rapnie @rapnie@mastodon.technology

Today we're kicking off the #GNU Assembly!

https://gnu.tools

This is a new umbrella for GNU people seeking transparent decision-making and built around consensus. It's the result of a decade of struggle to make #GNU inclusive, transparent, and community-driven.

#GNU contributors: consider joining!

#FreeSoftware activists: help us spread the word!

I've just been watching a video of an Open Tech Will Save Us meetup from June 2020, where @rabble from Planetary.social explains that the SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) protocol had already been reimplemented in a bunch of languages, well beyond the original Node.js prototype. The Planetary implemention uses Go:
https://invidious.tube/watch?v=_fTREjXQCto

#Scuttlebutt #SSB #PlanetarySocial #Go #OpenTechWillSaveUs

Grassroots nature and #decentralization are key success factors of #fediverse .. but they also come with weaknesses.

Fedi is still a brittle flower, and the #activitypub techbase it stands on is developed ad-hoc. Fragmented across projects & groups we create custom app extensions. #interoperability is on case-by-case basis, with few deep integrations across different app domains.

We must foster more cooperation, inclusive and growing community, advocacy at #SocialHub so we can go next-level.

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.

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.