hamish campbell @hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
Political and tech - On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
But also it has never been easier or cheaper to set up a web site. There is more free software than ever, and some of it is even quite good.
If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse
Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media
http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/2018/06/29/building-alt-grassroots-media-networks-to-challenge-and-widen-the-traditional-media/
A good film for campaigning outreach from #undercurrents https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/0de2dcee-cbda-420b-a103-eaa17b77327d
Made it to budapest so should have a bit of wifi over the next week
A big lake before the last lock for a while #boatingeurope
Arived in brataslava #boatlife #boatingeurope
Since we left London that we have been roughly marking on a map our overnight stops. It give's an idea on how far we have come since we left London we’ve done 2750km on European Inland Waterways to Vienna on 8 different rivers and 17 canals throughout 3 countries. We’ve passed 498 locks, 5 lift bridges and 3 tunnels. We’ve moored at pirate moorings, free town walls or to other boats 70% of the times, in marinas 20% and at anchor 10% and we’ve filled up our diesel tank 3 times only!
- PeerTube is free (as freedom)
- PeerTube is decentralized
- PeerTube doesn't impose a governance
- PeerTube is federated
- PeerTube can stream in Peer-to-Peer
https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3
PeerTube, it's worth doing.
Help it to grow !
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform/
#Decentralization #Youtube #YoutubeAlternative #Peertube #Framasoft #Privacy #FreeSoftware #GAFAMalternative #SwitchToPeertube #Fediverse #P2P
More info (in French) https://framablog.org/2018/05/31/peertube-vers-la-version-1-et-au-dela/
It's going to be really hard to discuss contemporary issues around democracy and technology with these tech monopolists as the sponsors. When was the last time I heard any serious criticism of Microsoft in a forum like this? Must have been a long time ago. And yet they continue to do a lot of bad stuff.
Fun fact, the entire function was a response to the demand of personal domain *blocking*, but it's called "hide everything" and not "block" because we didn't want to overpromise what's possible to accomplish when it comes to public content, hiding content on your end is guaranteed, hiding your publicly accessible content from anonymous people is impossible
So yeah sure is a mess of terminology haHA
The ghost of Karl Marx is laughing and saying "dude, I was saying this in like 1867 and you're just too ignorant to have read it".
RP @MillennialDog
capitalism's goal of completely eroding local communities and cramming public spaces into private platforms makes my soul ache
https://mastodon.social/@MillennialDog/100167247849290320
now the answer is to rebuild local communities. and not just local communities, but local "interest groups" so people can start to self-organize and get rid of #frankencorps. but how? by using modern technology. IMO the best way to do that currently are purposeful #mastodon instances
capitalism's goal of completely eroding local communities and cramming public spaces into private platforms makes my soul ache
while #GNU and the #FSF certainly has given us many useful things the overall strategy has kind of failed. just look at https://savannah.gnu.org for example. it all just doesn't gain enough traction to really make a difference. nobody uses the GNU OS. is there even any piece of recent GNU software that is filling more than just a niche?
Stoped for the night on a oxbow off the danube #boat
First day on new bit og yhe big river, we make two locks.
Got partway through making an RSS-to-RSS transformer today: given an RSS feed of the most recent few pages of a series, it should be able to guess the rest of the pages of the series and generate an RFC5005 full-history RSS feed for it. I think it'll turn out to be fully automatic, when it works at all, which looks like pretty often… 😅 Hopefully that'll be useful in my grand plan to convince everyone to adopt this decade-old standard that nobody's ever heard of… 😒
