Notices by PostBlueV@2Mb.SociaL (postbluev@2mb.social)

Using public resources to design a positive and stylistically attractive vision of the future???? Fucken epic

After two hours playing with os/2 I managed to corrupt arcanoea’s yum package manager and the. Did something to networking that causes virtual box to crash on booting now :/

Hey #Ruby devs, if you're looking to help out the #fediverse, check out #prismo! It's a link sharing platform, similar to https://lobste.rs or hacker news, that federates over #ActivityPub.

The lead (and only) dev has to back off development for a while, but it would be great to spin up a team that could pick up the slack and keep the project moving.

You can find the repo here:
https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

and the matrix room here:
https://matrix.to/#/!IadFDmzRTSlgzQTZHj:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=swedneck.xyz&via=feneas.org

🚨 ⚠️ Instace owners,

Gab seems to be using the "exited.eu" domain name. Please block this ASAP.

#Fediverse #Gab #Mastodon

@davehunt Hey dude, we can audio chat sometime soon via #Mumble! @lnxw48a1 setup a server of his own and seems to be OK with the idea of you and me using it (hopefully with him, too). 😊

Recording of Conversations developer Daniel Gultsch on the state of the #xmpp community in 2019 at #froscon

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2019-2448-the_state_of_the_xmpp_community

Some takeaways:

1) there is a growing network of people working on a #public federated chat network based on XMPP. There has been a lot of activity in the space in recent years. This activity is partly due to the development sprints, many of which last year have been organized by @pep

2) a bunch of new (and existing) clients continue working on usability (cross platform, consistent UIs, support for mobile, end-to-end encryption). Particularly web clients such as ConverseJS by @jcbrand are promising.

3) A directory to search public discussion channels exists: https://search.jabbercat.org/rooms/1

4) Ongoing experimentation with what can be built on top of XMPP as a federated protocol by for example @Goffi

5) Conversations for Android has secured funding to implement a Voice / Video calls!

♲ @SenorOblong@monsterpit.net: Humans are astonishingly efficient machines. The human brain runs on an average metabolic power of just 12 watts ... there are flashlights that use more power than that. (Meanwhile, a high-end PC will suck down hundreds of watts, while being way dumber than I am.)

(And chemical energy is way more energy-dense than even the best batteries ... an iPhone's battery can store just two and a half Skittles of energy - or a quarter-teaspoon of butter - and it takes way longer to charge than it takes me to eat two and a half Skittles)

Biological muscle is also an astonishingly good actuator; the main reason we've had trouble developing effective prosthetics is that no technology currently in existence is capable of matching the strength, dexterity, compactness, lightness, and speed of human muscle. (Certainly there are ways of being better at a few of those things - but not all of them at once.)

We are astonishingly efficient, flexible, and adaptable devices made of intricately complex self-repairing nanotechnology. As eager as I am to abandon this meat prison and enjoy the Glorious Transhumanist Future:tm:, it's going to be a long time before we can do better than meat.