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   Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 07:02:48 JST Yakyu Night Owl

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   @steter Good point. Black folks did that in spite of *wide hand gesture* and maybe the rest of the country can sit back down too.

   As a government? They provided the myth that democracy works for the many. Not exactly a triumph.

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   kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 01:20:13 JST kravietz 🦇

   Traditional shitstorm about #Android device attestation in EU Identity Wallet with Age Verification project:

   https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

   Previously, I have commented on the project stating that it’s neither right nor necessary to rely on a single commercial proprietary function (Google Play) for the device attestation and I hold this.

   But in this thread there’s plenty of voices who contest the whole idea of attestation, the argument boiling down to “I own my device and nobody’s going to tell me what to do!!!” which is just as naive as incorrect:

   1. Ownership doesn’t imply 100% control over every single aspect of your hardware. Starting from WiFi hardware enforcing legal transmitting power limits and DFS feature required in your region, because messing with the latter would interfere with tons of other, often safety critical communications, or air traffic safety.
   2. The fact that you own e.g. a car doesn’t mean you are allowed to freely modify its hardware and firmware beyond the legal limits, and this is right because that’s the point where the safety of other road users depends on your brakes, lights etc. So yeah, you can even build your own car from scratch in your garage and control every single bolt in it, but you won’t be allowed to drive it on the public roads - and I’m personally fine with it.
   3. As can be implied from the examples, about the device you own is not always only about you. When you enter mutual legal relationship with another party - be it private individual or the government - both of them want to have assurance about the legal effects of the agreement.
   4. For example, using Polish app mObywatel you can legally sign a binding contract with another private person - and as the other person I don’t want you to sign an intellectual property sale contract with a fake identity from a phone that is really an Android emulator running in China or Russia.
   5. That’s why I, as the other party, I’m interesting in you being forced to use chain of trust as strong as technically as legally possible. If you don’t like it, that’s fine, we can sign the contract in person too.
   6. As far as I’m aware, nobody makes you to “have a phone similar to an ATM”. The argument is that if you want to enter mutually binding legal agreements with assurance higher than today using your phone, then this phone will need to be attested. If you don’t want your phone to be attested, then the status quo remains, you won’t be able to enter these agreements, just like you are today. Sounds fair to me.

   In other words, freedom to tinker - which I generally agree with - ends where other humans are expected to interact and potentially bear consequences of your tinkering.

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   Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 19:26:08 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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   @garrett points about the ways FOSDEM is surprisingly inaccessible to possibly 30 percent of the population is interesting too.

   As are the points about how FOSDEM has been disappointing on a number of fronts for years.

   https://mastodon.xyz/@garrett/113842908118116849

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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 19:52:13 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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   @bumi @SUp3rN0va regarding the federated Twitter work, I interviewed a person who had worked there at the time, and it was a real thing, published here in Polish:
   https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

   As far as Dorsey killing it, that's coming from people I know and trust who are in a position to know about this. There are probably other sources online, too.

   As far as Jack's "decentralization" shtick, I mentioned this in my blog post about BlueSky's faux-decentralization:
   https://rys.io/en/167.html#jacks-bs

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   #FreeSchool=Co-Op+Learn+DIY 🔁 (freeschool@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 07:51:49 JST #FreeSchool=Co-Op+Learn+DIY 🔁

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   @freemo All good. Really. People get all this from paid services too.

   As for pure-practicalities of moving I would have moved this year if it wasn't for Mastodon not able to move posts and so believe me I thought about it and posted about it and waited for search to do more about it and that just made it that bit harder to find even what I was looking for....

   So not deliberate lock in but Mastodon's lack of real offline view and deleting account = deleting posts, does feel like a lock in for sure.

   Let's just see how it goes for now...

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   Linux Is Awesome (linux_is_awesome@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 13:05:33 JST Linux Is Awesome

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   The Fediverse suffers from fragmentation too.

   As I said, earlier, switching between Fedi instances is not without its risk. Much of it person between Fedi instances (usually drama related).

   It is also the software platforms too. Although they're all using Activity Pub (ActivityPub), some of the API's process and prioritize content differently.

   I can follow the same people on Mastodon and Misskey and end up with 2 different timelines.

   5/?

   #Fedi #Fediverse #Misskey #Mastodon #ActivityPub