D Dino
i’ve been thinking a lot about software stewardship and software cooperatives lately, in the context of taking responsibility for the craft as a class of craftspeople. i’ve got an essay on the subject on its third draft so maybe i’ll publish it soon but since im on the bus maybe i’ll just blither about it for a bit.
it’s one thing for workers to control the conditions of their toil but another for craftspeople to take responsibility for their craft, and we need to do both.
deutrino
@garbados I've finally been reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and when I got to the idea that solving the problem of ugliness and shoddiness and entropy promotion of technology requires the people who make that technology to a) care and b) have peace of mind while working, I immediately connected it to the current tech industry, 40 years later. (Random aside, just popped into my mind when I saw yr toot)
deutrino
Having now caught up on fediverse drama as much as I care to, I have an observation....
....it's ALMOST like using accountability-free blocklists comes with some downsides, yeah? Imagine that. :facing_think:
I hear the soft sound of a lot of irony being missed.
deutrino
I wonder if there are companies that are a good fit for people who are good at programming but bad at programming alone when it comes to the 95% of the workaday tasks that aren't naturally engaging in their own. So, lots of pair programming and close collaboration of 2+ developers on even fairly small projects. I also wonder if there are any shops that have perfected the art of doing this remotely.
Fedilab
I think the next release of #mastalab will offer the ability to follow instances.
Currently, I need to set by default cross-account actions but an important part already works.
https://mastodon.social/media/XLfLGpIwSeTi2nCgQmE
0x1C3B00DA
deutrino
@selinama xmission.com may well offer the services you need and they have a strong tradition of defending the privacy and free speech rights of their customers when challenged
deutrino
Okay I'm done :p
deutrino
While I'm at it, it is truly amazing the number of Android apps which absolutely shit when your phone happens to switch networks when you hit a button. You'd think in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and eighteen that MAYBE some engineer involved at SOME level of the stack on these apps MIGHT have given a thought to that :thinking_dump::thinking_dump: :thinking_dump:
deutrino
Note to techbro apps: you don't fucking need Google Location Services active to get current location, which is provided just fine by the FUCKING GPS HARDWARE IN THE FUCKING PHONE. Just stop. Okay?
Dion Moult
@mayel @aral @deadsuperhero @aaronpk @cwebber @bhaugen totally. We need an ID that we can migrate from service to service. OpenID plus more.
Right now my data is spread. My identity is spread. And frankly I don't own my ID. If I wanted to migrate instances I'm at the mercy of the instance admins.
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@cypnk specs are never what it's written
D Dino
look when i first heard "the sharing economy" i thought it meant "a cooperative end to scarcity" so i am extremely disappointed that it just means "worse jobs for worse pay"
deutrino
Hey, it'd be cool if relays also facilitated hashtag search, allowing small instances which don't want to have a huge database to at least query the hashtags of the everything the relay sees. I feel like the better search on them works, the more attractive hashtags become. Yay masto hashtags! 😀 @Gargron #mastodev
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Cas 🏳️🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]
Here’s a survey about the social network #Mastodon. You are invited to take part regardless of your level of involvement or how often you use it or how long you've been here.
https://goo.gl/forms/SgYhAnqNmaF95qoz1
I don’t work for them, I’m just curious.
Olivia PhD
This company wants you to have a bachelors degree to make memes lmao
thufie :: Girl
deutrino
@thufir Great info, thanks. This is pretty much telling me that Signal is still the least worst option, especially for normies. I'll be happy when something less problematic finally beats it in terms of usability.
@drixse @jz
ＫＩＢＩ// Gô‼
i'm glad that ActivityPub reached Recommendation status before the Working Group charter expired but I think
1. It needs a 1.1 or 2.0 release to clarify a LOT of behaviors and clean up a lot of aspects of the spec
2. That 1.1/2.0 draft should basically be a rewrite informed by how it is (a) being used, and (b) planned to be used by implementors in the wild, with special attention paid to implementations with unconventional needs
winmine.exe
I've got SSD taste, but 5200 RPM HD wealth
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