Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social
Dad, husband. PhD in Byzantine Archaeology. I work as a civil servant, advocate open data and develop FOSS, mostly in Python and R. Anti-fascist. 🐦stekosteko
Gandalf: this ring is bad news, sell your house and meet me in Bree like, next year maybe
Frodo: cool, what are you gonna do
Gandalf: I gotta ride like halfway across the continent to read me a book because I'm an idiot wizard who hasn't invented the internet yet
PixelFed Federation Status:
✅ - Mastodon
✅ - Pleroma
❌ - Funkwhale (WIP)
❌ - GNU/Social
❌ - Hubzilla
❌ - NextCloud
❌ - MissKey (WIP)
❌ - PeerTube (WIP)
❌ - Plume
❌ - Pump.io
❌ - Socialhome
I will finish the WIP ones and then push support in the next few days!
@cypnk I think a MacGuffin TV set makes an appearance in Wu Ming's "54", too.
Yesterday I visited a record factory near my hometown. Was quite interesting. Here are some impressions:
Important news in amsterdam: a judge has ruled that hamburgers aren't pizzas.
(I'm not kidding: http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/183521/rechter-geeft-ns-gelijk-hamburgers-zijn-gn-pizza)
🌺 Trish in Teuta Matoshi Duriqi🌺
#mastoart #illustration #fashion
@steko @bob @charlyblack @InspectorCaracal @Gargron chasing the instant gratification of ‘popular’ is addictive and destructive. It’s what made the birdsite a toxic inhabitable place, an endless contest of who shouts the loudest. Actual engagement is slower, not addictive and requires work. As mastodon is not at mercy of VC, it can afford the luxury of not pursuing popular
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
“Since we took external investment we need a liquidity event.” – GitLab
@dansup When you take VC, you sell the company. No ifs, no buts. We keep getting surprised as the sale usually just takes several years to complete. C’est la “exit”.
This is why VC investment is incompatible with sustainable businesses with social missions. And why I keep harping on about how we must support projects that benefit the commons from the commons (https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/)
EU immigration, rescue ops in the Mediterranean, non-profit orgs Show more
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When trying to think like a Microsoft executive running Github imagine that you are lazy and money-grabbing and are narrowly self-interested in your own proprietary software. From that perspective, anything other than your own software is either good PR or something you can monetize somehow.
FOSS projects like the ones I had on Github add nothing to Microsoft's bottom line and so they will try to monetize or push out that type of thing.
@bob @charlyblack @InspectorCaracal @gargron I also have the impression that content discovery is overrated (it will only help you find popular content) whereas the total tine spent on the platform is what actually drives engagement.
Mildly tecchnical article about a new technique for recovering early photographic images on daguerreotypes which had previously been considered lost. It.potentially means the recovery of 200 year old photographs.
Draft: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
I guess if someone could give it a test run and tell me if they're struggling with something before I publish, would be great
Hi USA, here is my college. (Ciencias - UNAM) It has a good worldwide ranking and it has a $0.25 MXN/year tuition and a $0.25 MXN/year admin fee to study there. ($0.025 USD/year total) I think foreigners pay a little more (like 50 USD/year) but the cost of living is also very low. Classes are only in Spanish though.
Just putting it out there as an option as student loans/debt get worse and Trump gets tired of too much winning™ with the trade war vs the whole world.
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