Duncan Midwinter @duncanmid@mastodon.technology

Facebook is the new phonebook.
✔️ Filled with ads
✔️ Has people in it that you'll probably never contact
✔️ Can be used to stalk people
✔️ People used to insist on everyone should be "in the book"

I have a code of conduct.
It is like other similar codes.
Some parts have been borrowed.
Some learned by observing others.
Some bits may only work only for me.

I am an individual, not an organization
Or a committee needing shared rules.

No, it is not written down.
I live it.
Watch me long enough and you will see it in action.
That will have to be enough.

#SmallPoems

20GB+ of completely free reference photos. Use 'em for commercial or personal projects. No attribution required.

gum.co/reference

A while back I built a site that converts RSS feeds to ActivityPub actors that you can subscribe to from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compliant social networks: https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

I've now also published the source code: https://github.com/dariusk/activtypub-to-rss

Today i tried to use the RSS to ActivityPub converter ( https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/ ) and i love it!
It creates an handle to follow with your account, you just have to choose its name. So far i added:

@INGV_Terremoti Earthquakes (mainly italians plus the most important over the world)

@ANSA_Homepage Italian news from ansa.it

@ANSA_English same as the previous but in english

In Spanish, if you end a sentence with the 🙂 emoji, you have to start it with the 🙃 emoji

We are building a 100% open source, #privacy respecting #selfhosting platform for online, real time collaboration and productivity!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-14-collaboration-features-help-you-get-work-done/

Just published a short guide for finding stuff on #PeerTube, along with how you actually subscribe to channels.

I have a number of channel recommendations for anyone that's wondering "Where the heck do I watch stuff?"

https://medium.com/we-distribute/getting-started-with-peertube-ec5dbf007058

(eternal apologies to everyone that might gripe, I'm still working on a Medium replacement)

The real problem with "web" "developers" is not that they don't know how to program in "real" programming languages, it's that they have literally one job, to give the user a good experience, and instead they usually opt for pretty crap that will look good in their portfolio while being completely unusable for a significant fraction of the site's users and infuriating for the rest.

German interior minister: "Migration is the mother of all problems"

Deutsch "Mutter" (mother) from protogermanic *mōdēr, from proto-indo-europ. *méh₂tēr. Cognate with celtic *mātīr, latin mater, greek μητέρα (mitéra), russ. мать (matʹ), persian مادر‎ (mādar), sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ).

Two letters from the word
M (latin)
𐤌 phoenician (a waterline)
μ greek
מ hebrew
ﻡ arabic
म Hindi

R latin
𐤓 phoenician (a head)
ρ greek
ר hebrew
ﺭ arabic
र Hindi

Migration is the mother of culture.