PropaGandalf

Hey fellow linux enjoyers,

today I found this interesting article which talks about rethinking the underlying data structures of an OS. I was always very enthusiastic about DBFileSystems but this approach takes it even a step further.

It comes with some serious caveats though.

Niri, the scrolling WM, now supports touch input

Hey

the cool scrolling wm which has just recently pushed out its first stable release is now following up with yet another interesting update.

Hey folks,

remember the post that was made a few months ago about an infinite canvas/scrollable WM? Here we have the stable release of a (onedirectional) scrollable one inspired by gnome's PaperWM.

Aaaand... ...it's written in Rust!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10542663

Well to be precise:

• How does one install it? On a hypervisor? On a regular distro + KVM?
• Should I go with Proxmox/Debian/some other distro?
• I already installed Flatcar Linux, is this also suitable?

Hello folks,

TL:DR

• Solid enables a dencentralized, user owned data storage and SSO
• ActivityPods adapts its functionality to the fediverse

Slowly, things have smoothed out for the fediverse and it has become an everyday thing or even a new home on the internet for many of us. And yet I still don't feel that I can utilise the full potential of this network.

One of the biggest arguments in favour of the fediverse has always been that you can communicate with all other services regardless of which service you use and that it doesn't really matter where you register because you still receive all the messages. The reality is often disappointing.

Once registered with a service, you can communicate with all other services, but unfortunately often not in the format for which the other media were created. If you then try to log in to another instance with your account, you will also be disappointed - it simply doesn't work.

What we are really missing is a SingleSingOn (SSO) solution with which you can log in to any instance and any service. And it already exists! Meet the Solid project.

Solid (Social Linked Data) is a web decentralization project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. The project "aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy" by developing a platform for linked-data applications that are completely decentralized and fully under users' control. (Source: Wikipedia, Solid)

In short: Solid stores all your data in a decentralised data store called "pod". Anyone can host their own pod or use a pod provider. The user can then decide which data is made available to which service and can adjust it centrally at any time without much effort. This is also accompanied by the authentication method through WebID, which is handled via the Solid OIDC protocol.

Solid is designed to revolutionise the entire internet, but specifically for the fediverse there is ActivityPods, which aims to combine the advantages of Solid with the nature of the fediverse. This project will probably be the one that will give us the long-awaited interoperability thanks to SSO. And probably as early as this year!

Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney's Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney's decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

Hello everyone

Since the announcement of threads to join the fediverse and the resulting discussions I have been thinking about the matter of content distribution and filtering in the fedi. Here is a possible solution to it.

In essence, one can distinguish between server-based and user-based content filtering.

• server-based content filtering regulates which instances federate with each other and which content is cached on the own instance.
• user-based content filtering regulates what content the end user sees.

Content can also be categorized, for example, according to its origin. Sorted according to the quantity produced, there would be:

1. instances
2. communities/tags
3. users/channels

From this I then derive the following behaviour:

• server based content filtering should be used when servers want to prevent certain content from being cached or when they want to set up a small exclusive gated community with a few selected federated instances.
• user-based content filtering should allow granular filtering of all the above content groups with the help of white and blacklists. This could look something like this:

Each field could contain a drag and drop function or a field for importing a blocklist as well as a search function to find instances/communities/users. Instances could also define in advance which default settings an account created with them could come configured with. The instances defederated by the server could optionally be displayed with a checkbox, but then in a grayed out look to make it clear that they cannot be changed by the user.

What do you think?

Aye mateys, I wanted to share this with you as you may be interested in a discussion on having annas-archive linked to the fedi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9006151

Hello everyone,

Books are still one of the most important sources of information we have as a human species. However, the media on which this information has been stored has changed considerably over time and with it its accessibility and influence on our society.

Nowadays you can find an enormous range of books and texts online. Most of the time, however, access to them is extremely fragmented, difficult to find, subject to a fee, incompatible with the software platform of your choice or, in the worst case, goes under with its provider over time.

To counteract this, annas-archive was founded to make the knowledge stored in the texts and books openly accessible and to preserve it for future generations. On the other hand, there are platforms such as Goodreads that aim to simplify the joy of reading and the exchange of information, as well as the review and discussion of books and texts.

Unfortunately, Goodreads is a centralized, proprietary solution that in addition also happens to be owned by Amazon. BookWyrm is a decentralized, open source alternative in the fediverse that steps in right here.

Now here's the kicker: what if we combined the power of both platforms? What if we combined the enormous book database of annas-archive with the fediverse, i.e. BookWyrm? Annas archive could benefit from reviews and discussions about the books and BookWyrm could expand its still very limited database many times over.

From my point of view, this would be the perfect combination of two already great projects. What do you think?

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TL:DR What do you think about combining annas-archive with the fediverse (BookWyrm)

Hello everyone,

Books are still one of the most important sources of information we have as a human species. However, the media on which this information has been stored has changed considerably over time and with it its accessibility and influence on our society.

Nowadays you can find an enormous range of books and texts online. Most of the time, however, access to them is extremely fragmented, difficult to find, subject to a fee, incompatible with the software platform of your choice or, in the worst case, goes under with its provider over time.

To counteract this, annas-archive was founded to make the knowledge stored in the texts and books openly accessible and to preserve it for future generations. On the other hand, there are platforms such as Goodreads that aim to simplify the joy of reading and the exchange of information, as well as the review and discussion of books and texts.

Unfortunately, Goodreads is a centralized, proprietary solution that in addition also happens to be owned by Amazon. BookWyrm is a decentralized, open source alternative in the fediverse that steps in right here.

Now here's the kicker: what if we combined the power of both platforms? What if we combined the enormous book database of annas-archive with the fediverse, i.e. BookWyrm? Annas archive could benefit from reviews and discussions about the books and BookWyrm could expand its still very limited database many times over.

From my point of view, this would be the perfect combination of two already great projects. What do you think?

TL:DR What do you think about combining annas-archive with the fediverse (BookWyrm)

Hello fellow Homelabbers,

I am in the process of setting up my first homelab and taking my first steps in self-hosting. I got an old pc as a gift from a friend and I want to convert it together with my old pc into 2 2U servers.

But first of all I need an enclosure where these servers and the rest of my equipment can go in. Since this homelab will be located in my flat for the time being, I don’t have a particularly large amount of space for it. I think a size of 15 to 22U would be perfect, also in terms of long-term upgrades.

I have looked around on my local online marketplaces but I am not sure what I should really focus. Since this purchase will literally be the foundation of my future upgrades, I don’t want to rush into anything and would like to ask you homelab veterans for some advice.

Thanks in advance.

Hello folks

I don't think I'm the only one here who thinks the fediverse is a great technology that connects people all over the world via a robust decentralised network. This network encompasses the widest range of interest groups and the most diverse ways of interacting with each other. Whether forum, video or image platform, whether books or music network, everything is part of one big whole.

Despite this diversity of possibilities, I personally still miss some services that I would like to share with you.

1. dating apps - A decentralised, open source dating platform on which you can join instances according to interest groups or sexual preferences.
2. git hosting - A platform where you can host your git repos and collaborate on software projects across instances. (Forgejo is already working on it)
3. networking and personal profilation platform - A LinkedIn-like platform with instances by industry, interest or region where you can network, present yourself or exchange know-how.
4. crowdfunding and membership platform - A mixture of Patreon and Kickstarter where you can share your own content according to different support levels and crowdfund projects.
5. event, group organisation and community participation - A platform on which you can join groups like on Meetup and organise meetings but also internal group interactions like on slack or launch and support civic initiatives like on Decidim.

What do you think of this? What services do you still miss on the Fediverse?