A marzo del 2001 l’editore Studio Vit mise fine alla storia editoriale di Zeta, il mensile che sei anni prima si era presentato come “l’ultima parola sul divertimento interattivo”. Ci sono volte in cui le redazioni non sanno che quello che sta arrivando in edicola sarà l’ultimo numero della loro rivista, ma in quel caso era chiaro a tutti. Il messaggio in copertina, infatti, era tristemente eloquente: “Game Over”.
La scritta richiamava la grafica delle schermate di fine partita di un gioco anni Ottanta: pixel bianchi su un funereo campo nero. Per una rivista come Zeta, scegliere la copertina era un processo che includeva una parte di rischio. Voleva dire scommettere su un videogioco piuttosto che un altro e l’obiettivo era, vi sorprenderà, risultare interessante e sperare di attirare l’attenzione di chi altrimenti non l’avrebbe comprata. Tutti discorsi che non hanno più senso quando hai già deciso che non ci saranno altre uscite.
I think this is the way we should communicate, when presented with the question on how to get on Mastodon:
Copy paste from the link:
How do I use Mastodon?
Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.
Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)
Follow people, and get posting.
Why do tech journalists say it’s too confusing to catch on?
I have no fucking idea.
EDIT for clarification, don't take this too seriously:
This “guide” is a bit of a joke made out of frustration. If you actually want to know more, including why I feel it has potential to free us from the dystopian hellscape that is modern social media, here is the “real” guide to Mastodon. It still uses simple language (and has lots of pictures!):
The real guide is still either outdated or doesn't take into account that there's a lot more steps. But considering it's been 2 years, I don't hold that against the author
Create an account. Just like Twitter (or any other social media).
Meaning that those are not any different than what you need to do in Twitter or facebook. Actually the consents you need and the app permissions are much simpler in Mastodon case
Disclosure: I've tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?
E.g. I only just realized now why I've been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what's being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that's what it's doing and what's connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?
I'm not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.
But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple
But then: "Wait... it's still not showing me the OP followed by replies." It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don't get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text "Go to top" and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I'll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works ~~in a way that is not obviously maddening~~ the way I need it to.
It’s not that simple and I don’t get why people pretend it is. The “instance” concept confuses everyone. The email comparison everyone uses is inadequate.
Edit: The issue is incredibly fundamental. You don’t just download the app, create an account, and go. You download an app that lets you participate, then you need to decide your instance which is like deciding which specific browser you want tonuse that then lets you see individual communities. But also your instance might have a community with the exact same name as a community in another instance, so make sure you know the difference despite both of them being “news“ or “politics.“ Also all the different instances have different nuances to their federation and voting that you may or may not see, unless you are familiar with how each instance operates.
We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance, we’re basically right back where we started. We want people to be distributed among other instances.
If one instance has 97% of the userbase then they basically get to dictate the whole thing. What if mastodon.social ended up being hexbear or lemmygrad? Or some MAGA right wing instance?
Twitter was a shit hole but nobody thought it was going to be where it is now. Your average “liberal” CEO typically has a floor of how shitty they are willing to be because even they have common sense. Musk has no such floor
We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance
But this doesn't happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it's the right choice. - The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance. - He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means - The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn't even use the offical app
@uz @Galessandroni bella domanda, essendo un'estensione davo per scontato andasse ovunque (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…) ma io l'ho provata effettivamente su Windows e ora non ho Linux o macOS sotto mano. Magari qualcuno ha esperienze in merito!
@QuasiMagia per me un motivo valido è la totale mancanza di fiducia che ho nei confronti dei provider italiani. Qui trovi altri possibili motivi: miserveunavpn.it/ ma è possibile che a te non serva o non interessi, l'importante è usarla per un (proprio) motivo valido 😊
Il martellante marketing dei fornitori VPN ha creato molta confusione sulle loro reali funzionalità. Ecco un semplice test per scoprire se fa al caso tuo o meno.
Se fosse possibile un confronto di funzionalita' con Mullvad, magari le differenze principali rispetto a servizi mainstream come NordVPN sarebbe molto utile, anche da far girare.
Un vero e proprio tesoro nascosto è riemerso dai file sorgente di The Secret of Monkey Island, il celebre classico di avventura grafica della LucasArts. Un’intera stanza, originariamente tagliata dal gioco finale, è stata scoperta e ripristinata utilizzando gli strumenti di sviluppo originali!
Un vero e proprio tesoro nascosto è riemerso dai file sorgente di The Secret of Monkey Island, il celebre classico di avventura grafica della LucasArts.
Grazie a questo toot ho scoperto che è possibile aggiungere stili custom a OsmAnd, e alcuni qualcuno ha fatto lo sforzo di scriverne alcuni per particolari casi, come il ciclismo
Sembra fatto bene:
OsmAnd è un’app di mappatura offline open source per Android. Molto personalizzabile e con modalità avanzate per modificare i percorsi gpx, analizzarli, filtrare i POI etc.
You can add a "cycling style" to OsmAnd, the FOSS mapping app for android
Thank to this toot i discovered that you can add custmo maaping styles to OsmAnd, and some smart guys made the effort to write some for particular cases.
It looks nice:
OsmAnd is an open source offline mapping app for Android. It allows for a lot of customization, and has advanced modes to edit gpx paths, analyze them, filter POIs etx.
Immagine tratta dal volume “After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theatre" edito da Jonglez, con foto di Matt Lambros. Non siamo qui per replicare. Siamo qui per rompere. Non cerchiamo perfezione. Cerchiamo il tremito prima della parola. L’attimo in cui l’attore dimentica il copione e diventa vero. Il palco non è superficie. È ferita. È soglia.
Immagine tratta dal volume “After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theatre” edito da Jonglez, con foto di Matt Lambros. Non siamo qui per replicare. Siamo qui per romper…
Thank to this toot i discovered that you can add custmo maaping styles to OsmAnd, and some smart guys made the effort to write some for particular cases.
It looks nice:
OsmAnd is an open source offline mapping app for Android. It allows for a lot of customization, and has advanced modes to edit gpx paths, analyze them, filter POIs etx.
È un progetto open source e self-hostabile simile SimpleLogin e Addy per la creazione e gestione di alias email e la gestione delle password, quindi anche molto simile a quello che fanno Proton Pass e Bitwarden.
È crittografato end-to-end, attualmente è totalmente gratuito (ma arriveranno probabilmente feature a pagamento in futuro) e lo sviluppatore è abbastanza affidabile, per esempio gestisce SpamOK dal 2013 e sembra una persona interessata a portare avanti un progetto libero e indipendente.
Si può utilizzare gratuitamente il dominio aliasvault.net e altri domini pubblici (tipo appunto spamok.com) oppure si può utilizzare un proprio dominio.
È possibile utilizzarlo via web oppure tramite estensione su qualsiasi browser.
Che ne pensate? Qualcuno lo utilizza o l'ha mai provato?
Non sembra male ma prima di affidare le password ad un progetto relativamente nuovo e supportato da pochi sviluppatori io aspetterei che la community cresca.... dato che bitwarden è sempre open e self-hostable ma ha dalla sua audit seri per la correzione di vulnerabilità esempio: not Support for FIDO2/WebAuthn hardware keys and passkeys che per me per chi deve salvare le proprie password in maniera abbastanza sicura questa è d'obbligo @lealternative
@lillobel vero. In realtà mi interessava soprattutto per la parte "alias email" perché per quanto riguarda le password sono decisamente d'accordo con quanto dici soprattutto se si parla di un servizio in cloud.
Quella funzione per ora è tale e quale a quella di bitwarden però stanno lavorando per una self hostable che li sarebbe interessante: Custom Domains (cloud-hosted)(Coming Soon) @lealternative
Sembra proprio che avremo un'altra applicazione su cui poter guardare le mappe e che si chiamerà CoMaps. Il sito esiste già: comaps.app/ ma l'applicazione non è ancora disponibile.
Una parte della comunità si è "ribellata" e ha scritto una lettera aperta indirizzata agli sviluppatori di Organic Maps dove chiedevano maggiore trasparenza e criticavano la possibile svolta "for-profit" di Organic Maps.
Eh diciamo che non è facile mantenere un progetto aperto e di comunità in un contesto in cui le alternative a venture chiusi e aziendali sono poche 🤷 Spero che riescano bene a sviluppare l'alternativa o che proprio la questione faccia rientrare dalla deviazione OM e con più garanzie tangibili (perché è un'app efficiente che sarebbe un peccato perdere...)
Continua l'operazione simpatia di Mozilla che sponsorizzerà Perplexity AI nelle prossime release!
Tanti per capirci il CEO di Perplexity è quello che di recente ha detto di voler sviluppare un browser che traccerà tutto quello che fanno gli utenti per poter vendere AD super precisi e personalizzati: techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp… ❤️
Sul gruppo di Telegram è stato segnalato questo tool, per ora gratuito anche se si vuole usare un proprio dominio personale, per la creazione e la gestione di siti web: soloist.ai/
Mozilla sembra parecchio interessata a entrare "nel mondo delle AI" e ci sta provando in diversi modi, anche questo infatti utilizza la cosiddetta intelligenza artificiale (anche se non ho capito quale) ma la privacy policy non sembra male a una prima occhiata.
La cosa che più mi preoccupa di questi tool generalmente è il rischio di "lock-in".
Why is there no label on the vertical axis. Are we talking days, seperate vacation periods (of different length) or percentage of days in a year? ~~Oh there's weeks in the title. Still a bad graph.~~
What does School_Vacations and Work_Vacations actually mean?
I was trying to have a working ai prompt to generate this via svg but they're still so stupid . Countries should have been colored according to the numbers in percentage
Padre Paolo Benanti, esperto di etica e nuove tecnologie nel suo libro, Il crollo di Babele,esamina la trasformazione del web da sogno di interconnessione democratica a strumento di potere e disinformazione. Il testo sottolinea come le Primavere Arabe abbiano segnato un culmine e come la successiva quotazione in borsa di FB abbia segnato un punto di svolta. @writefreely @libri
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Few topics in cycling inspire as much controversy as helmets. Some people insist they’re essential, calling non-wearers reckless and invoking harsh and violent imagery: “enjoy your traumatic brain injury”. “You’ll regret it when you’re in a hospital with a feeding tube”. You hear suggestions of denying access to public healthcare. On the opposite end, helmet skeptics argue that they’re a distraction. I’ve actually heard people call them “magic hats” that “don’t offer significant protection (if any at all)”. Helmets dehumanize cyclists and send the wrong message. They’re dorky and uncool, rather than fashionable and European.
So what’s the truth about helmets?
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Few topics in cycling inspire as much controversy as helmets. Some people insist they’re essential, calling non-wearers reckless and invoking harsh and violent imagery: “enjoy your traumatic brain injury”. “You’ll regret it when you’re in a hospital with a feeding tube”. You hear suggestions of denying access to public healthcare. On the opposite end, helmet skeptics argue that they’re a distraction. I’ve actually heard people call them “magic hats” that “don’t offer significant protection (if any at all)”. Helmets dehumanize cyclists and send the wrong message. They’re dorky and uncool, rather than fashionable and European.
Bicycle helmets – To wear or not to wear? A meta-analyses of the effects of bicycle helmets on injuries (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…)
Risk compensation
Drivers overtaking bicyclists: Objective data on the effects of riding position, helmet use, vehicle type and apparent gender (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…) Bicycle helmet wearing is associated with closer overtaking by drivers: A response to Olivier and Walter, 2013 (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…) Emotional reactions to cycle helmet use (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…) Risk compensation theory and bicycle helmets – Results from an experiment of cycling speed and short-term effects of habituation (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…) Risk compensation? – The relationship between helmet use and cycling speed under naturalistic conditions (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…) Bicycle helmets and risky behaviour: A systematic review (sciencedirect.com/science/arti…)
Even if you exclude injuries from automobiles, head injuries are far and away the most common serious injuries people get while cycling. This entire debate is idiotic. Wearing a helmet is such an easy thing to do and has basically zero downsides.
This argument is not sound: according to the video, if you exclude dangerous cycling activities (mountain bike, downhill...) the rate of head injuries you get biking is similar to the one you get for example when running. So either you think that also runners should wear an helmet, or your point is not backed by data.
And millions of Americans think the reason we don't have all the things we don't have that everybody else has, is cuz we have Freedom! and everybody else is oppressed. How did so many people get so brainwashed?
It sounds to me that lemmy is full of Canadians, right? 😎 What is the percentage, 50% from Canada (or Canada' fans at least), 30% from the US and 20% from Europe?
I’m slightly unsure whether the average U-lock is actually safer than a heavy-duty chain. If the chain is thick enough, you’d need massive bolt cutters or an angle grinder - and with a chain, cutting with angle grinder is trickier. You usually need someone holding the link with pliers while you cut, and you have to cut both sides to get through it.
With many U-locks, you only need to cut one side for it to fall off, and it’s much easier to keep steady while grinding.
I generally agree with you except nowadays there are "grinder resisting" u-locks that are very expensive, bit also effective. As usual it's not like they are indestructible, but its just just a matter of more time and effort to get throught them
Here in this video there is one example, but it's easy to find others:
Personally I use an heavy duty chain, I don't care much about weight (I already load my city bike with lot of stuff) and I can secure relatively quickly a around the frame. But if I had a more expensive bike I would probably use one of those fancy U-lock
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This guy in Pisa, Italy, has planted 4 trees in a public space and by speaking to nearby people he agreed with some of them to provide water during summer time. Moreover he repaired a public drinking fountain that the administration closed (to avoid repairing), also to help provide water needed for nearby plants.
Follow the mastodon thread, maybe with the help of automatic translation.
Ieri sera, in risposta al taglio di 2 giovani alberi (un melo e un melograno) da parte della manutenzione, abbiamo piantato 4 nuovi alberi (2 meli e 2 nespoli) in Piazzale degli Scali a #Pisa. Proprio quelli che sono stati salvati il #PrimoMaggio dai rifiuti del discount locale. 🌳
Interazioni molto positive con abitanti del quartiere, che si sono avvicinati curiosi e hanno promesso di dar da bere durante i mesi caldi. Qualcuno mi stava anche cercando «Tu sei quello che pianta gli alberi?» 😁
Thanks to a clear and defined strategy, the car number has decreased by 34% since 2017, and the number of cyclists has increased by 70%. In a city where the transit is really excellent.
These are the results that you get when you build quality infrastructure, as already seen in Paris
A Londra molte più persone in bici che in auto durante il giorno
Grazie ad un strategia chiara e definita, a #Londra, dal 2017 il numero auto è diminuito del 34%, e il numero di ciclisti è aumentato del 70%. In una città in cui il #trasportoPubblico è davvero eccellente.
Questi sono i risultati che si ottengono quando si realizza l'infrastruttura fatta bene, come già visto a #Parigi.
#BeppeSala, vuoi diminuire il numero di auto a #Milano? Ecco come fare
If so, I have to say I don't trust AI generated data. I've tried on and off since 2022 with different models to see how it does with questions and data specific to my field of expertise and it just makes up stuff and is often wrong, and can't produce evidence / references that hold any ground.
I'm just saying this to hopefully courage you to search for reliable and better sources for your data. I hope to see more maps from you then! 😀
This article was originally published in Italian in Rizomatica Issue #7 and then translated in English on Reincantamento. It was originally intended exclusively for an Italian audience, and taking the
Those who defend strategies, practices, and rituals in an identitarian way even if they don't lead to concrete impact are part of the problem, regardless of the seniority of the traditions and identities they embody. Losing for decades, martyring oneself for nothing, having moral superiority should not be a source of authority on how politics should be conducted, because it does not generate competence on how to achieve political victories.
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[S]pontaneism must be fought in every way possible. First in its most obvious form, that is, the idea that if there is a widespread complaint in society, sooner or later this will lead to action which in turn will lead to change. Second, in its more insidious form, that is, the idea that understanding a political phenomenon, a problem, or an issue, is enough to achieve a solution.
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Nothing is too “right-wing.” Nothing is “a thing for capitalists.” The end justifies the means. To be ineffective is a form of privilege. Being picky when choosing allies, being maximalists, and being purists is the luxury of those who engage in politics because of their beliefs rather than out of necessity.
.Donuts
in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • • •I think that's too simplified and it will create expectations that aren't true, because It's more like this:
homoludens
in reply to .Donuts • • •.Donuts
in reply to homoludens • • •lgsp@feddit.it
in reply to .Donuts • • •I think your steps from 2 to 8 are summed up in
Meaning that those are not any different than what you need to do in Twitter or facebook. Actually the consents you need and the app permissions are much simpler in Mastodon case
klu9
in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • • •Well, I'm confused. And has it caught on?
Disclosure: I've tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?
E.g. I only just realized now why I've been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what's being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that's what it's doing and what's connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?
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lgsp@feddit.it
in reply to klu9 • • •I'm not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.
But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple
Phanpy
phanpy.socialklu9
in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • • •Phanpy
First impression: "That's more like it!"
But then: "Wait... it's still not showing me the OP followed by replies." It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don't get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text "Go to top" and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I'll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works ~~in a way that is not obviously maddening~~ the way I need it to.
I'll try Ask Lemmy. lemmy.ca/post/44479417
(And wondering again if I should try Mbin or Piefed, and what the difference is.)
lgsp@feddit.it
in reply to klu9 • • •LandedGentry
in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • • •It’s not that simple and I don’t get why people pretend it is. The “instance” concept confuses everyone. The email comparison everyone uses is inadequate.
Edit: The issue is incredibly fundamental. You don’t just download the app, create an account, and go.
You download an app that lets you participate, then you need to decide your instance which is like deciding which specific browser you want tonuse that then lets you see individual communities. But also your instance might have a community with the exact same name as a community in another instance, so make sure you know the difference despite both of them being “news“ or “politics.“ Also all the different instances have different nuances to their federation and voting that you may or may not see, unless you are familiar with how each instance operates.
ikt
in reply to LandedGentry • • •Just use mastodon.social
If you feel like you want to join a more specific community then you can
LandedGentry
in reply to ikt • • •We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance, we’re basically right back where we started. We want people to be distributed among other instances.
If one instance has 97% of the userbase then they basically get to dictate the whole thing. What if mastodon.social ended up being hexbear or lemmygrad? Or some MAGA right wing instance?
Twitter was a shit hole but nobody thought it was going to be where it is now. Your average “liberal” CEO typically has a floor of how shitty they are willing to be because even they have common sense. Musk has no such floor
lgsp@feddit.it
in reply to LandedGentry • • •But this doesn't happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it's the right choice.
- The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance.
- He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means
- The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn't even use the offical app