Facebooks and Twitters" compete to capture data and user attention. This will not solve our problems.

... we cannot fix social media with corporate owners, proprietary technology, centralised clouds, and market competition. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

A genuine solution requires digital socialism: a decentralised social media commons based on free and open-source technology, supported by laws and the public purse. The foundation is already set, but a popular movement is needed to see it through."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/fix-social-media-introduce-digital-socialism-200512163043881.html

#DigitalCommons #DigitalSocialism #FreedomBox #Mastodon #LibreSocial #SocialMedia #ActivityPub #FreeSoftware #DigitalColonialism

huh, this seems bad

"macOS 10.15: Slow by Design"

> Apple has introduced notarization, setting aside the inconvenience this brings to us developers, it also results in a degraded user experience, as the first time a user runs a new executable, Apple delays execution while waiting for a reply from their server. This check for me takes close to a second.

https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/

source of ideas for federated services #fuckoffgoogle

https://killedbygoogle.com/