Sahil Dhiman: Abraham Raji
- Farewell Abraham video by Vysakh Premkumar
- Tails project dedicating 5.17.1 release
- Hopscotch team dedicating 2023.8.1 release
- Athul dedicating 0.2.5 release of waka-readme
- Debian project
#debian
and #python
and got a lot of toots
that were not really relevant for me in the case of #python
I got quite
spammed with job ads so I had to unfollow it again.
Unfollwing a hashtag is not very intuitive, as the tags are not in your list of
people you follow, so you have to find the page of the hashtag itself (e.g.
#debian) and unfollow from there.
You see, there are some rough edges here and there, but I find the overall
experience much more enjoyable than Twitter.
Debian Folks in the Fediverse?
Which brings me to: are there any Debian Developers or -Maintainers out there
to follow in the fediverse? I found most of the ones I m following on
Twitter, but I m sure there s more hiding out there.
Remember, Mastodon is a new decentralized social network, based on a free software which is rapidly gaining users (already there is more than 1.5 million accounts). As I ve created my account in June, I was a fast addict and I ve already created several tools for this network, Feed2toot, Remindr and Boost (mostly written in Python).
Now, with all this experience I have to stress out the importance of choosing the correct Mastodon instance.
First, let s quickly clarify something about the decentralized part. In Mastodon, decentralization is made through a federation of dedicated servers, called instances , each one with a complete independent administration. Your user account is created on one specific instance. You have two choices:
You can move your user account from one instance to another, but you have to follow a special procedure which can be quite long, considering your own interest for technical manipulation and the total amount of your followers you ll have to warn about your change. As such, you ll have to create another account on a new instance and import three lists: the one with your followers, the one with the accounts you have blocked, and the one with the account you have muted.
From this working process, several technical and human factors will interest us.
As a social network, Mastodon is truly decentralized, with more than 1.5 million users on more than 2350 existing instances. As such, the most common usage is to create an account on an open instance. To create its own instance is way too difficult for the average user. Yet, using an open instance creates a strong dependence on the technical administrator of the chosen instance.
The technical administrator will have to deal with several obligations to ensure its service continuity, with high-quality hardware and regular back-ups. All of these have a price, either in money and in time. Regarding the time factor, it would be better to choose an administration team over an individual, as life events can change quite fast everyone s interests. As such, Framasoft, a French association dedicated to promoting the Free software use, offers its own Mastodon instance named: Framapiaf. The creator of the mastodon project, also offers a quite solid instance, Mastodon.social (see below).
Regarding the money factor, many instance administrators with a large number of users are currently asking for donation via Patreon, as hosting an instance server or renting one cost money.
If anybody could have guessed the previous technical points since the recent registration explosion on the Mastodon social network, the following point took almost everyone by surprise. Little by little, different instances show their culture , their protest action, and their propaganda on this social network.
As the instance administrator has all the powers over its instance, he or she can block the instance of interacting with some other instances, or ban its instance s users from any interaction with other instances users.
With everyone having in mind the main advantages to have federalized instance from, this partial independence of some instances from the federation was a huge surprise. One of the most recent example was when the Unixcorn.xyz instance administrator banned its users from reading Aeris account, which was on its own instance. It was a cataclysm with several consequences, which I ve named the #AerisGate as it shows the different views on moderation and on its reception by various Mastodon users.
If you don t manage your own instance, when you ll have to choose the one where to create your account, make sure that the content you plan to toot is within the rules and compatible with the ideology of said instance s administrator. Yes, I know, it may seem surprising but, as stated above, by entering a public instance you become dependent on someone else s infrastructure, who may have an ideological way to conceive its Mastodon hosting service. As such, if you re a nazi, for example, don t open your Mastodon account on a far-left LGBT instance. Your account wouldn t stay open for long.
The moderation rules are described in the about/more page of the instance, and may contain ideological elements.
To ease the process for newcomers, it is now possible to use a great tool to select what instance should be the best to host your account.
Remember that, as stated above, Mastodon is decentralized, and as such there is no central authority which can be reached in case you have a conflict with your instance administrator. And nobody can force said administrator to follow its own rules, or not to change them on the fly. Think Twice Before Creating Your Account
If you want to create an account on an instance you don t control, you need to check two elements: the availability of the instance hosting service in the long run, often linked to the administrator or the administration group of said instance, and the ideological orientation of your instance. With these two elements checked, you ll be able to let your Mastodon account growth peacefully, without fearing an outage of your instance, or simple your account blocked one morning because it doesn t align with your instance s ideological line.
To help me get involved in free software and writing articles for this blog, please consider a donation through my Liberapay page, even if it s only a few cents per week. My contact Bitcoin and Monero are also available on this page. Follow me on Mastodon Translated from French to English by St phanie Chaptal.
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Alice: hey bob, got a second?? Bob: yes! Alice: alright cool, I want you to try something real quick Bob : ok Bob : :)At this point, I had zero suspicion about who was really talking to me..
Alice: alright bob, try this test and show me what you get.. i can't get over like a 105, its pathetic http://stupid-iq-test.comYes, looking at the stupid IQ test and knowing some facts about the person asking me to do it, I became suspicious, so I tried a first question:
Bob : what do I get from that ? :) Alice: lemme know what ya get plz, so far everyone beat me, except for Clarence LOL be carfeful some of the questions are hard ;-)Not too bad of an answer! Also, Clarence is one of our common friends and knowing Clarence, he could indeed have challenged Alice. But I was still suspicious so I tried a last question:
Bob: how much did you get ? Alice disconnectedTalking in real life, it appears that it was indeed a bot... I'm quite impressed, though. I wonder now the extend of work they have put in it to make it sound real to me...
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Somebody asks about advertising Ubuntu, looks like there are no plans for the moment to actually advertise Ubuntu across traditional media. Mark uses the Ubuntu Manual as an example of how Ubuntu gets advertised and will reach the mainstream, Mark points out myself and the room applauds the Ubuntu Manual Project! Woohoo!Now, guess what:
About Us We are a group of individuals trying to promote the use of Ubuntu and its variants. This is a private web site that is not connected in any official or financial way with Ubuntu, Canonical PL or Ubuntu.com. Official Ubuntu guides and downloads are freely available at www.ubuntu.com. Ubuntu is a registered trademark of Canonical PLSource: http://ubuntumanual.org/about-us
/etc/aliasee
and /etc/mailname
? Why do you need to have to tweak the server-wide accounts and login system to create new mailboxes ? In 99% of the situations now, email accounts do not corresponds to anything on the server, so why keeping all sort of arcane stuff that make the configuration of a mail server so delicate ? On a side note, I would like to share 3 questions. First is this idea of using gmail as a spam filter service. You register your address, say joe@doe.com
with your joe.doe@gmail.com
and you tell your mail server to redirect all the mail to joe@doe.com
to joe.doe@gmail.com
. Then in gmail's interface, you ask gmail to redirect all mails to joe@mail.doe.com
. Eventually, the mail at mail.joe.com
is delivered to the local inbox. This allows to use gmail as a spam filter loop. However, I have no idea if this is something already known and if gmail administrators will like it. Lazy web, what do you think ? Second is the following parameters for postfix:
reject_non_fqdn_recipient
and reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname
. I wonder if I may loose some mail using them.. Any idea ? Third is that I wanted to configure the old server to relay anything on the new, and filter there. But, as much fuzz there is about open relay, I was not able to configure my postfix as an open relay.. Any idea on how to do it ?Next.