ente @ente@chaos.social
not even a real person, mostly talks about computers because all other topics are inflammatory, follow at your own risk. toots are EN/DE
#Privacy shouldn’t be taken for granted. The ‘I have nothing to hide’ response does just that, implying that government and corporate #surveillance should be acceptable as the default. https://spreadprivacy.com/three-reasons-why-the-nothing-to-hide-argument-is-flawed/
One caveat: We have to protect cryptography.
Crypto must be protected at all costs, it will allow us to work around most everything else. If crypto is outlawed (as in, users or developers face jail-time), we're completely and utterly screwed.
Another important take-away from my meetings already: calling MEPs is way more effective than e-mailing them.
E-mailing MEPs with a standard e-mail from a template can actually be counter-productive.
If you can, please *call* your MEPs. You can find your MEP here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
If you'd rather e-mail, please write two-three paragraphs in your own words, from your e-mail address. Even if it's not as slick as the template, it will work way better!
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
For anyone who wants to get informed about #SaveYourInternet #Art11 #Art13, these are good and short sources to read:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/29/eu-copyright-proposal-will-hurt-web-wikipedia/
https://www.communia-association.org/2018/05/29/alternative-version-artcile-13-european-parliament-support/
http://fortune.com/2018/06/26/google-eu-copyright-directive/
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/the-internet-after-axel-voss/
Here's a #Mastodon / #Fediverse take:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-we-must-oppose-the-new-copyright-directive/
And a pretty extensive Reddit AMA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8ugrow/eu_copyright_ama_we_are_professors_lionel_bently/
Finally, human rights angle by UN special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Legislation/OL-OTH-41-2018.pdf
@eurasierboy I've accidentally fav'd/boosted toots while meaning to scroll past them in #Amaroq. What do you think about increasing the activation delay for 50-100ms?
Okay #fediverse, hit me with your static-site-comments solutions!
I've been using Disqus on one site and direction to tweet me on another, and neither option sits well with me anymore.
Besides directing all my readers to #Mastodon (and why wouldn't I?!), whatcha got?
So now that email is successfully moved into emacs, the next thing to explore is org-mode.
I'm grateful for being able to use my own tools at work rather than having to use some windows stack I'm not familiar with.
vi-mode in emacs means my boss/coworker can use my editor too :)
I use it myself as well, since spacemacs optionally enables it. This was my last straw in the decision to switch to emacs.
Using programming languages for customization is very flexible if it's well implemented. In particular elisp doesn't seem bad despite its reputation of being old.
Also my instance seems a bit quiet. I wonder if it was all just a temporary thing and everybody is already back on the birdsite.
I heard it's even more important to use hashtags on the fediverse than on twitter but damn do I hate #tagging stuff.
MissKey looks fancy. Seems very Japan-centered at the moment, but I guess we'll see what comes out of it in a few months.
@aral Is there any reason why IPFS isn't mentioned at all in your Web+ post? Is it VC funded?
For too long we have upheld the lie that C was close to the metal. That’s not true anymore. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
Meine Erfahrungen mit LED-Backlight-Kits für ältere Monitore:
https://it-syndikat.org/archives/143-LED-Backlight-fuer-aeltere-Displays.html
Bonus pictures
Bamberg (Symbolbild)
I think that's enough social interaction for today :)
Other Free Software™ I can recommend is ferm (iptables rules handling), sxiv (image viewer), Free- and NetBSD, the aforementioned mbsync (synchronize mails over IMAP), maim (screenshots), fish (friendly interactive shell), urxvt (terminal), spacemacs (extension package for emacs), emacs (operating system), vim (editor when I'm remote and not using tramp-mode in emacs because it's a bit slow), vi (when vim isn't installed), awk (which is forbidden to use in exams), ansible (server orchestration)
