Notices by [MOVED] David Ross (davidross@mastodon.social), page 3

Just spent 10 mins email to my MP thanks to encouragement of @openrightsgroup to speak out on The #Immigration Exemption.

Despite 10% processing error rate, it effectively seeks to block access to legal recompense against such errors for people seeking to start a new life in the #UK. A lot of media talk of the Windrush Generation lately - history is repeating itself and right before our eyes!

Please take moment to read and consider taking #action:
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/after-windrush-row-immigration-data-exemption-must-go

@MichaelBall yeah I'm a shitstirrer myself, what can I say? Love the passion of people like that tbh

Google contracts ARE a problem. It's a problem for the entire industry. I've switched this toot public so everyone sees my transparency on this issue.

As a volunteer I have a role in representing the community in internal conversations. I assure you I *very often* have those difficult conversations. We're in transition.

Many here in Mastodon are examples of biz model alternatives. We see you!

Some of today's library research:

In postmodern ads, people were portrayed as egocentric individuals, led to believe their lives needed to be enmeshed in ticking off iconic consumables from an expanding list of new variants of beloved products or the latest innovation. They were (and are still) led to seek a likeness between themselves & their shopping, or corporations they choose to patronise.

Advertising has advocated the substitution of living with 'having' a lifestyle.

Open Source voice assistant #Mycroft (yes an actual open source alternative of Amazon Alexa and Google Home) has not only almost hit 800% of its Indiegogo funding in Feb, but has recently switched to #Mozilla's #DeepSpeech project.

Deep Speech is just one of over a hundred projects taking part in #MozSprint May 10-11. They're especially seeking voices of NON ENGLISH speakers.

More new contributors added to these open projects = more real world innovative alternatives.

https://mzl.la/global-sprint

@maiki This has all the FOSDEM vids backed up https://videos.tcit.fr/videos/search?search=fosdem and tons of other things.

lesssons from today:

- transparency
- enable others and upskill them
- group training.. it scales!
- test when you can via blog posts, lightning talks, developing elevator pitch
- embrace your vulnerability.. often nobody else will even notice this except you
- get feedback.. active listening
- follow up on promises
- consistently amplify the work that others do
- encourage the network to openly reach out

#openleaders

@ntnsndr those numbers are way out too.Article uses dot social to imply total users, instead of all the instances reported to have 1M+ users since December 1 (though Someone like @Gargron might be needed to confirm this) https://lou.lt/@mastodonusercount/99099871022836220

And potentially an even BETTER choice is self hosted free 'community edition' fork of #HackMD to collaboratively work on Markdown files.

Maintained by @sheogorath

#DiscoverOpen

https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd

Applications close TODAY for the memorial Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship Award. An #OpenWeb crusader taken from this world far too soon.

A $50,000 fund for those fighting for #openness in their community.

Collaboration between #Fabricatorz #CreativeCommons #Mozilla #WikiMedia #JimmyWales #NewPalmyra #SMEX #YallaStartup #VentureCafe

http://basselkhartabil.org/

Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition
#keto
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

Set the date: May 10-11 #Aardwolf will be taking part in a GLOBAL 48 hour hack.

Whether you know people coding in #Rustlang, can help write basic #documentation, #design engaging Web pages, or simply just amplifying the fact the project exists!

Based on #Mastodon, Aardwolf is seeking to build a #federated alternative to Facebook. It's a huge ask, and it will need people just like us rallying together in support along the way.

#GlobalSprint

Just release: SnapLinks Plus (Beta)

Fully integrates with Firefox Multi-Account Containers..

right click and lasso hypertext links and they each open in new tabs.

Add-on link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snaplinksplus/versions/beta

Repo (Chrome coming soon): https://github.com/cpriest/SnapLinksPlus

Woah! This is PURE GOLD, people!

Real big list of #opensource self-hosted alternatives. Some time has been spent curating this sucker!

#FOSS #DiscoverOpen

https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted/blob/master/README.md

So #UK & #London once the snow clears you'll be desperate for something to do.

I HAVE THE ANSWER

Join the #Mastodon London #Meetup! (pffft of course!!)

I'm nicking Mozilla's tech resources so we've REMOTE PARTICIPATION.

Yes the future has arrived 😜

Join us:
- in person
- from home
- in your jim jams
- from the pub on your mobile
- on the 107 bus

No boring event where we sit quietly for 2 hours. An active conversation of community members JUST LIKE YOU.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mastodon-meetup-at-london-mozilla-hq-tickets-42605134103

#Rustlang announce extension of core team, the creation of FOUR working groups:

- #NetworkServices
- #WebAssembly
- #EmbeddedDevices
- #CLI

Focusing on end-to-end experience. Supercharging momentum into the project.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain-working-groups/6737

All the #Mozfest dialogues and debates videos have *finally* been. I'm going to celebrate by watching the discussion between data scientist Emily Gorcenski and Sarah Jeong

Come back to Mastodon @sarahjeong we miss you on here!

Had an awesome chat over a drink with Emily, where she spoke about facing up to Nazis, punching them, and holding a gun to one of their heads in her town Charlottesville.

Can't describe how amazing to me she is. Simply incredible human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXL4SfXH5zM

IDK about anyone else but

I FUCKING LOVE FREECODECAMP

That aside.. they just dumped 3 years of chat #opendata on us. There are literally THOUSANDS of active users on there so this is pretty cool. It is.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-just-released-3-years-of-freecodecamp-chat-history-as-open-data-all-5-million-messages-of-it-a03901f4d6fb

#Firefox #Nightly has been running a spectacular experiment on the path to increasing #security of all users..

I shared announcement last week about blocking insecure content in HTTPS https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/xjZQq0kEauM

..the Telemetry data is coming in - and it's pretty exciting news for Mozilla's #websecurity team.

In more than 12M connections only 4 reports of breakages.

Effectively upgrading all the connections to HTTPS.

See more at this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440709

I wonder if @fabionatali might take a look https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1093

E2E is a non-trivial complexity in federation like Mastodon. Collectively we could bring eyes to this issue, it would be pretty awesome to give the conversation further momentum?