Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 6

#Inventaire is a free open site which lets you easily catalogue, borrow and lend physical books:

https://inventaire.io

You can follow them on here:

@inventaire

It's useful for cataloguing collections, sharing books and keeping track of private libraries.

Inventaire's title database uses Wikidata to help find a book's details automatically.

#Inventaire #Alternatives #Books #Libraries #Wikidata

"That idea ... that you can take children from their parents, throw them into bureaucracy, with no word of where they're going or how they can be reunited again, you can only do that if you think of that population as less than human."
Jeremy Scahill, Intercepted
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/26/whitewashing-history-americas-racist-legacy-from-slavery-to-the-war-on-immigrants/

We published a statement on our stance on neutrality of free software (and why we won't stay neutral in this case): https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

I want an audiobook by Ursula Le Guin

If you didn't yet read it.
https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

Collections will eventually federate, allowing Pixelfed users to follow remote Collections as if it was a Profile.

You will be able to add any local or remote public post in the future too!

Collections - A curated group of photos/videos/albums.

Shipping soon! #pixelfed #collections

MoodleNet and Free Cultural Works

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/free-cultural-works/

Encore une license qui prétend être «.plus libre que les licenses libres, parce qu'aucune condition , sauf que…

- Ne mettre aucune condition ne permet pas dhéviter les abus de la part des copyright trolls (Les mêmes qui font régulièrement du FUD contre la GNU/GPL, et qui agressent régulièrement les devs libristes a coup de menaces et de brevets merdiques).

Mastodon ActivityPub Secure mode is coming (requiring signatures on GET requests).
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/11269

from birdsite:

“2600 Magazine has compiled a full listing of CBP concentration camps.

“And anyone who thinks this ISN'T 2600's mission—and if anything a RETURN to its original principles—has no idea what they're talking about.

“2600 was anonymous before anonymous was anon http://concentrationcamps.us/ ”

https://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1146617150091800576

Obviously, 1. is a decision that needs to be made by individual website owners.

And 2. has already been figured out by... CloudFlare (oh, the irony!):
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/keyless-ssl/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/

We need a clean-room, FLOSS implementation of Keyless TLS. Nudge. Wink.

One thing I'd love to see is hackers, NGOs, and small media orgs pooling their resources and doing edge caching for each other on their servers.

Most of the time most servers do not use all the bandwidth, so this could help handle peaks in traffic.

Two things would be needed on the tech side: 1. websites becoming more easy to cache (do you really need this bit of dynamic content there?), and 2. some way of doing TLS termination without giving out private keys.

Oh, #Cloudflare was having issues and brought a lot of websites down with it? That's not great.

But thankfully it's not that hard to roll out your own "DDoS protection" (or caching; just call it caching) setup. Here, you can even use our configs: https://git.occrp.org/libre/fasada

Yes, we use them in production, serving sometimes hundreds of thousands views per day.

Patches welcome. #SysAdmin

Weekly #ForgeFed update! 💪

Vervis is ready for the federated-ticket-creation demo! I'm giving it a few more days of feedback and polishing rounds, and then I'll announce it.

I'm working on some spec draft updates, both meta (such as HTML rendering) and content (listing all the types, properties and behaviors developed so far).

The other projects are in progress too.

Btw, interesting distributed collab projects:

- Radicle: https://radicle.xyz/
- git-ssb: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2DtR3WQfCkDKlheQU%3D.sha256

--fr33

Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.

Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.

Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".