Mal J Brown 🐿 @mjb@octodon.social
An eclectic rebel, nighthawk, eco-geek, & full-stack web software developer. https://about.me/m.j.brown
Also: @mjb
The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous
https://is.gd/iE5ShM
Capybaras are close relatives of octodon degus! Mine is named Lexi.: smile:
Taoist monks find new role as environmentalists
https://is.gd/uegQzT
Not Awesome: ES6 Classes: A curated list of resources on why ES6 (aka ES2015) classes are NOT awesome — https://is.gd/aQlnCO
Girls' education activist Malala Yousafzai to address Parliament today: Nobel Peace Prize winner and Taliban attack survivor to formally receive honorary Canadian citizenship
https://is.gd/JS1OZM
"But still we think of the internet like this new kind Wild West place, and things are not in chains yet, so we don't care because everything will be OK anyhow.
But that is not really the case. We have never seen this amount of centralization, extreme inequality, extreme capitalism in any system before...'
– Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-have-given-up
Oh! Mastodon has built-in Atom feeds for each user:
https://SERVERNAME/@USERNAME.atom
For example: https://octodon.social/@blinry.atom
(via @dredmorbius)
Mastodon—The free software, decentralized Twitter competitor
https://is.gd/Syn0XP
'No free or open-source social network has really taken off. That could change with Mastodon, which is generating buzz on tech sites.'
Scuttlebutt is an off-grid P2P social network. https://is.gd/1XuaNq
'Secure Scuttlebutt is also different to federated social networks like Mastodon, Diaspora, GNU social, OStatus. Those technologies are not peer-to-peer, because each component is either a server or a client, but not both. … [T]here is still trust and dependency on third-party servers and ISPs, which makes it possible for admistrators of those to abuse their power, through content policies, privacy violations or censorship.'
Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time
https://is.gd/9RFME3
Hello everyone I'd like to introduce the new @ambassador from https://a.weirder.earth
This is my attempt to fix the followbot problem. If you're an instance admin, you can install an ambassador bot on your instance.
The bot will boost the most popular toots from your instance. Someone can follow your ambassador to have your instance's best content added to their federated feed.
Feedback welcome, code here: github.com/mbilokonsky/ambassador
@gideonro "Everything is permitted." — Dostoevsky ;-)
@dredmorbius @FerdiZ @dathowitzer @vamp I've been using atom. Perhaps overkill for a text-only project but the md/rst support is nice for software projects.
@kensanata I chose octo for those reasons, too, but the degu cinched the deal. ;-)
Arrrgh! virtualbox-dkms will build for kernel-3.16 but not 4.9 and nvidia-driver will run on kernel 4.9 but not 3.16. Guess I'll have to play with qemu/kvm. /sigh
Really interesting conversation about account migration and taking federation to the next level:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
Survival thanks to @zeiv@social.tchncs.de for the pointer.
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@FerdiZ Thank you! Although I was really just being sardonic. ;-)
@FerdiZ Wut… there's a user manual‽ O_O
I ❤️ squirrels!
@Jirikiha Blah! Is that all it is? /sigh ;-)
