Notices by rysiek ✅ (rysiek@mastodon.social)

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

Markov Blockchain when

I accidentally a Font Degooglifier:
https://git.occrp.org/libre/fonts-degooglifier

I was sick and tired of having to manually degooglify fonts, so I made this. Seems to work. Handles both local files and URLs.

Perhaps somebody finds it useful.

#WebDev #SysAdmin #Google

I find the signal discovery scene from "Contact" to be one of the most inspiring moments in cinema.

The surprise, disbelief, then sudden realization, and then the creative chaos of trying to make sense of it and at the same time verify what it is... It just works on so many levels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4iNWKfE-0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5MRUHi-gU

The whole film is amazing, too.

Shower thoughts: Mastodon's main branch in the repo should be called "trunk". 🤔 :thaenkin: :thounking:

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. :mastodon: 🍍

OH: "Yeah, that's a good point. I can code, so I suppose I could just built this functionality myself. That's what's great about Slack. If you want something it doesn't have, you might be able to find it, or buy it... but you can very likely build some version of it."

That's some serious Stockholm Syndrome right there. Plus, super annoying how corporations are hijacking the opensource spirit of DIY.

Encrypted remote backups using SSHFS and LUKS: https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/encrypted-remote-backups

I've been using this technique for years and can confirm it's robust and reliable.

#InfoSec

Fuck.

"Troubling news coming out of Syria about the death of Bassel Khartabil, the Wikipedian and Head of Creative Common in Syria, who has been imprisoned in Syria since March 15, 2012. Bassel was reportedly executed shortly after his disappearance in 2015, but no formal information was ever given to his family and loved ones.

Bassel is a Palestinian Syrian national whom his love of technology has got him into trouble in Syria"

http://jimmywalesfoundation.org/horrific-reports-that-bassel-khartabil-has-been-executed-in-syria/

@aral @guizzy @Gargron on the other hand, expanding the scope too much will lead to feature creep and software that stops being usable in any particular use-case. Look at RetroShare for an example.

It's a trade-off, and not an easy decision.

@wakest @Trev @masklayer @kodo @schlink yes, Diaspora needs to implement OStatus finally