Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

Oh! The Yaks You Will Shave!

Esteemed Followers,

sorry!
I forgot if you are more into the federated social web or tinkering on websites, so:
Why not both?

#activitypub
Social CG meeting 16:00 UTC
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/2020-11-14-meeting/1128

#indieweb
IndieWebCamp East SAT/SUN
https://2020.indieweb.org/east

I'm giving a co-op related political action software freedom talk tomorrow @ #SeaGL2020 @SeaGL

related to @snowdrift Snowdrift.coop

https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2020/program/proposals/796

#softwarefreedom #collective-action #public-goods

RISC-V emulator for 8051. Such a beautiful hack. https://GitHub.com/cyrozap/rv51

OMG, @mairin is about to keynote at @SeaGL !!! https://seagl.org/watch/

Your periodic reminder that you can pay $89 a month to license music from Magnatune's library.

http://ilicensemusic.com/

And you can pay a one-time fee of $299 for non-commercial access.

http://magnatune.com

I say this because apparently the RIAA et al are treating music like a weapons-grade munition and are cracking down on unauthorized usage in the streaming era.

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/11/12/008218/twitch-says-its-in-talks-to-license-music-tells-users-to-delete-videos-with-unauthorized-tracks

#music #twitch #ccmusic

Corker of a line from https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic01.html

“And the story of computation has been about the evolution of this very novel and peculiar form of human expression we call code. I suspect being a programmer in the 21st century must be like what being a royal scribe was like in Ancient Egypt in 3200 BCE. There’s this new modality of communication that most of the population is unaware of, yet it’s existence simultaneously enables commerce, culture and civilization to flourish.”

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Oregon exploding whale.

The Oregon Historical Society has realized the importance of this historical event and released a HD REMASTERED version of the video, taken from the original 16mm film!!!!

https://www.ohs.org/blog/beached-whale-blow-up.cfm

I found a Danish TV show that doesn’t have English #subtitles. I really want to share it with English-speaking friends. Is there any way to put my own subtitles over the existing video? Would be grateful for any suggestions. https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/sommeren-der-aendrede-mit-liv_202021

Today at noon ET I'll be leading a webinar with my colleague Johanna Bates on the topic of Consentful UX - which we see as an antidote to the coercive, invasive design patterns we see so often on the web.

It's free to attend. Here are the details

https://design4drupal.org/webinar-series

#LibreUX #UX

New artwork :)! I've created the cover art for Marc Laidlaw's "Underneath the Oversea". 🐠 ⭐
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Underneath-the-Oversea-Cover-Art-860881919
#art #illustration #mastoart #coverart

I want to keep an offline copy of a bunch of developer docs and reference PDFs on my home server and make it searchable.

Not sure where to look for a solution to this. I really don't think a full blown search engine and crawler makes sense for local files.

but most of the 'local'/'desktop' file search services (like baloo) don't have any sort of remote API AFAICT.