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onepict, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Thinking about how Folks held on to Twitter and Facebook for so long. I kinda feel that the folks who want mastodon/fedi to replace those networks perhaps didn't realise that for some of us, we'd already moved several times.

Once you've moved on from your first one emotionally it's easier.

So for those of us where this isn't their first rodeo what was your network pre Facebook? :BoostOK:

onepict, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The best way to preserve the fediverse is to provide support to it.

Pay your instance admin if you can, if you can't boost their fundraiser posts

Pay the developers who develop the software you use on there if you can. If you can't, boost their posts and help them fundraise.

Also pay the projects non Dev folks. Because they help Devs to focus on the code while they do community development, moderation etc.

It's an ecosystem and we can't rely on the whims of VCs.

#ProjectSustainability

onepict, 6 months ago to random

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

When you reduce people and what they create down to data you've objectified them.

Tech has a consent problem, it has a bias problem, it has a discrimination problem.

When you reduce people down to things as part of #MassDataCollection to surveill and improve your AI decisions with no transparency on the process or the data sets you ignore those folks consent.

When you insist that blocklists are bad, again you ignore consent.

Tech sins against folk.

onepict, 7 months ago to privacy

With Commissioner Johanssons recent statement I kinda feel the need to tap the sign again.

Also not here for her trying to insinuate that we are all unhinged, shadily funded sexists.

This law won't protect the children. What it will do is break encryption to directly surveill EU citizens.

It will mean your private messages will be available to the "bad guys".

https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/news/setting-record-straight-2023-10-15_en

#RFC1984 #chatcontrol #privacy

onepict, 7 months ago to random

A question for some folks for a crowdsource thing.

What excuses do you get from #conferences, when you ask about a #masking or public health policy due to #Covid?

I need some answers for..... Reasons.

#PHPledge

onepict, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

So... Does anyone recommend a pixelfed instance that won't federate with threads?

Edit: I have an option and more, 🙏. But I'll leave this up as I know others want to have options as well.

:BoostOK:

onepict, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I saw a recent poll about HEMA, being a lapsed fencer myself I wondered.

How many fencers are there on the Fediverse? Did you lapse or do you feel fencing is too dilettante and you'd prefer a mace?

:BoostOK:

onepict, 25 days ago to random

So that's me received the confirmation that my stuff is removed from Bigstack.

Which is good. It shows the Optout requests are being done.

Go to check again for librecasts old github account. Looks like I missed some.

Opens new ticket

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

While I did think it is important for Software Heritage to archive code, I wish it was done Opt-in.

It would be nice to be asked and for that code to be curated. This is not curation. This is automation.

#SoftwareHeritage #BigCode

onepict, 4 months ago to random

That W3C fee for small organisations is way too high.

If an local independent news organisation wanted to be a member it would be a huge chunk of their budget.

Small FOSS projects/consultants who build a chunk of the technology the web uses, chunk of budget.

Higher up the tier? Proportionally chump change.

Next time you wonder who or what is driving web standardisation look at the fees for W3C membership.

You'll get your answer.

onepict, 5 months ago to random

When I'm talking about project sustainability, I'm talking about more than developers by the way.

I don't code in C which at the moment is what @librecast is written in. But I still contribute time, with grant applications, reporting, managing the project account, community etc.

This isn't directly funded. It's a similar story for folks in other projects who give that support, their time for gratis. What happens when their cash runs out, the project loses.

#FOSSfunding #ProjectSustainability

onepict, 5 months ago to random

"By supporting the fedipact we are signalling that we don't consent to interacting with a known abusive actor who revels in their power. Mark Zuckerberg revealed that to us over a decade ago. He revealed what he can do with his power again and again.

You should not trust a company he owns with anything of you. Not your posts, not your contacts, not your metadata."
" The company that Mark Zuckerberg (a man who as a student created an website to rate women) created."

http://onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

onepict, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

I am not sure if people are too young to remember the Internet in the early 2000s, or if they have short memories.

This onboarding argument about the Fediverse being too hard and how to pick an instance is bullshit.

Have we forgotten how we found out about twitter? I'm pretty sure I got an invite to Facebook from a friend. I definitely know I asked a friend on livejournal for a Gmail invite.

onepict, 8 months ago to random

One of the points @phpledge and @josh makes is that you can ask for safer conferences to attend. We've done it before by pushing for conferences to have COCs with anti harrassment policies.

We need our community leaders to push for rigorous public health policies as #CovidIsStillHere

In 2013 @scalzi decided to take a stand on COCs by announcing he wouldn't be the guest of honor, or a panel participant unless the conference had an anti harrassment policy.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/07/02/my-new-convention-harassment-policy/

#PHPledge

onepict, 10 months ago to random

For those who are hard of empathy in the back of the room.

It's not elitism to want to protect your community area. Or to refuse to take part in this social experiment.

It's community safety.

#fedipact

Taps the xkcd cartoon.

https://xkcd.com/743

onepict, 28 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

onepict, 5 months ago to random

It's also really fucking creepy to use a defederation bot to find instance admin accounts so you can demand an explanation as to why a block?

Surely people can see that's harassing behaviour.

Take the block announcement as the first no for an answer FFS.

You aren't entitled to demand an explanation or to demand they reverse the decision.

The only folks who should be entitled to ask are the folks on their instances.

This isn't the town square, It's a bunch of community spaces.

onepict, 9 months ago to random

Scotlands People, the Scottish Gov's genealogy site managed to leak adoption status of living people. Rather than it's normal remit of dead folk who filled in the census.

Data always want's to leak.In this case it was information on someone who was living.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/09/scottish-government-website-reveals-names-thousands-adopted-children.

#CarelessDataHandling

onepict, 4 months ago to random

I can't help but feel confused about what the W3C is for. Is it an organisation for all possible stakeholders? From governments to community groups so that everyone can come together to build a better web for everyone?

Or is it just for the likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc?

Because as Dentangle points out the fees for business are huge. Unlike say OSI there are no individual memberships.

So again what is the purpose of the W3C, who does it serve?

https://chaos.social/@dentangle/111743270848546535

onepict, 1 month ago to random

I remember years ago when OSS folks tried to wean business away from Microsoft Office and exchange on premise.

We had no real solution that businesses wanted. Even if we did manage there was a danger a new director would come in and move them back.

Different priorities, different ideologies.

We're seeing this again with big tech and the idea of federated networks.

I'm also seeing yet another tech bubble in motion with * _* but federated.

I'd like some new thoughts on collaboration.

onepict, 1 month ago to random

For those who think we need an org to like merely give mental health support and when burn out happens to not give them any money at all. Just so long as the project is maintained.

We live in a capitalistic society that does not value everyone being paid something even if they aren't contributing right now.

Here's a thread on what one maintainer would have liked.

https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112181868961681879

Again the answer is Universal Basic Income. Not yet another "support org".

Oh and ban billionaires.

onepict, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Essentially what alot of admins and users are having a conversation about is consent.

With the November Influx and now this, I can see that Power absolutely reveals.

By supporting the fedipact we are signalling that we don't consent to interacting with a known abusive actor who revels in their power.

Regardless if they can get at our messages, informed consent is important. If a bad actor gets our data without consent reveals just that.

https://onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

onepict, 2 years ago to random

With folklore, folks used to be cautious about what to do with hair and nail clippings. As those could give a witch or sorcerer power over you.

We have this now with our electronic clippings, we give our clippings to social networks and that gives a whole heap of power to them and to the buyers of that data who can then analyse it.

There's an analogy for you. 😏

onepict, 28 days ago to random

Old woman screams at cloud.

Brandishing an axe.

You can't tell me an axe isn't feminine.

onepict, 2 days ago to random

Wow, now I'm imagining Halt and Catchfire, except it's set in Victorian times with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace.

Although I'd be happy with an adaptation of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lovelace_and_Babbage

onepict, 1 month ago to random

Personal opinion.

Despite RMS I think of the GPL and using those licences as a gift to the commons in perpetuity.

Unlike more permissive licences you aren't at risk of future releases being locked up in a kinda "Pray I don't alter the deal more" vibe.

There's nothing petty in how I use it.

But then I tend more towards the collective freedoms, than the freedom of anything goes.

I believe future generations should have access to all the code.