Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 33

Hot take:

Not only do web devs not need to know what fonts I have installed, but web sites shouldn't even be able to tell me how to style text.

A great proposal for social media that I'd wish to also see in #mastodon

https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/

The reason why computers work so well for so many tasks boils down to the concept of "Turing Completeness" described by Alan Turing and independantly Alonzo Church & Haskell Curry.

Which to oversimplify means that all you need to solve any math problem, or simulate another Turing Complete machine, are four operations:

1. Store arbitrary ammounts of data for later use.
2. Do different things for different data
3. Repeat Instructions
4. Communicate to, or ideally with, people. Otherwise WHY?

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Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system: https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/

Uma duvida, quem é da área e souber me responda: Com o 5g sera q usar o #tor finalmente sera instantâneo como na internet "normal"? Quer dizer, se perder décimos de segundo ainda sim nao faria diferença nenhuma pra ninguém.

Good to see more public reports by university teachers about using #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) for remote teaching of their classes during #COVID19.

Here by Gerald Jay Sussman at the MIT: https://www.gnu.org/education/teaching-my-mit-classes-with-only-free-libre-software

Some good Work-At-Home Tips for #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) Contributors by @conservancy which I also worked pretty well for myself during the last months.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jun/23/work-at-home-tips-for-foss/ #nt

@peertube now has a plugin to use shared instance blocklists: https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/official-plugins/-/tree/master/peertube-plugin-auto-mute
(Another plugin is also available for shared video blocklists.)

Wondering if there should also be the option to use “passlists” instead, to not be automatically exposed to new abusive instances...

The next period of development is focused on moderation tools. Hopefully this is a significant step towards making it easier to keep the fash away.

#peerTube

Remember #EatLocal, the #NZ Uber-Eats-killer Nigel Latta was promoting? They made the mistake of depending on an Oz company (Mr Yum) for their online platform and have been screwed. Does anyone know of any local companies in Aotearoa who develop and/or host software that Eat Local could use in place of the Mr Yum platform? https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/06-06-2020/what-went-wrong-with-eat-local-nz/

#NigelLatta #UberEats #MrYum

"... this [Edge installation] came as part of a forced Windows update, which Microsoft has already had a damn hard time justifying without invading people’s desktops as well. It’s going to be harder to buy the argument that forced updates are necessary for security when they’re pulling double-duty as an intrusive marketing tool."

- SeanHollister, 2020-07-02

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial

#Microsoft #Windows #Edge

@passthejoe Nice, simple design with great content, but completely unreadable....

Oh, I block google fonts, that's better.

Might consider hosting the fonts, as a lot of privacy minded people like myself, block google fonts as it's just another tracking device for them.

[Part-time] Android developer and tester at Wikimedia Commons app https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10224/android-developer-and-tester-at-wikimedia-commons-app/ #jobs

So many podcasts on summer break already, but not the #SoftwareFreedomPodcast! Here's another interesting episode, this time about copyright enforcement with Miriam Ballhausen:

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-6.html

#FSFE #SFP @fsfe #podcast @conservancy

In our sixth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we invited Dr. Miriam Ballhausen to talk with us about copyright enforcement. She is a German lawyer with the focus on software, #DataProtection, copyright law and specifically #FreeSoftware copyright.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-6.en.html

Socializando nossa sala Jabbber/XMPP de usuários GNU:  xmpp:usuários-gnu@conference.jabber.de?join

@lightweight @The10wins
Here is another problem with #Apple:

They claim to be very eco-friendly, right?

Are they eco-friendly enough to tell you to buy less of their stuff? What message do their ads send? Do they discourage you from switching phones just because you want to be trendy?

Ponder on that for a while.