remember when a big tech company could release a new product and you could think about anything other than surveillance, planned obsolescence, vendor lock-in and e-waste
...
Andy Warhol using an Amiga to do a realtime color portrait of Blondie.
On prototype hardware.
The designers knew the "fill" function had a bug.
Andy used it, did not crash!
Stuff of legends.
Photoshop didn't even exist yet.
Folks in 2026?
Can they even understand?
(That black tie gala affair was in 1985 if I remember correctly. Stuff about the bug and not crashing were learned from the Viva Amiga documentary. I was not there in personal attendance and didn't buy a used Amiga 2000 until 1994 [and bought an Amiga 1200 later that same year.])
i also don't understand the point of apple's "secure exclaves." okay, so you can't access the audio or video data directly. but you *can* access records of the individual people who are using the device, tied to their apple account, and what they're talking about, presumably with timestamps? how is that any better at all
Alt...
screenshot of apple store page: "Secure Exclaves.
The A18 chip inside HomeView contains Secure Exclaves that process the camera and microphone feeds in a secure compartment that cannot be accessed by the operating system or by Apple. This enables HomeView to recognize the face and voice of each user without exposing the audio and visual data used for recognition to the operating system."
...
[me, after i've archived all of the images in your camera roll] oh no no no no. I don't have your data. I just have blocks of discrete cosine transforms *derived* from your data. it's all very secure
...
i forgot i made this lol
Alt...
3d diagram modeled after the "shield of the trinity" but about Linux audio subsystems. in the center is PipeWire, outside are ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio and also PipeWire, forming a tetrahedron. all the outside nodes connect to each other with edges labeled "is not", and to the center PipeWire with "is".
Is it OK to use walled garden social media to promote the Fediverse?
#EvanPoll #poll #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #WalledGardens
| Yes: | 163 |
| Yes, but...: | 57 |
| No, but...: | 5 |
| No: | 13 |
Closed
...
Ethan Black 
Hey, all. I think the answer here is yes, but it is a temptation to keep participating in those platforms for other reasons. If you're there to promote the Fediverse, and a funny meme goes by, it can be hard to remember to stay focused.
...
I should be clear that I'm not a social network purist. I think that using the Fediverse first is best. But I also share life events and family photos on Instagram and Facebook. And I post and support friends and allies on LinkedIn.
...
This poll came up because I was doing promotion of @swf 's Fediverse Multimedia Grants on my personal feeds and the organization feeds on X, Facebook, Threads, and LinkedIn.
...
@justine There are various reasons. I agree with some of them, but not with others. On the other hand, many projects have developers who are known only by their nicknames, so they're effectively anonymous anyway.
And yes, at the heart of it are some bad experiences (from a few years ago) that led them to take a step back from putting themselves out there on social media.
Or maybe they're still around, and we just don't know it? 😉
...
...
@justine The lack of a public Git/CVS repository is their choice, at least for now. They prefer to keep development fairly centralised, partly because there are several branches and some interesting features (!) that aren't ready yet, and they'd rather release them when they're ready.
After all, to me, open source is also about freedom. You don't necessarily have to follow a predefined pattern: announcement, public Git repo, issue tracker, and so on. You're free to manage your project as you see fit.
As I said, I don't agree with every decision, and sometimes I have a hard time convincing them otherwise 😄
But I respect their choices, and I really appreciate their decision to release littleFedi under the MIT license.
And ultimately, littleFedi is out there. Anyone can take the source code, fork it, and continue development in a more "traditional" way if they prefer. That's part of the freedom too. 😄
That said: snac is great - and, unless you badly need something that littleFedi has and snac hasn't, there's no need to migrate from snac to littleFedi.
And if you need the blog...you don't need littleFedi, too, there's BSSG 😉
...
@stefano@bsd.cafe @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk being anon both in terms of contact and cvs must be nice because it helps you focus in what they consider important.
also hello from my #littleFedi demo account heh
...
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk Is there a timeline when the repository will be visible? It's just it would make things easier to track and report issues. Also, I would be interested in contributing. At the moment I'm reluctant to make any changes because they would have to be reapplied with every new release.
...
@chrism @justine not at the moment. The devs decided (reluctantly) to release the code, but want to keep the development process centralised, at least for now.
I know, reporting issues can be a pain - but I can assure you it's better than collecting them, forwarding to the devs, keeping track of them, etc 😃
...
@stefano@bsd.cafe @chrism@social.nfbsd.dev @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
I'm pretty naive and tend to trust people until I have reason not do. It might be an unusual development setup but given the quality of what it has produced thus far, I'm happy. Very happy.
There's always risk if you go looking for it. My main concern is probably that @stefano@bsd.cafe appears to be a single point of failure and a potential bottleneck in this setup and let's not forget he has a day job too. However, the project was released just a fortnight ago and already a V2 release is imminent.
Also, the project could be forked if it ever stalled or Stefano walked away to open a pizza restaurant.
As for contributing, while it's not ideal, the source is available so theoretically one could submit a patch to Stefano and let the devs have the headache of merging into the development branch.
There was also risk on my previous hosted Mastodon instance. The admins may have got bored or the costs of hosting may have proved prohibitive, meaning the instance closed down (it's happened many times). I've been bitten before, that's one reason I got GoToSocial and Snac running yesterday. Firstly, to check the interoperability with LittleFedi and secondly as a lifeboat, just in case.
...
@andyc @chrism @justine Exactly. That's precisely why I pushed to release the software, and under the most permissive license possible.
Right now, I'm a SPOF. But the Little Computer People could step forward at that point. Or at least one of them.
But that's not important: the code is free, MIT-licensed, and it's there. If I were to open a physical BSD Cafe and disappear from the IT world (or disappear from the world altogether, although I have no plans to do that for at least another 100 years), the code would still be there, available to everyone.
I know at least two people who would pick it up immediately, and I already know there are a few forks out there for studying the code and adapting it to specific situations.
The moment the code became public, I relaxed.
...
CC: @andyc@yakshaving.social @chrism@social.nfbsd.dev @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
...
@lori@cambrian.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @chrism@social.nfbsd.dev @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk #LittleFedi works perfectly with both snac and GoToSocial. I have all three working - vanilla OOTB installations on Linux (Ubuntu) with Caddy acting as reverse proxy.
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
I don't think it's secrecy, I think it's privacy, and we should respect that.
When it comes down to it, we don't know the identity of many developers anyway, It's just a name that we may see has contributed to a few things here and there. I've never gone to look up who grunfink is, for example, nor have I felt the need to.
Personally, I'm OK with it. I think Stefano is a trustworthy person, so I am happy to have him vouch for the others.
I read some post about how Mastodon consists primarily of German-speaking creatures talking in English. I'm gonna do a poll, need to test that. Boosts highy appreciated! So, do you speak German?
| Not a word: | 848 |
| I can understand some: | 837 |
| I could converse, but not fluently: | 396 |
| I'm fluent and studied the language: | 99 |
| German is my first language: | 1154 |
Closes in 3:04:53:43
Just added some boiled potatoes to my potato and leek soup. I think my body is trying to tell me something, and that something is “more spuds please”.
...
@Nickiquote PO-TAY-TO (sorry)
...
Fact check... false
Alt...
WIRED Magazine tote bag with lettering "You Can't Hack a Tote Bag"
Alt...
WIRED Magazine tote bag with a piece of duct tape installed so it reads "You Can Hack a Tote Bag"
I am not only battling software, but also English grammar. I am only just now learning about the rules about quotation marks vs. periods and commas
And I'm sorry but these are all fucking wrong????
...
NO?!!!!!!
Alt...
If a quote ends in the middle of a sentence, we typically put a comma rather than a period at the end of the quote inside the quotation marks.
✅ Correct: “The house is haunted,” said the creepy undertaker.
❌ Incorrect: “The house is haunted”, said the creepy undertaker.
...
This is like. The wrongest possible way to do it. Why the fuck would you ever do it this way
...
The comma is part of the structure of the matrix sentence. There is no comma in the embedded sentence. So why would you ever do it this way. I refuse
...
I've been doing it the incorrect way for years because the correct way bothers me, and so far no one has called me on it.
(My spouse works in communications, and I am sure she'd be horrified to know this. But I am fairly certain my use of two spaces after a period bothers her so much that she hasn't noticed yet.)
...
Ella es más bien de izquierdas, feminista, pero tiene toques místicos (brujería, homeopatía, osteopatía, reiki, acupuntura, ...) y una realidad laboral (es autónoma) que le da un carácter especial.
Me empezó diciendo que detesta a Pedro Sánchez (entendible porque le han creado peor fama que al sacamantecas) y que no le gustaba ninguno de los partidos de izquierda (no tan bueno) y, por tanto, votaría nulo y así no beneficiaba a nadie (peor, mucho peor).
Y allí que voy yo, al que le ha dado un pequeño tirón el estómago, diciéndole que el voto nulo, el voto en blanco, el voto no válido y la abstención son en la práctica lo mismo y que eso beneficiaba a la derecha y demás ralea porque ellos van a votar con los ojitos llenos de ilusión.
Entonces me ha respondido, ya furiosa, que ella votaría lo que le saliese del coño y le he dado la razón. Le he explicado que me he puesto muy tenso porque si ella, persona a la que considero rara pero racional en estos temas votaba así estábamos bien jodidos.
Su respuesta ha sido que no tiene el coño para farolillos y que no entrase en lo personal. He contestado que no era personal, que era susto por mi parte, que no le echaba la culpa de una posible victoria de la derecha pero que le estaba haciendo el caldo gordo a su propaganda.
Hemos tenido que parar porque si no la cosa hubiese terminado mal; no me ha dado tiempo siquiera a contarle la metáfora del autobús, porque lo primero que me ha venido a la mente es que volvemos a la puta escrupulosidad ideológica (término que no sabía que existía pero mira por dónde resulta que sí y que nos comen la merienda porque no nos entra en el melón que el programa político se cumple cuando se puede, y que al igual que los planes de batalla los programas se hacen añicos cuando se enfrentan al mundo real. Pues nada, que no, y de ahí hemos hecho un esfuerzo por no estropear el rato y no lo hemos mencionado más.
No le he dicho que ellos no piensan así; ignoro la razón pero todas estas alimañas neoliberales y neofranquistas tienen claro que primero hay que ganar el poder y luego ya veremos lo del programa y las promesas. Y les funciona, bebé, les funciona de puta madre.
...
que ella votaría lo que le saliese del coñoPues claro, pero eso no hace menos cierto que su actitud favorecerá que gane la derecha. Cuando ocurra, felicítala, porque habrá ganado quien ella quiere.
...
El programa de un partido político es igual. No te encaja del todo pero puede ser el que más te encaje y, por tanto, el que deberías elegir para votar en lugar de no hacerlo con ninguno.
updated
...
...
...
Never going to be unable to unsee #LLMs as a long-game corporate supply chain attack on #FOSS.
🤦♂️
...
...
True, but it's kind of sadly hilarious that people can't see that for what it is.
I mean, they didn't mean to set a bear trap immediately outside your front door, but they just so happened to be hunting bears there, real unfortunate, so sorry. 😄
...
...
I'm not unsympathetic, and it's of course easy for me to point out the flaws in the logic from a distance.
Still... there's just so much "going along with the flow" in our society. :(
https://system64.computer/radio/
listen from a terminal:
mpv https://system64.computer/radio/liverequest a song (any song, if i don't have it it gets fetched):
- fedi: mention @radio@social.system64.computer with an artist and a song
- irc:
/msg ascetic !request stereolab tempter(libera, rizon, sdf)
curl -d "stereolab tempter" https://system64.computer/radio/requestworking on some ridiculous commercials to fill the gaps between songs.
#InternetRadio #SelfHosting #IRC
Alt...
the system64 radio page in a dark terminal style. a pixel system64 logo and a status board: on the air, 2 listeners, 25 songs today, 128k mp3, fm 87.9 atl. now playing in large type: my bloody valentine, i can see it (but i can't feel it), with a stop button, volume controls and a waveform. below, commands to listen with mpv or curl, and request instructions for fedi, irc and curl.
...
...
done and good idea: https://system64.computer/radio/listen.pls (or .m3u). Linked on the site.
It warms my heart to see people still preferring VLC.
...
@ascetic thanks and happy to hear that!, been using vlc for years now and dont plan on changing anytime soon heck i still listen to mp3s as my main music format
...
@ascetic where is this linked on the radio webpage and can you update it to show the info of the name of the song? i have some web radio stations where it shows the song info on the player, can you add that to your if possiable?
...
It’s under the cli commands, not to suler prominent but look under there.
Also,
the stream already sends the song title, vlc shows it as the track name (and under tools → media information → now playing). if you only see "system64 radio" give it until the next song, but if it doesn’t pick it up let me know and I’ll see what’s up!
...
@ascetic ah okay then, i see it now it was so small you could miss it lol
i just tried that and waited for the next song but still not info, heck it would be showing up on the media player as the song name
...
@ascetic might wanna make the pls thing bigger or something to make it more noticeable
...
Yeah made it bigger and made some adjustments so playing over VLC should work a bit better now
...
icy-title: R.E.M. - Saturn Return
Audio device underrun detected.
(Buffering) A: 00:24:32 / 00:24:32 (100%) Cache: 0.0s
Probably a router hiccup on my end.
...
Ah let me know if it happens again. There was a short downtime yesterday when I was applying some updates so might have been during then. Thanks!
Its definitely technical writing, but there is still a lot of style, creativity, idiosyncrasies, jokes, arguments, and general human-to-human communication involved
Ergo: I am a writer who currently writes short-form Perl
...
...
Ah I'm a bit of a Perl phony, just been doing little things with it because its a high-level programming language that comes installed with OpenBSD. Not yet a certified monk!
their tags are more specific than mine: obsessive, sicko
their tags are less specific than mine: lazy, rube
...
i run a small (but growing) self-hosted stack and make random things, mostly around retro computing, privacy, classic games and IRC.
lately:
- pagerom, which turns any website or feed into an NES, SNES, or game boy cart you can actually play
- modembin, which is pastebin but with real modem audio decoding to text and live modem chat
- an IRC server that bridges every possible protocol (even email, phone, obsidian) into one hub
- this instance (which is just me) running snac on a tiny vps
the rest lives at https://system64.computer
#Introduction #SelfHosting #RetroComputing #IRC #Privacy
Alt...
screenshot of my homepage, system64.computer. a dark page in a monospace font with a pixel-art "SYSTEM64" logo in blue, the tagline "a computer on the internet", a menu (home, projects, journal, status, gear, uses, desk, feed, contact), a short intro about me, and a "now" list of recent short updates.
Alt...
the first website ever, CERN's W3 page, running as a game boy game made with pagerom. grey-green pixel text on a game boy screen, with links highlighted as selectable menu items.
Alt...
modembin, a pastebin that turns text into real modem audio. a green-on-black terminal-style page with tabs for encode, decode, SSTV, chat, DTMF and blue box, a text box to paste into, and the modem set to "Bell 103, 300 baud".
...
No fancy shenanigans needed to allow variable-number-of-arguments, and no need for a special apply keyword (since every function call f(a, b, c) is basically (apply f (list a b c)))
Same with return types. Every function returns a list, so no special values stuff going on
...
...
foreach), so I like just being able to use the standard $_ variableWhen other languages do it, its called "tacit" or "point-free" programming, but when Perl does it its called "a mess" and "a crime against humanity"
https://davidfernandez1975.substack.com/p/la-verdadera-historia-del-atico
...
Es todo acojonante y no me extraña que la loca asquerosa ésta siga dando versiones y enfadándose con el tema. Y eso que ha conseguido que sus perros de guerra (cómo me recuerda a Mad Max II, con lo majo que era el malo) en las tertulias ya apenas lo mencionen.
Está empezando a ser molesta, me temo, con tanta chulería y me gustaría mucho saber dónde espera terminar. La Espe es noble y rica.
...
Y si iba a ser residencia de antiguos presidentes de la CAM, ¿dónde meteríamos al o a los siguientes? ¿Más millones de euros en áticos chulos y céntricos?
(Supongo que os habréis dado cuenta de lo bien que funciona #snac, el más mejor servidor #ActivityPub del mundo, y del que estreno nueva versión).
llm shit [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
this is what full-blown AI psychosis looks like...
llm shit [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Their use of "forced service" suggests a libertarian agenda. I smell a rat....
llm shit [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Seems to be one of those lantern jaw and lumberjack beard guys. I shouldn't judge by looks, though. Career in marketing, so probably somewhat sleazy.CC: @khm@hj.9fs.net
...
Or should that be snaccer? I like snaccer.box thinking they are performing a web search ?