Notices by frogzone@wizard.casa, page 2

@Suiseiseki
I translate FOS to free-license, open source

and i define free-license as freedom-respecting-license, but yes, this requires two leaps

freedom-RESPECTING open source software?

@jeffcliff forget the fact that israwl supported hamas, in much the same way as the us supports all alleged "radical" or "extremist" or "terrorist" groups.

But the thing is they werent terrorists, they are fighting to get their land back from a brutal oppressor, and only a deeply compromised individual would not be able to see this.

Another part of this #gazaGenocide i find disturbing is that all the lessons of murder learned by israwl, us, uk eu in attacking #gaza are being emplyed against to oppress and subjucate ppl in many parts of the world.... and if ppl in the so-called developed nations think it cant happen to them, just wait.

thats all i'll say

@Suiseiseki is there a non CAGEMAFIA site with the above info?

@mangeurdenuage what i believe @Suiseiseki has just suggested to me is to say, "wishing a very #copyleft christmas" :awesome:

(i thought "FOSS" encompassed copyleft but i may stand corrected)

@Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage i'd be interested in watching that video if it finds its way to :peertube:PeerTube but the summary and dialogue were sufficient. Thanks.

long live foss and wish all a very festive, foss-filled christmas

@Suiseiseki agree, nda can only work for a few years max, people cant be expected to remember an nda indefinitely, is really just for seed generating.

Dear @sugar_labs vvv

@Suiseiseki wrote:
> It's so sad that sugar labs are on such a censorious instance that I can't even send them a thanks message.

i'd just like to pass on my appreciation to Thom and the gang in keeping FSF up, nice article! As an aside i'm saddened to see so much cloudflare and m$haft in the FOS stack, and that amazno and fastly appear to be creeping in. heres to the resistance.

when it comes to fediverse i hope we can get to a point where conscientious fedizens who want to contribute to the ongoing sustainability of their instance can become a #DCN (decentralised content node :derpy_tongue_poke:) for their instance. it could even have possiblities for websites like FSF now that i think about it. Imagine if i liked a page on FSF and the images for that page can also be served (with an integrity check) by me over (privacy respecting) i2p, because the page is somehow activity pub integrated.

hmm

enough thinking and more thanking.... thanks again fsf for being a force of things open and free.

@fsf @thomzane

@Suiseiseki #art is one of those difficult areas, you want to be able to protect a burgeoning artpiece especially DURING its very, very early development from some forms of attacks.

@Suiseiseki how do u know i havn't developed a major free software proj :P NDA do have their place, but they are mostly performative / symbolic, i love that i have a signature from the people i do, its a bit like an autograph.

@Suiseiseki @sun it pretty funny tht you mentioned this a day after i went through a library of stuff in storage about game ideas me and a couple friends worked on, on weekends in a previous life....back then i had really grandiose ideas, one of them i wrote in an NDA and i have the original copy of it with a game studio, the idea actually got made by nintendo. i completely forgot that i wrote about it as a possible thing that could eventuate from my actual game design. i yearn today to just do total foss + quality but that would equal YEARS.

so i doubt i'd be any help in ur situation, u have one year. it looks like it will take me one year to find a modem i can use, lol

if i ever made anything i'd probably aim to have it in the distro repos, just not a big fan of browsers running games.

Yesterday i realized that a minigame in one of the games will likely involve something similar to Tracks in Simon Tatham's game collection, but instead of numbers around the edges there'd be "other constraints", and once the puzzle was completed it would be possible to "do something else in the game that is directly related to the idea of the minigame".

it was the first time i had gone through, hurriedly, almost everything we had done, and it was a bit like 5 christmases at once.

i wish you greatness, i MAY be able to chip in, if u go down the foss path but i'm semi retarded these days

@NonPlayableClown @p i have no idea why pleroma slows down and kills some people's browsers and not others. :shrugs:

but, did you know that if a tree falls on one of the 400+ CAGeMAFIA datacenters in Virginia Washington, it doesnt make a £ pound?

:awesome_rotate:

@p pretty sure pleroma, akkoma are designed to break, or slow tor, and soapbox while looking a bit nice breaks constantly in tor, to the point it is unusable. never been able to use that stuff. anyway i have almost no idea about the problem ur experiencing right now except for the fact that yeah, the sooner dipsh!ts learn to block the CAGeMAFIA the sooner the internet gets fixed.

stay well

cue the....

@silverpill @stefano @sun @jeffcliff someone in DMs made a good point that "ublock should be configured in a way that makes browser fingerprint identical for all users"!

Is a good point because another addon #noScript doesn't do this. Is VERY different when you u manually install it, as opposed to the version built into torbrowser. Manual installing NoScript in say #iceWeasel or #librewolf has disappointing exceptions to blocking #javascript, they don't block js of 40 CAGeMAFIA, netflx, yahoo, and pay(Prowl) domains/disservices.... therefore ENTRENCHING the past 25 years of effective #colonialism and i would say #fascism. A person needs to manually untick each of the 40(!) CAGeMAFIA domains every time they install (and reset!) the addon. Whereas tor browser, in Safest Mode of course, at least begins to level the playing field and blocks all js by default not giving favorable treatment to #oligarchs. (tangential to this problem, I believe tor could be much more transparent in highlighting sites that entrench the #technocracy, maybe it should include #yandex and #bytedance too and put a warning in the corner that a site is on #bigtech??)

To my surprise, the https://tails.net page states that @torproject are the developers of tails (!!!) so we can ask them direct....

1)why is uBlock on Tails' Tor browser and not in other tor browser installs? That immediately creates a browser #fingerprint and your project is against #fingerprinting because it negatively affects #anonymity, have you considered asking people whether they want to disable uBlock when they open tor browser, as per my response to @ma10gan above?
2) does the built-in uBlock in #TailsOS differ in anyway from a manual install of the addon of the same version?
3) while failing at (1) but confirming (2), can a link to the latest version of ublock used by Tor be placed on this page where ublock is mentioned, so people using Tor outside of Tails can stay up to date?

Thanks and looking forward to hearing back from #TorProject on this fairly serious discrepancy.

#transparency #javascript #torbrowser #privacy

@jeffcliff flattered btw <3 keep up the great fight however u do it. i think the #DCN / #ipfs idea for fediverse would probably translate well to a crimeflare service like #dfca, but alas it will require initial pain to setup.

@ma10gan so an option in tor browser like, "Disable ublock this session? Sometimes uBlock can block page elements like counters and adverts." ?

i'd like that, actually! @torproject see above ^^^

The TailsOS devs say they include #uBlockOrigin in 🧅 Tor Browser "to remove advertisments", but tbh it removes all sorts of nasties.

If you dont want to answer yes or no, ur welcome to just share so others know they have this option if they want to install uBlock manually. 🥸

#askfedi #privacy #safety #advertisments

@silverpill @nimda @r @erlend > it may encourage people to migrate to smaller servers

That sounds like a be a big "may" to me. The only time someone will tolerate repeated service outages is when they are self-hosting. Maybe we need to investigate what push and pull factors exist for instance migration, but on the balance of probabilities if a service is working the propensity to move will be low. You may be right, in that if the friction is SO low to change instances then people will hop at the first hint of concern, but i think 85% of ppl will stay where they land, especially if their handle (ie. @name@instance) changes with each move.

tell me if i'm wrong about something tho.

@SuperDicq @sun i wouldnt give the machine more code to regurgitate, starve the beast, body onto the gears, all that stuff.

@jeffcliff crimeflare is a total wonderous enigma to me, they seem to not have a functioning online presence (not even on i2p which sould be a go to destination for anyone that cares about freedom and the openweb, i think i tried to do something with a site they hosted but it was broken in some way)....

i dont activeely use #wikipedia anymore so #uphillBattles is just 'turn of phrase'.... a common analogy, to my mind.

sorry i couldnt be more help

@silverpill @erlend congrats on your possible choice.

part of my volunteering today is in improving :butterfedyC: fediverse and i feel that mitra server is just the most calm and commonsense way to enjoy fedi. there's a couple minor issues and my goal is to help them get solved.

one of my fave things is infinite scroll can be turned off(?), or at least i dont have infinite scroll on, so i can view a page without constant distractions.

if you love " #weird " then u might be excited by the ability to federate over the (invisible internet protocol) #i2p network. Is a network designed to protect ppls freedom and access to information. Instances in the #uk and #australia will probably benefit by switching to ONLY being available over i2p, however at present this would mean limited federation.... a microcosm-verse, but i think the more instance that harness i2p access and federation, the faster it will simply become standard. i am looking forward to trying out my instance over i2p with the non-js interface of #bloatFE but i believe my admin hasn't been able to keep it online (@nimda?). earlier in the year i made some tweaks to #Bloat's css to improve its look-and-feel, i don't believe @r has merged them into the project yet, if you want to try out the CSS, please contact me and i'll dig it up or open an account on this instance and access it via (bloat.wizard.casa)

on the topic of nomadic ident....(1/2)