strypey

geoff_eg, 20 days ago to movies

Hello Mastadon!... time to try something new.

First an introduction - I go by Dyptre online, I'm a photographer based in Western Canada with a primary focus on capturing landscapes with a focus on natural and real editing. I shoot #film, I and primarily shoot #fujifilm

If you want to see more - give me a follow here I guess!

#photography #realphotographs #canada #nature #naturephotography

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strypey, 1 year ago to random

Thoughts on Free Code software for #cooperatives.

Software requires hours of specialist labour to develop and maintain. If co-ops want Free Code software designed for the specific needs of co-ops, at a range of scales, we're going to need to come up with systems for funding both initial development and ongoing maintenance of co-op software. Fortunately for us, much of the initial development work can be done by customizing off-the-shelf Free Code, which speeds up development and reduces costs.

strypey, 1 year ago to ai

"The pressing ethical questions in machine learning are not about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world, but about how people can exploit other people, or through carelessness introduce immoral behavior into automated systems."

#MaciejCegłowski, 2016

https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

#AI #MoralPanic #AIEthics

strypey, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

"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."

#Mohamma 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 #Aotearoa? About time.

#NZ #PublicTransport #UnifiedTicketing #Cubic #DigitalPayments

strypey, 1 year ago to random

#TIL about the F3 format, which is a standard container for the full contents of a software project (source code, issues discussions etc). It's one part of allowing people to easily move projects between code forges, or interact with them from a different forge (ie #ForgeFederation):

https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/about-the-friendly-forge-format-f3/681

#F3Format

strypey, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to fediverse

“If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder.”

#JohnMastodon

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23707019/mastodon-account-creation-twitter-alternative

No, we don't want to make decentralization mainstream. We want to make the mainstream decentralized. We need to show people the benefits of that as we're onboarding. Not herd them into a digital stadium with a mattress each.

#Mastodon #decentralization

strypey, 1 year ago to random

People have been waiting 7 months to get their electric wheelchair fixed, because the manufacturers insist on controlling and profiting from the repair process:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7a6zTIrRrdc

The right to repair needs to be entrenched in a global treaty, the same way copyright is.

#RightToRepair #ableism #WheelChairs

strypey, 1 year ago to random

I totally support this petition to establish a NZ Anti-Corruption Commission. But to sign it, I'm asked to put my name, email address and phone number into a web form that is infested with third-party JavaScript. Much of it from corporations known for DataFarming (including Goggle, FB and Titter). Ironically, this anti-corruption petition has been corrupted.

https://www.top.org.nz/petition_establish_an_anti-corruption_commission

#corruption #AntiCorruptionCommission #DataFarms

strypey, 1 year ago to internet

"Online forums and social media have changed the way campaigns and political groups are able to disseminate ideas and communicate with one another. But what they’ve been less good at is more empathy-building forms of engagement, namely those that require deliberation and consensus."

#TheoBass, 2019

https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/crowdsourcing-democracy-using-wikisurveys/

#SocialMedia #DigitalDemocracy

strypey, 1 year ago to fediverse

I wish my #fediverse apps enabled me to search for only my posts on a given hashtag. Or search a hashtag for posts within a given date range. Or do a keyword search on my own posts. There are so many ways apps could filter the firehose to improve access to posts whose authors want them to be easily discoverable, without any major changes to the norms around not indexing posts etc.

strypey, 1 year ago to random

"Fathom is a Google Analytics alternative that doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data."

https://usefathom.com/

Sounds good. Show me source code, so I can audit that for myself.

"Fathom Lite is a previous and open-source version of Fathom Analytics... [a] much more detailed, feature-rich, and even more focused on privacy-law compliance, than Fathom Lite. If you’d like to become a customer of Fathom Analytics, and not have to worry about servers..."

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Oh.

#Fathom

strypey, 11 months ago to random

WINZ is using MailChimp to send email. Email. A public service agency is paying a private company in the US to send email for it. Seriously? WTF.

I've been saying for ages that NZ Post ought to be pivoting into hosting email. Handling large-scale mailouts like this is a classic example of a service they could actually be making money out of, doing the digital equivalent of their traditional business.

#NZGovernment #WINZ #MailChimp #NZPost

strypey, 10 months ago to random

"Peter J. Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi began development on the vaccine, known as CORBEVAX, in 2020 and currently are awaiting the final results of Phase Three clinical trials to determine its efficacy rate with respect to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

In sharp contrast to the four dominant vaccines globally, CORBEVAX is protected by no patents or other intellectual property protection."

#RachelThrasher

https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2022/02/06/open-source-covid-19-vaccine-offers-potential-pathway-for-vaccinating-the-world/

#COVID #vaccines #CORBEVAX #DrugPatents

strypey, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to fediverse

It's amazing to think that about 3 years ago Lemmy was announcing alpha testing for its ActivityPub federation:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/lemmy-federation-alpha-version/632

... and now some communities are leaving Reddit to move there:

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Lemmy

shoq, 10 days ago to random

Not many read this back in February. It’s quite consistent with my own calls for an Urgent Reforms Movement. Everyone should find some time to read it.

Biden Must Reinvent What a Presidential Campaign Is - Simon Rosenberg

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

strypey, 17 days ago to facepalm

"The price gap between new dwellings and existing properties is forecast to narrow as tax rules become less favourable for new developments."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/512857/price-gap-between-new-homes-and-existing-houses-expected-to-narrow

#FacePalm

#housing

strypey, 14 days ago to random

"... ads for a Brian Tamaki church event showing a boy carrying a severed head - an apparent reference to David and Goliath - and bearing the tagline 'Time to kill'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516805/brian-tamaki-s-destiny-church-notice-with-time-to-kill-tagline-extremely-concerning

Wow. That is extremely concerning. But imagine these people are perched on a ledge about to jump, and likely to injure or kill members of a crowd gathered below. The only viable response is trying to talk them down. Attacking them will make them more likely to harm others, not less.

strypey, 17 days ago to random

"If we could expand that, by drawing in local media and cooperating with each other, then that sort of model could be expanded to all the community stations nationally.

This is an essential public service - and a not-for-profit is a good way to go because if it becomes successful, the owners aren't just going to flick it off to a bigger company or shut it down during a downturn which is what's happening to a lot of our old newspapers."

#PeterFowler, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018938002/bid-to-backstop-local-news-in-tight-times

#MediaWatch

strypey, 16 days ago to Palestine

"The stakes are much higher now than when I was in college. The genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is already a world-historical crime, and the looming invasion of Rafah promises a new magnitude of horror, all of which has motivated students to make sacrifices they might not have otherwise. And the repression they face is far more extreme, with universities directing state violence on their campuses without qualms."

#DylanSaba, 2024

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/student-protest-history/

#Palestine #Gaza #Rafah

strypey, 16 days ago to random

"The idea that trans existence can be debated, in the same way that trans people’s rights to accurate documentation was debated, or trans people’s right to play community sport was debated, does not lend itself well to a discussion by opposing op-eds. Especially if one side is held to a higher standard of proof than the other..."

#JohnPalethorpe, 2024

https://www.1of200.nz/articles/media-amp-the-thousand-families-myth

strypey, 15 days ago to random

"Scientists have identified a set of nine ecological and biophysical limits within which the Earth can continue to sustain human society. These are known as the ‘safe planetary boundaries.’

...There are three planetary boundaries that have already been breached. They are biodiversity loss, climate change and the nitrogen cycle."

#RusselNorman, 2020

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-briefing-government-on-priorities-for-the-environment-and-build-back-better-covid-recovery/

#SafePlanetaryBoundaries

strypey, 22 days ago to random

"In the two weeks before October's election, more people than ever before (454,000 people) enrolled to vote, including more than 100,000 enrolments on election day.

The Electoral Commission did not expect this number of late enrolments, putting pressure on its systems, the report said."

#KatieScotcher, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516189/official-2023-election-result-final-check-done-in-a-few-hours-under-extreme-pressure

#elections #Election2023

strypey, 7 days ago to movies

"[In Falling Down] Bill... represents every person who ever fell down and couldn't get back up again. Every person who followed the rules and did what everyone expected, and got punished for it. Who did everything right and still got screwed over by a system that was stacked against them.

Who spent their entire life striving for something better, only to discover that they were 'not economically viable'."

#TheCriticalDrinker, 2024

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YgNWg-a2EgE

#movies #MovieReviews #FallingDown