Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 104

Hey @aral I notice you're still linking your Unicorn Shitting page to the copy on #Vimeo, and I can't find it by searching on #PeerTube. I know you're super busy, but missed opportunity there?
https://2017.ind.ie/excuse-me/

@kensanata I just stumbled upon this, so no idea. There's some info about the startups that won here, and how they spent their $37:
https://www.wired.com/2013/01/pinboard-spending/

I'm curious to find out if Maciej has run it again since. If not, I'm seriously thinking about crowdfunding $300 to run a similar thing myself ;)

Note that this was 3 years before #DougRushkoff published #ThrowingRocks, and 4 years before @aral did his talk about unicorns
(https://2017.ind.ie/excuse-me/),
but it was motivated by a similar disillusionment with the #VultureCapitalist model of financing internet services.

In 2013, Maciej Cegłowski #PinBoard .in proposed the #PinboardInvestmentCoProsperityCloud. The 6 web startups who won got $37 in seed funding and free promotion and networking help from Cegłowski. Various other companies got in on the game, offering small cash injections, or free credit for their online services. I find this oddly cool. It's like a web startup version of the way the Sanders campaign was funded (many small contributions):
http://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm

@Wolf480pl how about a GUI app you can download from a reliable repository (ie *not* an .EXE / .DMG / .RPM /.APK / from a web page), that allows a user to choose a distro/verson, then downloads it, verifies it, checks signatures, and makes it into a #LiveDisc/ #LiveUSB?
@MatejLach

@Wolf480pl how about a GUI app you can download from a reliable repository (ie *not* an .EXE / .DMG / .RPM /.APK / from a web page), that allows a user to choose a distro/verson, then downloads it, verifies it, checks signatures, and makes it into a #LiveDisc/ #LiveUSB?
@MatejLach social.matej-lach.me

@wiktor the trick is to automate everything you possibly can, and present the user the simplest possible GUI for bits that do need human intervention. If the #UX of security software requires hacker-level knowledge and skills, using it can only ever be an elite privilege. But we made office suites and email simple enough for mere mortals to use, I'm confident we can do the same #DigitalEnvelopes / #DigitalCarKeys (or whatever metaphor you prefer ;)

@wiktor right, so either you load the software keys for all of your services and devices onto one physical key (and have spares), or you have a physical key for each device, with the appropriate plug style, and software keys you need on that device. Maybe users could be allowed to choose one or the other, based on what makes sense for their use case. People with many devices, or who replace them frequently, might find one key (set) easier, others might have per-device simpler.

@LWFlouisa the article on #LibCom? No, that was my work. But I linked to a couple of their articles (they identify as non-binary) at the end of my piece, and I thoroughly recommend them.

@LWFlouisa there's some things that just feel safer discussed in a private space, where the number of people who have access to the conversation is finite, and those who have access are known. That's why I proposed the #Loomio group for #WordWeavers.

@LWFlouisa it was such a breath of fresh air to find #FrancesLee's writing and interviews on Safer Spaces Policing and how cultish it is. If I can bring their work to the attention of people who haven't seen it yet, I'll feel like I've contributed usefully.

@LWFlouisa it was such a breath of fresh air to find Frances Lee's writing and interviews on Safer Spaces Policing and how cultish it is. If I can bring their work to the attention of people who haven't seen it yet, I'll feel like I've contributed usefully.

@LWFlouisa I've seen it in-person, mainly in activist circles. We also saw it happen to #WilWeaton here on the fediverse. However "problematic" his comments about this or that might have been, there was no justification for dogpiling him off the fediverse entirely. What worries me is that the same tools used to do that could also be used to drive someone off for being trans, or gay, or POC, or for any arbitrary reason. It's a dangerous precedent, and its one of the reasons I'm speaking out now.

@wiktor I presume Signal (like Wire) do this because currently there's no easy way for users to identify themselves securely across multiple devices. A physical key could solve that. I don't know about the specifics of using USB devices with mobile devices, but I have seen people use a dongle to plug a normal USB storage drive into one. That didn't seem too complicated. Ideally the key would have multiple physical interface options (or you could have a set of keys, one for each plug style).

@wiktor absolutely agree :)

@lj_writes my programming and sysadmin skills are very limited, definitely Joe User compared to a lot of the geeks who hang out in the fediverse. That said, this isn't my first rodeo (I first installed GNU/Linux in the early 2000s), and I'm no longer the Jo User I described. I definitely remember that experience though, which is why I'm always banging on about the importance of #UX. There will always be new users learning computer basics for the first time.

@LWFlouisa I was a chubby little guy, and despite being chronically bullied from the time I started school, my parents wouldn't let me learn martial arts. I became a self-trained expert in de-escalation, because I had no choice but to depend on the gift of the gab to get me out of tight spots. The only time I can't handle conflict is when I get dogpiled by people using guilt trips and strawman arguments to shut down and prevent open discussion of what happened, and how to resolve it.

@LWFlouisa Thanks :) I'm pretty good with conflict. I'm lucky in that the violence I experienced in my childhood left me feeling like almost anything that happens isn't going to be as bad as that was, so I can handle it. Obviously there are major downsides to surviving childhood violence too (eg chronic depression and suicidal ideation), and I can see why similar experiences would make other people conflict-avoidant, but that's just how it panned out for me.

@MatejLach 1) that's only half the process now (you also have to check the signature of the sha512sum), and 2) that's not too hard for me, having got pretty confident with looking up and following instructions on basic CLI tasks, but incredibly confusing for the Jo User I described.

@noorul probably the main #UX different I've noticed between #Jami and other chat apps is that text messaging is not asynchronous. In other words, you can only text chat with other users when you are online and logged into Jami at the same time. My understanding is that asynchronous messaging is on the dev #roadmap, but won't be added any time soon.
@AmarOk