strypey

kim_harding, 25 days ago to random

Student Reporters Offer a Lesson on World Press Freedom Day
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/campus-protests-student-journalism-press-freedoms
The escalating authoritarianism we’re witnessing in the crackdown on college campuses is, in part, a by-product of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell.
#WorldPressFreedomDay

strypey, 1 year ago to fediverse

For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the #ActivityPub conference we had in late 2020:
https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.

#videos #PeerTube #ConferenceTalks

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, 11 months ago to RedHat

"Debates continue, even today, in copyleft expert circles, whether this model itself violates GPL. There is, however, no doubt that this provision is not in the spirit of the GPL agreements. The RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] business model is unfriendly, captious, capricious, and cringe-worthy."

#BradleyMKuhn

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

#copyleft #GPL #RHEL #RedHat

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, 10 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, 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, 11 months ago to internet

Classic case of the difference between #SocialMedia and #SocialGroups.

The kind of stuff I post here is mostly Social Media. Like a blog, I'm putting stuff out there for anyone (in the world) who might have a use for it.

But right now I'm sending a bunch of SMS texts to local friends about a thing I need help with, in person, tomorrow. SocialGroups stuff. The #fediverse can, in theory, support this kind of use case too. But I've yet to find an existing UI that's really good for this.

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, 8 months ago to random

The neoliberal playbook in one simple flowchart...

strypey, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to Podcasts

"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."

#DavidSeymour, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018936159/david-seymour

This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.

#podcasts #RNZ #30WithGuyonEspiner #neoliberalism

strypey, 3 months ago to random

Hey neurotypicals, you know how it is when you're hung over? When normal lights are too bright, and normal noises are so loud it hurts, and the last thing you want to do is be in a crowded place where random people try to talk to you?

For some of us, life is like that most of the time.

#ActuallyAutistic

strypey, 3 months ago to workersrights

"We can reverse the enshittification of the internet. We can halt the creeping enshittification of every digital device.

We can build a better, enshittification-resistant digital nervous system, one that is fit to coordinate the mass movements we will need to fight fascism, end genocide, and save our planet and our species."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

#TechActivism #enshittification #competition #TechRegulation #DigitalSelfHelp #WorkersRights

strypey, 4 months ago to ukteachers

"Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should be expected to provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom."

#HannaHolbornGray

Quoted from 'Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression', University of Chicago

https://provost.uchicago.edu/reports/report-committee-freedom-expression

#education #AcademicFreedom

strypey, 3 months ago to aotearoa

"Talking about wise investment and avoidance of waste... If the NZ economy is so fragile, how come we can afford a multi-billion tax giveaway to landlords, but cannot afford to spend one third of that amount on securing a reliable trade and tourism ferry link between the North and South Islands? Surely, we must be the only country in the world that is pinning its hopes on a landlord-led economic recovery."

#GordonCampbell, 2024

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2402/S00028/on-national-spreading-panic-about-the-economy.htm

#Aotearoa #NZ #NZPolitics

strypey, 2 months ago to til

#TIL Tom Baker was offered the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, but chose instead to be in the famously bad 2000 movie Dungeons and Dragons, so he could spend a few days filming in Prague instead of more than a year filming in Aotearoa;
https://www.movieoubliette.com/e/dungeons-and-dragons-with-michael-french/

#podcasts #movies #MovieOubliette #TomBaker #LOTR

strypey, 1 month ago to til

#TIL about #Flohmarkt;

"federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub"

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

The name appears to be German for "flea market". The project has received funding from the German public via the Prototype Fund;

https://prototypefund.de/en/project/flohmarkt/

#fediverse #ClassifiedAds

strypey, 1 month ago to renewableenergy

I note with a raised eyebrow...

"... the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri."

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2404/S00149/minister-welcomes-hydrogen-milestone.htm

A few short weeks ago, some learned chaps were schooling me on all the reasons hydrogen isn't viable as an energy carrier for vehicles. They obviously forgot to communicate all this to the people actively developing hydrogen infrastructure in Aotearoa.

#RenewableEnergy #hydrogen

strypey, 22 days ago to TeslaMotors

"A power system that is already prone to shortages like those currently forecast on Friday is facing never-before-seen demand from electric vehicles (EVs) and big data centres.

Vector is preparing for it - but the lack of laws and regulations and an Energy Ministry are in its way."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516449/govt-must-regulate-to-smooth-evs-and-data-centres-demand-on-power-grids-vector

#EV #DataCentres #Vector

strypey, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

When overcrowded buses replace train services, they should be free of charge. It's nowhere near the same quality of service, and charging for it is kind of rude. If it's free, it encourages train operators to do everything they can to avoid replacement bus situations.

They could make it half price, at the very least.

#PublicTransport

strypey, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to VegetableGardening

One thing that keeps getting ignored in the debates about getting farming businesses to pay for their #CarbonEmissions - like all other businesses have to - is that farmers aren't obliged to emit fucktons of carbon.

There are farmers whose operations emit far less than the average. We're not trying to "punish" farmers, we're trying to help fund the cost of helping them adopt lower-carbon #farming methods, and build an incentive to do so into their finances, instead of just obliging them by law.

strypey, 2 months ago to Podcasts

Just when I think I've plumbed the depths of David Seymour's cluelessness, he responds to the NewsHub announcement by saying he'll save them by making TVNZ pay a dividend to Treasury again. This is the publicly-owned TV broadcaster that lost NZ$17 million in the first half of last year. Even Winston, who railed against the "mainstream" media through the election campaign, thinks that's dopey.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics/audio/2018928273/when-no-news-is-bad-news

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #NewsMedia #NewsHub

strypey, 3 months ago to random

"[NZ] Governments of both the left and right invested heavily in public infrastructure such as water, roading and power networks from the 1940s to early 1970s, paid for with sharply higher income taxes, land taxes and estate duties. Government investment as a share of GDP ranged from 10-15% over that period and income tax rates were over 50% for many."

#BernardHickey, 2024

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/is-28-per-year-population-growth

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