Reminder for anyone new to FrankenPHP: it does NOT use your system PHP and extensions, so missing extension logs can be misleading.

Here is how to install the correct PHP-ZTS 8.5 + extensions and make Octane behave.

https://coz.jp/iC1sKO

#programming #Laravel #frankenphp #developer #linux #php #troubleshooting #fediblogs

If FrankenPHP crashes and gives you nothing, try:
php artisan octane:start --log-level=debug

It exposes the real errors.

Full guide with PHP 8.5 + ZTS extensions: https://coz.jp/iC1sKO

#programming #Laravel #frankenphp #developer #linux #php #troubleshooting #fediblogs

The content of this post was sent to the newsletter subscribers on June 26, 2023.

What I liked about Fediverso – that set of decentralized platforms that communicate with the ActivityPub protocol and whose main banner is Mastodon – was its foundations. The natives of that island – a bit paradisiacal, in that November 2022 – were striving to preserve, at all costs, their culture. For most of us migrants, the atmosphere reminded us of that which existed on the Internet at the beginning of the 21st century and which inspired the blogging revolution; and we try to learn and follow their rules.

But I am not just referring to the operating rules of the specific platforms. Mastodon, for example, is very far from Twitter’s operations and José Luis Orihuela described it perfectly in Negative decalogue: 10 things not to do at Mastodon. And let’s not say in his bookMastodon Brief Manual.

I am referring, rather, to something transcendental and that has to do with the difference between the small web and the big web; and that I already tried -in passing- in In the dark forest, in the cozy network or in Canada: where do I want to be? The Fediverso is that place that Erlend Sogge Heggen has defined as “The home of the modern Internet counterculture. It’s where people come to talk about the big mess of hypercapitalism, surveillance states, monopolization, unionization, mutualism, and open source. It’s where we’re going to talk about how to get out of this monumental mess we’re in; No shortcuts or workarounds allowed this time.”

Therefore, I also believe in the return of blogs. They had never gone away but if we see the small web as the alternative to the network of user farms, and what this entails, blogs take on an essential meaning. Regarding what user farms mean on the big web, Aral Balkan is forceful: “Mass surveillance and industrial farming of humans on a global scale is the business model of farmers from the likes of Facebook and Google. It is the main engine of the socioeconomic system that we call surveillance capitalism”.

And this is how we arrived -again- at WordPress, the tool that allows us to have a blog -or our digital home- and federate it in the Fediverso, without the need to register for any service -and therefore, away from the evil big web-. WordPress and the Gutenberg project (now starting its third phase) encourage the construction of optimized websites, by anyone, even without technical knowledge of web development and without the need to code (neither HTML, CSS, etc.), and including design customization.

For me, that is a new revolution, the democratization of web development, similar to what we experience with blogs.

All of this comes as Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is working on an Instagram-based Twitter competitor codenamed “Project92” or P92; and from some leaks we know that could integrate with ActivityPub (the open protocol promoted by Fediverso). Translated, it means that Fediverso could soon have a federated platform with a large number of users and it is feared that Meta will execute the famous three E’s strategy: Adopt, extend and extinguish. Faced with this possibility (and it would not be the first time it has happened on the Internet), supporters of blocking Meta on Fediverso and those others who would prefer a position of “trust, but verify” have emerged. In order to catch up on this controversy and understand the problem, I recommend reading the following article: Should Fediverso welcome its new surveillance capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!

Regarding the alternative of blocking, party administrators/moderators are organizing here: fedipact.online. Another interesting article in favor of the blockade: How to kill a decentralized network (like Fediverso): “The Fediverso can only win by standing firm, talking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. Starting open, non-commercial and non-spy discussions. Recognizing that the goal is not to win. Don’t hug. The goal is to continue being a tool. A tool dedicated to offering a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something that no commercial entity will ever offer.”

However, Tim Chambers believes that “Defederation does virtually nothing to prevent any large tech entity from scraping the entire Fediverso public social graph today.” Chambers’ arguments here: Project92 and Fediverso: a smarter battle plan to protect the open social web.

All of this leads me to think how good it could be for Fediverso that a WordPress blog can be federated, but I have doubts in the case of a platform developed by Meta. We should assume that the real purpose is first to adopt, then to extend, and finally to extinguish. Although, on the other hand and as Tim Chambers says, we have experience and the tools to trust and defend ourselves.

We will see.

The images in this post have been generated on Bing.

https://acambronero.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/the-fediverso-against-the-threat-of-meta-blocking-vs-trusting-and-defending/

#Fediblogs #Fediverse #Mastodon

Part of today's @TimeMachiner:

“The Humane Pin looks like is a very expensive product, spewing confidently-wrong-AI bullshit-filled-responses that will likely sell in tiny quantities.

It looks weird, is questionable with how it will work with all clothing, gives wrong answers, costs $700, has a $24 monthly subscription, and produced by an unproven company. You'll have to forgive me for sitting this one out.”

https://timemachiner.io/2024/01/23/inhumane-pin/

#Fediblogs #Newsletter #Writing #AI

Links in the rain #7 – ¿Nos quitará el trabajo la IA?; GPTs; Copilot Pro; OpenAI vs desinformación; Apple, Siri e IA; y mucho más…

¿Estás dispuesto a adentrarte en una apasionante travesía de aprendizaje? Te presentamos una selección de enlaces que abarcan todo lo relacionado con la Inteligencia Artificial. Explora cómo esta disciplina se implementa en distintas áre

https://www.blogpocket.com/2024/01/23/links-in-the-rain-7/

#InteligenciaArtificial #Fediblogs #LinksInTheRain

Ian Bailey, the man accused of murdering a French woman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, died today. Here he is in 2019, when he was selling his book, “The West Cork Way”, at a market in Skibereen.

https://inphotos.org/2024/01/21/ian-bailey-and-the-west-cork-way/

#BlackAndWhite #Cork #Fediblogs #IanBailey #Ireland #Photo #Photography #Skibereen #SonyA7III #StreetPhotography

I wonder what was going through this woman’s mind as she looked at the wigs on display in this shop in Valencia, Spain.

https://inphotos.org/2024/01/20/hairs-the-wig-shop/

#Fediblogs #Photo #Photography #Spain #StreetPhotography #Valencia #wigs