ralphtheninja @ralph@social.weho.st

Looking forward to the Software Libre Meeting in #Strasbourg, on Saturday I will talk about software freedom in the cloud at the #FSFE track. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018 #RMLL #FreeSoftware #cloud

@andrioid with great power comes great 'oh-fuck' moments

The Game of Life implemented in The Game of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

signal-boosting
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
‏ @DIAL_community
Jun 19

.@DIAL_Community’s Open Source Center announces new Strategic Grants to support #T4D #opensource projects. These grants support solutions to common challenges that projects face when implementing #FOSS products. Read more: https://bit.ly/2lnOOy9 #ICT4D #ICTD #FreeSoftware #HFOSS
https://digitalimpactalliance.org/the-digital-impact-alliance-open-source-center-announces-strategic-grants-to-foster-ecosystem-change/

.@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.

#Alternatives

The introduction of Lisp is closer to 1899 than to present day.

Web+

My new site progressively enhances the centralised Web with peer-to-peer functionality using the DAT protocol. It’s a Web+ site: a little bridge between the centralised Web and the Peer Web.

Peer web: dat://ar.al/2018/06/26/web+/

Centralised web: https://ar.al/2018/06/26/web+/ https://mastodon.ar.al/media/1dw4DNXcAmY6TRvoRxY

If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years

The CEO of PostNord should, in addition to being dipped in tar and rolled in feathers at high noon, be made to wear a tutu and dance while singing "I will not fuck my customers over" until passing out from exhaustion.

Yoga with Momma

Are you a programmer that struggles with imposter-syndrome?
- In a field this broad, everyone is an imposter in some way
- Own it and keep learning. Nobody knows everything.
- Help others learn. It's a great way to solidify what you already know.
- Chin up 🙂

A quick update/heads-up on the Dell XPS pricing issue:

Thanks to multiple interventions by https://twitter.com/@barton808, the price of the new Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu is now cheaper than the equivalent Windows version on the Irish store (https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/laptops/new-xps-13/spd/xps-13-9370-laptop/cnx37014).

(Just yoinked one for €1,948.99 inc. VAT and delivery using a €120 discount that ends today. The price previously for the same machine was over €3K) https://mastodon.ar.al/media/6zifMuAXjuSAlmsam2g

Webtorrent (Bittorrent over WebRTC) is absolutely amazing: https://webtorrent.io/

I was wondering how Peertube (https://joinpeertube.org) could hope to scale at all; this is the answer. For popular content, this will work.

The long tail is harder. But this is a HUGE step in the right direction. Very cool!

I'm working on an ActivityPub guide website for coders & non-coders! It's something I wish existed before I started pixelfed.

Stop. Dance party!