tech
Sunday, February 16, 2025 →
Thank God for being able to nerd out and take my mind off things for a bit.
#homelab upgrades making for a productive Sunday.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
The bridge has been built and the switch has been turned on! Even though there was a lotof struggle and strife, arguments, and knockdown-drag-outs, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org, AKA Ryan Barrett persevered by taking into account everyone's opinions on what a cross-fediverse bridge between the ActivityPub powered landscape dominated by Mastodon and the ATProto protocol that powers BlueSky. It's important to many people including myself that all networks in what I call the Open Social Media Services (OpenSNS) collection of decentralized federated networks be able to talk and interact with each other; else we might as well just go on creating big-ass tech silos that eventually will wall people off based on pre-existing factors like ethnicity, geography, culture at best and/or consolidate power to just one group of people or companies at worse.
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
As a few-times reporter in the bustling world of full-time journalism, I found solace and expression through my personal blogging. The keyboard was my faithful companion as I clickity-clacked out my thoughts, observations, and narratives. Back then, my blog was not merely an online diary; it was a sanctuary where I unwound the string of my day-to-day musings and expressed the long-form versions well before 240 character limited social media sites were a thing.
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Per this post, I’m testing some ways to embed Bluesky posts into my Wordpress powered site here. As I find other ways, I’ll add them here.
Simple Blog Card using a shortcode and plugin: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/k…"]
Bluesky.lol snippet creation using javascript:
Skyview.social snippet creation using iframes:
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things:
The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the macrocosm known as "human civilization" reflects upon it. Sometimes the victims will become the victimizers in any given situation, usually without them being aware of it. Upon pointing it out to said type above, instead of working to acknowledge and understand, they will double-down under the guise of righteousness, again unwittingly using the exact playbook that they had been persecuted under at some point in the past.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Bluesky has opened up and requires no waitlist now, so if you were searching for a Twitter alternative, then here you go:
[simpleblogcard url="bsky.social/about/blo…"]
Once registered, find me here:
[simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/s…"]
For reference:
Feature Bluesky ActivityPub/Mastodon Other SNS Decentralization Yes Yes No Open-Source Yes Yes No Account Portability Yes (ATProto was designed with this in mind.) Yes (but it varies with the app/site you're working with No Moderation community based community based Centralized Focus Text, photo (video on roadmap) Various Varies Customization High Very high None Access Just made public Most instances public but some are not.
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
Let me get right to the point:
I want a way to use my space on Craft.do as a blog. I love using Craft as my space to outline and organize and it ticks all the boxes Tantek raises about capturing all the thoughts surrounding a good post first, then publishing it later after refining. It literally is the place where it all happens, negating a whole bunch of extra steps.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
It has started:
Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗 I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in order to gain more traction and usage.
Understand that ActivityPub itself is a protocol not unlike IMAP and HTTP under the W3C.
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
Its_happening.exe just got loaded!
Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association,” an Apple spokesperson tells 9to5Mac. “We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.” Now whether that means I can go and become a black sheep by adding an Android phone into my very iPhone carrying family’s group chat on iMessage is up for debate, but just being able to have richer green bubble convos is a good first start finally.
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Monday, November 13, 2023
A rollover event is about to take place and geeks, nerds and neckbeards around the world will be refreshing their datecommands tomorrow evening to check out the counter tick over from 1699999999 to a cool 1700000000 seconds. The current Unix epoch time as I slave over a hot keyboard is: Unix date epoch time is a way of measuring time that counts the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 at midnight UTC time, not counting leap seconds.
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Monday, October 30, 2023
I want to jump into the world of ortho keyboards and start trying to learn a more ergonomic key layout. I happen to have a small foldable bluetooth keyboard that is around a 40% size, is regular QWERTY layout but only has 60 keys so there's a Fn later that puts some of the symbols, all the F keys and media scroll keys on a different layer. I'm kind of used to using it after 6 years and realized "
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