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strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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strypey, to random
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"[SSB]... identities are linked cryptographically to individual devices, and the asynchronous nature of the platform is highly resilient – meaning that data can’t be erased. Even the act of changing your name or following or unfollowing someone creates a permanent record. This beautifully designed decentralised network also happens to be a forensically sound surveillance tool, in which nothing can be retracted and proof of authorship can be traced to specific devices."

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine

strypey,
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There's a lot of patronising assumption spoken as truth in 'This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network', so it wouldn't surprise me if their description of SSB was misleading. Is the above a fair description?

@manyver_se @rabble @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub

strypey, to random
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@axbom Just checking out your fediverse explainer, with the excellent infographic:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/

One little note:
"Sean Tillman wrote a good post in 2017..."

Sean Tilley. At least that's the byline on the article. Is that the correct spelling @deadsuperhero? I know Sean had to correct me on that too in my 'Brief History...' piece :)

RadicalEdward, to random

Cool that we have single-board computers small enough to carry around something running Linux and can easily modify to run our own programs and scripts.

But then sucks that the only computers we really do carry around are phones with one of two OSs that can't just edit and run simple scripts.

strypey,
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@lori
> sucks that the only Linux computers we have as options don't make good phones as well

Have you tried the PinePhone?

@RadicalEdward

strypey, (edited ) to random
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"The signing of the National Ticketing Solution contract with supplier Cubic means New Zealanders will soon be able to use a single payment system across all public transport networks.

People will be able to pay for bus, train and ferry trips using contactless credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay."

Alafeshat, 2022

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477115/new-1-point-3b-single-payment-system-for-public-transport-announced

Unified ticketing for public transport across ? About time.

strypey,
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But who is this "Cubic"?

"We make the world better through innovation, technology solutions and world-class products in defense and transportation."

https://www.cubic.com/about

🤔

"Cubic Corporation ... today announced the completion of its sale to Veritas Capital... and Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation... an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P... in a transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion, including the assumption of debt."

https://www.cubic.com/news-events/news/cubic-announces-completion-acquisition-veritas-capital-and-evergreen-coast-capital

shudder

strypey,
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I bet my left testicle that Cubic is going to sell the government a bloated, proprietary mess, just like Talent2 did with Novopay. Was it really so impossible to find a locally owned tech company who could design a unified ticketing system based on Open Standards, and ideally using Free Code software?

strypey, (edited )
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"Much of the rest of the world, meanwhile, finds itself in a state of digital colonialism, in which mostly U.S.-based transnational tech corporations own and control the core components of the digital ecosystem, while actively preventing interoperability in order to monopolize the market and orient their services to maximize user engagement, ad impressions, and thus power and profits."

, 2023

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/dawn-of-the-fediverse/

That's us!

strypey,
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@cashew
> those whom the public gives a mandate to allocate budgets

In Aotearoa that's Waka Kotahi, the NZ Transport Agency. They're the ones who commissioned the unified ticketing system. I agree their approach...

> increases... permanent surveillance powers and creates a way to funnel more citizen money into big tech

I'm far from convinced that's inevitable short of a revolutionary overthrow of the state and capitalism. Look at the way Taiwan's government designs its digital systems.

strypey,
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@cashew

"These bills [ACCESS Act and Digital Markets Act] are wedded to a capitalist framework that will keep the deep problems associated with Big Social Media intact. However, they also present the public with a golden opportunity to press for a full-scale reconstruction of social media as a democratic digital commons — a more hopeful vision that draws on the Fediverse as a model for a radically egalitarian future."

Michael Kwet

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/dawn-of-the-fediverse/

strypey, to random
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"... recent large investments in digital infrastructure, such as the NZ$1.3 billion single-ticketing system for public transport, suggest it is happy to look for overseas solutions.

The recent upheavals at Twitter are a reminder that New Zealand needs to shift its digital strategy. Not to do so risks putting the country’s businesses and citizens in a dangerously dependent position for decades to come."

https://theconversation.com/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-has-disrupted-the-christchurch-call-nz-needs-to-rethink-its-digital-strategy-195213

strypey, to random
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"Green Investment Finance is a commercial, independent entity set up to invest in low emission firms.

The fund - which aims to help drive down the country's climate emissions - has been given a capital injection of $300 million in new money, taking its total pot to $700m.

The firm focuses on scaling up proven propositions rather than acting as an angel investor in a businesses startup phase."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/489585/green-investment-bank-s-pool-of-capital-now-700m-after-government-cash-injection

strypey, (edited )
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I wonder if a few established, Aotearoa-owned IT companies could get money from Green Investment Finance to scale up locally-owned datacentres, running on renewably-generated electricity? That could bring down the cost of onshore hosting, putting it within reach of more people who currently use fossil-fueled corporate datacentres in other countries. More demand could then drop prices further, bringing in more customers, creating a virtuous cycle, and helping to pay back the GIF investment.

strypey, to fediverse
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For anyone getting drawn into any organising for the , I highly recommend a skim of Swarmwise, a book on decentralized organising by Pirate Party founder @rick:

https://falkvinge.net/files/2013/04/Swarmwise-2013-by-Rick-Falkvinge-v1.1-2013Sep01.pdf

... and TheHum.org's @richdecibels writing on MicroSolidarity:
https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

Not as specs to be slavishly implemented, but as food for thought. Organising without a hierarchy, derived from a central authority brings unique challenges and opportunities, and it's good to come prepared.

strypey, to random
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"Laser kiwi speaks softly and carries a big laser"

https://teddit.net/r/newzealand/comments/pwbvqq/lazer_kiwi_has_spoken/hekn7oq/#c

lolennui, to random
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I was promised a dystopia with more cyberpunk hair

strypey,
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@nutsling
Are we the Dancers at the End of Time?

@lolennui

strypey,
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@lolennui I got my nickname from the reverse mohawk I had in the 90s (and again in the early 2000s); a shaved strip down the middle of my head, surrounded by shoulder length hair. I still have the hair - and the nickname - just not the shaved stripe :P

gruber, to random
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Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity and Bluesky is going to thrive: petulant nannyism:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

strypey,
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@gruber
> Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity

Firstly, congrats, you've just joined an elite club of public predictors of Mastodon's doom. There are examples here going back to 2017:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/The-fediverse-on-the-web

Secondly, I agree that threatening to defederate an instance for having the misfortune to be haunted by Matt Blaze is petty. But it's just some arsehat's opinion, not representative of Mastodon or the fediverse as a whole.

strypey,
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@mcg You actually had to unfollow him yourself? I could blocked for respectfully disagreeing with the Gospel according to Blaze, so I didn't need to bother.

@gruber

idanoo, to random
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    strypey,
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    @aurynn
    > full hardware virtualisation

    I might be showing my ignorance here, but doesn't this put a lot of extra load on the server? Why not use a VM for each instance, with a container for each component?

    @idanoo @lightweight

    76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
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    Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar by Mike Masnick. It’s important to look at this when we think about nostr. Now before you jump to say Mike’s pro-censorship, remember he wrote the very influential piece on social media: Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech*

    Take a read, I’m curious what folks think? How do we create spaces where we can both have free speech and be able to kick the nazis out of the bar?

    https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

    strypey,
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    @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub

    > If somebody starts pushing content from nostr through mostr to users on fediverse servers that activily moderate who they federate with, we’ll see mostr get defederated

    I've heard noises along these lines. I think it would be a good idea for a diverse range of bridges to exist, with mods who are opinionated about what kind of traffic passes over them.

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    strypey,
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    @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub

    It's inevitable that the really jumpy instances will block anything involving Nostr "coz Nazis", with no real political analysis or thought of any kind sigh. But as long as there are Nostr bridges that don't seem like a "Nazi bar", they'll likely be just as welcome as any edgy fedi instance.

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    strypey,
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    PS Is there any way to get the Nostr bridges to render these horrible @83e4nhtedigfrh usernames into something human readable, like @rabble or @TonyGiorgio?

    @alex
    @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub @5be6446aa8a31c11b3b453bf8dafc9@mostr.pub

    strypey,
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    @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub
    Firstly, Mike is just wrong in his application of the Nazi bar metaphor. SubStack (including Notes as it is now) is not a platform in the way that Titter is, or FB or the fediverse, where any users can pick on any other user. Each publication on SubStack is a separate social space, moderated by its author. So Chris is more like the CEO of a Mastodon farm like Masto.host than he is like the admin of a Mastodon instance.

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    J12t, to random
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    Did a debrief between us organizers @Dangerangel @Identitywoman and me. By general agreement, we think FediForum was a great success! Lots of good people, being passionate and engaged across the various sessions, far more important topics than could conceivably be discussed -- some people continued discussing even after the event ended -- and lots of follow-up. Some resulted in very specific steps that will move the Fediverse forward.

    We will do this again! Stay tuned and in touch!!

    strypey,
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    @J12t
    > don’t forget decent social, which also happened earlier this year online

    How could I forget? Probably because I didn't know about it 😅 Another discussion I raised on SH when I learned about FediForum was about getting information about fediverse-related events on one portal, using a federated events calendar like Mobilizon or Gancio.
    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/is-there-a-mobilizon-instance-for-fediverse-related-events/3179

    Again, input welcome. If you know of a project already doing this, awesome!

    @Dangerangel @Identitywoman

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