I went to TICTeC Local last week, which was about the use of civic tech at the municipal level.
It was pretty cool, some good talks and nice peeps.
I learned that the UK has a nascent Local Digital Strategy. https://localdigital.gov.uk/
I went to TICTeC Local last week, which was about the use of civic tech at the municipal level.
It was pretty cool, some good talks and nice peeps.
I learned that the UK has a nascent Local Digital Strategy. https://localdigital.gov.uk/
This is pretty interesting, a new "Green campaign" from Rojava's International Commune:
https://dogsection.bigcartel.com/product/make-rojava-green-again
@bencomp I don't know the fine details of Solid, but from what I've understand there seems to be a lot of similarity in approach between it and indieweb. I very much like the idea of a personal data store that you control and allow apps to interact with, and can also easily move between storage providers.
There was a lot of griping about GDPR, but as a public legislative recognition that every individual should be in control of their own data, and should be able to do what they want with it, and that they should be in control who has access to it, it's a great step (along a long path).
Good morning fellow netizens!
@sikkdays Do it!
You totally don't need to know lots of code, it's about learning together, and it doesn't even matter if no-one shows. There will be someone online to chat with, and you get to hang out in a coffee shop and have some dedicated quiet time to do some blogging/coding.
Quite often in London there's only two of us, and that's totally fine.
Thinking in terms of data portability, it would be kind of cool to have a jf2 (serialized microformats) backup of all my site content, that I could just then reimport into another app that ingests jf2, if I ever want to move away from my current infrastructure, which I undoubtedly will.
I guess that's not really data portability, it's more app portability. I mean, as in, I already own my own data and can put it where I want, it's just in a format that isn't that reusable.
@kristinHenry Cool. Sounds kind of related to the idea of a personal data store that you own and control and choose what to share with apps. I definitely see things moving more in this direction.
I like to build things from abundant resources such as trash.
Does anyone know about a tutorial that teaches one on #howto build a #DIY radio station from common available material in electronic trash?
(Yes I know that you can also buy it cheaply. ...if you have the money, if supply chains are functioning in the area you are...)
#solarpunk
I upgrade Metabase to 0.31 and oooh it has some nice new indicators and chart types.
I switched our Metabase install from running on Jetty using a certificate wrapped in a Java keystore file, to using nginx to reverse proxy to normal Jetty and Let's Encrypt for the SSL.
Seems more complicated but I guess I don't like/understand .jks files. And I prefer traffic to go through nginx first. So works for me.
@mayel lol, feeling this
"the latest in Appleβs long-running list of business decisions that allow it to lock down the repair, refurbishment, and end-of-life of its products. "
Collusion between two of the world's biggest companies.
@Skoll3 Oops, didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing out, will delete and re-toot.
@therealraccoon Oh weird, thanks for pointing that out. Will delete and re-toot.
"the latest in Appleβs long-running list of business decisions that allow it to lock down the repair, refurbishment, and end-of-life of its products. "
Collision between two of the world's biggest companies.
It's a sunny Autumn day, it's 1pm and I've not left the house yet.
Is that technology's fault or is that my fault?
Is it even a bad thing?
Either way. Popping out for a bit.
@kongputer Sounds better to have JOMO (joy of missing out) on that one...
Thinking more of my website as just one front-end to my personal data store.
Jonkman Microblog is a social network, courtesy of SOBAC Microcomputer Services. It runs on GNU social, version 1.2.0-beta5, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Jonkman Microblog content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.