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@benpate Dunno how local the smallest ones get, but take a look around https://openbiblio.social, it's the biggest fediverse cluster of libraries and librarians that I know of.
Edit: to the point of your question, the instance was started by a research library.
This is a fantastic lead. Thank you!
I'll try to see what I can learn from them. Hopefully they've talked about what worked, what didn't, and the challenges they faced along the way.
Certainly everyone will have different criteria, but I'm betting this kind of thing could be replicated in lots of places.
If you look at poverty rates within countries, it has indeed gone down in the BRICS, to the degree that they've resisted the corporatisation ("structural adjustment) of their societies. But in Global North countries, including US, UK and NZ, poverty has massively increased since the 1980s, along with inequality.
So average poverty across the world has reduce *despite* the metastaticising tumour of "free market" capitalism, not because of it.
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The reputation laundering for corporatism deflects blame away from the 1% - the main beneficiaries of these massive poverty increases - by pointing working people at immigrants. Winston First's stoking of anti-immigrant sentiment is a classic example.
What WF and its supporters ignore is that capitalists can and do move jobs to the countries immigrants come from. Just as easily as they can increase the numbers of workers coming into the country. Immigration is a *distraction*.
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@derekmorr Why?
@joeneXtra XMPP has no real privacy built in. Delta chat has antiquated encryption.
If anyone's after some tips on how to stop using Discord, I found that simply not using it because I didn't understand it really helped. 👍
@TheBreadmonkey what's not to understand? It's exactly the same thing as Slack or Teams.
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text search remains very much like the constructed house of mirrors in the lz77 paper in that text search and data compression are essentially dual problems and both "fields" of study seek to ablate the deeply domain-specific context inherent in practical realizations of the "information" they pretend to codify.
much like with compression, when the input is fixed (or if it can be approximated somehow), there will exist a family of optimal encodings for search operations to minimize any desired metric. a "generic" search is very reasonably analogized to a "universal" coding system such as lz77
if you are at all interested in this subject actually i would love to collaborate with you because it remains deeply mysterious to me why e.g. overlapping parallel parse forests (and related constructions to infer partially-ordered graphical relations across various magnitudes of distance spanning sequential input, which admit astronomically parallelizable and vectorizable mechanisms to combine orthogonal results) are not yet the subject of even a single doctoral thesis if not a goddamn turing award
text search remains very much like the constructed house of mirrors in the lz77 paper in that text search and data compression are essentially dual problems and both "fields" of study seek to ablate the deeply domain-specific context inherent in practical realizations of the "information" they pretend to codify.
much like with compression, when the input is fixed (or if it can be approximated somehow), there will exist a family of optimal encodings for search operations to minimize any desired metric. a "generic" search is very reasonably analogized to a "universal" coding system such as lz77
Let's do this.
@TechConnectify
Uhm. New here and don't know how to work it yet.
I dlp most of the good things. You've knocked out so much good stuff, but this was sharp. Made me sign up. I couldn't not; it was so kind and thoughtful. Also, in on the midwest angle.
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Updated Customer Websites to Ghost v6.17.2
All Magic Pages customer websites have been updated to Ghost v6.17.2
All customer websites running on Magic Pages have been updated to Ghost's new release v6.17.2 today. You can read about changes included in Ghost's official release.
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Never realized Canada is the subject of a prominent conspiracy theory!
According to Lyndon Larouche followers, Canada is an outpost of a revived British Empire that’s actively subordinating the USA.
This country is controlling the USA through a mysterious oligarchical financial system. All at the bidding of King Charles III.
@atomicpoet If only.
Samsung Shares Reverse Drop After Executive Touts HBM4 Advantage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/samsung-shares-reverse-drop-after-executive-touts-hbm4-advantage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Korea @korea-bloomberg
#Amazon still has to get its first-generation #Leo #satellite #broadband network into full operation, but it's already won the OK from regulators to move on to the second-generation satellites (and end up putting 7,700 satellites in low Earth orbit). https://www.geekwire.com/2026/fcc-amazon-leo-gen2-broadband-coverage-polar/ #FCC #Space
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 06 February, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-06-february-2026/
#ActivityPub #ATProto #Bonfire #CSS #DrupalCMS #fediverse #firefox #Ghost #Gutenberg #Holos #HTML #HTMX #javascript #Krita #LibreOffice #Linux #Mastodon #Mozilla #Nextcloud #OMN #OpenProject #OpenProject #Scribus #signal #WebComponents #WordPress #xWiki
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0
@eff better, just get rid of ring entirely
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Post previews are here! Now you get a peek at how your Markdown will show up...
Post previews are here! Now you get a peek at how your Markdown will show up before publishing to your blog or anonymously. In the Plain Text editor, simply click the little “Preview” icon next to the Publish button, and you'll be able to see the post in its full glory! [...]
Post previews are here! Now you get a peek at how your Markdown will show up before publishing to your blog or anonymously. In the Plain Text editor, simply click the little “Preview” icon next to the Publish button, and you'll be able to see the post in its full glory!
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Hubzilla Beginner's Workshop Today, Feb 11 (German)
Great to see these type of events popping up!.
https://f.termine.di.day/events/e037c6a5-362c-4231-bcbd-2ffb2eb3d70f
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A new ICE detention center planned for Social Circle, GA would hold up to 10,000 people—more than twice the town’s population. Nearly 40% of recent ICE arrests had no criminal record. Residents across political lines are pushing back.
@benpate I think an analogy with cars is relevant. As cars are recognised as a necessity but a dangerous technology people are asked to learn and prove they know how to use it safely, law enforcement actually checks they do and punishes those who don't, and on the other hand cars are built such as one doesn't require a PhD to use it, and try to protect their user from doing stupid things. There is surely still a lot to improve about cars but comparatively Internet is still a prehistoric jungle.
You nailed it. Future historians will call us the "Proto Information Age" -- we who lived in the world of upheaval and change before the technology (and its real benefits) were worked out.
Likewise, the first hundred (or so?) years of the Industrial Age were the same. It _sucked_ for regular people until society and laws caught up with the new realities. That's where we are now :(
I hope we can nudge history toward a better future (and slightly more quickly, please)