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Éibhear, 2022-12-12 20:09:00 GMT
The following is an edited version of a proposal I wrote for the Bluesky Community, now called the dSocialCommons, back in February 2022.
I'm reproducing it here to make it easy for me to share.
This document lays out concerns for "self hosters" of services that contribute to the decentralised or #fediverse. At present, these concerns are not addressed in any … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-11-25 17:08:00 GMT
Social Gibiris is back online. \o/
It has been a while.
Back in 2015, I set up a GNU Social instance on an AWS server, accessible at the address social.gibiris.org, very much to learn about both. Because GNU Social was software for federated microblogging, I hooked up with a lot of like-minded people from all around the world, and from whom I learned a lot about self-hosting of services and the fediverse … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-09-28 19:06:00 IST
As is likely to be obvious to readers of this web site, also called a "blog", I am a big fan of GNU/Emacs and, particularly, org-mode.
I use org-mode for all my writings, and all my information analyses. The posts and pages of this web site are all written with org-mode. My CV is prepared in org-mode before being converted to … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-08-26 17:01:00 IST
I encountered two interesting conversations on twitter today, leading me to the conclusion that we won't be able to comprehensively deal with disinformation online any time soon.
The first is the following from Tadhg Hickey:
If you can't read that screen-grab, this is what he says:
Not telling you kids what to do, but I stopped engaging with
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Éibhear, 2022-08-23 19:13:00 IST
In November 2021, David Quinn tweeted the following:
I quote-tweeted a response to that, and I am including it here, in slightly-edited form, to make sure it's preserved.
I first heard of Climate Change (then called Global Warming) in 1981/2, while I was still in primary school.
I first heard of the Y2K problem … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-08-22 20:03:00 IST
In 2020, I was working for a consultancy company on a team delivering a major change for a government client. We were a tight-knit team, and enjoyed working together.
A tradition was for one or another (or a third) team member to post into the chat system a link to a Youtube video, which would be the "song for the day" to give us energy. It didn't happen every day; maybe once or twice a week.
I never posted anything, though, and … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-02-10 06:49:00 GMT
As mentioned elsewhere on this site, I run a number of services myself. A couple of them are hosted by my hosting provider, Blacknight, and the rest are hosted in my own home. Some definitions of the term "self-hosting" would exclude those services hosted by the ISP (this site, and my e-mail service), but given that I am the administrator of both and decide how each is used … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-01-28 11:15:00 GMT
I have, at last, turned on comments for this blog. The comment policy for the site can be reviewed here.
If you have any feedback, please let me know (in the comments, if you wish!). … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-01-27 07:00:00 GMT
I've just joined an interesting, open project, and they are – at the moment – using GitHub to manage their collaboration across a geographically diverse membership.
The thing is – and I know this will be a surprise to some, and totally not a surprise to others – I don't have a login for GitHub, despite being an avid coder and promoter of FLOSS since a time long before any of GitHub or git or subversion were twinkles in their respective daddies' eyes.
Initially, I had … [more >>]
Éibhear, 2022-01-21 06:24:00 GMT
This post is a long-time coming, and it may be too late, but I wanted to note what I did in case it's useful for others. It describes how I prepared my use of matrix-synapse for the deprecations, first of earlier versions of python, and then of PostgreSQL 9.5 and 9.6.
The quick and the short of the actions are:
