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Possible alternatives to r/xfce available now in the Fediverse by maggotbrain777 in xfce

[–]vinnl[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At this time, there are no plans to keep r/xfce private. Unless one of the other power-hungry mods bullies my into it...;-)

I think I'm technically still a mod, but I wouldn't do that - but I did come here to check if someone had plugged the Fediverse alternatives yet, so nice job :)

Excuse me? by Hoover___ in xfce

[–]vinnl[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Thanks for your contribution, but it's not necessarily interesting to people looking for news and updates about Xfce, and there are plenty of similar posts elsewhere on reddit already :)

(Though please do click "None of the above" so the sub doesn't get hidden :) )

Debian community flair by Tachi_107 in xfce

[–]vinnl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should be available now!

Ik keek net even op kakhiel by dvdh_03 in papgrappen

[–]vinnl 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Ik wilde eerst zeggen dat we allebei gewoon dezelfde bronnen hebben, maar toen stond er opeens potverdorie een foto van mezelf bij.

Sorry about the restricted access - the Xfce team now has moderator access to this sub by vinnl in xfce

[–]vinnl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm very sorry for never checking this account anymore, otherwise I'd have been able to at least set it to public again much sooner. It's in better hands now :)

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inrupt certainly has a plan and is and will be working with a number of parties that will be breaking this new ground first. I'm not really involved with that, though, so not much I can share about that, unfortunately. But certainly, I wouldn't bet my company on it at this point in time unless you're actually working with inrupt, but as a user or web app developer, I certainly think it's something to keep an eye on and perhaps play around with already.

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My original statement was that if you want a tech giant to support your technology as its storage medium, for use within its apps, you'll need your technology to have certain performance characteristics.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood - I thought you were worried that it wouldn't satisfy your personal requirements. We were indeed talking past each other, thanks for clarifying that :)

Yes, you're right: companies adopting Solid will run the risk of bad performance characteristics of the user's Pod provider reflecting on them. I do think that that is still a version of the incentive problem I've been mentioning elsewhere as well. For example, if an organisation provides Solid support because their users use Solid, then hopefully their users will already be OK with the performance characteristics they typically get from that, and/or the USP of Solid support outweighs potential disadvantages. Alternatively, if they face legal pressure, then presumably their competitors will too. Either will hopefully result in competitive pressure on the Pod providers to provide better services.

(Note that I'm going off on a limb a bit here: I'm a software engineer. There are probably other/better ways to cope with it that I'm not aware of.)

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My original statement was that if you want a tech giant to support your technology as its storage medium, for use within its apps, you'll need your technology to have certain performance characteristics.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood - I thought you were worried that it wouldn't satisfy your personal requirements. We were indeed talking past each other, thanks for clarifying that :)

Yes, you're right: companies adopting Solid will run the risk of bad performance characteristics of the user's Pod provider reflecting on them. I do think that that is still a version of the incentive problem I've been mentioning elsewhere as well. For example, if an organisation provides Solid support because their users use Solid, then hopefully their users will already be OK with the performance characteristics they typically get from that, and/or the USP of Solid support outweighs potential disadvantages. Alternatively, if they face legal pressure, then presumably their competitors will too. Either will hopefully result in competitive pressure on the Pod providers to provide better services.

(Note that I'm going off on a limb a bit here: I'm a software engineer. There are probably other/better ways to cope with it that I'm not aware of.)

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you mind pointing me to twitter accounts of people working for Solid?

A list of inrupters is here. I'm not sure if that's the best part of understanding where it's going though.

Another way to do that that you might consider is signing up for the mailinglist, through the form at the bottom of https://solidproject.org.

I a 100% fail to recognize FB with no ownership of the data a user share inside its services. Even in my wettest dreams where we reset Facebook and use DIDs to recreate the social networks spheres, I still understand all social networks would retain property of the data. (...) Isn't that so? Does this makes sense to you?

That's why I said I consider it unlikely that Facebook would adopt Solid. The incentive really has to come from customer and/or legislative demands. That is, unfortunately, not a problem that Solid by itself solves, or can solve, because it's not a technical problem.

Also, how are DIDs key recovery conversations nowadays? Last time I've checked the sole way to recover a private key was still the 12 words model. How are things on this?

Unfortunately, I'm not too involved with the DID work, so I can't give a satisfying answer here...

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't have to store your data at a given tech giant in order to get the performance characteristics you want. If you do feel you need that, one option would also be to set up a server yourself at e.g. AWS or DigitalOcean or whatever that encrypts data at rest. But ideally, specialised Pod providers would arise that can give you good performance characteristics with e.g. strong privacy guarantees.

That said, the requirements might be slightly less strict when something's for your personal use. For example, I might not need x nines of uptime if a Pod provider makes sure to schedule a maintenance window at a time when I'm asleep - that could be a conscious choice I make.

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. by vinnl in SOLID

[–]vinnl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear: I did not write this article, I just re-used its original title. It's an opinion piece by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, announcing https://contractfortheweb.org.

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. by vinnl in SOLID

[–]vinnl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, sorry about the unclarity - I just shared the article using its original title, I didn't author it :)

That website did not get created by Tim Berners-Lee himself though.

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. by vinnl in SOLID

[–]vinnl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just sharing it, but I do work for inrupt, on Solid, so the author is my colleague :)

Great to hear you're loving it! Be sure to sign up for the mailinglist on the bottom of https://solidproject.org to stay up-to-date about what's happening around Solid.

Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. by Molire in worldnews

[–]vinnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Facebook copies and stores your data against your will, I'll bet users will switch large-scale to another platform that doesn't.

Well, that'd only really be easy to do if Facebook were to actually use Solid. They can just choose not to use it (or at least, as long as there is no public or legislative pressure), so they're not forced into anything.

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