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1. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2020 08:45:05 EDT Strypey

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   The fediverse.party crew have started work on a canonical timeline of fediverse history. If you'd like to help, please reply to this post with relevant dates and reference links, or go ahead and add your edits here:https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/Federated-Social-Web-Timeline

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2. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2020 07:45:07 EDT Strypey

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   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

   An update on Jami, hot off the press:
   https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103933709650953250
   @lnxw48a1 @njoseph

3. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 17:11:05 EDT Strypey

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   "There are a couple of groups around the world who have been working on developing antibodies ... It's sort of like a short-term vaccine, except it works immediately."
   - #RadioNZ #Checkpoint
   https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018740956/pandemic-scientist-makes-breakthrough-on-covid-19-cure

4. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2020 07:26:10 EDT Strypey

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   #Mistserver is a #Livestreaming server package which, like a bunch of other projects (notably #GitLab), make some of its source code available as a hobbled "open source edition", lacking features present in a "pro" version:
   https://mistserver.org/opensource

5. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 22:06:58 EDT Strypey

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   "In general the entities pushing for these [non-free #SourceAvailable] licenses are VC backed companies who are themselves benefiting from free software written by volunteers that they give nothing back to, so I have very little sympathy."
   https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52907.html

   This!

6. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 05:16:49 EDT Strypey

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   • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   @openrisk > You could imagine servers being pure data API endpoints and the GUI being handled locallyFor sure. I touched on another way to think about it here:https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103791277016958320What it comes down to is that #Javascript is an excellent way for newbie developers to make their code run on other people's computers without having to …
7. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2020 18:42:44 EST Strypey

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   Using a web browser without an add-on that can block trackers and malware (eg #uBlockOrigin), or #MakeJavascriptOptional (eg #NoScript), is like using #WindowsXP without an antivirus and a malware scanner.

8. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2020 23:03:47 EST Strypey

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   @dublinux like most of Mastodon's toxicity-avoidance design decisions, this breaks UX for legitimate users much more often than it slows down Bad Actors, who just hack around it. The crippled hashtag search is a classic example. Bad Actors can just use a different fediverse app that has the fully functional hashtag search Gargron wanted to implement, but Mastodon…
9. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 23:00:37 EST Strypey

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   This post on the #Jami blog highlights some of the ways users have to manage #P2P apps differently from those that depend on servers:
   https://jami.net/the-jami-quirks/

10. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 17:45:49 EST Strypey

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    "... there is a persistent, widespread view that Newmark’s humble-looking site destroyed classified advertising, one of the newspaper industry’s most valuable cash cows. Last October’s New York Times article – the one that called him a 'villain' – stated: 'Researchers eventually estimated that Craigslist had drained $5bn from American newspapers over a …
11. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 17:33:02 EST Strypey

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    Perhaps because #Javascript is usually deployed by web designers, not software engineers or sysadmins. Designers who are given with minimal to no maintenance budget, if they're even retained by the client after they deliver a website design. In practice, JS is a hot mess of known bugs and security holes, running on your browser without you knowledge or consent (unless you use #NoScript etc).

    #MakeJavascriptOptional!

12. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 17:32:14 EST Strypey

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    'JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed'
    https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-libraries-are-almost-never-updated/

13. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2020 17:06:37 EST Strypey

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    @JordiGH #Canonical has done this sort of thing before. Remember the #AmazonLens spyware distributed with #Ubuntu?
    https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

14. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 16:27:17 EST Strypey

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    "It's not like a complete lockdown. I still go out, take my regular afternoon walks for an hour and come back to my dormitory. I go for regular shopping."- anonymous Fijian student in Wuhanhttps://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/409678/wuhan-not-as-dangerous-as-reported-according-to-fijian-studentFrom what I'm hearing from people in neighbouring province…
15. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 15:42:54 EST Strypey

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    @hexmasteen
    > I just posted an overview.

    Link please?

    > one I'm not very familiar with and generally skeptical towards.

    For good reason ;) Perhaps Session offers something not possible with non-blockchain chat P2P like #Jami and #Tox apps, or the many existing #blockchain-based social media projects:
    https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/blockchain-social-apps

    But the burden of proof is definitely on them.

16. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2020 17:52:01 EST Strypey

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    A lot of the OS work for the #PinePhone has been built on top of work done for both #UbuntuPhone and the #Librem5, such as #Phosh:
    https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh

    This is one advantage of developing software as a #commons.

17. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2019 13:09:43 EST Strypey

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    "Make sure that sites can at least function without JavaScript and in text-only browsers."
    #Snowdrift Co-op's 'Honor Code for Projects'
    https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/project-reqs/honor-projects
    #MakeJavascriptOptional

18. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2019 00:52:16 EDT Strypey

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    A year ago, #Sandstorm had to shut down free accounts on their #Oasis service because there weren't enough paid accounts to cross-subsidize them:
    https://sandstorm.io/news/2018-08-27-discontinuing-free-plan

19. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2019 14:33:57 EDT Strypey

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    Also this message now appears on the pages of every YahooGroup, eg:https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/diyweb/info> "Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user created content on its sites."Some of us have been saying for a long time that forcing platform providers to take legal responsibility for user-generated content some people find obje…
20. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2019 14:19:07 EDT Strypey

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    Yet another reason not to trust corporate #datafarms to host your communications. #Yahoo are deleting the archives of all #YahooGroups and shutting down the web interface. If you have (or had) a group there you want archived for posterity, the #ArchiveTeam are onto it as usual:
    https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups