Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 175

@pfefferle see also #Pterotype, which aims to do a similar thing, still in beta:
https://getpterotype.com/

@pfefferle the description/ FAQ is just missing explanations about a couple of things;
* what do I get in my timeline if I follow a WP blog? A title and a link to each new post? The full text of the post? Something else?
* what happens if I 'reply' to a post from a WP blog in my timeline? Does my post appear as a comment on their blog page?

@pfefferle just stumbled across your #ActivityPub plug-in for #WordPress. Great stuff!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

@someone #TheDailyBlog is a blog site about activist politics in Aotearoa (NZ). They used to have all manner of dodgy JS running under the hood. I happen to sort of know the founder/ editor, so I emailed him with a list of all the stuff I could see using NoScript and Adblocker, and some commentary on what it all was. There's still some dodgy shit there (gOgleAPIs and Analticks) but *much* less that there was. I'll keep working on it ;)

@someone this may be ignorance rather than a sign of not being trustworthy. Sometimes people are so focused on the project itself that they hand off the building the homepage to someone else. That person then just does it the "industry standard" way they've been taught, using the sort of non-free dependencies taught by the likes of #FreeCodeCamp (gOgle Analticks etc). I've got this fixed in some cases through respectful education.

@b3yond @jeroenpraat have you looked into the #Serval project?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serval_Project

It's targeted at situations like disaster recovery, where there is no cell network available. Could also be useful for teams of activists setting up comms they control? AFAIK all the components are #FreeCode / #FreeHardwareDesigns.

@b3yond @jeroenpraat at the Happy Valley occupation in Aotearoa (NZ), also a campaign against a new coal mine, there were a few solar panels which were used for charging comms equipment. Obviously they needed to be kept in an area that got plenty of sun. That was more than a decade ago though, and you can get much more charge for the same panel size nowadays.

@61 @TinfoilSubmarine
I'm on Android 4.2.2:
#AntennaPod - podcasts client
#Conversations - XMPP client
#Riot.im - Matrix client
#Yalp - useful for updating or (with root) removing gOgle system apps
#Maps - offline #OpenStreetMap viewer
#Disroot - app for helping their users install client software to work with their services
#FileManager
#OpenKeyChain - handles PGP keys for K-9?
#Nomad - Hubzilla client (haven't got this working yet)
#Tusky - Mastodon client (this neither)
#Syncthing (nor this)

@LWFlouisa in NZ complementary currencies are legal, but the state reserves the right to tax any transactions made using them, with those taxes payable in $NZ. So legally speaking, they can only be proxy currencies, and because of the tax headaches they create, there's no real advantage in using them over informal gift, barter, and favour exchanges that don't use complementary currencies (eg freecycle.org). Disclaimer: #IANAL

@ghostdancer @clacke this is why I encourage people to use #Wire instead of Signal, as it is user-friendly for non-geeks, and the Wire devs are much more willing to work towards;
* removing any remaining non-free dependencies from their clients
* having their #Android client distributed through F-Droid
* federating with other E2E encrypted chat systems

If everyone who worked on #LibreSignal went and helped with this, maybe Wire could be in F-Droid in the forseeable future.

@ghostdancer @clacke in summary, the only way Moxie wants users to connect to Signal servers is with an OWS builds of their Signal client, and he specifically does not want any of their builds distributed through F-Droid. He is also totally against federation, due to one bad experience trying to federate Signal with a CyanogenMod chat client:
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217339450

@ghostdancer @clacke the latest comment I can find from F-Droid folks on the subject of Signal is this one, which might be what you're thinking of:
"OpenWhisperSystems really made clear in various places that they do not want any other Signal binaries than the ones signed by them to access their servers. So far, F-Droid respected this request."
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/any-interest-in-including-a-rebrand-of-signal/4629/5

@ghostdancer @clacke
> "I have no plans to distribute this through f-droid, and don’t see what the advantage of doing so would be. I consider this issue to be resolved, and I really hope the people distributing random/broken builds of Signal signed with random keys will stop, or at least stop using the service we maintain at our expense, and stop directing their users to us when they need support. It is making it more difficult to do our work."

@ghostdancer @clacke the most recent comment I can find from Moxie himself is this one, from 2017-02-14:
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-outside-of-the-google-play-store/808

@clacke @ghostdancer
Now I'll admit it's been a while, but from memory, a number of the initial roadblocks on both sides had been overcome. Things like Signal's dependence on the proprietary Play Services module, which prevented the F-Droid folks compiling from source without it. So yes, my initial mention of that being an issue was a brainfart, caused by confusion with my more recent correspondence with Wire folks.

@clacke I was actively following this issue for a while, reading various sources including GH issues like the one @ghostdancer linked to, and F-Droid forum threads:
https://forum.f-droid.org/search?q=signal

I was pleased to finally meet @matslats in person at #Open2018, where he was on a panel discussion, talking about the potential use of mutual credit exchanges to facilitate trade between #cooperatives:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=R74IvIurtY4

#Bitcoin vs Community Currency - #MatthewSlater
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=BVjYpux_luw

Does anyone know how I could get in contact with anyone who is involved in ibiblio.org, and especially #lists.ibiblio.org? I've tried all the usual methods of finding contact info for the admins of the services at these domains, with no success. Is #Ibiblio a zombie project?

@ghostdancer the post you linked here is about 4 years old. The discussion may have moved on somewhat since then ;-) a
@fdroidorg @whistlewright @clacke @charlag that