Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There are 5 things that every fedi implementation really needs to make the user experience somewhat sensible. ALl of them are within reach, and I find it quite surprising that none of them have been implemented anywhere yet.

1. Moving posts between instances. The freedom to move instances doesn't really exist without that feature.
2. A “suspended follow” relationship for followers from defederated instances, allowing us to restore those followers when moving, or when the admins resolve their differences.
3. Bring your own domain / bring your own free subdomain. There's no reason why a single server couldn't run under multiple domains. I should be free to move instances without changing my username, just like with email. This also makes defederation user-level instead of instance-level for free. IMO, user handles should have been DNS based in the first place.
4. A built-in tool doing what followgraph does, maybe a bit more intelligently. For now, a new user doesn't really see any content on their timeline, this would massively improve discoverability and make the fediverse a lot less confusing.
5. An API endpoint for setting and retrieving unstructured private JSON data that third-party clients could use for building extra preferences and supporting features that your implementation doesn't support by default.

Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".

If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.

No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.

Ten years ago, in 2013, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was dissolved after decades of important work because they couldn't find enough people to sustain it.

A sign of the times that we're now re-inventing institutions that computer science was unable/unwilling to sustain during one of its most lucrative periods.

https://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/cpsr-dissolution-and-gary-chapman-winner-cpsrs-norbert-wiener-award

From https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Geolocating+IPs+is+harder+than+you+think/29834
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This is one reason why Google recently started using "google.com/maps" for its "Google Maps." Users will gladly give Google Maps access to their location. After all, the map needs to know where you are to give directions. But by using "google.com/maps" instead of "maps.google.com," all "google.com" properties now have access to the user's location after the user gave access to the location on google.com/maps.

"Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action

Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed

The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE"

https://bird.makeup/users/michaelharriot/statuses/1674424753929732106

Did you know that you can disable repository units inside your repo settings?

Don't you use a wiki? No need for releases? Save your guests some time to click through the tabs by disabling the units.

Now you can even disable access to code, ideal for clean meta repositories with issue tracking - users will immediately land there.

Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-shattering-myth-men-hunters-women.html

"They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game."

#Archaeology

@dynamic @bkeegan

Here is Indieweb.social 👇 https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

@lightweight
Bloody hell. They’ve even waved around some nonsense about #AI to help neurodiverse students. All AI does is smush it all together for the most same same bland boring done it all before nonsense. They’d get a much better result by spending that money on training, hiring, and RETAINING human teachers.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492898/documents-expose-microsoft-s-relationship-with-nz-education-and-hopes-for-ai-in-schools What could possibly go wrong?! Our public service tech decision makers, like Paul James, instil no confidence in their judgement.

Google’s Android is based on an open source platform called AOSP, which can be used as a base for phone operating systems that are not integrated with Google’s proprietary spyware. However, Google is the primary maintainer of the AOSP project, and it’s about to remove the Dialer and Messaging apps from AOSP and instead include them in Android. This is bad news for open source phone operating systems like Graphene and Lineage. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-dialer-messages-app-3334980/

DOJ: Dispersing journalists from protests violates First Amendment

https://freedom.press/news/doj-dispersing-journalists-from-protests-violates-first-amendment/

How can we possibly fix racial injustice and achieve racial equity if we cannot acknowledge race at all?

#Surveillance on Wheels: How Top US Car Makers Spy on Drivers - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/us-auto-surveillance/ this is getting serious...

Thorstein Veblen with some important ground truths about the economic system which you will (probably) never hear in a university econ class.

(from Theory of Business Enterprise, chapter 3)

#Copyright enforcement in a nutshell: make the Internet hard work and less fun until people give up - https://walledculture.org/copyright-enforcement-in-a-nutshell-make-the-internet-hard-work-and-less-fun-until-people-give-up/ it's just bullying...

A RISC-V chip with with secret RTL (not to mention the layout) does not qualify as open-hardware. Otherwise MS Word would be open-source software just because it implements the Open Document Format (ODF).

#openHardware #Chips #IntegratedCircuits #semiconductor #silicon #GoIT

Cyber Resilience Act: First committee backs FSFE demand to protect #FreeSoftware - https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230629-01.en.html #opensource

#China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-solar-power-global-renewable-energy-leader good news; now cut the coal use #renewables

I just released a really important Apollo update that adds the ability for users with remaining subscription time left to decline an automatic refund. Devs pay refunds out of pocket, and this will be about $250K, so I thank you for your consideration. ❤️

Also, this update includes an amazing "Goodbye Apollo Wallpaper Set” for your phone, tablet, or desktop, created by outrageously talented Apollo icon designers. You can unlock the pack with a donation that helps with refund costs. 🙂