NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
the EFF and others try to obfuscate this point because they have a different agenda than the average free software *user*: they want to fight the DRM future, which is a fight worth having for sure.
*users* however just want to watch the latest episode of rick and morty. if they can't do that on ubuntu -- guess what -- they go back to windows and we lost the conversion.
it is fully possible to reimplement widevine CDM in a way that is compatible, as open source. it is also fully legal to do so under the DMCA (interoperability!). the EFF statement is *laughable* they should know better.
[i do not say "free software" here, because DRM does not respect freedom]
the cryptographic primitives are well understood, it is legal to reverse engineer it, etc.
EFF is resigning from the w3c over DRM and the Encrypted Media Extensions standardization process. This was probably inevitable once w3c leadership abandoned consensus in this arena, but it's still such a bummer to see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership
normally i like the EFF, but when it comes to DRM they do spread a lot of FUD in their mission to destroy it.
the reality is that the content companies do not give a shit what free software users think, so if you happen to want to access that content while using free software, EME is really the best option for it short of convincing content companies that DRM is broken.
DRM *is* broken, but spreading misinformation concerning how EME CDMs work is unhelpful in such a movement to end DRM.
Hi, I'm @mmn, maintainer of GNUsocial. I reacted when it was written that "many people on gnusocial are angry" and wish to say that !GNUsocial has only love and appreciation for #Mastodon and #ActivityPub.
I believe cooperation is important for libre software and the federated social web. I believe our plural and diverse community should embrace and encourage contributors and development. Any progress we want to make - regardless of anyone's preferred technology - is impeded by hostility and empowered by friendship.
So I want to say thank @cwebber @gargron et al. for all the hard work you actively put into ActivityPub. It's awesome that so many users get in touch with !fs via open protocols.
hey i have been seeing a lot of angry '@'s on mastodon including at mastodon contributors, and i was thinking about this...
is the way you would call out someone on mastodon different than how you would give criticism in real life? i cant imagine a lot of people having the tenacity to take such an aggressive tone with people face to face, especially publicly.
mastodon seems to be on a high horse about not being mean like twitter, but i still see this shit where people will tear down others online.
rather than fighting about the politics of random features, maybe masto can work on online bullying culture, for the mental health of the community.
@ccolocho AND I DID A THING
We talked all about Bodega and why it's Bad™, why Square is Good™, and why Silicon Valley is always disrupting the wrong things
What is the difference between USA and USB? Afficher plus
Birdsite user fanf brought this up, and has a thread about it at https://twitter.com/fanf/status/908469504258211842
Computing history time!
While Open Source was a thing before then, OpenBSD was the first group to have readonly, anonymous, and immediate availability of the source code (as changes are being made) for everyone, with anoncvs in 1995.
Before anoncvs was available, many groups would release a tarball of the source code, or the whole repo, next to the binaries.
song - https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#61
paper - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf
slides - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf
If I should happen to derive a tool for automatically estimating relevence of texts, it shall be called:
Textual Lexer; Derived Relevance
Now if only I could come up with an appropriate acronym....
A world in which we don't understand the technology we use becomes a world in which technology is used to control and manipulate us.
boost if you still use print statements as debug
That anyone working on IT would find the idea of a dial-up user in 2017 ridiculous is really worrying. The /US/ doesn't have universal broadband, why would you imagine the whole world does?
Remember, when you're developing for the web, that your site should degrade gracefully.
Your users won't all live in a well-connected area and be using the latest hardware and software.
If your site is intended to be functional, a user should be able to get at least basic functionality in Lynx over dial-up. If they can't, that's on you, not them.
“Once we understand this equation, it becomes clear that demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists or lobbying for an end to commercial surveillance on the Internet is like asking Henry Ford to make each Model T by hand. […] Such demands are existential threats that violate the basic mechanisms of the entity’s survival. How can we expect companies whose economic existence depends upon behavioral surplus to cease capturing behavioral data voluntarily?“
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitalism-14103616-p8.html
Mastodon v1.6 is live!
☑️ Easier sharing & discovering content across servers
☑️ Improved first-time user experience
☑️ Fresh new W3C standard #ActivityPub
☑️ Better profiles & pinned toots
https://medium.com/@Gargron/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
The Expanse (SciFi series) S2 Afficher plus
I've been watching #TheExpanse (SciFi series) for a while and it's giving me so many thoughts.
Like, how is humanity gonna develop if we don't actually get space communism, but space capitalism?