Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
@luis_in_brief @silvermoon82 @ben
I have, I can honestly say, been running mail servers on and off since some time in the mid-nineties. As I am today. It was never impossible.
What would make it hard would be the lack of static IP address, or access to rDNS. Anything that would prevent one from obtaining such is unequivocally a "big player" decision.
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@ben
We made mistakes with email, we let big players take over, set the rules, and eliminate the competition. They've successfully made it basically impossible to run one's own email server.
When Mozilla or Cloudflare or whoever does something approaching evil, we need to as a community turn our backs on them until they shape up, then let them back in. Fediverse is still our sandbox, we have a chance not to repeat our past mistakes.
@robert_winkler
Oh, I'm also on #IRC, of course,(social networking since 1988), via #ZNC bouncer, connected to #Libera, #hackint and my own lonely IRCd at irc.rhizomatica.org. 🙂
@robert_winkler
#Whatsapp, or anything from #Meta, it goes without saying, is unacceptable. Recently, #Mastodon, (well, as we both own our instances), is also an option for person to person messaging. Although I honestly have no clue the current state of TLS, so generally my attitude is:
"What happens at #Internet, stays at Internet".
Meanwhile, it would be good to know your experience connecting to IMS on the #PinePhone with any Altan SIM, not just the tic-omv SIM.
@robert_winkler
... #Telegram became the goto at work which might be kind of my "fault", but the UX is simply superior in IM. Of course, the #privacy bros will have a hernia and say "OMG but it's not e2e bla bla." Truth is there are very few people I would trust to care for my content once it is decrypted at their end. After all, mostly we are talking about #Android devices and who knows what is running on them. Telegram is also not centralised in USA like pretty much everything else....
@robert_winkler
To reply I feel like making the thread public, (feel free to reply private again) Yes, I have a #signal account, I only use it with those who have nothing else. Moxie's arrogance and attitude gives me the creeps; I don't want to promote his product. Besides, Signal runs mostly on AWS infra. Ethical it is not. I have been meaning for sometime to setup a #Matrix instance for the telephony, but it is still a TODO, but I do have a matrix account or 2, and #Wire. as for #Telegram...
Keith Whyte
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How to strike? And where to strike?
Growing list of actions in many places: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/publish/8m-activities.raw.html
@fsfe
Hi @becha This is the kind of thing I was talking about a couple of years ago, about which I would like to see a watchdog platform in the EU. In this particular case, it seems OK as there is both the #RightToRemainDisconnected and the #RighToRecourseToAHuman (renew at city hall), but it's certainly a step in the wrong direction. Sad that with all the NGI funding, an EU govt promotes technology only available via the platforms of USA based companies. Such is the centralisation we live in.
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Is it right for governments to force citizens to use Google or Apple's proprietary technologies to verify their online identities? 🤔 The Netherlands user case
https://blogs.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/2022/03/16/dutch-digital-identity-system-crisis/
@becha
Hi. It's possible, indeed! I'll check it out.
Keith Whyte
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A sample of the top DNS queries from the phones connected to #tic-ac community #GSM network over the last few days.
#decentralised (not)
#dnstop
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On 8th of March 2023, we call for a #CounterCloudActionDay.
On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for #TheBigTechCloud. The strike calls for a hyperscaledown of extractive digital services, and for an abundance of collective organising.
We join the long historical tail of international feminist strikes, because we understand this fight to be about labour, care, anti-racism, queer life and trans★feminist techno-politics.
Join the #strike! https://titipi.org/8m/
Keith Whyte
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I'm so super happy to announce that OFFDEMo3 programme is online, it will be great to see you there on february 4-5
https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/offdem-ozone-programme
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Microsoft and Google are both making investor noises along with their recent layoffs that they're going to be refocusing their efforts on "AI" and as a user of both Microsoft and Google products I am feeling absolute dread about what monstrosities MS and Google are going to label "AI", shove in my face, and make it extremely difficult for me to turn off
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“The #fediverse is like #email.”
Yes.
Now read this and understand it:
“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.
Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“
Via @cancel
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Poor countries are not “under-developed”, they are over-exploited.
@dk
Yes!. Understanding internet use as mainly a kind of light entertainment, with the remote possibility of a conversation that might actually lead to some constructive action, I like it! The thing about social media is the dinner party never ends, they just keep serving up more wine. Which even on twitter (a bad dinner party) entices one to stay, 😉 drunkenly believing all these words will actually change anything other than the bank accounts of the tech oligarchs.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
