Notices by Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social), page 2

The fact that I can use a Linux phone in China and be a fully participating member of society, including mobile payments and everything, but I can't do that in any EU country, the US or Canada due to the payment methods there requiring SafetyNet and China not requiring that, has really broken my brain a little bit

@m The 2020s are the decade of regulatory capture

@dansup Hahahaha

@dansup Hmmmm :P

@dansup @amanda Yeah, but criticism without an ability to point it out where whatever is being criticised is being done is not particularly effective. People might read the comment section on a post. People are much less likely to specifically seek out other posts criticising something on their own.

@amanda @dansup Hmmm, I see your point. I guess I'd personally take the position of "I should be able to criticise something" over "safety" in this case, personally. In case someone is genuinely harassing someone I'd much rather have that be a "report -> warning -> ban -> potentially defederation" escalation.

@dansup Idk. "Anyone can quote and reply to an opinion I post to the internet" feels like a core characteristic of ... the internet to me.

I'd expect a post to be removable by a neutral (to whatever conversation is going on not in general) instance moderator if it's against instance policies, adding one side of an argument to that seems like a recipe for desaster ...

Maybe it's just "moderation scoped to one's own replies though" and I'm just framing it incorrectly to myself?

@dansup Wouldn't that essentially be a way to shut down any unwanted criticism of your post and isn't this what moderation is for?

Matrix (specifically Element with Spaces) is the only platform that will one day provide an experience similar to what Discord provides today on an open, federated, secure protocol.

Everything else is a distraction in my eyes, even if there are still some rough edges here and there today.

American solutions will not solve problems caused by Americans

"Americans pivot from American platform #1 to American platform #2" really isn't news anymore at this point

(Posting this from said Palm) I wonder if people would like actually use their Palms if this existed. Feels like in 2025 there might actually be a market for a semi-online device that like this that can sync via e.g. their Linux phone or desktop at home

I've been having so so so much fun hacking on my Palm

Here is Heffalump, a PalmOS fediverse client, running on it (emulated for now). I'm writing a new conduit for it (in TypeScript with palm-sync, but I might port that to Go). So much fun. Posts the responses when you sync back on your computer, so it's actually kind of "interactive"!

RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115818529643049094

Not open source:

"Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for all of its files, including electronics and mechanical design files, firmware code, and the bill of materials"

So it will be illegal to manufacture it for a friend, manufacture replacement parts and sell them etc. ...

Openwashing should really be fought

@dansup F-Droid? Hell yeah!

https://digitalrechte.de/news/palantir-beim-digitalgipfel-am-tisch-mit-merz-und-macron

Pathetic

The more I hear about the digital sovereignty summit and the people involved in it the more I think the whole things is an astroturfed scam

Something I'm noticing with a lot of the new astroturfed "open" social media projects (the kinds funded by big, opaque foundations/billionaire's passion projects) is that their view of a region's policy priorities isn't what that community itself wants to do, but what Americans _imagine_ the community wants.

It's always very visible based on how the branding works. Some of them are branded genuinely like how someone trying to lobby the commission or trying to resurrect GAIA-X would design it. Or how eIDAS's current branding looks like. It's very weird to someone who is actually part of the community, esp. when actual European projects in the space (e.g. Mastodon, Codeberg etc.) exist and do absolutely _none_ of this kind of stuff.