Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 2

in the dark 1984 future, all communications are harvested by the government *google harvests everyones communications* well its not the government so its fine

The public library is awesome

I've been able to hang out and do some work and I don't have to wifi at home and I don't really require to buy a coffee either, and there are all these public resources here, in a respectful quiet atmosphere

Google, Microsoft, Apple wants to create less stupid programmers by creating new languages like TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, instead of just training them

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html

@z428 @wyatwerp @switchingsocial @staltz There's a lot discussions internally in the SSB community, upcoming academic papers, and a committee reworking the protocol, and they are not determined to keep immutability. It would be possible to mutate or delete posts after posting. So it's important to remember that SSB is not static, there's a lot of development going on. — @staltz

We received a request to #Tusky in the past week, as Mastodon has now opened API for moderation.

As we don't want to spread ourselves too thin we think it'd be better if someone else on here worked on this, but you'd also receive our full support and help where we can.

Let us know if it's something you'd like to work on, and we'll give you a boost!

GitHub issue for context:
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/1341#issuecomment-506849704

Codes of conduct don't just make IRL events more welcoming — they can help online communities thrive, too.

In our latest #internethealth Report, we explore codes of conduct in open source communities: https://t.co/HKPqikAdHr tweeted by @mozilla

Time for #FollowFriday! 🌮 🍺

⛰️ @codeberg Codeberg: Free open alternative to Github

:ubuntu: @ubports UBports: Continuing development of Ubuntu Touch OS for smartphones

📖 @kiwix Kiwix: Browse and search Wikipedia, Stack Exchange etc. entirely offline

❤️ @indie Ind.ie: Makers of @better and other pro-privacy initiatives

🐢 @Koopa Koopa: Following the life of a tortoise

Previous Follow Friday posts:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/followfriday

#FF #FFed

A good piece of software exists and is enjoyed by many users. It's basically done and development has slowed down, but it nevertheless continues to be useful to its users.

Later, a new piece of software enters the same market to solve the same $task. It has to rewrite everything from zero, which may take years. As they make improvements over the years, each announcement keeps them on top of the news cycle, with each inch they move towards the finish line.

Result:

$newproduct erodes the mindshare from $oldproduct. It has been present at the forefront of the public's minds and quickly gains marketshare, and users who were familiar with $oldproject prior to the introduction of $newproject start to age out of the market.

This happens even if $oldsoftware is free/open-source and $newsoftware is proprietary, if $newsoftware is missing important features of $oldsoftware, if $newsoftware is a gear in the capitalist machine and will eventually spit its chewed up users out when they get sold to the highest bidder, etc.

archivebox is a very useful tool to keep receipts

you give it a URL and it makes a snapshot: two HTMLs, WARC file, PDF, full page screenshot, then sends it to archive.org to be 100% sure. It's too easy to fake a screenshot, but this is a compelling pile of evidence.

it's not for a regular user, though: piping URLs to console commands isn't a common knowledge. But I hope someone will make a service or something.

https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Some were asking whether there is a Fediverse alternative to Facebook Events/Groups.

There is one on the way!

It's called Mobilizon, and it had a successful crowdfunding to cover development costs. The beta version is due out in October.

It will be free, open and federate with ActivityPub.

You can follow it on here:

@mobilizon

The website is here:

https://joinmobilizon.org

You can follow and help development here:

https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon

#Alternatives #Mobilizon #DeleteFacebook

@emacsen
Sorry if it appeared like it's just my personal gripe with one project, but from my perspective, it's a whole new trend that's spreading throughout FOSS, and IMO leads us to a very grim future.

From my experience, there's a dichotomy between developing software as a product/experience or as a tool.

Whenever someone treats a piece of software as a product, tries to make things out of the box, etc. they end up hiding complexity - oftentimes inherent complexity of the problem the software tries to solve - under the carpet. That leads to all kinds of issues when the user wants to do something nonstandard, or encounters an edge case.

It also often correlates with the developer thinking they're smarter than the user, and trying to force their decisions onto users.

OTOH, when developing a tool, the developer exposes how it works to the user, and passes the decisions - and responsibility for them - onto the user. This often means the UX isn't as nice, because the user is forced to face the real complexity of the problem at hand.

I see those two approaches as mutually exclusive. I hope one day I'll be proven wrong.

I had the opportunity to meet a very smart Mastodon developer recently and was struck by three things:

1. They're young and expect software look professional and work right out of the box.

2. They're thoughtful and are as much product managers as engineers.

3. They think in terms of what user will experience first, and implementation later, but equally competent discussing either.

If this is the next generation of the Free Software community, I couldn't be happier/prouder.