josemurilo

josemurilo , 1 month ago to random

"…my main mistake was a decade-long one. For all those years, I asked my students to find a project to contribute to. So they blindly did. They didn’t try to think about it. They went to #Github and started browsing projects.

For all those years, I involuntarily managed to teach my students that #OpenSource was a corner of the web, a Microsoft-managed repository of small software one can play with. Nothing serious.

This is all my fault."

#centralisation

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

josemurilo , 2 months ago to random

#Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with #Tainacan, #ActivityPub, and WebSocial

"The crucial decision is between the policy that defends the common interest and deliberately favors the emergence of new digital institutionalities on the network, and the blind policy that, through inaction, allows the evolution of the digital environment to occur randomly, at the whim of the interests of large foreign technology companies."

https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/05/museums-in-the-fediverse-experiments-with-tainacan-activitypub-and-websocial/

josemurilo , 2 months ago to random Portuguese

Rapaz..
Quero ver o #Trump explicar como é que ele ia "encontrar" o #Bolsonaro, que está prestes a cumprir 27 anos na cadeia.
Bafão planetário!
#RachelMaddow
https://youtu.be/mBrVf1eh64w?si=wmPowg_7voyfl6Tx

josemurilo , 2 months ago to random

Grande dia!!
"In a video released by the supreme court, #Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag.

The video showed the device badly damaged and burned on both sides, but still on his ankle."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil

josemurilo , 2 months ago to random

#Huang is the conductor of the #Titanic band:

"#Nvidia Corp. delivered a #surprisingly strong revenue #forecast and pushed back on the idea that the #AI industry is in a #bubble, easing concerns that had spread across the tech sector."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/nvidia-gives-strong-forecast-helping-counter-fears-of-ai-bubble?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzYzMjAzMywiZXhwIjoxNzY0MjM2ODMzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVk2SVJHUTdLWlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzMEU1RDlEQjQ5N0M0MTUxQUUwODQxMjU5RkREQUJBQyJ9.0Vk5LntAB7F6Nv2et8fpK0Um_pKzGS6PIPRV5ovWqro

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josemurilo , 3 months ago to random

"#Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web. At the end of last week, they released #BonfireSocial, a microblogging app. Like Mastodon, Bonfire Social runs on #ActivityPub, but it takes differently opinionated approach to sociability."
Check it out!
https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

josemurilo , 3 months ago to random

#Tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for managing #digitalcollections and cultural objects in Brazilian institutions has been achieved, paving the way for broader applications.
#Museums of the Fediverse, give it a try!
https://tainacan.org/en/tainacan-1-0-0-an-open-source-flexible-and-powerful-software-for-creating-digital-archives-in-wordpress/

josemurilo , 4 months ago to random

#Enshittification: "the meaning has expanded to encompass a general vibe — a feeling far greater than frustration at Facebook, which long ago ceased being a good way to connect with friends, or Google, whose search is now baggy with SEO spam. Of late, the idea has been employed to describe everything from video games to television to American democracy itself."
@pluralistic is winning!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctorow-enshittification.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk8.lC4z.7jzMNc4Im1bV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

josemurilo , 5 months ago to random

"#Bluesky's #ToS contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them. This is so pro-enshittificatory, it's like a landing strip for the sole use of Enshittification Airlines, which can land a 747 full of enshittfying nonsense on Bluesky's users every 10 minutes, around the clock, without worrying about any legal repercussions."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/

georgetakei , 7 months ago to random

Things were fine, the economy was strong. They created chaos and turmoil, so now supposedly they alone can fix it.

josemurilo , 8 months ago to random

"Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but #Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed #openstandards (except when they didn’t), supported #opensource projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like #dontbeEvil (until they,in a true dark comedy move, retracted that motto).
I was always an anarchist, abstractly, but in many ways Google was my political awakening."
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

josemurilo , 9 months ago to random

On March 10, 2025, #Flipboard CEO and Co-founder @mike McCue took to the stage of the #FediverseHouse at #SXSW to show off #Surf, a new kind of #socialbrowser and a way to bring your communities together via #customfeeds
https://flipboard.video/w/rFyohvCiuPMm5ad7MyHy6h

josemurilo , 9 months ago to random

Who Is Afraid of #Degrowth?
Hello friends of #climateaction, #socialjustice, and a #livablefuture for all you can DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF If you would like a printed soft cover copy (25 Euros/30 Euros signed + shipping) please contact me via the contact form.
https://www.celinekeller.com/who-is-afraid-of-degrowth

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"O que aconteceu com todos esses #CEOs recém-fascistas, que antes eram apenas capitalistas de vigilância inofensivos e adoráveis?"
@aral

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"So if you, like countless others, have had it with #Meta’s algorithms whipping you into a frenzy over [insert cultural or political issue here] and are tired of the company slurping up your data to train its AI or send you targeted advertising and political messaging, then read on…"

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

#NodeBB: "We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services.
#Discourse has a working plugin.
#Ghost is building out in the open.

It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing.
The funny thing about #ActivityPub (#TheEqualizer) is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations."

RE: julian : Today's the day! :tada:... in Technical Support

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"By the end of 2024, #Zuckerberg had given up on finding any middle path through the polarized and opposite criticisms leveled against him by Republicans & Democrats.
#Musk spent the past year showing how Republican party support can be bought — cheaply. Zuckerberg’s motivation has only ever been to win. And a doddering, transactional Trump presented #Meta with a rare opportunity for a fresh start.
All they would have to do is whatever #Trump wanted them to do."

https://www.platformer.news/meta-fact-checking-free-speech-surrender/

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"#RusselVought will serve as the head of the Office of Management and Budget in the next Trump administration, the same position he held at the end of #Trump I.
He went from being a Republican operative who raged against government overreach in the early 2000s to literally drafting, as the man chiefly responsible for #Project2025’s “Playbook,” the avalanche of presidential executive orders with which the Trumpists hope to take over the state and reshape society."

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-ideologue-of-the-post-constitutional

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"Sustainable Storage with Compressed Air (#Caes), a pioneering proposal in #Brazil, aims to manage load fluctuations in the grid and support the integration of #renewable energies.

The system works by compressing air in underground caverns using the excess energy generated during periods of low energy demand. When demand increases, compressed air is released and passes through turbines that convert this #energy back into #electricity."

https://jornal.usp.br/uspnews/researchers-seek-to-make-energy-and-carbon-storage-feasible-on-a-large-scale-in-brazil/

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random Portuguese

"A federatable service isn’t a federated one. The fact that #Bluesky and Threads claim that they will someday be federated is an ocean away from actually federating."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random Portuguese

"The chapter explores the non-capitalist [#postcapitalist] elements of the #fediverse, including the use of donations and non-profit organizations to fund servers, mutual aid between fediverse members, and how artists and musicians use the network to promote their work. Together, these folks are forging an alternative not just to corporate social media, but to #capitalism itself."

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Move-Slowy-Preview.html

josemurilo , 1 year ago to random

"As companies like [#Google] withdraw the option to use software that runs on your own computer to create files that live on that computer, control over our own lives is quietly slipping away. Sure, it's great to have all your legal documents scanned, encrypted and hosted on GDrive, where they can't be burned up in a house-fire. But if a Google subcontractor decides you've broken some unwritten rule, you can lose access to those docs forever, without appeal or recourse."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service