Erik Moeller @eloquence@social.coop
Professional:
Principal Project Manager, https://freedom.press
Personal:
https://lib.reviews and other free/open projects.
Opinions my own :-)
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
Good session about Mastodon + ActivityPub at #OpenSourceBridge (#osb18) -- touching on governance, alternative implementations like #Pleroma, new services like @pixelfed. Thanks to Aaron for notes:
At final #OpenSourceBridge in my hometown of Portland, Oregon (#osb18). Great unconference format, lots of interesting sessions coming up. They have a LibraryBox running (http://librarybox.us/) for sharing interesting resources with attendees - neat! :)
ActivityPubConf
A yearly online conference with presentations from AP developers and others, hosted on PeerTube and accessible to everyone. I think this will be my next project!
#Commons Camp 2018
from 22 to 26 August 2018 in Grenoble - France
The CommonsCamp aims to create a meeting place for French and European activists, commoners and municipalists for the transition based on the commons. in France and Europe.
More info here: https://frama.link/commonscamp2018-en
Sign-up here: https://ue2018.org/ (in French)
#introduction
Hey, everyone! I'm Coal. I'm a #LibertarianSocialist in #knoxville TN. I'm a member of a group trying to build cooperative movements, but in the workplace, and in the everyday lives of people.
TFW you accidentally load Twitter without uBlock Origin enabled and notice just what a horribly ad-polluted garbage experience it is for most users.
.@mhall119 is developing an ethical alternative to #MeetUp called #GetTogether.
There's already a flagship site up and running:
https://gettogether.community/
The dev is working on #ActivityPub support and is requesting feedback on what more needs to be done:
https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60
If you're interested in helping federate GetTogether, join the discussion at the link above.
Finished Catherine Nixey's excellent "The Darkening Age", about Christianity's violent role during the slow decline of the Roman Empire.
The Christianity of late antiquity was obsessed with demons and with sexual purity, no less fanatical than ISIS or the Taliban. Zealots burned books, smashed statues and temples, murdered non-Christians. Their targets were, in some cases, the exact same statues ISIS would obliterate so many centuries later.
Full review:
https://lib.reviews/review/6059bf20-981e-4bc5-9d06-b43877b01057
New book! Look forward to digging into it; like many dark chapters of human history, this one has been subjected to much revisionism and apologetics, and Nixey's book promises to be a lucid and thorough treatment.
I have a love/hate relationship with #Discourse. Some very nice, clean UI decisions, but so many annoying ones. URLs that change when you don't expect them to, a preview panel that looks like an editor, useless gamification. Every time I use it there's some small frustration that gets in the way.
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We played Night in the Woods on the #Switch the last few days. An engaging interactive story with themes of young adult fiction & mystery, very lovingly crafted. I recommend it. Full review:
https://lib.reviews/review/b9ac2598-1d6d-4452-9633-ce4012e0ccef
@Gargron Feature-related drama is never fun. Thanks for all your hard work to make Mastodon better for all of us. :)
I grew up with #PointAndClick adventure games, esp. the Sierra and LucasArts titles. This book looks gorgeous, just put in a pre-order:
https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/collections/all/products/the-art-of-point-click-adventure-games
I am now also on Pixelfed (see https://pixelfed.social/ - @pixelfed), the federated alternative to Instagram.
https://pixelfed.social/eloquence
Will occasionally upload hiking & travel pics :)
#introduction
Hi! I'm K4.
I took up hobby gardening and amateur botany as a way to put my open-source software job down sometimes... until I noticed that those things could go together in new and interesting ways. I've been building an open, highly-queryable plant/growing database that anyone can edit or help curate. Nothing really to show off yet (I'm up to my eyeballs in initial data imports rn), but there is a blog up at blog.plantdata.io with project updates.
/me waves enthusiastically
#introductions
Helooo,
I am a researcher in solar energy materials ( at present perovskites). Renewables are a necessity..isn't it ?
Other than that I love thinking about random stuff, watching movies, fixing stuff, travelling..etc
I use and advocate GNU/Linux and free software.
I follow socialism, marxism, openscience movements.
In Apple Mail, there is no protecting PGP-encrypted messages. Even with disabling remote content, GPGTools is vulnerable to EFAIL, and the only mitigation for now is to switch to Thunderbird/Enigmail, and disable viewing HTML emails
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/25/in-apple-mail-theres-no-protecting-pgp-encrypted-messages/