Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 9

Federated GitLab? Yes, please…

I run my own GitLab. You run your own GitLab. Your GitLab sends my GitLab a pull request.

How cool would that be?

If you’d like to see that, take a moment to upvote issue #4013: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013

Purism – the ethical, free and open computer and phone maker – adopts the Ind.ie Ethical Design Manifesto.

https://puri.sm/posts/we-love-ethical-design/

#ethicaldesign #ethicaltechnology https://mastodon.ar.al/media/kLiC---qnwU9rXkkeXE

Disroot

“We want to encourage people to break free of the walled gardens of popular software and turn to open and ethical alternatives, may it be on our platform or on another (or you could even host your own).”

Awesome project (and how lovely to see my foreword for Trine Falbe’s excellent White Hat UX book quoted on the site – http://whitehatux.com)

Best of luck with this, folks! 😎👍

Visit: https://disroot.org

Follow: @disroot

Via @notabene

#ethicaltech

https://mastodon.ar.al/media/8dNbn3ES6-CVmeKlAGY

Roomba maker iRobot plans to sell digital maps of your home

Robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot “reportedly has a new strategy in place: providing Roomba-gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers.”

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/24/roomba-irobot-sell-digital-maps-home/

#SurveillanceCapitalism https://mastodon.ar.al/media/yL2DER2YFgHcc9Gs5rw

Prime Stupidity

“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

An actual thing said by the actual prime minister of Australia.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/malcolm-turnbull-prime-minister-laws-of-mathematics-do-not-apply-australia-encryption-l-a7842946.html
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/z13es3JfhvDHFR53upc

Want to make a huge contribution to Mastodon adoption?

Create and maintain a Debian package for Mastodon. If you know anyone fluent in making and maintaining Debian packages, please share this with them. Let’s reduce the complexity of installing Mastodon on Debian-based distributions (e.g., Ubuntu) down to running a single command and watch the instance numbers shoot up! :)

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3576 https://mastodon.ar.al/media/LnF6IcwsXopEva_JTzg

DiEM25 Internet of People launch in Berlin (video)

With apologies to Audre Lorde, Silicon Valley’s tools will never dismantle neoliberalism’s house: To facilitate DiEM25’s goal to democratise Europe, we must create a compelling counter-narrative to the Surveillance Capitalism of Silicon Valley and set Europe on a path to fund and create an Internet of People.

https://ar.al/notes/diem25-internet-of-people-launch-in-berlin/

https://mastodon.ar.al/media/9dcAvIWcX381r4U_ras

“A platform cooperative…is not one that takes full advantage of the potential to have a truly distributed network. They still have a central platform operator at their core, providing coordination, quality assurance and, most essentially, trust. However, it is possible to go beyond platforms to protocols—to commonly agreed ways of operating. Thus anyone who agrees to the rules can become a part of the network.”

We call it interoperability ;)

https://platform.coop/stories/protocol-cooperativism

Auto-block any instance that buys into this crap. Nip this shit in the bud.

*smh*

Via @pourrito https://mastodon.ar.al/media/q-ukBEC_R60VJpWlOY0

This is a photo of a crashed kiosk advertising the menu and offers at a popular Norwegian pizza restaurant chain. It shows that the kiosk was running facial recognition and basic sentiment analysis on the people looking at it.

Based on the number of people who sent me this on Twitter, it’s clear that people care and are unhappy with corporate surveillance.

The worst bit? Compared to what Google and Facebook do daily and at scale, this is a toy.

https://mastodon.ar.al/media/OFTGkS78V6DEAm2KkZU

Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless/

“Facebook's algorithms can determine, and allow advertisers to pinpoint, ‘moments when young people need a confidence boost.’”

Can estimate when teens feel “worthless,” “insecure,” “defeated,” “anxious,” “silly,” “useless,” “stupid,” “overwhelmed,” “stressed,” and “a failure.”

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Via twitter.com/@lldzne