Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 18

@mattmcnutt have you found anything that meets you needs for a user-friendly #screencasting app for GNU/Linux? Have you tried any of the tools mentioned here?
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/01/4-tools-to-record-your-linux-desktop.html@datenteiler@mastodon.social

#HatTip to @jamesmullarkey for drawing my attention to this, via a link in one of his blog posts.

"#SurveillanceGiants lays out how the surveillance-based business model of #Facebook and #Google is inherently incompatible with the right to #privacy and poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including #freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to #equality and non-discrimination."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

"#Fathom has recently discontinued its open source option but it’s still a better option than GA."
- JamesMullarkey

I'd say this is a very good reason to never give Fathom people another cent, especially when there are companies like #Matomo or #KokoAnalytics you can give it to instead, who continue to publish their software as #FreeCode. If every business that moves from free licenses to proprietary one starts hemorrhaging money, maybe they'll stop doing it.

@jamesmullarkey yeah, I've struck this when using EU-based VPN servers. It's a shitty solution and any website that resorts to it deserves to have its webserver spontaneously combust.
@irina @dandelion

@jamesmullarkey true, but that requires the development of online revenue models that don't depend on #datafarming.
@irina @dandelion

#HatTip to @jamesmullarkey for writing this article and bringing it to my attention.

"#GoogleAnalytics (GA) is the dominant platform for analysing websites visits and visitors. Google offers this service monetarily for free but the code you drop into the header of every webpage allows Google to retrieve a mine of data about your site visitors and combine this with other data they hold to track individuals across the internet."
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/01/to-comply-with-gdpr-get-rid-google-analytics/

@jamesmullarkey The nag ribbons asking users for permission to use cookies really piss me off. The ones that only have an 'accept' button, so the only alternative to clicking 'accept' is to put up with the ribbon taking up a bunch of screen real estate for as long as I'm on the site. That can't possibly meet the GDPR requirements to gain user consent for tracking.

@irina @dandelion

Next time you see a new protocol, github repo, manifesto, or kickstarter for a #distributed social network, post this in the comments, and fire up the popcorn maker:
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/39438834308/distributed-social-network

@icedquinn
> I have no familiarity with "DataShards."

See:
https://datashards.net/

@onymous

@portpupper what about:
* source is free
* binaries are free for non-commercial use (to build product awareness and #NetworkEffects)
* binaries for commercial use are $60 a year

This actually solves a problem, where businesses who understand the value of the #FreeCode software they use want to contribute financially, but find it a headache to account for those contributions in their bookkeeping (are they charitable donations? Tax-deductable expenses? Other?).
@sir @aeveltstra

"#FOAF allows a group of friends to represent their real-life social graph digitally by hosting FOAF documents on their own homepages. It allows them to do this without surrendering control of their data to a centralized database in the sky run by a billionaire android-man who spends much of his time apologizing before congressional committees."
- #SinclairTarget, 'Friend of a Friend: The #Facebook That Could Have Been '
https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html

@TheGibson ae, I'm really glad we decided to come home for our winter break. Otherwise I would have been imprisoned on the uni campus where we live in China for the past couple of months. I may be locked down now, but at least I have ganja ...

'...Conform' is a 2000 skate punk album by #SelfInflicted, published on PeerTube under #CC #BY #NC #ND:
https://video.gafamfree.party/videos/watch/1801aa2e-487f-4855-9dde-93596ae148d5

@CCmusic #music

@TheGibson ending Day 5 of lockdown. So far ... it's not that different from my average day. Except that I'm self-isolating in my family home in #Aotearoa, instead of in our apartment in China ;)

"Taiwan offers an alternative to both the top-down surveillance of the Chinese state and the advertising-driven Western tech giants. It has harnessed technology as a tool of democratic creativity (rather than, like Europe, focusing just on limiting the frightening harms of surveillance). And by doing so, Taiwan has created a model that holds great promise in the ongoing fight not only against the coronavirus but also against menacing dystopian technological futures"
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"In contrast, the Taiwanese response, based on an ethos of broad digital participation and community-driven tool development, was fast, precise, and democratic. By spreading participation in digital development broadly through society, Taiwan avoided both technocracy and technophobia, maintaining trust and the two-way flow of information in the face of a crisis."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"... the #AI prowess of #China and the #UnitedStates in fact stood in their way. Both have a technocratic, top-down vision of the future of AI, in which a small digital elite, concentrated in a few tech hubs and largely separated from the concerns of the rest of the population, produces tools meant to be used by the rest of the population. While the locus of this elite is the Communist Party in one case and West Coast tech hubs in the other, the logic is similar."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"Digital Minister #AudreyTang then proceeded to work closely with entrepreneurs and g0v hacktivists in a digital chatroom to rapidly produce a range of maps and applications. These tools showed where [#FaceMasks] were available, but they did more than that. Citizens were able to reallocate rations through intertemporal trades and donations to those who most needed them, which helped prevent the rise of a black market."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl