Notices by maiki (maiki@mastodon.sdf.org), page 5

I think a lot of people think that free speech was a historic US value; in fact it was incredibly contested, and it took the civil rights movement in the 60s to really establish it as a vital part of US law (just as it took WW2 to push it to the forefront of universal human rights law). https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/inextricable-link-between-modern-free-speech-law-and-civil-rights-movement

♲ @danjones@mastodon.host: Hey #Fediverse,

I have a blog built with a static site generator. I've like to figure out a way to connect it to the Fediverse. Basically, I'd like people to be able to follow my blog through Mastodon/Friendica/Pleroma/etc. The blog itself would be an Actor.

Even though it's a static site, I think I can manage, through static JSON-LD files, hooks in the build process, and maybe a microservice for anything that *must* be dynamic, to get it to work (and all for free, hopefully).

I read the intro at www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/, and that helped a lot. But there's several pieces I don't understand yet.

Reading through the spec is a bit much. I'm looking for a good, really thorough tutorial on ActivityPub/ActivityStreams.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

#AskFedi #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #Programming

“Berkeley is among the first US cities to earmark funding specifically to help local businesses convert to democratic worker ownership,” says Sara Stephens, Staff Attorney at the Law Center. “Berkeley is also the first city to commit to enacting a procurement incentive for worker cooperatives and tailoring its revolving loan fund to explicitly target worker cooperatives and businesses converting to cooperative ownership.”

https://www.theselc.org/berkeley_sets_the_bar_for_municipal_support_of_worker_cooperatives

While teaching myself #scheme I have been toying with a cgi program. Its for doing #mastodon (and other #fediverse platform) share buttons. It handles the whole prompt for instance -> redirect to share URL in a way which avoids javascript.

Mainly because I want a javascriptless blag.

Any one else interested in such a thing? Trying to figure out how much polish I may or not want on the final version.

Starting to think scheme based CGI might make any target audience narrow.

@maiki This is obscure, but simple: the WyRM system.

PCs with a Mage attr > 1 can find or buy spells. These spells must first be transferred
to a PC's personal spell book before use. To cast a spell, make a roll versus the DL of
the spell. If successful, your mana pool is reduced by the amount listed for the spell.

It's as simple as that.

http://www.stargazergames.eu/games/warrior-rogue-mage/

@maiki I really liked the idea of “drain” from Shadowrun. No points. No memorizing. You just wear yourself the heck out.

Cool story: the party’s mage carried two guns in his belt that weren’t loaded because it just seemed like the thing everyone was doing.

@adw
I know Mozilla really pushes Pocket but keep in mind that, even though they've been promising to, they still haven't released the source code. If you care about that, try #wallabag.

https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

If you are interested, I run an instance at https://wallabag.nixnet.xyz open for anyone to use.

hey you.

boost this and i'll assign you a prehistoric creature.

"I think I'm coming down with something."

#mastorecommends #tea #teadrinkers

I want a good quality tea kettle (water boiler) that has (rough) temperature settings.

What do you use?

(Our current one was a glass body and it's cracked. Glass and impacts don't get along.)

We are uncompromising in our mission and values, and happy to train a high-potential but less experienced candidate -- and we strongly encourage applications from people who are members of any marginalized communities. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/