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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2020 00:20:26 CEST ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://social.umeahackerspace.se/avatar/15503-48-20200421020821.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Apparently, someone was told that it is rude to subscribe to / follow someone you do not personally know. What? Where is this person from? From day one, the Fediverse (and same for Twitter!) has been a place where you subscribe to someone because you want to see their posts in your stream. If we could only subscribe to people we personally knew in real life, the Fediverse would be still be Evan and Stav.
It does bother me that so many new users have no interest in or respect for the history of the place where they post. Making up such "rules" on the spot is not good. -
Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2020 09:05:12 CEST 
Michael Vogel
♲ @crossgolf_rebel@chaos.social: So, hier noch mal eine kleine Ausbeute von heute Nacht auf der Suche nach der #milchstraße
Wir haben auch #Neowise gesehen und das auch recht deutlich ohne Kamera oder Fernglas -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 22:01:30 CEST 
Douglas A. Whitfield
literally digital, but... https://blocsonic.com/releases/type/fortyfives -
Friendica News (news@forum.friendi.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 08:50:47 CEST 
Friendica News
Happy 10th Birthday Friendica!
Ten years ago the 1st commit https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/friendica/commit/6348e70daa113e8b3203de8fbc919d08c90d972e to the git repository of Mistpark was made by Mike Macgirvin, a project that since has become Friendica accumulating some 27.000 commits contributing the work of more then 250 people from all around the world.
Mistpark and Friendica themes from 2010 to 2020
Together we have build a social media platform that had many faces over the years. It has grown from a decentralized communication platform into an integral part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse and Federation. Allowing its users to interact with their friends and family across the borders of nodes, projects and physical distance outside the world of data-harvesting corporations.
Thank you Mike and everybody else who has contributed their time to the project over the years! And while we are preparing the 2020.06 release https://forum.friendi.ca/display/f3ad7b1c-745e-e63a-ca7a-80a162175644 of Friendica, lets have a big party to celebrate ten years of this wonderful part of the free social web.
friendi.ca/2020/07/02/happy-10… -
Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 14:39:52 CEST 
Tobias
I've joined the Fediverse August 2008 as @Tobias Diekershoff, after a report in one of Germans IT-News portals. I never was on Twitter before, but had a, more or less dormant, Facebook account. Microblogging was fun, in contrast to organizing study groups at FB ;-) and when Laconica (the software that ran identi.ca back then) got a first release to host your own instance, I set mine up and became one of those early pioneers stepping into the void starting to form the bubble that today is called the Fediverse.
And maybe I should some grayish strands into my profile picture ;-)
Time for a campfire story // Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
And while Microblogging was fun, for me one thing missing were private postings. Postings I only shared with friends, or with the people from my study group or with family members. So when diaspora* got a first alpha version released I got really excited about the self-hosted alternative to FB. So, I tried to set-up diaspora* on my server at home and failed after two weekends struggling with the requirements and the stable version of Debian :-)
So I looked for an alternative to the alternative and found Mistpark. A small one-man project to build a social media platform with Facebook like features. And one big plus point, it was written in PHP, same as Laconica/StatusNet, and was installed within minutes on the Debian box. I don't know exactly when that was, but it should be around December of 2010.
The last ten years went by in the blink of an eye. Friendica was the 1st multi protocol project in the Fedivers & Federation, speaking with IMAP, RSS feeds and both the OStatus and the diaspora* world. (And picked up ActivityPub along the way at some point.) It got my central spot of personal communication streams.
I've met many great people, we got friends and mourned together when some of us passed away. We had our ypots collected and drank our cup of coffee together in the morning. We celebrated birthdays and child birth. We saw monoliths struggle and fall. Islands in the void growing. Slowly but steadily that what got the Fediverse of today was formed. A diverse bunch of projects with a diverse group of communities connected through space and time. Slowly at first but every now and then a wave of newcomers was washed ashore the banks of the Fediverse and Federation.
Today we can celebrate another birthday. Ten long years ago, @Mike Macgirvin did the initial commit to ~friendica . Thank you Mike cheers! I wish I could share a home-brew with you. Have a great party today--all of you, being new or old to the Fediverse. Keep your physical distance as appropriate but get more closer socially :-) -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2020 00:30:57 CEST 
Sorokin Alexei
> I always think it's funny that people don't specify.
@musicman @lnxw48a1 And then this happens: https://bugs.debian.org/915209 :-). -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2020 22:13:16 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Ugh. Are old people always rude?
(My forty-something and thirty-somethings would say I'm old, but I mean even older.) -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2020 23:06:34 CEST
Douglas A. Whitfield
Has anybody seen where the 'groovy.use.classvalue=true' work-around doesn't work?
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-50223 -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2020 15:32:09 CEST
Douglas A. Whitfield
We have a new project for which we are using Alfresco. I think it's more of a SharePoint competitor than any of the ones you mention, but I guess it just depends on what you want. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 04:52:09 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I really do wish people would refer to #Debian and #Ubuntu and #Devuan (and their derivatives) releases by their version numbers instead of their nicks. If necessary, put the nick in a parenthetical. I can figure out that version 10 is newer than version 9, and that 20.04 is newer than 18.04, but what the heck does a "Ravenous Rabbit" nick tell me? -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2020 00:01:53 CEST
Douglas A. Whitfield
just marked my first customer issue resolved on my new team. It's always frustrating when a customer doesn't get back to you, but it's been over a week and I've checked in, so I am calling it done.
In any case, I told him the answer in my first response, he just didn't like it. I mean, #log4j may well be a better longterm solution for them, but it doesn't do exactly what they asked like my first response. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2020 18:24:35 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
#Target raising its minimum wage to $15/hour. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html [www nytimes com] -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 05:58:06 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis
> As of 2018, one-quarter of the world’s population is thought to have latent infection with TB. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 23:51:00 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
2006: Black officer intervenes when White officer had suspect in chokehold. She was fired. Now the #Buffalo city council wants the NY Attorney General to investigate. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/buffalo-police-officer-fired-chokehold-objection-trnd/index.html [www cnn com]
If “duty to intervene” becomes enforceable law and we can break the “thin blue line” code of silence, a lot of abusive cops will be blocked, reported, fired, and prosecuted. -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 22:21:18 CEST
Douglas A. Whitfield
it's definitely wickedd.
In any case, when I installed it there was no NIC from the hypervisor and this seems to have gotten the install all in a tizzy.
I just reinstalled and all is well. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 21:57:40 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Atlanta mayor signs order obligating cops to (1) de-escalate before resorting to force and (2) intervene when another officer is using too much force. https://news.yahoo.com/police-officers-guardians-not-warriors-203957488.html -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 19:35:00 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@xrevan86 When trying to fix historical social ills, people will resort to silly triviality like eliminating "master" in situations where it does not imply slavery, because it is easier to rename things than to reshape problematic behaviors.
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Even in #CHAZ, they seem to have areas reserved for non-whites, instead of being fully "all ancestries are treated equally". In my opinion, that's a mistake, as it feeds the cycle of group X against group Y, then group Y against group Z, ... .
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How to go from where we are today to a place where we do not use ancestry in workplace, housing, education decisions is tough. Renaming git branches (and soon, git itself) is an easy substitute for substantive action. -
David Hunt (davehunt@2mb.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 00:12:43 CEST 
David Hunt
Oh, my bad; sorry about that wrong timezone thing. Anyway, some friends and I are testing jitsimeet for accessibility, and it looks promising, though still have some rough edges. I'm glad to see this option available. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2020 20:23:34 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Instead of "whole wheat flour", I have "white whole wheat flour", so that's what I used. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2020 07:25:52 CEST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/coronavirus-cdc-infection-fatality-rate
But five other experts told BuzzFeed News they were perplexed that the CDC’s highest estimated fatality rate is lower than estimates for some of the world’s hardest-hit areas.
In the CDC’s deadliest scenario, the infection fatality rate for the virus is about 0.8%. But in New York City, an estimated 0.86% to 0.93% of all people who got sick died, according to two preliminary analyses of available data, including a recent antibody survey that provided the best estimate yet of the total number of residents who have been infected. Those figures would put the death rate in the city — hit with the most lethal outbreak in the US, with at least 16,600 COVID-19 deaths to date — beyond the CDC’s worst-case scenario.
“Surely the worst-case scenario should at least be New York for the whole country,” said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia, who has been tracking infection fatality rates in New York City and elsewhere.
And Natalie Dean, a University of Florida biostatistician, said, “The point is that you [should] capture a range of scenarios based on what data we have available right now. With the data we have available right now, we can’t rule out something higher. A worst-case scenario needs to be a real worst-case scenario.”
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