Brecht Savelkoul · 夏德明 @brecht@social.coop
developer, writer, other
digital: fingerish
computer: a mathematician
server: a waiter
proxy server: a waiter with his own waiter
desktop: the top of a desk
memory: recollection
web: spider’s taco wrap
web shop: business run by spider
tablet: clay slab
mouse: small rodent
mouse pad: single male mouse’s apartment
cloud service: airline steward
boot: a wellington
boot sector: a puddle
boot manager: a shoe rack
file: craftsman’s tool
file sharing: popular among craftsmen
pro tip: ".svg" is pronounced "savage"
Vaclav Smil, "Energy in World History"
"Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything:..."
Is there like a good _simple_ image editor for Linux? Something that won't take as long to load as GIMP, but can crop/resize/re-compress images and stuff?
This is a really cool open source project I've been checking out. Rapidly increasing user base and think of it as an "ad hoc social networking tool."
It's not a website fully. It's only an application though you can run instances of the site on public servers. But it can also just be run on a private network (like a corporate network).
All content is ONLY stored on local copies of the apps (collectively)...
A hairdresser crashed into my car earlier. I told her it was perfect, exactly what I wanted and I really liked what she did with the front.
This educational focus on individual heroism teaches people to dream of being the star, and not to do the difficult, often boring work of building a movement. The people who set up the phone trees, who organised carpooling, who made the coffee for everyone planning stuff. Those people are essential and their work is invisibilised as we're taught only the prominent people matter.
Am I the only one around here who thinks that #instances being choosy about their #federation is a good thing?
I thought the whole point of #Mastodon was to create the ability to (independent instances) and incentive to (competition for users) innovate ways to make enjoyable social spaces on the web.
Maybe you think that means strong #moderation or maybe you think that means #LaissezFaire. Great! Run your instance the way you want and let the users fall where they may.
A: let's make mastodon bigger than twitter
B: let's make mastodon much nicer than twitter instead and maybe realize that it doesn't need to have millions of users to be "successful"
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