Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 19
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 07:51:33 EDT 
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Here's another idea I've had: Separate content by (manually) importing the blog into Articles, and continuing to use this for blogging. Use Cards (which are almost identical to Articles) as a links blog (for non-original content). Then merge both into the Wall, and federate if desired. The Wall would just be a microblog; a few words and links to content. The Wall would also archive content by date, filling in for the absence of that feature in Articles and Cards. By the way, the only way to backdate content is to make the change that Mike has mentioned above.
If links are placed in a links blog, Hubzilla's "Bookmarks" could be used in the manner of what used to be known as (maybe still is?) a blog roll (i.e., a list of links to related or favourite sources). I don't think that Bookmarks are suitable as a links blog (for example, there is no date). -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 04:09:55 EDT
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Is it the same time every year? (I've usually been in TN at around this time, but not this year). But anyway it looks like everything's in Tamil (as it should be) and I don't speak Tamil, so... -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 03:08:12 EDT
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Updated the #hubzilla profile and customized the theme. There's more work to do there, but that will have to be enough for today. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 01:32:48 EDT
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I'm going to be importing my blog manually (Goodness. Yes) into the channel wall. That's OK, I'm a plodder. The articles feature doesn't as yet give the kind of usability required of a blog (as discussed above). Also there's no normal way to import a blog. And if one would like to have a blog under articles, I think there should be a way also to automatically share (federate) an article and/or* place it on the wall. These are things for coders to do. I'm just a (1 horse) power-user.
*One thing I like about hubzilla, by the way, is the #NoFed addon. That's something I've always wanted in a social network! Lots of other stuff to love on this amazing piece of software that is hubzilla. But it needs more documentation. Is there a wiki somewhere that one can contribute to? -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 17:57:55 EDT
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https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2018/08/yuval-noah-harari-technology-humanity-biggest-challenge-180821121730057.html
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 16:10:17 EDT
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Adding a personal menu really isn't intuitive, and I didn't find a complete description of how to do this in all of duckduckgo, google, hubzilla help pages. And though I think I saw something about this once in my timeline, I was unable to find it. Besides the help documentation, I did find this, regarding gerzilla
Anyway, I eventually understood the following:
1. The Webpages app has to installed and available.
2. You click on the App from the hamburger menu.
3. You choose Menus on left side.
4. You click on Create, then go through the steps. This part is fairly intuitive. And remember the name you gave the menu. You can see the links I chose for the menu on my channel page. In adding the links, I just pasted the full URLs - maybe it's possible to do otherwise.
5. You go to Settings | Channel Settings | Miscellaneous Settings
6. Under "Personal menu to display in your channel pages" you choose the name of the menu you created. (mine was site_nav)
7. The menu will now be included in the fullprofile widget, which by default appears on the profile page.
8. The fullprofile widget can also be added to other pages, if desired, by going to Settings | Display settings | Content settings | System Page Layout Editor (Advanced). (You don't see this if the "technical skill level" you chose under Settings | Account settings is too low)
9. Then you choose the layout you want to edit. The layouts have the same names as the pages (in my case, the pages that were relevant were channel, photos, bookmarks, network, as of now.
10. You add one of the following to the layout you want to edit. You add it inside a Region, such as aside (region=aside)
either: [widget=fullprofile][/widget] (this includes the menu + the vcard + additional elements by default.
or: [menu] your menu name [/menu] (from step 6)
11. Press submit, and check the result. If you've screwed up the layout, you can get the default layout back by clicking on reset or copying the text in the grey area above the edited part.
I think that's everything. It isn't so difficult when you know what to do. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 09:39:28 EDT
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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/25/british-choreographer-and-mime-lindsay-kemp-dies "Kate Bush - we gave her a job - no she volunteered to work free of charge - in the costume department at the Round House..."
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 09:24:52 EDT
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the media keep running stories about the incumbent US president's terrible week, worst day ever and whatever but actually the man seems to doing fine, with a current approval rating of 42% The damage his administration is doing should be of greater interest than the anti-personality cult around him. Today they've cut the aid given to Palestinians by $200,000,000 - which should nicely help to offset the cost of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 06:17:56 EDT
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@TuxmanMX But the dip needs to be open sauce. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 05:57:47 EDT
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Twitter and Facebook condition people to certain types of behaviour that isn't always suitable for the alternative social networks. In a less obvious way, the alternative networks also come with their own behavioural protocols. My ideal would be a completely neutral desktop or browser client that can handle any network but which does not impose too much. Like email. Usually companies and software developers put their main efforts into the native user interface of their systems, rather than working towards interactivity. The indieweb idea of getting people to interact from their own websites would be great if it worked better. Hubzilla is an option that allows the creation of a complete web presence while allowing one to interact almost everywhere. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 04:35:51 EDT
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added to hubzilla channel profile:
No hidden agenda, in fact no agenda whatsoever. Do whatever needs to be done on your network to avoid seeing content or my comments, if they prove to be unwanted or annoying.
I hope that covers everything. I always feel that interactions with relative strangers over social networks are rather delicate. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 03:40:04 EDT
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What Will the Future Be Like? These Objects Help Us Imagine It’s actually part of Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum’s 2015 work, “Panda to Panda.” The panda is stuffed with shredded government documents and a memory card containing information leaked by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. A series of these pandas were sent to dissidents around the world, creating what Mr. Appelbaum called a “distributed backup” of the politically sensitive documents they had published. “Panda to Panda” is also an art piece about subverting state power, surveillance, and secrets. This particular panda, the wall text notes, is on loan from Julian Assange.
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 03:11:15 EDT
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If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer Many interesting things in this article. So there’s a huge responsibility here: unless you’re sourcing your vegan products specifically from organic, “no-dig” systems, you are actively participating in the destruction of soil biota, promoting a system that deprives other species, including small mammals, birds and reptiles, of the conditions for life, and significantly contributing to climate change.
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 02:47:49 EDT
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sometimes they come crashing down. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 02:37:32 EDT
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a "like' seems too trivial for this kind of thing. Amazing. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Aug-2018 02:19:18 EDT
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"Expire other channel content after this many days" was set as 0 / blank. However, at one stage I had it set to expire after a couple of weeks, and still when I imported someone's RSS feed, it brought in everything from the last 10 years (which surprised me). So I don't think that's the issue. I still haven't given it 24 hrs, but previously when importing things, it's been fairly zippy. I'll be interested to see what happens with your test, @h.ear.t | tobias -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 20:05:53 EDT
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I admit having done the same for adult users of Google Apps for Education in our small organization. But now I've stopped and make them sign the bloody EULA themselves, which they naturally do without batting an eyelid. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 19:57:57 EDT
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This is well-spoken but not without some hyperbole, surely? Companies need to pay their bills, and pay tribute to their corporate overlords, but they still need to create a good product in order that users, even non-paying users, will be happy. And I think the employees of these companies, even our current betes noires like Google and Facebook also have some good intentions. I don't dislike Firefox. I don't use it, because I think I'm better protected with Waterfox, which I do use. But no Firefox would equal no Waterfox (or Tor), so what can we do? Building browsers is expensive. Is there any good FOSS browser remaining that doesn't depend on tech from Mozilla, Google or Apple and co.?
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