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Charities.Place - Empathy Forward
One of our goals at Empathy Forward is to support long-term projects that benefit society. Part of that is helping […]James Smith (Bene Homini Society)
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Para quem se interessa em ter uma instância própria no Fediverso, recomendo ler o artigo da Elena Rossini sobre a experiência dela com o Yunohost, ferramenta que ela (e eu) usamos para autohospedar nossas próprias aplicações.
(Detalhe: somos 2 mulheres hospedando nossas próprias instâncias. Que isso sirva de encorajamento para outras mulheres "que não se sentem capazes" - e de provocação para os machões de plantão que acham que isso não é coisa de mulher. ;o) )
A Elena fez um super trabalho nesse artigo - para quem não tem perfil tech e não saberia escolher um servidor, ela dá as recomendações dos passos iniciais, sugere 3 empresas diferentes com preço em conta - e ainda vai publicar outros artigos com a continuação.
Eu sou muito fã do Yunohost e não teria instância própria se não fosse por ele. Na prática, uma das coisas que o Yunohost oferece é uma interface com centenas de softwares open source (como o Mastodon, Friendica, Nextcloud e muito mais, veja a lista completa aqui: apps.yunohost.org/catalog) que você pode instalar no seu servidor em apenas alguns cliques, como se você instalasse uma aplicação na app store. Ele mesmo faz as configurações iniciais e automatiza boa parte dos processos - inclusive a criação de certificados (Let's Encrypt).
Alguns softwares precisam que você acesse pelo terminal para fazer algumas operações - o Friendica é um exemplo (mas é porque tem um bug na versão atual), se me lembro bem o Pixelfed também precisava. Mas existe manual de instruções para tudo isso, e ainda que a pessoa não saiba programar, dá para fazer. Mas com outros softwares, basta clicar no botão "instalar" e tcham, você tem sua própria plataforma - a instância do Peertube foi extremamente fácil de instalar, não precisei entrar no servidor e tal, tudo foi feito via interface gráfica do Yunohost.
Outro ponto positivo: o Yunohost automatiza as atualizações. Então por exemplo, se o Mastodon lançar uma nova versão, em poucos dias o pessoal do Yunohost a disponibiliza e o processo de atualização, incluindo o backup, é automatizado. Você clica em um botão e atualiza sua plataforma.
Eu poderia criar instância "na raça", como uma "verdadeira dev" pois já programei e consigo me virar, em tese. MAS os projetos open source sofrem de um problema crônico que se chama: documentação desatualizada (ou ausente mesmo). Eu já sofri muito tentando instalar software open source eu mesma, com as parcas informações que encontrava. E óbvio, se não existe documentação publicada, não existe GenIA que saiba a resposta, então não, não dava para contar com a falsa inteligência das GenIAs. Ok, talvez eu tenha tentado instalar projetos marginais, mas o trauma ficou.
Consequentemente, o processo de instalação de alguns projetos open source, pelo menos no meu nível de conhecimento devops baby, é uma batalha. O Yunohost facilita essa etapa, e ainda me permite não somente criar uma instância no Fediverso como instalar centenas de aplicações úteis no meu dia a dia, como leitor de RSS, arquivagem de sites, blog, cloud própria, ferramenta de vídeoconferência privativa etc - vejam a lista no link acima, as possibilidades são infinitas, lembrando que um dos maiores interesses de fazer isso é poder usar ferramentas que TE RESPEITAM, que não te vigiam, saber que seus dados não são vendidos nem compartilhados com ninguém. E para mim, é caminho sem volta - bem que diziam que autohospedar as próprias aplicações era viciante. No meu caso não sei se é vicio, mas a sensação de empoderamento é quase física - eu fico impressionada cada vez que instalo algo que funciona super bem e que, se fosse usar um aplicativo equivalente feito por alguma empresa, ia me custar um bom dinheiro.
New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…
I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.
This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.
And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting
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Selfhosting with a seven year old
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I do not recommend using a seven year old as a server for the following reasons.
- their parents will get mad
- the neighbors might call the police about all the children you have racked in your basement
- they have poor computing power, wait until they're at least in their late teens (although software updates come too late and the system is usually very unstable at that time.)
- think of the smell! your house will smell like a kindergarten
- food costs are already high enough, add two or four growing kids to that budget and it's far cheaper to run a couple Dell R610s every month.
overall, not worth it mate. good luck though!
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Video games come to mind. You could probably figure out how to host a game server of their choice (think something like Minecraft) so him and his friends can play. Docker is a nice shortcut for that, and you also get to sprinkle in some networking knowledge too for opening ports and such.
If games are off the table, could try to figure out some hardware to interact with. Having some sort of robot that you can control with an API could be fun.
On the line with hardware, you can get a raspberry pi, and try to work with him to blink an LED via Scratch or Python. Then work to something even bigger.
If typing is a struggle you could do typeracer or something like that to figure out who can type faster.
You could build a basic website together with some CSS and HTML. Make like, a fan site for his favorite band (or whatever hes into). Maybe he wants to make something for his friends to see.
Or, ask them if there is something theyve wanted to know how it works...then build some sort of project using it.
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What Are Coordinate Systems and Why Do They Matter in #Mapping
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What Are Coordinate Systems and Why Do They Matter in Mapping - Geoawesome
Discover why coordinate systems are essential for mapping, navigation, and geospatial analysis, from global satellites to local grids.Sebastian Walczak (Geoawesome)
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Does Bonfire have any public instances?
Bonfire - Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to yo…Blaze (he/him) (Fediverse@piefed.social)
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is for testing Bonfire Social, the microblogging part. (This one not federated)
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Australian ban on under16s social media
!Fediverse - Ive been spending alot of time driving lately and I heard again about the impending ban on social media for under 16yo children in Australia.
It made me wonder whether there is as opportunity/ use case for #ActivityPub based solutions that allow schools / community groups to offer accounts to their parents - that could be then used by those parents to offer moderated/ controlled child accounts (for their children).
Parent accounts would have vistability and potentially control over who child accounts can follow/conmunicate with. Schools could use it for communication with parents and/or pupils.
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As a software developer myself I can see why you'd adopt the latest greatest ASAP. Developing a tool used by many is fun in itself, but incorporating new possibilities keeps it fun for yourself as well. At least, that's how I experience these things.
I just hope FreeBSD packages will be at 8.5 as soon as firefly adopts it 😄
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Is it like WhatsApp, where if you report someone, the content of the last few messages from the chat get sent to Meta for moderation?
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Yunohost - Federating the forum
!Selfhosted - As a yunohost user I find the yunohost discourse forum really useful - but I also find that tracking posts and discussions in the forum - the many other forums for other software I use - and then related conversations on ActivityPub time consuming.
I know that the discourse forum software has a plugin that allows content in the forum to be followed via ActivityPub without impacting the ability for the forum losing control of content moderation in the forum (or having to deal with ActivityPub replies and conversation) meta.discourse.org/t/activityp…
I while ago I posted in the forum about the idea forum.yunohost.org/t/discourse… - but perhaps because it mightnt have been seen by ActivityPub users - there wasnt much interest.
I think that making it easier to follow and share forum content would also promote yunohost to activtypub users.
What do people here thing? - What are your thoughts ?
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Discourse forum and ActivityPub Integration
Im really getting into using Yunohost. I was wondering whether its possible / or its being considered to allow integration between.the Discourse forum and ActivityPub social networks Mastodon / lemmy etc.YunoHost Forum
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Sync Fediverse contacts to CardDav Account
!Fediverse - Does anyone know of a service or feature that can sync the fedivers/ #activitypub accounts that an account (or.accounts) follows and/or is followed by - into a #CardDav account?
My use case is thus - As a person with a Mastodon and/or Lemmy, Pixelfed, Friendica, GotoSocial accounts - I would like to syncronise the profiles of the accounts I follow and/or the accounts that I follow into an existing CardDav account in which I record the names, emails, phone numbers, profile pictures of the people I know. I would like the syncronisation to either simply relflect the information held in each fediverse account - allowing me to use a sepatate contact merging service - or optionally to append/update information to existing contacts in a nominated CarDav account so that I can have one complete CardDav record reprenting people i know across Fediverse and other contact points.
I remember when I used to be able to sync my Facebook friends with my address book, my contacts from Skype and it was useful.
It would also make sharing my Fedi details with others easier ..I could just message them a Carddav file.
Does this make sense? Does it exist? Shoud it exist? @DAVx⁵ :android:🔄 - Is this somehow related tonwhat you are doing or do you know relevant related services - Maybe CardDav merging tools? Is it something @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox would/could do?
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Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.
And then there's the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn't work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.
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My idea is that once you have CardDav records you can join /link them manually. - That would still be useful to me.
However if a ActivityPub profile record could include things like email/phone (amd you could decide who to make them avaialbe to ) then I guess some automates matching would be possible.
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