Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 7

@rapnie FYI the innercircles.community landing page does nothing at all without Javascript turned on. Would be good to fix that, so a user arriving with JS turned on gets at least an intro text, and an explanation of why #InnerCircles can't do what it does with only HTML+CSS, and needs Javascript. #MakeJavascriptOptional

#Sola is a #SocialMedia app that completely replaces the concept of a social network (friends/ followers) with recommendation algorithms. This seems like a dangerously bad idea, and worse, I can't find source code for their apps.
https://sola.ai/

@pixelfed I notice that the front page of pixelfed.social, with #Javascript on, is just text, images, layout, and links. But with JS off, I only see the links. Pixelfed.org, OTOH, looks pretty much the same with JS off, which is great. Could you please do the same for pixelfed.social, and make that the default behaviour on #PixelFed sites in general?
#MakeJavascriptOptional

"[Zuckerberg's] notion that connecting the whole world on one network was so obviously a good idea that it justified whatever means were necessary to get there."
- #RogerMcNamee talking to #DougRushkoff on #TeamHuman

An otherwise laudable desire for universal human unity, without respect for #DueProcess, or community rights to be autonomous from larger structures of power, is the essence of Empire. #KenWilbur pointed this out in 'A Brief History of Everything'. Democracy is network, not empire.

A modest proposal for replacing #Javascript with something user-respecting, secure, and *opt-in*:
https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/

#HatTip to Adrian Cochrane, developer of the #Odysseus browser, for pointing me at it
https://floss.social/@alcinnz/101835315698040524

Eleanor Goldfield of #ActOut! (https://www.occupy.com/categories/act-out) describes her experience of the creeping authoritarianism of FB:
https://theantimedia.com/facebook-censorship/

Some of us saw this coming a decade or more ago, and we have something to offer as a replacement. Rough but ready-to-use, and improving all the time. As the #DataFarms purge themselves of everything but advertising, advertorials, and infotainment, the #fediverse will continue to be a place for activists and independent journalists like Goldfield to go.

In 2016, the #AntiMedia were publishing thoughtful and inspiring journalism about city governments opening up disused public buildings to the homeless in the UK
https://theantimedia.com/uk-cities-begin-opening-empty-buildings-for-homeless/

In March 2018, they published a report on the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal, entitled '10 Social Media Networks to Use Instead of Facebook'
https://theantimedia.com/10-social-media-networks-instead-facebook/

In October 2018, their presence on FB (and the birdsite) were shut down:
https://theantimedia.com/anti-media-facebook/

"Censorship" or not, this *is* an abuse of power.

As I expected, politicians are already trying to cynically exploit the Christchurch mosque shootings to give NZ spy agencies even more intrusive powers, further eroding the civil rights of 100% of kiwis who didn't shoot up a mosque:

"Already, the National Party is calling for it. Leader Simon Bridges told Morning Report that the agencies were operating with both hands tied behind their backs."
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/385885/week-in-politics-winston-peters-international-islamic-damage-control-campaign-success

@bob @lightweight
"With no possibility of migrating to IPv6 in time to solve the address space crunch, the industry resigned itself to soldiering on with IPv4, adopting the following increasingly clever means of conserving the limited address space. Each of these, however, had the unintended consequence of transforming the pure peer relationship originally envisioned for the Internet into “publisher” and “consumer” classes, and increasing the anonymity of Internet access."
- John Walker

@bob according to John Walker, the centralization of the web started around 1995, with the failure to adopt IPv6. Although the term "web 2.0" wasn't coined until later, sites that fit that description started to appear in the late 90s (including the first #Indymedia site in 1999)
@lightweight

@solariiknight update on that, it appears the answer is "no", #PineBook is not fully freedom respecting :(
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-arm-pinebook-pro-running-trisquel-trisquel-touch

FWIW #Purism has been accused on the same forums of having similar issues:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem5-and-why-i-am-no-longer-interested

The #Wire team are open to the idea of using #XMPP for federation between instances of the Wire server:
"Please feel free to use this issue to post links / papers / reading material of any kind that might help us make a more informed decision"
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/631

#Akasha are developing a #FreeCode social app based on #Ethereum and #IPFS. They are currently looking for a #Javascript engineer, backend engineer, and fullstack developer:
https://akasha.org/careers/ #PaidWork

"... [Minds.com] are also excited to announce that we have officially migrated all of our development and project management from Asana and Github (proprietary, closed-source services) to a free and open-source alternative, Gitlab. From our high-level roadmap all the way to the nitty gritty details about our Docker and Kubernetes environments, all of our development will be 100% public and out in the open."
https://www.minds.com/minds/blog/more-transparency-introducing-gitlab-and-minds-canary-954833479911428096

Case in point:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/385173/no-mention-of-right-wing-extremist-threats-in-10-years-of-gcsb-and-sis-public-docs

Finally, I've been part of groups organizing non-violent direct actions that we tried to keep secret until they happened. We later found out the cops had an informer in our ranks, and knew about everything we were doing before it happened:
http://www.nickyhager.info/crossing-the-line-the-activist-who-turned-police-informer/

So given that the shooter who attacked the mosques in Christchurch was part of a rifle club that had been reported to the Police by worried gun owners, how the hell did they not know what he was planning and stop him before he did it?

The two mosques that were attacked are on either side of central Christchurch. To get between them quickly, the shooter had to drive down one of only 3 roads that go through or around Hagley Park, and then through downtown, practically right past the central Police Station.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/17FE1/production/_106037289_christchurch_mosque_attacks_map04_976-nc.png

How the hell did the shooter have enough time leave the first mosque, let alone get to the second one, before Police stopped him? (2/2)

> [Khaled Al-Nobani] claimed police took 20 minutes to arrive. “We are in the middle of the city. The middle of Christchurch. There was no traffic about. You need two-minute [maximum] response.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-suspect-white-supremacist-symbols-weapons

This is a very good question, and only one of a number of troubling and unanswered questions about Friday. (1/2)

Asked #Reddit: If you could design any website, app, or any other digital tech, and have a team build it, what would it do and how would it work?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/azvclg/if_you_could_design_any_website_app_or_any_other/

Would be great to have some more answers here. I'm trying to get across the idea that users don't have to be passive consumers of digital tech, but can play an active role in envisioning its development.

But if prominent environmentalists went about making dehumanizing comments about folks who work in tech or fossil fuel industries, that would certainly help create a climate of justification for violence against them. So there are more than a few public intellectuals who need to have a serious think about their habit of making lazy generalizations about Muslims as a type of person, instead of carefully criticizing #Islamism as a *political* philosophy not shared by most Muslims. (2/2)