@hedders I think so.

Pratchett's books were friends to me when I was a kid.

@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen No problem, Pratchett started as a Journalist. In the 90s some folks compared him to Charles Dickens.

But lots of folks looked down in his writing as it was comic fantasy.

But he was way better than Authors like Craig Shaw Gardiner (another Fantasy author who I like).

This retweet came out of frustration with people misusing Orwell and Foucault. They scrape the surface idea of obvious oppression without understanding the soul of the work and other aspects of history and philosophy both writers focus on.

I also think they are doing it from a selfish individualistic point of view, while ignoring the very real surveillance dangers and control via manipulation from a bunch of con artists who tell them what to hear.

It's the battle for the good of the commons versus individual freedom. This attitude covers everything including the debate over climate change.

Humans progress through cooperation. They learned to survive via cooperation. Dialogue on this has been with us since ancient times with Gilgamesh and Enkidu. With Enkidu representing a pastoral point of view.

Humans won't survive unless we look at the freedom of the commons rather than individual freedom.

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

I wish conference announcements had a few extra links.

Call for Papers
Date
Location
Code of Conduct
Health Policy.

You can put it on an announcement post then link to it.

I don't think I'm asking for that much here. It's the bare minimum.

I want to say yes. I want to come and contribute. But if you can't even reach that low bar, it's not worth it.

@kite @conservancy Last year FOSSY worked with @phpledge to have a public health policy.

"We are also mindful of having a safe environment for all. In this new time of conferences, we will be focused on COVID safety and making sure all attendees feel safe participating as much as they feel comfortable."

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/

@Hamishcampbell @alcinnz we did push back by email, and I'm not attending the next one.

They originally advertised the workshop on the NGI newsletter. Although that's got its own issues if you use ublock. The next time I get a newsletter through I'll post a screenshot. It's flagged as using a service that is on a blocklist for adspam. So it's no wonder NGIs message is getting out to a limited set of innovators.

@paolo @dentangle I received an email from them about the workshop, which I then forwarded to dentangle.

Given the fact that they wanted us to encourage other projects to attend the workshops I felt it was best let other projects know.

Especially given the setback from BBB. They gave us no details as to why it failed, they sent the text as dentangle quoted.

@paolo @dentangle although I know alot of folks on here who wouldn't connect their camera.

@paolo @dentangle but about 15 people missed the seminar this week as they failed to send the meeting link said there was a problem then started up about 10 to 15 minutes late.

There were also bandwidth issues so not everyone connected their camera which the trainer likes people to do

@TerryHancock

I think you could argue all art is political, look at the pre raphelite brotherhood, agitprop theatre etc. Greek plays were definitely social commentary on their political world.

As much as people want to separate politics from art and tech you can't.

Our creativity comes from us and is inspired by our company, politics and beliefs.

@revk
I never knew about the "evil bit". That's an interesting way to flag NAT traffic.

The "GNU Terry Pratchett" padding is cool.

@revk
Which is how it should be. I like the efforts to implement that in HTTP headers and elsewhere.

#IPv6 poll I know you IPv6 Fedizens are out there.

@revk 🔗 https://toot.me.uk/users/revk/statuses/108504774062079105
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IPv6 (please boost when you vote)

@revk
There's a couple of human rights based RFCs now.

I wanted to find a way to talk about mythology, rant about the surveillance happening directly and indirectly through various government acts and our social media.

#RFC1984 ties these things together really well. We might be a mixture of Brave New World and 1984, there's not a catchy RFC number for brave new world.

Plus when you read about the clipper chip and the cryptography embargo you get insight into why the IETF and IAB wrote it.

@revk
What was the RFC about?

@catbuttes
Exactly and it means the ingredients are all used up. 😏

@BrendanSinclair
It really is worth the two hours. He explains everything so well in it.

It's such a deep dive.
@FediThing

I'd also say if you truly cared about the rights of the child, then there's a whole bunch of kids who need help.

Improve their way of life, give everyone free healthcare and education.

Give communities the funding they need to improve.

But we all know that thinking about the children is just a trojan horse to infringe on the human rights of those that rich folks deem lesser.