strypey

strypey, 7 months ago to fediverse

There's a crew forming on SocialHub to update and expand the aging ActivityPub homepage, making it a more informative portal for anyone wanting to learn about the open standard that powers the fediverse. Anyone keen to pitch in?:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/activitypub-rocks-portal-from-standards-movement-to-grassroots-fedi/3577

#fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialHub

strypey, 6 months ago to til

#TIL about Kazarma, a bridge between ActivityPub and @matrix protocol networks:

https://technostructures.org/en/projects/kazarma/

#Kazarma #AP #ActivityPub #Matrix

@smallcircles

strypey, 3 months ago to privacy

"It turns out, having the world’s biggest advertising company make the most-popular web browser was about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop."

#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s Web browser has become spy software'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/

Maybe governments need to pass laws against browser companies starting advertising businesses, and advertising companies owning or funding web browser development?

#privacy #surveillance #advertising

strypey, 6 months ago to random

Next time some well-meaning but history-blind Pākeha asks why Māori are still banging on about colonisation that happened a century ago, sit them down with No Māori Allowed.

"The documentary... reveals that from 1920 until the early 1960s, Māori [in Pukekohe] were barred from public toilets, segregated at the cinema and swimming baths, refused alcohol, haircuts and taxi rides, forced to stand for white bus passengers and barred from schools."

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/130075649/tvnz-documentary-no-mori-allowed-revisits-pukekohes-history-of-segregation

#colonisation #segregation

strypey, 6 days ago to random

Photographed in a backpackers hostel in Te Wai Pounamu. The text reads;

"The truth about using HostelWorld and booking.com

• they take 15% of your payment -
  Try always to book directly with the hostel or hotel
  Owners of booking sites live in luxury and don't do any work"

#accomodation #BackPackers #hostels

strypey, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to InitialD

PeerTube is a fantastic project. But its UI is designed around people creating "channels" for publishing video regularly to an audience, as a lot of people do on ThemTube. A lot of the PeerTube UI assumptions don't make sense if what you want is a video library, more like Vimeo. A dedicated host for videos (and other bulky media files) to be embedded elsewhere, or just shared within a group.

Does anyone know an actively maintained free code project designed for that?

#video #PeerTube #ThemTube

strypey, 1 year ago to fediverse

#Mastodon is hiring a fulltime, full stack web developer. It's a remote work role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/c2397ccf-025a-47fc-b03e-9f728d6c2522

#jobs #SituationsVacant #JobOffers #NowHiring

strypey, 11 months ago to fediverse

Public service message to everyone using #Mastodon:

1. Mastodon is not the only software used in the fediverse. There are many other options you can try, while still interacting with the same people.

2. Mastodon is not where most of the innovative fediverse design happens. All those features you want, like quote posts and better search? Other fediverse apps already have them.

3. Sometimes all you need to do is use your Mastodon account with an app that isn't the "official" one.

#FediTips

strypey, 1 month ago to random

"What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience …"

#HannahArendt, From The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness

#totalitarianism

strypey, 11 months ago to fediverse

The fedizens have spoken (59 of them at least) so we're looking at an online fediverse conference later this year. Please weigh in on potential dates (and clashes with timing of other events) here:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/anyone-keen-on-a-fediverse-conference-in-2023-24/3167/26

#fediverse #conferences

strypey, 11 months ago to fediverse

The real sticking point in implementing portable accounts/ nomadic identity in the ActivityPub branch of the #fediverse - like what Zot and AT Protocol offer - is its implications for how moderation works.

"The hard part however, is the social one: we collectively need to agree that the identity resolution layer is infrastructure and not somewhere moderation actions should take place."

https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/

#ActivityPub #Zot #ATProtocol #moderation #PortableAccounts #NomadicIdentity

strypey, 1 year ago to random

When I was involved in starting a volunteer-run community newspaper in the late 1990s we built and maintained our own website, which contained full copies of all our issues. How did the web get so mystified and inaccessible that community groups - and even businesses - now rely on FarceBook and other corporate providers to host their web presence?

#web #WWW

strypey, 9 months ago to fediverse

I’m keen to facilitate a series of monthly, online meetups about fediverse development.

What we’ll need for each meetup is;

• 3-4 people willing to give a short talk with Q&A. I’d like to have a balance of technical, UX, and organisational topics

• an MC

• a conference server, ideally with support for livestreaming and hosting recordings for later viewing.

Anyone keen to help with this? More details here:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/anyone-keen-on-a-fediverse-conference-in-2023-24/3167/51

#fediverse #AskFedi #Meetups

strypey, 7 months ago to Anthropology

One more posthumous book by #DavidGraeber. Is he the Tupak of nonfiction?

"As questions of decolonisation rub up against the legacy of Enlightenment thinking in the West, anthropologist David Graeber argues in his posthumous book Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (to be published early next year) that Enlightenment ideas themselves are not intrinsically European and were indeed shaped by non-European sources."

https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment/

#anthropology #decolonisation #TheWest

strypey, 11 months ago to random

#TIL about the Join Jabber collective:

https://joinjabber.org/about/goals/

Their aim is to make the federation of chat servers using the XMPP protocol accessible to more people, and improve #UX across the whole network.

#chat #federation #jabber #XMPP

strypey, 1 year ago to random

"When more than 15 percent of your words (except verbs and proper nouns) are three or more syllables, readers work with difficulty to understand your message. To reduce larger words, consider these tips: a) Use about instead of approximately; use rather than utilize; b) Convert nouns ending in –ion into verbs. Use “We considered ...” instead of “We took into consideration ...”; c) Replace endeavor with try, aggregate with total, and optimum with best."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about/submissions

#writing

strypey, 1 day ago to aotearoa

"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."

#CarlKlitscher, May 2022

https://nzoss.nz/node/2168

#Aotearoa #NZ #GovernmentIT

strypey, 10 months ago to til

#TIL about #ActivityPods:

"With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers - all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application!"

https://activitypods.org/

I think our data portability problem may have been solved for us!

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Solid #LinkedData

strypey, 1 month ago to random

Can anyone recommend a Free Code platform for collaborative authoring?

I'd like to be able to write a book in a sort of wiki - with a wiki page for each book page - which trusted contributors can edit. Plus an ability for anyone to comment on each page, using an account on the platform.

Bonus points if the WIP is federated over ActivityPub, and people can use their fediverse accounts to comment. Allowing a broad range of contributions while using fediverse moderation tools to reduce noise.

strypey, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"The thesis exaggerates the break between capitalism and the alleged techno-feudal successor... and illegitimately downplays the role rent extraction has always played in capitalism. In fact, there is a great deal of commonality between leftist critiques of surplus extraction under classic industrial capitalism, and the ways in which digital platforms extract economic rents today."

#KevinCarson (@KevinCarson1), 2024

https://c4ss.org/content/59416

#TechnoFeudalism #rentiers #EconomicRents

strypey, 1 month ago to random

"But if that money goes into the wages of low-income workers, we know that all of it will go back into the local economy because research shows that those workers spend 100% of their payslip. Actually, they spend 106% of their payslip, but that’s a whole other story. So the best way to stimulate the local economy is to put the money into raising the lowest wages. That means more money for more jobs."

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/what-it-the-living-wage-and-what

#LivingWage #MinimumWage

strypey, 29 days ago to Podcasts

"Meta, the global behemoth that owns Facebook and Instagram, is putting a stranglehold on recommendations in user feeds that contain political content.

The move, signalled in February, applies to Instagram and Threads, and will eventually extend to Facebook."

https://omny.fm/shows/the-front-page-1/8-april-political-content-mix-1

#podcasts #TheFrontPage #NZHerald #SocialMedia #DataFarms #Meta

strypey, 2 months ago to fediverse

Today I started a list on the fediverse.party wiki, of services that offer managed #fediverse hosting;

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Hosting-services-offering-managed-fediverse-servers

If you see anything there that needs correcting, or you know of any services that are missing, or you think something shouldn't be there (eg I found a remnant website of a dead service), please let me know.

Inevitably my web searches found a few existing lists. I've added them to my list too, and I'll be reaching out to their maintainers to see how we can cooperate.

strypey, 3 months ago to random

"Some people worry an immigrant will take their job. Here's a thought. If someone shows up, doesn't speak the language, has no connections or support network, and takes your job on day one, maybe America doesn't need you?"

#JimmyCarr, The Fix, 2018

#US #immigration

strypey, 3 days ago to TikTok

Seems TechDirt's take on Biden's TikTok ban is similar to mine;

"Enacting this legislation has undermined this long standing, democratic principle. It has also undermined the U.S. government’s moral authority to call out other nations for when they shut down internet access or ban social media apps and other online communications tools."

#JasonKelley #BrendanGilligan, 2024

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/biden-signed-the-tiktok-ban-whats-next-for-tiktok-users/

#TikTok #US #FreedomOfExpression