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dessalines , to programmerhumor in What the developers of PHP were considering for their syntax. Just a reminder that the most hated programming language could have been so much worse.

Damn… inventing a web server programming language by just winging it.

ZaPHoN , to technology in Is an open secure instant messaging protocol not what is needed to allow any messaging app to communicate with any other, and to break the monopoly of Big Tech?

You should also have Session on that list

getsession.org

Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimizes sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance.

Session is an open-source, public-key-based secure messaging application which uses a set of decentralized storage servers and an onion routing protocol to send end-to-end encrypted messages with minimal exposure of user metadata. It does this while also providing common features of mainstream messaging applications

ozoned , to technology in Other Fediverse projects
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I use GoToSocial with Sempahore for my microblogging (alternative to Mastodon).

Also Owncast as an alternative to Twitch.

And then I watch tilvids.com and other Peertube instances for videos.

And of course Lemmy. :-D

Oh and then there’s Funkwhale for audio.

It’s all in different states of usability, depending on the communities involved.

sabret00the ,

I’m still waiting for a really good Peertube instance.

ozoned ,
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Understandable. But it’s the chicken and egg problem. Creators don’t want to create content, because there’s no consumers. Consumers don’t want to sign up, because there’s no creators.

So are you the chicken or the egg? :-D

If you’re on one you don’t like anymore you could always change instances and watch videos there. If you’re worried about losing comments, well you can comment from other Fediverse servers such as Mastodon or GoToSocial and they show up on the page for the video. :-)

sabret00the ,

You know what, Peertube needs the equivalent of an acquisition and the perfect candidates would be, and I’m on record saying this before, DailyMotion and Vimeo. They’ve already got content and by implementing activitiypub integration, they can grow their audiences and compete with YouTube for once and for all.

But yeah, for me. I haven’t even found a video to watch let alone comment. That said, my YouTube is generally me watching album reactions, music videos, Hot Ones, Adam Something and Beard Meats Food.

ozoned ,
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Nothing stopping Vimeo from plumbing in ActivityPun amd joining the Fediverse. It’s open and the only reason no one does is because the data is valuable and they don’t want to share and play nice.

These walled gardens were not how the internet was imagined.

TooLikeTheNope , to technology in Other Fediverse projects

Fediverse is well differentiated into many sites offering similar capabilities to their more well established commercial and proprietary counterpart, and as the time passes these federated alternatives quality is nearing practically the production level, apart from Mastodon and Lemmy which are the most known by now it is worth mentioning also PeerTube (Youtube), PixelFed (instagram), Misskey, Calckey and Pleroma (a mix between twitter and tumblr), HubZilla (facebook), FunkWhale(Bandcamp) and OwnCast (twitch).

Here some handy links:

joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page

www.fediverse.to

fediverse.party

HalJor , to technology in Other Fediverse projects
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Is/will there be a movie/TV equivalent of BookWyrm, something to track and discuss what you’ve been watching? A quick search tells me it’s been discussed and seems like something people want but it doesn’t look like it’s been done yet, at least not as a dedicated service. Is that right?

albert180 ,

AFAIK the problem is there is no good movie database which allows free use of their data

BobQuasit OP ,
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So what? We’ll create one!

Years ago the owners of GoodReads announced that Amazon had taken away their access to the Amazon book database. It was an existential threat, they said, and asked the GoodReads community to volunteer to create a new book database to replace Amazon’s. Hundreds or thousands of us worked for free, donating thousands or tens of thousands of hours to the project.

And then GoodReads announced that they’d sold out to Amazon. Apparently they’d been in negotiations with those bastards the whole time they were lying to us about losing access to the database. Maybe proving that they could sucker their loyal users into donating free labor helped raise the selling price of GoodReads a little.

As for the database we created, I guess it’s Amazon’s now. Of course, if we create a movie database of our own, NOBODY will be able to buy it! And we can make it available for free use, if we want.

Hexorg , to technology in Other Fediverse projects

Just a side note, ActivityPub protocol - the core engine that lets all of fediverse to talk to the rest of the fediverse is… 5 years old. Every feature imaginable is still to be implemented.

Faceman2K23 ,
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its kinda like MQTT for humans rather than machines.

Dymonika ,

Like what?

randomnick ,
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MQTT, a protocol so machines can talk between each other. Mainly for IoT devices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT

Dymonika ,

Thanks, never heard of this before!

SaltyIceteaMaker , to linux in TIL about /dev/full

My knowledge about useful/funny /dev files grows by the day…

I now know of: random & urandom, null, zero and now full…

Bouta make an infinity gauntlet meme of them

lambdabeta ,

Wait until you learn about the shell specific /dev “files” like /dev/udp and /dev/tcp (which can send/recv IP traffic as if from a file)!

CaptainTightpants , to linux in TIL about /dev/full

Maybe I can finally get my pull merged for /dev/grohl which just outputs random Foo Fighters lyrics.

schmonie , to linux in TIL about /dev/full

The bottom of that Wikipedia page has a reference to something else that sounded interesting called “/dev/mordor” in some Plan 9 OS fork called 9front. Sent me down a really interesting rabbit hole 9front.org

thedaemon ,
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9front is a great rabbit hole. Plus, Plan9’s mascot is Glenda, the rabbit.

Son_of_dad , to til in TIL that Yoko Ono created an experimental film called Self-Portrait. It's a 42 minute shot of John Lennon's semi-erect penis. It was shown once at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1969, and ha...

This lady is nuts. No talent and just seeks attention

s6original , to asklemmy in Why is a millennium old fossilised human poop on display at the Archaeological Resource Centre in the UK?
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That shit's so old.

borkcorkedforks , to asklemmy in Why is a millennium old fossilised human poop on display at the Archaeological Resource Centre in the UK?

Look man people just love old shit. Museums are full of it.

s_s , to asklemmy in Why is a millennium old fossilised human poop on display at the Archaeological Resource Centre in the UK?

We’ve finally found something truly worthy of staying in the British Museum.

exohuman , to til in TIL Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was a real stalker who sent Jackson multiple letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins, culminating in sending him a handgun and an invitation to a m...
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Eventually, Jackson received a parcel containing a photograph of the fan, a gun, and a letter instructing him to die at a particular time. The fan would do the same once she had killed "their" baby, so they could be together in the "next life". The Jacksons later discovered that the fan had been sent to a psychiatric hospital.

Wow. 😳

tpihkal , to til in TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die.

Recycled content from Reddit from a long time ago; but still interesting.

LemmyFeed ,

We gotta pump these lemmy numbers up! I’m here for the reposts for sure

Lemon_Rick ,

We’d all love more Lemmies in the banks,

So any ol’ content gets thanks

And we’ll yet raise a toast

To this weird old repost

'Bout a bug penis shooting all blanks

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