Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 162

If you are not worried about the security of practically all your devices, it is only because you haven't seen Matthew speak about low-level vulnerabilities. He believes in free software and donates to the Conservancy -- be like Matthew! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/dec/13/mjgInterview/

Sure, newspaper website, I'll turn off my ad-blocker and #NoScript for your site. When you turn off all the #JavaScript that tracks me and makes my browser crash, so all I see is static placed ads, just like I would if I read your print edition.

btw, some of the "gaps" that were left in the activitypub spec were intentionally there to enable this to exist https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md

for example "why didn't activitypub require https as the only valid uri scheme / protocol"

well, the solution to the "content surviving when nodes go down" may rely on the fact that this was left open: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot7/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/magenc.md

allow me to criticize the state of the fediverse as much as love it:

- tiny brain: mega-node such as mastodon.social oh dang it we've reinvented twitter
- regular brain: I'll just choose an instance off of joinmastodon.org oh dang it got shut down everything I love is lost
- galaxy brain: I'll self host fedi software oh god this is hard I'm afraid to upgrade
- universe brain: we need to merge the fediverse with p2p network designs so a node going down isn't catastrophic

Doom was released 25 years ago today. It was about 2.39 MB, the size of an average webpage today. News sites average closer to 8 MB.

Please shotgun the javascript demons and make more efficient & accessible websites.

The Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom at #FOSDEM2019 promises to be very, very interesting. Stay tuned...

@fosdem

Mobilizon - Mobilizon is a tool designed to create platforms for managing communities and events. Its purpose is to help as many people as possible to free themselves from... https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ #Internet #OpenSource #Fediverse #Community #Meetup #Event by @framasoft@twitter.com

History repeats ....
https://www.cbronline.com/feature/openbook-opensource-socialmedia

@oreolek @strypey Being open source doesn’t magically remove you from discussions of ethics.

“Oh, gov’ner, we only produce the syringes and the heroin and make a profit from it, the customer decides whether they want to inject people with it or not. Plus, all our designs are open source.”

Good on you, mate. Good job! Take a fucking bow…

Next up: “Guns don’t kill people…”