> # FEP-c118: Content licensing support
> ## Summary
> Currently, popular Fediverse software does very little to establish the legal status of posts. Controversy over indexing and scraping the Fediverse is common. The hope is that providing a legal framework to express the desires of users as to how their content may be re-used might bring order to this debate.
Should that angle no work for you to discuss things there is this matrix group, which brings together practitioners developing ActivityPub services trying to coordinate things better:
Hey nerds, is anyone still maintaining any Web Rings? I used to love those. I know they don't serve much purpose in the modern corporate internet but it seems like they'd be a good fit for the handmade web. #question#SmallWeb#WebRing#SmolWeb
> The aim of the project is to develop new and alternative discovery methods for the Internet. It's an experimental workshop as much as it is a public service, the overarching goal is to elevate the more human, non-commercial sides of the Internet. A side-goal is to do this without requiring datacenters and expensive enterprise hardware
Ive been approaching Gemtext from the perspective of kanban boards (either from developping interpreters for that and other formats or helping another group).
Ive been approaching kanban boards and knowledge-management in a very baroque way, been patiently waiting for somebody to approach this at the server end.
There needs to be an approach to reconcile Bubble with a federated tool like this:
@passthejoe
On Aphex Twin face in song
> Chaos Machine wasn't available for an interview, but according to his website, he was playing around with WinAmp one evening when he spotted the diabolical face.
> His discovery can be reproduced with a sample of the song and some spectrographic software, which displays the different frequencies of the song as a graph against time. The image doesn't appear in an MP3 file of the song; the compression algorithm destroys the image.
You can take my word for it that it's all interconnected and at the bottom of the fascist worldview is a conspiracy theory that more or less lines up with the Protocols of Zion or you can spend years doing the legwork I did and figure it out yourself. But my advice is to not waste your time; they don't even BELIEVE IT, the conspiracy is about "emotional truth" and proving that fascists are idiots and believe racist cracker nonsense won't actually change a damn thing.
@theogrin@AnarchoNinaWrites The recently experienced gaslighting in a voluntary group, from x2 antagonists (whom I had known for a decade). It took a great emotional cost to see them as they truly are. I had to recognise that their failing to grasp concepts, my importance to certain domains or my propensity to harm; as well as ommiting things as not innocent failing but something active and to put me in my place, as all costs.
Internalising this cut through their sophistry and malgovernance.
There’s a paid internship offer with the Greens in Brussels that needs #Guix and #Guile skills: https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/get-involved/work-with-us — I thought you may be interested. Deadline for application: 31 May, 23:59 CET — info about needed skills is from an email of a green elected: Internal toolchain development, debugging or maintenance, using Guile Scheme, Guix, PHP (Drupal / CiviCRM), bash, postgres, sqlite and similar technologies #job
@ArneBab I had noticed the vacancy via the Guix ML and forwarded it on here too.
The site mentions the 31st May for the deadline.
I hadnt checked the specs, though ... Ive got the luxury of offering my time for something like that, its a lot more interesting than most interships let alone a useful stack to be coding on for a short period of time.
The #Greens have a great longstanding policy regarding information society, definitely worth flagging the role.
@atheia@ArneBab I passed on my feedback on the Guix ML - My error was the yellow footer vibe for the interns section distinct from other roles - feels like an antipattern.
Was tempted to apply for the temporary IT project manager role under the expectation that it would be Guix infused. I suspect that role doesnt touch those facets
The need for excellent German language skills rules me out
Tbh, while usually a proponent of positive recruitment strategies I found that written policy a tad off
Also, 1500 EUR a month stipend for a Brussels EU internship is very generous
(there is a disgraceful racket there, simultaneously abusing the young and favouring those from well off families)
@ArneBab@atheia Well, it affirms the need for diversity but then clarifies that if theres a tie that a woman would be selected.
Now, if this was to prioritize women in IT I fully get it.
Knowing people in the Greens, including female MEPs Id be surprised there needs to be active prioritisation of gender internally.
As somebody whose worked in Brussels associations its a monoculture there, prioritising women over other facets of inclusion is actually insulting given how represented women are
@ArneBab@atheia I dont mean to ruffle feathers, as Im sure its a well thought out policy and I havent participated in their discussions to have reached that policy.
Unfortunately, there are people who resent equality and widening participation.
Stating using a more positivist system of scoring individuals and
then ignoring it for a specific group is off.
Id assert that the wording is off and there are more effective ways to ensure that all types and talents are represented in organisations.
I checked the secretariat composition later, it does appear ~55-60% women which is great.
My partner feels my misgivings should be contextualised regarding the fact that such outcomes may have been a consequence of such policies - especially pertinent given that such gender balance may not be the same in other parties.
Just noticed an IT #internship:
> The #Greens#EFA in the European Parliament are looking for a paid intern to work with the IT Project Manager of the group.
> The intern will work in the office of the project manager and data analyst of the group. The project manager’s office places a strong emphasis on practical IT
skills as well as project management. In addition the office is committed to
using Free Software in its toolchain where possible.
Remind me: have we talked much, here, about my notion of the “convivial stack”? This is the idea that, to the greatest extent possible, community governance, the built environment and the technological surround should all, simultaneously be designed so that they are open, participatory and actively invitational; modular, user-modifiable and extensible; and reward experimentation?
@smallcircles@adamgreenfield I get the feeling that many systems and functionalities are predicated on the need to gauge/gouge outcomes in a way skewed towards predetermined outcomes.
It not only creates a shift towards certain quantifiable/qualifiable choices but it often skewers things towards incumbents or those with an unnatural advantage - gaming systems and resulting in a minority receiving more surplus than deserved.
I feel this distinction is a harbinger of inequality and inefficiency
Something weird has been happening with my videos this year.
Apparently there has been an uptick in suspicious traffic which has caused YouTube to cut my ad revenue in half and also promote my videos less in the algorithm.
I have no idea if it's unintended or intentional, but there has been a lot of "direct traffic" to a couple of videos that I can't account for.
YouTube support has been totally unhelpful regarding the issue.