Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 29

@alfred the page at this link:
https://libranet.de/redir/58448

... persistently refuses to load.

@hypolite

@alfred when I hover my mouse over the profile pic, the URL it's linked to shows as:
https://libranet.de/redir/58448

But when I hover my mouse over the edit icon itself, the URL shows as:
https://libranet.de/profiles/288

Could this be part of the problem?

@hypolite

@alfred browser is #Firefox 68.0.2 64-bit (#ABrowser distribution) running on #Trisquel 8.0 (updated today). I'm running #uBlockOrigin 1.24.2 (disabled for Libranet.de) and #NoScript 11.0.9 (with libranet.de set to "trusted").

@alfred OK, I've been able to add some details to my profile today. But I can't seem to change my profile pic. Maybe it's user error? If I hover my mouse over the profile pic, what look like an edit icon appears, but when I click it, it just reloads the page. Now it's failing to reload the page, which is what it was doing yesterday.

Just out of curiosity, is Libranet.de running on the latest version of Friendica?

@mariusor
> Once someone can _view_ it, that means they now have a copy that needs not conform to the ulterior actions of the owner: delete, hide, etc

In theory, sure. Ideally, if they implement the protocol, that copy is perishable by nature. If they don't implement the protocol, they don't get access to the private data. Either way, it's still an improvement on sending out N copies of private data for permanent storage on other servers, and then hoping they honour requests to delete etc.

@zatnosk
> they're not allowed to have opinions on how the fediverse works and should work if they can't program it themselves?

If you say so, but this has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Which is that users can help themselves more by selecting the right tool for the job, than by complaining that the screwdriver devs have made isn't very good of hammering in nails. The rest of your comment pointedly ignores that people have the options mentioned in the follow-on post, so we're done here.

@mariusor
> where activitypub stops being useful is when servers don't propagate properly the Moderation/Deletion activities of users

AFAIK #Zot solves this by keeping private content on the sending user's server, and giving receiving users a recallable permission to view it there. If the sending user deletes it, it's gone. Once you send a copy of content to another server, however you might tag it and ask receiving servers to handle it, you've lost any guarantee of it remaining private.

@mariusor
> ActivityPub offers the possibility of private interactions

The keyword there being "possibility". The fediverse, as currently implemented, is primarily a public-facing microblogging network, with a few multimedia add-ons like #PeerTube and #Pixelfed (and very soon #FunkWhale). If there's anything to be learned from the history of social media, and the rollout of Mastodon's DMs, we need to be very careful about adding "private" functionality, and make sure UI promises are kept.

Whatever AP devs do, determined BadActors can easily circumvent blocks by going to the web page of your feed. What people looking for private discussion spaces need is something like #jabber #MUCs, or #Matrix rooms, or #Wire group chats, or #Crabgrass groups, or private Discourse instances, or any one of dozens of other free code tools that exist for private group discussions. But no, they demand we turn the fediverse into those to suit their use case.
#EntitledAsFuck

Some people seem blissfully unaware that the #fediverse is a federated social *web*, the whole purpose of the tools is to publish stuff for any web user to see. Instead of choosing the right tool for their needs, these folks want us to ...
> burn activitypub to the ground and start over
https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/@Laurelai/102452304225914343
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@clacke I strongly suspect it's Libranet itself, as it's the only site I'm having these sorts of problems with.
@alfred

@ademalsasa I never would have guessed, your English is very clear. Is there much interest in GNU/Linux and #FreeCode software in Indonesia? Any "Linux User Groups"? I met a chap from an Indonesian cooperative called KDIM at a Platform Cooperative conference last year, that seems like a cool project:
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/01/21/indonesias-cooperative-kicks-off-smart-phone-production.html

@queeranarchism the phrase "trickle down economics" has always given me a mental image of a human pyramid where everyone is pissing on the heads of the people in the layer below ...

@doctorow
> In the meantime, opposition mounts: four million Europeans have signed a petition opposing the [EU Copyright Directive], and their numbers are growing.

Wow. That's a huge petition.

I've made a correction to the VOICE testing report on #Linphone:
https://write.as/7po0ieixbwu0d.md

We were able to have a sustained voice chat for more than half an hour at a time, with both the Android version of Linphone and the native GTK version running on Linux. We also managed to initiate a call with the Windows client running in WINE, but Naughtylus couldn't hear any sound. Thanks Naughtlyus for catching that mistake. Take away; take notes during testing sessions!
#MeaCulpa

If you're afraid to experiment with using a #PasswordManager or #2FA in case you end up getting it wrong and losing access to all the things (I am), how about doing the counter-intuitive thing and start with using it only for the stuff that doesn't really matter. All the burner accounts you create only to comment on blogs and forums on whatever. After a few days/ weeks/ months of creeping up the learning curve and making noob mistakes, you can slowly include your more mission critical stuff.

Hey netizens, please, *please* stop doing unpaid marketing work for YouTube by embedding their videos on your websites. I understand continuing to upload videos there to reach the large audience that already use it, but that doesn't mean you have to link to them. If you also upload your videos on a #PeerTube instance, or some other more independent video host, and embed those on your sites, you can help to grow the audience for ethical video hosting networks.
https://instances.joinpeertube.org/

Open Sourcing Mental Illess: "changing how we talk about mental health in the tech community":
https://osmihelp.org

It's great to see the commons software movement addressing the need to support and strengthen the #MentalHealth of the people it depends on.

What if all governments could be convinced to levy an #eWaste fee on all sales of digital devices, and used a decent chunk of the collected funds to give grants for research into #FreeHardwareDesigns? That could make devices easier to maintain, repair, upgrade, recycle, and manufacture closer to the point of use. All of which helps reduce eWaste and other environmental impacts.
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In the Q&A, Nicole talked about doing more #HardwareDesign research at #universities. In many this is happening, but funded by "partnerships" with corporate patrons, producing precisely the locked-down, patent-encumbered #proprietary hardware we're wanting liberation from.
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