Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 82

@cj I suspect that one day starting a new AP project by writing your own AP engine from scratch will seem as weird as writing your own webserver from scratch, instead of just using an off-the-shelf module like #Apache or #Nginx.
@kaniini

If I had more money than I knew what to do with, I would round up everyone in the world who believes the Earth is flat, and shout them a charter flight over Antarctica, so they could see with their own eyes that it's a continent, not a 50 metre ice wall around the rim of a flat earth.
https://www.antarcticaflights.com.au/

I can't watch this #NZOnAir funded documentary, produced by public broadcaster #RadioNZ, because it's on YouTube, which is blocked in China. How annoying:
http://shorthand.radionz.co.nz/alienweaponry/index.html

Hey RadioNZ, I have no objection to you putting your stuff on YT so it's available to the audience who choose to use that platform, but how about setting up a #PeerTube server to put all your video content on so it's not compulsory to use YT to watch it?

@natecull I've been thinking a lot over the last few years about writing some #SciFi stories that offer some answers to those questions, #SolarPunk style. Here's an example of the kind of thing I had in mind:
https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/1305.html

@alpacaherder Australia is already colonized, and any further colonization would be very bad for the indigenous people (both human and non-human) and the highly specialized ecosystems they form. Space (as far as we know) is unpopulated, and has no ecosystems to damage.
@natecull

@kaniini looking at the history of #HTTP, I suspect that despite AP being officially at v1.0, we're still at the HTTP 0.9 stage of development:
https://hpbn.co/brief-history-of-http/
@Are0h @jalcine @sean

@kaniini could #IETF be a better place to do formalization work on federated web protocols than the #W3C? Especially given the way that latter body caved to #DRM #crippleware by including #EME in the #HTML spec. Although even as I type this, it occurs to me that what we need more at this stage, while the tech is still evolving and mutating rapidly, is a standards *incubator* with wide buy-in.
@Are0h @jalcine @sean

@cj working on the AP app watchlist for fediverse.party has made it very clear that a number of *types* of AP apps are emerging other than the original microblog use case; long form blogs w/ comments, events calendars, code forges etc. For each app in one of these types to be compatible with the others, there needs to be a standard set of extensions to AP for that type, and a place to develop and negotiate them. Some folks are trying to do that kind of work at:
https://socialhub.network/
@kaniini

@humanetech was that expert #DougRushkoff by any chance? I've heard him tell stories that sounds similar to this on his #TeamHuman podcast
@paulfree14

Also, if you have had other people contributing to your project, even on a very loose drive-by basis, please do your best to see if any of them are interested in continuing the project, and if you find a suitable candidate, try to do a complete handover of the project infrastructure, for the sake of continuity for both devs and users.

A request to founders of #FreeCode projects; if you decide to abandon a project, please make that clear on all the project's communication channels (ideally before you go dark). It would be great to know if you are ceasing development due to a) inadequate time, b) change in personal circumstances (eg job loss), c) loss of motivation, d) redirecting energy to support another project doing a similar thing (which one?)/ other projects in general (which ones?).

@doctorow as a staunch anti-racist who has been physically assaulted by racist skinheads on more than one occasion (and had one acquaintance killed by them), I had very little sympathy for this racist teacher. But I'm still concerned by the precedent it sets. If a teacher can be suspended for hosting a white supremacist podcast, under different circumstances a teacher could be suspended for hosting an anarchist podcast (anti-government radicals!), or one about drug law reform (criminals!) etc

"Thiel has since withdrawn his support for the seasteading project, which nevertheless continues without him."

Why would you need to build a new island, when you can just buy out political-economic control of an existing one, like #Aotearoa, and then colonize it? This has been happening in one form or another since the New Zealand Company (the local version of the East India Company).

'How the Global Tech Elite Imagine the Future', by Anna-Maria Murtola, published by the left-leaning #ThinkTank Economic and Social Research Aotearoa:
https://esra.nz/global-tech-elite-imagine-future/

'Antarctica may hold the key to regulating mining in space', by Juan Francisco Salazar, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University:
http://theconversation.com/antarctica-may-hold-the-key-to-regulating-mining-in-space-45702

Hi @life just stumbled upon this video, and wanted to let you know that you're not alone in this.
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2016/08/03/accepting-the-consequences-of-chronic-depression/

Good to hear in your Jan update that you feel like you're making progress. If you ever need someone to talk to, one sometimes-depressed tech activist to another, my door is always open :)

Hi @life just stumbled up this video, and wanted to let you know that you're not alone in this.
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2016/08/03/accepting-the-consequences-of-chronic-depression/

Good to hear in your Jan update that you feel like you're making progress. If you ever need someone to talk to, one sometimes-depressed tech activist to another, my door is always open :)

OK, I just tested again, and it seems that for some videos there is a settings icon where I can dial down the video quality. When I did that, and paused the video for a few seconds to let it buffer before I started watching, playback worked smoothly. Awesome work #PeerTube folks!

Hi @kibi I just stumbled across your notes on #ActivityPress
https://glitch.social/@kibi/100464899901865407

Are you still working on that? Have you presented your work on socialhub.network?