Proper Video, From An ESP32
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Proper Video, From An ESP32
Back in the day a miniature television, probably on a wristwatch, was the stuff of science fiction. Now, itโs something which can be done with a commodity microcontroller, as [Atomic14] showsโฆHackaday
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Gaming Devs learn rival open source Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity
Content warning: A game scene with a knight in armour on a horse, standing on some cobble stoned roadway, surrounded by soldiers on foot in armour, and some bat-like creatures attacking them. Some canny devs have started looking elsewhere, not least the open source and fr
Some canny devs have started looking elsewhere, not least the open source and free game engine Godot. In fact, on hearing the original Unity announcement, two industry veterans decided to learn the engine and build a game satirizing the situation โ and they did it all in one week.
The result is Install Fee Tycoon, an idle clicker in the vein of Cookie Clicker only instead of baking cookies at exponential rates, itโs reinstalls of games built on the โChaos3Dโ engine.
Granted, an idle clicker isnโt exactly the most advanced type of game, but it demonstrates the point that experienced devs can whip up something in Godot, fully formed, in no time and that Unity is not the be-all and end-all. It also neatly plays on concerns many had about how Unityโs install tracking would work and how it could potentially be open to abuse.
Yes, it is certainly not as great as Unity when it comes to that super-realism, but for many games it would really suffice quite well enough. That goodness there is some competition available so that devs do have some choices. I often feel it is better to stay a step or two behind the fanciest features, and rather retain your freedoms and not get locked into a subscription model you get held hostage to (sounds a bit like some cloud subscription services).
I remember a time when most games were not ultra-realistic, and we still got totally lost in enjoying the gameplay itself.
Godot is completely free and open source under the permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Usersโ games are theirs, down to the last line of engine code. Godotโs development is fully independent and community-driven, empowering users to help shape their engine to match their expectations. It is supported by the Godot Foundation not-for-profit. It is cross-platform for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and Web Editor.
But there are also other alternatives such as Cocos2d-x, CryEngine (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S), Armory, OpenMW, and LรVE.
See https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/unity_install_fee_tycoon/
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I'll start a new thread because I lack comment permission on the thread I wanted to reply to. Which is fine incidentally. This is about blocking and webs of trust. If you want to do it right, ActivityStreams (the serialisation format behind ActivityPub) has a Block activity type. This has been there since the beginning. It can support any ActivityStreams object. You can block posts, comments, actors, events , links, photos, instances- really anything. And you can share these activities with all your followers. It's just another post type. This way everybody will know what a bigot you are. Sorry for the sarcasm. But here's the fun part... your software can be configured to show or hide these activities. It can also be configured to prompt you for an action when viewing them. You can ignore it. You can also set it to block everything that this sender blocks, or you can set it to 'ask me'. And you can also set it to 'remember this decision' for any of these choices. And you can do the same with 'Flag'.
All of this can be implemented today without changing one word of the ActivityPub spec or writing an FEP or creating a new service or website.
This is how a free network works.
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Secure, Private, Plus No Surveillance Or Data Mining By Big Tech The Way A Tablet PC Should Be.
Checkout the new Librem 11 tablet PC powered by PureOS supporting secure/private D-Apps (decentralized apps).
Free yourself from Big Tech's Eye in The Sky.
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-launches-new-secure-librem-11-tablet/
Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet โ Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Getting Shredded Plasticโฆand Legs
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Getting Shredded Plasticโฆand Legs
While electric motors have taken the drudgery out of many tasks, human power has its advantages. [Precious Plastic Torino] has developed a human-powered plastic shredder for those times when an eleโฆHackaday
OrcaSlicer_V1.6.4-beta2_Linux.zip
so I figured I give it a try. I was a bit concerned when I opened that zip and found it contained a file called OrcaSlicer_ubu64.AppImage
, but hey, it's an AppImage right, should be fine...nope. First run from cli just to see what it spits out and what'a'ye know, error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
. A quick sifting through the AppImage contents and guess how many .so files it had in it; yup, not'a one.What's the point of making an #AppImage / #Flatpak / #Snap if you're not gonna include the required libraries to run it?
Orca Slicer Is The New Game In Town
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Orca Slicer Is The New Game In Town
Slicers are the neat little tools that take your 3D models and turn them into G-code that your 3D printer can actually understand. They control the printing process down to the finest detail, and dโฆHackaday
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Enhance Your Enclosures With a Shadow Line
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Enhance Your Enclosures With A Shadow Line
Some design techniques and concepts from the injection molding world apply very nicely to 3D printing, despite them being fundamentally different processes.ย [Teaching Tech] demonstrates designing sโฆHackaday
Tensioning 3D Prints For Lightweight, Strong Parts
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posted by pod_feeder_v2Tensioning 3D Prints For Lightweight, Strong Parts
Desktop 3D printers have come a long way over the past decade. Theyโre now affordable for almost anyone, capable of printing in many diverse materials, and offer a level of rapid prototyping โฆHackaday
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ClockworkPi | Open Source Hardware
ClockworkPi - Creators of DevTerm and GameShell, Open Source Portable Hardware for Every Dev.ClockworkPi
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The Linux systemd Controversy: A Beginnerโs Guide to Understanding the Debate
Content warning: Linux startup screen showing the text lines as various modules are loading at boot time In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer
In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer systemd.
systemd is a system and service manager, first introduced in 2010 to replace the traditional System V init system. It was designed to improve boot-up speeds and manage system services more efficiently. Today, systemd is the default init system for many popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Despite the name, systemd is not a daemon. Instead, itโs a software suite that provides a number of system components for Linux. Its goal: to standardize service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions.
Personally, I have no preference at all. Itโs there, and I use it sometimes when I need to change or troubleshoot something. My take on it really is that Linux has many options and therefore there will always be differences of opinion, just like we also have for all the โbestโ Linux distros. When do you ever hear Windows users passionately debating for or against the Yellow and Blue version of Windows? You donโt, because they donโt have those options. And for macOS, of course, Steve knows bestโฆ
I think most newer Linux users have not really experienced the pre-systemd era, and also probably donโt delve much into where systemd is actually changed much. With modern Linux there is less and less reason to delve down into systemd unless you are in the habit of experimenting, learning, pulling things apart. But sometimes the topic flares up, so it is interesting to hear a bit about what and why.
See https://itsfoss.com/systemd-init/
#Blog, #linux, #systemd, #technology
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if you add the attack launched by windows with WSL and the FSF's , the "woke" attack on free software (free as speach), linus and stallman. it stinks.
that's what needs to be explained, not that it's easier to have a unified system that allows a single person (or company) to produce for all systems. if you're looking for a unified system, go to windows or apple. don't try to make linux the next windows or apple.
from my point of view, to send a signal to ibm, you need to eject pulsaudio and systemd from distributions. It's not about being simple, it's about being free AND independent.
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I find it both hilarious and sad that so many people confuse the 'init' process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect of them today.
As is that article seems, at least to a Linux outsider such as myself, to present a rather narrow, limited, and system-centric view of the greater problem.
NetBSD all the way for me, at least anywhere where I have to or want to work on the code!
so many people confuse the โinitโ process and what it really needs to do with all the other things that modern systems must run to provide all the fancy features we expect
there is a gap between what companies and geeks think about fancy features expected and what is really expected. there is a bunch of people that want look and feels but they have macos or windows. Let's keep linux safe of those craps to keep linux users happy instead of trying to convert those who do not care about privacy or freedom yo import their feelings in our systems.
is it interesting that people thinking about how to import windows users or companies (lennart with pulseaudio and systemd OR de icaza with mono) BOTH work at microsoft now? are/were they friends or ennemies ?
Stallman on systemd
"I know it's free software, so ethically speaking, it's not an issue โ it's just a convenience question." - Richard Stallman (2015)
It should be noted that Stallman uses Trisquel which has used systemd since 2014.
Stallman joins the Internet, talks net neutrality, patents and more
According to Richard Stallman, Facebook is a โmonstrous surveillance engineโ and tech companies working for patent reform arenโt going nearly far enough.Network World
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For example Linux has (primarily, in most distributions) ended up with GNOME, which is arguably a bigger horror show on the inside than anything Microsoft has ever produced.
If Gates and Jobs had paid more attention to the innards of the Xerox Star then maybe we'd be in a slightly better place today, and maybe the likes of systemd would be entirely unthinkable to the vast majority of developers, but that's blue-sky dreaming.
I have been using it too, for eight years now, with no issues and quick boot times.
It's free software, you can download and read the source code, use it, modify it or fork it if you like. You are also free to use something else if you prefer.
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That Ultra-White Paint That Helps Cool Surfaces? Make your Own!
#chemistryhacks #science #acrylicpaint #ambient #bariumsulfate #paint #passivecooling #radiativecooling #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2That Ultra-White Paint That Helps Cool Surfaces? Make Your Own!
It started with [KB9ENS] looking into paints or coatings for passive or radiative cooling, and in the process he decided to DIY his own. Not only is it perfectly accessible to a home experimenter, โฆHackaday
DIY All-Flash NAS Vs. Commercial Hardware
#networkhacks #asustor #nas #raid #raspberrypi #rock5 #storage #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2DIY All-Flash NAS Vs. Commercial Hardware
[Jeff Geerling] has tried building his own network-attached storage before, but found that the Raspberry Pi just wasnโt able to keep pace with his demands. Heโs back with a new all-flasโฆHackaday
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Theyโre all like, โMastodon doesnโt have all the fancy-schmancy features Twitter has!โ
Well, hereโs the deal, my friend: youโre here in the Fediverse because of one particular dude (Elon, weโre looking at you) who went ahead and bought Twitter.
But guess what? The Fediverse ainโt up for sale, my friend. Nope, not happening. Itโs a fortress of decentralization that canโt be conquered by cash.
So, while we admit that the Fediverse may not be the smoothest ride right now, letโs get some perspective, shall we?
The beauty of this place is that itโs immune to all the craptastic ways Elon messed up Twitter. He canโt lay a finger on the Fediverseโever!
So, kick back, relax, and enjoy this wild and untamed oasis of online freedom. Elon-proof, forever!
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Friendica timelines are compelling
Friendica's timelines are "post" centred, with replies appearing as a tree attached to that post, in a similar way to Facebook. It's distinct from the more Twitter like method common on most of the #microfedi platforms, in which there is no real difference between a post and a reply.
The reason that I find this framework so compelling is that it means you always have context and full conversations in view. If someone you follow replies to someone else you follow, the whole post and all of the replies appear in your timeline again, with full context at a glance.
Similarly, when you're reading your timeline, everything is grouped together. Everyone in your timeline that replied to a post is there on that post with full context. And if you're not interested, it's trivial to just scroll past.
Compare this to Mastodon, Misskey etc and their forks, where you tend to only see one branch of a conversation, and often have the same conversation showing up in your timeline multiple times depending on who is involved.
It's an option for interacting with timelines that I'd love to see implemented in other FediVerse platforms!
#friendica #Fediverse #Fedivangelism
@Friendica @Fediverse
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Then there is of course Lemmy too, which has a pretty clear thread-with-replies structure. Could do with some touching up of the CSS of the threads to make them even more clear, and the concept of Lemmy is obviously different compared to the short/long-post services in that it sticks to posting a link/topic and the discussion around that.
The absolutely worst is Mastodon. It doesn't show threads at all, so one has to really like that "back" link, because they have to spend a lot of time with it. For every little "I agree!" post you have to dig in all the way to see what it is all about...if it has even bothered to collect all the replies, as the federation in Mastodon only covers instances you know. If you are reading a thread there could be several replies you simply don't see, and you will not get any dynamic updates unless you back all the way out and then go back in again.
Misskey/Calckey look nice. Sadly they have the same issue as Mastodon with not picking up all replies in a thread and the "Content might be missing, you might want to check out this post on the original instance" message on top of every post gets tired pretty quick.
It is a shame Mastodon users seem to think everyone else is using Mastodon, and that it is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) of The Fediverse, when it literally is a goat. A big goat, admittedly, but still, big doesn't always mean best.
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For the vast majority of #Mastodon users, Mastodon and #TheFediverse are one and the same. It was hard enough for them to comprehend that Mastodon isn't one website for everyone and everything, a monolithic service like the #birbsite. And they won't get #Pixelfed or #PeerTube into their heads until their timeline is being bombarded with posts from these; probably not even then.
It gets even worse with other microblogging or macroblogging services which, unlike #Plume or #WriteFreely, don't mimic classic blog platforms. It's too easy for the average Mastodon user to take them for Mastodon as well.
I'm on #Hubzilla. Something which, I guess, even the majority of #Friendica users has never heard of, even though it's the direct successor to Friendica, and both had the same creator. For typical Mastodon users, especially those who came in from #BirbSocial, it's just as incomprehensible as Friendica.
Generic example of a dialogue between a typical Mastodon user and me (look at my original post for more text formatting):
"Oh wow, how can you write such long toots?"
"I'm on Hubzilla."
"Oh cool, so their admins must have raised the limit."
"I'm not on Mastodon, I'm on Hubzilla."
"Still cool to have such a liberal instance."
"Listen. I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on #Hubzilla. An entirely different project than Mastodon which is also four years older than Mastodon. You can read my posts on Mastodon, but I am not on Mastodon."
"Buh... but... how..."
"The magic of the #Fediverse. It doesn't only connect Mastodon instances with one another, it also includes wholly different projects."
The same people may have had posts from #Pleroma, #Akkoma or #MissKey in their timelines without noticing, at least not if these posts were short enough.
Hubzilla | Hubzilla - hubzilla@hubzilla.org
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.hubzilla.org
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Agreed on that too. I have a Hubzilla account too, though mostly for testing.
I do find it ironic that for a network which cares deeply and very actively about being inclusive, honoring and celebrating every hobby, sexual preference, skin color, pronoun, disability, eating habit, music taste, religion and ensuring no one should ever feel left out (all of which are great things btw), still every terminology proposal that relates to "The Fediverse" even in the slightest for most HAS to start with "Masto"-something, which excludes the free-thinking minority that uses any other Fediverse service than Mastodon.
Please note I don't equate "using a Fediverse service" with any of those examples above, most of which people are born in to and can't influence, when it comes to impact in real life and in society. All those things are obviously truly vastly more important.
I just find it ironic how quickly inclusion/exclusion becomes optional, and conformity becomes mandatory, even for those who pride themselves in being inclusive, open, and not bending to conformity.
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button(?) on each post that Friendica has would be quite welcome in any of the other interfaces. But maybe one that links to the full thread or at least shows the original post.like this
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I mean, those features would be nice too, but I don't think they'd reshape the timeline browsing experience in quite the same way
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I had a Twitter-Account for years... never used, because i always missed the context...
That's why i used facebook before the fediverse... because i need context and space to make short or even very long ansers... in one posting.
That's also, why i use friendica.... looooooong answers... and images inside the text.
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But for those who like it, Mastodon or other microblogging software is certainly a good choice.
It's just a pity that many of the services are not made known to the outside world outside the Fediverse. There are also many people who use or have used Facebook, Google+ and the like. But it is hardly known that there are alternatives in the Fediverse that go in this direction and have more or different functions..
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I came to the Fediverse on Mastodon. I'm an admin on a Calckey, Friendica and Lemmy instance and maintain accounts on them all. I still have my original Mastodon account too, though I don't use it much anymore.
The reason I make posts like this is because it's the diversity that excites, it's the fediverse that excites me. It's the fact that it's open and expanding and people can find whatever experience they're looking for.
I want people to share my excitement about the future of the Fediverse, whether they're on Mastodon or another platform!
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They make themselves and each other believe that Mastodon is superior to any other Fediverse project in just about any regard imaginable while apparently completely refusing to learn about those other projects. They're supported in their belief by mass media only ever writing about Mastodon and the number of Mastodon users.
However, mass media only write about Mastodon because they simply don't know a thing about the rest of the Fediverse, and they didn't know a thing about Mastodon until the #TwitterTakeover had actually happened, and the second wave of former #birbsite users had come flooding into Mastodon in such numbers that it was impossible to ignore even for those who act as if #FLOSS doesn't exist.
As for the numbers of Mastodon users, they're so high because I guess more than 90% of all Mastodon users still don't know that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, because they have never heard of anything else in the Fediverse. Mastodon was pretty much the only Fediverse project advertised on #BirbSocial when this was still possible.
There are various reasons why Mastodon users don't spread across the Fediverse in masses. None of it is because Mastodon is superior to everything else because, truth be told, it isn't. I'll come to this later. One reason is, again, that the vast majority of them still don't know anything else. Another one is because it was hard enough to get used to Mastodon after years of using #Twitter, and they don't want to get used to yet another platform. And another one is that it's hard to move from Mastodon to something else and take your account or at least your connections with you.
Another reason may be because people don't need anything beyond microblogging, and that's what Mastodon does. Now, sorry for all those of you who fight tooth and claw to defend Mastodon against the competition, but #Akkoma does microblogging, too. With extra features beyond Mastodon, some of which Mastodon users have been pestering Eugen Rochko to include in Mastodon for ages (e.g. "quote retweet"). All while being more lightweight and requiring fewer server resources than Mastodon. Oh, and it federates with Mastodon.
Other Fediverse projects aren't even competition for Mastodon because they specialise in something else. @Pixelfed specialises in posting pictures, much like #Instagram. @PeerTube specialises in video upload and streaming, not too dissimilarly from #YouTube. #Plume and #WriteFreely specialise in distraction-free traditional blogging, much like #Medium. #Lemmy specialises in groups and posting and discussing news, much like #Reddit or #HackerNews. You can't claim that Mastodon is better at each of these things than these platforms.
And then there are the jacks-of-all-trades which are usually filed under either "macroblogging" or "like #Facebook ". They weren't launched to have something that goes beyond Mastodon because their history reaches far back before Mastodon. Mastodon was launched in 2016 (and not 2022 like many believe). #Friendica was launched in early 2010, even before the crowdfunding campaign for the development of #Diaspora started. And in that early stage, Friendica, then still named #Mistpark, was vastly more powerful than Diaspora* ever got and also vastly more powerful than Mastodon 13 years later.
#Hubzilla, created by the same man as Friendica, is the most extreme one of them all. For starters, it eliminates the need for multiple accounts by having multiple independent channels with separate identities on the same account. Each channel can have multiple profiles like on Friendica so you can present your channel differently to individual contacts or groups of them and differently again to the general public.
It can do micro- and macroblogging with 50,000 or more characters and just about everything that can be done with #BBcode (italics, bold type, underline, lists with bullet points or numbers, quotes,
code blocks
), and you can embed as many pictures as you want in your posts where you want them instead of them automatically being attached to the end of the post.Group handling in Hubzilla is much easier than list handling in Mastodon. You never have to type the name of a contact to find them. You can edit contacts and add them to groups or remove them, and you can edit groups and add or remove contacts, all with a few mouse clicks. And while Mastodon shows a maximum of four lists on the main page, Hubzilla will give you easy access to all your groups.
On top of that, you can have
- very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
- forums (just like Friendica, Hubzilla has #Guppe built in)
- more elegant macroblogging with articles which, in addition to BBcode, support #Markdown
- simple webpages (or not so simple if you're the admin of a hub, and you can expand it further)
- wikis (I'm not even kidding)
- a public calendar
- a virtually unlimited number of private calendars with #CalDAV connection
- a virtually unlimited number of address books with #CardDAV connection
- a file server with #WebDAV connection with its own access rights management which also ties in with the Photos and optional Gallery app (Mastodon drops your pictures somewhere, Hubzilla lets you upload them to your personal cloud space where you can access them whenever you want)
All with one run-of-the-mill Hubzilla account. And once per channel, separately.
And as if that wasn't enough, Hubzilla introduced the #Zot protocol and with it a concept named #NomadicIdentity.
Mastodon and Friendica let you have multiple accounts, even on separate instances. They also support migration from one account to another, and unlike Mastodon, Friendica lets you take all your content with you. Hubzilla (and #Streams, the successor of its slimmed-down successor, still created by the same guy) goes even further: Not only can you easily move from one hub to another, you can have channels on multiple hubs and automatically keep them fully in sync! If one hub goes down, it doesn't matter because you've got everything on all your other accounts.
Last but not least, both Friendica and Hubzilla federate with almost everything that moves, even far beyond the #ActivityPub Fediverse. This could be Diaspora*, this could be #GNUsocial, this could be #Wordpress blogs with or without the ActivityPub add-on, this could be RSS feeds (and they both generate feeds themselves, so this is bidirectional, too), this could even be Twitter until the API is shuttered. Friendica even used to federate with Facebook until Facebook put rocks in the way; this is the only connector that Hubzilla didn't take over.
The obvious downside is that for someone who just came in from the #birdcage, all this is utter overkill. In fact, people who are used to Mastodon may find Friendica borderline unusuable due to its many features. And Hubzilla is so infamous for its own clumsy UI capitulating before its sheer power that even Friendica users find it hard to use, fresh converts from Twitter to Mastodon even more so.
Some design decisions may be hard to understand for outsiders. Converts from other Fediverse projects to Hubzilla regularly fail at something as seemingly similar as connecting to users on other ActivityPub-based projects until you tell them that ActivityPub is an optional app on Hubzilla that has to be activated first because Hubzilla concentrates on Zot with its Nomadic Identity.
Also, just because these projects offer so much power, that doesn't mean that everyone needs it. If you do, it can be convenient to have it all under one login. But if all you're looking for is a bit of microblogging and online socialising, you don't need to drag a CMS and a full-blown cloud server with all bells and whistles along with you that just clutter up the UI. In that case, projects like Mastodon and Akkoma win because they're more approachable.
And while Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. can do threaded discussions and even have something like forums, Lemmy can do this more elegantly because it specialises in it. While you can use Hubzilla's private calendar feature for event planning, it's easier to do the same with #Mobilizon which, again, specialises in it. Or you can host podcasts on Friendica, Hubzilla & Co, but you can host them better on #Funkwhale and even better on #Castopod.
Wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon hinders development, namely the development of new projects within the Fediverse that may be able to do all-new things that we haven't seen in the Fediverse yet. Things that, sorry to say again, you'll never be able to do with Mastodon.
P.S.: For extra kicks, don't just read this on Mastodon. Open my original post; there you can see what Hubzilla is capable of, and what Mastodon strips away.
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https://gnulinux.ch/serie-fediverse-dienste-hubzilla
The other articles in the series introduce other #Fediverse software like #Pixelfed #Misskey #Friendica #Peertube ....
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"The Mastodon->Friendica migration path won't pull your followers with you"
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Just as a side-note comment, that is a design choice of the protocol I think.
None of the migrations let you bring your followers, only those you yourself follow. This is to prevent unhappiness in case an account gets taken over and you all of sudden find yourself following someone you really don't wish to follow etc.
Instead a notification goes out to your followers that you indeed have moved, and if people have their settings like I have mine I actually have chosen to auto-re-follow people who have migrated to a new home (perhaps only a setting in Akkoma when I come to think of it, I can't recall I've seen that in other services).
Anyways, the choice to follow a new account should be a deliberate and manual one, according to the Fediverse rules, which I think is quite sensible.
@ada @fediverse
Thanks guys.Having joined essentially as part of the #TwitterMigration in early Nov, I do want to say cut us some slack ๐ and that some of us *do* grasp the potential of the #Fediverse and take to it like a "duck to water" ๐ฆ ... but still it takes time to expand one's social network worldview from a very locked-down Twitter micro-blogging/chat view, to a whole new #Fediverse dynamic? It's a journey, and #Tumblr moving onto the #Activitypub may be a huge sign of things to come
Keep promoting the opportunitites e.g.
@ada has got me interested in moving onto CalcKey in future, and I'm looking for an additional platform for an occasional longer piece. Perhaps Medium (with add-ins) or perhaps #Friendlica or ... or ... choices?๐
Mass/mainstream media struggle to even conceive of a non-commercial/non-advertising revenue driven platform *at all* so tbh even #Mastodon sends their minds in a headspin eg. this kind of article?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media
Keep up the good work!
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still โtootingโ?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionateWilfred Chan (The Guardian)
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If you can live without comments, you may take a look at #WriteFreely. Or if you can live with on-and-off developer activity and the recurring feeling that the project will be abandoned, try #Plume which does have comments and a built-in image hoster for your convenience. Both use Markdown, by the way.
Essentially, anything that's labelled something with *blogging and that isn't Mastodon can do longer pieces. #Hubzilla even has an "articles" app just for that which comes with the side-effect that mobile Mastodon apps will always open links to articles in a Web browser and show them like they're supposed to look. But you always have some distraction around the text whereas WriteFreely and Plume are at least as plain and clean as Medium.
Even Calckey seems to have a hundred additional options vs Mastodon and it's taken me 5 months to uncover in Mastodon I can follow a group of hashtags in a column eg (Cats + Caturday+ CatsofMastodon), but only if I use the Advanced Web Interface ...
I mean there's a LOT to unpack "here" in the

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But for months now there are calls from (new?) Mastodon users complaining and wining about what Mastodon can't do and demanding that the developers should finally implement it immediately (quoted posts, groups, chats, more poll options, more list functions, etc.).
All the functions, which are then so painfully missed, are possible with almost all other text-oriented #Fediverse softwares, partly even with Mastodon-Forks or even with another instance, which e.g. increases the character limit (there are also public ones).
Who points out that there are already some alternatives and that they can try them, often gets aggressive reactions (not from you @defcon42 (Mirko) :fediverse: : Who is satisfied with Mastodon, that's good. But from those who explicitly want something else, but don't want to hear that (exactly) that already exists)?
What exactly the background of these reactions is, I do not know. Possibly it plays a role that through the media coverage the expectation was created that people here may join a Twitter only without Musk, that they can consume passively? And that then overload occurs when it is seen that there are many more possibilities? That the Fediverse is not equal to Mastodon, but that it is much much more
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Yes, this is where Friendica truly shines. I actually had a screenshot of exactly how it looks like in Friendica if one of my contacts re-shares/re-toots one post. In the attached screenshot that action is by the green arrow (far down). Friendica then pulls in the thread of posts that belong together, and show them as a clustered thread in the regular flow (note that my setting for that is โLatest Activityโ, so one can chose a different view if one were to prefer that).
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I love the รฆsthetic - but the case has no water resistance and doesn't have *any* protection for the fragile eInk screen.
NTP worked, but the timezone is 4 hours out.
Oh well! Lots to play with.
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Here's a video showing the #Watchy in action.
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/nGNkDqxxAasPE8sPNdXapb
First impressions of the SQFMI Watchy
I've built a Watchy - from https://watchy.sqfmi.com/ - it's a bit fiddly to set up. Here are my first impressions.
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โ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article976/lenovo-yoga-370-on-gnu-linux-technical-companion-article
Ps: not sponsored or an adv: the machine is from 2019.
#linux #krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource #Fedora #KDE #thinkpad
Lenovo Yoga 370 on GNU/Linux: technical companion article
Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.David Revoy
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Yeah, #Debian is nice and stable, but I usually prefer it to be more cutting edge too.
"The Wayland session is still a no-go for artists"
Yep, same. #Wayland feels like the better idea, but is still incomplete. I hope that will change soon.
just a remark about #debian: april was indeed bad timing to test debian stable, because the next release was very close and so those packages were old, yes. when more recent packages are needed, it's always possible to run the debian testing distribution, which is very current and also stable. many people use it on desktops or laptops.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting


I do not have ANY artistic parts in my soul
I do really like this article ... just as a nerd that like to tinker with stuff
Very good DIY tutorial ๐
Since my comment i have read it (your post) second time, then i realised that it doesnt matter that i would NOT use it in your - artistic - way, but it would be great tool to make notes in my homeoffice.
Now these laptops used can be found for about 250โฌ so - for me - it is better option then (for example) reMarkable - for ONLY homeOffice use. AND without any other subscriptions and closed software shit.
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yes. I have ordered one used Lenovo...
Thank you!
#drawing #digitalDrawing #drawingTablet
I hope yours is a model that will have a good support!
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#linux #update #foss #youtube #google #invidious #dev #legal #threat
YouTube legal team contacted us ยท Issue #3872 ยท iv-org/invidious
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...GitHub
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Demo post from Hubzilla
For those who don't know yet: Hubzilla is a fork of #Friendica, created by Friendica's own creator, Mike Macgirvin. Friendica, then named Mistpark, was launched in summer 2010, six years before #Mastodon, already as a free-as-in-free-license, open-source, decentralised, distributed, federated alternative to Facebook. Basically what Mastodon was to Twitter six years later.
Friendica was geared right away towards macroblogging with forum functionality on top. Its capabilities were chosen accordingly, including no character limit, image embedding (with included manageable file space to upload images to) and text formatting through BBcode.
Hubzilla, then named Red, was forked off Friendica in 2012, four years before Mastodon. It was converted to a whole new protocol which Mike had conceived in 2011 with capabilities previously unseen on the #FederatedSocialWeb, now known as the #Fediverse, especially #NomadicIdentity. Otherwise, most of the features were kept the same, and even many more came on top. Hubzilla turned from a distributed social network into a nomadic social content management system.
While neither Friendica nor Hubzilla uses #ActivityPub internally as their protocol, both have built-in "translators" that enable them to connect to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based Fediverse projects.
The main intention behind this post is to show Mastodon users in particular what Fediverse projects that aren't Mastodon are capable of. It shall also demonstrate how Mastodon cripples posts coming in from non-Mastodon instances.
Again, when Mastodon was launched, Hubzilla already had these features, and it had had them for four years already.
The Mastodon users amongst you will only see the crippled form of this post and probably wonder what I'm talking about. If you're using Mastodon through a Web browser, click on the date/the age of the post, and it'll take you to the original (as opposed to the mangled Mastodon output). For your convenience, especially that of those of you on mobile apps, I will also stitch together screenshots of this post and additionally publish it as an article.
Five images should be embedded in this post. All are stored on the file space built into my Hubzilla channel.
The #demonstration starts right below โ this horizontal line โ:
Link to the Hubzilla website which runs on Hubzilla itself.
Bold type.
Italics.
Bold and italics.
Underline.
Text in a generic sans-serif typeface.
Text in a generic serif typeface.
Text in a generic monospace typeface.
Text in Courier.
Text in Arial (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Helvetica (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Free Sans (if that's installed on your device).
Text in Arial with Helvetica and Free Sans as fallbacks.
Very large text.
Extra large text.
Large text.
Small text.
Extra small text.
Very small text.
Size 12 text.
Size 20 text.
Headline 1.
Headline 2.
Headline 3.
Headline 4.
Headline 5.
Headline 6.
An
in-line code block
.Multiple-line
code block.
Code blocks can also highlight 20 different languages.
Red text.
Blue text.
Dark blue text.
Teal text.
Fuchsia text.
Olive text.
005387[/url">]Text coloured in #[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=005387]005387 (RAL 5005 signal blue).
789922[/url">]Text coloured in #[url=https://social.trom.tf/search?tag=789922]789922 (like >greentext on 4chan).
[hl=yellow]Text highlighted in yellow.[/hl]
[hl=#008351]Floral white text highlighted in #008351 (RAL 6024 traffic green).[/hl]
โ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 1. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 1."
โ Here goes the picture.
Jupiter Rowland wrote:
This is a self-quote.
This is a quote, too.
This is a quote, three.
This is a spoiler:
Now the spoiler is open.โ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 2. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 2."
โ Here goes the picture.
โ Here goes a table.
First table header | Second table header |
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Table content | More table content |
Even more table content | Still more table content |
โ Here goes a table.
โ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 3. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 3."
โ Here goes the picture.
- Bullet-point list.
- More bullet-point list.
- Even more bullet-point list.
- Numbered list.
- More numbered list.
- Even more numbered list.
- Roman numbered list.
- More Roman numbered list.
- Even more Roman numbered list.
- Minuscule Roman numbered list.
- More minuscule Roman numbered list.
- Even more minuscule Roman numbered list.
- List with letters.
- More list with letters.
- Even more list with letters.
- List with capital letters.
- More list with capital letters.
- Even more list with capital letters.
โ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 4. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 4."
โ Here goes the picture.
Embedded YouTube video through Invidious:
Danie van der Merwe | Invidious: Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network
Same video on PeerTube (which is part of the Fediverse, too):
โ Here goes a picture of the 7-segment digit 5. Alt-text should be, "7-segment digit 5."
โ Here goes the picture.
Special features of Hubzilla and (streams):
Your name: [observer.name]
Your short name: [observer.webname]
Your hub: [observer.baseurl]
Your profile picture, automatically embedded:
[observer.photo]
Your channel, automatically embedded and clickable: [observer.url]
For the record: This post has 7,750 characters.
Overview of the decentralised Hubzilla Social Network
Watch an overview of the user features as well as admin features for the decentralised and federated Hubzilla social network. Hubzilla can be considered a worthy alternative to Facebook, and it has a unique feature for cloning its channel elsewhere to act as a live backup in case the primary hub is no longer available. It has posts, photos, events, calenders, chats, wikis, webpages, and plenty of 3rd party add-ons.
Intro: 00:00
Multiple Channels/Profiles 03:55
Privacy from Admin 05:55
Forums/Groups 06:23
Redundancy / Nomadic Identity 06:52
Main Feed Stream 10:22
Post Reactions 12:24
Profiles 15:43
Privacy Groups 17:40
Channel Management 18:40
User Settings 19:19
Hub Admin Settings 21:48
Security / Federating 25:23
Feature Settings 27:01
Add-Ons 29:19
Twitter API 33:04
Local User Directory 35:39
Friend Suggestions 36:04
Edit Friend Permissions / Filtering 36:52
Booking Events 38:40
User Apps 42:30
Photo Albums 45:25
Chat Rooms 47:10
Guest Access 48:35
Notes 49:35
Web pages 49:54
Wikis 51:51
Creating a Post (Encryption/To Twitter) 53:00
Wrap Up 58:05
#hubzilla #alternativeto #federated #fediverse #socialnetwork #socialmedia #altmedia #deletefacebook #FOSS #opensource #selfhosting
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Article version of my "Demo post from Hubzilla"
Hubzilla refers to this as a "summary" and not a "CW"hub.netzgemeinde.eu
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I've written the post and my comments on Hubzilla's Web interface through Mozilla Firefox on a desktop PC running Debian GNU/Linux. Nothing mobile involved here.
#Hubzilla, #Friendica, #Misskey, #Calckey, and of course #Pixelfed, to mention a few, can attach more than four (4) images. But once it shows up in a Mastodon-powered instance, attachments 5 and up are discarded to the void.
Sadly, I can't test how it looks like in Pleroma and forks. I tried it in two Soapbox instances, the first one unfortunately is too slow (not sure what happened to that instance), and in the second instance, your post is not showing up even if searched via URL.
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Okay, Akkoma seems to interpret the UTF-8 in the summary as ASCII, or it doesn't expect punctuation.
Mentions and hashtags look like on Hubzilla. The title is recognised and converted; I guess it contains a link to the original, and if that's the case, that's nice.
Horizontal lines work, bold type works, italics don't, underline does, strikethrough doesn't. Typefaces don't, but I didn't really expect this to work easily everywhere, especially not on mobile devices. Text sizes and headlines don't work either.
Both types of code block work, and they're shown differently. I would have loved to demo code highlighting, but I had no reference code at hand.
Text colours and highlighting colours don't work.
The digits are surprisingly huge, they should be 40x60 or so. But they are where I've put them, only that I didn't centre them.
Quotes work including names and nesting. Spoilers are recognised, but open by default.
Again, I didn't expect tables to work, but I'm surprised to see the same huge gap on top as on Hubzilla.
All lists are converted to bullet points, but lists work.
Video embedding doesn't, but it gives you the URLs.
If the Hubzilla trickery had worked, I would have been very surprised.
On a sidenote, I am actually surprised to see your pictures in the correct order, even though they're all put above the text again. Above posts from Mastodon and MissKey, they come in reverse order. I guess another bug report is due.
I can try later with Akkoma/Pleroma default front-end.
Try the reverse should be interesting. I'm not sure Hubzilla interprets markdown formatted content from Pleroma/Akkoma/Misskey/Calckey with 100% compatibility.
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edit : ok others can see it.
I actually like it. It stops people from posting something, has it boosted, and then changes the content.
Other users can only see an "edited" tag. They can't easily see what the original content was, but you will be able to do it with the #Mastodon #API, I think.
@jupiter_rowland
Here I had also tried to illustrate with a few screenshots how posts from #Peertube, #WriteFreely, #Mobilizon etc. look from the perspective of Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica and Calckey: https://metalhead.club/@caos/109779354954001465 @youronlyone@hashi.icu @jupiter_rowland @fediversenews
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Hmmโฆ we need to put the images together somewhere. I'll submit it to webarchives, too.
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•Interesting. I was just diving into the items table because I am creating a module that displays past items in a list and whether it has been seen or not. Similar to notifications, except it still shows items that you have already seen in a paginated list, similar to an inbox.
I didn't realize that block activities were sent out like that. That might make for some interesting display options for users.