HUMAN CHANGE = WORK TOGETHER ? @freeschool@qoto.org

"As time passes, people who lived through German surveillance states die, replaced by a younger generation with no first-hand experience and the fears that come with it. Besides, tech companies like Google and Meta have encroached on privacy one small step at a time.

Like the famous allegory about a frog being slowly boiled alive, privacy violations don’t seem so upsetting when delivered bit by bit over time."

(That's why it's important to de-google as much as possible, ask me @freeschool for help bit by bit...)

●Text Source:
Germany vs Google: How Street View Won the Privacy Battle in Europe's Most Private Country - PetaPixel

https://petapixel.com/2024/03/08/germany-vs-google-how-street-view-won-the-privacy-battle-in-europes-most-private-country/

●Picture source (with added frog!) from "How to Boil A Frog - The Movie"
http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/
[THE PEOPLE'S VIDEO PROJECT]

#data #germany #google #googlemaps #googlestreetview
#history #infosec #privacy #surveillance

Richard Stallman about the disconnects of achievements and not the philosophy *together*

"...so that they could promote the achievements and have the philosophy hidden and buried."

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=47m07s

Source: "For A Free Digital Society" - Richard M. Stallman
[Video link = adverts link by @Invidious software]

#RMS #GNU #Linux #Quote #Video
#FOSS #OpenSource but more specifically #FreeSoftware #Freedom via #GNU #Linux

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux".... !

#RMS #Quote #Video
#GNU #Linux #FreeSchool #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Save Your Water - Put in Toilet - Conserving / Saving Your water / Re-usage...

I've been using my hand-washing water and pouring it in the toilet.

I don't use soaps often so I can use the water for toilet and even plants.

The idea is reuse of used water (or occasionally not using drinking water) for things that don't need or water is changed enough that it doesn't really matter...

#DIY #Water #Conservation to #Toilet #Reuse #Recycling #GreyWater #Nature #BackToNature for toilet every now and again or for nature / growing things !

Science still doesn't know where the soul comes from.
True ✔️ False? ❌

#QOTO #Questions #Science #Answers #Soul #Sentientism

You are growing less patient in people's ability for communication. Do you a) or b) ...

a) Go to the village and cause inevitable trouble by trying to make more communication and even stirring up the ignorant 'peace'.

b) Leave people at it but know it will bug you that their ignorance is the source of all problems.

c) Leave comment below.

At the same time the ogre called 'America' looms on the horizon and you're not sure whether to sacrifice peace for more wisdom or that even perhaps people are already ready enough, or better left as fodder so at least it isn't you being fed on by the monster(s) that are growing in attack rate...

Choose your destiny.

People need: food, shelter, etc...

BUT ALSO NEED LOVE...

Love is often missed out in this list.

Love or practise of respecting people (their spirit, their being) would also reduce wars or at least balance things using the above listed rather than only food and shelter.

Picture is from
https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/10661517

#Israel #genocide #gaza #famine #starvation #Westbank #Palestine #US #EU #war

#Offers #Jobs towards ---> #Fediverse #exchange #FediFinance #finance #money #currency

I promise to give you money if you can help solve sending / receiving it... without BigTech and Banks in between (or with much le$$).

And I'm not sure about Crypto at all but that's a maybe (links welcome).

Ideally (magically) if you show me simple steps from start to finish (or detailed simple steps) then in I will really look at trying to send it to you for your efforts or offer my time (but has to be quite good for rewarding people and fairly future-proof / fool-proof for less scamming).

If you can visit me even better and it would be easier in the way to just give it to you.

DM for more info. And help solve this problem of:

staying alive (with money / currency)
vs.
doing things (for free / needing another job / reaching critically low on money).

#Mastodon Payments - a needed concept...

New payment System for Fediverse people?

If you want to imagine a new world then let's do some "World Building" together and cook something up... via DM if needed.

Tto exchange something (in addition to those who can give freely...) and involve some currency... some people will not see giving love as real... or as credible or permanent enough to putting food on table etc... which is fair... so let's have it all!

I say both and many ways to give + give back + take...

What can you dream up? ☁️

#FediFinance #fediverse #exchange #finance #money #currency

'Standard Normal ' and
'Intersectional Random'

Positions on a chess board used for memory testing and visuospatial abilities but for me here I'm using it visually for "Stepping out the comfort box" which can lead to new communication in a different way to different people - so can get you new friends and "new lines of thinking" which may look odd or feel wrong at first (to the stadard matrix system of value / banking / money etc) but it is about being accepting people more and diversifying...

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Pictures Credits:
https://lichess.org/@/NDpatzer/blog/science-of-chess-spatial-cognition-and-calculation/04J8gbBA

Figure 1 from Waters, Gobet and Leyden (2002) - these are the two versions of their chess memory tests used alongside a standardized shape memory task to examine visuospatial memory in players of varying strength.

#Chess #Matrix #Money #Friends #Finance #Humanism #Sentientism #Communication

#QOTO - Searching of your own messages / toots is currently disabled it seems. Pictured is what I get and message:

"Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server"

No need reply / Doesn't make much difference to my life as it is and seemingly static anyway!

#QOTO #AUDIO #THUMBNAIL #ISSUE for #ATTACHMENTS

Audio attachments now seem to complete upload (go past upload bar hanging) and now reports 422 error at the end:

"422 Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media" (as pictured)

So doesn't attach- And I've tested ogg and mp3, both with and without it's own audio cover art / thumbnail... all fail to attach currently.

I know we're coming back from being 100% but this was an issue before maintenance (but wasn't uploading WITH it's own cover art / thumbnail and needed erasing first and then worked).

So some settings seem different as it kinda worked recently and about 2 months before didn't matter would either way - with a files embedded cover art or without...

Grateful... Gratitude... Thanks... Thank You... Appreciate The Work... Many Thanks @freemo #QOTO #FEDIVERSE

Also uploaded a smaller size picture as I think you can still see the "thanks" even when auto-enlarged! :D

Button to add to your website for contact!

☼♥ Help people contact you on
☼♥ Help people stay on Fediverse as better practice...

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BetterPractices

Trying to communicate is the main thing... if you have better way... good say how and explain!

#Quotes #Methodology #BestPractices #Sentientism #Communication #Fediverse #Humanism

Vote or Not - What's the middle?

It's the hard middle to balance or try to do that I think is as important to falling for choosing only this or that way.

I'm stuck in a loop. Naturally and by-design (by others)...

I am looking to exit to better loops like better addictions in life, as better ways of living others like you / others can offer me.

I think we can more responsible for each other's opportunities and activity towards offering better / more reasoned ones...

Latest in the Threads/Meta/Facebook/BlueSky conversation...

A lot of good points to think about brought by @gabriel

Has your server and users thought about these points❓
🔔

#Fediverse #Invasion #Threads #Meta #Facebook / #BlueSky

#FreeSchool #Audio #Podcast #Questions #Mastodon #ActivityPub

#Human #Intelligence #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism #Humanism

Mastodon helps gives Google YouTube adverts from our links 99999999 per day - it bugs me...

because there is a better way already...

(use filtering sites... redirect.invidious.io)

...for 0 adverts / less bad code!

It's a loss of our efforts not to...
Easy fix / can be optional replacement by Mastodon itself...

Hope Mastodon makes option to turn all youtube.com/ links to
redirect.invidious.io/

(switch on and off to make optional sure!)

We have choices like @invidious ...
LET US USE IT!!!

At least a few people higher up could endorse this and get it actioned... BOOST!! 🚀

I'd like to continuing to educate about filtering the bad code amd ask heads of code makers and software to implement replacement of server words - simple.... redirect.invidious.io ...

To filter aggressive tracking / dangerous ways for freedom...

What do you think? -#FreeSchool

#Mastodon #Links to #Adverts
Us vs. Google YouTube #Freedom

#Mastodon #Suggestion #Feature #Upgrade #Worries

I wish I could pick and choose features in Mastodon instead of worry for asking for features and perhaps getting upgrades that might change other things too much.

● So to make posts self-destructive for example would make for a lot of clarity and even save some space.

I could set a default expiry time (especially if it didn't involve upgrading Mastodon to change existing requirements - like a plugin or just checkbox to enable feature).

● I think newer Mastodon's have this but haven't see screenshot -
anyone know / seen how it works?

I don't like things that need the latest browser

WHY / RESULTS:
Self-cleaning / Less:
██ Low Quality Messages
██ Ethereal / Temporary remarks
██ Clutter in timeline / better Pruning as-you-go rather than WTF after years of crap

Mark for deletion after 1 week etc... would helps

Making Public Timeline presentation of each profile better is the aim here,.

People hiding their shit replies from main timeline to leave their best ones... even after a week could help see the best stuff

Users could go around deleting and pruning timeline from time to time but really setting it from beginning makes sense as that is time *you know* your message is not meant to last...

Vocabulary for Marking as Messages:

█ Perishable Messages
█ Self-destruct Messages
█ Time-expiring Messages
█ De-cluttering

BEST POINTS ABOUT INCOMING COMMERCIAL INVASION: 💣 💥

💥 THREADS/FACEBOOK INVASION

💥 BLUESKY INVASION

ℹ️ UPDATED 15/02/2024 - Best first below.....

(will re-draft weekly - let me know if it's unwanted to be CC-d in, because I respect your comments and think you can be game-changers so add acc name here for now so you get credit)

This is almost like dial-up and broadband all over again!

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Follow and optionally notification 🔔 for similar topics.

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█ Opt-out is not consent.

Everyone knows this and yet many #Mastodon admins continue to abuse us.

Where are the good guys?

● @happyborg
https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg/111926784690582141

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█ Native #openweb is "permissionless" this is how #ActivityPub works and why it works. Is #bluesky native to the #openweb?

● @witchescauldron

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█ ⚔️ This is a "trust" vers "control issue and yes people are pushing #closedweb thinking and code, we need to think this through better.

● @witchescauldron
https://kolektiva.social/@witchescauldron/111926403671342182

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█ Signing up for #Bluesky was a mistake. I have gotten so many #spam calls in the past few days. The sudden spike only makes sense if they're selling the phone number I used for 2FA.

● @o76923
https://kitty.social/notes/9pok05pec10yv5uv

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█ QUOTE> The point of the fediverse is to connect with others, with full control and safety. It's for making connections between networks of different sizes and implementations."

I say, bc at some point, it might matter that this isn't quite the system you want.

● @maegul
https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/111927386224381574

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█ It's not the federation that is the issue... [snip] But "copy this data of mine to a non-AP company network via a bridge where the rules are different" is a different question, and checking with someone first is reasonable.
[snip]

It's beyond the scope of reasonable expectation to assume "usage implies opt in".

● @Crell
https://phpc.social/@Crell/111926941771490396

█ [snip...] Not to mention that a lot of Mastodon users don't understand how Mastodon works. They think it must have a pool of all accounts and all posts and all that somewhere, and the BridgyFed Bluesky bridge will give Bluesky unlimited access to it all.

They also think that Bluesky will be able to post nasty stuff to everyone, even those who aren't connected to anyone on Bluesky.

They think the same about Threads, because in their heads, they're still on Twitter where the secret-sauce algorithm would probably allow for that to happen.

● @jupiter_rowland
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/b59ac1d1-100c-4b2f-a6d6-825e8fceb9e1