@mcc

When you start thinking that using social media is just natural, remember what you're actually feeding. The #dotcons are built around and profit from some of the worst parts of human nature. If we want civilization and society to survive, we cannot keep feeding these systems.

This is a complex and counter-intuitive subject. As capitalism and the so-called "free market" stop providing the trust and social glue that hold society together, we're left with a more fundamental question: who controls our social data?

Open or closed becomes the choice we face.

* Open: social data as a shared commons, something we collectively build and benefit from.

* Closed: social data as something owned, controlled and exploited by someone else.

Look at the two paths that have developed over the last decade: the closed path of the #encryptionists and the more open path of the #Fediverse.

There's an interesting contradiction here. The #Fediverse grew through a hybrid open/closed model, selling a version of openness that was never quite the whole story. That ambiguity helped it grow quickly. You could almost respect a good social con!

But don't learn the wrong lesson from its success. The direction we need to travel is towards more openness, not more enclosure.

We need to judge projects by the #4opens first, then by the #PGA hallmarks. These give us practical ways to distinguish genuine commons-building from another flavour of the same old enclosure.

This is what the #OMN is about: rebuilding the social foundations of the #openweb, not simply building another set of social media platforms.

Week 45 of #WeeklyBeats

My aims for something different this week were to riff on 'Popcorn', made famous by Hot Butter (I sure went far from that), use a preset drum pattern, and repitch the entire finished track.

https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/candy-corn-2

#Musodon #ElectronicMusic #DubTechno #Bitwig #WeeklyBeats2026

@fionescu I have, both on mobile and desktop. it runs fine, as its javascript is minimal (and optional)

@pluralistic

Trump and his MAGA oligarchs looked at the end of the American Century and thought, "We can make a fortune by stripping it for parts".
#ThisIsAmericaNow
#AlwaysAGriftWithTrump

@puniko War klasse. All diese tollen Fedi-Menschen zu sehen die man so kennt (und neue besser kennenlernen )

Nur war ich doch bissle müde am Sonntag dann. Voluteering und spät ins Bett gehen sind keine geile kombi xD.

Darfst aber mal raten wie viel Hacking ich gemacht hatte: 0.

Aber ich konnt mich mit tollen Leuten unterhalten und der Vibe war echt nice. Bunny wurde für süß befunden. (Wir reden nicht über das Tosti-Incident).

Hab aber fast mein Top mit Spezi versaut lol (kimono-ärmel...) Feli war aber schnell mit nem Lappen zur stelle und es hat keine Flecken gegeben

Und für mich ists eh immer toll meine tollen selbstgemachten Kleider und Röcke auszuführen. Geschirr wurde noch nie süßer gespült (logisch ohne Kimono-Ärmel lol)

Mame und Aety waren noch kurz besorgt ob ich mir net den schönen Rock versau. Wenn doch ginge der halt in die Wäsche.

War aber alles echt toll wenn auch anstrengend. Aber ich hab auch mal paar Leute getroffen die ich sonst nur von fedi kenn. Johann, Snow und Feli. Tosti und Helene waren auch da. Good Vibes.

Viel Liebe geht raus an Steph und seine Eltern ❤️

Und auch an Aety, Mame und den ganzen Rest der Orga!

What about when one of the trolls is the dev of say piefed? 🤔

Any laptop made within the last ... 15 years is probably capable enough to run a modern linux distribution (this is not the place to complain about linux) and a video editor like kdenlive and, having done so, it becomes as capable or more capable than basically any television studio prior to the proliferation of NLE.

A single decade old laptop (one that can still be reliably picked up on the used market for $100 or so) can reliably be used to produce *and distribute* film and television, as long as you have access to a decent camera (and you probably do!)

@cmdrmoto Well in the context of the show and who said it, exactly the same as IRL.

Joe McMillan is an utter gremlin.

The thing can be different things, it's why I also tend to be very clear that you can't separate your politics from the tech you build.

Origins matter. Our Organisations are Libertarian. So what's your thing?

You misunderstood me. It’s not that the content is not relevant. It’s that the threaded discussion style just doesn’t map to Mastodon. Technically they can talk to each other but practically there is no sensible way to display the info on Mastodon.

The activitypub protocol that powers the fediverse is very versatile. So versatile that not every message can sensibly be displayed by every implementation.

Example: Mastodon does not support downvotes, lemmy and peertube do. In lemmy the descussion belongs to a group entity, in Mastodon everything belongs to a person entity.

Both are valid implementations of the spec but they use different parts of it that are relevant for them.

@h3artbl33d @sinza bsdlab.au runs on FreeBSD using Akkoma FWIW

@onepict i am absolutely fascinated by how lee pace portrays such compelling morally ambiguous characters.

that kind of charisma is a hell of a thing, good or evil notwithstanding

@cmdrmoto He's so good. Even though In the later series, they mess with Joe's characterisation Lee Pace sells it.

It's rare to have someone with such a melodic voice, such a tall commanding figure. He's good at playing wounded men.

I also appreciate an actor that can chew scenery.

We respect the Pace in my house.

@ml gotogate maybe

Rosneft has introduced fuel purchase limits at gas stations across several Russian regions.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/09/rosneft-begins-limiting-fuel-sales-at-gas-stations-in-russia

We get it, you were educated in the US.

@mavica_again yeah it's terrible!!

When I start ranting about this stuff, it's useful to remember that the 2019 film Parasite was edited by Yang Jin-mo on a mac running Final Cut Pro 7.

Final Cut Pro 7 was released in 2009 and stopped receving updates in 2011, and won't run on versions of Mac OS newer than OS X Yosemite (released in 2014, updates ended in 2017)

That means Jin-Mo was almost certainly using a laptop from 2015 or earlier to edit the 2020 best picture winner.

and, while new codecs and file formats have been released since then, Final Cut Pro 7 running on a 2015 macbook is just as capable of editing in 2026 as it was in 2019.

We’re a bronze sponsor of FOSS for All Conference 2026, happening November 28 at AWS Korea in Seoul.

It’s a non-profit community conference run by FOSS for All. The goal is to give smaller open source projects a place to meet, next to the big names. Sessions cover code, docs, governance, licensing, and community work.

#FOSS #OpenSource #Seoul
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@hacks4pancakes cool, thanks. It's a great article, this makes it more accessible.