Looking for a new instance. Tempted just to spin one up. Suggestions appreciated.
Less social media, easier password security.
God this is going to be the best boozy bike ride home
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It turns out people have researched how to do algorithmic recommendations without users having to reveal their personal preferences, and I am intrigued. Apparently, in principle we could have the good parts of, say, Netflix suggesting more things you might want to watch, without exposing ourselves to entities like Facebook selling all our data.
See "Distributed Differential Privacy and Applications" by Narayan, for example. (Also that's the first CC-BY licensed PhD thesis I've seen!)
These days I'm always on the lookout for ways to shed all the complexity that I've added to my life over the years. Delete extraneous apps popping up constant notifications, discard and donate unnecessary things cluttering my space, cut down on the noise.
Watching Facebook run around in the news is probably my new favorite hobby.
Wait, quick question, are all vegetables super foods!?
Set up a #wordpress dev environment this afternoon on #archlinux.
Doing almost anything on Arch is doing it the hard way but it's so rewarding and you learn so much. My knowledge of #linux has probably tripled or more since I installed Arch.
I'm a tech worker building radical systems from the bottom up.
I'm always down to talk about:
- #decentralization
- #sustainability
- #freesoftware
- #animalrights
- #opensource
- #socialcoop
- #veganfood
- #healthcare
- #autonomy
- #infosec
- #privacy
- #oregon
- #offgrid
- #node
- #coop
- #linux
- #tech
- #p2p
- #pdx
- #dat
- #sar
In a fully cooperative economy, how would one invest for the future?
Right now I invest in a total stock market fund since I don’t want to work forever, but the more I learn about the issues with absentee owners and the benefits of worker co-ops, the more I realize that in doing so I am being part of the problem.
Is there a more ethical way to get good returns on otherwise non-utilized money?
Setting up a WordPress environment in arch = 😫🤤🤯
Getting back into web design/development for fun and profit. Looking into Wordpress and Shopify to start, I am very comfortable with Python and ok with JS, any CMS/Frameworks/etc, I should be considering from a freelance perspective?
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#introduction I am an IWW living in Baltimore. I started a workers cooperative bike shop. Now I work at a democratic school. I have hording kind of thing ... but with books. I ride a bike to work ... and a few times a year I ride a bike for fun too.
Turns out golfing is my shit.
Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
I want to host a photo blog to provide a place where people from Facebook can see my photos after I delete my account, but I'm unsure what the best and most affordable solution is.
Initially I was thinking to host a Jekyll blog on GitHub pages and then find separate hosting for the images, but it seems that if I'm buying hosting anyways maybe I should just host a WordPress blog?
Looking for #advice...
#MastoPhoto #photography #blogging #deletefacebook #hosting #Jekyll #WordPress
"Facebook is like what if you yearbook is the necronomicon" -max scoville
