Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 39

Having loads of fun with Make:Electronics so far.  Have measured the resistance of my tongue, dunked my multimeter probes in a glass of water, and shorted a (1.5v) battery.  Good stuff.

@cstanhope Enjoy!

@jalcine I think that would be super cool. I've thought before that we could do with something similar for Wordpress setup, to get the next gen into indieweb. Like a pretty much one-click install for a fully-working indieweb WP site. Hosted for you but super-easy to migrate to your own hosting if/when you want to. Could even go down the multi-users instances route to get super funky and help people get started with no initial cost.

@zack Hey Zack - hmm, I don't see anything from you in my pending comments.

Have you tried sending a webmention to e.g. https://webmention.rocks/test/1 ? It will definitely appear automatically there if it's working.

It's possible it could be a problem at my end too - I'm out and about at the moment but can have a look on my logs when I'm back at a computer. Feel free to send me more webmentions if you want to test more, happy to try and help.

I'm going to set up a FreedomBox. I have an old Raspberry Pi B+ knocking around. FreedomBox works on it apparently (https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/RaspberryPi) but I'm wondering if it's going to be a bit low-spec to do much with it. Anyone know? My main uses to begin will probably be syncthing, Quassel, Radicale, and OpenVPN.

#freedombox

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I think the argument being we should have coops that interoperate on top of a shared protocol; not one coop that dominates an entire market with a platform.

Relates somewhat to the Statebook article (https://newsocialist.org.uk/do-we-really-need-a-statebook/), which argued that the state would serve us better if it focused on building and promoting shared protocols, not on building a Facebook alternative.

https://platform.coop/stories/protocol-cooperativism

We should view protocols as the digital means of production, more so than platforms. And that ‘protocol cooperatives’ will do more to break down capitalism than platform coops will. think the main argument being that platform coops are inherently centralised, and that as far as challenging capital goes, we should be striving for decentralised architectures.

Dunno if I'm too verbose, but I'm finding 500 characters often not enough for me, specially if I'm writing about an article I've read.

@django A good start for me would to bookmark less articles, and read (and properly digest) the ones I already have.

@richdecibels Cooperation Jackson lay out a lot of their structure and plans pretty well in their book.

https://darajapress.com/publication/jackson-rising-the-struggle-for-economic-democracy-and-self-determination-in-jackson-mississippi

@tbeckett Glad it wasn't just me that try to sing it to the tune of ONJ...

Silicon Valley is the industrial manifestation of neoliberalism applied to technology. Silicon Valley is a class project. To abolish it needs large structural transformation. We need to change the balance of class forces, tipping it away from capital and in favour of labour. Worker organisation from below, with a change in conception of what a tech worker is. Start taking lucrative technologies out of the capital-accumulation process.

https://newsocialist.org.uk/beyond-taming-the-tech-giants/

Let's get seditious.

Mastodon web interface has pretty nice keyboard shortcuts. Press ? to see what they are.

That said, at the moment I think I prefer Brutaldon and Tridactyl for keyboard-oriented fediversing. Think I've just gone off the idea of toots rolling in unannounced. I find it a bit distracting.

Can anyone recommend either Vim Vixen or Tridactyl Firefox plugins? I used to use Pentadactyl all the time until it went kaput with Firefox Quantum. Hankering to get back to Vim bindings in the browser and both of these extensions look pretty well maintained.

#vim #firefox

@freakazoid Definitely all for repair projects. Ideally tho want something suitable for beginners, with a degree of repeatability - something that can be followed with a step by step guide like a kit. Might be asking a bit much for repair projects to have that consistency.. but yeah that'd be the Holy Grail.

We did something like that with PlayStation controllers once for teaching kids repair - you can find job lots of broken ones on ebay, and there's quite often a common fault.

What's are some good intro to electronics projects? Something hands-on that teaches you some basics and you make something fun (and maybe even practical...). Massive bonus points for things that involve buying as little new stuff as possible - ideally you can salvage a bunch of the components and parts you need out of stuff you can buy second hand, or out of broken things.