Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

Seems like a fine time to repost this, instead of purchasing a new SBC consider upcycling an old thin-client instead! You get more GB of RAM per $ that way anyways and some great fanless options exist on ebay for less than $50. I'd link to the article I wrote about this but my home server is down right now and I'm traveling.

#raspberrypi

@ehashman

> Where are the radical software collectives self-hosting privacy-conscious [apps] for activists and the marginalized?

I hail from one of them, https://cyberia.club. Or at least I think that's what we aspire to be.

> Where's that vision of digital autonomy? How do we get there, given the cost of labour?

I have written my own thoughts about that on my blog (Archive.org link because im away from home and server is currently 🤮ing) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20220812014732/https://sequentialread.com/federation-vs-clustering-self-hosting/

TL;DR is try to do for IaaS (infrastructure as a service, things like AWS & Cloudflare) what Fediverse/Matrix did for social media SaaS. The 1 sysadmin per 100 users model.

It can't just be 1 admin, 1 computer per "instance", needs to be at least 2 of both IMO.

How to get there? Design for it. Also, treat sysadmins like users, not highly trained professionals, and perform usability tests with them. Build high-usability, high-accessibility interfaces around digital autonomy.

How to fund this effort? IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ my plan was to bank on the idea that "it only takes one".

Software has zero marginal cost, it can be copied infinitely for essentially free. So as long as the software itself is able to do "the job" or at least help in some way, a small number of pro bono workers can make a big impact.

@CriticalCupcake file this under "demo-ish objects"

just some casual hypermiling on I-90 today

@f0x look what I found at layer zero

@yaxu where's the option for " I left the page before I saw the part where it says open access?"

@f0x where's the option for "quarters" ? :o

😮

More homebrew energy drinks today

@fack I just put in an order for a wyse 5070 thin client (Celeron J4105)

☑️​ $35 (power and HD not included)
☑️​ 8GB Ram
☑️​ 10W TDP (passive heatsink, no fan)
☑️​ CPU benchmarks 4x faster than Raspberry Pi 4
☑️​ Works with SATA M.2 2280 (no nvme)
☑️​ USB 3.0 (goes without saying)

The only way I really know how to interact / feel comfortable interacting on sites like this is so similar to a brand just posting ads on their profile, it feels like a waste and no one ever seemed to be interested in those kind of posts anyways.

So its back to macroblogging and realtime chat with me for now ​👴

Yesterday I talked with some of my IRL friends about social media and ​online culture, their experiences with it in the past on tumblr and twitter, came to the conclusion that this social media / microblogging is not a good fit for me.

I don't think it ever was, I never really felt comfortable on facebook, linkedin, twitter or anything like that. I just got excited about the new wave of users joining Fedi (well, specifically mastodon) so I thought I would poke my head in.

@foone https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toDataURL. I think this might make a DOM blob instead of a huge string? Or maybe there's a different method that does that, I don't remember and I can't find the old code from my phone rn

@foone you might be able to create a userscript for the fedi frontend that you use which grabs the PNG, dumps it into an html canvas, and then exports it as a jpeg, then replaces the file in the file input element with the jpeg. Like a greasemonkey script.

I did this pattern in my own app once, looking back at the code https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/graffiti-app/src/branch/main/static/app.js#1454

I think I ended up nixing the client side conversion to jpeg because it didn't work properly in every browser. Image rotation issues on iOS probably related to apples proprietary photo format

Oops i forgot to include this link to thomas reed post https://infosec.exchange/@thomasareed/109376747868155703

IMO, pressure on #FediCulture to push CW usage closer to the "NSFW" mainstream cultural standard is not necessarily a bad thing. I acknowledge this is probably a classic straight white guy take but i think CW is weird! I honestly have a hard time believing that the CW feature / culture is as good at preventing harm as its hard-core adherents claim.

The question of what should be CW'd, what images should be fogged until click, etc, its subjective, culturally relative, and I feel like the current status quo might be a #Whiteness that has made black folks feel uncomfortable / unwelcome here.

Some of this is based on reading @shengokai takes on Mastodon and it's affordances, some of it from other posts I've seen around, I am curious what other ppl around me think.

@zkat

What are some concrete examples of things that you would change about mastodon the software (or any general fedi client / server implementation) in order to achieve this ?