Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social

Folks, no matter how hard you try, you cannot smack-talk an idea to death.

The only thing that can kill a bad idea is a better one.

Go build those.

Dear fediverse:

Fascism joining the fediverse is extremely bad, and we have to do something about it. But please, please, please: give me two weeks before you roll out any new solutions. Some of the solutions being proposed look like they will make the situation better but will make it much worse.

I am dropping nearly everything to write a demo and spec explaining how to do things right. Please give me two weeks. I've been preparing for this.

I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.

This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.

I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.

https://runyourown.social/

If you thought that Boston Dynamics were cruel to their robots look at what we’re doing to virtual ones!
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RT @lexfridman@twitter.com
Human movement is mesmerizing. Moving elegantly in physical space is extremely difficult to re-create, but even simulation of such movement is hard. Shown is amazing work by Thomas Geijtenbeek that incorporates a model of muscles, neural delay, and biomechanical constraints:
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1144961890453458945

Despite being free software, Mastodon as a project takes a hardline stance against nazis

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

The covenant has been added approx. one month ago so that for the first time in Mastodon's history, our project could make "no nazis" a part of our branding.

@privacyint there really should be a service that "grooms" fake, but socially acceptable, social media and probably email accounts for deviants :)

Google's ad-based business model destroys our right to privacy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox
#QuitGoogle by checking out these privacy-friendly alternatives: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/
#Fight4Privacy #NoAds 💪😃

I did some #gameing and had two runs of the One Hour One Life MMORPG.

In one of them my mother was a queen of the village and I was the second son. My older brother was ~15 years older than I (I was one of the last kids) and he became king when she passed.

He taught me how to make stew, which is a complicated recipe in the game.

When he passed I was the last of the line and ran around with his bones telling the other villagers of his kindness. Then I died of old age.

This game is really really unique.

"Fight me!" the king called.
"You, or your army?" the dragon said.
"Me. My army will witness my victory."
"They'd doubt you, if you told them?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Defeat censorship by watching, saving, and sharing this video about Tiananmen square.

The day the Chinese government feels it doesn't need to keep censoring this event is the day the movement fails.

https://youtu.be/kMKvxJ-Js3A

A year ago I tried learning ActivityPub, and more or less failed. I was confounded by a spec that was so abstract I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Turns out I was missing some key things.

I have written a guide to learning about ActivityPub that I wish existed a year ago when I first set out to learn how to write social media servers that conform to the spec:

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/

Long, long before freedom of speech there was the freedom to shut up

The author of uBlock on Google Chrome's proposal to cripple ad blockers https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417

alt-right in a nutshell