@FediVideo Hey! Just wanted to plug my own peertube retrocomputing channel, Scandinavian Retro, at video.chasmcity.net/c/scandina… - it's fediverse first, fediverse only.
I was a bit melancholic about the internet yesterday, but I realize now that the feeling mostly came from the fact that search is very broken almost everywhere
Outside of fedi nobody uses hashtags anymore. So if you want to discover new opinion and current discussion on let's say gardening you need to search specific terms and hope people are using them in their post
Or you go look for platform specific "categories/spaces" (twitter/facebook groups, subreddit); but those have problems:
You need to assume people post there (if someone post on their personal profil instead you will not see it)
Those spaces are fragmented (multiple groups for the same topic)
Those groups sometime just don't exist or are badly managed by the person in charge
It's sometimes hard to discover those groups in the first place (the UI don't always present them clearly)
And outside of social media I will not shock anyone if I say that that Google is less than optimal to find individual voices on a specific topic.
This just adds to the fact that a very small percentage of netizen post anything on the public internet to begin with.
Discord/chat rooms are probably the best way to have current discussion on specific topic with people, but it's outside of the public internet and is virtually impossible to discover unless you know someone already.
I care a lot about search because without it you're kinda at the mercy of luck or algorithm to find current discussion on a subject you care about - and if it's slightly niche this becomes almost impossible.
The only solution I can think of is automatic labelling of content (something an algo already does), but accessible/public and most importantly searchable. This on top of improving existing search engines (more filters like masto and twt does, synonyms and fuzzy search...)
Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about it and had to get this off my chest :clippy_lean:
Private post from me: "Internet is so large, and yet feels sometimes way too small and empty"
@NIGHTEN So, basically what we had before the world wide web came along and destroyed the internet then :)
I mean, back then, all we had was usenet, gopher and maybe IRC (later on). You had to actually fix your own problems instead of just entering your error in a search engine and copy-pasting solutions without understanding what you're doing until it worked again.
@NIGHTEN And there wasn't as much on the internet as there is now. And much of it was on the public internet.
I think it's forums that actually heralded the beginning of the end. That's when people thought, 'hey, why should we put things on the public internet, let's create small centralised hubs of information'. And then facebook extrapolated that, and created their walled garden that stood model for all those other walled gardens that came after it.
I think. I'm not an internet historian though, just someone who was there when http wasn't invented yet :) It all went down the drain when http got invented.
Hey
@Codeberg. I'm a "corporate member" (this sounds so dirty, it's just me, myself and I), and I was wondering if there will be a reminder that I need to renew or whether the responsibility to remember this is entirely on me. I think a year has passed since I joined, but not quite sure.
@Seven Oh, cool, Firato. I remember going there as a kid, marvelling at such inventions as the laserdisc and seeing my first laser show. Been watching some old episodes from Wondere Wereld recently, from Firato :)
Who would've thought the inside of a water tower would sound so good? My mate MacSimski did. Met up with him today inside a 60.000 liter concrete tank, where he was playing a synth through it. Sounded oh so good.
Exterior of the water tower. A green oasis of oak trees that have started to show autumn colours surrounds a gray collos reaching up to a blue sky. Sunlight graces the top of the building and the trees.
Another saw plate cleaned and sharpened. A 50cm rip saw, 5 ppi. My smallest is 40cm, and that will be next.
Not happy with the feel of this tote, though. Will do a little work on it. Bevel out the grip more (most important), accentuate the incurves here and there, and add a lamb’s tongue. Saw maker’s need to bring those back.
@miketorr
@technorow The first draft is indeed just that. I don't keep it simple though, I just go without thinking, just let the words flow, no need to involve the editor brain (in fact, editor brain gets in the way of writing that first draft).
It often is an inconsistent mess with bad prose and clunky writing, but it's complete. I know where the inconsistencies are, and that's what I'll fix in a 2nd draft. Then a third draft to actually work on the prose, sharpen up suspense on the chapter and paragraph level etc...
At that point I'll usually start to involve others for the rest of the editorial process. Developmental editing, beta readers, copy editing, line editing and finally a proofreading pass.
It's probably more than other self-published authors do, but I find it worth it.
I also have a half-finished first draft waiting to be picked up again. It's been ages. Once life settles down after the moving-because-of-nazis-in-town thing, I hope to get back to writing again.
@miketorr And I am kind of envious of your musical skills. I've played the piano as a kid, created tracker music as a teen and played drums in a band in my early twenties, but that's where my musical career ended due to other interests :)
twikz FP4 here with /e/ - no complaints, has served me well for many years now. Graphene fanbois will cry that it's very insecure, but in a world where big tech (google et al) are the biggest threat factor, /e/ makes the most sense to me.
You might’ve noticed the EU and Latvian flags in our recent brochures. Over 50% of our products are already made in the EU — and that number’s growing.
We’re bringing production closer to home to ensure quality, supply chain security, and transparency.
@mikrotik I was just discussing with a few people that I switched from Netgear (US) to Mikrotik (EU) for my own and business purposes.
I had one doubt though, which is that Latvia isn't directly known for it's acceptance of LGBTQIA+. I know a lot has improved on that front in the past decade, but there still is widespread discrimination, and LGBTQIA+ people still don't enjoy the same rights and protections the general populace have.
Where does MikroTik stand on this? What's the culture like at MikroTik? Is it safe to be LGBTQIA+ for your employees?
@AngelaScholder
@mikrotik Thanks for replying! I've been using your routers and modems, but only recently found out you have a very interesting line of switches as well. Keep up the good work :)
I made my very first #OpenStreetMap edit yesterday, and I can't believe it took me so long to do so. It's addictive, I've been adding missing buildings, adressed and roads in my neighbourhood all day, and today as well. It feels so empowering to be able to do that and improve the quality of the maps for myself and others. And it's fun too.
Thoughts on fairphone 6?
Been looking at the Fairphone 6 and damn, support until 2033? That's actually insane. ...
Chat64 Instant Chatroom Cartridge (for C64, Atari & Speccy) ( makertube.net )
Testing the Chat64 cartridge which gives you a plug & play instant chatroom on your vintage home computer. ...