Neil @neil@glasgow.social

Events on today:
6:30pm Ladies Who Code Glasgow: Ladies of Code: January Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-of-Code-Glasgow/events/283116222/

Tomorrow:
7:45am Lean Agile Glasgow: Morning Lean Coffee
https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/events/bstmfsydccbjc/

A very first unboxing of the #CutiePi Tablet, the first open-hardware Raspberry Pi 4-powered handheld by the Taiwan/Japan-based open hardware startup.

This device is based on a #RaspberryPi CM 4 (2GB RAM in our sample), and sports fully open-hardware, and easy to replicate, board design, which incorporates a HD screen, 5MP camera and several other sensors, all enclosed in a solid chassis.

An in-depth review will arrive in the next weeks, as soon as I manage to get rid of some other work!

This is a handy tool. Check the price per TB of storage.
https://diskprices.com/?locale=uk&condition=new&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas,external_ssd,internal_ssd,m2_ssd,m2_nvme,u2
Surprised to see 1TB is about £16 - when purchased in bulk.

Tips for #NewToMastodon people.
If you want people to follow you - or let you follow them - write something as a bio and post a hello. If you've never posted people assume you're fake.
Take a look at both your instance timeline, and the wider "world" timeline. Scroll the most recent 50-100 posts to see if anyone's messages catch your attention - then follow that person.
If you decide after a few days you're not interested, unfollow them and find other people.
Interact - don't just lurk.

Welcome to all the Twitter refugees! 👋

Mastodon and the Fediverse does NOT use NFTs or blockchain or cryptocurrencies. No one is on here trying to get rich, no one is promoting anything.

The Fediverse (which Mastodon is part of) is a federated computer network spread across thousands of independently owned and operated servers. The millions of people on the Fedi can interact with each other regardless of which server they signed up on, because the servers talk to each other through federation.

Federation is a proven and stable way to make a network, it's how telephones and email work for example. It's how social networks should be.

We aren't trying to break anything or compete with anyone. There are no shareholders or venture capitalists. Instead, we work together, donating time or money, and collaborate to make a better social network for its own sake.

Here are some hints and tips for new users:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107537092666623537

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips #MastoTips #Introduction

💬 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
🗣️ Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

💬 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
🗣️ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

💬 "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
🗣️ Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

💬 "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will."
🗣️ Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal messenger, 2022

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html

Tomorrow:
6:00pm 2600 Glasgow: Glasgow 2600
https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/11361-glasgow-2600

I didn't know Plausible Analytics is open-source and can be self-hosted.

https://plausible.io/docs/self-hosting

#Privacy #Decentralization

2000: Welcome to our shitty animated flash site for our restaurant. The hours will be baked into the flash so good luck if we ever change them

2010: Welcome to our shitty broken web site for our restaurant, here's a blurry, super-compressed scan of the cover of our menu

2020: Welcome to our shitty facebook page for our restaurant, we had a tech savvy young server set it up for us but then she quit so we can never update it again

What Happened to #Anderston ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irUjsjdvEOw&ab_channel=EdExploresScotland

#Glasgow #Scotland #History

@lanodan @stefan
> decentralised software shouldn't have a flagship/official instance
this x10000000

Framasoft launched Mobilizon correctly
https://mobilizon.org

They contacted some people known to run similar services (such as myself) and asked us if we would be able to have Mobilizon set up in time for launch. When they launched, the webpage looked exactly like it does now; Framasoft runs their own instance but it's just one of many French options with nothing setting it apart