I’ve said it a long time ago. The ActivityPub WG at W3C must spring into action NOW and prepare itself for the big corporations that will try to overtake the standard. The core members should make sure that transparency and openness is turned to 11. No backroom dealings. A very clear IP policy that requires royalty free etc.

Seeking #developer #advice ❤️ 🤔

We want to create a webby GUI app for accessing federated forge network, a bit like Element is to Matrix 🖥️

Been considering to write from scratch using Tauri, Tailwind, didn't pick a language

Now considering to fork #GitHub Desktop instead! Replace GitHub API with ForgeFed and tweak the UI etc.

https://github.com/desktop/desktop

It's an existing codebase with over 33k commits

Is it a good idea to fork? Thoughts/concerns/advice? And boost 🙏

--fr33

Ah, fsck it. I just booked https://fedihosting.org (and .com, .net) and will build a landing page and set up some mailing lists so that people interested can start discussing. If you want to (help or) run that project, feel free to discuss with me.

It's the time of the year where most associations to their annual budgeting.

If you want to increase the allocation for your favourite projects, don't forget that your #donation helps.

Support your favourite Open Source projects and communites.

PS: For Codeberg, check out https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/#donate-to-codeberg or consider becoming a member at https://join.codeberg.org/ :)

Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.

Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.

Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.

About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…

[Edit: documenting progress in this thread https://mastodon.online/@monro/109812445178130161]