Post B2n6MWPQye1P1RL9Tk by jackyan@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B2lUgl7022DmzsyqO0 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-29T03:52:27Z
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"But there's one post-American system that's easy to imagine. The project to rip out all the cloud connected, backdoored, untrustworthy black boxes that power our institutions, our medical implants, our vehicles and our tractors; and replace it with collectively maintained, open, free, trustworthy, auditable code."#CoryDoctorow, 2026https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition(1/?)#CloudComputing #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalCommons
(DIR) Post #B2lUjoSU2uhuFFUAc4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-29T03:53:01Z
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"This project is the only one that benefits from economies of scale, rather than being paralyzed by exponential crises of scale. That's because any open, free tool adopted by any public institution – like the Eurostack services – can be audited, localized, pen-tested, debugged and improved by institutions in every other country."#CoryDoctorow, 2026https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition(2/?)
(DIR) Post #B2lUn2Gh9q77wbVa0O by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-29T03:53:36Z
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"It's a commons, more like a science than a technology, in that it is universal and international and collaborative. We don't have dueling western and Chinese principles of structural engineering. Rather, we have universal principles for making sure buildings don't fall down, adapted to local circumstances."#CoryDoctorow, 2026https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition(3/?)
(DIR) Post #B2lUpIKmOcZCLoUooC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-29T03:54:01Z
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"We wouldn't tolerate secrecy in the calculations used to keep our buildings upright, and we shouldn't tolerate opacity in the software that keeps our tractors, hearing aids, ventilators, pacemakers, trains, games consoles, phones, CCTVs, door locks, and government ministries working."#CoryDoctorow, 2026https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition(4/4)
(DIR) Post #B2lZXoKrB2iq9w0xpw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-29T04:46:52Z
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Coda:"... we don't need Europe to lead the charge on a post-American internet by repealing anticircumvention. Any country could do it!"Aotearoa?"And the country that gets there first gets to reap the profits from supplying jailbreaking tools to the rest of the world, it gets to be the Disenshittification Nation, and everyone else in the world gets to buy those tools and defend themselves from US tech companies' monetary and privacy plunder."#CoryDoctorow, 2026https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
(DIR) Post #B2n6MWPQye1P1RL9Tk by jackyan@mastodon.social
2026-01-29T22:28:09Z
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@strypey I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!
(DIR) Post #B2pEbkIWoGMOOFnff6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-30T23:11:07Z
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@jackyan> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society. I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.
(DIR) Post #B2pEewcZRs2ZTkhTOK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-30T23:11:41Z
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@jackyan> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society. I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.#AntiCircumvention
(DIR) Post #B2pF1Orb7nA9RSR84W by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-30T23:15:45Z
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@jackyan AFAIK technological anti-circumvention rules were introduced in NZ by the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008. Shame on Labour for passing this bollox, in anticipation of the ratification of ACTA, which never happened after the EU pulled out.Yes, the EU has been leading the way on moving legislation towards respecting digital rights, for that long.#NZPolitics #EU
(DIR) Post #B2pGBDeRlXXPWBX0Iy by jackyan@mastodon.social
2026-01-30T23:28:39Z
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@strypey I was about to ask you which legislation this came under. Horrible that is on the books. We need allies to repeal this—maybe the Greens? Post-James Shaw I never hear from them though … the Nats actually do better at replying, even when in opposition!
(DIR) Post #B2pMCOVZU92TCkK7Bw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-01-31T00:36:11Z
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@jackyan> We need allies to repeal this—maybe the Greens?Would be interesting to see if their recent Right to Repair member's bill addressed this. At minimum, it must surely have asserted the right of people to apply circumventions to devices they own, for the purpose of effecting repairs.