Eric Buijs @ericbuijs@fosstodon.org

A somewhat older (2016) but still interesting article about the history of #Hubzilla. Also contains a biography of Mike Macgirvin the developer that started #Friendica, Hubzilla and #Osada. It's interesting to learn that Mike launched Mistpark, the predecessor of Friendica, before #Diaspora*.

http://www.talkplus.org/blog/2016/the-history-of-hubzilla/

#Fediverse

The #Fediverse can look intimidating for people not to familiair with it, because of the large number of options and all the lingo.

I therefore wrote a guide for any #GPlus user or #gplusrefugee that's (still) looking for an alternative social network in the #Fediverse.

http://homehack.nl/guide-for-gplus-refugees-to-choose-a-new-social-network-in-the-fediverse/

I took a look at the #Solid project of Tim Berners Lee and to me it looks very similar to #FreedomBox of Eben Moglen and #Freedombone of Bob Mottram except that Solid is far from ready.

Any thought about the Solid project? How is it different from projects like Freedombox or Freedombone?

https://github.com/solid

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/an-introduction-to-solid-tim-berners-lees-new-re-decentralized-web-25d6b78c523b

Helping my son buillding the prototype to collect disposable beer cups that we designed earlier in #Solvespace. We still need to build-in the Seeeduino and we definately need another sensor. What a stupid idea it was to use the sonic sensor. 😅

Link to earlier post about this project.
https://fosstodon.org/web/statuses/101370361250898289

I don't know if the're a lot of #Diaspora users here but I wrote down some cases when to use #Friendica instead.

http://homehack.nl/when-to-use-friendica-over-diaspora/

What I appreciate a lot is the ability to follow multiple hashtags over the #Fediverse including Mastodon.

I listened to The Snapchat Thief podcast of Reply All and at some point a hack called SIM Swapping is discussed. In short it goes like this. Someone that pretends to be you calls the telephone company and says "I've got a new phone and please transfer my phone number to that phone". Once that's done 2FA is used to gain access to all kinds of online accounts. I'm not a security expert at all but this sounds pretty scary.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8a9y/how-to-protect-yourself-from-sim-swapping-hacks

I was at the Carravagio exhibition in Utrecht yesterday. It was crowded but while looking at the paintings I forgot the people around me. I especially liked the painting of Simon Vouet en Giovanny Serodine with his loose style. I think I'll have to go again.😀

I've been postponing this for too long but I finally started to learn #Bash scripting. Below the first humble fruits of my labor.

http://homehack.nl/humble-start-with-bash-scripting/