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andypiper

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About andypiper

meet.hn/city/51.38177625,-0.27699333824284805/Royal-Borough-of-Kingston-upon-Thames

Socials:

- github.com/andypiper - macaw.social/@andypiper - bsky.app/profile/andypiper.me

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Interests:

Art, Freelancing, Gaming, Hardware, IoT, Open Source, Programming, Social Impact, Technology

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Personal site / links: https://andypiper.omg.lol

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49260995

    interesting, I don't see any source link though? is this new?

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    Comment #47947349

    Hobbycraft in the local retail park has them by the tills. Definitely still around.

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    Comment #47947344

    Needs Twitter on there.

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    Comment #47724282

    looks interesting! I have a few pen plotter, so I'm curious to give Axo a try.

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    Comment #47150794

    They also have their own Mastodon server, which is a great way forward for government institutions!

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    Comment #46764108

    Naming collision with an ActivityPub server https://emissary.dev/

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    Comment #46378616

    I know the author, and do not believe that this is a true statement.

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    Comment #45969533

    > I am worried however that Mastodon will soon cave to the pressures of capitalism, and begin introducing profit-focused changes that undermine its original mission. I appreciate t…

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    Comment #45168178

    Nepal seems to have no shortage of people willing to take money to act as a local representative. I've seen quite a few such offers recently.

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    Comment #45168160

    Mastodon gGmbH does not have an operating presence in Nepal - but it is not the whole of Mastodon (or the Fediverse) by any means! I had a quick look at the maps I could find that …

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    Comment #43469689

    It would be great to see this add ActivityPub.

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    Comment #43381738

    This is one reason why Mastodon is setting up a new non-profit to avoid this. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-...

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    Comment #43381598

    I'd love to be able to do something with this, but I am struggling to get TempleOS to work in a VM, so I am a bit stuck. Intrigued, though!

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    Comment #43232530

    Does it support ActivityPub? Bookwyrm does. That seems to me to be a basic requirement for a social network at this point.

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    Comment #43206139

    I've been reporting these repos forever, they just keep on coming.

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    Comment #43053152

    Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051460

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    Comment #42741567

    oh, neat, I knew about tut and toot (two other TUI apps), but not this one - I'll have to add it to the community section of our next engineering blog post.

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    Comment #42741535

    I would say that it is a coincidental happening to that drama. As Eugen mentioned in a thread on Mastodon, this has been under consideration for quite a long time, certainly before…

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    Comment #42741519

    for clarity Biz Stone is on the board of the 501(c)(3) fundraising entity that was incorporated in the U.S. in early 2024. The new EU non-profit entity doesn't yet exist, or have a…

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    Comment #42741491

    > it's actually not spelled out which form the new European non-profit is incorporated in Correct, this is underway, and we're looking in to the right option for the organisation. …

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    Comment #42703241

    As I posted elsewhere when this was asked yesterday: "there’s a big difference between running a service on volunteers, and having full-time folks to keep things running / answer t…

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    Comment #42685302

    see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681976

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    Comment #42683311

    My personal experience is that I use a number of other tools (Sill, Murmel, Fediview) to add an "algorithmic curation" of sorts so that I don't miss content I might have wanted to …

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