@Cyclists

How a Bicycle is Made (1945) by British Council Film on Vimeo

♲ MediaGoblin
Added info on how to show off local development with PageKite (a free sw ally). Thanks to PageKite for the donated bandwidth!
http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/HackingHowto#Showing_off_your_work_with_PageKite

♲ Mike
Friendica 3.0 released | friendica on Friendica

[We expect our poor little project website will get hammered when this notice goes out. If it is unavailable, please try back later. This in no way represents the reliability of the Friendica social web, which is spread all over the internet and can't be brought down.]

@Banner Contest

I'm clearly not a designer, but here goes...





alternate

♲ Jeremy Pope
Figured that tonight would be a good night to get the camera out and get a couple shots of the moon, since it's ~14% bigger than any other full moon this year. It's one of those times when I wish I had a bigger lens than my current long lens (75mm-300mm).

The cropped image is @ 1920x1080 for anyone who may want a wallpaper somewhere. I ended up cropping it to fit my dual monitor setup. :D


the supermoon - GNU MediaGoblin


screenshot-035 - GNU MediaGoblin

Hours ago, the House of Representatives voted to approve the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government.  EFF condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate.

Read more

#privacy

This one is nice.

♲ apod
3 ATs http://ur1.ca/91xbh

This is a pretty great photo:

ATV docks with the ISS

#space #photography

I have switched over to a cert from StartSSL. Hopefully your browsers yell at you less as a result.

The jury is still out as to whether anything I say will make it to Diaspora.

@Book Club

In 1973, a high school in North Dakota burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Here is an excerpt from the letter Vonnegut wrote in response to the incident:

If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don't damage children much. They didn't damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.

Read the whole thing here.

(via kottke.)

♲ Nathan Smith
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you @Emacs

Aspects of a social network - For discussing standardization. (via Evan)

#friendica #statusnet #federatedsocialweb

Amateur astronomers are puzzling over a seemingly anomalous cloud that has shown up on images of Mars taken over the past few days. Is it really a cloud, or a trick of the eye? Does it really extend 150 miles up from the surface, as some of the observers suggest? And what churned up all that stuff, anyway? The amateurs and the pros will be trying to resolve those questions before the phenomenon fades away.

Mysterious cloud spotted on Mars

@unary test

@question@oracle.skilledtests.com - Hello bot. Can you hear me?

"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future." --from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
#dune #books

♲ Jeremy Pope
Venus and Jupiter - GNU MediaGoblin on Jpope

♲ Mike
The disappearing virtual library on Aljazeera

Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the...

♲ Fabian Dost
Friendica 2.38 released
(published by friendica on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 14:09)
http://friendica.com/node/19

We would like to announce the immediate availability of Friendica version 2.38, the latest release of the Friendica Communications Platform.

Friendica is a highly advanced web communication tool - with a mission to ultimately set you, your friends, and family free from data-mining corporate interests.

Those of you who may have already experimented with decentralised web communications will quickly discover a social experience that is feature-rich and communications that are reliable; and which allows you to connect with your existing friends on whatever service they may be already using.

This version contains a critical bug fix which releates to post privacy. We take privacy issues very seriously, and strongly encourage all sites to upgrade immediately.

Friendica 2.38 also contains a new notification system, a new theme management interface and some new and improved themes, threaded email notifications, improved email communications (email contacts), a new HTML2bbcode converter for importing arbitrary web content streams, improved handling of Diaspora Markdown syntax, a redesigned event calendar, improved templating for theme developers, and much more.

New plugins/addons include
- LiveJournal Posting
- Dreamwidth Posting
- Quick Comments
- Email notification anonymiser
- Show More
- Openstreetmap
- Editplain
- Blackout
- Yourls configuration for short URLS on specific external network connectors.

As always, this release also contains bug fixes and feature improvements for a number of issues which have been uncovered in routine use and testing.
Friendica 2.38 is available now from https://github.com/friendica/friendica

We also recommend the new "post2friendica" Firefox addon for posting interesting links and content to your Friendica site from the web.

#Friendica

♲ ▲∴⦿∴▲



CityLife Architectural Visualization

@Friendica Theme Developer

I was wondering what everyone might think about adding more contrast in the ACL popup and preview content for the darkzero theme. Inspired by the recent addition of more contrast to blockquotes, I thought it would be nice to do the same in these areas. The light grey on white/light yellow is often not easy to read.

I have no experience working on Friendica themes, but I did some poking around and found some possible additions to view/theme/darkzero/style.css that may be an improvement:

.acl-list-item p, #profile-jot-email-label, div#jot-preview-content, div.profile-jot-net { color: #000000; } input#acl-search { background-color: #aaa; }

Maybe someone else might know of a better way of doing this, but I thought I would put the idea out there. There may be more thing that could use tweaking, but these changes worked for me when I tested.

Facebook spies on phone users' text messages, report says

Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported.

#Facebook #privacy

Playfic

Playfic is a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7.

- Introductin Playfic (Waxy.org)

This looks interesting.

♲ foonetic (nternetx)
Joel @Spolsky has a *great* idea, one that is worth going to Google Plus to read: http://is.gd/XYe4O0

Cool avatar Mr Johnston

♲ MediaGoblin
MediaGoblin 0.2.0, "Our Tubes" released! Now with html5 video hosting!
http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.2.0-our-tubes.html

♲ Unhosted free the web
Open source potential Freedombox: http://evercu.be

Ok, I've just upgraded Friendi[kc]a (finally). Let's see how it goes.

Now, are default post permissions used when I post from mustard?

"RSStoFriendika is a program to post items from RSS feeds to Friendika." https://github.com/pafcu/RSStoFriendika

♲ ownCloud freedom storage
try out ownCloud at http://demo.owncloud.org !

MIke, I see you are using GNU social !daisychain my recent install did not work, see http://identi.ca/notice/81730933 - what is this gnu social about, not so much helpful info found so far

Posted using curl.

I should be sleeping.

I might see this on Diaspora. Let's find out.

Check one two. Check.