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@gnilleps@mastodon.art @JenJen@mastodon.art ​I love trying new things. I never expected that kind of flavor in my mouth hole and not sure I want it again, but I will torture others with it. 😁

Thank you for 150 followers on my #owncast! ( @JenJen@live.jenniegyllblad.com )
I'm handbraking the vods as we speak and will do some studio posts with the work vod AND the impromptu matrix/swedish candy chat with @ozoned !

EDIT: the VODs are as usual for all my lovely Studio Members! Expect more emails soon :artpeek:

@feed@www.404media.co ​With how stupid the redactions are in the Epstein files, who wants to bet they didn't use AI to do it? Because I'd take that bet I'm so certain that some asshole sold them just the AI they needed. They checked a handful by hand and said it's good enough.

That's the ONLY way this makes sense right? They redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa!

I'm planning on starting a new podcast called WorksOnMyMachine.live or womm.live . Are there any software developers out there would like to join me?

The premise is we hop on a video or audio call on a Sunday morning, 0900 UTC-5, and we talk about your software application. However, I also attempt to follow your docs and use your application live. If I get stuck, or we experience issues we learn live, troubleshoot live, etc.

This allows all of us to learn your app, it helps go over your docs, etc.

Are there any software developers out there interested in doing this?

If so, what's a good place to contact you, what's the link to your website, what's your app do, etc.

#software #podcast #qa #troubleshooting #docs #livestream #tech #techTrends

@ozoned a quick search shows there are a few out there that might be in line with your needs. The real question is, what browser do you use when doing it? https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/the-wall-boycott-assistan/kocebhffdnlgdahkbfeopdokcoikipam?hl=en&pli=1

Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )

An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.

@wakest@hackers.pub ​WOW! Thank you! 😊

Big Tech are the new

Cigarette Industry

Sugar Industry

Drug Dealers

They feed off of your addiction and we're finding more and more evidence they knew and exploited this.

BREAK UP BIG TECH!

techoversight.org/2026/01/25...

Just a reminder to anyone that's near the Raleigh North Carolina area on Feb 28th some of us are getting together downtown Raleigh for a meetup.

@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I will be there. Hoping a few others can come and hang out. We don't have to stay where we are, but figured we could all just meet up there and meet folks that share our interests. 😊

freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...

#meetup #raleigh #NC #northCarolina #fedi #fediverse

@teresa_athome@mastodon.online ​I've thought about an internet nutrition label. That kind of thing would be helpful as well. :-

@HumanizeMobility@troet.cafe ​yeah seems close, but hasn't been updated in 10 months. Wonder if it's still active.

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange ​Oh got you. Interesting. IDK if ad filtering would work. I just want like a popup, like those annoying cookie pop ups, but it's from a past you reminding you not to give in to the website you're at.

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange ​what is **#Drollodex ?

@teresa_athome@mastodon.online ​right?!? I want to avoid Amazon, but there are companies now that ONLY ship through Amazon. How can we support each other in quitting? How do we all work together to ditch the Big Tech?

We have ad blockers yes, but what if you had an app that just blocked things. You could also clearly show someone when a website breaks that yes, Google, Facebook, Amazon, are EVERYWHERE.

Probably easier said than done though as there's so many servers out there. IDK how you'd block it all. Something like CBS or Netflix shouldn't be too difficult.

I was just thinking, it'd be really easy to boycott online services. But with so many mergers, and companies are so big, you never know who owns what anymore.

So I was wondering, have anyone made any kind of web browser extension that lets you list a company and you put in why you don't want to support them and it gets all of that company's holdings, and hell even friends, and when you go to that website it pops up a warning reminding you why you hate them and a list of alternatives to support?

Introducing the Fediverse Fandomhood Gimmick

An article or so ago I wrote about a gimmick I had in mind to gamify the Fediverse a little bit. I wanted to encourage people to like / boost and comment things on the fedi.

Today this gimmick is already fully implemented.

@gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online ​OH! How did you migrate? I hit this issue with castopod! When you do a dump you don't just dump the DB. The db itself I guess has meta data. Like the locales issue you're hitting. Do you have migration docs? I'd definitely reach out to Peertube about it and ask. If it's not in docs then we should get the socs updated. If it's a new bug gotta get that fixed. But this definitely sounds familiar to me, although for a different app.