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
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
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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I ❤️ squirrels!
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Hi friends! I'm currently looking for work.
Technologies I'm good at: Go (golang), JavaScript, ES6, React, Redux, AWS, Docker, Postgres, ElasticSearch
Areas of expertise: web application prototypes, web scraping, IoT protocols, digital identities
My resume is here: https://www.fknsrs.biz/resume.html
My email is: deoxxa@fknsrs.biz
Please get in touch if I could be of service to you or someone you know!
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@maiyannah @qinaliu has written another good primer, on Mastodon specifically and its culture, particularly around the April 2016 growth explosion, at Medium:
https://medium.com/@qinaliu/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
So many follow bots. They are multiplying every hour. Part of me feels like this is the start of sky net. Soon, mastodon will just be a collection of bots #retooting each other with the occasional human thrown in.
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Someone should make a list of all the bots to follow. Call it 'The Turing Registry'.
FYI, here's an ad hoc list of software development resources I'm compiling, largely full-stack web (esp. JavaScript) related at the moment, as that's what's been newest for me over the past couple of years.
https://mjbrown.gitlab.io/
Having trouble remote following GNU Social accounts via Octodon. Is this a known issue? Work-arounds?
Plus #squirrels. ;-)
A brain-invading parasite spreading because of climate change
http://ur1.ca/qqmad
World’s Largest Democratic Country to Endorse Universal Basic Income
http://ur1.ca/qqm70
@stefanieschulte OpenAccess Button is great also! https://openaccessbutton.org/
