Post AlF3ZA9kUpJPQ2pQdU by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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(DIR) Post #Al0ZPKTRYyuTgWzq8e by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-16T00:47:59Z
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Most people have heard of John Perry Barlow and his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. But how many have heard of the Cult of the Dead Cow and the Hacktivismo Declaration?https://web.archive.org/web/20060422152331/http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/declaration.html In 2001, 5 years after Barlow's Declaration, cDc called on all hackers to develop software in ways that encode the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the face of the same state-sponsored #censorship and violence that motivated Barlow's digital rights work.(1/3)#cDc #Hacktivismo
(DIR) Post #Al0ZPOlfb9rl0DYS6S by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-16T00:48:00Z
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Barlow's original claim to fame, before he co-founded EFF (and the Freedom of the Press Foundation), was as a Gateful Dead lyricist. Part of a counterculture that faced years of sometimes-brutal government repression. His now famous Declaration was hastily written in 1996, in response to the events of the day;https://web.archive.org/web/20180210082120/https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/march-april-2006-can-we-know-everything/cyberspace-still-anti-sovereign(2/3)
(DIR) Post #Al0ZPQeeaDRSr2HsRc by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-16T00:48:00Z
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A twisted interpretation of Barlow's Declaration has become been the manifesto of the transnational digital hyper-capitalism we refer to as "Silicon Valley".But cDc's Declaration, drafted with more time for reflection and published with a prelude about its historical context, is more in line with Barlow's true intentions. As indicated by his reflections on his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, published 10 years later.(3/3)
(DIR) Post #Al0ft0uTSw3LQ9B4oS by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-16T02:00:42Z
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Why are Cult of the Dead cow using Discord to host their chat rooms instead of IRC, XMPP or Matrix?Why are there no instructions for using F-Droid to install the Veiled beta app on Android?https://veilid.com/chat/beta/#chat #cDc #Veiled #FDroid
(DIR) Post #Al110aqyKDIzxhzkuG by mondstern@mastodon.green
2024-08-16T05:57:17Z
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@strypey There is no link to fdroid.There is no apk in the sourcecode gitlabThen why is fdroid tagged with #?
(DIR) Post #Al3328cUr7UtCX0aTQ by austin@mstdn.party
2024-08-17T05:29:21Z
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@strypey I disagree that Discord is more tolerable for privacy, but they do have a point in the targeted userbase.
(DIR) Post #Al4rB3OQqe28Skpo5w by austin@mstdn.party
2024-08-17T05:30:58Z
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@mondstern @strypey The issue of concern is https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat/-/issues/47 . However, if I recall correctly, F-Droid (main repo) is a bit... technically hostile to Flutter apps (in that they do not frequently update the build tools on F-Droid's server)...
(DIR) Post #Al4rB49w021yq53k8W by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-18T02:26:02Z
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"We decided to not deploy there for this early beta period due to Fdroid’s lack of testing tracks.""We will setup our own Fdroid repository in the near future."https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat/-/issues/47Setting up your own repo *is* the testing track. This makes it available to power users comfortable with adding repos not only on F-Droid, but any app library compatible with those repos.@austin @mondstern
(DIR) Post #Al74wBgHXTefUvuPsu by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T04:09:38Z
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(1/?)@austin> they do have a point in the targeted userbaseThat's generous of you. But this a typical excuse and IMHO a failure of leadership.> I disagree that Discord is more tolerable for privacyDitto. This comment by the Veilid folks just makes me question their motivations/ competence even more.
(DIR) Post #Al74wDrLRJh0Fp6HPE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T04:09:38Z
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(2/?)We hear more about FarceBook's privacy violations, because they're bigger and older. But Discord is just as much of a "TOTAL shit show when it comes to privacy", if not more.For a start, Discord is a for-profit corporation part-owned by TenCent, the FB of China. Also, it has all the same underlying technical structures that FB use to violate privacy so flagrantly.#privacy #Discord
(DIR) Post #Al74wFxRdblClJyBBw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T04:09:39Z
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(3/3)Discord, just like FB, is a centralised services that enforces the use of proprietary apps. Which can't be audited or modified for the benefit of people using them.It doesn't provide an open API to allow third-party chat apps to be first-class citizens in Discord rooms. It's ToS has rules forbidding reverse-engineering of its internal client-to-server API. A preemptive legal threat against anyone who modifies Free Code chat apps so they can be used in place of proprietary Discord apps.
(DIR) Post #Al7FV8UcNpIHHrkyrw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-19T06:08:06Z
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@austin > they do not frequently update the build tools on F-Droid's serverRight. This has become a problem for other apps in the past, including Snikket;https://snikket.org/blog/fdroid-security-update/I guess that like so many things in software freedom infrastructure projects, there is a shortage of volunteers with the necessary skills, and a lack of funding to pay people to do it.@mondstern
(DIR) Post #AlF3Z9M7TLc4w7bnHM by fdroidorg@floss.social
2024-08-20T06:59:06Z
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@austin @mondstern @strypey As you've said, "one of the reasons" ;)If you want, you can hop into the #fdroid:f-droid.org room. Other members of the team have more insights about flutter & co and would happily share them with you.
(DIR) Post #AlF3ZA9kUpJPQ2pQdU by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-23T00:31:56Z
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@fdroidorg> If you want, you can hop into the #fdroid:f-droid.org roomThanks for the invite. I note the join message asks me not to edit messages, due to the impact on people connecting via IRC/ XMPP. Is there any way to disable messaging editing in Matrix apps on a per-room basis? Either by the room admin (ideal) or the person joining (so we don't forget).@austin @mondstern