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onepict, 7 months ago to privacy

With Commissioner Johanssons recent statement I kinda feel the need to tap the sign again.

Also not here for her trying to insinuate that we are all unhinged, shadily funded sexists.

This law won't protect the children. What it will do is break encryption to directly surveill EU citizens.

It will mean your private messages will be available to the "bad guys".

https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/news/setting-record-straight-2023-10-15_en

#RFC1984 #chatcontrol #privacy

onepict, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The best way to preserve the fediverse is to provide support to it.

Pay your instance admin if you can, if you can't boost their fundraiser posts

Pay the developers who develop the software you use on there if you can. If you can't, boost their posts and help them fundraise.

Also pay the projects non Dev folks. Because they help Devs to focus on the code while they do community development, moderation etc.

It's an ecosystem and we can't rely on the whims of VCs.

#ProjectSustainability

onepict, 11 months ago to random

For those who are hard of empathy in the back of the room.

It's not elitism to want to protect your community area. Or to refuse to take part in this social experiment.

It's community safety.

#fedipact

Taps the xkcd cartoon.

https://xkcd.com/743

onepict, 1 year ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The vigilance should never stop. With #earnit, #onlineharms, #chatcontrol the legislatures seek to break encryption and read your DMs.

https://chaos.social/@onepict/103651892192364802

Back in August 1996 @ietf
thought incredibly carefully about cryptography and the internet.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984

Even back then governments were trying to interfere with the internet with weak cryptography. I love the RFC number. Read each point. It's still very relevant all these years later.

#RFC1984

onepict, 5 months ago to random

"By supporting the fedipact we are signalling that we don't consent to interacting with a known abusive actor who revels in their power. Mark Zuckerberg revealed that to us over a decade ago. He revealed what he can do with his power again and again.

You should not trust a company he owns with anything of you. Not your posts, not your contacts, not your metadata."
" The company that Mark Zuckerberg (a man who as a student created an website to rate women) created."

http://onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

onepict, 8 months ago to random

A question for some folks for a crowdsource thing.

What excuses do you get from #conferences, when you ask about a #masking or public health policy due to #Covid?

I need some answers for..... Reasons.

#PHPledge

onepict, 6 months ago to random

When I'm talking about project sustainability, I'm talking about more than developers by the way.

I don't code in C which at the moment is what @librecast is written in. But I still contribute time, with grant applications, reporting, managing the project account, community etc.

This isn't directly funded. It's a similar story for folks in other projects who give that support, their time for gratis. What happens when their cash runs out, the project loses.

#FOSSfunding #ProjectSustainability

onepict, 5 months ago to FediPact

I keep seeing the argument that #fedipact folks are breaking the network by defederation from instances that will federate with Threads.

Last time I checked those instances are mostly small community instances. They're not Internet Exchanges.

They owe you nothing.

What every instance owner needs to do right now is be honest with their communities and communicate clearly their intentions.

Then folks get time to choose. Their choice. Not yours, not mine. Theirs.

This is the way.

onepict, 2 years ago to random

With folklore, folks used to be cautious about what to do with hair and nail clippings. As those could give a witch or sorcerer power over you.

We have this now with our electronic clippings, we give our clippings to social networks and that gives a whole heap of power to them and to the buyers of that data who can then analyse it.

There's an analogy for you. 😏

onepict, 8 months ago to random

One of the sources of #massdatacollection are online advertising networks.

The consent-o-matic nature of a lot of websites collecting data for marketeers. Or browser finger printing.

You don't know down the line where that data will be used or the future consequences for the people who gave permission initially.

It's not possible for someone to consent to potential consequences.

Ultimately those sites shouldn't be collecting that data if you need a pop up Web form to get "consent".

onepict, 8 months ago to random

One of the points @phpledge and @josh makes is that you can ask for safer conferences to attend. We've done it before by pushing for conferences to have COCs with anti harrassment policies.

We need our community leaders to push for rigorous public health policies as #CovidIsStillHere

In 2013 @scalzi decided to take a stand on COCs by announcing he wouldn't be the guest of honor, or a panel participant unless the conference had an anti harrassment policy.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/07/02/my-new-convention-harassment-policy/

#PHPledge

onepict, 2 months ago to random

Really what we need is Universal Basic Income.

But if our governments want to secure the software supply chain, developers need to be paid for their time, as do contributors, and their support folks.

You cannot quantify all of the work, and sometimes those dependencies do not change for years. So much like with support, a stipend is needed.

Its insurance really.

But I'd prefer UBI.

onepict, 2 months ago to random

Personal opinion.

Despite RMS I think of the GPL and using those licences as a gift to the commons in perpetuity.

Unlike more permissive licences you aren't at risk of future releases being locked up in a kinda "Pray I don't alter the deal more" vibe.

There's nothing petty in how I use it.

But then I tend more towards the collective freedoms, than the freedom of anything goes.

I believe future generations should have access to all the code.

onepict, 2 months ago to random

I have some thoughts about FOSS sustainability and burnout.

If we want projects to be a part of the commons to encourage the commons to join in, they need to be able to afford to.

TLDR: We need universal basic income. Our current systems can't cover everything.

If we want to prevent maintainer burnout, we need better support structures. Which isn't going to happen with anymore Orgs set up specially.

http://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html

onepict, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

So... Does anyone recommend a pixelfed instance that won't federate with threads?

Edit: I have an option and more, 🙏. But I'll leave this up as I know others want to have options as well.

:BoostOK:

onepict, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

I saw a recent poll about HEMA, being a lapsed fencer myself I wondered.

How many fencers are there on the Fediverse? Did you lapse or do you feel fencing is too dilettante and you'd prefer a mace?

:BoostOK:

onepict, 28 days ago to random

There's a massive elephant in the room when it comes to #FossSustainability . How do you recruit folks to help with building?

Just why is your community pipeline limited? Could it per chance be your public behaviour as the BDFL?

I mean you realise your community is more than just the code right?

http://onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

onepict, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Thinking about how Folks held on to Twitter and Facebook for so long. I kinda feel that the folks who want mastodon/fedi to replace those networks perhaps didn't realise that for some of us, we'd already moved several times.

Once you've moved on from your first one emotionally it's easier.

So for those of us where this isn't their first rodeo what was your network pre Facebook? :BoostOK:

onepict, 8 months ago to random

Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to play #Covid roulette at conferences.

That's why I signed the @phpledge

onepict, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

I've done some thinking about how I feel about the fedipact and the discourse about it.

It's not a secret that I am an enthusiastic supporter of the #fedipact.

I've also been thinking about the concept of consent, power and freedom of association.

Where you choose to post online, this gives an admin power over you. Which is fine as long as you realise the potential consequences. This is where the consent part comes in.

https://onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

onepict, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

One of the reasons I want UBI is because I want us to create art and technology for everyone, not who ever the modern Nepobaby equivalent of Cesare Borgia is.

onepict, 2 months ago to random

For those who think we need an org to like merely give mental health support and when burn out happens to not give them any money at all. Just so long as the project is maintained.

We live in a capitalistic society that does not value everyone being paid something even if they aren't contributing right now.

Here's a thread on what one maintainer would have liked.

https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112181868961681879

Again the answer is Universal Basic Income. Not yet another "support org".

Oh and ban billionaires.

onepict, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

onepict, 14 days ago to random

In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.

A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.

You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.

It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.

#HopePunk

onepict, 6 months ago to random

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

When you reduce people and what they create down to data you've objectified them.

Tech has a consent problem, it has a bias problem, it has a discrimination problem.

When you reduce people down to things as part of #MassDataCollection to surveill and improve your AI decisions with no transparency on the process or the data sets you ignore those folks consent.

When you insist that blocklists are bad, again you ignore consent.

Tech sins against folk.