the fediverse now has a fast growing TikTok alternative: https://loops.video
While it remains in a pre-release beta state atm, we are testing federation and will be releasing full federation support, along with the source code once stable.
And we expect by this time next month, you will have a bright, shiny and easy to install TikTok alternative under your tree 🎄
Spread the word. Loops has arrived.
It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle.
We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal.
Oracle has until January 4th to respond, or the case will go into default, which will result in the trademark being canceled.
It's time to #FreeJavaScript.
IP Address: 115.217.175.122
Port: 5901
Location: Shaoxing, Zhejiang 🇨🇳
ASN: AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE
Client Name: QEMU (123)
Hostname: None
ComputerNewb ID: 39838716
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse/#id/39838716
HTTP version for those that need it: https://blog.mauve.moe/slides/forwardjs-intro-to-dweb/#1
Here are the slides for my talk at #ForwardJS #Ottawa where I introduced folks to the #dweb
Feel free to reach out if you'd like me to present to your community!
hyper://blog.mauve.moe/slides/forwardjs-intro-to-dweb/#1
Hot take, #P2P protocols shouldn't use MDNS for peer discovery if they don't plan to use the OS provided APIs for it. Only one process can reliably bind the UDP port necessary for it and it quickly leads to conflicts. At the very least you should use a custom port to avoid conflicting with the OS.
Homeownership on the web is highly analogous to the physical world. Modern homeownership is mostly a story of home-rentership, not real ownership.
Incredibly, this matches the online experience, even though the World Wide Web has an infinite amount of real-estate!
You deserve a home on the web that’s built to keep you safe; a magical place for virtual living that‘s yours for life, existing in a sociable web.
https://blog.muni.town/digital-homeownership/
(Now stealth-releasing Weird v0.2 🥷)
i had a bajillion technical issues but it mostly worked out. As usual people were more curious about my GPD Win 4 than whatever I had to say about local LLMs. 😅
Presenting the local LLM stuff in Agregore tomorrow at the #Ottawa branch of AI Tinkerers. Hopefully it all goes smoothly :)
Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
@oceane @lrvick oh, we are very much working with and for people in heavily repressive situations and they often use #deltachat when signal, threema, WhatsApp don't work .... And even if they do. Why? Because our apps provide instant onboarding without phone numbers, multi-profile and multi-device support and a pretty secure audited and analysed key management protocol without key servers. Plus support for state of the art circumvention proxying. There is a whole lot more than PFS to consider.
But now comes the hard part. Finding a server. This can be frustrating to the new user. There are over 3000 servers listed on the Mastodon site, where you can choose the ones that match your interests. They will all be closed to new members.
4/11
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.