I'm making an ActivityPub server for distributing transit alerts 🎉 The tool is completely open-source and fetches alerts from GTFS-realtime Service Alerts feeds
Official instance: https://transit.alerts.social
Currently works with:
@kingcountymetro
@commtrans
@soundtransit
I expect to add a lot more agencies to the instance in the near-ish future—want to validate more before going wider
@makeworld makeworlder
BTW for anyone wanting to migrate away from centralized chat to a more #federated alternative via #matrix I'd strongly suggest using https://etke.cc/ to set up your own instance and bridges to your existing chat apps.
You can bring your own VM and pay them to set it up along with a small monthly fee for upkeep. Generally good if you've got a community that wants to migrate together.
@SyndicWill Also I would love to collaborate with folks that are into it.
Particularly around p2p fediverse, ad hoc mobile mesh networks, p2p web, and deploying this stuff to communities.
@SyndicWill Oh nice! I tried to apply to NGI Assure but I'm still waiting on that. I think a lot of the work I'm doing is very aligned with their goals but I just don't have the connections or correct framing yet. Ty for the link!
@deobald What sort of job makes 20k a month?
Imagine a hypothetical conference about AP, a virtual CVQCon if you will, but now imagine the infrastructure. What do we need to spend money on? If we keep our commitment to open systems (and I don't see why we shouldn't), we certainly won't find ourselves paying eight dollars a head for video conferencing. The only real costs are hosting costs, a bit of sysadmin time, plus a few hundred on creative commons furry art (obviously, branding is clearly important)
I can't even begin to describe what the state of gaming on the Linux desktop is even like any more. When I started using Ubuntu back in 2005, Wine barely worked. Native commercial games were an absolute chore to get running.
Now, we're at a point where I can easily play loads of indie, retro, and AAA titles with great graphics and smooth be gameplay. My desktop plays Returnal like a PS5. My handheld can do something like 40 years worth of games, plus many current titles.
My roles right now are interesting.
- Coordinating small team of folks doing mostly technical writing and small scale web apps
- Making an open source HTTP server for proxying to p2p backends
- Coordinating a dev and myself for an HTTP API for p2p publishing with user management
- P2P database / indexing architecture consulting (managing a researcher, working with international groups)
And on top of that random fixes for Agregore when I have time.
Also got ny back touched up and boy howdy that hurts so much worse than my arm 😭 Hopefully my body doesn't reabsorb as much of the ink this time
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.