Danilo @danyspin97@fosstodon.org

#ActivityPub support is live! You can now follow *Public* Write.as blogs from Mastodon, such as our @blog

It's limited to Public blogs right now (a paid feature) so we can slowly roll this out and plug holes as needed -- once I'm confident things are stable in the next few days, it'll be available to everyone for free.

You can read a bit more about the update, and I'd love to hear any feedback / ideas / bugs here! https://discuss.write.as/t/activitypub-support/64

Who wants to work with me and @dajbelshaw, developing the #ActivityPub based #federated back-end for #MoodleNet?

We're looking for a #developer familiar with #Elixir (or transferable skills like #Erlang and #RubyOnRails).

The whole project will be #FOSS and you can work from home, what's not to love ;-) Please RT!

https://blog.moodle.net/2018/hiring-backend-developer/

#tech #job #programming #jobs #software #remote #federation #decentralised

@kev You're hacker news famous!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686537
I see @codesections in the comments, too. :D

Upcoming Firefox release will start sending all your DNS requests to Cloudflare

https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/

Looks like this will override local resolvers and therefore break any LAN only domains (as well as sending data to a US company).

Details on how to change this in about:config here https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-privacy-in-firefox/

John Cage's ten rules for students and teachers https://boingboing.net/2018/08/05/john-cages-ten-rules-for-stu.html

Thanks to #elementaryOs I found this cool "new" platform which is a better #decentralized approach to #twitter feeds I checked out their #AppCenterSpotlight series https://buff.ly/2vByhvc and found this gem

RT @Puri_sm@twitter.com: We have another #Librem5 progress report for everyone.

"Designing the scope of the Librem 5’s communication apps" by @feeef@twitter.com, our Director of Creative

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-16/
cc: @gnome@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Puri_sm/status/1025468416965128192

In #Signal's controversial article "Why Signal won't federate" https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ they're correct that centralised services are great for one thing: deploying updates.

However, just as "WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update", the opposite is also true: Google Maps was able to introduce 24/7 location history tracking to over a billion users with a single software update.

If this isn't Batman tracking I don't know what is.

#screenshotsunday
#linux
#dwm
#st
#tmux
#vim

I have written a blog post about my experiece with OrtholinearKB #planck keyboard today. Hope its informative for someone who is considering getting one. Read it here :

https://stigatle.no/index.php/2018/07/30/planck-mechanical-keyboard/

Project Update in which I beg you to help by spreading the word about this project... Just like I'm doing now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miketiv/byte-driver/posts/2250643

#gamedev #gameing

CW:flashing animated gif at link (it's cool though)

I was reading itsfoss.com and some old SysAdmin humour. Time for a rehash:

I’ll tell you a DNS joke but be advised, it could take up to 24 hours for everyone to get it.

If you want more abuse you can read more of them here: https://itsfoss.com/funniest-linux-jokes/

* Please Boost *

There is an open poll for #CloutStream where your input is needed regarding privacy and usability. The poll will close on July 31st and the results will be shared shortly after.

Thanks!
http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/kyjwkw/cloutstream

@federicomena I think it's a human factor more than anything. You can write bigger programs in Lisp, or Ruby or something higher level that has powerful expressiveness. But beyond a certain size, there too you should partition the problem into modules.
A real fluke is Java, which is higher level but it has all the lack of expressiveness of C and more.
The capacity to hold a number of ideas in our heads is limited, and there seems to be an optimum number of them.