Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se), page 12

@andrewstroehlein they also didn't for the last four years, but you're correct that this will likely continue.

If you want to blame someone for what happened, consider blaming the party that decided genocide and the support of the Cheney family was a winning strategy.

But remember that, even if Trump had lost, things would still continue to get worse.

If we want things to get better, we have to move beyond this system.

@aud I think @briar has a lot of good stuff going for it, for example. I'm also a shameless advocate for XMPP + OMEMO as an underrated federated alternative to Signal with the right apps, but the main problem for both of these are again the 'running on US operating systems' thing. Briar at least has an official release on @fdroidorg and an APK on their own website.

Fascism is inevitable if the wider people feel poorer and less secure than they want to be. People like that seek to blame others, and that leads to fascism.

To defeat fascism, you tax the rich and spend it on the poor. You eliminate billionaires.

That's the only mechanism that will reliably work over periods of time.

EU; change tactics. Stop walking the USA/UK path. Raise taxes on the rich, spend on your public services. Watch the fascists power vanish.

@aud Signal is a US organisation with servers in the US and operating under US wiretapping laws and officially only works on US-controlled operating systems. It's a lot better than Facebook messenger and certainly better than fediverse DMs (where's that E2E encryption AP extension?), but I think taking their word for what is accessible the US security state is naive in the extreme.

So, by all means, use Signal, organise and shittalk, but for anything truly sensitive, something that could realistically threaten US national security or be perceived to do so, you might want to consider other ways of organising.

Thinking that the only things available to the US security state from Signal are the things Signal claim to save is, I feel, naive in the extreme.

On the upside, them leaking, acknowledging, or unambiguously using that in a way that is traceable is going to be a massive upset, and you're probably not that important.

But Apple, Google, Signal, are all US organisations with servers in the US operating under US wiretapping laws.

It's true that a lot of servers in the fediverse are probably run by cool people, but remember that everything you say is copied many, many times over to many, many different databases. For example, my single user instance here federates with like, 11,000 fucking instances, I am not joking. That means this little post could be copied into 11,000 databases, give or take, depending on the nature of the instances I'm federated with.

So in theory, let's say I posted something, like, I dunno, "fuck dtolnay". Any one of those servers could take offense with that and be shitty to me about it. And I don't control their retention policies.

So! While we don't have to worry about Mark "My Cold Dead Eyes Are The Mark of the Beast" or Elon "I fucked my own cybertruck and liked it" being shitty about our stuff here, it's not a bad idea to consider the nature of the fediverse when writing spicy things that could be prone to misinterpretation.

#activityPub #fediverse

And there it is: @mozilla loses its Advocacy division, and the #OpenWeb loses what was once a champion.

“We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it” says the Mozilla Foundation. Oh yeah, laying off workers is “revisiting” how to do the work, all right.

#MozillaCorp is nakedly a profit-seeking #SurveillanceCapitalism promotional body today.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs

@ShaulaEvans Signal is a US organisation, operating their servers in the US, and subject to US wiretapping laws.

And inb4 all the upcoming posts and articles on what “Europe should do”, please ponder: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europe-must-invest-in-xyz/

With any luck, this will at least lead to EU policies that materially and concretely oppose the US tech industry. Maybe even their foreign policy.

Tack alla NATO-förespråkare för att ni fått in oss i militärallians med fascister.

If it's everyone's fault, it's no one's fault.

my therapist is trying to get me to resurrect the dream of the anarchist catgirl commune. and I'm like nooo therapist you just don't get it, you can't dream of things it will break your heart, I have to just stay in my corner avoiding any emotional danger while watching the world and my body both decay into ruin isn't that safe and healthy

@Anders_S Intressant att jag åtminstone på papperet har fler följare än vad ens den största vänstermedian har här på fediversat.

Nyfiken på varför du utesluter exvis Proletären? Inte Den Riktiga Vänstern? Eller bara att du tycker de sprider missinformation och falsk propaganda?

If you build a backdoor, eventually everyone's going to use it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/02/china-spying-telecom-trump-harris-fbi-cell-phone/

@ramonita More than the illusion of normalcy I think there is also a certain fear of their (our) own complicity and to what extent opening up towards violent tactics also invites their use towards Us.

@profcarroll is it though? It might be a deterrent, but it's hardly a shield, right?

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