strypey

strypey, 8 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, 7 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, 7 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, 4 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, 2 months 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, 8 months ago (edited 8 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, 20 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, 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, 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, 8 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, 15 days 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, 8 months ago to fediverse

"... a significant portion of the #Fediverse, at least for now, runs on pure enthusiasm, and sometimes on donations from supporters or some occasional banners. There’s currently no sustainable commercial model here, and it seems that there is no intention to implement one yet."

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/what-is-fediverse/48916/

Why would we? A centralised revenue model for...

"... an association of independent social networks..."

...is basically like trying to create one for everything on the web. It's bananas.

strypey, 8 months ago to random

The neoliberal playbook in one simple flowchart...

strypey, 10 months ago to UX

"The original list interface includes the latest posts from all users on the list in reverse chronological order; this can flood out infrequent posters with the content from frequent posters. In the redesign, I’ve added a mode to show the most recent post by each member of the list. This makes it easier to see what has been happening lately with each person. It changes the representation from a stream of activities to a set of people."

@evan

https://evanp.me/2023/05/15/re-designing-the-mastodon-user-interface-for-better-personal-relationships/

#FediverseUI #UX

strypey, 3 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, 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, 9 months ago to random

Note to anyone who references the #ParadoxOfTolerance. What Karl Popper said was;

"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant..."

With the exception of a few naive teenage libertarians, nobody is advocating unlimited tolerance. We're just arguing against abandoning tolerance to the point of dehumanizing people who hold intolerant views.

So the vast majority of handwaves at the PoT are slaughtering strawmen. The obvious response being to quote Nietzsche...

(1/2)

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, 17 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

strypey, 4 months ago to Ukraine

"Today Ukrainians do not speak about 'after the war;' they speak about 'after the victory'—пiсля перемоги (pislya peremohy). 'Peremoha'— Polish theater director Krzysztof Czyżewski suggested—should become part of a new universal vocabulary. The prefix pere indicates a crossing and moha means 'I can.' Peremoha—'victory'—literally expresses a going beyond what one is able to do."

#MarciShore, 2023

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukraines-maidan-revolution

#Ukraine #transcendence

strypey, 6 months ago to InitialD

Anyone keen to tinker with the beta of @matrix video rooms?

Hit me up with your Matrix address for an invite, or join in here: #VIDEO:matrix.iridescent.nz

VIDEO (VIDEO Interaction Delivery Exploration and Observation) is a sister project to VOICE (VOICE Organised Investigation of Chat Engines)

#VOICE:matrix.iridescent.nz

#chat #conferencing #Matrix #VideoChat

strypey, 1 month 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, 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, 4 months ago to random

"The oligarchs are trying to destroy our Enlightenment experiment by destroying politics. Politics in the USA has been destroyed."

#DavidBrin, 2024

"Right and without the politics, you can't define the arenas in which the competition is happening. You can't create the rules sets..."

#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/david-brin

#TeamHuman