Notices by h (h@social.coop), page 2

Machiavelli but ethical, for radicals.

#Mastodon feature needed:

- Allow users to add a text description to image attachments of toots that have already been posted.

This helps to make an increasing number of toots accessible without altering their chronological order.

#wishlist

I'm done reading cooperativists shitting on the work of programmers and other nerds ignoring that the much maligned and stereotyped nerd that helped to create the fucking surveillance state just isn't present here.

Zuckerberg isn't here, free software programmers aren't rich bastards, and I'm fucking quitting and never trying again if this ignorant and bigoted unsubtlety continues.

Maybe quit shitting on people who are trying to work to free everybody.

FFS

"Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits"
https://m.slashdot.org/story/344802

The article argues that a microkernel architecture can be more secure.

Does this mean the day has finally come for GNU Hurd?

I’ve been trying to get my friends off FB and Birdsite for years. It’s insane that these walled gardens have become so dominant.

Please, please, please consider organising off Facebook. Really. It's not snobbery. It's really dangerous to people who use their legal names to use Facebook for organising.

Today's favourite French word: chiffrement
(a synonym for 'encryption', although it's etymologically a bit more like 'encoding')

@mayel So the goal for much of 2018 is trying to arrive to a situation where I can say: "Okay, this is not awesome, but this design will be good enough to get started if all these networks can send messages and content to each other."

It will probably extend into 2019, and 2019 will be the year when we begin to see some actual convergent implementations.

@mayel Part of the hypercoop work is an abstraction layer to make AP interop with IPFS. Studying SSB, GNUNet, and DAT trying to generalise that. I think there are enough commonalities to at least give it a try.

I made an early attempt last year trying to do that for the old Mastodon protocol and IPFS, but it soon became evident that wasn't the way to go, standing on shifting sands.

The way I see it, ActivityPub is the decentralised method we're paving the way for the distributed web.

People are educating themselves and with the fediverse having surpassed critical mass beyond the 1 million-user mark, it's now practically unstoppable.

In about a year from now we'll be seeing the beginning of the convergence between the decentralised-web, with the distributed-whatever that goes next.

It's not that those technologies are immature. It's that they haven't converged yet.

@Antanicus Fascists attacking immigrants day in, day out should have been a more powerful indicator. They don't care about books anymore. Every important book written in history is available for free to anyone able in the western world. Nobody reads them.

Fascists are ahead of the curve taking new territories and the left worries about irrelevant things all the time, acting like the law and enlightenment still matter to fascists.

Fascists are at war, this is not a drill.