rapnie @rapnie@mastodon.technology

OpenPush - A Free, #Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for #Android

"Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They are also one of the critical missing pieces in the #opensource Android ecosystem. Until now, free Android apps would either need to implement their own push notification system, do without any push messaging or use the proprietary Google Cloud Messaging service."

https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/openpush-talk.html

@rapnie that "European Parliament" Q&A is written by Axl Voss, in his position as chair of the JURI committee. His claim to speak on behalf of all MEPS (and all JURI) is one reason why this has got so out of control. Julia Reda is on the same commitee, and has v. different ideas. The CULT committee also disagreed.

Here's an article by a watchdog oeg, explaining who lobbied for what: https://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/2018/12/copyright-directive-how-competing-big-business-lobbies-drowned-out-critical

Thank you, thank you, thank you @aral for writing this:

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#Google #Facebook #Apple #Amazon are such benevolent do-gooders for us all. #SurveillanceCapitalism is a ruse. It had to be said, and we can't thank #FAANG enough for the great stuff they do for #humanity /s

Let's thank them on #HackerNews before the entry leaves the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888212

RT @humane_tech_now@twitter.com

Let's all thank #FAANG for their continued benevolence towards #Humanity ... #Facebook #Google we were all wrong criticizing you for perceived malpractices, you do-gooders. #SurveillanceCapitalism meh, we'll continue to be your faithful users /s

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

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@aral thank you for making Humane Tech Community see we were on the wrong path!

Like 'Zero', switch to a smartphone OS that respect your data like /e/ ! #thanks #privacy #Android #OpenSource #mydataisMYdata http://e.foundation @gael https://plume.mastodon.host/~/Zero/switching-over-to-trusted-open-source-software-services/

Testing out dat:// and the Beaker browser. I was suprised how easy it is to publish an existing static website to dat. Here's my blog, for example: dat://a3014080859dbb7130fa30b4f676b5360153d565e0d052d1c4556d7e6f614a31/

Hey folks, if you’re still on birdsite, please help me boost this tweet:

https://twitter.com/aral/status/1084413170360422401

Let’s get some more folks on Mastodon and the fediverse while also raising awareness about surveillance capitalism.

Thanks in advance :)

I've got a solution to the recycling problem. Pass a law that says that every company has to accept back any products they provide, when they reach end-of-life. So, for example, retailers would have to accept packaging waste back from customers, and the wholesaler that sold them the product would have to accept it back from them. Internalizing the cost of dealing with waste would motivate companies to make less disposable stuff, and find ways to make it easier to recycle:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycling-may-be-coming-to-an-end/

And this was the final archive (~17GB), which I downloaded before deleting my account.

I wrote up some Opinions™ about iterating on the #ActivityPub protocol and how we can continue improving it without sacrificing compatibility or fracturing the network: https://jeremydormitzer.com/blog/activitypub-good-enough-for-jazz/. Comments welcome here or on the post.

modern tech dystopia fiction bothers me because it acts as if humanity is slapping itself silly for no reason, as if a very tiny group of people isn't becoming obscenely wealthy from invading our privacy and micromanaging our lives

incidentally, I strongly believe that federated and secure communications tools are essential toward eventually moving to a post-statist world.

this is one of the reasons why i am strongly motivated to study and improve the security postures of fediverse technology (not necessarily because the AP ecosystem will last for more than a decade, but because fixing design faults in it will lead to better technologies in the future that completely avoid the problems to begin with.)

similarly, I believe distributed ledgers are also essential (but they need to be a lot more efficient than current tech).

but there's a lot of people working on that side of the problem, and few working on the communications side.

Chromium has blacklisted nouveau on Linux, which is one of the most egregiously wrong moves they could make against open source and the health of the Linux ecosystem.

Tell them what you think via graphics-dev@chromium.org. Remember to be firm in your convictions but polite with your complaint.

The priority after federation support is mobile APIs.

We are working with a few mobile developers to ensure they have the right tools to build amazing apps and experiences. #pixelfed