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I had a thought about the popularization of solarpunk today

My brother pointed out to me that in last week's episode of his podcast, Ezra Klein namechecked solarpunk in a blink-and-you-miss it mention:

“One common argument I heard on the left - Lina Khan made this point actually in our pages - was that this proved our whole paradigm of AI development was wrong. That we were seeing that we did not need all this compute, we did not need these giant companies, that this was showing a way towards a decentralized, almost solarpunk version of AI development, and in a sense the American system and imagination had been captured by, like, these three big companies.”

The context isn't as interesting as the quote. He was talking about different approaches to developing strong AI. It's only interesting because he used the term "solarpunk" in such a casual manner in a discussion that wasn't about solarpunk or even fiction. It reveals that it's in his vocabulary, and that he's ingesting this in his media diet. For those who don't know Klein, he's a very popular writer and journalist whose politics roughl

My brother pointed out to me that in last week's episode of his podcast, Ezra Klein namechecked solarpunk in a blink-and-you-miss it mention:

“One common argument I heard on the left - Lina Khan made this point actually in our pages - was that this proved our whole paradigm of AI development was wrong. That we were seeing that we did not need all this compute, we did not need these giant companies, that this was showing a way towards a decentralized, almost solarpunk version of AI development, and in a sense the American system and imagination had been captured by, like, these three big companies.”

After hearing this, the thought occurred to me that what I'm witnessing is an idea spreading from a fringe group into a mainstream concept. Eventually, if it gets big enough with mainstream progressive liberals like Klein, I bet it'll one day get discovered and made into a boogieman on the right.

I wonder how long that will take? When is the first time I'll hear a clip of like, I dunno, Ben Shapiro shouting, 'Have you heard about this new thing they call SOLARPUNK???!? It's crazy! It's like... imagine a cyberpunk dystopia: but they want THAT with like, vines and TRANS PEOPLE everywhere! Some ruthless Soviet dictatorship but without even the cool cars or wonderful corporate innovation! It's just TRAINS and GARDENS instead! Ulgh!! [eyes bugging out for the thumbnail image]'

That might be interesting. I think that this idea has a viral quality, so perhaps I can look forward to that in 2025 or 2026. What do you folks think?

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Deceptichum

Als Antwort auf Andy • 3 Monate her • •

I think you’re reading into it too much.

People have called things cyberpunk or referred to the term for decades, it still never took off as this big mainstream concept that everyone knows about. A bit of name recognition doesn’t mean much.

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JacobCoffinWrites

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The genre name might not be common knowledge (and I'm not sure that's the case) but cyberpunk aesthetics and themes and plot points have infiltrated so much of modern science fiction that cyberpunk communities frequently have trouble drawing a line around genre works vs mainstream scifi. And this is after companies and brand marketing "picked it too early" and made it a joke in the 90s. It just sort of kept going quietly, looked more and more prescient, and in the end, it had suffused through so many imaginations and works that it kind of was the mainstream.

I'm not sure the same thing will happen with solarpunk but given the way cyberpunk seems to have acclimatized us to our current distopia, I sort of hope solarpunk can do something similar. Maybe wear the rough edges and propaganda fears off building a society that actually looks out for its people and the habitats they live in.

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Andy

Als Antwort auf Deceptichum • 3 Monate her • •

To second what @JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net just said, to say that cyberpunk didn't take off as a mainstream concept is bewildering when the richest man on the planet and and emergent fascist leader overtly applies cyberpunk concepts to his entire program of world domination.

It's like saying that the social media or school shooters never really took off as mainstream concepts. Like... I don't know how it can get much bigger than this, dawg.

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pot_belly_mole

Als Antwort auf Andy • 3 Monate her • •

I hope so. Although I'm not sure whether it is solarpunk or some other term under which the ideas will be popularized (eg. degrowth, eco-socialism, minor paradise, doughnut economy, ecological civilization). But I find it likely that solarpunk will be packaged together with communism, as communism, by the right. And demonized.

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Andy

Als Antwort auf pot_belly_mole • 3 Monate her • •

Hey, don't threaten me with a good time ;)

I think that would honestly be great. One of the biggest problems I've seen with Democratic messaging in the last 5 years is that they repeat terms and insist that we should champion them - such as democracy - or revile them - such as authoritarianism - without recognizing an obligation to communicate what those words mean to our everyday lives. I want christian nationalists to be put in that situation:

'You don't understand! Solarpunk is communism!!!'

'Well... I heard they want to give everyone food and shelter and education and healthcare for free. And build parks.'

'Okay, yeah, but didn't you hear me? It's COMMUNISM!!'

'Wait... is that what communism is? Giving me food and shelter for free?'

'No! I mean, supposedly! But it isn't! Look, you need to stop saying that you'd like food and shelter to be free and just agree to fear this word because I told you to! Just stop thinking fondly about living outside of capitalism! I mean it!'

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poVoq

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AOC is also namedropping Solarpunk. I think it is quite well known as a term with younger left-leaning people, but it rarely goes beyond a "green new deal" kind of understanding. But it isn't really bad if people get to know about it that way.

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Andy

Als Antwort auf poVoq • 3 Monate her • •

I remember that. It was during a Q&A session in the fall of 2023.

I think we're seeing an idea -- or set of ideas or facet of an idea -- spreading as a meme in the classical sense. For those unaware, Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" to describe a transmissible unit of culture: an idea that takes root and gets received, repeated, imitated, and spread.

Solarpunk is a big bucket (a genre of fiction, aesthetic, style of personal fashion, lifestyle, philosophy, etc.) but I think it really is a meme spreading quickly. Fundamentally, it's a collection of beliefs that we can live in a radically different, less commodified world of respect for nature and community. And I think people are desperate to discover that such a concept exists and has a descriptor.

What's also interesting, for those who don't follow him, is that Ezra Klein self describes as an obsessively self-aware overthinker. He is meticulous in the construction of his thoughts and in the precision of his language. I would go so far as to say that he probably realized with full awareness that his use

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Andy

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • 3 Monate her • •

I think so too. I am seeing a similar effect in a lot of places.

BobWP via Do the Woo Podcast Channel

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BobWP
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In the episode of Open Web Conversations, Matthias talks with Alex about the Friends plugin, decentralized networks, and transforming WordPress into a social networking platform.

#fediverse

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Melchior via Deutschland

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Melchior
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Union und SPD kündigen Reform der Schuldenbremse an

Bundeshaushalt: Union und SPD kündigen Reform der Schuldenbremse an

Rüstungsausgaben über einem Prozent des BIP sollen von der Schuldenbremse ausgenommen werden. Auch plant Schwarz-Rot ein 500-Milliarden-Euro-Programm für Investitionen.

^{Alexander Eydlin (ZEIT ONLINE)}

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excral

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Ich weiß nicht was ich davon halten soll. Inhaltlich ist es wichtig Geld die Mittel verfügbar zu machen, aber die politische taktischen Spiele drum herum sind einfach bodenlos. Die Ampel ist im Endeffekt an der Schuldenbremse gescheitert, mit den Stimmen der CDU hätte man aber jederzeit schon die Schuldenbremse ändern können. Nach der Wahl wird dann aber plötzlich, unter Nutzung der Mehrheitsverhältnisse des alten Bundestages, eine Änderung möglich gemacht. Das sind einfach so perverse Machtspiele, aber die CDU wird damit durch kommen, denn ich sehe nicht wie sie dafür abgestraft wird. Bis zur nächsten Wahl haben das alle CDU-Wähler wieder vergessen, wenn es ihnen nicht jetzt schon egal ist, und die CDU kann sich mit den Dingen die nur durch die Lockerung der Schuldenbremse möglich waren rühmen.

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ClemensG

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Korrekt, deshalb: digitalcourage.social/@clemens…

@Melchior

ClemensG

2025-03-04 20:11:21

Viel wichtiger als Höflichkeitsfloskeln ist es für uns Grüne, den Preis für die Zustimmung hochzutreiben. Die klimafreundliche Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft erfordert 100te Milliarden Euro in den nächsten 10 Jahren.
Kleiner Tipp: Mit einer unverschämten, aber sachlich zu rechtfertigten Forderung wird endlich dieses oft zu freundliche, manchmal schon lammfromme Erscheinungsbild der letzten Jahre wieder etwas zurecht gerückt.
@GrueneBundestag

@Melchior

blakestacey via TechTakes

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blakestacey
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2025-02-24 00:00:09

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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rook

Als Antwort auf blakestacey • 3 Monate her • •

Might be something interesting here, assuming you can get past th paywall (which I currently can’t): wsj.com/finance/investing/abs-…

Today’s magic economy-ending words are “data centre asset-backed securities” :

Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity

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tante

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here's an archive Link archive.ph/h6fbA

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jax

Als Antwort auf blakestacey • 3 Monate her • •

another cameo appearance in the TechTakes universe from George Hotz with this rich vein of sneerable material: The Demoralization is just Beginning

wowee where to even start here? this is basically just another fucking neoreactionary screed. as usual, some of the issues identified in the piece are legitimate concerns:

Wanna each start a business, pass dollars back and forth over and over again, and drive both our revenues super high? Sure, we don’t produce anything, but we have companies with high revenues and we can raise money based on those revenues...
... nothing I saw in Silicon Valley made any sense. I’m not going to go into the personal stories, but I just had an underlying assumption that the goal was growth and value production. It isn’t. It’s self licking ice cream cone scams, a

another cameo appearance in the TechTakes universe from George Hotz with this rich vein of sneerable material: The Demoralization is just Beginning

wowee where to even start here? this is basically just another fucking neoreactionary screed. as usual, some of the issues identified in the piece are legitimate concerns:

Wanna each start a business, pass dollars back and forth over and over again, and drive both our revenues super high? Sure, we don’t produce anything, but we have companies with high revenues and we can raise money based on those revenues...
... nothing I saw in Silicon Valley made any sense. I’m not going to go into the personal stories, but I just had an underlying assumption that the goal was growth and value production. It isn’t. It’s self licking ice cream cone scams, and any growth or value is incidental to that.

yet, when it comes to engaging with this issues, the analysis presented is completely detached from reality and void of any evidence of more than a doze seconds of thought. his vision for the future of America is not one that

kicks the can further down the road of poverty, basically embraces socialism, is stagnant, is stale, is a museum

but one that instead

attempt[s] to maintain an empire.

how you may ask?

An empire has to compete on its merits. There’s two simple steps to restore american greatness:
1) Brain drain the world. Work visas for every person who can produce more than they consume. I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, miners, engineers, literally anyone who produces value. Can we raise the average IQ of America to be higher than China?
2) Back the dollar by gold (not socially constructed crypto), and bring major crackdowns to finance to tie it to real world value. Trading is not a job. Passive income is not a thing. Instead, go produce something real and exchange it for gold.

sadly, Hotz isn't exactly optimistic that the great american empire will be restored, for one simple reason:

[the] people haven’t been demoralized enough yet

The Demoralization is just Beginning

This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience.

^{the singularity is nearer}

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V0ldek

Als Antwort auf jax • 3 Monate her • •

Brain drain the world. Work visas for every person who can produce more than they consume. I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, miners, engineers, literally anyone who produces value.

Okay, I mean, that's coherent policy, I really don't like the caveats of "produces more than they consume" cause how do you quantify that, but yes, immigration is actually good...

Can we raise the average IQ of America to be higher than China?

aaaand it's eugenics, fuck, how does this keep happening

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Charlie Stross

Als Antwort auf V0ldek • 3 Monate her • •

@techtakes Also, WHY would anyone sane want to move TO the excited snakes of amurrrica this century?

@TechTakes

Marcel Waldvogel

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Marcel Waldvogel
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LibreOffice randlos präsentiert

Am (übrigens grossartigen!) Winterkongress der Digitalen Gesellschaft gab es einige LibreOffice-Präsentationen mit weissem Rand unten und rechts. Dasselbe Problem hatte ich bis vor ein paar Monaten auch. Hier Gründe und Lösungen.

Einige LibreOffice-Nutzer:innen kennen das Problem: Ihre Präsentation mit dunklem Hintergrund weist auf dem Beamer unten und rechts eine störende, etwa ein Pixel breite weisse Linie auf.

Bei LibreOffice ist das Problem bekannt, die Lösung zieht sich allerdings hin. Deshalb hier zwei Alternativlösungen.

Inhalt

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Das Problem
Lösung 1: Foliengrösse ändern

LibreOffice randlos präsentiert

Einige LibreOffice-Nutzer:innen kennen das Problem: Ihre Präsentation mit dunklem Hintergrund weist auf dem Beamer unten und rechts eine störende, etwa ein Pixel breite weisse Linie auf.

Bei LibreOffice ist das Problem bekannt, die Lösung zieht sich allerdings hin. Deshalb hier zwei Alternativlösungen.

Inhalt

Toggle

Das Problem
Lösung 1: Foliengrösse ändern
Lösung 2: Eigener Hintergrund

Das Problem

Im LibreOffice-Bug 150102 ( LibreOffice Impress has white line on bottom and right edge of projection monitor) wird seit 2022 über den Fehler diskutiert. Das Problem scheint darin zu liegen, dass bei einem Zwischenformat für Grafikdarstellungen («Metafile format») Rundungsfehler auftauchen, weil dort nur mit Ganzzahlen gerechnet wird.
In meinem aktuellen Setup auf dem Monitor nur noch schwach sichtbar: Die weisse Haarlinie. Mit Klick aufs Bild (Vergrösserung) wird er allerdings klar sichtbar.
Wenn man nun den Folienhintergrund auf eine Farbe ändert, kann es sein, dass aufgrund dieser Rundungsfehler der Hintergrund nicht die ganze Folie abdeckt, sondern unten und rechts eine weisse Linie vom ursprünglichen Hintergrund übrig bleibt. Besonders stark fällt das natürlich bei dunklem bzw. schwarzem Hintergrund auf.

Das Problem scheint vor allem unter Linux und auf AMD-Grafikkarten aufzutreten, weshalb es regelmässig «works for me»-Antworten auf die Fehlermeldung gibt.

Die Problemlösung zieht sich ebenfalls hin, weil das Problem eben bei diesem Metafile-Zwischenformat auftritt, welches von vielen anderen Komponenten ebenfalls verwendet wird. Die LibreOffice-Entwickler befürchten deshalb, dass eine Änderung an den Rundungsregeln andere Probleme nach sich ziehen würde.

Das heisst, vorerst muss man sich selbst helfen.

Lösung 1: Foliengrösse ändern

Als ich 2023 zu einem ChatGPT-Vortrag nach dem anderen eingeladen wurde und ich dafür LibreOffice mit einem dunklen Foliendesign benutzte, begann ich mich über diese störende weisse Linie zu ärgern. In irgendeinem LibreOffice-Forum las ich, dass jemand mit dem Wechsel des Folienformats Erfolg gehabt hätte. Und siehe da: Nachdem ich mein Folienlayout von «Bildschirmanzeige (16:9)» auf «Bildschirm 16:9» umgestellt hatte, verschwand diese Linie.
Foto meines Bildschirms, Folienlayout «Bildschirmanzeige (16:9)»: Hier ist die Linie bei vergrössertem Bild rechts zu erkennen.Foto meines Bildschirms, Folienlayout «Bildschirm 16:9»: Hier fehlt die Linie auch bei vergrössertem Bild.
In meinem aktuellen Setup (LibreOffice 24.8.5.2 unter Debian Trixie auf AMD Ryzen mit Radeon) ist diese Linie nur noch schwach zu erkennen (schwächer als früher); beim Wechsel auf «Bildschirm 16:9» verschwindet sie ganz.

Es gibt drei 16:9-Folienformate «Bildschirm 16:9», «Bildschirmanzeige (16:9)» und «Breitbild». Trotz gleichen Seitenverhältnis unterscheiden sich die zugrunde liegenden Zentimeter-Ausmasse, nämlich von 28 cm☓15.74 cm über 10″☓5.63″ (25.4 cm☓14.3 cm) zu 13⅓“☓7½“ (33.85 cm☓19.05 cm).

LibreOffice versucht zwar, die Elemente diesen neuen Ausmassen anzupassen, es ist aber nach jeder Umstellung des Layouts Handarbeit notwendig.

Lösung 2: Eigener Hintergrund

Statt auf die Hintergrundfunktion zu vertrauen, kann man sich auch selbst einen eigenen Hintergrund basteln:

Ein farbiges Rechteck oder
ein farbiges Hintergrundbild (PNG oder JPEG)

taugen nämlich auch als Hintergrundbild, wenn man es mit Rechte Maustaste→Anordnen→Ganz nach hinten geeignet platziert. (Die Idee mit dem PNG/JPEG-Bild stammt von hier.)

Dabei ist darauf zu achten, dass das Hintergrundbild über die Folienausmasse hinaus reichen, insbesondere rechts und unten.

Das ist die Variante, die ohne die Handarbeit beim Layoutwechsel auskommt und insbesondere für aufwändig gelayoutete Folien einfacher ist.

In beiden Fällen kann die Änderung beliebig auf den Masterfolien oder den einzelnen Folien vorgenommen werden.

Viel Spass beim schöneren Präsentieren mit dunklem Hintergrund!

#LibreOffice #Linux

Foto der Folien von Eva Wolfangel vom Winterkongress. Gut sichtbar ist der weisse Rand unten und rechts des Hintergrundes, ausser dort wo er von der Grafik überdeckt wurde.

Künstliche Intelligenz

Erklärungen rund um Künstliche Intelligenz (KI): ChatGPT, DALL•E 2, Machine Learning (ML), …

^{Marcel Waldvogel}

#Linux #libreoffice

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MrLoewenzahn via Deutschland

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MrLoewenzahn
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Hoffnung für die Nation

Als Antwort auf MrLoewenzahn

cıτızεnsεяıous

Als Antwort auf MrLoewenzahn • 3 Monate her • •

In der Sache richtig. Dennoch sind die Linke gemeinsam mit der AFD sog. "nützliche Idioten" für Putins Russland.

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ClemensG

Als Antwort auf cıτızεnsεяıous • 3 Monate her • •

Bisher haben sich die führenden Parteien hierzulande, inkl. meiner Grünen, als nützliche Idioten von Trump-USA aufgeführt.

Es stände uns allen gut, erst einmal vor der eigenen Türe zu kehren, bevor mensch auf andere zeigt.

@MrLoewenzahn

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jk1006

Als Antwort auf MrLoewenzahn • 3 Monate her • •

Ich hatte die Linke in den letzten Jahren wegen außenpolitischen Themen (tief in Putins Hintern) schon komplett abgeschrieben. Die Abspaltung des BSW war mit Abstand das Beste, was der Partei passieren konnte. Auch wenn ich weiterhin nicht mit allen Punkten einverstanden bin (keinerlei Waffenlieferung, weiterhin komische Haltung zur NATO), freue ich mich doch sehr über das Wahlergebnis und bin auch erleichtert in wichtigen Kernpunkten, bei denen in der nächsten Legislaturperiode die Opposition benötigt werden wird, basierte Aussagen zu lesen.

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felixwhynot via Solarpunk

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felixwhynot
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Phytoremediation to Clean the Environment and Mine Critical Materials

cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/122308

Phytoremediation To Clean The Environment And Mine Critical Materials

Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for …

^Hackaday

BlueMonday1984 via TechTakes

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BlueMonday1984
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

blakestacey

2025-02-17 03:43:07

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Als Antwort auf BlueMonday1984

self

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after Proton’s latest PR push to paint their CEO as absolutely not a fascist failed to convince much of anyone (feat. a medium article I’m not gonna read cause it’s a waste of my time getting spread around by brand new accounts who mostly only seem to post about how much they like Proton), they decided to quietly bow out of mastodon and switch to the much more private and secure platform of… fucking Reddit of all things, where Proton can moderate critical comments out of existence (unfun fact: in spite of what most redditors believe, there’s no rule against companies moderating their own subs — it’s an etiquete violation, meaning nobody gives a fuck) and accounts that only post in defense of Proton won’t stick out like a sore thumb

Michael Stanclift (@vmstan@vmst.io)

Attached: 1 image Apparently we aren't Fash enough for @protonprivacy@mastodon.social Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

^vmst·io

Matthias Pfefferle via notizBlog

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Matthias Pfefferle
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Ein bisschen Buch

Ich habe ein bisschen Buch geschrieben! Ein Kapitel über „IndieWeb und Fediverse“ im Fachbuch „WordPress 6 - Das umfassende Handbuch“, erschienen im [url=https://bonn.social/@rheinwerkverlag]@rheinwerkverlag[/url], um genau zu sein. Im November 2023 fragt

Ich habe ein bisschen Buch geschrieben!

Ein Kapitel über „IndieWeb und Fediverse“ im Fachbuch „WordPress 6 – Das umfassende Handbuch“, erschienen im @rheinwerkverlag, um genau zu sein.

Im November 2023 fragten mich @florian und @simon, ob ich Zeit und Lust hätte, ein Kapitel über das IndieWeb zu ihrem Buchprojekt beizusteuern.

Und da spätestens seit dem Studium der Plan, ein Buch zu schreiben, auf meiner „Big 5 for Life“-Liste steht, habe ich ohne gro

WordPress 6 - Das umfassende Handbuch

Alles zu WordPress 6 ✓ Für Blogs und Websites ✓ Inkl. WordPress-Themes ✓ Lernen und Nachschlagen ➤ Jetzt Buch, E-Book oder Bundle kaufen

^{Rheinwerk Verlag GmbH}

#Buch #wordpress #fediverse #activitypub #indieweb @Rheinwerk Verlag :rheinwerk: @Simon @Florian Brinkmann

teilten dies erneut

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Matthias Pfefferle

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pmjv via unix_surrealism

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pmjv
3 Monate her • •

cool shell clique

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starbrite

Als Antwort auf pmjv • 3 Monate her • •

...who uses dash?

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khm

Als Antwort auf starbrite • 3 Monate her • •

debian

CC: @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org

@pmjv

Matthias Pfefferle via notizBlog

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Matthias Pfefferle
3 Monate her • •

KrautPress Website Club

[url=https://dewp.space/@simon]@simon[/url] hatte eine Idee: Wir starten Ende Februar eine neue kleine Veranstaltungsreihe: den KrautPress Website Club. Gemeinsam mit Matthias Pfefferle werden wir uns einmal im Monat treffen und ganz im Sinne des WordPres

@simon hatte eine Idee:

Wir starten Ende Februar eine neue kleine Veranstaltungsreihe: den KrautPress Website Club. Gemeinsam mit Matthias Pfefferle werden wir uns einmal im Monat treffen und ganz im Sinne des WordPress-Mottos „democratize publishing“ zusammen über persönliche Websites sprechen.

…und fand die perfekten Worte um mich zu umgarnen 🫶:

Matthias ist im deutschsprachigen Raum, aber vor allem in der WordPress-Welt, eine der Instanzen zum Thema IndieWeb. Mit ihm über kleine Ideen für Websites zu sprechen oder einen unerwarteten Deepdive zu Themen wie Webfinger, .well-known oder Webmentions zu machen, motiviert mich persönlich immer an meinem eigenen Blog zu arbeiten.

Also veranstalten wir am 26. Februar von

Start des KrautPress Website Club | KrautPress

Gemeinsam mit Internet-Legende Matthias Pfefferle starten wir eine neues Online Meetup und um das Open Web und persönliche Websites.

^{Simon Kraft (KrautPress)}

#wordpress #fediverse #activitypub #indieweb #webmention #HomebrewWebsiteClub #KrautPress @Simon

solo via Solarpunk

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solo
3 Monate her • •

Indigenous futures thinking: 4 approaches to imagining a better world

Indigenous futures thinking brings the expertise built up by Indigenous communities over many years into the plans needed for the world to adapt to climate change.

Indigenous futures thinking: 4 approaches to imagining a better world

^{The Conversation}

beSyl via Solarpunk

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beSyl
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Revolutionary Paris Apartment is the Ultimate Experiment in Eco City Living! - YouTube

I just watched this video and found it awesome. I am not sure if this is the best community for it. Please, feel free to post it elsewhere! The more people that see it, the better!

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

^{www.youtube.com}

mögen das

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lemmeBe

Als Antwort auf beSyl • 3 Monate her • •

If they only had a variation with chickens' and cognac production. 😁
I don't wanna be a damn vegan. 😄

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technomad

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I'm glad this got shared! I also watched this (long time fan of this channel) and immediately thought that is solarpunk as fuck!

People will (understandably) have some reservations about the crickets, but there are some really awesome ideas being put into practice here.

I like it that they are growing their own mushrooms and utilizing the substrate byproducts.

It's cool to see all of their inspirations they've collected from different places they've gone to and all of their experiments (like the arid desert climate one especially).

I really like their mechanical contraptions that combine exercise and functional necessities for energy saving purposes.

Their space is really cool and inspirational.

Raymond Shannon via Memes

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Raymond Shannon
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zuckposting

pH3ra via Solarpunk

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pH3ra
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Solarpunk applications for apartments

Hey everyone, I'm fairly new to the concept of Solarpunk and since in the near future I'm going to be the owner of an apartment I wanted to know if the community has any suggestion about practical things I can do in an indoor only environment.
The place is a small attic and has 3 rooms: a kitchen+livingroom, a bigger bedroom and a smaller bedroom/studio. It has got plenty of sunlight coming in. If you need more info please ask

Edit: Thanks for all the kind suggestion, unfortunately the house has no balcony, but I'll try to gather knowledge on the other topics that came out in the comments.

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mögen das

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tofuwabohu

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

One thing I think about is making sure to get as much out of the sunlight as possible so you don't have to turn on your lights so much. You can grow plants including herbs or even veggies on your window sills.

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poVoq

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

You might be interested in the balcony gardening community here, much of it can also be done indoors near a window (or in a growth tent with LED lights).

If it is an attic apartment you might also be able to install some solarpanels on the roof.

But in general Solarpunk isn't primarily about growing plants and solarpanels, that's just the maybe most visible part of the aestethics.

Much like punk culture in general it about all sorts of anti-consumer and DIY culture as well as connecting with others for mutual aid and disaster preparedness.

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Wigglet

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

I would start or participate in your local community garden. They are solarpunk af! If they don't already have it, an apartment composting scheme at the community garden.

As far as inside goes: maximising natural light and doing a balcony garden and filling the living space with house plants. Hydroponics is solarpunk. I would set up a wee fishtank nutrientcycler like they do in east asia. They look aesthetically solarpunk and help fertilise your garden..just make sure you get the right sized tank for the fish you choose.

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Cris

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

To piggyback off someone else's idea, Technology Connections has some neat videos on passive thermal management of his house through things like blinds, awnings, and paying for power intentionally at off-peak hours, that are kinda solar punk

I wish I could remember more of the strategies he talked about, but reducing your energy load and improving power efficiency leaves more energy for other people and things :)

I think that's a fairly solarpunk idea

A countertop composter to reduce waste would be another idea, and could help you grow things like herbs if you want an application for your compost

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tpyo

Als Antwort auf Cris • 3 Monate her • •

I had a worm bin in my bathroom closet. They don't smell (if properly maintained and healthy) and it was exciting looking for things to throw in there. Once the worms are established and get going, they consume an insane amount per week

Bokashi is another way to compost but it uses fermentation. I've heard this way is able to compost meat which you want to avoid feeding worms (generally)

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Shikam

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I had to do a double take cause I'm watching that channel on my second monitor right now. He's great.

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andrewth09

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

Balcony solar is getting popular in Germany so I heard

Germany Embraces Balkonkraftwerke — Balcony Solar For Apartments - CleanTechnica

Balcony solar is a big hit in Germany, which as seen 200 MW of new balcony based solar added this year alone.

^{Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)}

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Radio Free Trumpistan

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

Well--when you have plenty of sunlight, you can grow veggies. Starting with potatoes is easy.

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Hello_there

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

youtube.com/@footprinthero
This guy talks about what he can power with solar panels using only a bit of money. With enough sun, and right battery system, maybe your fridge runs for free?

Footprint Hero with Alex Beale

Solar, energy storage, and home energy tech! 🌞 Hi, I'm Alex. Since 2020, I've been tinkering around with ways to use DIY solar setups to power my life. These videos are where I share my experiments!

^YouTube

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Guenther_Amanita 🍄

Als Antwort auf pH3ra • 3 Monate her • •

You can check out !balconygardening@slrpnk.net.

I'm doing !hydroponics@slrpnk.net, but I also have quite a few pots of soil (dirt) there.

They are mainly there for co-plants that attract beneficial insects and help to improve the biodiversity of this concrete hell I live in.

This "intact" ecosystem with healthy organic living soil, beneficial plants and other stuff also has the benefit that it attracts predatory insects like ladybugs, which naturally kill any lice and other harmful pests without any pesticides.

Oh, and it looks nice, and I always can gift other people I like some flowers if the need arises, for example as a last-minute birthday present ;)

I will also create an insect protection community here on SLRPNK if you're interested :)

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julian via Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force

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julian
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The state of conversational contexts (February 2025)

A conversational context is what the ForumWG uses to describe what you might see as a reply tree or comment thread. One of the short-to-medium term goals of the ForumWG is to get conversational backfill working reliably.

What this means — conversational backfill means that when you encounter a post/status/note/etc. (e.g. you're mentioned or boosted/shared something), there is a reliable and comprehensive way to retrieve the entire conversation around it, so you are not interacting with the object on its own, but in its proper context with all its sibling replies.

We plan to achieve this with a combination of a top-down (FEP-driven) and bottom-up (implementor-first) approach. While this sounds incongruent, top-down approaches tend to overcomplicate and bottom-up approaches tend to violate the protocol (unintentionally of course :joy:.)

There are a number of independent top-down efforts to achieve this:

FEP-7888: De

There are a number of independent top-down efforts to achieve this:

These FEPs are in the R&D phase.

State of the Top-Down approach

At this time, the ForumWG is only recommending the following:

Publishers SHOULD use context for grouping related objects in a thread (but this is not the only way to use context).

There is general agreement over:

A context SHOULD resolve to a resource.

There are concerns over:

What that resource is (as:OrderedCollection, a new type, something else?)
What is included in that context (plain objects or activities)

State of the Bottom-Up approach

The bottom-up approach is results-oriented, and while certain implementors may follow certain FEPs, the overarching goal is "cross-compatible conversational backfill".

Separately, these implementors are (or have signalled interest in) implementing conversational backfill:

NodeBB and Discourse (@angusmcleod@mastodon.social)
- Following FEP 7888
- Attaches context to objects
- context resolves to an OrderedCollection
- Two-way conversation backfill is tested and working.
WordPress (@pfefferle@mastodon.social) and Frequency (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social)
- Following FEP 7888
- Attaches context to objects
- context resolves to an OrderedCollection
- One-way conversational backfill is tested and working — others can backfill an entire conversation from these implementors.
Lemmy (@nutomic@lemmy.ml) and PieFed (@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)
- Have signalled interest (neither positive nor negative) in conversational backfill and are waiting and watching at this time.

Of note:

Mitra (@silverpill@mitra.social)
- Following FEP 171b
- One-way conversational backfill is tested and working — Mitra can backfill an entire conversation from FEP 7888 implementors

What's Next

This thread will likely contain updates and discussion from related parties about their implementations and what they wish to do next. In the cruelest irony of ironies, because conversational backfill is not ubiquitous yet, you will need to "View Original URL" in order to see all of the replies.

The ForumWG will meet again on 6 March 13h00 EST where all of this will be discussed, as well as planning out the future focus items for the ForumWG.

If you are an implementor, there is no reason you cannot join the fray. Boost this post, reply to it, join the conversation(al context)!!

If you're not an implementor, boost me anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

Strawberry via Privacy

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Strawberry
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Apple Caved and pulled end-to-end encrypted backups in the uk

BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
- "In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers."

Washington post - Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access

I guess removing access for the uk is better than backdooring it in silence. But still, not great.

Also, it is interesting comparing compliance on this with complying with the EU on sideloading apps.

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end to end encryption.

^{Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)}

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solo via Solarpunk

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solo
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Millennial Reflections

We celebrate more than 1000 subscribers by sharing updates on past posts and more

Millennial Reflections

^{SolarPunk Stories}

Matthias Pfefferle via notizBlog

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Matthias Pfefferle
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Open Web Conversations

Ich habe einen neuen Podcast! 🎉 ...naja, nicht ganz ☺️ Aber ich darf (neben Courtney Robertson, Dave Lockie und Robert Jacobi) eine Show auf [url=https://dothewoo.io/@dothewoo.io]@dothewoo.io[/url] hosten! Knapp 17 Jahre nach der ersten und fast 14 Jahre

Do the Woo Podcast Channel Courtney Robertson

In this episode, hosts recap WooSesh day one, focusing on WooCommerce's rebranding, UI enhancements, community engagement, and enterprise scalability.

^{Do the Woo Podcast Channel}

#wordpress #Podcast #fediverse #activitypub #openweb #indieweb #DoTheWoo @Alex Kirk @BobWP @Do the Woo Podcast Channel

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misk via RetroGaming

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misk
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Limited Run Games confirms "time bomb" issue with NES cartridges damaging consoles, blames it on new supplier

Limited Run Games has responded to a report that accused it of selling NES game cartridges that damaged consoles. In a …

^{Ed Nightingale (Eurogamer.net)}

SunDancerGE via Warmonger

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SunDancerGE
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So I got an email from GamesQuest Fulfilment Tuesday afternoon stating:

Good news!

Dear Tim [redacted],

Your QML Catalyst order has been shipped!

Your parcel should be with you within the next 4 – 7 working days.

Please allow up to 5 working days for your tracking to activate.

2 x Salvage Box: Mercenaries

[Individual]GQCAT36016

1 x Mercenaries box set (Limited […]

warmonger.de/battletech-mercen…

BattleTech: Mercenaries coming to an end? | Warmonger

^{www.warmonger.de}

#kickstarter #battletech #mercenaries

Sunshine (she/her) via Transgender

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Sunshine (she/her)
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‘Deadnaming’ transgender people could be considered harassment under new bill

Colorado Democrats look to expand protections for trans people, even as federal landscape shifts in the other direction.

^{Bente Birkeland (Colorado Public Radio)}

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

Als Antwort auf Sunshine (she/her) • 3 Monate her • •

should not could...

julian via Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force

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julian
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FEP 7888 serving up an OrderedCollection

Just wrapped up a call with @pfefferle@mastodon.social and @jesseplusplus@mastodon.social to review their implementations of FEP 7888, specifically in relation to conversational backfill.

:heavy_check_mark: individual objects serve a context property
:heavy_check_mark: that context property is a URL that resolves

One of the concerns raised was related to the OrderedCollection of items served by the context. Specifically, if the items presented in the collection were not in chronological order, NodeBB failed at importing some of the items as the inReplyTo referenced an object that did not exist.

The solution to this was to ensure that the collection items were in chronological order from oldest to newest. Once fixed:

:heavy_check_mark: the context resolved to an Ordere

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag

julian

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • 3 Monate her • •

Re: FEP 7888 serving up an OrderedCollection

@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social @pfefferle@mastodon.social I fixed up NodeBB's janky handling of collections and now I am able to import an entire Frequency conversation via its context :tada:

I think @silverpill@mitra.social is right though, your context.first needs an id. I worked around it but it's better to have it so it can be referenced against by another page's prev.

DaseinPickle via Solarpunk

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DaseinPickle
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Reconciliation, White Exceptionalism, and Cultural Recovery

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

^youtu.be

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poVoq

Als Antwort auf DaseinPickle • 3 Monate her • •

Hmm, so that video was a bit odd. I guess trying to reclaim Scandinavian traditions from right-wing grifters is not necessarily bad, but for me as a European born and raised in a northern European country, I feel no relation to these at all. And what I know of it is either Americanized pop culture or mostly faux BS that some fascists made up to justify their blood and soil ideology.

I mean, sure there are some archeologist digging up that stuff and so on, but it is almost as far gone as the ancient pyramid stuff is to a modern Egyptian.

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DaseinPickle

Als Antwort auf poVoq • 3 Monate her • •

This specific guy does a lot of work to explore animism and think that it’s a way for us to reconnect to nature. He is danish so his approach is through Scandinavian animism. It doesn’t have to be correct, because animism is not a dogmatic religion, it’s alive and traditions evolve over time. Of cause he does take a lot of inspiration from traditional Nordic mythology and religion and we do know a decent amount, because we have texts and runes. And he advocate that it’s a way to deal with climate crisis. I suggest you read Evergreen Ash - Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature, if you find it interesting.

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poVoq

Als Antwort auf DaseinPickle • 3 Monate her • •

We do know a lot from archeology and so on, yes. But the same is true for ancient egypt.

But at least to my knowledge, there is next to no continous practise of these traditions anywhere in Europe for many generations now.

I mean if historical reenactment is a hobby this guy enjoys doing, fine with me. But I see very little point in trying to revive a tradition that is that long dead and forgotten.

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DaseinPickle

Als Antwort auf poVoq • 3 Monate her • •

He is a scholar with a phd in history and religion. The point is that are in a time where we need to reconnect with nature. A bit like we are trying to do with solar punk. And you can’t do that with Christianity. You could even argue that the Abrahamic religions are an indirect cause of the climate crisis, because it makes human the most important species with the right to rule over nature.

A lot of native people have an animist religion with a deep connection to nature and the western world need to rediscover that. At least that’s what a lot of modern animist believe. I think it’s worth exploring.

blakestacey via TechTakes

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blakestacey
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil

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froztbyte

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found in the wild, The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon

speaking of shillrinivan, anyone heard anything more about cult school after the news that no-one like bryan's shitty food packs?

The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.

A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.

^{Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)}

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YourNetworkIsHaunted

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Having read the whole book, I am now convinced that this omission is not because Srinivasan has a secret plan that the public would object to. The omission, rather, is because Balaji just isn't bright enough to notice.

That's basically the entire problem in a nutshell. We've seen what people will fill that void with and it's "okay but I have power here now and I dare you to tell me I don't" and you know who happens to have lots of power? That's right, it's Balaji's billionaire bros! But this isn't a sinister plan to take over society - that would at least entail some amount of doing what states are for.

Ed:

"Who is really powerful? The billionaire philanthropist, or the journalist who attacks him over his tweets?"

I'm not going to bother looking up which essay or what terrible point it was in service to, but Scooter Skeeter of all people made a much better version of this argument by acknowledging that the other axis of power wasn't "can make someone feel bad through mean tweets" but was inst

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Soyweiser

Als Antwort auf YourNetworkIsHaunted • 3 Monate her • •

That’s basically the entire problem in a nutshell.

I think a lot of these people are cunning, aka good at somewhat sociopathic short term plans and thinking, and they confuse this ability (and they survivor biassed success) for being good at actual planning (or just thinking that planning is worthless, after all move fast and break things (and never think about what you just said)). You don't have to actually have good plans if people think you have charisma/a magical money making ability (which needs more and more rigging of the casino to get money on the lot of risky bets to hope one big win pays for it all machine).

Doesn't help that some of them seem to either be on a lot of drugs, or have undiagnosed adhd. Unrelated, Musk wants to go into Fort Knox all of a sudden, because he saw a post on twitter which has convinced him 'they' stole the gold (my point here is that there is no way he was thinking about Knox at all before he randomly came across the tweet, the plan is crayons).

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YourNetworkIsHaunted

Als Antwort auf Soyweiser • 3 Monate her • •

I'm sorry 'they' did what? Everyone knows you can't rob Fort Knox. You have to buy up a significant fraction of the rest of the gold and then detonate a dirty bomb in Fort Knox to reduce the supply and- oh my God bitcoiners learned economics from Goldfinger.

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Soyweiser

Als Antwort auf YourNetworkIsHaunted • 3 Monate her • •

oh my God

Welcome to the horrible realization of the truth. That is also why satire doesn't work, you need to have a deeper understanding of the world to understand the themes, else starship troopers is just about some hot people shooting bugs.

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

^{www.youtube.com}

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swlabr

Als Antwort auf blakestacey • 3 Monate her • •

TIL musk has a nobel peace prize nomination for this year

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Charlie Stross

Als Antwort auf swlabr • 3 Monate her • •

@techtakes Anybody can nominate: the true sign that the simulation has been handed over to drunken frat boys will be if he *wins*.

@TechTakes

solo via Solarpunk

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solo
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Reciprocity: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer, the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, recently published The Serviceberry, which explores the economies of nature.

^{Yale E360}

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fossilesque

Als Antwort auf solo • 3 Monate her • •

I love RWK. Her book Moss is better than Braiding Sweetgrass imo.

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solo

Als Antwort auf fossilesque • 3 Monate her • •

I loved Braiding Sweetgrass and now can't wait to check out the Moss one.

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fossilesque

Als Antwort auf solo • 3 Monate her • •

Yea, I don't know why it didn't get as much recognition.

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RideAgainstTheLizard

Als Antwort auf fossilesque • 3 Monate her • •

Damn, Braiding Sweetgrass is on my list, now I need to add Moss as well haha. The list won't stop growing!

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dumples

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I have it on my to read list along with Serviceberry. I felt like braiding sweet grass was a triumph and changed / reinforced things I always felt and wanted to do. I guess I'm ready for more

RideAgainstTheLizard via Solarpunk

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RideAgainstTheLizard
3 Monate her • •

Climate Book Recommendations

I've been enjoying climate books recently. I've just finished How to be a Climate Optimist by Chris Turner, and before that The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken.

Are there any books that you consider foundational/required reading for climate issues?

Some users from c/degrowth recommended The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
and Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods which I'm looking forward to checking out.

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RideAgainstTheLizard

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I noticed there is an animist community here, that's something I'd like to learn more about. I believe it's about respecting non-living things? It reminds me of the Japanese idea of tsukonogabi, where items gain a spirit after 100 years.

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Yaky

Als Antwort auf RideAgainstTheLizard • 3 Monate her • •

I am not too familiar with animism either, but as far as I understand from the book, it's the belief-idea-philosophy that humans are a part of nature, including both living and non-living things. (Contrary to modern idea of separating the "human" and "natural" worlds). In addition to awareness and careful choices, it believes in reciprocity, giving back what was taken from the ecosystem. Similar to what was/is practiced by many native communities.

(Please correct me if I am wrong)

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Yingwu via Technology

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Yingwu
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Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

Apparently many libraries, including the ones in my country, are moving over to a system where you're not allowed to digitally download the epub file anymore. You're only allowed to borrow the book, and read it, in a closed ecosystem: an app. This per definition then excludes the majority of e-ink readers that don't run Android. This is due to Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (Text with EEA relevance) (source) entering into force June 28 this year.

As the Adobe DRM solution hasn't been updated for years, it isn't capable of fulfilling all the requirements that this law lays out without endangering the DRM solution. Text-to-speech is one function that isn't fully supported by Adobe for example. This means that there are apparently two directions to go for full compliance, Readium DRM which is barely s

Directive - 2019/882 - EN - EUR-Lex

^{eur-lex.europa.eu}

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toebhi via Solarpunk

3 Monate her • •

toebhi
3 Monate her • •

[Meta] Not able to see posts

Hi,
So I've encountered this problem for quite a while now: I am not able to see new or old posts on communities on this instance.
For example:
BuyItForLife
Solarpunk memes (works for some extend?)
Solarpunk
I am a user of this instance and reading on the Thunder Client.
Is there any solution already in place for such a problem?
Thanks :)

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Lazycog

Als Antwort auf toebhi • 3 Monate her • •

Could you elaborate bit more: are there posts you see on the website that you don't see on thunder client?

Could this be a setting in thunder client (e.g. hide read posts + mark as read on scroll)?

Could you tell me what is the last post you see on !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net?

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toebhi

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Yes, 80% of the posts on the website are not visible to me.

Ive checked my thunder settings before. (Read posts are greyed out, but visible on all instances)

The last post on BIFL is the thread regarding hoodie recommendations. On the other hand, posts solarpunk (this community) are visible to me (somehow)

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Lazycog

Als Antwort auf toebhi • 3 Monate her • •

Ok I took interest and want to help you so I got into this, downloaded thunder and did some testing and my conclusion is that your issue is related to the lemmy/fediverse post/comment language settings. The hoodie post is the latest post on BIFL that is not tagged as english post.

Ill elaborate in a sec once I can reproduce your issue on thunder.

Edit 1: in the following screenshot from BIFL from the lemmy web UI you can see that the hoodie post is the only one with "undetermined" language setting:

The posts you don't see are set explicitly to "english". By default posts should be "undetermined" but communities/instances can change defaults.

I can't fully remember the confusing logic of these content language settings, but ill report back once I play around with thunder for a sec.

Edit 2: I can now confirm that I was able to reproduce your issue and that it is indeed what thunder calls "Discussion language".

Go to your account settings in thu

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toebhi

Als Antwort auf Lazycog • 3 Monate her • •

That worked amazing! Thank you so much for your research and help! I didnt know that option was a thing.

Thank you so much and have a nice rest of your week :))

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Lazycog

Als Antwort auf toebhi • 3 Monate her • •

Yay!! No problem at all, glad to help :) and I bet quite a lot of people have struggled with that setting (including me the first time I made a lemmy account).

Thank you, you too!! :)

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GreyEyedGhost

Als Antwort auf Lazycog • 3 Monate her • •

That should really be pinned in account setup somewhere. This was a warning I saw when I first joined, so it was fresh in my mind when I started here, and it looks like it's still causing difficulties, although it had slipped by the time I came across this.

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Lazycog

Als Antwort auf GreyEyedGhost • 3 Monate her • •

I agree. It can completely ruin your first experience in the fediverse. I wanted to see finnish discussion when I first joined but couldn't see posts/comments at all in those comms.

RideAgainstTheLizard via Solarpunk

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RideAgainstTheLizard
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Social Marketing?

Is anyone here involved in or aware of any organisations that create marketing campaigns that aim to tackle climate change via social influence?

An example that comes to mind are the UK group Led By Donkeys, but they focus on politics. I’m very interested in this line of work and would love to know more about it.

Xander via Fusil UK

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Xander
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This is a test of an automated publishing system for statements. It will be removed shortly. It should also bring statements to PixelFed in my usual instagram style. Please note that it may not be removed on some federated platforms or RSS readers. I apologise for cluttering up your feed!

~Xander

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Xander

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Hi, @pfefferle ! Apologies for bothering you again! I have just tested an automated system (that is hopefully visible here). The way it works is that the post is made from wordpress’ command-line interface. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, that api doesn’t support setting a featured image. So the workflow is:

1. Create post
2. Upload and set image to be post’s featured image (one command)

However, before the edit at stage two is made, the post is already federated out, including to pixelfed which sees that there is no image and ignores the post, unfortunately. I was hoping to make this system an easy way for me to support pixelfed. I can see the update seems to allow it to show on Lemmy and Mastodon, but pixelfed is currently ignoring it.

~~Any suggestions or thoughts?~~

Thank you again so much! Again, the work you are doing for this is just wonderful 😄

Edit: Scrap that actually!

@Matthias Pfefferle

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Matthias Pfefferle

Als Antwort auf Xander • 3 Monate her • •

🤔 the plugin should also send any update that is made after the initial publish. so (if pixelfed does support these updates (post without image, update with image)) then it should work out of the box.

/cc @dansup

@dansup

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a
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FEP-efda: Followable objects

---slug: "efda"authors: a a@trwnh.comstatus: DRAFTdateReceived: 2025-02-13discussionsTo: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…---

FEP-efda: Followable objects

Summary

ActivityStreams Vocabulary defines a Follow activity, and ActivityPub defines its side effects of manipulating a followers collection, but ActivityPub does not specify a full algorithm for how to follow something. This FEP aims to provide guidance on which objects can be followed:

The object MUST have a followers collection present.
If the object does not have an inbox, then you MAY recurse upwards through attributedTo until you find a resource with an inbox. The maximum recursion depth SHOULD be 1.

A Follow activity can then be constructed for that object and delivered to the discovered inbox. Ad

---slug: "efda"authors: a a@trwnh.comstatus: DRAFTdateReceived: 2025-02-13discussionsTo: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…---

FEP-efda: Followable objects

Summary

The object MUST have a followers collection present.
If the object does not have an inbox, then you MAY recurse upwards through attributedTo until you find a resource with an inbox. The maximum recursion depth SHOULD be 1.

A Follow activity can then be constructed for that object and delivered to the discovered inbox. Additional requirements for the structure of the Follow activity are out-of-scope.

Requirements

In order to follow an object, we use a Follow activity. But in order to use this Follow activity, we need to know the following:

What can be followed?
Where do we send the Follow for that object?

At the time of writing, current software practices within the fediverse enforce a limit on what can be followed. For example, Mastodon currently limits follows to actors that can be mapped to their internal concept of "accounts", and these "accounts" are in turn limited to being any of the five "actor types" described in [AS2-Vocab]: Person, Group, Organization, Application, Service.

Consequently, other software which does not have such a conceptual limit is forced to declare their actors as one of the five types, or else Mastodon users will not be able to follow their actors. [ActivityPub] says that there is no specified mapping between "users" and "actors", but Mastodon's interpretation of "actors" as "users" de facto disallows following anything but a strict subset of resources.

We may therefore express Mastodon's requirements as follows:

The actor MUST have a type of any of Person, Group, Organization, Application, Service.
The actor MUST have an inbox where the Follow will be sent.

A proposed modified requirement and algorithm are as follows:

The object MUST have a followers collection present.
If the object does not have an inbox, then you MAY recurse upwards through attributedTo until you find a resource with an inbox. The maximum recursion depth SHOULD be 1.

Algorithm

Given an object O and a recursion limit L, a general algorithm for following it can be expressed like so:

(1) Initialize a variable INBOX.(2) If O.followers is not present, return an error OBJECT_CANNOT_BE_FOLLOWED.(3) If O.inbox is present, set INBOX to the referenced IRI.(4) If INBOX is unset, then initialize a variable R whose initial value is O.(5) While INBOX is unset:(5.1) Check that L > 0. If false, return an error MAX_RECURSION_LIMIT.(5.2) Dereference R.attributedTo and set the variable R to this referenced resource.(5.3) If R.inbox is present, set INBOX to the referenced IRI.(5.4) Set the variable L to the value L - 1.(6) Initialize a document ACTIVITY:(6.1) ...whose actor is yourself(6.2) ...whose type is Follow(6.3) ...whose object is O(7) Make an HTTP POST request whose target is INBOX and whose body is ACTIVITY.

Additional requirements for the ACTIVITY can be defined at a protocol level, but the exact protocol and those requirements are out-of-scope for this FEP. The scope of this FEP is limited to determining which objects can be followed, and where to send the Follow.

References

James M Snell, Evan Prodromou, [Activity Vocabulary][AS2-Vocab], 2017
Christine Lemmer Webber, Jessica Tallon, [ActivityPub][ActivityPub], 2018
trwnh, [Unresolved issues surrounding Follow activities][UNRESOLVED], 2019

[AS2-Vocab]: w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca…[ActivityPub]: w3.org/TR/activitypub/[UNRESOLVED]: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

Copyright

CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

To the extent possible under law, the authors of this Fediverse Enhancement Proposal have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

FEP-efda: Followable objects

slug: “efda” authors: a a@trwnh.com status: DRAFT dateReceived: 2025-02-13 discussionsTo: FEP-efda: Followable objects FEP-efda: Followable objects Summary ActivityStreams Vocabulary defines a Follow activity, and ActivityPub defines its side eff…

^SocialHub

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silverpill

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trwnh:

Followable objects

In theory, being able to follow arbitrary object could be useful in certain cases, but that blurs the line between actors and objects, and in my opinion, creates more problems than it solves. Furthermore, ActivityPub doesn't doesn't support this use case. According to section 6.5 Follow Activity, only actors can be followed:

The Follow activity is used to subscribe to the activities of another actor.

trwnh:

ActivityPub says that there is no specified mapping between “users” and “actors”, but Mastodon’s interpretation of “actors” as “users” de facto disallows following anything but a strict subset of resources.

Again, ActivityPub (overview):

In ActivityPub, a user is repr

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.

^www.w3.org

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a

Als Antwort auf silverpill • 3 Monate her • •

silverpill:

but mapping users to actors is literally what specification tells us to do.

mapping users to actors is fine mapping actors to users is not. the state machine works using actors as the basic unit of computation, which do not have to correspond to users.
silverpill:

In theory, being able to follow arbitrary object could be useful in certain case

In practice, subscribing to topics is far more useful than subscribing only to people. Limiting subscriptions only to people just causes other entities to lie and say their resources are people too. See also: the use of Group to describe things that are not groups of people.

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silverpill

Als Antwort auf a • 3 Monate her • •

trwnh:

In practice, subscribing to topics is far more useful than subscribing only to people. Limiting subscriptions only to people just causes other entities to lie and say their resources are people too.

I didn't say that subscriptions are limited to people. Actors can be organizations and applications too, and in Mastodon all actors are represented as "users" and "accounts". This is a very reasonable decision.A topic can be represented by application actor. This is already possible, you don't need to re-define Follow activity for that.

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a

Als Antwort auf silverpill • 3 Monate her • •

Nothing is a "new interpretation", it's an existing pattern that interactions sometimes go to attributedTo.inbox. For example when you Like something, if it doesn't have an object.inbox you check the object.attributedTo.inbox and send it there. What this FEP does is generalize the behavior of "crawl up attributedTo until you find an inbox".
silverpill:

in Mastodon all actors are represented as “users” and “accounts”. This is a very reasonable decision.

It's unreasonable because actors don't have to be users. Actors can be anything. The spec explicitly notes this. A network of actors where actors are only users is not workable because various implementers are already doing things that don't represent users... they're just lying and calling them users, because they have to lie in order to be compatible with the incorrect interpretations and incorrect assumptions.
silverpill:

A topic can be represented by application actor.

Some people are against multi-typing, so there's pushback there as well.

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silverpill

Als Antwort auf a • 3 Monate her • •

Multi-typing is not necessary, it can be an Application without a second type, or an object with a non-standard type but duck-typed as actor.

Anyway, there is a bigger problem. This FEP doesn't explain what "following" means if Follow.object is not an actor. ActivityPub spec says that Follow is used to subscribe to actor's activities, but what follower is supposed to receive from an object? Objects don't perform activities.

Regarding topic subscriptions, I already talked about my preferred solution in another thread. Now there is a formal proposal: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…

fep/fep/f06f/fep-f06f.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

^Codeberg.org

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Steve Bate

Als Antwort auf silverpill • 3 Monate her • •

silverpill1:

This FEP doesn't explain what "following" means if Follow.object is not an actor. ActivityPub spec says that Follow is used to subscribe to actor's activities, but what follower is supposed to receive from an object?

The AS2 specification describes it.

the actor is interested in any activity performed by or on the object

In the case of following a non-actor, the "on the object" is the key phrase. When some actor performs an activity on the object, that activity may be delivered to the object's followers collection (subject to authorization, some activities may be considered private-ish).

The ActivityPub spec focuses on the "performed by the object" part, but doesn't prohibit the "on the object".
trwnh:

Activities related to that object, as decided by the attributedTo actor?

Note that attributedTo is not required to be an actor. AS2 says this explicitly.

Ident

Rimu via Solarpunk

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Rimu
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If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress - Envisioning a Sustainable World

Vision is the most vital step in the policy process. If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress. Yet vision is not only missing almost entirely from policy discussions; it is missing from our whole culture. We talk about our fears, frustrations, and doubts endlessly, but we talk only rarely and with embarrassment about our dreams. Environmentalists have been especially ineffective in creating any shared vision of the world they are working toward — a sustainable world in which people live within nature in a way that meets human needs while not degrading natural systems. Hardly anyone can imagine that world, especially not as a world they’d actively like to live in. The process of building a responsible vision of a sustainable world is not a rational one. It comes from values, not logic. Envisioning is a skill that can be developed, like any other human skill. This paper indicates how.

Envisioning a Sustainable World - The Donella Meadows Project

^{The Academy for Systems Change}

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poVoq

Als Antwort auf Rimu • 3 Monate her • •

Thanks for sharing. It has some good thoughts and indeed we need think about what we want to actually achieve and not be shy about it.

But maybe it is better to not think of it as a future goal but rather as reminder of the possibilities. All too often we restrict our thinking to what we think is realistic and that then becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy by itself.

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WhereAngelsFearToFly via Deutschland

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WhereAngelsFearToFly
3 Monate her • •

Deutschlandticket: Fahrkartenshop fliegt auf, Kunden werden zu Schwarzfahrern

Ein Online-Shop hat unter mysteriösen Umständen Fahrkarten verkauft, die jetzt ungültig sind. Viele Reisende fahren unwissentlich ohne gültiges Ticket.

^{heise investigativ (heise online)}

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Mora

Als Antwort auf Dekkia • 3 Monate her • •

Vetter scheint seine Schlüssel nur weitervermieten. Mop.la nutzt die zum Beispiel auch.

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ClemensG

Als Antwort auf Mora • 3 Monate her • •

Du schreibst: "Vetter scheint seine Schlüssel nur weitervermieten. Mop.la nutzt die zum Beispiel auch."

Muss ich mir als Nutzer eines Mopla-Deutschlandtickets nun Sorgen machen? Oder ist solche eine Mitnutzung üblich?

@Dekkia

SunDancerGE via Warmonger

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SunDancerGE
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So there is this little weird YouTube channel „Yellow Belly Tabletop“ who in their weekly live streams ask really important and weird questions or discuss odd topics like:

Wargaming’s hidden secret: Communal hobby

Now, is communal hobby a „hidden secret“?

No, I don’t think it’s hidden and it’s no secret but it is an aspect of our wargaming hobby that might not be very apparent to new […]

warmonger.de/communal-hobby-a-…

Communal hobby – a hidden secret? | Warmonger

^{www.warmonger.de}

#hobby #conventions #communalHobby

Nyssa via Solarpunk

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Nyssa
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Future sister cities -- a strategy for climate adaptation

I'm reading a book titled Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti which is about how we consider and plan for how the world will look in the far future. In it, he proposes a very Solarpunk idea called 'future sister cities' where communities will be paired with other communities that in the future have climates analogous to their own. This is intended to help share knowledge about how to design infrastructure, natural systems, and human endeavors to be more in line with the climates that towns, villages, and cities will experience in the future.

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Telorand

Als Antwort auf Nyssa • 3 Monate her • •

I imagine this will be something that happens anyway, even if cities aren't paired explicitly. There will be plenty of current and historical data to pull from, and cities will have to adapt to whatever climate in which they find themselves.

Matthias Pfefferle via notizBlog

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Matthias Pfefferle
3 Monate her • •

FediDEM

Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil [url=https://cosocial.ca/@evan]@evan[/url] und [url=https://macaw.social/@andypiper]@andypiper[/url] (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisier

Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil @evan und @andypiper (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisiert haben:

Den Social Web Devroom als Main-Track mit diversen längeren und kürzeren Vorträgen rund um das Thema Fediverse. Besonders spannend fand ich die Beiträge der beiden „Long-Former“-Kollegen @matt und

Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil @evan und @andypiper (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisiert haben:

Den Social Web Devroom als Main-Track mit diversen längeren und kürzeren Vorträgen rund um das Thema Fediverse. Besonders spannend fand ich die Beiträge der beiden „Long-Former“-Kollegen @matt und @johnonolan, da die Implementierungen in WriteFreely und Ghost, der von WordPress am nächsten kommen.
Das Social Web BOF („Birds of a Feather“) bot eine Stunde voller kurzer (10-minütiger) Vorträge. Ich hatte mir zwar etwas anderes darunter vorgestellt, aber auch diese Präsentationen waren unterhaltsam und interessant.
Bei den Social Web After Hours im HSBXL Hackerspace hatte ich die Gelegenheit, meinen Vortrag über WordPress zu halten – worüber ich mich natürlich sehr gefreut habe. Aber ehrlich gesagt, hätte es mir auch gereicht, die Zeit mit Gleichgesinnten zu verbringen und ein Bier zu trinken. 😉

Es war überwältigend, so viele Menschen zu treffen, die sich mit dem gleichen Thema beschäftigen. Ich habe nicht oft die Gelegenheit, mit Gleichgesinnten zu fachsimpeln, und habe die kurze Zeit daher umso mehr genossen!

Weil die meisten Fediverse-Events hauptsächlich in den USA stattfinden, konnte ich viele, deren Wirken im Open Web ich schon lange online verfolge, zum ersten Mal persönlich treffen!

Die meiste Zeit hab ich mich gefühlt wie ein kleiner Junge, der das erste Mal mit den großen und coolen Kids spielen darf 😍!

Balsam für meine Nerd-Seele!

Ich werde mich hüten, hier jetzt Namen aufzuzählen – aus Angst, jemanden zu vergessen.

Danke an @_elena fürs knipsen!

Ich glaube nicht, dass die FOSDEM selbst die richtige Konferenz für mich ist, aber mit den (Sub-)Events rund um das Fediverse, würde ich das nächste Jahr definitiv wieder kommen!

(Die Folien meiner Präsentation findet ihr übrigens hier)

Social Web Foundation

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

^{Social Web Foundation}

Evan Prodromou

2025-01-31 10:04:26

Social Web at FOSDEM

A quick update for people at #FOSDEM who are interested in the Fediverse. There are three main public events: the Social Web Devroom is a main track in room ua2118 from 3pm to 7pm Sat Feb 1. The Social Web BOF (“birds of a feather”) is on Sunday Feb 2 from 12pm to 1pm in . Finally, Social Web After Hours is on Sunday Feb 2 from 7pm to 9pm at HSBXL. And use the #SocialWebFOSDEM hashtag to track the community on the Fediverse!

Social Web After Hours at FOSDEM 2025
The Social Web Foundation and Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) are co-hosting an off-site event at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 2, 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00 local time. Social We…
^{Social Web Foundation}

#wordpress #fediverse #ghost #activitypub #writefreely #fosdem #nodebb #fosdem25 @Evan Prodromou @Andy Piper @Elena Rossini ⁂ @Matt Baer @John O'Nolan

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Social Web Foundation

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Social Web Foundation
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The Social Web Foundation announces its membership in the World Wide Web Consortium

SWF has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to advance open standards for the social web. Evan Prodromou will be SWF’s advisory council representative as he continues in his role as maintainer of the ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0 specificati

Extending and expanding the implementation of the ActivityPub is a core area of work for SWF. ActivityPub is the only open standard that can underpin a social web that is truly interoperable, fostering innovation and usability across social platforms like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Ghost, Threads, Flipboard and an increasing number of other online spaces.

The SWF and its founders have a history of engagement in the W3C. Evan was co-author on the Activity Streams 2.0 and ActivityPub specifications. As head of digital at ARTICLE 19 and later CTO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, I’ve engaged as both an invited technical expert and an advisory council member under CDT’s membership on topics related to technical standards and human rights issues.

The W3C Social Community Group is the primary

The W3C Social Community Group is the primary vehicle for ActivityPub extensions that provides a structured process for introducing new features and updating the existing specifications. The W3C CGs are open to anyone who would like to join and contribute.

SWF joins CDT as one of the few civil society organizations that comprise the Consortium. SWF’s membership in the W3C underscores our commitment to promoting an open and federated social web, and our alignment with the W3C mission to develop web standards through community consensus that ensures the long-term growth and accessibility of technical specifications that are openly licensed.

In terms of concrete ongoing work, we look forward to bringing end-to-end encryption to direct messages in ActivityPub, developing groups on the social web, supporting data portability with ActivityPub, making discovery of ActivityPub objects and their authors easier. We’ll participate in ongoing maintenance and development of the core standards. We’ll also work alongside the renowned experts in web accessibility, building with potential companies and organizations who might become SWF supporters, and serving as a voice for the public interest in this important forum for multistakeholder internet governance.

Clockwork via Solarpunk

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Clockwork
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I'm a solarpunk writer; here's my smallweb site with free stories and novels!

Hey solarpunks!

I'm Clockwork, an Italian solarpunk physicist, juggler and writer. I would like share my website with you; I've set it up two years ago with zero html knowledge and I have given it a new revamp recently. Since I write in English but the publishing system is extremely walled, I want to make myself known among likeminded people without selling my soul.

I write mostly solarpunk (you can check out the short story page and the Meteorina "saga" (three long stories, with a fourth one coming soon), but you can also find some Neolithic fantasy and scifi with community and resistance themes. All stories are FREE TO DOWNLOAD; there are no Amazon links and most files are interoperable and freely accessible. There is a donation button but I'd rather you enjoy these stories in a non-transactional way.

I hope you will find them interesting and possibly get inspired!

EDIT: I'm an idiot, here's the link! Thank you for pointing it out 😅

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grrgyle

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Where have you been hiding! I just checked out one of your solarpunk short stories (Martedì // Tuesday, thank you for writing and translating). I loved how much dialogue there was. I don't usually think of more "technical" minded people (like physicists) as being so focused on characters (we often focus on technology or systems), but that shows my prejudice I guess!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. :)

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Clockwork

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That's so flattering, thank you! 🥹

Your prejudice was half-right actually: tech and systems are what I really want to explore, but I use shorter stories as "experiment" to practice other aspect of storytelling too. After all, characters are the most powerful illusion spell on the reader!

What's going to be next:
- More Meteorina adventures (surely one on Elba, maybe one on Albanian shores considering the shitshow going on with the Italian govt nowadays? Some good old satire, why not)
- Kanteletar, the stories of a public digital library founded in 2067 across four centuries of climate, geopolitical and cultural upheavals

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Solarpunk Island

You are one of the passengers on a ship that has crashed onto an uninhabited island and have been given a section of the island to turn into your habitat. You have to start from scratch and build it in a way that respects nature and keeps all your necessities within a 15-minute walking distance.

Solarpunk Island

You are one of the passengers on a ship that has crashed onto an uninhabited island and have been given a section of the island to turn into your habitat.

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b161

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This though… why do we need a ruler?

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Steve

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Good catch and important question. That would be good feedback if there's a place to submit that. It's unfortunate they default to hierarchical structures and more collective aspects would definitely be more solarpunk.

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