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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:40:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • CJ Mallard
   • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune
   • Andrew (bookseller era)
   • Vee Satayamas
   @ajroach42 @duck57 @veer66 @enkiv2 This is the main argument against "without copyright nobody could afford to be a programmer". Most software being created isn't paid for because of a restrictive license. A lot of it is collaboratively written between an IT department, some consultants and some software supplier, and customers quite willingly share their bug reports and even patches with the upstream even when they're paying for the software.
   
   The tricky thing to solve for free software funding is mass-market commodity software like Windows, LibreOffice, Oracle and GNU. But those things already exist as free software too, even in the face of proprietary competition.
   
   It's not solved, core free software infrastructure is still lacking in funding, but the software world would definitely not fall apart without intellectual monopolies.
   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 21:16:32 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     Today, there is hardly an excuse.

     If you do something creative, music, acting, writing, whatever take the time to preserve it.

     The people like me in future generations will thank you.

     If you keep waiting until you're "Ready" you might never release anything.

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   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 21:24:16 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     This was 3 years ago! in 3 years, half the local music I listened to regularly disappeared.

     And the people who made it, mostly, don't care anymore. They are parents with kids now, or they've moved on to other things.

     3 years ago it was really important that no one heard their music that didn't pay for it. Now, you can't even pay for most of it.

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   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 21:41:36 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     The internet is not the only way to archive things.

     The internet is not the only way to distribute things.

     The internet is not eternal. It may not last the rest of our lifetimes. It may be replaced. It may die.

     Have a backup plan.

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   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 23:30:42 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     To fight Centralization:
     - Own your data.
     - Archive your data online and off.
     - Use decentralized services like Mastodon and Matrix and whatever whenever possible.
     - publish to places that aren't facebook or medium (and if you must, only use central services for syndication.)

     To fight user hostility:
     - Use ad blockers and privacy badger
     - If you can get away with it, use no-script or similar when possible.
     - Stop using, or reduce your use of, platforms that profit from treating you poorly.

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   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 23:41:01 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     DAT and IPFS are attempts to make the web way more peer-to-peer.

     I don't know as much about IPFS, but I'm learning.

     DAT forms the bones of the "web without the internet" project I've been working on (http://ajroach42.com/steps-towards-a-web-without-the-internet/)

     Unfortunately, DAT currently only works on (relatively modern) desktops. Eventually, it should also work on mobile devices, but until then... it's not an ideal solution.

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   • Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 00:16:28 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

     Okay, let's recap:

     1. We have to make media
     1.5 we have to talk about the media other people make
     2. We have to Archive the media we make
     3. We have to make software
     4. We have to archive the software that we make
     5. We need viable alternatives to the web and the internet
     6. We need to be smarter about the ways we use the internet
     7. I may end up looking for work in the next 6 months, I will be moving 600ish miles. My ability to do The Work will be impacted by this.

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   • ralphtheninja (ralph@social.weho.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 01:21:42 UTC ralphtheninja

     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42 I wouldn't call it an implementation of DAT since it builds on top of modules from the dat project, but, semantics I guess :)

     You can use DAT directly either with their own desktop app (https://github.com/datproject/dat-desktop) or on command line with https://github.com/datproject/dat.

     Also trivial to use https://github.com/datproject/dat-node in any node application

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   • Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 07:08:05 UTC Russ Sharek

     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42

     I've always wanted to see a linux/foss podcast that focuses on creative people (professional or otherwise) working with the software to make cool things or run their weird little empires.

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   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 10:43:18 UTC Bob Mottram

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     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ajroach42 It's sometimes said that what goes onto the internet stays there forever, but in its current form internet content is very ephemeral. Unless you save it on local storage or put it on archive.org there's a high chance that information will disappear within a few years.
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   • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune (enkiv2@niu.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 22:35:30 UTC Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune

     • CJ Mallard
     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42 @duck57
     I would say:
     Most FOSS is DIY, but the mindshare when people think of FOSS is not DIY projects.

     90%+ of open source software is something one person wrote in an afternoon and slapped a license on, and fewer than ten other people run it and they've all made their own modifications.

     The remaining 10% is massive sprawling incomprehensible messes like GIMP or anything owned by Apache. But since everybody uses those, we think of them first.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:13:23 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ckeen @ajroach42 Wow, https://privacypass.github.io/ is an *amazing* idea. I hope more people get on this train.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:20:23 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • CJ Mallard
     • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @enkiv2 @duck57 @ajroach42 This discussion comes up every so often in the #picolisp crowd. Somebody pops in and says "hey you should do X to get more contributions, to reach a larger audience" (get on git, start a blog, get forums) and Regenaxer will reply that he receives exactly as many contributions and reaches just about the size of an audience he means to. :-D
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:32:10 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • CJ Mallard
     • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ajroach42 @duck57 @enkiv2 Absolutely.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:43:37 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @extebert @ckeen @ajroach42 I don't see that it increases the potential for crawling. If you can get these passes, you could also get a tracker cookie.
     
     I haven't tried this out, but the way I don't have to fill in a captcha *every single time* when going to certain sites is that some central site tracks me, and I need to enable third-party javascript and cookies to be allowed to log in. It would seem to me that this thing can remove that requirement.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:46:47 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ckeen @ajroach42 @extebert Some sites I can't even use because I can't figure out which of uMatrix, PrivacyBadger, HttpsEverywhere or uBlock is preventing me from using it, and what I need to turn on, so for those sites I fall back to using Chrome, in which I have no privacy or security addons.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 02:48:02 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @extebert @ckeen @ajroach42 Exactly.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 09:43:02 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ckeen @extebert Thanks for mentioning that. Looking at https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/99364313917752959 I realize that at https://pleroma.heldscal.la/notice/5730126 I'm missing half of what @ajroach42 was saying initially.
     
     #fedlife
     
     I'll look at it all on pleroma.soykaf.com when I'm on a computer not on a VPN and proxy that breaks https.
     
     #weblife
     
     What I'm trying to say is, it's hard to disagree with the first line of this convo (*as I see it here on this instance*):
     
     > The modern web is a clusterfuck of bad choices.
     
     Except maybe s/web/world of computing/ .
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 09:45:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     > when I'm on a computer not on a VPN and proxy that breaks https.
     
     "But you just said you could see mastosoc and heldscalla", I hear you cry. Yeah, the TLS intercept applies to an arbitrary set of addresses and those happen to be in the clear.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 09:59:44 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @ajroach42 @ckeen Half a thread disappearing is just fed life, esp when on a GS server talking to Masto servers.
     
     I have some uncommitted time coming up, that's probably when I'll set up my own Pleroma. Looking forward to it. After all, I've been on Heldscalla for over a year now. :-D
   • garethnelsonuk (garethnelsonuk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 12:50:37 UTC garethnelsonuk

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     • CJ Mallard
     • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune
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     • Vee Satayamas

     @clacke @enkiv2 @veer66 @ajroach42 @duck57

     Personally, i've never made money from nonfree software - and i've got quite a decent CV now.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 13:23:53 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • CJ Mallard
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     @garethnelsonuk @duck57 @ajroach42 @veer66 @enkiv2 That is very encouraging to hear! <3