Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@cwebber In actuality, I really wonder what's next for the Fediverse.

We need a more robust security model. Circles/Aspects, permissions, reputation and moderation stuff.

We need creature comforts like painless migration, nomadic identity, content discovery, etc.

And all that might mean inventing a more advanced protocol than what ActivityPub provides right now.

And maybe do it in a more focused and purpose-driven way than how AP was born.

And also possibly provide the libraries right from the get-go, not wait for another Mastodon to show up and implement it.

Have you seen @sean's writeup?

https://deadsuperhero.com/new-fediverse-architecture/

I think it's worth a look.

@rhiaro

It's Proof Of Waste, not Proof Of Work. Using the marks' language legitimizes their delusion and devalues actual work; if energy is expended towards nothing, then it's not work, it's waste.

Proof Of Waste.

As Jeffrey Neiman - lawyer for the Credit Suisse whistleblowers - told the *Guardian*, "How many rogue bankers do you need to have before you start having a rogue bank?" I'd add, given that this rot extends beyond Credit Suisse to UBS and undoubtably further, "How many rogue bankes do you need to have before you start having a rogue banking system?"

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The friend who emailed me about this wrote, "After so many of these, I am accepting that these leaks don't matter, and that those in power don't actually want to fix the system. Sunlight isn't doing any disinfecting at all."

He's not wrong, but that's not the whole story.

The problem isn't the *transparency*, it's the *inaction*.

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@dentangle the problem is that even tho 1 Billion is a mind boggling amount of money, 1 Billion is not enough.

Nothing short of everything is enough.

Mozilla are going out of their way to help surveillance advertisers. Why? Because "ads fund the web". Mozilla says they want "privacy preserving ads".

This is horseshit.

Privacy preserving ads exist and always have. Just don't track us. Don't personalise ads.

I didn't mind the original Google ads.Show me an ad for a keyword I'm actively searching for, by all means. Isn't creepy, doesn't harm privacy, and is sometimes useful.

That was what made Google its first billion. So what's the problem?

I've got all but one of my family members and in-laws using Linux. Xubuntu seems to be friendly enough for all of them.

Now I've got my parents working on cleaning out and deleting their Google accounts. My dad is open to the idea of Lineage OS on his phone. I never thought I'd get to this point.

@MarcatoMarc We run our farm business on Ledger. It's not difficult if you take the time to read the manual. I documented all of the tricks we used to deal with taxes and that sort of stuff. gemini://gemini.sensorstation.co/accounting.gmi

Building a business by freeing Networks with Free Software and (sufficiently) Open Hardware https://sovran.video/videos/watch/7072bc29-9e5b-41fb-81be-ccbe4eb71d37

Periodic reminder that no matter what corporations raised you, that still doesn't make them your friend. You can be a fan of Nintendo's games and understand that they're one of the greatest dangers for video game preservation. You can be a fan of Disney's movies and understand they've pillaged the public domain and done their best to pull the ladder up behind them. Corporations are cold, unfeeling machines, and no matter how much they pretend they're friendly, it's a Terminator underneath.

Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to centralise information, power, and wealth. Think about where your strengths lie and design from first principles according to those.

@paul i never learned the internals of TeX but i'm guessing a programmable typesetter is still strictly superior to the W3C fuckstack.

What dystopia is this? Airdropping sterile fish into remote lakes in order to strike a balance between the human "need" to journey away from cities in order to kill fish for fun, and the dieoffs caused by climate change: the Hackaday piece presents this as normal, charming even. The stewardship ethic towards nature, with its implicit endorsement of human exceptionalism, is perverse at best. From a Buddhist perspective this looks like being reborn as a Yamaduta, one of the guardians of hell. https://hackaday.com/2021/08/18/airdropping-live-fish-is-a-thing-and-it-looks-magnificent/

I do recommend following hashtags, even in preference to following people. But you will find people in the conversations which hang off the hashtags.

You did well to include your hashtags of interest in this query - put them in your profile too, if you haven't already.

Be sure to engage in conversations, and make posts of your own, too.

Might be controversial, but I would also recommend sticking to your interests. If you mix up politics and anything else, it can be offputting.

@rickcarlino

@adnan360
We are likely to go Epicyon at some point, which is enhanced for #NoScript and #onionRouting and #garlicRouting.

#makeJavascriptOptional

@Decentralize_today @hyde @FisaCourtHoarder @icedquinn

I’m rather saddened that works for a decentralized web for everyone to interact with each other had exist back in the early 2000s and their impact can still be seen today, yet most of us (youngsters) aren’t aware of them.

Wheel reinventions like ActivityPub are great, but I wonder if we can bring back web feed now that static site hosting is virtually no-cost. Feed readers are dying but even Google is trying to revive them.

The problem is with comments: a dynamic server to accept them would disqualify the staticness and low cost. Of course an ActivityPub implementation can support this (many generate RSS already), but static servers are way more efficient than a Fediverse one, and not everyone has an account of the later for a seamless adoption.

Emails, on the other hand, are universal and also federated. Converting a mailing list thread to RSS/Atom or HTML should be trivial, although comments won’t be expected to be rendered immediately due to the static nature. This comes with naturals advantages though: one can monitor comments before publishing and self-archiving the site with comments (e.g. via #IPFS) is trivial.

Unlike dynamic commenting systems, ones backed by emails can easily outlive the website. It doesn’t have to be a mailing list, one can extract comments from a private mailbox just fine; also those mboxed can be migrated from one list to another. All it takes for a reader to comment is to know the current address.

Is this the permanent web we’re all looking for, laying right in front of our eyes?

"On the evidence, the US regards the publishing of the evidence of its war crimes to be a worse offence than committing such crimes in the first place."

- #GordonCampbell, 2021

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2112/S00029/on-why-we-should-oppose-the-persecution-of-julian-assange.htm

#JulianAssange #WarCrimes #WhistleBlowers

@kensanata Here in Ireland, the DD system is used by libraries. This means that all the English language stuff is organised by topic, but all the stuff written in our native, national language, Gaeilge, gets shoved in together, unsorted.

Well, sorted by well-meaning library staff, but the DD system makes no provision for Celtic languages, just "Gaelic Interest" or something.

It's just galling that people make out like the DD system is a clever ontology.

The potential demise of the Feneas.org services reminds me again that the success of federated networks depends on reliable instances, and avoiding re-centralization requires more instances, not bigger ones. This means server-side software needs to be as easy as possible to set up and maintain, and we need easy access to ways for people to learn how to host servers.

#fediverse #decentralization #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

NFTs are clearly a direct response to a modern world in which it's rare for anyone to actually *own* anything, instead renting/streaming it all from five companies

so, of course, instead of taking the message from this that we're living in a fucking serfdom and that's not okay

these bros are just like "well *I* wanna own things so I'm gonna set up a system where a lot of people lie to me about how much I own this monkey to make me feel better"

seems like 90% of what techbros do is respond poorly to how hellish the world is by creating a magical illusory internety alternative to everything