Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
Keith Whyte
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the safest way to use computers is still abstinence
Keith Whyte
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Keith Whyte
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I remember seeing Halliburton employees hiding their badges at a tech conference because they were ashamed of it. (Not conjecture, by the way, I asked them why and that’s exactly what they told me.) And that’s exactly as it should be. They, at least, had some situational awareness. I can’t say the same thing for folks who proudly work at surveillance capitalists now parading themselves on the fediverse like prized peacocks.
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#surveillanceCapitalism #fediverse #corporateCapture #activism
As @ummjackson mentions elsewhere on this thread, disabling the public timeline is a potential workaround to avoid getting scraped, as #http is not #activitypub as doesn't have federation rules.
However, I don't see why disabling this feature for all should be the answer to avoiding a few bad actors. iptables block lists perhaps? Or maybe a network wide request to respect something more HTTP-ish like a robots.txt?, and reserve firewall blocking for violators?
It seems to me that an important part of the #fediverse is the ability to de-federate.
As someone involved in attempts to build #community networks, I find this feature attractive. I support the creation of small instances, where most users would have some kind of real world connection and can carry on their business without having to participate in the #myrmecology aspects of the internet.
@ciaby
Yesterday I found this: (from Nov 2021):
http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698
"The Bandwidth Of The StarLink Constellation...and the assessment of its potential subscriber base in the USA."
Concerns about #starlink
3) Resource extraction.
The internet is a colonialist tool, like roads that are built into jungles to extract precious minerals, the info superhighway does the same, while you might expect here one would say "for personal data", actually we can just focus on the simple hard-earned MXN $1100/month transferred to USD via SpaceX.
Is this any worse that paying the local WISP that pays #Telmex or #Totalplay for their uplink?
My knowledge of economics of this is limited.
Concerns about #starlink
2) USA centralised infrastructure.
We build community networks, for community communication.
Starlinks Downlink/Uplink ratio is huge. That is to be expected, the network is designed primarily for beaming the likes of Netflix and "social media" into hearts and souls.
Still, we can ignore that and route SIP/RTP over it, and reach community services running on our servers, albeit only by routing our data through #SpaceX teleports.
Concerns about #starlink
1) Yet another complex dependency about which we know very little.
Will it last?
What happens if there's a massive crash in space?
How will performance be as the number of terrestrial antennas increases?
What about the environmental, scientific and political issues of the implementation of starlink, and supporting the #mars colony project. As often, not for me to say, but once again in this work, there is the task of facilitating the making of an informed decision.
Yesterday I did some very "manual" tests of VoIP call quality with #starlink. Works 100%.
So, for the moment, it would seem like the perfect solution to remote communications. For #Rhizomatica/TIC this has been a major block for years. We have been unable to install local #2G #telephony service in quite some number of communities, due to being unable to provide reliable backhaul.
However, I do have some concerns about it.
@ummjackson
Hi Jackson.
How does my instance opt out?
Well, there's really not much to say about #starlink.
You take it out of the box, place the dish on the roof, plug it in. It takes a few minutes to find itself, align the dish and then it just works.
You do not strictly need the #Android app (I don't have a device that would run it) to get connected , although I suppose it might help on a site with many obstructions.
#LEO latency is, as advertised, low, RTT to space and back is ~40ms. Even when loaded up it's not that bad.
re: birdsite - cautionary tale
@ciaby
Hmm. That's actually a good question. Maybe we also want to keep our fediverses small.
Keith Whyte
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XLT Alert > 20 Years of Morgenrot Cafe in #btropolis 2nite .... 20 years of a worker-owned oasis cafe, that survived the grim pberg gentrifork ! 🍴 Good reasons to celebrate ! Plus it is in a haus project bought by a miet syndikat strategy, so it's off the immobilien marketplace for the next 99 Years ( at least ). if we live that long haha. ;))))) 🍾🍷#workerowned #kollectiv #anarchism #antifá #kiezkultur
Ugh, Thanks for the heads up to keep the heads down while footballs are flying.
Meantime, if we ignore for the moment the russophobia and writing an opinion piece to look like a Q&A interview, (let's not assume it's malevolent, rather just a device to make reading easier?) -
This doesn't give me nightmares, but could be some interesting predictions in there, certainly food for thought for those leaving twitter ONLY because of mr.musk.
I hear you can buy miracles these days..
But anyway.. oh shit.. There's a world cup coming? F*ck!, As if everything wasn't bad enough already, now football? Noooooooo
@ciaby
It crossed my mind this morning: -
I wonder has anyone even raised for discussion the possibility that twitter would implement #ActivityPub
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
