Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 46

#Librewolf is a #Firefox fork built from the latest versions, and "focused on privacy, security and freedom":
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Apparently the #DRM crippleware module is included, but turned off by default.

Also this message now appears on the pages of every YahooGroup, eg:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/diyweb/info

> "Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user created content on its sites."

Some of us have been saying for a long time that forcing platform providers to take legal responsibility for user-generated content some people find objectionable - as if they were publishers not neutral hosts - would have a chilling effect. This may be the first signs of that effect kicking in.

@TheGibson which reminds me it's long past time the US reformed its Reagan-era computer crime laws. Basically, since computers are now part of the background of everyday life, computer-specific charges need to be integrated into the relevant general laws, with proportionate penalties. Eg using a computer to commit fraud should be included in the laws against fraud, online stalking in the laws against stalking, and so on. All computer-specific legislation should be wiped from the books.

Yet another reason not to trust corporate #datafarms to host your communications. #Yahoo are deleting the archives of all #YahooGroups and shutting down the web interface. If you have (or had) a group there you want archived for posterity, the #ArchiveTeam are onto it as usual:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

Just watched the official trailer for #TheMandalorian:
https://invidio.us/watch/?v=XmI7WKrAtqs

I'm actually excited about this, in a way I haven't been for any of the new Star Wars projects since I saw #RogueOne.

@mike I guess content history is less important for most use cases of microblogging than it is for blogging. But I hashtag heavily and use fediverse history as a search engine. If I move instances, I do want to take my posts with me.

> You can also export the old fashioned way.

You mean take a dump of the content and manually import it into the new instance? If so, seems like this wouldn't be too hard to automate as part of account migration.

@arin_basu good point :) I guess they would need to have their meal before or after giving their keynote.

@lightone pixelfed.org works fine. Cloudflare doesn't seem to be blocked.

#ShowerThoughts why we don't have keynote speeches at catered conferences while everyone is eating their meal? A time when your hands and mouth are full and the only thing you can really do well (other than feed yourself) is listen? Instead, during meal breaks, we try to talk to each through mouthfuls of food, while also trying to figure out why we're doing in the next session. We could have keynote networking sessions in the schedule where we don't try to eat a meal (maybe tea and finger food).

@TheGibson #Disroot has an SSO across a bunch of their services. No surveillance *or* capitalism involved.

#JohnWalker explains here how badly #NAT broke the #E2E principle of the net, leading to the cancerous growth of the #datafarms
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

It's almost as if it was planned that way ...
@loke @clacke @tedu

@erlequin FYI only one of those OS is actually Android ;) #Sailfish is a separate OS, forked from #Meego. #UBports is a community continuation of #UbuntuTouch, so it's a full mobile GNU/Linux. They do all run on some kind of #Linux kernel though :)

@djsumdog we have a referendum on legalization for recreational use next year. If that passes, and it includes some kind of licensed commercial supply, I expect that would remove a lot of the obstacles to further progress on regulated medical supply. Even if it only legalized grow-your-own, and "social dealing" (non-commercial sharing), that would help the Green Fairies a lot. See the recent 2-part #documentary 'Patrick Gower: On Weed' for more details.

@djsumdog there have been incremental steps towards allowing medical cannabis over the last decade. Doctors can now prescribe without bureaucratic approval, but only for pharmaceutical derivatives, most of which are imported and prohibitively expensive. Most patients still get ganja and refined products like CBD oil from #GreenFairies. Licensed growing for medical products was recently allowed, so that could bring prices down and increase the range of cannabis medicines available.

@mike
> Account migration was part of the 3.0 release

Cool, I hadn't heard about that. It's a big step forward. How complete is it though? You can port follows and followers, but what about your backlog of posts? Is it only between Masto instances?

> it assumes that the majority of people its users want to follow are on the system

Yeah, good point :)

@Gargron is there a fediverse account I can follow to see blog posts like this?
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

joinmastodon.org is blocked by the Grand Filter and my VPN isn't working today :(

@lnxw48a1
> #Tox or #Briar (easy; no contacts will test either, so I have no experiences with them).

I have Briar installed and I'm keen to test. Not sure how to do that without meeting in person to scan each other's QR codes though. The #VOICE group is looking for people for a test of Tox voice conferencing, maybe this Sunday? See:
#voicechat:matrix.org
@deejoe @dielan

'How to Thoroughly Insult and Offend People' is a fantastic conference talk by #GinaLikins:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=rOWmrlft2FI

Her insights apply just as much to discussion on social media as they do to discussion in the communication channels of #FreeCode projects.