Please tell your friends about federated social media site that speaks several fediverse protocols thus serving as a hub uniting them, hubzilla.eskimo.com, also check out friendica.eskimo.com, federated
macroblogging social media site, mastodon.eskimo.com a federated microblogging site, and yacy.eskimo.com an uncensored federated search engine. All Free!
Alpha Warrior & Col. Towner-Watkins (30 yrs in the US military) podcast - Project Gladio
RFK assassination info, Kamala Harris involvement in stopping Sirhan Sirhan retrial, RFK Jr. talks with Sirhan Sirhan in prison, Cuba & CIA info; Bass & CIA, - LA Riots, info.
So, I was told, that Busch lite, is only sold in cans because it is the failed batches of all their other beers. They sell it in cans because it is light sensitive and is never the same color or quality
Local online news sources "PoliticsPA" and "Broad and Liberty" have a strategic partnership and both today published a sponsored article "by Pennsylvania’s Banking and Credit Union Associations" in opposition to a PA House bill that would protect consumers against unexpected overdraft fees. Both articles showed up in the main feeds of the sites with the exact same content and a tiny spon-con notice no bigger than those two words. Even worse on the RSS feeds and the PoliticsPA page, the article assumed head editor Steve Ulrich's byline above the article.
Here I just got done demanding that my Credit Union disable all overdraft protections for my debit card and checking account! If there's not enough money in the account the transaction should not go through.
🇧🇩 Amid escalating Israel-Iran conflict, Bangladesh has set up emergency hotlines for citizens in Iran and their families: 📞 Tehran: +989908577368 / +989122065745 📞 Dhaka: +8801712012847
Bangladeshis in Lebanon are also urged to stay cautious and indoors at night. 📞 Beirut hotline: 70635278
The region faces heavy destruction as Israel claims aerial superiority over Tehran following deadly strikes from both sides. Stay safe. 🌍
Enemy media reported that Israel incurred approximately 2.75 billion shekels ($733.12 million) per day in direct military expenses alone in its confrontation with Iran.
Une dizaine de marcheurs issus de la société civile, dont la comédienne française Corinne Masiero, se sont élancés dimanche depuis Paris derrière la banderole "Gaza: stop génocide, l'Europe doit agir!" pour rallier Bruxelles et exiger des autorités e…
A month ago, ahead of the mid-year UN climate talks, the Brazilian COP30 Presidency warned governments against “introducing potentially contentious new agenda
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The leadership of Europe are dangerously rattled by the inevitability that their lies will eventually melt under the blistering truth most people already
those are car bombs, not the cars of "nuclear program guys". bc the iof are the same dogs that trained isis. so now they're employing their isis tactics in iran.
Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.
Hands down my favorite show on television/ YouTube. There's something that's just so calming and relaxing watching these master crafstpeople work their magic. #TheRepairShop
➤ Subscribe ➤ http://bit.ly/RepairShopYTToday, a chance for woodwork expert Will Kirk to showcase his impressive carving skills, when Wilma from Bristol arri...
This is truly horrible. But we have a responsibility to not look away and to acknowledge the effects of the community's choices, unfortunately. #CovidIsNotOver #CovidLong
Erneut werden in Gaza Dutzende Hungernde bei dem Versuch getötet, an Essen zu gelangen. Während die Aufmerksamkeit auf der neuen Front Iran liegt, geht Israels Krieg gegen die Palästinenser unvermindert weiter.
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President Donald Trump’s military parade to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday on Saturday will bring thousands of soldiers and dozens of massive military v...
Gente en régimen de #autónomos en #España, ¿habéis recibido esa comunicación de la Seguridad Social informando sobre si tenéis que modificar o no vuestros códigos CNAE? Yo no he recibido nada de nada. He entrado en mi perfil de la Seguridad Social para echar un vistazo y acabo de descubrir que solo estoy dada de alta en una actividad, aunque yo realicé el alta en su momento en tres actividades distintas.
Por otro lado, ¿alguien sabe en qué epígrafe irían «los creadores de contenido», tipo #Twitch, #Patreon, etc.? En su momento, mi asesora me dijo que me diera de alta en «producción de películas cinematográficas» (que ya manda narices), pero no lo encuentro en el CNAE 2025. Y ya no tengo asesora.
People that complained about the prices of the Switch 2 but never said anything about the prices (and quality) of other companies deserve what they get. It wasn't a Nintendo problem nor it was something that we couldn't see until now. I'm not defending Nintendo, but if people just criticizes the price because it's Nintendo, sorry but you're retarded.
Other arguments that I saw were that Nintendo couldn't put those prices because those games weren't as good in quality as Sony games.
I wanted to talk about this since I saw the release, and I finally got the time to spit it out.
I think that people that say that are the faggots that believe that "video games are art" and shit like that.
>dude have you seen the new god of war it looks so good i mean the graphics are so cool and the history is so deep nothing compared to those baby games that you play
Being totally honest I would prefer to pay $80 to play the new Mario Kart rather than to play any of the modern AAA games. Do they look better in graphics? Yes. Do they a have cool and deep story? Maybe. But, are any of those games fun to play? Absolutely no.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
I’m so restless these days for literally no reason I think I just need to go on an adventure or something. My grandmother would say I need to accept Jesus. Alas…
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Magnifique! Quel boulot, en beauté et quantité, on sait à qui faire appel pour masquer la future destruction de ce monde, mais chut! les crevures seraient capables du pire, heu...!
Patreon, a creator monetization platform that offers membership programs and digital goods, announced on Monday that it is changing its pricing structure.
Currently, Patreon takes an 8% cut or a 12% cut from creators, depending on their selected tier — though the 8% plan is far more popular.
The new pricing plan instead offers one universal tier, which keeps 10% of creator earnings.
Existing Patreon creators need not worry — this price increase will only affect creators who publish a new Patreon page on August 4, 2025.
“Since we last updated our prices six years ago, Patreon has expanded beyond just payments to include media hosting, community, and discovery,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Price increases are never particularly popular announcements to make, but Patreon has a point — it has added a slew of new features over the last several years. These include native video hosting, livestreaming, free memberships, digital goods sales, and gift subscriptions.
Still, if you’ve ever considered setting up a Patreon account…you may want to get on that in the next few weeks and lock in that 8% rate.
The participation of Liadagmis Povea and Aslín Quiala marked today the best of Cuba in the final of the Spanish Club Athletics Championship, among women, held in Soria.
Israeli police detained protesters against the war in Haifa: 'To Stop the War' is something that is not legal to put on a shirt.’”
#Haaretz is reporting that a police officer was recorded telling the protesters in Haifa that the shirts they were wearing, with the slogan “To Stop the War,” were illegal. “These shirts are illegal. You are are now leaving the area,” she said, “'To Stop the War' is something that is not legal to put on a shirt.”
The demonstration where the officer was recorded took place in the Hadar neighborhood, calling for an end to the war between #Israel and #Iran, as well as the war in the #Gaza Strip. Only a few protesters participated.
Israel hat nun auch den Iran angegriffen. In Deutschland juckt das kaum jemanden. Schnell hat man sich bei uns an Krieg als Mittel der internationalen Politik gewöhnt, findet Christoph Ruf. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191921.…
@Friendica Support Hi! When following a peertube channel through friendica - should posted videos appear in the timeline? I added two channels, put them in a circle and in the meantime videos got published. But the circle stays empty. If I'm visiting the profile through Friendica, the videos are there. Am I missing something?
@Jonas ✅ I think I remember it was the same way, when I tried that. I was also wondering. I think you will only receive videos when a new one is posted, or some reaction happens on one. A comment or a like. But I am not sure if it has to be a reaction from friendica, or if one from somewhere else is sufficient.
@Jonas ✅ Maybe something is wrong when you don't receive new ones. You can try to put the peertube video url in the friendica search and look if you receive it then. But if something is wrong, this is not the solution, of course..
Cette association entre jacobinisme et « centralisation féroce » naît avec la légende noire forgée après le renversement de Robespierre et de ses partisans. De la même manière que les thermidoriens3 inventèrent l’existence d’un « système de terreur », ils créèrent de toutes pièces le mythe d’une centralisation à outrance de l’administration, qui aurait été réalisée par Robespierre pour régner en despote. Les travaux de Jean-Clément Martin ont déjà fait un sort à cette idée. Ils ont notamment démontré la grande difficulté pour la Convention de contrôler – non seulement le territoire français dont des pans entiers étaient insurgés contre elle, voire occupés par des troupes étrangères – mais aussi ses propres troupes et agents, munis de consignes floues qui les rendaient relativement autonomes sur le terrain.
« Cet air de liberté au-delà des frontières, aux peuples étrangers qui donnaient le vertige et dont vous usurpez aujourd’hui le prestige, elle répond toujours du nom de Robespierre : ma France ».
Uninterrupted access to satellite navigation is essential in our modern world, but it is threatened daily by external interference, such as jamming and spoofing. New technologies and concepts can help increase the resilience of our satellite navigation solutions. ESA and Leonardo are embarking on a joint project to explore smart antennas powered by Machine Learning to block unwanted signals
Proba-3 artificially created what is normally a rare natural phenomenon: a total solar eclipse.
In a world first, ESA’s Proba-3 satellites flew in perfect formation, blocking the Sun’s bright disc to reveal its fiery corona. This enigmatic outer layer burns millions of degrees hotter than the Sun’s surface and drives the solar storms that can disrupt life on Earth.
With its first artificial eclipse, Proba-3 has captured detailed images of this mysterious region, offering scientists new insights into our star’s behaviour.
I spent time over the weekend with my #Tangara, and have written up my first impressions. Did I love it? Hate it? You'll have to read for the details - but the TL;DR is that it's a cool device that falls short and isn't quite ready for prime time.
for what it's worth, I've been using mine for months now, including on motorcycles and in cars, and I haven't had the crashes you describe. it might be worth reporting them upstream: codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/ta…
Reporter: In anticipation of an Israeli strike against Iran, the United States has deployed F-15 fighter jets to Jordan to destroy Tehran's missiles, which will likely be launched in response to the IDF's actions.
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the chile peppers from whole foods are a lot better than the other generic grocery stores like meijer and kroger. they actually have a normal amount of heat vs the ones that are bred for the gringo palette with no spice at all.
🌍 ■ Médicos Sin Fronteras urge a la UE a actuar por el patrón de genocidio y de limpieza étnica que detecta en Gaza ■ "La hipocresía de los Gobiernos de Europa alimenta el sufrimiento" en la franja palestina, afirma la ONG en una durísima comparecencia en Bruselas. Reclama una "presión real" sobre Israel para acabar con la ofensiva. huffingtonpost.es/global/medic…
La ONG Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) instó este lunes a la Unión Europea (UE) a ejercer una "presión real" a nivel político, económico y diplomático para detener los "patrones de genocidio" y de "limpieza étnica" que han observado en Gaza por parte de …
I’m all-in on the Fediverse as the best way to own my own data and network. It’s based on an open standard (ActivityPub), loosely-coupled and open source services, and everyday people (and, it isn’t subject to the whims of lying, narcissistic billionaires). You can think of it as the next iteration of the open web, with social features baked in.
I’ve got a number of accounts that correspond with content that the different networks are good at – posts on Mastodon, photos on Pixelfed, reading habits on Bookwyrm. If I post something on one that I think my followers on a different network may like, I can boost it directly for them to see; or, folks can follow me on whatever platform they choose. My WordPress blog has federation switched on, too, so you can if you like follow @andypiper, and read my blog posts directly in your Fediverse platform of choice. (of course, RSS remains another excellent way to follow my blog).
By the way, if you’re curious what the buzz about the Fediverse is all about, I recommend Elena Rossini’s newsletter The Future is Federated – in the edition that was published today, she did a great job of explaining some of the interoperability between federated networks, from the perspective of, you know, just actually, using them, rather than from a deep technical angle. Worth following!
One of the other services I’ve been using is PeerTube, a federated alternative to YouTube. Up until now I’ve been on Diode Zone. However, that instance recently started to run into some storage issues, and also switched off the live broadcast feature that I’d occasionally used to stream some 3D printing and pen plotter content (this is straightforward to configure in OBS, by the way). I really appreciated my time on Diode Zone, but I’ve chosen to move across to MakerTube, a relatively newer instance dedicated to “makers, musicians, artists and DIY content creators”.
One of the core elements of the Fediverse is data ownership, and some form of portability. When I first joined Mastodon I started out at mastodon.social/@andypiper – if you visit that profile page now, you’ll find my posts starting in November 2016 and ending in November 2022, when I moved over to my current home, macaw.social – there’s a large message that points you at my current location if you look at my original profile. When I switched instances, my whole follower network went with me, seamlessly – unlike, for example, Twitter, where I lost everything when I deleted all my accounts; or Facebook, which heavily relies on its lock-in – read Cory Doctorow‘s excellent book The Internet Con to understand what’s happening there.
The current state of portability is absolutely not perfect – in the case of Mastodon, there’s a process which enables to you to migrate from one server to another, and that automatically resubscribes you to your network, and your followers to your new account, but it’s currently not technically possible to take the past posts with you (there is a W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group taskforce that is working on a more complete set of specifications for data portability that may help to improve this in the future).
Here is how I moved from Diode Zone to MakerTube:
Requested an account on MakerTube. They want to know who is part of the community, their content intentions, etc. I explained that I’m a maker and I also may plan to use the streaming feature.
Requested an export of data from Diode Zone.
this was technically a little bit frustrating, as it got stuck the first time (likely because I had requested it when there were earlier storage issues), but the instance owner was really kind and helped to clear the stuck process.
it was also a bit annoying because of the size of my export including the videos, which was a lot of gigabytes; so I ended up having to run a script that kept running wget with a resume flag to get the data in chunks.
Setup the basics of my new account on MakerTube.
Imported the export from the other instance.
Modified a few places that were pointing to Diode Zone, such as my links page, and also updated a few embeds that were loading videos from my previous account, such as some of the Fedidevs.org meeting recordings.
… while I was doing that, I thought I’d take advantage of PeerTube’s multi-channel capability, and created a specific channel for Fedidevs content, which you can now follow @fedidevs from other Fediverse platforms.
There were a couple of slightly rough edges, but nothing very significant:
Unlike Mastodon, PeerTube does not run a process to tell your followers that you have moved, and to resubscribe them to your new account. In my case I didn’t have a huge number of followers, but I will be posting a video there to say that I moved, and I also updated my profile information to point to the new instance. It did re-follow the accounts I had followed, but didn’t do the other side of the process.
The new instance imported my playlists, which was great – but some of them were playlists of my own videos, which I tend to create for curation and organisation, and of course, they still pointed at the videos on the previous instance. This was fairly straightforward to fix, just removed and re-added the videos on the new instance.
So there you are. You can follow my entire MakerTube account, my main channel, or the Fedidevs channel, if you like. I also have it set up to import future content that I may choose to post to YouTube, so that it has a free and open backup that Google can’t delete if I ever lose my account there.
I’m still frustrated that WordPress doesn’t seem to have a good integration for PeerTube content yet – I can paste a YouTube link here and get an embedded video, that’s less easy for PeerTube – but, I’m hopeful that will improve in the future.
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In November last year, I abandoned my Twitter account – I set it to private, did not visit, did not interact, ignored any direct messages, etc. It was simply too painful to watch friends and coworkers suddenly and systematically being fired, the company culture destroyed, and the developer communities that I supported for 9 years, finally cut off without support or API access. It has been a heartbreaking time.
Today, I took the last step in going back through my password manager vault and deleting all of my X/Twitter accounts. I’ve watched the shambolic rebranding over the past week, and frankly, I wish it had all happened far sooner – rather than seeing my beloved bird being dragged down, and the brand and memory ruined, piece by piece.
There are a few accounts that I share access to with others (for podcasts, sites or communities) that remain, but over the past hour or so I deleted 15 accounts, four of which had associated Twitter Developer Accounts.
Why so many?
Of course, I had my main account, @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url], which was first created after hanging out with my friend Roo Reynolds in his office at IBM Hursley, and hearing about Twitter, just starting to gather buzz from events like SxSW. Created February 21, 2007. The title of the blog entry I wrote that day seems accidentally prophetic (although, in truth, I do not regret it at all).
my jobs at VMware / Cloud Foundry in 2012, and at Twitter from 2014, were both direct results of being on Twitter, sharing my knowledge, interacting with different communities, and doing my work on the platform.
I’ve made countless friends through being on Twitter, and I’m grateful for that. It truly changed my life to be there.
Back at the start, those heady times of 2007-2009, it was not unusual to have a few accounts for fun, so certainly there were a few of those that just went away.
There were the super-sekrit accounts I had for testing features, such as the original internal test for ten thousand character Tweets (yes, this nearly happened, a long time back), the customisable Tweet Tiles we would have launched at the developer conference that was cancelled at the end of last year, and so on.
Finally, it’s time to say goodbye to my main @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url] account. Twitter is not Twitter any more, it is X – and I never signed up for X. In the near future, I’ll upload a searchable archive of my Twitter content, likely using Darius’ Twitter Archive tool. For now, it’s all done. I’m very happy elsewhere (personal sites and links here and here), and I will not be sad that X is out of my life.
… apart from the laptops that they still have not collected!
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I had this idea that I’d love a shirt like that, with the names of the Fediverse platforms I use most often (referring back to my post about moving PeerTube instances, you’ll know I use quite a few). So, I designed one; Heidi typeset and kerned the design and vinyl cut it for me, using the Cricut Maker and heat press in the studio; and, eventually, I’d had enough expressions of interest that we went ahead and put a printed version up on our studio shop.
I’m really happy with the way this came out. I’ve also designed a few other shirts (albeit, not Fediverse-related), so those may hit the shop in the future.
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I’m all-in on the Fediverse as the best way to own my own data and network. It’s based on an open standard (ActivityPub), loosely-coupled and open source services, and everyday people (and, it isn’t subject to the whims of lying, narcissistic billionaires). You can think of it as the next iteration of the open web, with social features baked in.
I’ve got a number of accounts that correspond with content that the different networks are good at – posts on Mastodon, photos on Pixelfed, reading habits on Bookwyrm. If I post something on one that I think my followers on a different network may like, I can boost it directly for them to see; or, folks can follow me on whatever platform they choose. My WordPress blog has federation switched on, too, so you can if you like follow @andypiper, and read my blog posts directly in your Fediverse platform of choice. (of course, RSS remains another excellent way to follow my blog).
By the way, if you’re curious what the buzz about the Fediverse is all about, I recommend Elena Rossini’s newsletter The Future is Federated – in the edition that was published today, she did a great job of explaining some of the interoperability between federated networks, from the perspective of, you know, just actually, using them, rather than from a deep technical angle. Worth following!
One of the other services I’ve been using is PeerTube, a federated alternative to YouTube. Up until now I’ve been on Diode Zone. However, that instance recently started to run into some storage issues, and also switched off the live broadcast feature that I’d occasionally used to stream some 3D printing and pen plotter content (this is straightforward to configure in OBS, by the way). I really appreciated my time on Diode Zone, but I’ve chosen to move across to MakerTube, a relatively newer instance dedicated to “makers, musicians, artists and DIY content creators”.
One of the core elements of the Fediverse is data ownership, and some form of portability. When I first joined Mastodon I started out at mastodon.social/@andypiper – if you visit that profile page now, you’ll find my posts starting in November 2016 and ending in November 2022, when I moved over to my current home, macaw.social – there’s a large message that points you at my current location if you look at my original profile. When I switched instances, my whole follower network went with me, seamlessly – unlike, for example, Twitter, where I lost everything when I deleted all my accounts; or Facebook, which heavily relies on its lock-in – read Cory Doctorow‘s excellent book The Internet Con to understand what’s happening there.
The current state of portability is absolutely not perfect – in the case of Mastodon, there’s a process which enables to you to migrate from one server to another, and that automatically resubscribes you to your network, and your followers to your new account, but it’s currently not technically possible to take the past posts with you (there is a W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group taskforce that is working on a more complete set of specifications for data portability that may help to improve this in the future).
Here is how I moved from Diode Zone to MakerTube:
Requested an account on MakerTube. They want to know who is part of the community, their content intentions, etc. I explained that I’m a maker and I also may plan to use the streaming feature.
Requested an export of data from Diode Zone.
this was technically a little bit frustrating, as it got stuck the first time (likely because I had requested it when there were earlier storage issues), but the instance owner was really kind and helped to clear the stuck process.
it was also a bit annoying because of the size of my export including the videos, which was a lot of gigabytes; so I ended up having to run a script that kept running wget with a resume flag to get the data in chunks.
Setup the basics of my new account on MakerTube.
Imported the export from the other instance.
Modified a few places that were pointing to Diode Zone, such as my links page, and also updated a few embeds that were loading videos from my previous account, such as some of the Fedidevs.org meeting recordings.
… while I was doing that, I thought I’d take advantage of PeerTube’s multi-channel capability, and created a specific channel for Fedidevs content, which you can now follow @fedidevs from other Fediverse platforms.
There were a couple of slightly rough edges, but nothing very significant:
Unlike Mastodon, PeerTube does not run a process to tell your followers that you have moved, and to resubscribe them to your new account. In my case I didn’t have a huge number of followers, but I will be posting a video there to say that I moved, and I also updated my profile information to point to the new instance. It did re-follow the accounts I had followed, but didn’t do the other side of the process.
The new instance imported my playlists, which was great – but some of them were playlists of my own videos, which I tend to create for curation and organisation, and of course, they still pointed at the videos on the previous instance. This was fairly straightforward to fix, just removed and re-added the videos on the new instance.
So there you are. You can follow my entire MakerTube account, my main channel, or the Fedidevs channel, if you like. I also have it set up to import future content that I may choose to post to YouTube, so that it has a free and open backup that Google can’t delete if I ever lose my account there.
I’m still frustrated that WordPress doesn’t seem to have a good integration for PeerTube content yet – I can paste a YouTube link here and get an embedded video, that’s less easy for PeerTube – but, I’m hopeful that will improve in the future.
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A short talk about why civic institutions should own and host their own presence in the Social Web. This talk was originally given at the end of the "Social Web After Hours" meetup in Brussels HSBXL, for FOSDEM 2025.
I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.
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I was pretty actively commenting from the event and taking part in the live uStream channel… others have written up some of their experiences and thoughts, so I don’t propose to say much here. My main contribution was to make a (shaky!) video of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk towards the start of the morning – a half hour overview of his home automation projects. I’ve posted it on Viddler, and if you are interested you are very welcome to comment on it, embed it in your own sites, or add annotations on the video timeline.
[viddler id=e4676600&w=400&h=267]
The nice part about Viddler over, say, YouTube is that it let me post the whole thing as a single video rather than having to chop it up into 10 minute chunks. I’ll try to post some notes on how I went about producing the video at some stage soon.
Some very general comments on the day:
Well-organised, well-run, great venue, nice to have wireless access – thanks to everyone involved in the logistics!
A brilliant, exciting array of skills, talents and interests. It was kind of funny to realise just how many of the folks I knew of as we were doing introductions at the start, and great to find that it wasn’t only a bunch of IBM hackers – this movement is really building momentum.
I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.
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IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, has been speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York today. He’s been discussing how the planet is getting smarter:
These collective realizations have reminded us that we are all now connected – economically, technically and socially. But we’re also learning that being connected is not sufficient. Yes, the world continues to get “flatter.” And yes, it continues to get smaller and more interconnected. But something is happening that holds even greater potential. In a word, our planet is becoming smarter.
In the speech, Sam talks about how the world has become instrumented, more interconnected, and devices more intelligent. And he talks about how the current world crises – ecological, financial, and others – represent an opportunity for change. The next step for the globally integrated economy is a globally integrated and intelligent economy and society.
Some of the problems and solutions that are being mentioned are interesting.
67 per cent of all electrical energy is lost due to inefficient power generation and grid management… utilities in the U.S., Denmark, Australia and Italy are now building digital grids to monitor the energy system in real time.
Congested roadways in the U.S. cost $78 billion annually in wasted hours and gas… Stockholm’s new smart toll system has resulted in 22 percent less traffic, a 12 to 40 percent drop in emissions and 40,000 additional daily users of the public transport system
This is exciting for me on many levels. Let me step up through them.
As regular readers will know, I’ve become increasingly interested in pervasive computing and home automation. The little “Current Cost craze” that has swept through my group of friends at work could be seen as a mark of the individual interest in applying technology in a smarter way. I’m excited that this has widened out to a group of folks who are supportingChris Dalby’s Home Camp idea in London later this month.
First on stage were hosts Brady Forrest [http://radar.oreilly.com/brady/] of
O’Reilly Media [http://oreilly.com/] and Jennifer Pahlka
[http://blog.pahlka.com/] of TechWeb [http://www.techweb.com/home].
The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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For a while now I’ve wanted to be able to check my CurrentCost meter‘s graphs on my iPhone.
Up until now I’ve been hooked up to the “Hursley mothership” and been publishing my data to a central dashboard. Unfortunately, although that draws some pretty graphs, it runs in Java and therefore isn’t supported in Mobile Safari on the phone.
This is still a work in progress, but with a combination of Ubuntu running on a Viglen MPC-L, rrdtool for gathering and graphing the stats, and the iWebKit framework for creating the user interface, I now have a simple iPhone-optimised web application which lets me view the graphs. All that’s happening here is that the data from the serial port is being dropped into rrdtool and graphs generated; and then Apache / PHP is serving up an optimised dashboard for looking at the graphs.
I just mentioned about three different topics I really should blog about in more detail (MPC-L, rrdtool, and iWebKit) but that will all have to wait.
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The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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One of the first Hursley-related things I wrote about here and on the eightbar blog back in 2006 was how much I enjoy helping with our annual schools event for National Science and Engineering Week in the UK – Blue Fusion (the event website has gone AWOL at the moment but here’s a link to the press release).
This year was no exception, and referring back to my old blog entries it turns out that this is now the fifth year that I’ve been a volunteer. Unfortunately I only had room in my schedule to spend one day helping this time around, so I chose to host a school for the day rather than spending all day on a single activity (that way, I got to see all of the different things we had on offer).
So, yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting six intelligent and polite students from Malvern St James School and their teachers – they had travelled a fair distance to come to the event, but despite the early start I think they did really well.
I won’t go into too much detail and spoil the fun for people who might read this but have not yet taken part in this week’s event, but I think we had some great activities on offer. I twittered our way through a few of them. My own personal favourite was a remote surgery activity. You can’t see much in this image (it was a dark room) but the students basically had a “body” inside a box with some remote cameras to guide their hands around and had to identify organs and foreign objects.
There was also some interesting application of visual technology / tangible interfaces – a genetics exercise using LEGO bricks and a camera which identified gene strands, and an energy planning exercise which used Reactivision-style markers to identify where power stations had been placed on a map (sort of similar to what we built in SLorpedo at Hackday a couple of years ago). We also had some logic puzzles to solve, built a, err… “typhoon-proof” (ahem) tower, simulated a computer processor, and commanded a colony of ants in a battle for survival against the other school teams.
Things I learned
Facebook (not Bebo) is now where it’s at.
If a tornado is coming, get out of the way or into a safe room.
Girls are much better than boys at listening to multiple streams of conversation (actually I think I worked this out a long time ago!).
A now, some notes just for my team…
Here are links to a few of the other things we talked about during the day:
Home Camp, the home automation and green energy event (next one is at the end of April).
And most importantly, here’s the evidence that we started off in first place 🙂 and I think you were an awesome team throughout. Well done, it was brilliant spending the day with you.
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For a while now I’ve wanted to be able to check my CurrentCost meter‘s graphs on my iPhone.
Up until now I’ve been hooked up to the “Hursley mothership” and been publishing my data to a central dashboard. Unfortunately, although that draws some pretty graphs, it runs in Java and therefore isn’t supported in Mobile Safari on the phone.
This is still a work in progress, but with a combination of Ubuntu running on a Viglen MPC-L, rrdtool for gathering and graphing the stats, and the iWebKit framework for creating the user interface, I now have a simple iPhone-optimised web application which lets me view the graphs. All that’s happening here is that the data from the serial port is being dropped into rrdtool and graphs generated; and then Apache / PHP is serving up an optimised dashboard for looking at the graphs.
I just mentioned about three different topics I really should blog about in more detail (MPC-L, rrdtool, and iWebKit) but that will all have to wait.
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i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.
Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...
Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.
You also have website as slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...
There is also also website that compare software or video as tournesol.app/
Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?
Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
Making them private is absolute idiotic. People participating in a discussion forum are willing to engage in a public conversation, if you are not willing to respond in public, then don't respond at all. And if you think that the original comment is in bad faith or harmful to the community, report it and move on.
Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
"Votes" are not real votes. It's just a terrible misnomer for "Liking" and "Disliking". I think we should get rid of votes altogether and use the real vocabulary.
I'd also would like a system where users could define their own scoring algorithm, and I would like to assign different weights depending on the person and the topic/community. I for one think that downvotes (dislikes) should only be counted if you are a member of the community and if you have made a positive contribution to the discussion.
What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?
I'd like to be able to follow people just to see what they are liking/commenting on. Also, given that this is a discussion forum, I wonder whether we could build a wiki-like system where people could annotate parts of a comment/post and challenge/elaborate/investigate specific parts of an statement. This could be used either for a "Change My View" style of discussion or even full-on adversarial collaboration projects.
Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
Public. Lots of downvotes is information that could indicate that the commenter is lying, or just saying something unpopular. But either way, it's information. Before youtube started hiding downvotes, it was easy to tell that a video was full of it based on downvotes. Now clickbait dominates the platform.
Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
No. I agree that the slashdot method with more than just upvote/downvote is better. In a perfect world I imagine we could have every emoji be a reaction option, and then you could sort by putting an emoji in a bar at the top. In reality I imagine this would be a challenge from a backend perspective, but maybe like the top 5 or 10 emoji reactions could be an option for selection.
What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
I'll do the opposite and say - please do not remove downvotes like Twitter/Bluesky/mastodon etc. Downvotes are super important. People need to be able to boo, the only place people aren't allowed to boo are in church or at cult rallies. And that's why those platforms are especially bad for misinformation, hyperbole, and overall depravity.
What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?
Remove all as a forced/default option on the main page. Back in the day before reddit had r/all, communities were much more diverse and niche, and this helped separate communities flourish in their own way. When r/all was added, the content started to resemble twitter, if not just becoming screenshots of twitter, on just about every sub. This actually improves discoverability because it would force users to branch out and look at subs instead of just looking at what's on all.
![The Structure of a Slavoj Žižek Essay
1. "Recall this Looney Tunes scene? (sniff) It perfectly illustrates Hegel’s negation of negation."
2. "Much like when Robespierre— (wipes glasses) —ah, but you pseudo-intellectuals wouldn’t know real revolutionary history!"
3. "Freud? Lacan? (snort) Of course you’ve misunderstood them. Let me explain objet petit a using this Coke can..."
4. "The Left’s interpretation is infantile. (tugs shirt) True radicalism means agreeing with neoliberals—but dialectically."
5. "Observe how this applies to [Current Event]. (sniff, gestures wildly) The true subversion? Paying taxes joyfully!"
6. "Paradoxically, the most Marxist stance is to defend the status quo. (spills coffee) This is why revolution is impossible."
7. "Conclusion: (sniff, stares into distance) ...the real ideological fantasy was the friends we made along the way."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7570990 "The Structure of a Slavoj Žižek Essay
1. \"Recall this Looney Tunes scene? (sniff) It perfectly illustrates Hegel’s negation of negation.\"
2. \"Much like when Robespierre— (wipes glasses) —ah, but you pseudo-intellectuals wouldn’t know real revolutionary history!\"
3. \"Freud? Lacan? (snort) Of course you’ve misunderstood them. Let me explain objet petit a using this Coke can...\"
4. \"The Left’s interpretation is infantile. (tugs shirt) True radicalism means agreeing with neoliberals—but dialectically.\"
5. \"Observe how this applies to [Current Event]. (sniff, gestures wildly) The true subversion? Paying taxes joyfully!\"
6. \"Paradoxically, the most Marxist stance is to defend the status quo. (spills coffee) This is why revolution is impossible.\"
7. \"Conclusion: (sniff, stares into distance) ...the real ideological fantasy was the friends we made along the way.\"")
I don't know.. but.. sounds.. somehow . not right.. to me .
The buzz
The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
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