Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 18

@alanz @peter maybe you're referring to https://lobste.rs/s/ontq8o/google_chrome_mozilla_firefox_are

Yes, more browsers competing is really good! I just wish we had more engines besides webkit, gecko and edgeHTML.

@alanz @peter there is a long road ahead of me but I am having a lot of fun playing with decentralization technologies inside WebExtensions!

PS: I'd give the keys to my kingdom for usable TCP/UDP APIs in WebExtensions...

@ebel

This could help https://privacypass.github.io

@jjg @Antanicus @mattcropp @mareklach @owen @cstanhope @enron @drwho @dartigen @dajbelshaw @marko @tethre @nonlinear @miwilc @remotenemesis

@mayel

@fabianhjr

I am on it. I like the fully decentralised mechanism, that it can cope with intermittent connectivity, and the group of people working on it, and the ideas they are having/exploring.

I think they are very aligned with what I understand social.coop to be about.

Spamnesty is a way to waste spammers' time. If you get a spam email, simply forward it to sp@mnesty.com, and Spamnesty will strip your email address, pretend it's a real person and reply to the email.

Spamnesty - Home - https://spa.mnesty.com/

Getting a lot of happy birthday emails from all the services where I lie about my birthday.

@dredmorbius
On alchemy: There is a school of thought that what the alchemists understood ahead of their time was that there's more to properties than composition, processing matters.

They were tinkering with processing-properties links.

An extreme version of this point of view is that alchemy was early systems thinking, and presaged modern materials science more so than the (reductive, non-systems-based) chemstry and physics.

I think that's overstating it, but it's a neat idea.

@miramarco
Having worked in the industry myself at one point, I want to add broadcast technicians to that list.

I also welcome everyone coming in from #TwitterEvacuationDay today. I hope you find what you seek on the fediverse, be it friends, an audience, a ring of power, the Chaos Emeralds or whatever else. 👍

While we wait for the new year, please give a thought to all the workers who are on shift tonight. Let's be thankful to all the doctors, nurses, EMTs, police officers, firefighters, cab and subway drivers, hotel clerks, security guards, maintenance technicians, sysadmins, air traffic controllers, and everyone else who is not having a break tonight

I wish you all a happy new year! 2017 was amazing for Mastodon and I hope 2018 will be even better. Cheers 🎇

Make your #NewYearsEve resolution - UNTRACK ALL THE THINGS!

@Mastodon @gnusocial @exodus @EFF @torproject https://mastodon.social/media/te5HEz1llXlLd2xFurc

I really think it behooves proprietary vendors to at a MINIMUM do a source code dump when they decide to sunset a product line/platform.

And while it's nice if you can do it clean, and setup a foundation or donate it to Apache. It's not necessary.

If you can't do those things just toss a tarball over the wall.

If you don't own all the code. Toss the code you do have the rights too.

Places Morgan and I support, and maybe you'd like to too:

- Software Freedom Conservancy https://sfconservancy.org/
- FSF: https://fsf.org/
- ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/
- Give Directly (now running an MBI experiment): https://www.givedirectly.org/
- Oxfam: https://www.oxfam.org//
- Doctors Without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
- Population Services International https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/where-to-donate/population-services-international
- The AIA: https://www.archaeological.org/giving/donate