Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 27

@CharlytheWorm "I know many people fear consequences at work if they publicly state an opinion on this issue, even in a personal capacity on their own social media, like I did. Others have been banned by social media platforms and or suspended from political parties and membership organisations. This should not happen in a democracy."
- #MayaForstater

Exactly.

@CharlytheWorm as a #TradeUnion supporter since childhood, I think anyone losing their job without a *very* good reason is unacceptable. Sadly, firing someone for expressing - or even just holding - a unpopular personal opinion - (eg #BrandonEich) has been advocated and celebrated by liberals so often that its now become totally normalized. #UnintendedConsequences

"#Coinhive has responded to such criticism by releasing a version of their code called “AuthedMine,” which is designed to seek a Web site visitor’s consent before running the #Monero mining scripts. Coinhive maintains that approximately 35 percent of the Monero cryptocurrency mining activity that uses its platform comes from sites using #AuthedMine."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/authedmine/

"But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defence of the new."
- #AntonEgo, 'Ratatouille'

"The anonymity of the Internet encourages ‘social justice activism’ expressed in the public shaming of others, and seeks adherence less on the basis of mutual interests than fear of public stigma. Online shaming is a social practice that gives those who do it certain social recognition and encouragement from other practitioners. As [#KateJNorlock] has noted, ‘the intent of shame justice seems to be to enjoy the company one has in cyberspace with so many approving others’"
https://mondediplo.com/2019/08/08usa

@mariusor good news! BTW #WholegrainDigital deserve the kudos for the #WebsiteCarbon calculator. All I did was use a site someone on the fediverse put me onto ;)
https://wholegraindigital.com

@vix for these reasons, if you learn the full history of any country, there's never been a pure ethnic group that didn't overlap with others, and certainly never one whose gene pool ended at a political border. If look at a long enough time period fast enough, borders move like snakes. Often drawn on maps by people who've never seen the land they're dividing, running them right through the middle of communities. What matters is how we build peaceful alliances with all people.
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@Wolf480pl

@vix also, who counts as "random people" depends on where you set your national boundaries. Eg the pre-European people of #Aotearoa had about a dozen major nations ("iwi"). "Random people" from each of the self-governing communities ("hapu") that made up those iwi were constantly being welcomed into others, for the reasons given above. Many peaceful Europeans - especially Irish and Scottish - were welcomed for the same reason before the British invasion and the Treaty.
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@Wolf480pl

@vix
> indigenous people were worse off when allowing random people in

Adopting new people into your nation freshens the gene pool (any animal breeder will tell you inbreeding is bad). It brings in new skills, knowledge, and technologies (both material and social), and can be a basis for alliances with their nations of origin. Don't kid yourself that avoiding this prevents military invasions, which is what the surviving indigenous peoples have been resisting for centuries.
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@Wolf480pl

@dsfgs what don't you like about WebAssembly? From what little I've heard, it seems like a much better way to do many of the things web designers use JS for.
@alcinnz

@wizard BTW I'm not saying it's wrong to monitor GitLab (or anyone else), on the contrary, it's important that people do that, and accurately report anything that doesn't seem ethical. But I think there's a big and important different between holding each other accountable as allies, and marching around like a postmodern #CulturalRevolution, ready to tear down anything that doesn't perfectly fit our utopia right now.
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@nicksellen
> did the author manage to find work free life?

I'm not sure how what his personal anecdotes would have added. There are many variables affecting what might work for each person. But #CrimeThinc books like 'Evasion' and 'Work' may be instructive?
https://crimethinc.com/books

I was lucky enough to grow up in a country with the remains of a social welfare system. I've lived mostly without paid work by living very frugally.

@dilgreen @wu_lee @bhaugen @richdecibels @mike_hales @protean

@nicksellen
> cancer being only modern

While the *potential* for cancerous cell growth and occasional cases have probably always been there, the epidemic number of people getting malignant tumors (as well as other chronic diseases) is definitely a modern phenomena.

> children cleaning toilets.

My not? I shared in house chores as a child, and left home much more capable of running a healthy household than most of my peers.

@dilgreen @wu_lee @bhaugen @richdecibels @mike_hales @protean

@nicksellen
> glorified hunter gatherer lifestyles

Typical of the "primitivist" leanings of #GreenAnarchism at the time. I think it's fair to say that there are just as many useful things we can learn from the anthropological literature on non-industrial communities as contemporary ones can learn from us. Particularly when it comes to "soft" social technologies, or #InvisibleStructures, to use the #permaculture phrase).
@dilgreen @wu_lee @bhaugen @richdecibels @mike_hales @protean

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Javascript isn't required for a landing page!
#MakeJavascriptOptional!

@ademalsasa
> They are all supporters of Open Source rather than Free Software in fact.

Yes, that's typical of LUGs. Otherwise they'd be called GLUGs; GNU/Linux User Groups ;) Sounds like the situation in Indonesia is similar to China. I'm not sure if it would even be safe to talk too openly about #SoftwareFreedom here.

@a_cat I get your point, but to split a few hairs:
> there is not and never will be a youtube competitor

There are a number; Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok. ..

You're right that the word people describing things like #PeerTube are looking for is "replacement", not "competitor".

@a_cat
> also webtorrent not being compatible with traditional bittorrent irks me

Same! I've been trying to get BT client devs to support WT for ages.
@sylveon

@icedquinn it's not simple though. There are narcissists and sociopaths who hurt people and lie about. They also make false accusations about being hurt by people they want to hurt, or marginalize. Then there is the rest of us, who can hurt others in the heat of the moment, and lie about it out of embarrassment or fear of reprisals. Or cause harm without even realizing it, as most of Fisher's critics probably did. Telling all these cases apart and agreeing on the right things to do is hard.

I say this not to demonize Andrew, who has always seemed like a generally decent and well-meaning activist. But to point out that this sort of shouty and intellectually dishonest approach to disagreements can have lethal consequences, just as lethal as the dogpiling of feminists on social media (which I agree is terrible). As #FrancesLee writes, we can, and must, hold each other accountable, but gently, with love and compassion:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/no-justice-without-love-why-activism-must-be-more-generous/

... and with fair, *accurate* criticism.