Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 144

@bjoern @z428 my understand is that these laws will apply *everyone* creating digital technology, including volunteer developers working on #FreeCode projects. The only ways to fight this are a) civil disobedience - loudly refuse to put back doors in our apps and services and support each others' legal battlers, and b) campaign to get these sorts laws of laws declared unconstitutional, as violation of fundamental #HumanRights.

@bjoern @fsfe what I'm saying is that while the #FSF itself, and allied organisations like #FSFE, #EFF etc, *are* doing the political work, too many hackers seem to live in a cyberpunk dreamworld where they don't think what governments do can affect them. This response is a good example:
https://osada.macgirvin.com/item/f24ee981-c450-4ecc-a3eb-d85ff4c762e5

I worry that such people may end up learning the hard way that governments *can* affect them, just as they affected #AaronSwartz (#RIP).

@skipfordj @jcbrand is "instant messaging" still a viable #UX? I wrote on a whole series of posts on this on another fork of this thread. I've debated it at length before on th fediverse, and it always treads pretty much the same path. Probably needs a blog post so I can stop repeating myself ;-)

@aspittel if people can afford to work fewer hours, then it becomes possible to spread the available paid work hours around, and create more jobs for the same amount of work done. This helps solve both unemployment and overwork, as well as freeing people up to spend more time doing the unpaid they really care about their families, community, as citizens etc

@aspittel thanks for sharing this. One thing it points out is that in counties with higher taxes, but fully funded social services, people can afford to spend fewer hours a week at their job. Calvinist conservatives will say this is bad, because work and jobs are good, but this is wrong. If work is good, why isn't automation illegal? What's actually good is the *products* of work having been done, not work itself. Jobs are just one means of dolling out work some people want done.

@bjoern #Stallman started the #GNU Project because building freedom-respecting technology seemed more realistic than convincing legislators to defend their citizens from freedom-violating proprietary software companies. Now governments are *forcing* technologists, commercial or otherwise, to violate our freedom. We have no choice but to get political or lose what's left of our freedom.

Living in China puts a whole new spin on the phrase 'city that never sleeps' ;-)

The other thing very 80s about this first episode of 'McPhail and Gadsby', is that it's strongly biased towards what we now tend to call "#NeoLiberalism". The opening bit is anti-greenie. The first full skit takes a dig at unions. The second one takes a dig at #DIY culture (why make stuff when you can *buy* stuff?). In hindsight, a lot of NZ sketch comedy had this sort of centrist, anti-activist bias.

@teslas_moustache @klaatu I've tried downloading both the .pdf and .epub versions of a book, and tried opening them with both #ComfortReader and #DocumentViewer. There seems to be no option to change text size or get text to wrap when I zoom in. I'm using an old version of #Android though (4.2.2)

@teslas_moustache @klaatu
> I do know that PDF is preferred for the purpose of archiving documents.

This is one of the main reasons it's used. It's one of the few formats that's not designed to be easily edited. In this case the inflexibility is a feature, not a bug. Book files, like archived documents, aren't for editing, they are for reading, so .pdf seems fine for this use case to me.

@teslas_moustache @klaatu I've tried to open .epud files using #Calibre, and a number of other .pdf readers on GNU/Linux, and from memory, had a lot of problems that I've never had with .pdfs.

@RangerMauve again, I don't know much about the plumbing involved. But I'm guessing there's some metadata that associates the PeerTube video with all the comments displayed on its page, and I figure it would be easy to copy that along with the video itself, if the video is mirrored from within PT. Same if the same video is downloaded, and uploaded on another instance.

@RangerMauve yes, that's how it's designed to work. If I follow a channel from a micro-blog app supporting AP, new videos appears in my timeline (and I can even watch them there if the UI of that app allows it). I can comment on a video from there, and that comment appears as a post in my timeline, and as a comment under that video on its PT page. Any conversation branching off my comment appears on the PT page, and also in the fediverse just like with normal posts.

@sir @Wolf480pl @Michcioperz in case the context wasn't clear, I was picking up on our previous conversation about whether it is useful to engineers to have drive-by contributions, particularly from non-engineers. Engineers and designers developing user-facing software can be aided greatly by having end users file bug reports, and communicate their feature and UI needs. Web-based tools like GH and #GitLab were created to serve those needs. This, specifically, is what needs federating.

@StephR I am a kiwi, yes, and I do know quite a few of the folks from #LivingEconomies. Currently living in China though.
@bhaugen

@StephR it depends on which software you're using. @bhaugen 's suggestion will work for you if you're using the same app as he is (#Mastodon?). Although the long term goal is to achieve as much consistency as possible, each app that connect to the #fediverse has its own peculiarities, and some of them can't always reconstruct threads of conversation from others. The thread in question began here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101192071369797767

@sir @Wolf480pl @Michcioperz *sigh* you can pick on the specifics of the example. My point is that there are things that non-engineers can do that, assuming it's something the engineers would otherwise have had to do themselves, saves the engineers time they can spend on things that require their skills. There are none so blind as those who will not see, I guess ;-)

6 minutes in to the second section that is.

6 minutes in, time for a completely non-comedic musical number. So. Very. 80s!
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/mcphail-and-gadsby-1980

@sir @Wolf480pl @Michcioperz