Notices by joop (joop@todon.nl)

Info for new users: if possible, please add a quick description to the images you're posting, it helps our friends who user some #Accessibility tools like screenreaders! Most apps have support for it, the webview definitely does, and it doesn't need to be too much info.

I've been thinking a lot about how to talk about differences in a healthy way (in meatspace mostly). To people that disagree in the biggest possible ways with you. Mostly applicable to family/people you love but still want to talk with.

How do you do it? What helps you have healthy conversations?

Boosts welcome!

the #UN has received reports that there's up to a million #Uygur\s held in detention (concentration) camps

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU

I tried #transportr on @fdroidorg, as an alternative to the Dutch 9292, and it works really well, quicker than 9292 usually does and with a few more options! Kudos!

Although it doesn't let me save home/work location as a house number, but just a street, which is a bummer. And it gives a warning on a route without any actual info, but that might be the data provider's fault? (Which btw is 9292 anyways, but no tracking at least?)

Important news in amsterdam: a judge has ruled that hamburgers aren't pizzas.

(I'm not kidding: http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/183521/rechter-geeft-ns-gelijk-hamburgers-zijn-gn-pizza)

I need some help with something: do you know the game taboo? Like you're trying to explain something without using the word itself (and in the card version of the game there's a list of 5 related words), forcing you to use related terms. Or rather, instead of just plugging in synonyms, it forces you to strip something down to basic components and use a different way of thinking about it.

Anywho, I've been trying to put some words to stuff. and the following toot has some questions:

and a link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-usa/u-s-to-pull-out-of-u-n-human-rights-body-source-idUSKBN1JF24X

I came across this link elsewhere: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

It's about group dynamics, especially on the internet, and what you need to be able to overcome the tendencies of groups to self-destruct.

it's from 2003, so there's some outdated references, but it's wild how accurate it still is.

"GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source",
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/

In other words, how one company profits off negative press from another. Interesting in any case.

@jeroenpraat @alternative_be which makes me think, @Gargron — thoughts about moving to gitlab?

@jeroenpraat @alternative_be http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

doesn't look like it.

Had a busy day so I'm not sure if this has made the rounds here yet BUT: #PapuaNewGuinea has shut down #Facebook for a month to research what facebook is doing with and to its users, how it influences them and their health: http://news.pngfacts.com/2018/05/papua-new-guinea-to-shutdown-facebook.html

Sounds almost healthy until you get to the point where it's actually about #censorship an how to better control, or uh, "curate" the experience

@Gargron I will literally pay you money if you cover this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

#irish #abortion exit polls: seems that 68% is for repealing the 8th, legalising abortion

High turnout too

Day one of the so far glorious #GDPR and already #Facebook, #Google, #Whatsapp, and #Instagram have been filed complaints about not adhering to the rule—rules that were laid out years ago and that those companies had sooo much time to work on.

Here's the PDF from the people that filed that complaint: https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/pa_forcedconsent_en.pdf

" #Amazon threatens to suspend #Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention "

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

Is this the future? Cause I'm not a huge fan:

Dutch police took down webstresser.org, a 'ddos as a service' company, and are now doing a reddit ama about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8esjr6/we_are_the_dutch_national_police_and_the_public/?st=jgezxzn0&sh=6a45975a

Hah. Whois is gonna have a tough time working under GDPR. Their proposed solution is to be granted exception. The EU is apparently not that eager to work with them.

I mean, I think I kind of like that people's privacy is more important than some corporation being able to track you.

see for details: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/