Joseph Nuthalapati ✅ @njoseph@social.masto.host

We're counting down the days until #FOSDEM! @fosdem

We'll be there! Will you? Let us know!

If you'll be there, stop by this lightning talk by one of our team members:
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/decentralizing_web_freedombox/

Here's the "final" comment on #ActivityPub by the informal spokesperson on inter-operationg from the #Diaspora project:
https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

Federated Networks Association

Federated Networks Association Ry is a non-profit volunteer organization that aims to spread knowledge about federated web projects and help people and projects involved in this area.

https://feneas.org

#federatedNet #federatedWed #plexodus #federation #decentralizedWeb

as a non-american, for my first few years of internet use, i was confused about why americans were so respectful of veterinarians

Very thrilled to hear that Drew DeVault will be able to work on https://sr.ht full time

Want to use a link shortener on #Mastodon?

Don't! All links in Mastodon posts count for 23 characters, no matter how long they really are.

(via @jond )

#MastoTips

“A VC offers you a contract: he gives you money to accelerate a proven business model … we understood that we weren’t really a startup. We don’t really share any of their characterizing traits. In fact, we are more likely a “stay-up”, to steal a term from Aral Balkan, i.e. a sustainable business with no exit deadline.”

https://medium.com/@fanf42/stay-up-5b780511109d

👏👏👏

Here’s to more stayups in Europe. We don’t have to blindly follow the toxic Silicon Valley model of VC & exits that gave us #SurveillanceCapitalism

Sometimes the reader mode button isn't available in firefox. TIL prefixing the URL with about:reader?url= helps. Reader mode is also a nice workaround for some sites that have nasty full-screen GDPR popups that I don't want to accept.

Tip #7: Sites annoying you if they can send notifications? In @Firefox you can block sites from asking by visiting the Notifications settings panel of the Privacy & Security Options.
#PrivacyMonth #Advocate4Privacy #PrivacyMatters

"What’s needed instead is a movement to reclaim technology: to prevent its capture by capital, and direct it towards creating social value. Of course, the tech giants are not going to cede this ground easily. This is why the demand of the future will not be to tame or reform Silicon Valley, but to abolish it."

'Abolish Silicon Valley'
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley

Christian Heilmann: "So, to me, there is no such thing as going back to the good old web where everything was simple. It never was. What we need now to match the siren call of closed garden publishers is making it easier to publish on the web. And to control your data and protect the one of your users. This isn’t a technical problem – it is one of user interfaces, services and tools that make the new complexity of the web manageable."

Read more: https://christianheilmann.com/2019/01/15/a-more-complicated-web/

The latest episode of the excellent #LibreLounge podcast is about #FreeCulture, the #CreativeCommons licenses, and #Remix and #Mashup culture:
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-7-free-remix-and-youtube-culture.html

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

@alcinnz @ayo yup
but according to some stuff I've read/heard, you should try to write idiomatic code first, they can optimize that better

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

Social media giants plan to fight India's strict internet rules https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/14/social-media-india-internet-rules/ #business #politics #gear