Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 7

@salixlucida #LawrenceLessig makes a pretty strong case for this here (although he's disciplined enough not to call anyone "useful idiots" ;)
https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim

@salixlucida this blog piece is right that political parties are coalitions of interest groups, but wrong that some parties are smaller because they're not (they are). The major parties dominate not because they bring together the largest number of groups, but because they have reliably served the 1%, who can spend the largest amount of money getting them re-elected. Also because useful idiots constantly tell everyone they have to vote for one of their candidates, however gross they are.

I was shocked to discover this:

"It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police and crime lab storage facilities across the [USA]. Each kit represents a survivor who underwent the lengthy and invasive rape kit exam and reported the rape to the police. So why have so many gone untested?"
http://www.endthebacklog.org/backlog/where-backlog-exists-and-whats-happening-end-it

"When you're fighting for a cause, you need tools that reflect your values. While venture capital-backed tools are seductive, especially at the beginning of your movement, they can be harmful in the long-term."
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9882.html

"While a lot of projects are currently developing their own processors, mostly as open source in Verilog, VHDL or even Chisel, we miss the free process that actually manufactures these chips. So we're developing the "Libre Silicon" project, a portable semiconductor manufacturing process and technology, using only free and open source tools ..."
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9410-libresilicon

#LibreSilicon #Verilog #VHDL #Chisel #semiconductor #video #talk

This animated video explains how Scuttlebutt works using a love story:
https://vimeo.com/236358264

#Scuttlebutt #SSB #video #animation

I would add to that; source code for all proprietary software on end user devices must be held in escrow, by a neutral public interest organization (governmental or NGO), so that it can be released under a pre-decided free code license if the vendor stops providing support for hardware that still physically functions.

#ShowerThoughts one law change that would transform the personal computer industry; if you sell a device to end users you must either:
* provide software support for that device for as long as it's physically working
OR
* provide source code for all the software sold with the device, so that someone else can

"A Glitch Video is a short video that is structured in a standardised way so that it can easily be combined with other glitch videos to form a linear or non-linear narrative sequence.

This is achieved by adding a glitch to the end of the video, and by providing a range of other tools and narrative structures that support the creation of a navigable glitch video archive of video clips.

We aim to implement software for desktop (dApp), and mobile ..."
http://proto.institute/view/welcome-visitors/view/glitch-video

#video

The #Matrix crew are hoping to turn on #E2EE by default soon, with device cross-signing. Demo here, starts about 1:42:00: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=APVp-20ATLk

buttondown.email has comitted to donating 20% of its revenue to open source projects whose free code they use. So far that's come to $660:
https://www.notion.so/Funding-44491e3264854407a02457b03d5fa9df

"what do you wish you knew when you first joined the #fediverse?"
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/what-do-you-wish-you-knew-when-you-joined-the-fediverse/36

Looks like there is already a standard. Anyone heard of #DP3T mentioned here?
@https://nitter.net/mikarv/status/1248662157421686784

@icedquinn @alcinnz @stevenroose

@LeoSammallahti SWPRS referenced this:
"Sorin Adam Matei, a professor in Purdue University’s Brian Lamb School of Communication ... says the top 1 percent of writers/editors on Wikipedia create about 80 percent of the content. That ratio, he says, was shown in their study to be consistent."
https://pinafore.social/statuses/103962897142711633

The SWPRS writer may have taken this back-of-the-envelope summary a bit too literally, but that doesn't really bring any of the other points in their article into question. Does it?

@kravietz see:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103972568739240753

@incognitum did you notice you're a bringing up a regime that collapsed last century to deflect criticism, instead of actually addressing the structure problem I identified? Is that really the best apologism you can come up with?

@msh
> maybe you can cite an example where such a thing would be totalitarian,

I think you ought to shine my shoes. If you don't agree, you're not listening. The onus is on you to come up with a good enough reason why I'm not entitled to have you shine my shoes, otherwise you're oppressing me.