(toot 'atheia) @atheia@octodon.social
Free Software aficionado, programmer, lib commie, socialist feminist, RNGesus devotee. Also, GNU Guile, Guix & functional programming ftw.
Legacy @_atheia_.
@cwebber Hello there! Lovely to serendipitously bump into you in this multiverse!
Excellent day spent hacking with @norbert on a next gen open access radical philosophy journal :smile:
Q: How private is Mastodon / GNU Social?
A: Not very. Use email, XMPP, or other secure, encrypted protocols if you need privacy.
@Areya yeah, that was insane good. Part Romero, part hot fuzz, part moonlight... and a million other things I forgot or missed.
Ok. Get Out is just amazing. The hype is real. Go watch it right now; go on, I'll be here when you're back.
@andschwa I run both. My Laptop is running guixsd; my work horse is running Debian + guix. at the very least guix is a better version of debian backports imo.
@andschwa look into guix. like srsly, it, together with nix, is revolutionary. personally, I think guix is the way to go - if you want a slightly more "production ready" thing, you might be more swayed by nix.
Also the guix community is amazing.
Here on Mastodon we have: Furries, Socialists, Lesbians, Witches, Warlocks, programmers, and French people. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TWITTER? NOTHING. NOOOOTHING
Mailbox knows what's up.
@Areya Yeah, it really looks amazing :grinning: Thanks for the heads up!
Super stoked: watching Get Out tonight.
@Frans I'm not a librarian, but i am a software developer working on Koha ils. I would say one degree of library separation?
I cringe whenever I see the term #hackathon used by for profit companies as a marketing ploy and a way to achieve unpaid labor.
Free speech doesn't mean you can be an asshole on someone else's platform that they've allowed you on to.
Free speech in the U.S. means the government can't silence you. This platform isn't run by the government - local, state, or federal.
Play by the rules or build your own platform (on your own dime).
Today's been a rather sad day for the world. People died and by the look of it, many more will too.
The USA fired cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase overnight, which Russia has responded to by pretty much cancelling the non-aggression pact.
And then there was the incident in Stockholm - which of course the media will claim was worse as it was "our people" (meaning western white people) that were killed.
This is all going to end badly.
There you go, a explicit list of topics requiring a CW in public timelines. https://octodon.social/about/more
Simple: put a CW on NSFW or violence in any way or you get silenced/banned.
Use more of them in an opportunistic way, for anything negative or depressing.
Somebody should start an 'official celebrity' Mastodon instance, and only let frightened celebs into it so they can all feel safe that their identities have been 'claimed'. Charge them a nominal fee. Make money. That's a free idea, you can have it.
Here's my prediction for mastodon:
* wave of new users, most will go back to twitter
* enough will stay to keep things interesting and development will proceed apace.
* Valid feedback will be iterated on. instance-independent Identity, federated search, instance migration, performance tuning and bug fixes, etc.
* As it matures, it will grow.
Ultimately, a focus on keeping the community welcoming and easing the barriers to adoption will pay off.
@shivvi It's lovely to see different languages in my internet bubble though! :-)
