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Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)

  1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Dec-2021 05:33:38 EST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to centralise information, power, and wealth. Think about where your strengths lie and design from first principles according to those.

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  2. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 12-Apr-2021 03:32:48 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    If you’re comfortable within injustice, you’re complicit in injustice.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  3. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 07:31:56 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Scott Mortimer

    So remember when I was saying Zoom is a privacy and security train wreck? Apparently, that was an understatement:

    “Zoom has ‘rolled their own’ encryption scheme [with] significant weaknesses … [and transmits] meeting encryption keys through China.”

    https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/

    Via @ScottMortimer

    In conversation Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 07:31:56 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  4. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 04:56:06 EST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Benjamin Sonntag 🐙

    You can now watch my talk on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament yesterday on Peertube (@joinpeertube) thanks to @vincib

    https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd

    And here are my slides (which were on the screens but aren’t visible in the video):

    https://small-tech.slides.com/aral/dear-regulators-dont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater#/

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 04:56:06 EST from mastodon.ar.al permalink

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    1. Dear Regulators, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
      from Slides
      10-minute talk I will be presenting at the European Parliament on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 on the Future of Internet regulation, a conference on the E-commerce Directive and the upcoming Digital Services Act.
  5. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 04:45:52 EST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    There are people who will tell you that the way things are is the way things have always been and will always be.

    Don’t listen to these people.

    The way things are is just raw material for the way things can be. And by your every action or inaction you help determine what that is.

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 04:45:52 EST from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  6. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2019 16:15:05 EST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Eugen

    @Gargron Hey Eugen, thanks, man. I’m going to go in there and give the talk I’m going to give tomorrow. I hope I will do Mastodon proud and I hope that I will show them how centralised differs from federated differs from peer-to-peer and how Facebook, etc., are scum of the earth and do not deserve a place at the table (they have one tomorrow, of course).

    In conversation Monday, 18-Nov-2019 16:15:05 EST from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  7. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2019 13:02:44 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Wanna blow up my Raspberry Pi Zero?

    Here, have some random ASCII cows: https://pi0.ar.al/cows

    You can also see the stats for this session here: https://pi0.ar.al/b829a930d7dc1a0e8d118eb83d1d9576

    (I just want to see how it performs. Will turn it off at some point and delete this tweet when I do.) :)

    #SiteJS #RaspberryPi

    In conversation Monday, 21-Oct-2019 13:02:44 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  8. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 16:36:35 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Dear @gitlab, after reading this, I am ashamed to be using your product:

    https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656/diffs

    We will stop using it as soon as we can manage to and I will stop recommending you to others. Unlike you, we don’t associate with folks incompatible with our values.

    Shame on you.

    #gitlab

    In conversation Monday, 14-Oct-2019 16:36:35 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  9. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2019 06:19:39 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Feeling much better and back to work ;)

    In conversation Monday, 23-Sep-2019 06:19:39 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  10. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2019 06:17:12 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Laura Kalbag
    • ※

    @nx @laura It’s a small JS app I wrote that’s being served by Site.js (https://sitejs.org).

    You can find the source here: https://source.ind.ie/small-tech.org/site/tree/master/themes/small-tech/static/.dynamic

    My goal is to make it into a Site.js plugin and release it separately once I’ve implemented plugin functionality in Site.js :) But it’s basically all Node.js and shouldn’t be too much effort to pull out into a pure Node.js app if you wanted to.

    Hope that helps :)

    In conversation Monday, 23-Sep-2019 06:17:12 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  11. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2019 01:07:19 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Got my first full night’s sleep in one-and-a-half weeks without coughing my lungs out all night… fingers crossed, I’m on the mend.

    Can’t wait to get back into things when I’m back on my feet again.

    In conversation Thursday, 19-Sep-2019 01:07:19 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  12. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:41:02 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    So they changed the live steam URL and only tweeted out the new one 35 minutes into the talk after I made a stink. Bloody hell. https://mobile.twitter.com/webstandards/status/1172866025852768257

    In conversation Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:41:02 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  13. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:31:03 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Looks like they’re quite a delay. I’m sure it should start soon but I won’t be able to keep checking and update you so keep the tab open somewhere :)

    In conversation Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:31:03 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  14. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:05:38 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Laura’s talk at State of the Browser in a London is about to start. Watch live here:

    https://www.pscp.tv/w/cEymmDFvUEtMbm5vUHdFZG58MXZPeHdhd1hwUE1HQojpDybw9ZsL6twn9CIBXSlqJXDhjN2UuJGEmikeLN4I

    In conversation Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 09:05:38 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  15. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2019 13:40:38 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    I get hundreds of millions of dollars every year by legitimising surveillance capitalists and enabling them to violate your privacy by default. (I wouldn’t exist without them.) Please trust me on privacy.

    Why are you all looking at me like that?

    OK, OK, you can stop glaring: I’m Mozilla, y’all love me. 💕

    In conversation Thursday, 12-Sep-2019 13:40:38 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  16. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2019 13:36:40 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Sunbeam Borb

    @teslas_moustache And if you need any pointers on how much to trust Mozilla, remember they they get hundreds of millions of dollars every year for legitimising and allowing a third-party to violate your privacy (currently Google, Inc.)

    In conversation Thursday, 12-Sep-2019 13:36:40 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  17. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2019 11:53:57 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • Adam Procter 🐹

    Site.js 12.4.1 release

    • Easier WebSocket broadcast from DotJS routes

    • Easier installation on macOS – now uses cURL, which is installed by default, instead of wget, which is not (thanks to @adamprocter for hitting the pain points and writing about it: https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2019/08/27/trying-small-technology.html)

    https://sitejs.org

    In conversation Wednesday, 11-Sep-2019 11:53:57 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  18. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 08:26:39 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    So a week in Sydney for UX Australia and a week away on holiday in Malaga (boy did we need it) and now I’m back with a stinking sore throat. Yay me. Gotta shake this thing before Reading Bodies in Berlin this weekend (https://small-tech.org/events/)

    In conversation Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 08:26:39 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  19. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 17:13:36 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Folks, Laura and I are taking our first holiday in yonks tomorrow. We’re going to unplug. No computers, Mastodon, email, etc. See you all in a week :)

    In conversation Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 17:13:36 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  20. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 03:26:05 EDT Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Sydney 🛫 Singapore 🛫 London 🛫 Cork

    #AlmostHome

    In conversation Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 03:26:05 EDT from mastodon.ar.al permalink
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