Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 37

Same reason why I've been playing through skyrim lately. There are just some games that are fun no matter when you pick them up.

Julia Reda: «But it’s important to me to underscore that the solution to bad legal proposals and unbalanced lobbying is not to curse or even advocate leaving the EU. (In fact, it’s Anti-EU, Euro-skeptic and right-wing parties that are responsible for giving these proposals majority support in the Committee! Don’t let Eurosceptic politicians get away with voting in favour of breaking the Internet and then blaming the EU for it later!)»
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html

@strypey @golf_oil The weird thing is that the API has a “dismiss” notification and a “clear all” notifications call but the apps and the web client don’t seem to provide an access for it. Maybe that would help a little, too.

We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.

The Mastodon drama about trending tags makes me glad all my free software is unpopular. I’m not taking this kind of talk at work where I get paid thousands a month – I’m sure as hell not willing to be treated like that for less.

@h @alcinnz I think politics is how humanity makes group decisions and thus to mock politicians and politics makes no sense to me. It’s like saying “let’s make decisions and not talk about them”. The system might need reform but any sort of “will of the people” will have to go through some sort of process to manifest itself and this will be called politics and the people enacting it will be called politicians.

Enough about the #GDPR. Let’s talk about the next challenge, #copyright.
«Forget The GDPR, The EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet»
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180525/10072939912/forget-gdpr-eus-new-copyright-proposal-will-be-complete-utter-disaster-internet.shtml
Julia Reda has an update: «Update from May 25th 2018, 13:37: Member State governments have today adopted their position on the copyright reform, with no significant changes to the upload filters and link tax provisions. It is now up to Parliament to stop them.»
https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-finish-line/

People talking about Google assistants and how to automate voice calls underestimate the creepiness of it all. Case in point: @brainblasted got a call and writes about it, here:
https://floss.social/@brainblasted/100086988061659283
Automated voice calls and automated dialects are already used by political parties and businesses. In the end telephony will be like email: a way to be spammed. We will hide our phone numbers and refuse to take calls from strangers. It’s what I already do. #telephony #spam

@JordiGH Reading https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/30/50_years_of_the_compact_cassette/ and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/02/compact_cassette_supremo_lou_ottens_talks_to_el_reg/ is taking too much time!

Phone service companies selling your real time location is terrible. I hope this is impossible in Europe and wish it were everywhere in the world. And it highlights that messengers depending on your phone number are a security problem even though that makes it easy to contact you. It also makes it easy for some to locate you. And we need to stop posting phone numbers to Whois records. And need to remove it from my website. 😟
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/mobile-giants-please-dont-share-the-where/