Check out our interview with Gaël Duval (@gael@mastodon.social) of e foundation! On the e alternative OS, de-googling your phone, data privacy, and software obsolescence.
Kind: Notes
Roam is now talking about ‘multiplayer’. I’m presuming this means linking between individuals’ wikis. I like the idea of interlinking wikis, but imagining it’s going to be pretty closed in Roam.
Bill Seitz has lots of ideas about a more open WikiWeb.
aka Wiki Sphere; parallel to BlogWeb, the universe of (clusters of) WikiSpaces
I finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers recently. I loved it. There’s something very lovely about Becky Chambers’ sci-fi – it’s much more touching and emotional than a lot that I’ve read. I felt quite emotional at the ending of this one – it’s so full of heart and compassion.
Moved my WordPress site over to my new VPS at GreenHost now. That’s everything then – can turn off the old Digital Ocean droplet now.
The new VPS is Ubuntu 20.04, which is MySQL 8, so had a little bit of a faff with some errors as the old server was MySQL 5.7.
Here’s my rough notes on the steps for setting up the new server.
The EU right to repair campaign has been going for a year now, campaigning for:
- Products repairable by design
- Access to spare parts and repair info for everyone
- An EU wide repairability score
https://repair.eu/news/where-does-right-to-repair-go-next-in-europe/
#RightToRepair
Happy to be in the process of moving my personal sites to a server at GreenHost. I used to be on cloudvault.me which was excellent but disappeared about 3 months ago… I chucked everything over to Digital Ocean to get it back up again. But keen to get off.
GreenHost has stellar environmental and ethical creds, and really not that far off the cost of a basic DO droplet.
All the caveats about ethical consumerism aside, it feels good if you can buy from a coop – because you can pretty much guarantee that the money they make will go towards something else ‘good’, in a ripple effect.
Haven’t watched it yet, but have seen a couple of postings about The Social Dilemma suggesting that what I wondered might be the case – that it would be interesting but completely weak in implicating capitalism as a cause of any problems – is how it has turned out.
Salman Ansari has a nice video here discussing a couple of things he’s been pondering about his digital garden.
I like his use case of pulling his newsletter back in to his garden. I do the same with my microblog stream. I think it makes perfect sense to do this – gardens are where we cultivate our thoughts over time, but streams are a great (the best?) source for the seeds for the garden.
He also talks about pulling his notes back in to his main homepage. I’ve been thinking about this too. I have two separate sites at the moment, https://doubleloop.net and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net, that look kind of different and feel a bit disparate. It’s not that big of a deal. They are different rooms in my home on the web, so they don’t need to look identical – but it might make sense for people to find them both via the same front door and hallway…