Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)

"From 2015 to 2019, #Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week. An analysis of the results was finally published this week, and surprise! Everyone was happier, healthier, and more productive. Please pretend to be surprised."https://mashable.com/article/iceland-four-day-work-week-trial

🇮🇸 :blobaww:

I am all for nuance and recognizing the ills of the capitalist so-called "West", but calling well-substantiated reports of what Uyghurs are subjected to "right-wing conspiracy theories" is where I draw the line.

I can walk and chew gum. I can criticize both Chinese *and* USA's crimes against humanity.

Ah, the time when I gave a talk at the #32C3 @fsfe assembly, about how fragmented the FLOSS federated social media landscape is:
https://rys.io/static/bringing-free-as-in-freedom-to-social-networks-what-why-and-how-fsfe-32c3.pdf#page=29

It is good to see how #ActivityPub did actually make it better.

Hey #Fediverse, has anyone heard of a #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource "Smart TV" project? Something like what #OpenWRT is for WiFi routers?

@sillystring just to clarify: I am not against governments, companies, individuals, NGOs, or cats existing or owning *some* of the means of production and having *some* influence.

But that influence needs to be checked and that ownership needs to be limited in the scope. Owning a few bakeries? Fine. Owning a substantial enough number of bakeries to influence health policy in a negative way? Very much not fine.

And yes, "substantial enough" and "negative way" are vague. Because life's vague.

@sillystring exactly. I would not want the government to own the means of production, just like I would not want a single corporate behemoth to own and control them.

It doesn't really matter which behemoth owns it all. Power corrupts.

We must avoid behemoths owning it all (or a large part of it all), regardless if they happen to be governments, companies, individuals, NGOs, or, you know, cats.

"Every time one person amasses a fortune worth a billion pounds, we are witnessing a policy failure."

Damn straight.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist

I can't even:
https://gizmodo.com/trump-appears-in-front-of-photoshopped-presidential-sea-1836687973

"The image that was projected behind President Trump on July 23 has a number of alterations, including a two-headed eagle that’s carrying golf clubs in one talon and cash in another. The writing above the eagle is supposed to read “E Pluribus Unum,” which is Latin for “out of many, one.” But the photoshopped creation that appeared behind Trump reads “45 es un titere,” which is Spanish for “45 is a puppet.”"

@sophia I can confirm. I use windows all the time. I find apartments without windows dark, damp, and without airflow. Hardly good conditions for hacking on stuff.

@aeveltstra @selea @telent https://write.lain.haus/thufie/dont-trust-cloudflare (this section: "The fundamental issue with CloudFlare and similar services" and further).

tl;dr CloudFlare already handles about 10%(!) of global web traffic. That means they became the gatekeeper. And gatekeepers are a dangerous thing.

Basically agreeing with... CloudFlare's CEO here:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

It's dangerous to have one entity have so much power.

Oh, #Cloudflare was having issues and brought a lot of websites down with it? That's not great.

But thankfully it's not that hard to roll out your own "DDoS protection" (or caching; just call it caching) setup. Here, you can even use our configs: https://git.occrp.org/libre/fasada

Yes, we use them in production, serving sometimes hundreds of thousands views per day.

Patches welcome. #SysAdmin

Google is truly the new Microsoft, moving to the second phase of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish with regards to e-mail:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282636/amp-gmail-shopping-rsvp-forms-inbox-google-beta
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html

#InfoSec

@colegota sure, but this is just a rough list. So we have to simplify a bit. :)

Appel à tous les admins du #Fediverse qui gèrent des instance dans l'#UE. La #CopyrightDirective se rapproche et nous devons montrer aux parlementaires ses effets sur l'Internet.

Nous préparons une liste de toutes les instances européennes #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, etc.

Contactez-moi. Je n'ai besoin que du nom de domaine, du pays et de l'objectif général de l'instance. Un nombre approximatif d'utilisateur est le bienvenu, mais pas indispensable.

C'est important.

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

"Is that a Linux in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" #FOSDEM

I had never had a streaming service account, because I refused to set one up with a centralized service that locks me down, does not allow me to download tracks, and doesn't have libre-licensed content.

Enter https://open.audio/! And what greets me the first time I visit the site? An CC-licensed #ElectroSwing album:
https://open.audio/library/albums/6142

I am okay with this. I am very okay with this.

Therefore, @rysiek

Signal Desktop doesn't come in native flavours due to "time and money constraints":
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2178#event-1599168072

Uh-huh...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/signal-messenger-50-million-whatsapp-cofounder/

Right. #InfoSec

@aral Debian *really* needs to enable HTTPS repos by default. Enough is enough. #InfoSec

Why do people refuse to use any version control? I mean, what the hell, this is 2019! We're not programming by banging two rocks together anymore. We moved on. We are smarter than this.

#Venting #SysAdmin