Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 5
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 18:08:52 EST 
hosh
"Somewhat astonishingly, the assemblage of far-right Israeli parties that rules Israel has managed to worsen its wretched human rights record in 2018 and to depart from liberal capitalist democracy almost entirely. Not only is Israel not the only democracy in the Middle East (that distinction now belongs to Tunisia), it isn’t a democracy at all in the sense of a state of equal citizens able to vote for the government that rules them."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/26/biggest-stories-2018-israel-announced-apartheid-shot-thousands-civilians
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/biggest-stories-of-2018-israel-announced-apartheid-shot-thousands-of-civilians/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 13:05:37 EST
hosh
I'm thinking about replacing this hubzilla instance with Osada or Pleroma or something, though it would be wise to clone it first. Will work on that as a first stage.
update: efforts to clone to Disroot failed miserable - maybe because I had a previous instance there (tried via both direct cloning and file import)
maybe I will update the hubzilla instance, before playing with other systems. The cause of my dissatisfaction is the emptiness of my stream - it seems to get dominated by one or two people, and I suspect that it is not bringing posts by some of my connections. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 04:08:23 EST
hosh
"Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/the-goal-is-to-automate-us-welcome-to-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2019 02:03:27 EST
hosh
"Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 11:09:03 EST
hosh
that is why facebook lets you schedule posts. (n.b. I'm anyway seeing your post a day later, but maybe my stream isn't so busy) -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 09:40:07 EST
hosh
Americans also pronounce it pen chant. Growing up in both Britain and America and, as you say, learning a lot from reading means I'm never sure how to pronounce anything . -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 04:33:08 EST
hosh
one of the most inspiring stories on the open internet. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 14:55:59 EST
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my old micromax unite 3 from 2015 is still getting two or three days; though I don't use it for much. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 11:32:42 EST
hosh
I set up Sylpheed Claws again in my new old laptop. Sylpheed Claws - a fork of Sylpheed - is a cross-platform program that can be used in Gnu Linux and MS Windows. I prefer it to Thunderbird because it's lightweight and uses the maildir format, in which each message gets a separate file, rather than placing all of them in a single file. (If that file gets corrupted, you're in trouble).
Claws is highly customizable. A user manual is available that describes all the things you can do with it and I found a couple of Youtube videos.
One thing that I didn't find easy to do, but which I considered important enough to play with, was setting up a dedicated button in the message view that would move messages quickly into the Archive folder.
That's the button marked "Message/archive" above.
In order to get it there I had to
- go through the Configuration | Actions... dialogue, and create a new "Filter Action";
- edit filter action;
- in the new dialogue box, choose as the action "Move",
- select destination,
- click on ADD button, then,
- back in the Actions Configuration, click on Add,
- click on OK.
After the Action has been created:
- Click on Configuration | Preferences
- Click on Tool Bars, Main Window
- Add a new item by going to Tool Bar Item, choose User Action
- Under Event Executed on Click, choose the "Message/archive" action that was made previously.
- Move the button to the desired position (Up / Down)
- Click Apply.
That's it: there's a new button for archiving messages.
#software-configuration
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/customizing-sylpheed-claws/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 11:29:43 EST
hosh
I set up Sylpheed Claws again in my new old laptop. Sylpheed Claws - a fork of Sylpheed - is a cross-platform program that can be used in Gnu Linux and MS Windows. I prefer it to Thunderbird because it's lightweight and uses the maildir format, in which each message gets a separate file, rather than placing all of them in a single file. (If that file gets corrupted, you're in trouble).
Claws is highly customizable. A user manual is available that describes all the things you can do with it and I found a couple of Youtube videos.
One thing that I didn't find easy to do, but which I considered important enough to play with, was setting up a dedicated button in the message view that would move messages quickly into the Archive folder.
That's the button marked "Message/archive" above.
In order to get it there I had to
- go through the Configuration | Actions... dialogue, and create a new "Filter Action";
- edit filter action;
- in the new dialogue box, choose as the action "Move",
- select destination,
- click on ADD button, then,
- back in the Actions Configuration, click on Add,
- click on OK.
After the Action has been created:
- Click on Configuration | Preferences
- Click on Tool Bars, Main Window
- Add a new item by going to Tool Bar Item, choose User Action
- Under Event Executed on Click, choose the "Message/archive" action that was made previously.
- Move the button to the desired position (Up / Down)
- Click Apply.
That's it: there's a new button for archiving messages.
#software-configuration
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/customizing-sylpheed-claws/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 13:04:49 EST
hosh
reminds me of star trek's 3-dimensional chess -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 10:01:00 EST
hosh
Fastmail (an Australian company) has a detailed blog post with their position on the bill and what it means for users.
https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabill-australia/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 09:00:24 EST
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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/07/health/cuba-sonic-attack-crickets-scli-intl/index.html -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 05:34:31 EST
hosh
https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure (PDF download) Our modern society runs on software. But the tools we use to build software are buckling under increased demand.
Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of developers and other talent. This code can be used by anyone—from companies to individuals—to write their own software. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure of our society today.
Everybody relies on shared code to write software, including Fortune 500 companies, government, major software companies and startups. In a world driven by technology, we are putting increased demand on those who maintain our digital infrastructure. Yet because these communities are not highly visible, the rest of the world has been slow to notice.
Just like physical infrastructure, digital infrastructure needs regular upkeep and maintenance. But financial support for digital infrastructure is much harder to come by.
In the face of unprecedented demand, the costs of not supporting our digital infrastructure are numerous. No individual company or organization is incentivized to address the public good problem alone. In order to support our digital infrastructure, we must find ways to work together.
Sustaining our digital infrastructure is a new topic for many, and the challenges are not well understood. In this report, Nadia Eghbal unpacks the unique challenges facing digital infrastructure, and how we might work together to address them.
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 03:02:56 EST
hosh
My MX laptop was showing flags for the two languages that I need to write in. I don't happen to like either of those flags, with all that they represent, and certainly don't want to have to stare at them all day long. And who says that languages should be represented by flags anyway? As if languages are so closely aligned with nations.
So I went to the trouble of creating new icons for these languages with just letters instead of flags. MX needs an .svg formatted picture. It turns out that GIMP doesn't do SVG. I had to export the pictures to .pngs, import them to Inkscape, then save them there as .svgs. In MX, the files are all in /usr/share/xfce4/xkb/flags/ so that's where I placed them. But then, nothing happened. I logged out, logged in, restarted the computer, but the flags were still there. Hmmm. Then I discovered that my machine isn't using XFCE's keyboard input switcher at all, but one called "fbxkb", from an earlier linux installation. The flags there were in /usr/share/fbxkb/images/ but in .png format - so fortunately I already had the files ready. Now I don't have to look at those nasty flags anymore.
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/changing-the-language-indicator-from-flags/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 02:33:02 EST
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/07/detained-us-immigration-jfk-white-woman-british-passport -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 07:13:17 EST
hosh
@ghostdancer My memory of webrings matches the definition I found via DuckDuckGo in Wordnik:
webring : n. A collection of related web sites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.
None-the-less a great initiative -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jan-2019 15:47:15 EST
hosh
@whistlewright I think there's still room for social media as a means for spreading awareness of the original material that I would hope to find on your website. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jan-2019 14:49:58 EST
hosh
I know you are very active on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, Pixelfed and other places but your blog is hopelessly outdated and your last post was in 201x. Shameful! The web won't survive like this. Don't be stingy. You are drying it up!
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