Thought I’d share some context before you commit yourself to an almost 2 hour documentary:
I came across this documentary when reading up on Aaron Swartz during the recent events on Reddit. Aaron is one of the co-founders of Reddit but was also involved with Markdown, RSS, Creative Commons and the list goes on…
Aaron got himself in trouble by downloading large numbers of scientific papers from JSTOR. Eventually, he killed himself in 2013 when facing a potential 35 year sentence in jail.
A few months ago the police also arrested activists from Extinction Rebellion in the Netherlands for planning to block a highway in the Hague. The activists were not allowed to enter the highway according to the police.
It actually generated a lot of media attention and many people came to protest and block the highway anyways. Meanwhile, the court has ruled that the activists have the right to protest, even on the highway.
Wish the website was a bit more “portable”, the fonts produce different results on every browser I tried. I suspect the intended target was chrome.
There’s a variation on smudged ink look on webkit based browsers, and Firefox just ignores the fonts and uses a different set :D
I recently build an old plugin for Bukkit (Minecraft server software) from source. This plugin had several dependencies on other plugins which also had their own dependencies. Of course many of these plugins (as well as the server software itself) does not build out of the box anymore.
I found that some stuff is archived on Archive.org, but also many plugins are archived on Discord. Apart from the danger of Discord disappearing, it is already hard to find these channels and thus keeping many people from finding the knowledge they need.
Interesting, that’s highlighted something. So they’re using all the users RSS subscriptions to provide analytics for businesses? Other posts by the same author: https://blog.feedly.com/author/gaby/
I think it would be great if there was a fediverse alternative to Github which allows you to interact with projects on other instances. I know in principle git is decentralized but there is also the issue tracker, wiki and whole user management system.
When you think about it, we already have it. It’s called email. It’s exactly what sourcehut is trying to propose: no need for a new federation, just use the existing one.
I wish there was an active and maintained for of Hexchat. It’s so good.
Forks are encouraged, be the change you want to see in the world! :^)
Start with this if you don’t feel like reading a 103-page master thesis. :^)
Feel free to share your creations!
I’ll start:
[[[[[[[[CCFCFCFCFCFCFCFR]]RR]]R]R]R]]I haven’t read the instructions yet, but I think this is really cool.
There is also an informative video: https://youtu.be/_k0aKM68Xl4
This website is a bit weird in how it works with this story and the url. You can start reading the entire thing here: https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-cafes/
I think there are way too many tags and a lot of them are very specific. Maybe we can remove most of them and add a misc/other tag.
I vaguely recall someone mentioned outright removal wasn’t support but no objection.
The original thread: https://tilde.news/s/rgyvwp/meta_moderation_on_tilde_news
Missed chance to put a picture of a bee on that book cover…
“This video contains content from Lasso Group, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds” :/
Oh, that’s stupid…
Try this: https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
Cool, thanks :)
Thought I’d share some context before you commit yourself to an almost 2 hour documentary:
I came across this documentary when reading up on Aaron Swartz during the recent events on Reddit. Aaron is one of the co-founders of Reddit but was also involved with Markdown, RSS, Creative Commons and the list goes on…
Aaron got himself in trouble by downloading large numbers of scientific papers from JSTOR. Eventually, he killed himself in 2013 when facing a potential 35 year sentence in jail.
Better link: mynor.org/my4th_forthdeck.htm
A few months ago the police also arrested activists from Extinction Rebellion in the Netherlands for planning to block a highway in the Hague. The activists were not allowed to enter the highway according to the police.
It actually generated a lot of media attention and many people came to protest and block the highway anyways. Meanwhile, the court has ruled that the activists have the right to protest, even on the highway.
That’s a great piece of pixelart and a great website style too. I love it!
Wish the website was a bit more “portable”, the fonts produce different results on every browser I tried. I suspect the intended target was chrome. There’s a variation on smudged ink look on webkit based browsers, and Firefox just ignores the fonts and uses a different set :D
It looks pretty much identical on my Firefox compared to Chromium, except for the font size since Firefox just refuses to render text that small.
I recently build an old plugin for Bukkit (Minecraft server software) from source. This plugin had several dependencies on other plugins which also had their own dependencies. Of course many of these plugins (as well as the server software itself) does not build out of the box anymore.
I found that some stuff is archived on Archive.org, but also many plugins are archived on Discord. Apart from the danger of Discord disappearing, it is already hard to find these channels and thus keeping many people from finding the knowledge they need.
wow, been fortunate so far that I haven’t hit that scenario but that it is worrying.
Aaaaand it’s gone… or maybe not?!
Interesting, that’s highlighted something. So they’re using all the users RSS subscriptions to provide analytics for businesses? Other posts by the same author: https://blog.feedly.com/author/gaby/
I think it would be great if there was a fediverse alternative to Github which allows you to interact with projects on other instances. I know in principle git is decentralized but there is also the issue tracker, wiki and whole user management system.
Seems like the folks at Gitea and Forgejo are working on this: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
When you think about it, we already have it. It’s called email. It’s exactly what sourcehut is trying to propose: no need for a new federation, just use the existing one.
I was not aware, that’s pretty cool!
https://git-send-email.io/ (to contribute/send patches)
and, on https://sr.ht/ you can open tickets/reply to them/participate in mailing-lists without opening an account, only by sending an email.