Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the World Wide Web
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New Project: Fedetivity Automate your Mastodon Account
And that's what I'm going to work on: taking the most difficult part of writing bots and other automation for Mastodon or the Fediverse, and turn that into a product. SAAS and Open Source. Hence, Fedetivity.
For those wondering: the fediverse is a name for a set of decentralized, interconnected social media platforms. It's seen a enormous influx and is on the rise, ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter. But it was already steadily growing after every other scandal by one of the giant social media companies.
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Ex-Tweeters Are Moving to Twitter Alternative Mastodon: How to Sign Up
Here's the step-by-step process for creating a Mastodon account and getting started on the growing social network. For more about social media, here's how to download your Twitter archive.
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After 40 Years, Adobe Releases PostScript Source V0.10 For Posterity
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Adobe released the source code of PostScript v0.10 to the Computer History Museum. But before you ask, we tried and it won’t compile with GCC out of the box – it’s missing at least except.h, but we’d bet you can hack around it with a little dedication.
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Liberals struggle to find viable Twitter alternative after Musk takeover
Now, social media colonists are laboring to rebuild their networks on new sites while keeping an eye on the old one, to see how the Twitter wars play out.
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I'm the new Chair of the BCS Open Source Specialist Group
The British Computer Society is an august body, and the OSSG have put on some brilliant talks in the last few years. But I'd like to shake things up a little. I want us to move away from doing talks to a small group of London-centric folk. I want us to spread the message of open source out beyond people who are already interested. I also want us to put our money where our mouth is and start using more open source tools - like Mastodon, Matrix, and Jitsi.
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It's a wrap for ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific Workshop 2022!
After two years of running the ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific workshop digitally, this year’s edition has returned to physical and was held from 9 to 10 Nov 2022. The ROS-AP team has seen an overwhelming response, with tickets sold out happening early in the registration. Over 100 attendees from the ROS community attended this 2-day event, with 15 esteemed speakers who are leaders in business, industry, research, and education sectors. Prof Quek Boon Tong, CE of the National Robotics Programme Singapore, has graced the event as a Guest-of-honour, and among the keynote speakers are Prof Selina Seah, Assistant CEO of Changi General Hospital and Prof Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director of IIT.
The entire speaker lineup can be found here.
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Why I live out of FeedLand for RSS now
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about RSS, and have defended it from charges that it’s irrelevant or only useful for plumbing. But when it comes to actually reading RSS feeds, I’ve been everywhere.
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I should have made a check list
Yup. I messed up again, just as I was afraid of. Using mod_md isn't that hard, it's just that any mistake you make means you just lost a few days, up to an entire month.