Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social), page 2

@lopp The Mastodon *server* is written in Ruby, but there are many other server implementations. There are also many Mastodon *clients* other than the built-in Web UI: https://joinmastodon.org/apps

@lopp See https://fediverse.info/explore/projects for example. If you're looking for higher performance, then Pleroma (Elixir/Erlang) might be a good fit: https://pleroma.social/

Some of the client apps work with both Mastodon and Pleroma.

@lopp Another interesting project is the much newer Mitra, created by @silverpill, who also wrote FEPs for client-side activity signing and portable objects (bringing some of the benefits of Nostr to ActivityPub), among others:

* https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra
* https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main

The irony of electricity cutting out from "load shedding" during this very talk wasn't lost on anyone.

Saturday night adventure in the middle of nowhere in Madagascar...

No cyclone so far, but the scenery sure looks dramatic sometimes.

The green thing in this picture is the most quiet large generator I have ever seen. I think it runs on natural gas.

Oyster breakfast. 2 dozen for ~1.60 EUR.

#hackerbeach

Took all of 15 minutes after we arrived in Mahajanga for a couple of locals with bags full of lobsters to show up on our porch.

#hackerbeach

@cjd @dcc @lain @adiz That's because deep storytelling has moved to longer-form series, while well-funded movies have turned into theme park rides, as the least common denominator for international audiences.

Don't serve stuff on the Internet from your home, puny customer!

This is the first time I'm seeing modern Internet speeds in Germany. Alas, it's only one direction. What a joke.

On a Polish night train, pulled by a an ÖBB locomotive, displaying a German IC number and name.

The computer disagreed.

@lain I should tile a floor with that, in order to defend against a certain claim.

@bacardi55 Thanks for explaining! Those numbers are quite ridiculous for such a small setup indeed. I'd go with @snikket_im probably. XMPP is incredibly lightweight in comparison. You'll likely get away with a couple hundred MB of RAM and less than a GB of storage.

@lain Who would have thought that the equivalent of 25+ years of rent for a place is not a realistic price? I'm shocked.

Sicilian winter weather is pretty good, when it's not raining.

@lain The same procedure as every year, James.

@lain @cjd It's not exactly unknown, but as you say, shaky environment. Even though ZEDEs got constitutional protection for 50 years, the current government is already talking about violating the constitution and taking away their rights.

@lanodan @lain @face I remember that day. Fireworks all around. I think my webserver exploded from still serving a feed.

@face If they killed it, then how am I using XMPP for most of my daily communication? 🤔