Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 44

Wordpress wasn't resizing images at upload. Turns out it was because PHP GD module wasn't installed on the server. WP just silently ignored that and didn't resize the images.

@guillemot Ain't no party like a TuxPaint party

Jerry-rigged a stand for my tablet out of some cardboard. 👍

I'll never get tired of github embeds showing me big faces of random developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baBQFIVagvE Kid for Today by Boards of Canada #nowplaying[...]

Make Rojava Green Again - Book Launch

w/Debbie Bookchin and David Graeber

Sunday 25th Nov
SOAS, #London

Setting up DavDroid and Etar on my tablet, for accessing my calendar. I use NextCloud for my calendar and contacts. Feels maybe slightly overkill for just that.. but I want something with a web interface for the calendar, which Nextcloud has, and Radicale doesn't I don't think.

I think installing the Nextcloud app first made it slightly easier to set it all up than when I did it on my phone a while back, but that said I don't remember it being too tricky doing it manually.

Brilliant episode of Rev Left Radio. Pretty theory-heavy, I have little background knowledge of the topics (post-structuralism, postmodernism and post-postmodernism(!?)) but they hit some great talking points - horizontal vs vertical organising, is the personal political, are meta-narratives useful, and the need for more sincerity and less irony on the left.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/post-structuralism-postmodernism-and-metamodernism

TIL that ActivityPub has a client-to-server part to it, but that Mastodon doesn't implement it. Mastodon has its own API which clients use.

Some discussion on it here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1557

Micropub is a client-to-server protocol used mostly in #indieweb.

@Gargron It would light up a bunch of nice posting clients for free to post to Mastodon. e.g. I currently post to the micropub endpoint on my own website via shpub (command-line client), Omnibear (browser extension client), and Indigenous (Android client).

scaling out vs scaling up

the municipality is becoming a strategically crucial site for the organization of transformative social change.

https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-movement-internationalism-solidarity/

Kicking off in London today. Extinction Rebellion shut down the bridges with non-violent civil disobedience. I caught some of it on Westminster Bridge. Then around the corner to Whitehall where the anti-racism/anti-fascism march finished. There was a handful of fascists there who were shouted down and escorted away by the police. To round it off I saw Peterloo in Kilburn. The state brutally suppressing a peaceful protest in Manchester asking for suffrage at a time when only 3% had the vote.

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