Notices by map witch ebel ⛧ 🧙‍♀️🗺️🌍 (ebel@moytura.org)

Huh, RMS has resigned from the FSF. I didn't think that'd happen. I welcome that move. Let's try to move on, and rebuild a more inclusive & diverse movement for user freedom.
https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

Software Freedom Conservancy: “Richard Stallman Does Not and Cannot Speak for the Free Software Movement”
👏👍 Great to see a clear stand from a group in the #FLOSS space.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

Every C in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently

"SMART (surveillance marketed as revolutionary technology)"

That's a great acronym!

@weirdoslam @DJWalnut I'm on my phone, so I can't check, but I think it might be this talk. If you want to start looking for more info or a recording

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/camp/2015/Fahrplan/events/6997.html

@DJWalnut @weirdoslam there's a group called Women on Web who provide abortion pills for places where it's illegal. The founder did a talk at a CCCamp and confirmed their staff use tor to access the web site if they are in a place with restrictive laws.

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough

A PUMPKIN MAN SITS INSIDE A PUMPKIN HOUSE

IS THE HOUSE MADE OF FLESH
OR IS HE MADE OF HOUSE?

HE SCREAMS, FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW

"Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server side" (as opposed to curl & save to a file).
Now this is some very clever, and scary, stuff. It's possible to detect if a #HTTPS request is being piped directly into #bash or just saved to a file. You can use this to send a different file (& commands!) only when it's going straight into bash.

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

How programmers comment their code

This looks interesting: Manyverse, and #android app for #scuttlebutt. I installed it and it's pretty polished. But I haven't figured out how to connect to any pub server. I'm still in 2 minds about #ssb personally.
https://www.manyver.se/

@phoe Yes, that's a threat. So we need to be aware of the "cute cat theory of digital activism". Our p2p system needs to be good enough that people will use it for regular things, which can protect against making it illegal.

VPNs hide your traffic, but are too popular with biz for the gov to make them illegal. etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism

Changing laws is good, but I think us techies also need to build an internet that can't be controlled like that. We need p2p sites. And we need to build it good and usable by regular folk.

This is cool. Argos, a #Gnome shell extension so you can create your own extensions in no time. Create new shell extensions based on the output of a script/programme! I'm playing with it now and it's really nice and well put together.
https://github.com/p-e-w/argos

Is there anyone who isn't a native #English speaker who has experience with #CodeOfConduct for tech/open source/open data communities?
Someone is claiming that only English speaking countries care about this...
(experience/knowledge of sexism, racism & LGBTQ issues a plus)

A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!

A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap

https://en.osm.town

@ralph @alcinnz you could make it a co-operative. Then it's a legal entity which can do commercial stuff without being controlled by shareholders

And I think Igalia is doing just this: https://www.igalia.com/nc/about-us/

Also check out https://social.coop for more about coops

@garbados @rysiek
The pinboard fella had a quote that machine learning is "morality laundering". You get to claim your AI is neutral and not racist/etc because ✨algorithms✨

Train it with racist/etc decisions, and the same decisions come out the other side but now they're not racist/etc!

RT @lukacsleninist@twitter.com: Hello but tech bros “reinventing” public services isn’t an accident it’s part of the #neoliberal drive to #privatize literally any and every government provided service.

Source
https://twitter.com/lukacsleninist/status/981352867041763328

@rysiek @pettter @HerraBRE @bjoern This sounds like "Counter-Anti-Dsintermediation".
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation