Notices by ( hellekin ) (how@ps.s10y.eu)

#activitypubconf dinner at Kavarna Klubu Cross. Fantastic setting! Cherry on top of a very welcoming and enthusiastic conference.

Think Privacy

Data never dies

#APConf

Good morning from the Datamaze exhibition at DOX.

Lawful reasons for processing personal data

- compliance with the law (legal obligation)

- contract (with data subject)

- legitimate interest (vs the data subject's interest)

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The case of the Fediverse

Roles: users are data subjects,
instance admins are processors, or are they controllers?

The processor would be an admin who just installs Mastodon or Pleroma and has no idea how it works.

The controller would write a fediverse instance that cllects all the data in order to do analytics and ad-tech.

The case of Github

- controller of the public data on your free account

- processor of your invoices

Google is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal information which appears on web pages published by third parties.

Google is a controller, not a processor, according to the European Court of Justice in Google Spain and Google Inc. vs Mr. Gonzales

(Shows older statistics regarding data insecurity)

" Let's talk about the elephant in the room " (shows a mastodon 🤣 )

Node ID assignment...

Current NodeID derivation takes first 64 bits of IPv6 address... Problem is Mastodon.host and Cloudflare ...

Cloudflare acts as a MITM. Not good for a decentralized system!

Security considerations:

attacker should not be able to gain responsibility for certain hashtags

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Toooooo fast.

https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/paper_hashtag_federation/src/branch/master/paper_hashtag_federation.pdf

Technical Considerations

intended as opt/in, domain/based push federation still better for user subscriptions

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how to integrate to #ActivityPub?

Social Considerations

Do we want global hashtags in the #Fediverse?

Positive potnetial vs. negative

Redundancy

Useful to avoid overloading instances

Web 2.0 and how things went wrong.

Internet with a modem was a completely different world. Web 2.0 is the road to Hell paved with good intention.

Web 2.0 was betting on community and user-generated content. In a capitalist society, someone had to pay, but people were not ready to do that, so that advertising became the main business model. People don't want to have to enter credit card details to connect to other people.

OH Yesterday's selfies are today's biometric profiles

#APConf

Interesting place for an #APConf

https://reclaim-identity.io/

#gns based distributed ID.

I'm reading the OCAPPUB paper by @cwebber in preparation of the #APConf. It's very interesting, and I highly recommend #ActivityPub implementors to read and share it.

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

Sometimes I wonder why some people try to defend surveillance capitalism. It must relate to a form of the Stockholm Syndrome.

One tip: don't. And if you do, leave me out of your mentions. I do not care to discuss why global fascism is not desirable.

If that is not obvious to you, you need some self-assessment, not bias confirmation.

Diffracting + Decentralisation: exploring collective asymmetry

From 2019-10-31 to 2019-11-04

5 days workshop for hackers & philosophers to work on:

- self-organisation ( agency of resistance networks - from autonomy to stigmergy )

- infrastructure ( decentralisation in the context of complex production chains from conception to disposal, through slavery and ecocide )

- solidarity ( freedom as responsibility )

https://thx.pa-f.org/

#hacking #philosophy #3ts

Hello #Fediverse, this weekend is the #APConf on #ActivityPub in Prague.

Anything you want to transmit there?