Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 2

instead of thinking about it like "the fedilab dev is charging me money because i use google play", think of it like "the fedilab dev spends time and effort on getting his app to appear on google play (including an app publishing fee), and would like compensation for that effort. the app is still available for free from github and f-droid."

i know of quite a few apps that charge money on google play, and are free from f-droid. this isn't unique to fedilab, and if i had an android app, i'd do something similar.

Re-reading the Tahoe-LAFS paper and Tahoe URI pages https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/524.pdf https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/tahoe-lafs-1.12.1/specifications/uri.html

Glad I did, found several things I needed to fix or improve for the #Spritely Crystal demo

@rysiek hasn't #Signal demanded people not connect third-party clients to their servers? In fact, any binaries not distributed by them (they refuse to let #FDroid distribute their app). These are only two of many reasons not to support Signal with your unpaid time:
https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/779

I'd recommend working on a native #SailFish client for #Wire instead. They are a) already close to feature parity with Signal b) actively working towards server>server federation:
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/631

Allright, our new website is now up and running at https://funkwhale.audio/ 🎉 🎉 🎉

It features:

- Cute illustrations drawed by @robin
- Cleaner, mobile-first design
- More accurate and accessible explanations about the project
- A brand new #Funkwhale pod selector
- A brand new "Applications" page listing Funkwhale-compatible apps
- Internationalization-ready content, so we can translate the site in many languages!

Many thanks to testers, proof-readers, designers and everyone who helped!

Fairylog – Program FPGAs in Racket
http://pinksquirrellabs.com/blog/2019/04/17/fairylog/

Defeating Racket’s separate compilation guarantee https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/04/21/defeating-racket-s-separate-compilation-guarantee/

Brilliant post by Alexis King about creating a generalized side channel to communicate between walled-off compilation-time/runtime layers using a logger and a garbage collector

hey #fediverse, tell me about non-unix #operatingsystems you like!

For example, I really enjoy Haiku and am intrigued by MorphOS.

PS: Appreciate boosts to extend my reach here. <3

New version! v0.1904.22-beta brings:
* 🔥⏩ Speed improvements in the UI interactivity, potentially 3x faster!
* Bug fixes and crash fixes

https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0190422-beta

BREAKING NEWS: SALES OF FREEDOMBOX HAVE LAUNCHED

@olimex is selling the first commercially available FreedomBox. In other words, they are selling the ability to democratize the internet. #BeAPioneer and buy a #FreedomBox today.

Order: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/

Free and open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' hits the big 1.0 release https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/free-and-open-source-racer-supertuxkart-hits-the-big-10-release.13977 #OpenSource #FreeGame #Racing

@HerraBRE this is called the Jevons Paradox, it's very counterintuitive but sensible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

As much as I have pissed and moaned about #wordpress in the past, I am glad it exists and it is FOSS.

On its face, conscious consumerism is a morally righteous, bold movement. But it’s actually taking away our power as citizens. It drains our bank accounts and our political will, diverts our attention away from the true powerbrokers, and focuses our energy instead on petty corporate scandals and fights over the moral superiority of vegans.

So if you really care about the environment, climb on out of your upcycled wooden chair and get yourself to a town hall meeting. If there’s one silver lining to the environmental crisis facing us, it’s that we now understand exactly the kind of work we need to do to save the planet—and it doesn’t involve a credit card.

https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a-better-way-to-help-save-the-world/

I worry that every time someone claims they are helping the environment by making some activity "more efficient", they will ultimately be proven wrong.

More efficient means cheaper, which means we just do more of whatever it is.

Plane travel is the classic example, but there are others.

If we want to curb emissions, we need to add friction in the right places - which literally means making things more expensive and less competitive. That's a very hard sell in today's world.

We live in a world where stealing our attention is the most profitable business. Yet, knowledge work demands long periods of focused attention to get anything worthwhile done. We must constantly fight to protect our attention from the myriad of digital and physical distractions. Constant distraction is our default state now unless we take active steps to create focus.

#DeepWork #Focus #Attention

The biggest risk to any open source project is not getting enough users to develop a sustainable community. If the project allows secondary objectives to keep users away and compromise its primary mission, it's far more likely it will be unable to reach critical mass.

in my experience there was definitely a feedback loop that happened in education around the time that facebook etc gained popularity: classes that had been about learning how to make web pages suddenly became about how to use existing platforms; when github came out, the parts of programming classes that had been about learning how to share/upload/collaborate on code were replaced with "sign up for a github account" etc. (and as an educator i'm guilty of all of this too)

reading this article on how metastasizing corporate social media suffocated community on the internet (in particular art communities like deviantart) https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities makes me think that—like learning html and css—learning how to set up and administer and customize your own installation of forum/community software should be considered a basic part of internet literacy