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tallship (tallship@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 09:37:59 JST 
tallship
More clarification and review material by my friend Danie on the amazingly practical #Keyoxide.
#Danie publishes one of the very best FOSS Tech blogs on the Internet and his video product review drill downs are unparalleled in their in-depth coverage and cookbook style instructional aspects - not only to you come away with a good sense of the products suitability and viability for your particular needs and applications, but also a basic understanding of onboarding and studio usage of these FOSS projects did you can hit the groundv running, after being introduced to the basics.
https://gadgeteer.co.za/keyoxide-is-a-privacy-friendly-open-source-tool-to-create-and-verify-decentralized-online-identities-using-a-cryptography-based-approach-to-bidirectional-linking/
We even use and leverage the utility of #Keyoxide with our release signing at #Forgejo, the git forge with a solemn commitment to remaining completely free and maintained exclusively with FOSS infrastructure and tools in the Fediverse for FOSS Advocates and users alike - you'll NEVER SEE a link to a Google Doc or ANY proprietary, #privacy_disrespecting in ANY of our discussions , links, #infra, or resources - literally every single thing the #Forgejo community does occurs ONLY with FOSS based software and #infrastructure.... period!!!
And mostly, exclusively with #Fediverse and other #FOSS_Centic DeSoc spsces
There has been perhaps, never a more mainstream, FOSS based project (other than the #GPL'd v2 only #CopyLeft Linux kernel) that has reached out in support of users in a truly free and open source world view...
No special #Enterprise versions with paid subscriptions like other platforms such as
#GitLab or #gitea with the whole principle of #fealty add #subjugation as the user, as a #vassal to the #lords of corporate #surveillance and subjugation, but moreover, ANY freaking measure of #disrespect for your personal or #professional_privacy as a user, contributer or #maintainer of software that is truly free of #Privacy_disrespecting technologies so prevalent in the space of the #deprecated, #legacy #monolithic_silos.
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Privacy #identity #cryotographically_proveable_identity #cryptographic_proofs #verification #gpg #OpenPGP #Keybase #rel_me #freedom @danie10 @keyoxide @yarmo @forgefed @forgefed
I hope that helps!
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 11:06:38 JST 
simsa04
I'm not sure this is the right way to proceed.
#Twitter is part of the U.S. disaster and emergency communications infrastructure. As
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/19/twitter-emergencies/ points out, about 1 in 5 U.S. Americans use Twitter. So it's here where people get their info, or from platforms that pass through announcements that originated on Twitter.
Also, as the article points out, :
« [O]fficials expressed confidence in their ability to spread messages and warnings without Twitter, using tried-and-true methods like email distribution lists and wireless alert systems [...]
“We’ve been sharing messages for a long time, long before Twitter came into existence,” said Karina Shagren, the communications director for the Washington Military Department in Tacoma [...] “We’ve always been modifying strategies, and we’ll do it again if we need to.” »
The main problem is not that Musk purportedly undermines Twitter's part in the disaster and emergency communications #infrastructure but that in the U.S. critical infrastructure is run by private companies. (Cf. the winter blackouts in Texas of 2021.)
Thus on the one hand it's a deeper seated structural problem (i.e., capitalism), on the other hand it's not something that is peculiar to Musk's handling of Twitter. In fact, given Twitter's share in the infrastructure, it may serve to Musk as further incentive to keep Twitter running decently. -
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Brent Toderian (brenttoderian@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 19:33:40 JST 
Brent Toderian
Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via #StreetsblogUSA, read their article linked below. #bikelanes #bikes #cities #transportation #mobility #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanplanning
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/ -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 22:45:53 JST
simsa04
[cont.]
#infrastructure (history of; its resilience and tenacity vis-à-vis change is more important than "energy" and "renewables")
#landgrabbing (primarily the Progressive and Green one)
#logistics (history of; supply chains, technical inventions, standardisations, politics)
#nuclear (given climate change its risks are minuscle compared to other means of electricity generation incl. renewables)
#peakrenewables (my hunch that, given supply issues, environmental impacts of mining and production, economic cost-benefit ratios, etc., we already face the peak of construction of renewables; idea: we're set to see a stagnation, even shrinking, not an increase in the construction of renewables)
#postdoom (not scientism nor blind faith in technical progress (which usually ignores the social fall-out) but the stance that the complexity of our world is the main source of hope and the main reason why the chatter of doom is less about reality but a psychology)
#rain (we have too little where I live; and I love its sound)
#renewables (mostly technical developments, liabilities, and economic viability)
#sources (instead of "bookmarks" a collection of info sources that caught my eyes)
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten (personal musings in which I develop (or rather: follow the trait of) thoughts and ideas; not to provoke, or troll, or to invite heated discussions)
Right now many notices are also tagged #Ukraine, #Russia, #Putin
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lostinlight (lightone@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 05:31:16 JST 
lostinlight
? New themed servers in #Fedi network (3/3):
• https://techspace.social - for techies and tech-curious people
• https://techhub.social - for passionate technologists
• https://k8s.social - for #Kubernetes, container and #cloud native enthusiasts
• https://urbanists.social - for people who like #bikes, transit, and walkable #cities
• https://bikejam.social - for bike and pedestrian #infrastructure
• https://bahn.social - for #rail enthusiasts
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 06:33:01 JST
simsa04
It's a bit difficult to unpack your question because so many different and divergent concepts and aspects are lumped into this word #technology. Its primary image, that of a #tool, is contrasted with the results of its application, and stuff (material or immaterial) that serves a #purpose. Also layers of generality: of practical knowledge; generalised procedures to effect impacts; strata of consequences that in themselves have such consequential "power" that people have only few ways to influence and change courses of events.
Thus to me two things turned out to be important over the years:
° thinking about technology via the image of "tools" is devastaingly inappropriate
° thinking about technology deflects from the perhaps more important topic of #infrastructure
To me, the history of infrastructure(s) began to replace questions about technology or its history.
With "infrastructure" I don't mean merely places, built environments, supply chains and innovations therein (e.g., the innovation of the shipping container in the 1930s and its standarisation in the 1960s which proved decisive in the Vietnam war). It entails concepts of #energy density, of market economies, of sustainibility...
But more to your point: I find the most fitting metaphor for technology to be that of a #game. Be it competitve games, be it solitary games, be it "new games". The aspect of playfullness is more important than earlier generations of tech critique may have acknowledged.
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