Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.

tired: algorithm
wired: algorhythm

"Money doesn't interest me" - Creator of Blender talks about its future - https://redd.it/8uxi14

"How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia"
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/29/eu-copyright-proposal-will-hurt-web-wikipedia/

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

I am going to be in Strasbourg Monday to Wednesday, explaining to MEPs why they need to fix the Copyright Directive proposal.

I will do my best to share the experience here.

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

Comment threads live-update is ready! Couple of things still to be done and the v0.1.0 will be finally released! 🎉

#activitypub

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

I assume that like most people when I first heard "free" in "free and open source software" I assumed it referred to "free of cost" and not "liberty from developer oppression". Therefore I was mislead into thinking it was open source that was important not freedom. It is for this reason I use the phrase "libre software" in order to provide less confusion to new contributors. https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

take whatever money you're giving to gargron and put it towards your favorite instances' patreon/support funds (after all, these are the folks keeping m.s's load down, AND the whole reason joinmastodon.org exists, AND the whole reason mastodon as a whole is so successful), or give those dollars directly to your marginalized fediverse frens who are struggling right now.

Tuxspace and Splat Social are blocked in Russia

When Neil Gaiman, one of the most beloved authors in the world, speaks out against a copyright proposal, you KNOW it must be bad.

We need to stop #Article13 from wrecking the Internet. https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1012277517108031488

Things will get better. ❣️ 🌻

#mentalillness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #positivity #inspiration #motivation #depression #anxiety #schizophrenia #schizoaffective #bipolar #ptsd #bpd

Censorship is the right word for how #Article13. Here's why. https://www.debatingeurope.eu/2018/06/28/is-copyright-reform-criminalising-an-entire-generation/#.WzTu0SCxW70

@phryk @rysiek @ente But those are precisely the issues that are hardest for an anarchist system to solve.

How do you solve global warming and ecosphere destruction without power over those that don't care about those issues, or that don't even believe that global warming and ecosphere destruction are problems?

How do you solve hunger without the ability to coordinate land use and food distribution?

How do you solve inequality and exploitation without power over exploiters?

So, I enjoy Fediverse discussions very much (most of the time), and I am very inclined to have more of these. One thing that sometimes throws me off is that as more people join in, chaos ensues and the original topic of discussion gets diluted, and then there is no discussion anymore.

So I am thinking of a thread-as-performance, sort of. Like when you have a panel, 2-3 people discussing something freely, but others just listen, so that the discussion can run its course.

@phoe
No, I'm just proposing a hashtag…
#Guix may be installed on #Debian pretty easily, and this is what I just did.

How Philosophy Makes Progress:

http://dailynous.com/2018/05/27/how-philosophy-makes-progress-agnes-callard/

I especially liked this bit:

"Philosophy, by contrast, is bitter, and we want to know what good it will do us, and when, finally, it will be over. It is not pleasant to be told that maybe you don’t know who you are, or how to treat your friends, or how to be happy. It’s not pleasant to have it pointed out to you that maybe nothing you have ever done matters, or that, for all you know, there is nothing out there at all."