Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 38

Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/

*DING DING DING*

"Oh hi neighbor! Uhm, don't mind me. I'm not crazy, even though I appear to be smashing the sidewalk with this sledgehammer. There's a hard drive platter there! Hence the bell noise! I do computer things where security matters sometimes...!"

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"... honestly, this is normal behavior, I promise!!!"

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@maiki @baldur Inria is an example research lab, and they do many interesting things, but are mostly science'y oriented with software freedom as a side effect IIUC. It would be good to have something similar, but with addressing critical software freedom needs as the primary target.

@baldur I agree with that criticism, but I think that just because we have a well established capitalist route for proprietary software, that's not the only route to funding community oriented FOSS. I currently donate monthly to several FOSS projects and feel like I get my money's worth out of it.

But I do think that there are projects that need funding and aren't getting it. I've thought about establishing a "FOSS R&D lab" as a path forward.

@baldur I get frustrated with the implication that proprietary software is the only software that should be paid for, which this article seems to suggest. You can, and should, pay for and financially support FOSS when you are able.

Proprietary software isn't the only software that needs resources. And I don't believe that coercion is the only reason you should pay... paying when you don't have to is still worthwhile.

@er1n Oh I didn't realize @KitRedgrave meant the data... I thought we were talking about the data store!

Not the only cool resource published by the us gov and in the public domain... the USDA nutrition database is also cool as hell https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-bhnrc/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/nutrient-data-laboratory/docs/sr28-download-files/

@deadsuperhero Okay, here's a start. What's missing? https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Implementations

Holy shit, these keyboards designed by @technomancy https://atreus.technomancy.us/

... they're designed in Racket using racket's drawing library https://github.com/technomancy/atreus/blob/master/atreus.rkt

apparently a screenshot of something WIP http://p.hagelb.org/deck3.png

whoaaaa

@wakest @dansup @gargron @lain @mmn Gathering of the Federati at FOSDEM 2019?

Police break into Chelsea Manning's place with guns drawn for a "wellness check" https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/

> Manning was out of the country at the time of the incident, said Janus Cassandra, a close friend [...] “If Chelsea had been home when these cops arrived with guns drawn, she would be dead.”

If a friend appears to be having suicidal thoughts, DON'T CALL THE POLICE. Check in yourself or have a friend do so. Otherwise you increase their risk of death.

I put version control hosting + activitypub (read: federated github-alternative) on tomorrow's socialcg agenda https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2018-06-06

I'm sure the order doesn't mean anything significant other than that we signed up to speak super early, but cool to see @mlemweb and I at the top of the RacketCon 2018 schedule https://con.racket-lang.org/

I'm excited for it!

I mean, GitHub sucks in other ways too. "We're the heart of the FOSS world! Oh no thx we won't give back our code btw"

The GitHub thing also isn't very surprising to those of us have been around in this space for a while. People used to tell me they hosted their stuff at Sourceforge and Google Code because they were sure those companies could handle things better than they could. I get that then and even now with GitHub, but I've seen enough to be skeptical.

The Gitorious apocalypse is also evidence that a non-federated but FOSS git solution isn't really trustable either.

@alanapost I think one of the most toxic things on social media I see today is just how popular pulling yourself up by kicking others around is. Society reinforces the idea that if you're mean, you must be smart. But that's high school popularity contest bullshit.

I don't mean I'm immune to it.. But I also try to be skeptical of it when I see it, and try to tell myself to do better. How can I use my words to help rather than promote myself at others' expense?

On that note, I guess I haven't said it lately: there are a lot of projects putting forward work into ActivityPub implementations right now. I'm very grateful for everyone across all those projects who are working on things. I know it's hard work. Not just programmers for those projects, all contributors.

For 3 years I put in a lot of stress and effort into activitypub, and many times I considered giving up. These days I'm glad I didn't. Thanks for making it worth it.

@pushcx @355E3B FWIW: whoever's interested in seeing an ActivityPub federated lobste.rs (which you could also think of as a decentralized reddit at that point) drop by #lobsters on irc.freenode.net

Tumblr tried to sneak in data collection under the radar. After a few taps, you can get a list of who they're sharing data with.

The list takes 19 screenshots to see all the names on my phone.

NINETEEN.