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@replikvlt @freemo @khird @madargon
or better yet, flag them as inappropriate https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2853570?visit_id=637342159017630272-4268623001&p=report_content&rd=1
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Thanks to this post QOTO is currently being linked from HackerNews in the #1 spot. Our instance is getting a lot of exposure as is this very important issue.
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/104768328945937352
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Wow, so a post I made here is at the #1 spot on hackernews! I am impressed. Over 500 comments too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275 h...
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@lanodan @sir @naruciakk @lord
Maybe the authors just appreciate that changes in protocol should be given some time?
I despise the move-fast-and-break-things mentality. Changing quickly isn't a sign of being alive, it's a sign of bad project management.
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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
First run of #Jehanne Operating System since the spread of #COVID__19 in Piedmont, #Italy.
Cleaning up the #GCC port.
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PGP-signed toots when?
We can sign our GIT-commits with PGP but not our toot?
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YunoHost is a version of Linux designed to make it as easy as possible to run your own server, either at home or remotely.
You can follow the project here (in English and French):
β‘οΈ @yunohost
They also have a PeerTube channel (mostly in French):
β‘οΈ @yunohost
You can download Yunohost from the official site at https://yunohost.org
It runs on new PCs, old PCs and Raspberry Pis.
#YunoHost #Linux #SelfHosting #SelfHost #Hosting #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #RaspberryPi #HomeServer #HomeServers
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Intervento di @mattruffoni@twitter.com per illustrare il concorso fotografico #wlm #wikilovesmonument dal 1 al 30 settembre le foto di monumenti e cittΓ italiane https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/tredici-tredici/2020/08/tredici-e-tredici-prima-parte-25-08-2020.html @WikimediaItalia@twitter.com
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@Shamar @haitch @ekaitz_zarraga @alcinnz @abbienormal @alexbuzzbee I like this sentiment. You make it sound like this is a question of literacy. That we need to make it easier to both read and write (as well as cite and annotate) might be a good way to explain the problem in more social terms. It also can lead people to see that, even if it is sometimes hard work, computing can be a _pleasure_ just like good literature.
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"These events mark the beginning of a new era: a βmodernβ web, the web that we are still in today. A web where the role of the user is not to build the web, but to generate content and data. A web where the gap in between users and developers is unbridgeable."
Let's see if I can fix this!
On this I hope (naively?) on the influence of the right to repair on the EU: I'd like to see a law that impose free working and properly documented drivers to hardware sold in Europe.
Our market is so big that we could impose this to the world.
I agree with @haitch too (among his other works, @ekaitz_zarraga is also publishing his Spanish translation of this piece which argue more or less in the same direction: http://www.tesio.it/2019/06/03/what-is-informatics.html) but I'm not sure changing the software stack is enough: we also need people understand that informatics is about minds, not computer, and their only way to be first class citizens in a cybernetic world, is to understand how such world works under the hood.
So to fight #GAFAM and all oppressive regimes (eg. USA and China) we need to work on both sides: on one end, rebuild a better stack that is easy to inspect and hack from the ground up; on the other end, teach people informatics, so that they can effectively control their own life.
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@ekaitz_zarraga But that wasn't all.
The worst problem we have right now is the WWW, which has become a delivery mechanism for "applications" (Surprise!) that can't be inspected. (Again, surprise!)
We followed the rules, so they took over the W3C and we kept supporting those corporate standards as FOSS.
They have fooled us twice. Will they fool us for the third time around again?
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@ekaitz_zarraga I'm not passing blame, and it's easier to offer some hindsight in year 2020 than it was in 1985, but UNIX, GNU, and the FOSS community that ensued, unwittingly, and in most cases unintentionally helped to create the conditions necessary for this situation, which capitalist corporations gladly subverted to their own advantage.
Namely "Open Source", which is so bad even Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle love it.
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@ekaitz_zarraga
I've been reading with interest what you guys have said here and I think all of you have a point.
My take is that the four freedoms are not enough, and that the divide between programmers and non-programmers is artificial.
That divide was deliberately created by big corporations when they decided code shouldn't be inspectable. That way the "developer class" is bribed into compliance and isolated from the rest of the working class.
Everybody should be taught to program, not just to turn the 4 priviledges to actual #freedoms, but to teach them critical thinking through debugging.
However #Informatics is still too primitive: we need simpler programming languages, simpler operating systems, simpler network protocols and so on, so that they can be fully read and learnt before 20.
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Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Raddle, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums youβre interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.
For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.
The overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.
Each lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.
Note: Federation is still in active development and the WebSocket, as well as, HTTP API are currently unstable
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Mozilla Google budget screaming
Something is just wrong here... Mozilla just extended its deal with Google (making it the numero uno search engine) for something like 400 million dollars PER YEAR. For the next three years.
That is 1.2 BILLION dollars from 2020 to 2023.
If you cannot run a freaking NON-PROFIT on 400 MILLION dollars PER YEAR that means:
a) You are paying your executives too much.
b) You don't know how to manage a non-profit.
c) All of the above.
Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-expected-to-extend-its-google-search-deal/
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