Mina @meena@cathode.church

@christa i always harp on software needing to scale down, i usually mean this in a computer architecture sense, but it equally applies to that same software in service of (smol) communities

one thing I hate about twitter is having zero control of your posts’ reach. it strips agency, flattens context, contributes to uncontrollable harassment in the service of “connection”. imo mastodon’s insistence on following the same value of maximization, removing any ability to foster small local community, is equally harmful. if decentralization is about control then why strip that at the individual and community level? it’s no better than twitter. glad to be on the hometown fork

what country makes forming a co-op easiest, and is there a co-op in that country that provides a service to loan a new potential co-op a board member for the purposes of forming a new co-op there? asking for potential co-op friends.

So the current idea for funding gotosocial, which I've been discussing with some friends, is to officially constitute SuperSeriousBusiness as a non-profit developer cooperative, registered in Belgium. Then SSB will generate cash money by selling hosted Parakeet services (github.com/superseriousbusiness/parakeet). Then, work done on GtS or Parakeet by members of the coop, or by external contributors, can be billed to the coop.

'Irreconcilable Differences' by me

https://asininetech.com/2021/07/31/irreconcilable-differences/

My thoughts on the Mastodon iOS app and the frustrations within with a side of our long standing problems with Gargron.

If you buy a bluetooth gear, look into the manual and check for the existence of a "firmware update" section. If it doesn't, don't buy the e-waste.

#InternetOfTrash

can'tract

I just remembered how frustrating it was to read Tanenbaum on operating systems. Yeah, it explains the concepts and ideas but I still felt lost when reading actual OS code. "Solaris Internals" was the first book on the topic that actually dealt with a real OS and how it worked. That book and "The design and implementation of the #FreeBSD operating system" was a much better read on the topic IMHO. #illumos

Asking LGBTQ+ people only:

What's your view of the word "queer" in the context of describing LGBTQ+ people?

Boosts appreciated for sample size :)

CHICKEN VORTEX

So, I was working with a student who is blind, and has never used an iPhone before, and never saw the iPhone screen or layout. Tutorials are so very important for new users of, probably anything. Apple should have had a tutorial for VoiceOver on the iPhone from the start. TalkBack had a tutorial, and it's one thing Google has gotten very right. There's even a tutorial for all of the new features, and the Braille keyboard even! With VoiceOver, the onscreen braille keyboard there may as well be a "hidden" cheat code for all that it is mentioned anywhere in VoiceOver's UI (settings). So, those who are newly blind may only be able to make calls and send and receive messages. And if they get a call? Well, they'll just have to call back. And when they want to end a call? Well... Gotta wait until someone else ends it or the battery goes dead. I mean, I love teaching these people, I really do. I'm not complaining about that at all. But Apple doesn't make it any easier, when they well could.

#FreeBSD #zfs asomers@ provided this absolutely essential new tool - ztop - which shows you in real time which datasets are hot. I think it was a missed opportunity to call it zztop but you can’t have everything and I can live with a symlink.

https://github.com/asomers/ztop and landing in ports near you soon thanks to jrm@

"Kindles aren't the only devices the transition from 3G will orphan, of course—hundreds of thousands of security alarms are also going to need replacement, as will elevator phones and fire alarms." #tw

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/3g-only-kindles-begin-their-long-slow-death-this-year/