Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 15
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Sep-2018 03:52:30 EDT 
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Maldives challenger Ibrahim Mohamed Solih wins presidency
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/maldives-opposition-takes-early-lead-tense-presidential-poll-180923150807023.html
Unexpected! - a win for secularism. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Sep-2018 01:41:34 EDT
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Morning walk; passing by the cemetery.
O Death,
wait till I pack my suitcase:
my toothbrush, my soap, my shaver, aftershave and clothing.
How is the weather there?
is it changing, in the white eternity,
or does it stay the same,
in winter as in autumn?
Will one book suffice there, in the no-time,
or will I need a whole library?
And how do they speak there?
In everyone's colloquial Arabic,
Or in classical Arabic?
Wait, death,
until clarity of mind returns to me
in the spring.
Mahmoud Darwish -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 16:09:59 EDT
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I was wondering about this too. Thanks for asking, and thanks to Mike and Giac for the responses. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 05:27:34 EDT
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The significance of this truth becomes even more profound when we realize that, multiplied, it is so for our communities, ethnic groups, cultures, nations, and our civilization as a whole. These too are based on myths and exist in this place of "the time we have left". -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Sep-2018 07:29:05 EDT
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Villa Balbianello (it was spelled wrong in the place I looked).
"A number of feature films have used the villa for location shooting, including A Month by the Lake (1995), His Demise starring Paul Zukowski (2016 disaster movie), Casino Royale (2006). The villa was also used for the lake retreat scenes in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002), with computer-generated imagery used in place of the building's true exterior." -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Sep-2018 07:09:12 EDT
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It's the Villa del Balbaniello, on the other side of the lake. Good day! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Sep-2018 05:41:08 EDT
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I was thinking this must be the Villa Monastero at Varenna, but it doesn't seem to be. And at his page on the Artnet site, it says only "Südliche Ansicht an einem See". So I wonder. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Sep-2018 19:08:50 EDT
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Yom Kippur and Ashoura: Are Muslims observing a Jewish holiday?
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/yum-kippur-ashura-muslims-celebrating-jewish-holiday-180919123152458.htmlThree complementary ideological fanaticisms are chiefly responsible for the sustained bifurcation manufactured today between Islam and Judaism - all of them handmade by European colonialism, all of them invested in denying and dismissing the legacies of the Judeo-Islamic tradition. Militant Islamism, fanatical Zionism and Christian imperialism are the triangulated foregrounding of fear and fanaticism that has wreaked havoc in our world and systematically and consistently distorted the clarity of our historical visions.
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Sep-2018 18:39:00 EDT
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I'm still trying to imagine "20 tons of mini-Eiffel Towers" seized by French police. What will they do with them? Maybe they could be melted down and re-cast as mini-statues of liberty and gifted to the Americans. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 02:06:54 EDT
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I don't think this is something that it's possible to generalize about. It's like asking whether books should be made into films. Sometimes you end up with an entirely different product, which may be better or worse than the original. Sometimes a film can shed light on a book, or enable the viewer to see the book in a different way. Sometimes you wish they hadn't bothered. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 01:56:13 EDT
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I think the guest access token / query variable type access provides a good balance between security and privacy, for example when sharing family photos. I wouldn't want to make my old father deal with logins and passwords, so it's so much easier to provide a link that includes the password. I know that a general visitor to my hubzilla site isn't going to be confronted with my boring family photos, and that these aren't going to end up in a google search. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 06:38:24 EDT
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India has its Aadhar and China its social credit system. It seems like the larger the country, the greater the intrusiveness of the state. Also in western countries it is possible to profile citizens according to a rich set of data. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 16:15:20 EDT
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I think if something like Mastodon or pixelfed, or a combination of these, fulfill(s) all of your needs, then it is easier and simpler to go with them. You should bear in mind that you may not retain all of your data if the instance you are on goes down one day due to lack of funding or fatigue of the administrator. If you want a "home on the web" where you can keep a blog, microblog, photo galleries, files, bookmarks, etc., and that this will also serve as a means to connect with others across a variety of networks, and for your data to be reasonably secure, even if one of the servers goes down, then it might be worthwhile taking the time to understand Hubzilla, because it is actually quite unique in what it offers. The system is well thought out and has been around for a few years. Not everything is perfect, and the developer community is not very large, but it seems to me to be quite usable in its present state. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 12:42:09 EDT
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@afterpod admin (rick) It's a bit hard to say - I used it at some level from the time it was Red & Red Matrix, and before then used Friendica / Friendika, but more recently when I noticed that Disroot had started a hub a few months ago. Then started a personal hub. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 09:29:46 EDT
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I've no idea why it hasn't gained more traction, but here are my own reasons for liking it enough to spend more time with it nowadays:
- It's improved quite a bit over the years, in terms of being user friendly and feature rich. And it looks better.
- The previous hubs that I was on were painfully slow. Now it seems faster, even on my shared web hosting arrangement.
- I lost all my data a couple of times because I didn't take care to clone or backup my channels sufficiently.
Additionally:
It doesn't get enough good press, and sometimes what is said about it isn't positive. For example, the indieweb.org site says: "Very confusing UI / UX... Finding how to post to the channel is non-obvious."
(I would argue that it's a hell of a lot easier to implement the principles of the indieweb through Hubzilla than some of the proposals on the indieweb site.) Hubzilla is actually less complex than, say, Facebook, but people use what they are used to.
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