Every time I have mentioned the excellent social reading network @bookwyrm, people have replied or messaged asking if there is a film & TV version. I'm not exaggerating, it is every single time, and different people each time.
If there are any developers out there looking for Fediverse ideas, please do a film & TV version of BookWyrm! (More info about BookWyrm here by the way: https://joinbookwyrm.com)
Film data is (I think) available freely from Wikidata, so that side shouldn't be an issue?
There is demand for a federated film review site, its users are just waiting for it to come into existence.
I'm new to the Fediverse and a voracious reader, and would love to join this instance, but it says registration is closed? Is that temporary? I tried to join wyrms.de, but the instance doesn't show up on apps (isn't "official" the error messages keep saying) and the feed in a browser doesn't work, so I think it must be broken somehow.
The first server was bookwyrm.social and is run by the lead developer of BookWyrm.
I think they don't want everyone on one server, because the whole point of a federated network is to spread the load across many servers. So, they often close the main server in order to encourage people onto the smaller ones.
Which app are you trying to use BookWyrm through by the way?
I'm using the Toot! app on my iPad and iPhone, and when I search for both bookwyrm.social and wyrms.de, nothing comes up.
The thing I'm really confused about is that I requested an invite to wyrms.de and got one (yay!) and I am able to log into that via Safari, but then I can't see anything in my feed, as though there is neither a federated nor local feed.....maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works? This is all new to me so I apologize if this is obvious! :)
I don't think you can use Mastodon apps with BookWyrm accounts, I think you can only sign into BookWyrm accounts through the server's website?
You can follow and interact with BookWyrm accounts from your Mastodon app using your Mastodon account, though.
Does the wyrms.de account work okay, but the feed is empty? Sort of like when you first joined Mastodon? It might be you need to follow some BookWyrm accounts?
Yep, it's like I can log in, but then there is no local feed. So I can't see anyone to join! :)
When I joined weirder.earth, even before following anyone I was able to see the local instance feed (and the federated feed), is that not the same on wyrms.de?
Oh hey, is Bookwyrm a different beast than Mastodon? Maybe that's where I'm confused. Is there no federated/local feed at all?
I'll email the admin and ask why all the links/lists go to 504 errors.
I'm not sure if relying on TMDB is a good idea, as it's owned by a commercial company? Whatever promises they make now might be broken if it went against their financial interests?
(IMDB was originally crowdsourced, by the way)
If I understand correctly, the advantage of Wikidata is the data won't be suddenly withdrawn.
The problem I have with wikidata is it's not managed well. Lots of missing and incorrect data. If something is not "notable" enough for them = deleted. And, they block VPN logins even if you're an old user.
As much as I want to update their entries, forcing me to disconnect from VPN is a big no no for me these days.
Long-term, it's probably better if someone starts an FreeDB/OpenDB database for movies and tv, just like how musicbrainz provides for music.
The challenge with these services is populating their data, and users today expects to find what they want instead of submitting new entries. Many are willing to update but few cares to submit.
I think the musicbrainz flow works. There are certain information where a gatekeeper is needed, or a vote from the community. And then there are those that are immediately applied.
If someone understands how it all works, maybe something like it can be made for movies/tv and everything else.
Earlier movies/tv dbs faced that problem, everything goes through their checkers.
But you have reach to get people on board who are interested and before starting development a lot of non dev work is needed to develop an idea of what the platform should do.
At first, my reply wasn't meant offensive or anything. I don't want to make you do things you are not comfortable with.
But to explain my position: You are calling for devs, and in the same sense you could also call for people writing down their ideas, people organizing a collection of money or whatever. Such projects require devs, but thats not the only thing and only devs probably would make this project fail.
Perhaps ratings and reviews could be implemented as CRDT instead of being controlled by a single org? IMDB was originally crowd-sourced, so that trick can be pulled again, but this time in a different (decentralized) way.
Ganz viele Fragen: Welche Distro? Pen funktioniert? WLAN und LTE laufen? Beide Kameras funktionieren? Irgendwelche anderen Einschränkungen? Veränderungen der Akkulaufzeit unter Linux? Danke dir!
Die Distribution ist KDE Neon User Edition (ich wollte was Ubuntu-basierendes, um mit Secure Boot keinen Stress zu haben und wollte 5.25 mal ausprobieren). Pen funktioniert, macht Spaß mit rNote. WLAN läuft, ich habe hier die Variante ohne LTE, kann dazu also nichts sagen. Die Kameras funktionieren nicht OOTB, ist ja auch kein UVC-Kram, aber man kann die wohl zur Zusammenarbeit bewegen, wenn man will: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-Support
Andere Einschränkungen (abseits von Distributionen wie Neon, die ohne virtuelle Tastatur kommen ) sind mir nicht aufgefallen, und zur Akkulaufzeit kann ich einfach noch nichts sagen, ich habe das Ding erst seit Donnerstag - außer vielleicht, dass die Laufzeit definitiv nicht katastrophal schlecht ist, das Gerät im Standby-Modus kaum Strom zu brauchen scheint und auch bislang immer zuverlässig wieder aufgewacht ist.
Danke. Die jährliche sommerliche Linux-Teststrecke liegt vor mir. Die Cams müssen laufen, da sonst Vikos nicht laufen. Schaue mir die Distro näher an. Bislang Arch mit dem besten Erfolg getestet, im Sinne von der Einäugige... LTE lief nicht. Die Qualität der Cams erinnerte an die 2000er.
Kameras sind halt schwierig, Linux-Telefon-Benutzer können ein Lied davon singen... Ich würde für Videokonferenzen einfach auf Droidcam oder so setzen, sollte besser aussehen.
Neon kriegt von mir mangels Virtueller Tastatur und fehlender Paketierung von Mobil-Apps wie Angelfish keine Empfehlung, es war einfach nur der erste Versuch, da ich wusste, dass es a) aktuelles KDE enthält (worüber ich in der nächsten Folge von techniktechnik.de kurz reden wollte) und b) keine Zickereien/Konfigurationsorgien mit Secure-Boot erfordert. Ich werde als nächstes mal ein Fedora probieren. :)
Hi scholar.social and the wider Fedi, are you a legal scholar or attorney that has informed takes on Clarence Thomas' expressed views on substantive due process (or do you know someone that does)? If so, I would very much like to interview you (or them) for an upcoming episode of my podcast.
If you're in the Seattle area (for an in-person conversation) that's better, but remote works as well.
How? Did you have a scanner that beeped faster the closer you got to one? Did it have a half-disc screen with flashing lights in the direction and distance of their location?
For the bulk of them, we were able to determine a rough location based off the transmitter's known range and the placement of the displays the transmitter serviced.
After that it was a matter of spot checking ceiling tiles armed with a flashlight and a ladder.
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very cool. I remember how excited I was for Unity 8 back in 2014/2015. When Canonical cancelled it, I was extremely disappointed. Keep up the great work!
Tbh, the fact that there are no cables visible in the video is a bit misleading according to me. If this was really possible without cables that would be very cool.
Maybe the part with using #nexdock360 and #librem5 as a tablet is a bit far fetched...
All the rest is working for me just as @kyle described it. I extended his solution with an external usb-c dock to have the #librem5 charge (no matter how full I connect it) when the combo N360/L5 sits on my desk at home connected to external power.
By doing so I even can switch off the N360 and keep the L5 charging and connected to my lan.
At the #minidebconf in Hamburg last month I deliberately didn't bring my laptop and did all my packaging and light coding on the #librem5 using a #nexdock360.
While it did indeed get a bit hot during compilation, I enjoyed using #phosh in docked mode very much 🚀
Sailed back to the nearest little inhabited nook we could find with a cellular antenna so we could upload our slides for NIME 2022.
It'll be our second talk done entirely with our little slideshow program Adelie. Rekka has drawn a bunch of beautiful slides for this, I will share it as soon as it goes online.
It's ALIVE (sort of)! ALIIIVE (sortof)!!! #c64 #uEliteBoard64 Char ROM socket is wobbly, no keyboard or sound yet, but hey - it didn't go up in smoke, and it displayed something on first try! *Does his happy dance*
Showcasing the new postprocessing plugins support in Megapixels and the current release of postprocessd with fixed stacking. These changes will most likely be in the new Megapixels release once 1.5.0 is tagged and postprocessd is in the process of being updated in Alpine Linux so it should show up in postmarketOS edge and hopefully in the next service pack for stable.
Suppose a man plants a seed in my front yard, it takes root, & it starts to grow. Suppose I didn't give consent or permission for the planting. In my yard, I have rights to pull it up or let it grow, because it’s on my property. If this situation unfolds inside my body, in my flesh, blood & organs, I'm denied the right to make this decision—because my body is not considered to be my own. Explain to me again how I'm considered equal to any man, under the law? My body matters. My freedom matters.
Question for the fedi: my partner would like to move off of Insta which is where she follows many activist accounts, primarily around feminism, parenting, herbalism, etc. She's considering mastodon but I'm not sure what to suggest for an instance. Any one out there have any thoughts?
@ParadeGrotesque it’s not so much finding a particular instance and more about curating who they follow by searching in keywords and hashtags etc. Takes a bit longer initially but pays off. Also Pixelfed is federated image sharing so look for instances of that.
I can map what’s going on in my life against my most used emoji.
😜 or 😆- I’m relatively carefree and joking around a lot. 😢- I find this is usually when other people are having a hard time. When I have my hard times, I like to replace sadness with action of some kind. 😩- Best case: why is (insert corporation) so hard to deal with? Worst case: why is US healthcare so hard to get? 😅- Dang, things are hard, but I guess I have to keep pushing forward anyway.
It can be a lot of work to change a large application that previously stored all its data in one place to split that data into separate directories for the XDG spec.
Should I get a PinePhone? I think I'd mainly just use it as a pocket-computer rather than a phone. The form factor looks nice. I'd also want to get the keyboard too.
multiple reasons, obviously, you would be better off finding any disused phone and find a keyboard it, but principally, if Pinephone is built anything like the pinebooks, they'll be fragile and poorly built, the software support will be weak, and the time you think you'll be "computing on the road", you'll actually spend running around looking for drivers.
Old phones are a bigger gamble IMHO. PinePhone drivers definitely work, or at least are usable for daily computing stuff. Batteries are also not such a big concern, since it uses a standard Samsung battery. With an old phone, you can't even be sure if it supports OTG and unless you get lucky with pmOS, you will be stuck with an old outdated downstream kernel. Only real driver issue with PP I can think of is the screen flickering and that has a tested workaround.
4am. Can't sleep. No, that's not fair; haven't tried. Amazing how much faffing about one can do. My brain clearly needs to sort something out, and keeping me awake all night is just a means to an end.
Gad, I look irresistible with dark circles under my eyes.
If you have an independently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server by installing the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. This means people can follow your blog from Mastodon etc.
Here's how to do it:
1. Go to your WordPress dashboard's Plugins section, click "add new" and search for "ActivityPub" . Click "install now" on the plugin, and when it has finished installing, click "activate".
2. On the WordPress dashboard, go to the "Users" section. Click on your username and scroll to the bottom to find your Fediverse address. Share this address with whoever wants to follow your blog on Mastodon etc.
3. To alter the plugin's settings, on your WordPress dashboard go to Settings > ActivityPub
If you want to switch off or remove the plugin, go to "plugins", then "deactivate" or "delete".
NOTE: This plugin only works with independently hosted WordPress sites. It doesn't work with free accounts on WordPress.com.
Sometimes I can't believe how fast computers actually are..
I generate a thousand cache files, 500 html files, validate thousands of links between each of them, and all of this in a VM(which you'd expect to be slower than native) in less than a second.
The truly scary thing is how successfully all that power has been negated by sloppy coding and lazy abstractions for decades 😢 Imagine if an 19XXs era hacker could have been transported directly to where we are now, without being scarred by the intervening time, and let loose with the computers we have now. Or: What Would Margaret Hamilton Do, WWMHD
once you have read the next 3. Id recommend the series Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. And I would VERY much recommend the audio book version as R C Bray is an amazing reader.
It does get a bit meh during parts of the books, but overall a great story. Warning: there are 14+ out so far, and they are not short either!
😊 wish I could find a crowd sourced goodreads alternative. The bookwyrm instances I've tried usually don't have books I'm looking up. Want more of a database than the social aspect since Mastodon ha dles the social.
Some random tips for people running their own #Mastodon server:
-When blocking, you only need to block the main domain (e.g. example.com). All subdomains are automatically included in the block (e.g. subdomain.example.com).
-When making custom emoji, remember to include alt text with CamelCase so that blind people can understand them through screen readers.
questions posted to the chat for a few minutes! #pixelfedLive
) sind mir nicht aufgefallen, und zur Akkulaufzeit kann ich einfach noch nichts sagen, ich habe das Ding erst seit Donnerstag - außer vielleicht, dass die Laufzeit definitiv nicht katastrophal schlecht ist, das Gerät im Standby-Modus kaum Strom zu brauchen scheint und auch bislang immer zuverlässig wieder aufgewacht ist.
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