Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 8

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

3. Cookie banners are annoying and deceptive. This is what the AdTech industry considers consent. It's not.

#happybirthdayGDPR #adtech
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2975/most-cookie-banners-are-annoying-and-deceptive-not-consent https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1131822137063419909/photo/1

I started working on a :pixelfed: mobile app.

The code name is Lens and I look forward to releasing the beta this summer! #pixelfed #lens

so recently github announced their own package registry, and today they announced their own opencollective type of thing. i think at this point it's safe to say microsoft is using github to try to take over the open source software world. (it was safe to say this when they acquired github, it's just very obvious now.)

Go is Google's language, not ours

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage

(This shouldn't surprise anyone seeing what Google means by "open source".)

That's the bad news. The #GoodNews in federated networking land is that there are way more federated social web projects than there were a year ago, covering a much wider range of use cases (video, events etc). Also, we have a much greater understanding of the issues that are blocking universal inter-operation (portable identity, privacy and encryption, lack of standardized extensions, lack of implementation docs), and projects like #Spritely actively working on demonstrating ways to solve them.

What might a future without the big #platforms look like? How can we combine cheap computing like @Raspberry_Pi with new protocols like @dat_project, @IPFSbot, ActivityPub, and Secure Scuttlebutt to build #decentralized portable servers?

Check out my thoughts: https://rbs.io/2019/05/a-revolution-in-your-pocket/

MoodleNet v0.9.1 alpha update

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/moodlenet-v0-9-1-alpha-update/

Bug fixes and featured communities and collections on the home screen!

#MoodleNet

"Not everyone can fight, or risk getting arrested, consider accessibility in activism" is very true.

BUT not a good reason to choose reformist movements if you prefer to do revolutionary work.

There are many many accessible ways to be part of and support radical work.

Be on the legal team, hand out the coffee, give encryption workshops, organize fundraisers.
If you can never leave your house, stop doing pointless petitions and start writing to prisoners. Very important revolutionary work.

Tech-centric approaches without planning for its impact on people will fail to deliver a project that serves people.

People-centric design without good tech foundations will fail to be able to build something that meets its own goals.

There's no succeeding while prioritizing one over the other. To build the right systems we need to intertwine the work of both.

Lemmy is apparently a federated Reddit alternative using ActivityPub written in Rust https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

I would be interesteed in your thoughts on something:

Why is unionizing in IT so difficult? What can we do to facilitate it?

#PlsBoost

You don't have to use Google Play on your Android phone.

There's a free open alternative app store called F-Droid, which is much more privacy-friendly, and which you can install yourself relatively easily.

There's a simple instruction guide for beginners on switching.social:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-play/

There's a much more detailed guide by @IzzyOnDroid here:

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/fdroid-intro-1

You can follow the official F-Droid account here:

@fdroidorg

#FDroid #GooglePlay #DeleteGoogle

Introducing Indie Web Server 8.0.0: install the server and start serving a secure static personal web site in literally seconds

Video demo + short post: https://ar.al/2019/04/16/set-up-a-live-static-personal-web-site-in-seconds-with-indie-web-server-8.0.0/

I hope it makes your lives easier. This is one of the earlier pieces of the puzzle in the Hypha project.

(It took two weeks and a couple of false starts but Version 8.0.0 introduces native binaries for Linux and macOS. Production use via startup daemons is supported only on Linux platforms with systemd.)