Strypey
@lightweight Mangane is worth a look;
https://github.com/BDX-town/Mangane
It's a web front-end designed for use with Akkoma, although it's compatible with anything that supports the Mastodon Client-to-Server API.
"Mangane already has a feature detection system allowing us to adapt the experience following what platform is used as a backend."
Disroot.org are using it as the default UI for their Akkoma instance.
Strypey
"Social media needs to burn."
Strypey
"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable, permanent social media czar for 3 billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist.
We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)
This!
Strypey
"...the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems. Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but keep posting anyway. You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars."
Strypey
"There was a brief moment in the early 1990s when the digital future felt open-ended. In spite of its origins in military cryptography and defence networking, digital technology had become a playground for the counterculture, who saw in it the opportunity to invent a more inclusive, distributed, and participatory future."
#DouglasRushkoff, 'Survival of the Richest', 2022
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/survival-of-the-richest
Strypey
@fsf We abolished software patents in NZ. Turns out the tech industry doesn't crumble to dust like vampires in sunlight when this happens.
Strypey
"How about this: Why don’t we stop treating it as entirely normal that the more obviously one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it; or insisting that financial markets are the best way to direct long-term investment even as they are propelling us to destroy most life on Earth?"
- #DavidGraeber, 2020
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/03/david-graeber-posthumous-essay-pandemic?
Strypey
#TIL there is a matrix <> Mastodon bridging bot written in Java:
https://matrix.org/bridges/#mastodon
Has anyone experienced this, as an end user on either end of the bridge, or as a server admin connecting it? Is it getting much use? Does anyone know which protocol(s) are used by the bot to operate the bridge?
#fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #matrix #interoperation #bot #Java
Strypey
Source code for NZ COVID contact tracing app finally released publicly, under the GNU AGPL license:
https://github.com/minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-app
This is good news, but I'm wondering why it took so long, and whether the code can be checked against the binaries on app stores, using Reproducible Builds tools.
Strypey
I just spent over NZ$20 for two tubs of plain yoghurt (one plant-based), a compostable toothbrush, and a tube of fluoride-free toothpaste. NZ$20 is about 10% of what kiwis have to live on each week when we are unemployed or too sick to work. Ethical consumption is a luxury not everyone can easily afford in Aotearoa in 2020.
Strypey
Even if you don't really support the representative government system, or just don't support any of the parties with a realistic chance of getting represented, you can:
* make a protest vote for a small party you do support
Or
* pick the party you think most likely to screw up the country in government and vote for the party or candidate that would annoy them the most ;)
Strypey
I think it would also be really good if the PeerTube UI made it clear to users whether a video is hosted locally on the PT instance the user finds it on, or elsewhere. That way if a PT instance decided to include an Individious/ CloudTube style plugin for video meta-search, the same UI elements could be used to indicate where each video in the search results is hosted.
Strypey
* Local: search only this PeerTube site
* Community: search all PeerTube sites approved by this one
* Global: search the whole PeerTube network (with a warning: higher risk of finding porn, fake news etc)
* Meta: includes attempts to search any other video site not part of the PT network ( eg YT, Vimeo), with priority placed on supporting other free code video hosting software like MediaGoblin, Plumi etc Could be maintained as a plug-in that PT admins could choose whether to use or not
(2/2)
Strypey
#ShowerThoughts it just occurred to me that video search on a PeerTube site could have a number of scope options, like local, community, global, meta.
(1/2)
Strypey
Why can't we have insightful conversations like this in NZ political debate, instead of the kindergarten squabbling and shameless self-marketing we have to put up with, especially during elections.
Strypey
Every wondered how to say "free Software" (free-as-in-speech) in Mandarin Chinese?
自由軟體 (zih-yo ruan-ti)
More translations here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fs-translations.html
Strypey
"What’s become clear from my years of using Slack at work is that it is, first and foremost, a tool of corporate surveillance. Slack stands for “Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge,” after all. Its positive use depends on how much you trust your employer not to read your messages, because yes, they have complete access."
- #MonicaTorres, 2019
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-is-bad-for-privacy_l_5d0bdc05e4b0aa375f49aa23
Strypey
In the wake of the huge response to The Social Dilemma, I feel like the time has come to really push forward on Fyre Exyt, a project to create a detailed guide to escaping the datafarms.
I envisioned a page for each datafarm, to describe:
* what data users can export and how
* how to delete your account
* what liberating software / services could be the best replacement for various use cases of the datafarm
It's a big project. Anyone keen to help?
Strypey
@fedilab I'm getting a weird issue with posts I've written in Fedilab getting lost. I've particularly noticed it when posting replies. They don't seem to get posted, or if they do, they don't show up in the thread in the Fedilab UI. They can't be found in drafts either. Is this a known issue or would you like me to file a bug report?
Strypey
Here's another online tool for the imminent NZ election, put together by Scoop.co.nz:
https://www.nextelection.com/
A shame it seems to depend on third-party Javascript from Cloudflare, and the app version is only available in the Goggle Prey Store, not F-Droid.
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