Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 176

@dazinism @anaulin I haven't really experienced this in a paid work context, but I have been in volunteer collectives (including shared houses) where we assumed we could 'cross that bridge when we get to it', because we all knew each other well. I think it's always better to work it out beforehand, especially anything involving money or assets. Agreeing on conflict resolution processes at the start is helpful too. Friendships take less strain that way ;-)

@lightweight @daviding I'm not certain, but I have seen discussions among #Disroot folks about using their Hubzilla hub for media galleries.

@adfeno yes, It's my own phrase. An attempt to a achieve the non-ambiguity of "open source" in English, while still referencing #SoftwareFreedom rather than the more ambiguous concept of "open-ness".

It's also better politically, because the arrival of refugees is the result of a local decision to invite them in. Even if that decision not unanimously agreed with, it's much harder to spin it as an imposition by faceless "globalist" bureaucracy at the national or international level, or a conspiracy of "replacement" by the ethnicity or religion refugees are (or e perceived to be) affiliated with.

Aotearoa (NZ) is a world leader in so many ways. Today I read about a pilot programme where local families sign up to invite refugee families to live in their neighborhoods. This has both practical and political advantages over traditional resettlement practice. When refugee families arrive, they know they are welcome, and that there are people who will help them get set up in their new home. They have a surrogate extended family to support them, and help them meet more of their new neighbours.

@LWFlouisa how would you feel if the writing I got you to look at was non-fiction? I've been thinking I ought to try my hand at writing tech articles for magazines that pay for copy, like Logic. Basically what I do on my blog but maybe longer pieces, and slightly more formal style. Would really appreciate feedback on work in progress. How does that sound?

@Davide #welcome to the #fediverse! Such a pleasure to see someone here who works with materials instead of bits and bytes ;-)

#Logic is a fairly new magazine that aims to stimulate deeper thinking and debate about the role of tech in our lives and societies. Print and digital subscriptions available:
https://logicmag.io

@lightweight have you looked into hosting photos and videos using #Hubzilla? That could be a way to make them available both on the open web and in the #fediverse @daviding

@clacke @charlag see the post where I apologise for my ignorance on that point, and clarified what I was saying.

@ghostdancer there seems to be some confusion about exactly what is keeping Signal out of F-Droid at present, as its changed various times. You got a link for the signature being the only remaining issue?
@fdroidorg @whistlewright @clacke @charlag

@charlag @clacke "off to it" ought to have read *opposed* to it. Damn autocorrect.

@charlag @clacke from what I've read, Moxie doesn't care if #Signal is on F-Droid or not, but is no longer of to it if someone else does the work. I got a support email from #Wire today saying they'd like to be on F-Droid, but they have a few non-free dependencies to replace before it would be possible. Also that Wire only requires Play Services on Android versions older than 5.x

@clacke oh, I see. My bad, sorry @charlag . But it still changes 2 things; whether users need to use non-free components to use apps that up to now have depended on Google Play Services, and thus, whether those apps can be included in F-Droid. I agree that escaping all dependencies on gOgle is the ideal, but I still think these 2 things are a significant step forward.

@charlag which party of the two posts you're responding to didn't you understand? I'll be happy to fill in the gaps for you :-)

Hopefully this might lead to chat apps like #Wire and #Signal breaking their final dependencies on proprietary components, so they can finally be distributed through @fdroidorg

@trickster ae, #DavidGraeber has written in a few of his essays about the inconvenient truth of every political order, that it establishes it's legitimacy in a successful rebellion against a previously "legitimate" order.

#MicroG is a project to create a #FreeCode replacement for gOgle Play Services on Android/Linux device:
https://microg.org/

@clacke yeah I figured it was probably the extra checking that needs to be done. Updates ship to #Trisquel slower than #Ubuntu because of the extra checking that's done to ensure no non-free code or dependencies are added by the updates.