Ieri in una conversazione scaturita dall’osservazione (non mia) di come possedere un “portatile Linux” (cioè, pensato e venduto con GNU+Linux; no, credo che nessuno di loro venga con distro non-GNU) sia sofferenza e miseria, perché a quanto dicono hanno sempre strani difetti di driver che non dovrebbero, e difetti hardware spettacolari (rest in piss Framework owners)… ho detto una cosa per scherzare, ma seriamente. Il tablet #Android medio, su cui si fa girare “Linux desktop” in modi più o meno ortodossi, ammesso di avere una tastiera fisica add-on decente, potrebbe essere un laptop Linux migliore di… boh, qualsiasi; a parte il Mac M1, credo. 😡️

In effetti così è imbrogliare, perché Android usa (una versione malata de) il kernel #Linux, quindi la parte desktop dell’equazione è tutta #userspace, e quindi o funziona o non funziona (funziona), vie di mezzo scomode non ce ne sono. Chrome OS sarebbe ancora più imbrogliare, perché quello in effetti è un semplicemente un sistema #desktop Linux un po’ malato, ma… chi fa i laptop Chrome OS? Esatto, gli stessi OEM che fanno i laptop Windows, che quando non hanno problemi di driver (cosa già rara) hanno sempre, e dico sempre, problemi hardware, o almeno compromessi… tablet Android da 100 euro avranno sempre uno schermo migliore di portatili Windows da 500 euro, quindi facciamo finta che non esistano proprio. 👻️

Vabbe, io la tastiera fisica ideale per #tablet non la ho, ma di tablet Adrod ne ho (anche troppi), quindi perché non fare un #esperimento??? Avendo l’urgio di spendere il mio tempo in modo poco saggio stasera, mi sono messa a configurare XFCE sul mio Galaxy Tab S6 Lite; ricordo che XFCE non è il desktop scrauso che tutti credono, ha semplicemente un tema default #scrauso, e una configurazione che su touch screen lasciamo perdere. Dopo un po’ di valutazioni, ho innanzitutto pompato i DPI custom a 168, per rendere il testo leggibile e le hitbox della UI toccabili, pur non volendo scalare tutta l’interfaccia a 2x (troppo grossa), o usare scaling frazionale (pupù cacca tutto sbleurrato), ingrandito di 2 punti tutti i font, e installato il materia-gtk-theme come stile GTK, mentre ho messo Arc-Darker, fork HiDPI, per XFWM (altrimenti, barre del titolo troppo piccole, mi sentivo a disagio). Tocchi finali: trasparenzine del compositor, singolo click per aprire elementi sul desktop e nel gestore di file, e il pannello in alto fissato a 64px di altezza, con icone belle toccabili e niente testo inutile. 💯️
Quindi ora che si fa con ‘sto coso? …non lo so. Almeno, a casa col PC non lo so, ma fuori gli utilizzi sono molteplici, con tutte le app produttive che su Android non ci sono (o hanno versioni brutte), mentre su Linux avoja (inclusi programmi o giochi Windows, scomodando strati di compatibilità vari). A proposito di giochi… “come fai a fare gamin’ se lagga persino lo scrolling in Firefox e la riproduzione di YouTube?” Semplice, installando virgl, anziché tenere llvmpipe, che è il peggior emulatore di driver video dell’universo ma stranamente è sempre quello default su ogni cosa Linux. 🪨️
Ora qualcuno dirà pure… “cosa ma #XFCE sul tablet?” Si regà, basta, è un ambiente desktop meno stupido di quanto sembri… come si vede nel video ha pure il tiling ai bordi dello schermo, e ricorda persino lo stato massimizzato delle #finestre quando una app viene riaperta (cosa a cui non vorrei rinunciare su tablet). Certo vorrei anche magari le finestre con bordi di ridimensionamento più grossi, pensandoci, cosa che però pare un vero casino (con guide che indicano file da modificare che nei miei temi non ci sono), e che mi sa non riuscirò a quagliare… ma alla fine non è vitale, avendo pure il pennino. ✨️

…Ah no? Giusto, qualcuni diranno “cosa ma XFCE sul tablet? in che modo, come hai fatto“… non c’ho tempo di spiegarlo, dopo anni e anni la pazienza non ce l’ho più. Su questo blog cinese dalla grafica rilassante ci sono guide molto efficienti al Linuxaggio sugli Androidi, tra cui come installare #Debian in #Termux (virtualmente obbligatorio, le repo di Termux hanno 2 app desktop in croce) e avere subito tutto funzionante, tra cui video, audio, e la scorciatoia home per avviare tutto in 1 click… si noti solo che io sudo l’ho settato in modo meno complicato, e l’emulazione del mouse di Termux:X11 l’ho messa a “Direct touch”, che con gli aggiustamenti di prima è perfetto, e in tutte le app GTK3/4 funge lo scrolling naturale e la selezione del testo come se fosse antani nativo… ivonblog.com/en-us/posts/termu… 🙏️
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“grab my pussy,” diapers, maxipads on ears, and now Vance sample jars

Let’s talk about those horrible JD Vance semen-sample jars for a moment, because it’s weird – holy crap it’s weird, it’s Monseur Boeuf Le Tet let’s go to Mexico and found a UFO religion weird – but it’s also gross and violent in whole new ways.

And yeah, I said violent. I meant it. Walk with me.

So. If you don’t know, Republican/MAGA cultists are going around with medical sample jars containing fake semen. They’re labelled JD Vance Full Family Kits.

Yes, really. But they’re not weird.

If you ask them, they’ll tell you it’s for Democrats. Democrats who can’t have kids, which means even on the surface level, this is exactly as gross and mean as it appears. They’re mocking people who can’t have children but want to, and echoing the Christian Nationalist line that a family isn’t a real family if they don’t have children, as well as JD Vance’s line in particular that if you don’t have biological children you aren’t a real woman.

But if you dig a little deeper, it’s even worse than that.

You see, once again, this is something that comes out of American fundamentalist cults. These items are talismans of their beliefs. Sure, they’re nasty sneers aimed at strangers they’ve chosen to degrade and hate, but they’re also talismans of their religious beliefs.

And there are two obvious meanings to this talisman. First is the statement, just below the surface, that if you can’t get pregnant by your weak Democrat – who naturally isn’t really actually a man since he’s not MAGA – then don’t worry, JD Vance is our God-Emperor’s apprentice. Therefore, he is a real man, and will be able to get you properly pregnant like you want to be, just like any Real Man could.

The second is uglier.

The second is a promise. A promise being made to women who don’t want children. And that promise is, we will make you pregnant like you should be, bitch.

I was going to write about JD Vance’s style of misogyny vs. Trump’s style of misogyny soon, but I guess I’ll talk about it here and now, because this is a manifestation of it.

Trump’s style of misogyny is the sort that doesn’t outright hate women, it just doesn’t think of women as adults. Women aren’t responsible, women in general can’t be trusted to make the right decisions in general, but occasionally, you get one that proves themselves, similarly to a bright child or trustworthy teenager. You can bring those on and grant them with responsibility, much like you might trust a properly-raised child. They just should never be in actual charge; a man must be the actual boss, because you need an actual adult – always a man – at the top.

Plus there’s the sex, of course. That’s important. And babies, also important. But when all is said and done, select women can be treated as mostly people too. Not quite full people, of course, but – mostly people.

JD Vance’s misogyny is much, much meaner. JD Vance’s misogyny – and the misogyny of his entire cult – deeply hates women. Deeply, as in, deeply resents our necessity for sex and childbirth deeply, as in, wishes we didn’t have to be here.

Given that, then if women must be around, it must be only for the purposes of reproduction and childcare, and okay, sex. Also, they should serve their superiors – men – since that’s useful and right too.

JD Vance has pretty much come out and said this, with his commentary about only families with children being real families and the only purpose of post-menopausal women being to raise kids.

And if you’re in a society that permits women not to have and raise children, then maybe you’re not in a righteous society at all. So they intend to fix that, by making damn well sure you have those kids and you raise those kids and that’s it, because that is, after all, your only valid purpose.

And so, this carrying around the talisman of Vance, this symbolic manhood of Vance, this statement that “it’s for Democrats” and a “full family kit?” It’s absolutely a promise. It is a symbolic promise to make unmarried and/or childless woman into literal Handmaiden’s Tale handmaidens.

They will make you fulfil your only valid purpose.

Most of them are probably not fully conscious this is what they’re promising. A lot of them are just in the cult, and the cult is doing this, so naturally, they are as well.

But some of them know.

Take a look at this guy and go ahead. Look at that incel sneer. Tell me he doesn’t know what he’s promising.

I dare you.

He knows.

78 days remain.

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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 80

A British migration wave from X to Bluesky, Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, and more.

The News

Bluesky has seen a new migration wave away from X towards Bluesky, which consists predominantly of people from the UK. The move comes as Labour MPs begin quitting X, as The Guardian reports, as Musk feuds with the UK government over recent riots in the UK, per Reuters. Quite a few MPs have signed up for Bluesky, here is a starter pack with all MPs that are on Bluesky. In the UK press issues with X have become a subject of conversation again. It is clear that in the perspective of the UK press there are two alternatives to X, either Threads or Bluesky. Mastodon mostly does not get mentioned at all, and neither has Mastodon experienced any meaningful change in signup numbers during this period. The FORbetter newsletter takes a look at Google trends data which also shows that it is all Threads and Bluesky, with Mastodon missing the boat. What is also notable about this Bluesky migration wave is that it is spread out quite far in time, and less spiky. Previous waves (such as when an Indonesian community or the BTS ARMY joined Bluesky) tend to have a very big spike at the beginning which then quickly dies down: in this case, an increase started almost two weeks ago, which plateaued a week later with multiple days staying at the same level. This all indicates a more steady and consistent interest from the UK in Bluesky.

Flipboard has expanded their fediverse integration, and with the latest update you can follow people from the rest of the fediverse in the Flipboard app. Flipboard is now getting close to full two-way federation, as some accounts can also like and reply to other fediverse posts with their Flipboard account. Some more reporting by WeDistribute and The Verge on the feature. Flipboard is heavily leaning on federated Threads accounts for the new feature: 80% of the accounts that were recommended to me by Flipboard are Threads accounts. On the flip side, Flipboard does not seem to be particularly focused on Bluesky, with no (bridged) accounts recommended, and the account for Bluesky board member Mike Masnick is his Mastodon account, and not his more active Bluesky account.

An observation about Bluesky: one thing that interests me about Bluesky is how some of the experimental new features that are implemented find traction not in their original intended use case, but get repurposed by the community for another goal instead. Third party labeling is implemented by Bluesky as a way to do community labeling, but as good moderation is hard to do (and the most prominent labelers have called it quits). Instead, a different use case for labeling is emerging: self-labeling: setting your pronouns, country flags, or your fursona. Another emergent use case is for starter packs, which have gotten low usage during regular periods (with more use during migration sign-up waves), which seem to be more used as a Follow-Friday list.

The Links

• WeDistribute writes about ‘The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing’.
• Mastodon’s monthly engineering update, Trunk & Tidbits. Andy Piper, Mastodons Developer Relations Lead, writes a personal blog post on the series as well.
• Fediverse Trust and Safety: The Founding and Future of IFTAS.
• Piefed’s monthly development update, with an indication that the software is almost ready for an official 1.0 release.
• Ghost’s weekly update says that they are still working on having the posts show up on Mastodon reliably.
• Dhaaga is a cross-platform app for both Mastodon and Misskey.
• Altmetric is a product to track academic research being discussed online, and they announced that they are working on adding Bluesky support.
• Bluesky engineer Brian Newbold wrote an update on the current state of atproto and how much progress is made regarding reaching the goals and values of atproto.
• A research paper that looks at the impact of Bluesky’s opening to the public on the community.
• The third episode of WordPress.com’s video series on the fediverse, on how the fediverse can make social media fun again, talking with Mammoth’s co-creator Bart Decrem.
• A new app directory dedicated to ActivityPub platforms, clients, and tools for easy browsing and discovery.
• A new blog series by the mod team of the hachyderm.io server to explain Mastodon moderation tooling.
• Hubzilla, Streams and Friendica creator Mike Mcgirvin continues his tradition of forking his own projects; with Forte being a new fork of his Streams project. Not much is known yet about what makes Forte different than Streams.
• ‘5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people’.
• Pipilo is a fediverse iOS app with a timeline that scrolls horizontal instead of vertical.
• A first federated instance of NodeBB that is not run by NodeBB themselves, and the difficulty of explaining the concept to people outside of the fediverse.
• A presentation by Robert W. Gehl on how ActivityPub became a standard.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!

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One of my freelance roles at the moment is as Developer Relations lead on the Mastodon project. It is a project and platform I’m really passionate about – I use it every day, it is Open Source and based on an open standard, and I strongly feel that federated platforms like this are the key to enabling everyone to own their own content, networks, and experiences beyond the direct reach of commercial interests.

At this stage in its history, Mastodon would I think count as an established and mature OSS project. It has been around since 2016, there are over 10,000 running instances / servers with the software, and over a million regular active users of the platform (plus, it interoperates with a much wider set of other platforms in the Fediverse, and carries posts and content from them as well. There are a number of large repositories that make up the GitHub organisation. There’s a – in my opinion – healthy and diverse set of third party apps that plug in to the network.

One of the things that some folks would say that the project has not always been great at, is communicating with the broader developer community. My own observation is that this is a large and widely-deployed codebase, and at a certain scale, stability and reliability become paramount, and it can be less straightforward to accept pull requests for new features (over prioritising security reports, for example). It is a small team supporting this project, largely underfunded1 if you look at the need to maintain the code, and to pay at least some of the folks involved to work on things full-time so that they can get by day-to-day, and that the core functionality gets the attention it deserves. When you’re coding, you may not have time to do other things like writing documentation, discussing roadmaps, and answering general questions – that’s partly where I come in, but even then, I still need to get help from the core developers to understand some of the questions…

I started working part-time with the core Mastodon team last year, with the goal to improve the experience for developers building on the platform, and also to bring my experience in working with diverse OSS projects and communities to support the Mastodon core team. As an example, last year I overhauled the existing list of known third party API libraries on the documentation site, and also updated the third party client apps page. Towards the start of this year, we started to make a few choices to improve the cadence and – I hope – quality of our external conversations further: we brought the whole team to meet the community at FOSDEM for the first time, for instance, which was a big step for the project.

Visit us at #FOSDEM, building H, level 1! You can say hi to our team or tell us what you’d like to see in Mastodon next. Mugs, t-shirts, enamel pins, and even free stickers available! #Merchtodon

— Mastodon (@Mastodon) 2024-02-03T08:56:41.576Z

Eugen and I also had the opportunity to meet with a few folks working on related Fediverse projects, as well as some Mastodon contributors and instance owners, during a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area back in May.

In the last 4 months, Renaud (the Mastodon CTO) and I have been collaborating on an engineering blog series called Trunk & Tidbits. We both strongly believe that explaining what we are working on is an important element in building greater engagement and community around the project. I chose the title for the series as (what I thought was) a clever play on words, but maybe you need to be old enough to remember when source control systems like CVS used “trunk” as in tree trunk as terminology, that we now tend to call “main” in the world of Git! The name is supposed to point to the blog series content being about what we have worked on and merged into the trunk of the code, and some “tidbits” or bits and pieces of other news from around the developer community – plus, of course, our mascot The Mastodon has a trunk of its own… 🦣 😄

Here are links to the April, May, and June posts, if you are interested. We post retrospectively, looking back at progress each month.

One thing to note from these past editions is that I also posted a completely rewritten and overhauled Contributing guide in the past couple of months (mentioned in Trunk & Tidbits); this lives at the organisation-level in our GitHub setup, and is intended as the main starting point if you want to contribute to the code.

Today, we published the July edition of Trunk & Tidbits. tl;dr we’re a bit behind where we had hoped to be towards releasing the next version of Mastodon, v4.3 – but we are really close to getting the beta out, and the “delay”2 is because of some feedback and performance improvements identified in early testing on our own instances, so we’re hoping that when the beta is released, things should be in quite good shape.

I’m hoping that with more regular communications via the blog; interactions with the community via the Fediverse itself and at events (I’ll once again be at Fediforum in September, for example); one-to-one conversations; and a willingness to engage in more conversations where time and resources allow – we can help folks to feel more informed about what we’re working on. It is still a small core team, and it is a busy time as the Fediverse grows… we need to keep things running, stable, and reliable… and there are always going to be features and changes that we cannot get to, or requests we cannot support at short notice… but I can assure you that it is a team effort, we discuss what’s possible, and that, I believe, we’re moving things forward3.

That’s all a personal perspective on what I’ve found, in working with the Mastodon project and team. Let me know if you have feedback on the Trunk & Tidbits series, as I’d love to keep improving these posts, and learning from the folks that read them.

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1. I am also pretty happy with the fact that the project has made a conscious decision to not go down a road of accepting capital investment, and remains a not-for-profit funded by donations. YMMV, this is a personal opinion. ↩︎
2. Note “delay” against an undated release schedule; the release will ship when it is ready to ship. ↩︎
3. A footnoted mea culpa / things I personally wish were better if I had more time on the project / there was more scope for them more quickly! I’d prefer it if there was a machine-parseable API specification, and that more Fediverse formats / standards / protocols might be supported in future, and that the developer documentation was even more complete and nicer and better etc etc.. Hopefully, we’ll get nearer to some of those in the future, as time and resources allow. ↩︎

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