Notices by Râu Cao (raucao@kosmos.social)

"Journalism" in 2020

> WTF happened In 1971?

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

If you haven't heard of KaiOS before, you probably think Firefox OS is entirely dead. But actually, as a fork of B2G, KaiOS has silently grown to a user base of more than 100 million people on devices from more than 10 manufacturers, making it the third most-popular mobile OS after Android and iOS now.

They just launched proper developer docs, as well as an app store:

* https://www.kaiostech.com/meet-the-devices-that-are-powered-by-kaios/
* https://developer.kaiostech.com/

Mastodon client for KaiOS, when? All JS/Web clients should work.

I just call it Microsoft GitHub these days. Does half the job of communicating the risks of it being a hard dependency for FOSS projects in particular.

@bjarni Oh right, having ourselves be blocked without knowing about it would cause what you describe for sure. Can't say I have a problem with incentivizing the usage of smaller instances overall. Villages over mega cities.

How about all you XMPP users give this one a thumbs-up, so that maybe we can one day talk to Wire users and vice-versa: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/631

Stumbled upon this blog post about the potential benefits of using different decentralized protocols in combination, e.g. #SSB, #Dat, and #ActivityPub: https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

Google's way of downplaying an open calendar file standard, in order to give their own proprietary, non-interoperable calendar SaaS an edge: call it "Apple calendar": https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/next-onair

New dump from the Integrity Initiative and Institute of Statecraft leaks: https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/operation-integrity-initiative-british-informational-war-against-all-part-3/

Meanwhile, at a friend's Red Hat office:

Meanwhile, at a friend''s Red Hat office:

If you're an instance admin, you might want to block 101010.pl entirely. They seem to be hiding a JavaScript crypto miner on their site: https://functional.cafe/@phoe/100544940043503194

Interesting thoughts about Slack (or any group chat for that matter) as a group mind, comparing it to brain functions, and explaining how it's more like a herd mind than a hive mind: https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

@strypey I think there's also a narrative being pushed to discredit the Web in general at the moment. Precisely because it is better than centrally controlled and state-censored broadcasting in many ways. Just look at how NYT & Co are suddenly able to claim that they are the ones protecting the world from bullshit, when it was them who provably indoctrinated audiences with BS and fake news for decades.

TIL: Both England and Russia had a tax on wearing beards in the past. The Russian one having been introduced "to bring Russian society in line with Western European models". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_tax

@bob @bumi Unfortunately, the core issue for OSS projects remains the network for people finding your stuff and becoming contributors without friction. Private projects are a non-issue imo. I think we need to solve federated forking and merge requests, including code comments etc., unless we all want to lose valuable contributions.

@bumi That decision was made when they took the $100M in order to grow like crazy. I'm actually glad about this, because there was a bit of a collective denial about the fact that we build entire OSS ecosystems upon a single startup's proprietary product.

Always remember that a normal VC exit time is only 7-10 years. Then it's either IPO, or selling the company and its users. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant: http://www.businessinsider.com/american-worker-less-vacation-medieval-peasant-2016-11?IR=T

People: "LOL, politicians have no idea how the Internet works at all."

The same people: "It's a great idea that the EU tries to regulate the entire Internet via unlimited chains of responsibility among companies across borders. We as citizens should be legally forbidden to make our own decisions about what servers and people we connect to, for our own good."