Ruben 🇬🇧 @rsolva@mastodon.social
Web developer living in Oslo, Norway. Interested in local and international drug policy.
#archlinux #FOSS #drugpolicy
this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Comment threads live-update is ready! Couple of things still to be done and the v0.1.0 will be finally released! 🎉
#activitypub based Link Aggregation app is coming really soon! 🤠
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
Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (2014)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382477
#hackernews #tech
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
What Twitter, IG has done to developers & users, and YouTube has done to creators, is make a huge market for alternatives. We are already 10x better.
- No advertisements
- Chronological timelines
- Federation (no silos)
- No behavioural tracking
- Developer Friendly APIs
BREAKING: The EU JURI committee has passed #Article13. This requires sites to filter all submissions against a database of copyrighted works—creating a #CensorshipMachine that puts thousands of daily activities and millions of Internet users at the mercy of algorithmic filters.
BREAKING: The EU Parliament's JURI committee has approved #Article11. This #LinkTax will hurt those who use the Internet for sharing, punish projects like Wikipedia, and “poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society," according to the research community.
«He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot someday.» –Trump on Chinese President Xi Jingping
So, what is the deal with #IOTA? I reccomend reading this great article that outlines the more technical aspects, without all the #FOMO and #FUD. https://www.bitrates.com/news/p/iota-a-systemic-approach-to-the-internet-of-things
"Every Github repo right now #GitHub #GitLab"
https://twitter.com/nickmorrott/status/1003414736682258432
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527
#hackernews #tech
Microsoft is showing how much they love open source by encouraging projects to host their own infrastructure again ❤️
Look y'all here because I built Mastodon the way I wanted and you happened to like it. If you no longer like it that's your own business, don't give me shit about your failed expectations. There's the door, there's the code, there's the alternatives. The shit I've received today just because I was open to something that a part of the community wanted is completely inacceptable.
#Pixelfed, the ethical alternative to #Instagram, has started its beta testing and looks nice 😎
You can get the latest news on the beta and upcoming #federation by following @pixelfed
Apparently the first PixelFed cat photo was posted by @mike at https://pixelfed.social/bremensaki
Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic
Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981
Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945
Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%
Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57
Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.
Please, someone tell me this is possible!
The last piece of the puzzle would be a federated platform for feeds, using RSS to follow content creators and the fediverse to comment, boost and "like". This would be a reeeally nice facebook-replacement!
This would also functions as an interesting on-boarding for new users still not familiar with the fediverse. Much better to sign up for a federated account, than Disqus or, god forbid, Facebook!
