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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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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Guide to Yunhost Install - VPS or local selfhosted ?
!Selfhosted - I would encourage @Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ to cover both options - VPS and locally / selfhosted in a guide to setting up Yunohost - and include plenty of references to doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_… - I'd also encourage you to include some suggestions on areas/things that its worth learng a little more about (e.g. DHCP, some basic routing, Firewalls/Portforwarding )
Choose your self-hosting mode | Yunohost
You can host yourself at home (on a small computer), or on a remote server. Each solution has their pros and cons:doc.yunohost.org
Hello Fedi friends,I'm currently planning my written tutorial for #YunoHost - from the POV of a newbie.
The guide will have a simple but ambitious goal: to encourage non-technical people to try self-host their own #NextCloud instance... and show them that it's something accessible to all, thanks to the wonderful YunoHost.org
I have tried other similar tools and YunoHost IMHO is simply the best and most secure solution. I've been using it for 11 months now and I have ZERO complaints. It just works... and it's effortless.
I'm thinking of splitting my written tutorial in a 3-part series... because doing everything in one go for a non-technical person could be overwhelming.
Part 1: registering a domain name and signing up for a VPS*
* yes I know technically you could forgo a domain name but I think having one is more empowering long term... and I'd go the VPS route because it's the most headache-free for a newbie. I can do the whole thing in 12 minutes with a VPS... and experienced headaches with a Raspi. I think for a total newbie the VPS is the way to go... especially if we factor in security issues. The stakes are lower
Part 2: installing YunoHost and tweaking DNS settings (assigning domain for NextCloud and creating a subdomain for YunoHost admin stuff, etc.)
Part 3: installing NextCloud (which people voted for when I asked which app I should install in my tutorial) and seeing what it can do.
Thoughts?
Is a 3-part series overkill or ok? I'd like to encourage people to set aside 30 minutes a day for this, so that the whole thing is not too overwhelming.
Eager to hear what you think about this!
P.S.: tangentially related but ICYMI: my Ghost blog is now federating thanks to MagicPages.co. You can follow it here: @ele
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YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
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Federated Locations
!Fediverse - This may have already been shared here. Apologies if it has. I saw this on #Reddit Fediverse group and it seems interested. Hopefulyl it work well with #Friendica post locations. (If I can ever figure out how to use those properly. )
Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.
In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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I just visited Damascus for the first time since 2006. I grew up there, so the trip was a LOT of emotions.
A few photos from the trip.
1. One the major streets of Damascus, Nasr Street
2. A community centre in the old city. Film directing students are gathered in the courtyard for a lesson. Very neglected treasure of a building.
3. The Hamadieh market in the old town
4. Sunrise/moon set in the edge of the city. Solar panels everywhere.
#syria #damascus #lebanon #palestine
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Moziila didn’t have the resources to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full AI inside your browser.
And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
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in reply to Twoafros • •abeorch tagged Twoafros's status with #bonfire
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in reply to Twoafros • • •Not really anything serious.
By poking around bonfire.fediverse.observer/lis… I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say "demo and testing instance":
Try:
discussions.sciety.org/
bonfire.home.coop/
It's kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
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in reply to Rimu • • •Thank you for sharing the links! I just signed to one of them.
I am also surprised how much money they were able to raise. I hope they deliver on the things they promised
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in reply to wjs018 • • •I know, right.
After they've finished doing maintenance no one will be able to see any visible difference and will just have to believe them when they ask for more money. They were upfront about that so maybe it'll go ok but yeah seems risky as hell.
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in reply to Twoafros • • •What is Bonfire? Plural by design
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in reply to INeedMana • • •You got flavors which is a set of features pre-selected features. One of them offer microblogging but you can completely disable it or choose another flavor. You can build with bonfire any type of platform like an peer tube and pixeled alternative or even novel applications like a platform for collaborative peer review in science
I think it is a big mistake to have an clone to mastodon as a demo. Instead of promoting the unique capabilities
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in reply to Twoafros • • •Bonfire - Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
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is for testing Bonfire Social, the microblogging part. (This one not federated)
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