Doug Webb

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2026-07-22 22:52:14 UTC

I finally found out how to get your sent emails to show in email threads on #thunderbird ! This is something that had been annoying me forever, I'm so happy!
* right click on account → "Search Messages...."
* save empty search with "Save as Search Folder"
* give a name & toggle "Match all messages"
(Sorry no screenshots, tired.)
There are other ways, but require plugins or email copying. Apparently it might come out-of-the-box next year:
https://superuser.com/questions/1881967/how-can-i-see-my-replies-within-a-thread-of-their-emails-in-thunderbird

2026-07-18 23:31:08 UTC

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I think this is the point. That's why I'm asking if there is *any* hard power that could be leverage. Getting the EU to not only take a stance, but push it though could be something.... would fit in their digital sovereignty schtick I guess.

2026-07-18 16:37:45 UTC

Does #keepandroidopen stand a chance?

2026-07-18 10:01:30 UTC

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hast du eine Lösung gefunden? Ich vermisse Öffi sehr :(

2026-07-13 07:49:04 UTC

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I'm wondering what the most low-tech defence against such is... shotgun?

2026-07-12 09:08:35 UTC

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"First, let me apologise for even writing this zine..."

2026-07-03 21:11:44 UTC

You can get #dwebcamp on the Giggity scheduler app (FOSS, offline) by clicking on the "+" and adding https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/schedule/export/schedule.xml
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2026-07-01 20:45:08 UTC

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haha! See you next week. Leave me a couple!

2026-06-21 23:35:52 UTC

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I remember hearing that twitter got big by blasting a bunch of Vc cash on throwing fancy install parties for celebrities. I think going through IRL is the way. Digital is saturated, so weirdly digital change needs to happen through IRL.

2026-06-21 23:33:32 UTC

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a general, frontal attempt against ig sounds like a hill to die on. Think we need to work segment by segment, allowing those segments to combine.
I reckon locality could be a winner: if all the cool people and parties in city X are on platform Y, people will get on Y.
I also think facilitating IRL dating and friendship finding could be massive, people sick of most platforms.

2026-04-22 21:56:22 UTC

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idk if anything can be _produced_ ethically at scale these days. So looking at _inputs_ is all that seems sensible. PV itself uses only trace amounts of rare minerals, which is what I thought you were talking about.
Sure aluminium for the frames, but it seems to all pale in comparison to the minerals required for batteries and cabling.

2026-04-22 21:37:09 UTC

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... which minerals are you talking about? Most PV is now silicon based and seems to have incredibly low dopant concentrations https://chalcogen.ro/629_KhairuddinNS.pdf meaning 99.999%+ is silicon which is hyper abundant.

2026-04-05 17:06:29 UTC

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this is the campaign we are looking for 😹

2026-03-13 20:05:54 UTC

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let me toot your horn for u :) nice one!

2026-03-09 08:09:31 UTC

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yes, I think you are right, and I think I may have been guilty.
Where are you going from here? Trying to slow adoption feels like shouting at clouds & misses real benefits.

2026-03-08 13:55:26 UTC

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I don't know who are more annoying: smug libs who think voting is the entirety of political participation, or arrogant radicals who think that anything less than complete revolution is useless...
Just vote for the least bad thing already, God damn it, and get on with changing politics in your other preferred way.

2026-03-01 13:07:10 UTC

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farewell reddit anon 😢
Interesting world we're coming too, where anything published online will likely be preserved for ever and quite possibly identifiable to author.
Most people will still remain anonymous by sheer volume of content, but politicians, etc will likely need to be trained from adolescence to keep squeaky clean record...

2026-02-25 20:32:58 UTC

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This 2001 piece by Doctorow, "Metacrap" was listed in the paper
https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
Very amusing and interesting short read!
@npub1s0e…9ksy

2026-02-25 20:19:45 UTC

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> In a 2001 Scientific American article, Berners-Lee et al. outlined their vision of the Semantic Web as follows: "The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users."
!!!

2026-02-25 10:42:31 UTC

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did anyone write a postmortem?

2026-02-24 20:22:37 UTC

I would like to get a better grasp of digital information fundamentals...
Tables, wikis, tags, folders. Databases, triples, links.
Must be some overarching theory on this.

2026-02-17 17:16:00 UTC

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this story feels a lot like the solid project https://solidproject.org/
Big splash at the beginning, some nerds get involved... but it's been years now, and when I tried to actually use one of the apps using it, UX was atrocious and I had to join a matrix room to get it working. Now I know I'm not the l33test hacker, but come on!

2026-02-17 17:08:48 UTC

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116085803934401494
Thanks @npub1xse…lgk3 for opening up a sober discussion about the soul of the fediverse (mastodon) in relation to ATmosphere (bluesky)
#note10d5…kth2

2026-02-13 20:23:58 UTC

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... This isn't satire? Damn. Just has that vibe of the Australian "honest government advert" thing.

2026-02-12 19:06:41 UTC

caught myself about to do a calculation on my phone that I could clearly do myself. stopped, did it myself.

2026-02-09 21:11:53 UTC

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Sooo... there is https://tryquiet.org/ that looks like slack, "Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor." GPL 3.0.
and there is https://stoat.chat/ that looks like discord, "Stoat is an open-source, user-first chat platform."

2026-02-09 20:37:58 UTC

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Still not sold on Zulip, above all for onboarding less techy folks.
Is there any free groupchat with UI mostly like Slack / Discord / Mattermost / Teams?

2026-02-09 20:35:46 UTC

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Absolutely wild how similar these two homepages are.

2026-02-09 20:34:53 UTC

Your favorite open-core group chat, now in khaki or khaki
#rocketchat #mattermost
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2026-02-07 21:26:30 UTC

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yeesh, just had a look at Primal 🤢
Any nostr cultural experiences without the antisemitism, conspiracy, Bitcoin stuff?

2026-02-07 21:00:35 UTC

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just read! Great pieces, thanks!

2026-02-03 12:27:52 UTC

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115989067770322256
If you are interested in what's coming next in our Fediverse adventure, read this thread from @npub1xse…lgk3 which they heroically live-tooted from the Social Web Dev room at FOSDEM!
#note10gn…t6gh

2026-02-02 19:49:19 UTC

To add to the list of graphic design casualties this last 12 months, I just found out Technische Universität Dresden changed their logo from iconic and unique to generic nothingness 🤷
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/profil/marke-tud/cd/neues-logo
#TUD
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2026-01-13 11:35:00 UTC

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yeah, I know. Mages right? Heaven help them with marketing, those screenshots are awful!

2026-01-12 23:11:32 UTC

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done 😌

2026-01-12 23:10:39 UTC

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huh! Well, let them sort that out... oh, thanks for reminding me to uninstall element RIGHT NOW

2026-01-10 09:34:39 UTC

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oh fair. How comes? It's web only right?

2026-01-10 09:16:07 UTC

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you told me this ages ago I think. Element also keeps crashing recently... Are there any features missing from FluffyChat that makes it worth keeping element installed?

2026-01-10 09:14:54 UTC

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The solution to #Element spamming "X changed their display name to Y" seems to be: use #fluffychat
https://fluffy.chat
FluffyChat collapses all those system messages into one expandable 🙏

2026-01-08 14:20:49 UTC

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u were slacking in December mate

2026-01-06 14:09:36 UTC

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For want of an "s", the sentence was lost...

2025-12-25 13:56:10 UTC

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that's exciting, I'll be there

2025-11-15 13:21:41 UTC

"x changed their display name to X"
please, tell me how to not see this any more?
#element #matrix

2025-11-14 11:24:27 UTC

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I don't know folks. We need more, better words.
There is a huge difference between "you are not welcome because you are <X>" and "you are welcome, but it might not be interesting or comfortable"

2025-11-14 11:18:27 UTC

Collective drama: was talking to someone from a leftist Hausprojekt (collective house) in Leipzig.
Some people wanted to organize an ironic "speed dating" for Valentines day. Some other people said that would discriminate against aromantic people, and they would veto until it was called "speed friending". It didn't happen at all in the end 🙃
Person said it was more to do with underlying tensions between queer-er and cis-er people.

2025-11-12 20:05:03 UTC

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"Gentlemen! We cannot fall behind on a mineshaft gap!"
(Paraphrasing Dr Strangelove)

2025-10-16 17:13:13 UTC

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OK. I've just not been on Twitter for ages, 4chan never.
I still stand by my opinion that the fash acc thing is niche, and that there is a common sense understanding to what it means. But maybe it is poisoned for now, for you at least and therefore other people who's opinion I care about.
"Growth", "scaling" and "adoption" all kind of got claimed by the business ontology of capitalist realism anyway.
Do you have a proposal for how I should rephrase conversation title?

2025-10-16 16:59:46 UTC

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OK, but I had to look up e/acc just now... So I would say "acceleration" is still in a state of plasticity. Or is it already too far gone in your opinion?

2025-10-16 16:48:17 UTC

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oh nice, it let's me change the title on the fly! Now it's "Fediverse acceleration(?)". Could be something else... But I do think acceleration in an instrumental sense is worth talking about.

2025-10-16 16:32:53 UTC

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration" ⬇️ (You don't need an account)
https://pol.is/6skfwtthmn
pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants 🤝
I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively 👍 or negatively 👎 and can write your own ✍️ After 7 participants, report data should become available.
#polis #governance #foss #fediverse

2025-10-09 13:08:47 UTC

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yo, what is this shit eh

2025-09-23 10:24:23 UTC

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read this, went into a shop and was confronted with this wall of digital payment options
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2025-09-17 15:16:59 UTC

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thanks for reminding me, def good if it's for multiple points, i.e. creating a new map.

2025-09-17 12:46:55 UTC

ahhhhh what is the map to use when you want to easily link to a specific location with a specific view? bc it ain't #OSM (love OSM btw)

2025-08-26 09:45:18 UTC

@npub1fus…tvjp your website seems to be timing out

2025-07-02 15:55:57 UTC

What resources would you recommend for getting into #activitypub
Basic theory, hello world ... implementation
Don't hold back, flood me 🌊

2025-06-21 09:59:54 UTC

Seen in #Berlin - Nice one punx.social
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2025-05-13 17:26:27 UTC

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I'd like to read it!

2025-04-29 12:03:24 UTC

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interesting article, I was thinking of a similar campaign for glass jars with labels that don't come off with water.
Forcing sellers to deal with end-of-life, perhaps with an additional charge for "new" clothes, would help increase cost for new and incentivize secondhand.

2025-02-15 11:49:33 UTC

Ferry from #Marseille to #Tunisia, ~25 hours.
About 100€ per person with sleeping in chairs/on floor, so economically only makes sense if you have a car or loads of baggage. But you'd miss the pace and romance of the sea 🌊 Price seems to vary little with time.
Had to think multiple times of the people trying to make the opposite journey and the lives lost trying #noborders
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2025-02-10 11:50:44 UTC

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how about "picshare" ? (Like weirdly pronounced "picture")

2025-02-10 11:33:48 UTC

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cool. I think I should read it, question is when. I feel I need to get into action now, and "big analysis" is a bit tricky to act on... Think now is not the time for this one for me.

2025-02-10 11:12:00 UTC

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I heard about "solutions journalism" a while back, and see there is even some organization on that https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/

2025-02-10 10:57:19 UTC

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I haven't, but it's gathering tallies on my reading list.
I gather it's more about theory?
Thinking more about reading "Blueprint for revolution", which is about the learnings of Otpor

2025-02-07 18:33:57 UTC

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RIP pencil lead ⚰️

2025-01-23 20:29:38 UTC

how do we tell the story that the fediverse is complex web of instances, and that that is desirable?
(e.g.there is a direct link between the search not returning every result -- independent moderation -- isolating instances of abuse)
this is critical for helping people exit the hegemonies, because there are desires learned from being there that we can't & don't want to recreate

2025-01-21 16:50:46 UTC

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do you have a recommendation for facebook too?

2025-01-21 15:22:50 UTC

It is time for me to completely delete my twitter and facebook accounts ⚰️ 🥀
For years I was just squatting, but now just having those accounts feels like party membership...
Tips on how to exit with maximal earth scorching?

2025-01-18 13:38:47 UTC

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2024-11-27 20:56:33 UTC

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thanks for your thoughts. Curious what the discussion was - on fedi?
I am very skeptical that The Bad People will be put off anyone's code based on license: they typically have the money to reimplement or legally battle their way. This understanding informs my pragmatic support for Foss/public domain.
(Feels like a good place to mention the Telekommunit Manifesto though, which makes a strong case for "non-free" licensing https://networkcultures.org/blog/2010/10/21/the-telekommunist-from-dmytri-kleiner-is-out-now/ )

2024-11-25 17:49:45 UTC

A while ago I bought a vintage Dymo-Mite M22 embossing labeler after seeing a lot of other people on r/buyitforlife complaining about the new plastic ones. It is a pleasure to use and the result is great!
Was looking for instructions since I'm sharing it, and use is not 100% intuitive. Mind blown when I found the original instructions + exploded diagram + *price list for every single piece!*
#righttorepair #buyitforlife #dymo #backtothefuture
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2024-09-10 17:49:40 UTC

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I will gladly user test!

2024-08-24 07:14:37 UTC

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there's this thing called tax 😈 on top of that, many companies simply make enough profits to be able to offer toilets for free use - if they wanted. Pay toilets seem to typically be an anti-homeless measure rather than anything economic.
I was travelling from Wales to Germany recently. Used a bunch of paid and public toilets. Almost no correlation between cleanliness and pay-for-ness.
@npub1wjs…ggtv

2024-08-16 16:47:34 UTC

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the war comparison is weird and sinister. You're completely overlooking the reasons for the destruction, and you make it sound like the loss of life is inconsequential.