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by riffic 4y ago
hosting a full-blown mastodon for a single user instance is extremely overkill. if you have access to a LAMP like your typical shared hosting provider, you could try Gnu Social or WordPress with the AP plugin.
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by riffic 4y ago
the spec is pretty easy to digest in my opinion. I'd start there: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview
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by riffic 4y ago
are darwin-native containers on Apple's road map at all? previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28430196
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by riffic 4y ago
historically, it wasn't though. Breed Street Shul is one example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed_Street_Shul > The Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, located east of downtown, was home to the city'
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by riffic 4y ago
site's author Stephen P. Morse is the architect of the 8086 processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_P._Morse
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by riffic 4y ago
This user's been on HN for a while repeating this ad nauseam. https://www.google.com/search?q=rvz+mastodon+failure+site:ht... I wouldn't engage.
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by riffic 4y ago
people will move to the next social media site (or jump to another medium if it's good enough) even before Twitter shuts down. This happens all the time and there are parallels with other format / medium shifts (Gutenberg invents
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by riffic 4y ago
> There are plenty of other choices. There's even WordPress, with a plugin. A lot of ~~people~~ entities such as companies, organizations, etc have a WordPress site. edit: Pretend this site supports basic formatting in comments?
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by riffic 4y ago
> black Swan events I think we might be experiencing this just in this year with its new ownership about to occur.
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by riffic 4y ago
nothing's stopping your local city council, library, or fire department from shoe-horning the ActivityPub protocol into their existing website (like WordPress or Drupal or whatever CMS they use) and immediately turning their site into
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by riffic 4y ago
Google's the best example to be honest.
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by riffic 4y ago
> Let's talk once twitter shuts down. Because it will. Bingo. I say this all the time, Twitter is not immune from being a member of this list (Defunct social networking sites, wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by riffic 4y ago
run cat5e or cat6 everywhere. use a quality low-voltage contractor to run your drops. adequately label the lines and patch panel. save some money for a good network core (like managed switches, a wlan controller, etc) and a wall-mount rack.
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by riffic 4y ago
> self-fulfilling profecy that's not really how it works though, and it should absolutely not be a concern (it's quite common to get a sort of tech-industry tunnel vision while discounting the bigger picture or regional focuses
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by riffic 4y ago
What was the 2009 crisis though? was that your run-of-the-mill recession (all business cycles have crests and valleys!) or was 2009 something different? Does anyone operate under the assumption another recession (maybe even two or three)
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by riffic 4y ago
it's kind of obvious.
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Joinmastodon.org has never looked nicer(blog.joinmastodon.org)
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by riffic 4y ago
the 5 percent of professionals who insist on doing things the bad way deserve the consequences and subsequent removal of previously applied "professional" status.
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by riffic 4y ago
on a related note, but are there good resources for DevOps/SRE specifically in the public sector (state/county/city/federal gov)?
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by riffic 4y ago
cops doing cop stuff. best and the brightest members of society, right?
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by riffic 4y ago
par for the course with these types of codes though.
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by riffic 4y ago
orange site is the worst subreddit and are we supposed to know who this author is? Context, please?
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by riffic 4y ago
good! Get every single publicly funded institution off of these awful services. Public comms can go on publicly funded infrastructure, using open protocols like the W3C's ActivityPub (or just RSS if we want to keep things adequate).
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by riffic 4y ago
yeah I'd listen to the IETF here vs the WHATWG. lol what a silly argument to get into.
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by riffic 4y ago
technically it's `ai.`
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by riffic 4y ago
btw the password to their secret ceremonies is 'fidelio'
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by riffic 4y ago
Didn't see The Ancient Order of Free Gardeners listed: > Although the Free Gardeners have always remained independent of Freemasonry, the history and organisation of the two orders show numerous similarities. Some commentators hav
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by riffic 4y ago
> a constitutional change Just in case anyone didn't know, the UK does not have a singular written constitution like you may find elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
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by riffic 4y ago
not to be confused with the Cool S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S
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by riffic 4y ago
use "reader" mode if it exists in your mobile browser.

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