Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 158

@CharredStencil I've actually got a blog post in the works related to this. I think the #NC clause has valid use cases, like novels, musical albums, or films, where a significant amount of labour and resources has gone into preparing work for distribution. Share-Alike isn't a turnoff here, as it can be with (A)GPL, because the commercial free-rider has no reason to make proprietary changes.

@djsumdog @wolftune @LWFlouisa

@funkwhale @switchingsocial @musicman what sort of help would you need?

@bhaugen @ldubost I love the idea of #Cryptpad. I'd love to be able to use them in a way that integrates with #Loomio groups. If there's anything I can do to help debug the problem, please let me know.

@bhaugen I think so. It's fun to throw ideas and links around in the fediverse, but I find that focused discussions are best not held in the pub ;-)

@djsumdog @Wolf480pl I don't know the specifics of these cases. There may have been self-defence or other mitigating factors influencing the sentencing. My point is we're not going to prevent any of this by arguing with people on social media. The only way to influence what happens on the barricades is to be on the barricades yourself, and practice your de-escalation skills. Go to the F2F meetings where actions are being planned and argue for nonviolent strategy and tactics. Stuff like that.

@HerraBRE @alexl @Blort my understanding is that E2EE just means that the encryption takes place on the client end, not the server end. It' important because it means unencrypted data isn't going over the wire before being encrypted, and is less vulnerable to interception. That's it.

@HerraBRE @alexl @Blort hold the phone. By your definition of E2EE, it doesn't and can't exist. Because at some point you've got to trust the repo or website you're downloading client software from. Or even if you compile from source, you've got to trust the website you're downloading the source from, and trust that it hasn't been compromised by MitM on the way. What's the difference between this and trusting a web service?

@shatteredgears @pixelpaperyarn the technology has probably advanced faster than most people expected, but to what degree has it really changed anything? OK, some people now listen to music and talk shows on a handheld computer, instead of a walkman or a transistor radio. Read text on them, instead of carrying newspapers, magazines, or books around. Write on them instead of in a notebook. Talk on social media and chat apps instead of on the phone or at pub. But these changes are superficial.

@shatteredgears @pixelpaperyarn but did cyperpunk predict megacorps, or were they already a thing when Neuromancer was written? Certainly we've become a lot more aware of real life multinational corporations since the 1980s, but back then people were already criticizing companies like IBM as totalitarian (think of Apple's iconic ads depicting IBM as Big Brother)

@LWFlouisa @Smithums sure it does, as the Michael Albert's work on #Parecon. But the question, as with any utopian schema, is how to bootstrap it? Don't get me wrong, I think that utopias are useful thought experiments. But in practice, we have to start where we are, and iterate towards the possibilities sketched out in them.

@xurizaemon hehe ;-P You'd be amazed how many people are still using Android 4 devices, and how many apps still support it. It's a Vodafone 785, and doesn't seem to be supported by #LineageOS etc (AFAICT). Maybe I can upgrade it to a newer version of vanilla Android? But I have no idea how to do that, or even to find out which newer versions it can and can't run.

@bhaugen @ldubost I'm using #ABrowser on Trisquel 8 (basically deblobbed #Ubuntu). ABrowser is basically #Firefox, minus all the proprietary bits and anti-features, plus any privacy protection turned on by default. Current version is 63.0.3, but I've tried to use Cryptpad many time on previous versions, no joy. I also have #uBlockOrigin and #NoScript installed, but I've tried disabling them both when looking at Cryptpads, no luck.

@musicman my understanding is that it's intended to be a free code replacement for #GrooveShark (thus the name), federated via #ActivityPub, but @funkwhale may want to correct me on that.

@praeceptor_effervescere Meditation can help with this, even just going for a walk alone, somewhere safe and peaceful. Allowing the feelings of envy and rage to be present, and accepting that they are a legitimate part of your human experience. But also allowing yourself to see them as clouds passing through the sky of your mind, just an experience that a deeper you is calmly observing, with compassion for yourself and anyone else the feelings relate to.

@praeceptor_effervescere the only way to deal with any emotion is to fully feel it, and accept that you feel that way, but realize that you don't have to let it rule your actions. If the strength of the emotion seems disproportionate to the situation in the here and now, it's probably because older, buried, *un-felt* emotions are being triggered. These too need to be allowed to be felt, and accepted.

@praeceptor_effervescere the only way to deal with any emotion is to fully feel it, and accept that you feel that way, but realize that you don't have to let it rule your actions. If the strength of the emotion seems disoriented to the situation in the here and now, it's probably because older, buried, *un-felt* emotions are being triggered. These to need to be allowed to be felt, and accepted. Meditation can help with this, even just going for a walk alone, somewhere safe and peaceful,

The problem described here by #Scoop co-editor Joseph Cederwall, of commercial users free-riding on work being shared for non-commercial use, is exactly the sort of problem the #CreativeCommons licenses with the #NonCommercial clause were intended to solve:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1811/S00028/stop-freeriding-help-scoop-survive-and-thrive.htm

@ldubost yeah I had a play with #PrivateBin and I think I understand the differences now. Sadly #CryptPad has never worked with my browser but I'm guessing it's like a private version of #Etherpad?

@viciousviscosity I remember the first Garbage album reminding me of George by the Headless Chickens:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=S9KyhA-NsGA

@zigg @viciousviscosity people move around a lot more than they used to, sometimes because we can, sometimes because we have to. The net means we don't have to make local friends when do, to still have something resembling social lives ;-)