#indieweb 2021-05-05
2021-05-05 UTC
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[KevinMarks] Losing woodwind was a shame
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Loqi Nuzzel is a discovery-based service that surfaces articles and news based upon how many of your contacts on silos like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn link to or interact with sources on those services https://indieweb.org/Nuzzel
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[chrisaldrich] wonders who won the grand prize with bridgy's 2 millionth notification? :iwc:
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# [KevinMarks] This is interesting on how to rethink data as commons https://crookedtimber.org/2021/05/04/what-is-ours-is-only-ours-to-give/
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[tantek] This is an interesting silo alternative (the replies are quite good) https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1389698676377808897
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@evacide I would like to announce that I'm moving off of Facebook to Faebook, a social media site run by beautiful and unworldly creatures whose ways are beyond our ken and who will probably turn you into a small animal for no reason. (twitter.com/_/status/1389698676377808897)
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Faebook" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Faebook is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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barnabywalters unfortunately, it looks like they got acquired by facebook :( faebook.com
# barnabywalters ha ha I know that. I only ever log in to facebook using faceboo.com because I find it mildly amusing
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petermolnar I'd genuinely love a faebook
# petermolnar all fae from every d&d, dark horse, cinematic universe etc worlds
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# petermolnar faceboot sounds a bit too punk concert
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astralbijection[ Several years ago, whenever I had an idea for making something, I drew it out on a piece of paper. There were hundreds of these pages and now I want to scan them, organize them, and put it on my website. Anyone know of good software for sifting through and separating/grouping possibly hundreds of pages in PDFs?
# astralbijection[ Additionally, do you think it would be better to display them on my website as PDFs or images?
# barnabywalters if they contain only scanned images, no OCRed text, then I’d say go with images unless their paginated structure is particularly important
# barnabywalters PDFs are useful when page layout and printability is important
# barnabywalters otherwise, they suck
# astralbijection[ Theyre mostly single or double sided sheets of paper with lots of drawings on them
# barnabywalters definitely sounds like images would be better then
# barnabywalters it’ll also be easier to do post-processing and cleanup if you want to
# astralbijection[ Yeah, I guess that's what I'll do
# barnabywalters sounds like a fun project!
# astralbijection[ The only thing is my printer spits out PDFs, but I wouldn't be surprised if pandoc or something turns PDFs into images
# barnabywalters hmm yeah there should be a tool for extracting the images
# astralbijection[ Yep, it's gonna be very fun
# astralbijection[ A trip down memory lane too
# barnabywalters astralbijection[: if you’re using mac os, there’s an automator workflow action called “Render PDFs to images” which might be useful for you
# barnabywalters well it’s not really about development
# astralbijection[ <barnabywalters "astralbijection: if you’re using"> I'm on arch, so unfortunately can't use that. But there's probably a cli tool out there
# barnabywalters yeah, there’ll definitely be something
# barnabywalters maybe imagemagick or ghostscript
# barnabywalters astralbijection[: (at the risk of angering Loqi) what printer/scanner are you using? some of them can only scan to PDF when using the hardware interface, but can scan to image files when plugged into a computer
# astralbijection[ Hmm it looks like there is a scan to image function actually
# barnabywalters nice
# astralbijection[ Ah well it's fine
# astralbijection[ Since they're in PDFs, they're grouped up somewhat nicely
# astralbijection[ Alright! One folder down, 6 or so more to go
# astralbijection[ In the future I think I'll just write out these notes on a graphics tablet and render to SVG hahaha
# astralbijection[ Who programmed loqi to be a smartass lmao
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[jgmac1106] loqi did, that's why we are all afraid
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# astralbijection[ It seems that at some point, I switched from dating my notes with MM/DD/YY to YYYY-MM-DD
# barnabywalters yesss ISO8601 ftw
# astralbijection[ When I tag and collate these notes later I'm gonna add a metadata field saying what it's dated in lol
# astralbijection[ Some arent even MM/DD, they're M/D or even M/DD
# astralbijection[ It's extremely cursed
# astralbijection[ Hell, some arent even dated, which is why I'm making sure to scan them in a specific order so I can establish a timeframe for the note
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# [chrisaldrich] I was originally going to post it in #indieweb-chat as an excellent blogpost, but the Facebook/Faebook conversation earlier made me think that Facebook (and other social silos) is about power-over while the IndieWeb frames things as about power-with or power-to: https://www.catswetel.com/blog/2021/5/4/an-extended-subtweet-on-power.
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# [KevinMarks] Ignorance is monetizable * War is not our fault * Freedom is deprecated
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neshpion Ignorance is what we say it is. Echo-chambers are peace. Privacy is suspicious and probably should be illegal.
# neshpion it's not very elegant ;-;
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[aciccarello] That "Privacy is suspicious and probably should be illegal" is on point though