I have been investigating Discord alternatives for a while. If you want to self-host and like frugal software, IRC is the way to go. If you like federation so that multiple people can host the same channels, ngircd is what I use. For users who don’t like IRC clients, I recommend you install The Lounge. If you use it with accounts, users can upload images, too.
If you need voice chats, use mumble. If you need video, I am hoping to give Galène a try.
All the other solutions I saw need a lot more resources (subdomains, docker images, separate database servers and so on).
not to get political or anything but:
- if the sleeve is clear you have the opening at the bottom of the card
- if its opaque or coloured you have the opening at the top
- if youre double sleeving you have the inner sleeve open at the bottom and the outer sleeve open at the top, even if the outer sleeve is clear
Hey, I made a quick #commonLisp utility package that just provides 200 names https://codeberg.org/tfw/common-names .
The initial names are the top 100 most common historically collected girls and boys birth names in #NZ from 1954 to 2024.
oh hey what's that--it's the next #lispGameJam open!
https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2025
it's happening, yall: may 9th - 19th
plenty of time to get your ideas together
tonic 
It has been confirmed that there will be a police presence at BKI tomorrow, at 8am.
Please come down if you can. Even if you aren't arrestable you can stay outside and show solidarity.
8am, tomorrow, 174 Treasure Road, Queens Park.
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Reverted (temporarily) the Markdown code that converted text between underscores to italics, because it was causing more problems that what it was worth.
Fixed bug in bookmark CSV import.
Don't indent Twitter-like "threads" (i.e. chains of short posts from the same author that are self-replies).
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there's been no new Mezzano release since Demo 5, nearly five years ago :-(
just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA
thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.
if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months
this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards
3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.
As part of our efforts searching for #CommunityEvents in #Adelaide #KaurnaYarta , we've found enough weekly/monthly/fortnightly events to fill up the month! There's all sorts of social events, #activism , support groups and heaps of niche interests🌱
We only put ones we've recently found in the newsletter because it would take up too much space🤯, so here's where you can find the full list:
https://news.adlsolarpunk.net/ongoing-events-and-services/
Please send us any we've missed!
the year is 2025 and donald trump is the president of the united states.
there is a famous quotation by an australian indigenous woman named lilla watson that changed my view of the world forever. it reads:
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
this is especially true in the international struggle for women's liberation.
lately, men, and especially young men, have become a key demographic in society driving the slide into fascism. these men think they are better than women, and that they should dominate, control, and silence them.
i want to say to them--be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it. even if they achieved their abhorrent mission, i do not think these men would be satisfied.
in fact it would be the opposite. we men would be lonelier, angrier, more immature, and just as lost existentially as ever.
why? because it is impossible for slaves and masters to be in communion. by definition, one is a person, and the other is their property. a man cannot simultaneously have a mother, a sister, an aunty, or a partner if they are also his complete possession.
for us to smash this system of patriarchy, we men are going to have to stop blaming women for our insecurities, and our own perceived inadequacies, and open our eyes to the fact that we have a lot in common with women.
this international women's day i want to signal that when it comes to the liberation of the other half of the global population, we men really, really owe it not just to women but also ourselves as men to do some (any!) personal reflection.
women's liberation is good for men. the far right movement, all dominated by men, are not going to get what they want by oppressing women. should they ever win even more power, it will not matter. their method, bloodthirsty and vengeful, is ultimately futile.
men will only win their own proper recognition in history by also recognising women. and by being enthusiastic about it.
someone once said, "women hold up half the sky". never a more true word was said. women are doing it right this very second. as far as i can tell, this sky-holding will continue for a long time, whether or not the fact is hidden, disparaged, or made a secret.
men owe it to themselves to acknowledge the sacrifice and suffering women go through their whole lives. they do it with such grace and composure. not a single man could withstand this way of living. every one of us would fold within seconds of being placed in a woman's position.
a sexist man is NOT a real man.
blair vidak.
8 march 2025.
never forget that the reason some cis people do not realize trans people exist is that our existence has been scrubbed from their world. we are ancient and they can never destroy us, but that ignorance is them sure damn trying.
A question I've often struggled with - in a consumer- and worker-owned #cooperative , how is balance maintained between the interests of the workers and the consumers?
There are typically more consumers than workers, so I expect the former could always outvote the latter in conflicts. Which is unfair.
You could cap the number of consumer-members to be equal to the number of workers. But now consumers are not accurately represented...
what your self-hosted fediverse software says about you:
- mastodon: fuckin nerd
- pleroma/akkoma: fuckin nerd
- misskey/foundkey: fuckin nerd
- gotosocial: fuckin nerd
QLB is looking for transgender Indigenous people, Young People, and Sex Workers to speak at the upcoming Trans Day of Visibility - National Day of Action rally. Support will be provided in the form of a speech writing workshop on Tuesday the 25th of March 4-6PM at the Boorloo Activist Centre (15/5 Aberdeen St). Please DM us if you're interested.
https://www.instagram.com/queerliberationboorloo
https://vidak.substack.com/p/a-summary-of-value-price-and-profit
Published 19 May 2017.
This was an attempt to capture the gist of the foundations of Marxist economics in pamphlet form.
It comes in at about ten A5 pages in PDF form. In many ways it was an exercise in learning how to explain something very complex in as simple words as possible.