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What in the fresh hell is going on with the economic numbers?
@jerry@infosec.exchange something smells REALLY not right man. I've read from some economists that NVidia is proping up a lot of the economy. One stated that once he removed the outliers and the Government firing/hiring stuff that the economy grew at 0.8% not the 4%.
ChatGPT:
Why this hasn’t happened yet
Because we skipped step 2 and 3.
The fediverse tried to:
Educate users first
Sell ideology
Expose complexity early
Mass systems do the opposite.
@mapache@hachyderm.io absolutely agree with this. People don't care about the underlying tech. They care about tech that fits a need. At the moment I'm attempting to find communities of people that are interested in investing in their own social communities.
I think it is detrimental to the foss ecosystem to allow state intervention, guidance, control or influence on something that by desing it is meant to have no borders, no nationalities, races, genders, ethnicities, and above all corporate fans.
Linus set a dangerous precedence to allow US boycott affect development, and defended his choice on pure nationalistic bias.
Now this, an EU attempt to make foss a tool, to set standards and guidelines.
It will not end well EU=bad
@yianiris@kafeneio.social I think the current system of proprietary big tech is a larger issue at the moment. With EU funding open source it'll push it event faster than it has been going. They will have alternatives to the US big Tech and they can make their own rules for themselves. Every country should be focused here and we can all build off each other.
I do agree that the EU could so bad things. They exist to govern the EU people and their morales might not be mine. But more competition is better IMO. Open standars are better for everyone compared to what we currently face.
EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!
Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.
NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:
The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...
#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse
@_elena@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe How do I say "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" in Italian?
@_elena@mastodon.social When you direct the movie, can I star as the legendary @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ?
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@JenJen@mastodon.art THIS IS HOW HAPPENS!
Step 1 a friend says they'll give you something free-er, better, more open.
Step 2 HACKED THE WORLD IN 2 SECONDS!
Step 3 can't figure out how the hell to close the terminal.
We've ALL been there.
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop
Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022
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@elettrona@poliversity.it @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io u liked writefreely. It confused me at first, but I had never blogged either.
Community member also recommended write.as to me.
@ozoned The file is just the layers I used for the Fediverse version of Be Not Afraid. Was thinking last night when I uploaded it that I’d like to double the frames on the icon only version to make it run more smoothly. But I’ll let you decide if you think that’s worth waiting for.
Given the converting Mastodon does, I could probably just DM you the original gif on Discord?
@gnilleps@mastodon.art @gabek@social.gabekangas.com anyway we can get the spinning Fediverse logo in the default Owncast? IDK about the "Be Not Afraid" as I know you have some groups that use Owncast that really might not be interested in that. lol
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Main interests: Free Software, Neurodivergence, Veganism, Marxism, Politics, Social Justice, Environment, Vocal/Choir Music; Affiliations: GNU, FSF, FSFLA, 0G, Linux-libre, GCC, glibc, Libre-SOC, AdaCore; Languages: Portugueas; English; Espaol; learning Esperanto, French, Ukrainian, Japanese;formerly @lxo@gnusocial.jp @lxo@gnusocial.net @lxoliva@diasporabr.com.br @lxoliva@identi.ca
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social
Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips
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@ozoned i’ll try and make it! i’ve got an agility trial with one of the dogs that weekend, but i’m usually back home in the early evening.
@autumn@triangletoot.party AWESOME! 😄 Excited to meet you and others around Raleigh!
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social
An open-source Linux-based creative commons experimental rock band. Using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour, and Github to make music.
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@ugxs@undergroundsocial.realworld.place we're not bringing music. I don't know if sir Walter coffee has music regularly or not.
Good day all! This is for folks around the Raleigh NC area.
@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I are scheduling a meet up for any fedizens to join!
February 28th at Sir Walter Coffee, downtown Raleigh.
145 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
Even if you have folks that are interested in Fedi, never heard of it, want to do a nerd night, come join us!
Please let me or Eric know if you're interested so we can get a proper count to Sir Walter
freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...
@dnpdame@mastodon.social will also be there.
I know @autumn@triangletoot.party just did a Raleigh meet up a few months ago, but I sadly missed that one. So Autumn if you're available, please join us! I'd love to meet the person behing Triangle Toot 😁
#raleigh #NC #northCarolina #meetUp #fediverse #fedi #fedizen
@revk you are behind the times. Current best practice is to ship it anyway and gaslight the customer
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk and thus docker was born!
Computers do this on purpose, I am sure.
- Write a change to code.
- Test a lot. Decide it is all working.
- Test loading on half a dozen local devices, all different configs. All works.
- Issue as a proper beta, and re-test on all those devices.
Yay...
- Test on customer site set to load a beta. Exact same hardware as some of earlier test cases. Nothing special in config.
- Cry!
- Pull the beta.
- Work out how to reflash at customer site without having to drive there.
- Find a sacrifice.
@revk@toot.me.uk tech Schadenfreude
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