Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 161

@kaiyou I used to be involved in an activist-run internet cafe (remember those?). We covered costs by providing tourists cheap access to desktop PC and the net. We had a fat pipe coming in, we had to. But it was super-expensive, and we had a monthly data limit. We had all the hardware, software, and skills, we needed to provide hosting for activist groups, but we couldn't afford to actually do it, in case we used up our data allowance before the month ended, and couldn't operate our business.

@LWFlouisa isn't he though? ;)

@LWFlouisa can you give me a link to an example? I suspect the criticism I'm making would also apply to his use of the term ...

Crisis averted ;-P I installed the #Dialer2 app from #FDroid, and I can make calls again. Now I'm curious about whether I can remove the built-in Contacts app and its accompanying bits and bobs, and replace it with a #FreeCode address book? If so, can I then sync my contacts with #DavDroid and #NextCloud? New toys ...

@LeoSammallahti I was at that conference, and heard that presentation :-) From memory, I'd come across their work before the conference, and was a little bit concerned about some talk of advertising on the phones being part of the revenue model. Does that sound like the same thing?

Does anyone know if doing a factory reset on an Android device can restore system apps I've removed after rooting my device? Or does it usually just wipe user data and installed applications?

@switchingsocial In theory, https://search.creativecommons.org/ can be used to search for CC video on YT. Your mileage may vary. A lot of the videos on #EngageMedia are under CC licenses too:
http://www.engagemedia.org/

@Wolf480pl @djsumdog is it ok to judge others based on whether they helped fascists kick over Jewish graves? Given that, in my country at least, the one tends to lead to the other (and worse), would say yes. *Unless* they are a common carrier, then they don't have any choice.

What I would love, is to be able to lease a mobile device from a #PlatformCooperative, with accompanying remote storage, and both the device and remote storage servers running 100% #FreeCode software. It would also need to provide a stupidly simple sync system (also free code) that allows me to keep a copy of all my user data, on my own laptop/ desktop/ server/ external drive. That's something I would pay for, on a regular subscription.

F%$&*ing #Android! I just uninstalled and/or disabled a bunch of seemingly unnecessary system apps, after looking them up online to see what they are, and now my phone dialer has disappeared :-(

@ZettaiRyouiki @HerraBRE depending on how you define "capitalism" though, you could argue that corporatism is the logical end product of capitalism. The original marxist definition (Marx coined the word), and the Hayekian definition that propertarian neo-liberals use, describe totally different things. Assuming that we mean the same thing by "capitalism" is one of the most common stumbling blocks in the way of productive political discussion among radicals on the net.

@ZettaiRyouiki sure, and that's a debate we got onto in the follow-up posts, about who is and isn't a "common carrier", and thus obliged to treat all users and content equally. My point wasn't that FB (for example) shouldn't be allowed to engage in censorship (that's a separate question), but that it's wrong to claim it's not censorship, just because FB isn't a state.

@Wolf480pl @djsumdog I do get the common carrier argument, and I think it does apply to providing internet connections, and domain names. It's worth noting that if a private company's infrastructure is regulated by "common carrier" rules, they are obliged to host fascists, legally if not morally. That's why the net neutrality debate is so complex, it's about where the line between common carrier line and private infrastructure ought to fall, when it comes to the net.

@Wolf480pl @djsumdog help them do what though? If I saw a person drowning, I would help them out of the water, even if they were a fascist. If I saw a person kicking over graves in a Jewish cemetary, I wouldn't help them, and I would say I'm ethically obliged not to help them. I would put helping fascists distribute recruitment videos in the same category as helping them kick over Jewish graves. The ethics for an activist server run by anti-racists are pretty clear on that.

@kaiyou it's a step in the right direction, for sure. But I think we also need to consider political campaigns, eg for telecoms regulations that prevent companies owning both cable and server businesses, or anti-trust efforts to stop cable companies from throttling upload speeds to force customers to buy hosting from them. If we move from corporations hosting gratis services for us, to paying them to do the hosting ourselves on their "clouds", what have we really gained?

@kaiyou the same thing happened to previous generations, with TV broadcasting, and before that radio broadcasting. They started as DIY media that anyone could use cheaply for public speech, and ended up as commodities dominated by an ever smaller number of giant corporations. So at root, the for-profit corporation is the medium we need to come up with radical alternatives to, like #SocialEnterprise and #PlatformCooperativism

@kaiyou there's an old saying in radical media circles, "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one". The revolutionary thing about the PC+internet was (in theory) that anyone who has them has a printing press. Problem is, at some point, the same #BigCable companies who were supplying net connections also got into the web hosting business. It then suited them to throttle upload bandwidth for anyone not paying for commercial hosting packages, which are now the printing presses of the net.

@LWFlouisa BTW it would be fascinating to do a discourse analysis and track these ahistorical 'fascism = socialism" memes back to their origin points. I mean, the claim goes back to propertarian gurus like Hayek, but at what point did it start circulating among the online neo-right, and who started pushing it first?

@LWFlouisa here's the link to the Three Arrows video. He references some history scholarship to debunk the claim by fringe US conservatives that the Nazis were leftists:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=hUFvG4RpwJI