Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:03:23 +0100

Gunga wrote the following post Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:50:29 +0100

Amazing short film made with #kdenlive 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i1Xk51uZVU&t=8s&ab_channel=EthicCinema

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:14:29 +0100

ar.al wrote the following post Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:47:36 +0100

Join us for our Small Is Beautiful live stream this Thursday at 5PM Irish time.

Topic: web3 is bullshit (long live web0) and wtf is NodeKit?

https://small-tech.org/events/small-is-beautiful/

#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallTech #SmallWeb #web0

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:19:16 +0100

Daniel Stenberg wrote the following post Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:02:05 +0100

Enforcing the pyramid of Open Source https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/17/enforcing-the-pyramid-of-open-source/ - thoughts on how the pyramid works and why it is hard to "just fix".

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Brad Koehn ☑️

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:33:14 +0100 from Diaspora

Oh, absolutely. Helping people understand what's actually valuable is really hard, which contributes directly to the dynamic you mentioned.

It would all be so easy if it weren't for all the people involved.

Brad Koehn ☑️

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:35:37 +0100 from Diaspora

For what it's worth the same thing happens in the org chart; we focus on the CEOs and officers whom we see, but not on the people at the bottom of the chart doing all the work. It's a side effect of the humans doing the observing.

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:13:46 +0100

Very true. I don't think it's a problem we'll ever solve completely, but occasionally making oneself aware of it is a good exercise.

Harald Eilertsen

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:23:08 +0100

IzzyOnDroid ✅ wrote the following post Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:54:33 +0100

Oh, and #Google rejects apps because they state they are free/libre? Or rather because they "use Google Translate incorrectly"? A story how Gogle constantly messes up, keeping devs from improving their apps as they have to focus on non-existent "compliance issues":

https://sylviavanos.nl/blog/2021/12/24/google_play_hell.html

And Sylvia isn't the only one experiencing this. Ask @ConnyDuck (Tusky) for example. And I'm pretty sure you'll find many more examples…

#GooglePlay #monopoly #messingUp #incompetence

Harald Eilertsen

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:00:35 +0100

Kjetil Kilhavn wrote the following post Sun, 16 Jan 2022 10:55:09 +0100

Ny svindel på gang - jeg mottok i epost, men den kan jo sendes på SMS også.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:17:46 +0100

Aral Balkan wrote the following post Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:15:15 +0100

GDPR (acronym): a European data protection law that’s enforced in the EU by Max Schrems and noyb.

#gdpr #noyb #eu

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:19:03 +0100

Floppy wrote the following post Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:57:05 +0100

💬 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
🗣️ Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

💬 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
🗣️ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

💬 "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
🗣️ Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

💬 "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will."
🗣️ Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal messenger, 2022

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Brad Koehn ☑️

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:30:19 +0100 from Diaspora

Pretty sure Moxie was right, Not there are no people who want to run their own servers, but very few people do. Even less when you consider cloud providers.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:38:39 +0100

"I think there is a world market for maybe five hot and cold water faucets at the best hotels."

"There is no reason anyone would want a hot and cold water faucet in their home."

"I predict the hot and cold water faucet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

"People don’t want to turn on hot and cold water, and never will."

Source: -

oRx-Qx pirateradio

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:59:23 +0100

He stepped down, no more predictions.

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:23:37 +0100

@Brad Koehn ☑️ The problem with Moxie's post is that he only sees two options. Either everybody runs their own servers, or we only use centralised, non-federated services. There's nothing inbetween, which is where it gets problematic.

Of course Moxie has a commercial interest in the centralised model. I think it's a conscious omission that he quietly don't mention the possibilities of decentralised hosting. It fits his narrative, but he's a smart guy so I don't for a moment beleive that he's not aware of the opportunity.

thanatos

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:42:14 +0100 from Diaspora

And, on a side note, this weird incessant rejection of federation, self-hosting, using something other than Electron, making people identity with phone numbers (although they got rid of that, right?)... It's weird and makes me not trust the whole thing.

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:59:30 +0100

@thanatos

people identity with phone numbers (although they got rid of that, right?)...

I don't think so. From what I've heard there's only been talk about it so far. (I don't use signal myself for those precise reasons.)

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:23:42 +0100

Haha, Trollfest i MGP!

Er vel noe av det eneste som klarer å ta konseptet så seriøst som det fortjener, altså absolutt ikke-seriøst. Artig gjeng!

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:32 +0100

✨Nora Tindall wrote the following post Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:51:19 +0100

If you make a piece of software, and people are required to use that piece of software in order to, say, pay for their housing or groceries or pay back a loan, you are on the hook to make sure that software works for _every single person_ who needs to use it.

All of them.

Every screen reader user. Every person with muscle issues who can't use a mouse. Everyone who doesn't speak English. Everyone with three first names, or no last name. Everyone who is Irish or Jewish and has a ' in their name. Everyone with slow internet.

EVERY person.

"Oh we don't have the resources to do that!" Great. Then you don't have the resources to make and sell that kind of software. Pack up and go home.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 19:07:26 +0100

Mikael wrote the following post Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:48:06 +0100

If GDPR breaks your business model, you should probably reconsider your ethical standards.

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no