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Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 8
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Appalling.
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I've been wondering again about the role of Hubzilla, and social media in general, in my life. Much of the time it is fairly boring for me to read through my network timeline. It seems that the most animated conversations concern Hubzilla itself. While it might be interesting to read occasionally about that, the scope of such discourse is a bit limited. Then there are lots of pictures of cats. I don't dislike cats, but I have zero interest in seeing pictures of them. It's interesting to keep abreast of free software and the fediverse, and the alternative social networks are about the only place one can learn about that. On the other hand, it would be possible to cover that ground with a few RSS streams.
Hubzilla provides me with a convenient link to place under my signature when sending emails, though, to date, I have never known anyone to actually follow such links. Yet I do like to have a more public place to record my thoughts or observations than in my longhand diary. I'm not sure why, but it's probably the same impulse that motivates so many writers, especially those who have no expectation of celebrity or material gain.
I think that ultimately, if we want Hubzilla and the fediverse to become a more interesting community, its denizens will need to be more open about their life impressions and experiences. Technical discussions are interesting only up to a point. Link sharing too is sort of an exercise in futility when it is so easy to access information. We should all be using feed readers more and social media less if we are truly passionate about matters that interest us.
There are issues with privacy. My personal way of dealing with that is to keep my real name out of the stream and to hamper search engines in their efforts to catalogue us. I don't mind if people make the effort to discover my identity - it's quite easy in my case - I simply prefer not to create direct connections to it.
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I think I prepare in quite a different way before going away than many people. Usually this involves many hours changing the operating system and software on my laptop, doing odd things with my phones. For shopping, the only purchase I've made has been to spend about $40 on a pair of underpants. This is because when traveling I like to take just one or two sets of clothing, and wash everything by hand nightly. I roll it in a towel, stamp on it, and hang it to dry. It's usually dry by morning. I like Ex Officio under garments. They're expensive, but they last a long time, even with this nightly washing regime.
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I'm about to go on a trip, so have been sorting out my e-reader again through Calibre. Now it's loaded with 140 books, though many of these I have read, and others I will probably never read, but anyway I wanted to have a bit more of my world in it. Lately I've been downloading a lot of books from free sources, such as spiritual books from the websites of various ashrams. Usually these are in PDF format, but they can often be successfully converted to .epubs. Also lately I started to discover that pirate bay has many books. I won't download books from living authors, unless I already have them in another format, or buy them first. But, for example, one can find the entire collection of Philip K. Dick, and it is hard to get many of those from any other source. Now I'm reading "A Scanner Darkly".
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@Charles Roth MPC Hi Charles; I was wondering why I wasn't seeing you in the network, but went looking for you when I saw a like from you again on someone's status. I guess you started afresh with a new channel, so welcome back/home
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I know all that but still pronounce it Day-Bian
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I think they should do both
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I heard about it, but is it still used in India? (I think even DDT is still used).
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Ha Ha, but it was produced the current round of fisticuffs. I hope it remains at the level of politicians throwing bottles at each other.
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An oxymoron corrected by a non sequitur?
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His work is related to indieweb.org - there are quite a long set of plugins which when installed together try to make Wordpress site behave like a member of the Fediverse. It didn't work very well for me and it actually seemed like Hubzilla already contains all or most of that functionality in a contained way, with less effort.
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@sullybiker We have 8,000+ images across multiple folders and subfolders, so far in Piwigo. You can see how that looks and behaves at photos.wasns.org (there are a few different themes - I guess none of them look as plush as, say, Google Photos and maybe it's all a little slow; it's on shared hosting at Hostgator.
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