Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 2

In this case - much as it sticks in my craw - I happen to agree with them. Food supply is one thing that can and should be done in a decentralised, and ideally community-based way. The supermarket system is already too centralised for my liking, and depending on the state for food security is *literally* putting all your eggs in one basket.

Take a look at KiwiBuild, or the current state of our public health system. Would you want your food supply to depend on a system run like this?

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I agree with what Kieran McAnulty said to Bomber on this one; public provision isn't a silver bullet for everything. Especially when the public service has been been corporatised, restructured and starved of resources for decades.

I'm all for revitalisation of the public service, public ownership of common infrastructure, and universal public services in areas like health and education where commercialisation creates perverse incentives. But we can't wish that into existence overnight.

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Side note: One thing I learned from studying uni corporatisation is that much of the "wasteful public spending" the NatACTs love to bemoan is a direct product of *their reforms*.

Academic departments used to share resources on an organic, 'who needs it now' basis. When universities were corporatised, each department became a separate 'business unit', and now any resources they share with each other have to be accounted for as expenses. So the total on-paper cost of running them went up.

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Another example is the cost of flying MPs around the country. When AirNZ was 100% publicly-owned and run as a public good, flying MPs around was just part of its role as the national carrier. If those flights were accounted for at all, they were expenses on the AirNZ balance sheet.

But once AirNZ was corporatised, those flights were pushed onto the MPs expenses, and counted as public spending. Same flights, same provider, but suddenly a massive costs to the public accounts every year

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@Salty
> High speed rail across the country now

100%. Ever since I got back from living in China I've been embarrassed by the degraded state of our intercity rail network. But again, once we build this, in full non-corporate public ownership, it needs to move MPs around the country's gratis. Not make it a public expense that pod people like Rodney Hide can obsess over as "wasteful public spending".

@lxo
> GNU Jami

... is better than Briar in that it has apps for a range of OS. Problem is Jami doesn't work reliably. Last time I tried it the group voice chat was very good, but text message delivery was laggy and unreliable. Even when both people in the chat were online at the same time (and communicating in a backchannel about the test).

Maybe that's improved since they shipped group chats? Hmm. Did they actually ship those yet?

@cy @soapdog

@lxo
> a blockchain is defined by the property that each block "contains" its predecessors

That's how @cy is defining the term too. I'm wondering what this is based on, because I agree with @soapdog here, my understanding has always been that a blockchain is a special case of an append-only log, that includes a global consensus mechanism. So calling any use of an append-only log a "blockchain" is like calling any use of the net a "website", even if it doesn't use HTTP.

@pfefferle
> I have an open PR, that the blog shares every comment/reply

As an opt-in, mind you. I'll have a look at the issue discussion, but before I do, I'll be you a fiver most objections presume it would be compulsory.

> you should be able to follow others and interact with them, directly from your blog

Sure, that would be the ideal. From the feedback I've heard though, the current UX is a long way from that. Fair comment? What I'm proposing is a transitional measure until you get there.

@pfefferle OK, I owe you a fiver ; )

One group of objections seems to be edge case concerns about interop with Lemmy. Others seem to be out-of-context for this discussion.

Anyway, the MVP is;

* Bob makes WP blog post
* Alice comments from fediverse
* Bob gets notification via designated fediverse account of a new comment, with a link to the place in the admin dashboard where he can read it, perform mod actions, etc.

I can't see any T&S concerns in this.

@cy
> Dunno what one would be good though

Depends on your use case/ threat model. Ask yourself questions like; who do I want to communicate with and why? Are you looking for software for an existing group/ network of people who can make and action decisions about where to communicate? Are you wanting to adopt an app to make new contacts among its current network? How sensitive are the communications? Etc, etc.

@soapdog

@cy
> I just use the Fediverse, nothing else seems worth bothering with

Same. Other than email and SMS, and occasional use of Matrix and even less often XMPP.

@soapdog

@cy
> What was that non-blockchain network... Briar I think?

Briar is a neat experiment, but they've never shipped apps for anything but Android. The problem with depending on one proprietary OS ought to be obvious, Goggle's recent decision to start farming Android app devs is a good example;

https://keepandroidopen.org/

So until it's cross-platform, Briar is a fun toy, but not suitable for production use.

@soapdog

@meowski I'm not really interested in 'how many angels can dance on the head of a pin' debates. A 30-ish character passphrase using memorable words is much more user-friendly, and more than secure enough for day-to-day purposes. It's what most current security advice recommends, eg;

https://www.nist.gov/cybersecurity/how-do-i-create-good-password

Take it up with them.

@joernsmock

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@nicholas
> people who have to ask the government how to make a password

You're letting political biases get in the way of clear thinking. I assume this is a reference to my link to NIST as an example. Passphrase use has been standard security advice for more than a decade. Do I really need to dig up non-governmental examples to convince you of this?

@meowski @joernsmock

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@nicholas
> Any guide on "how to make a password" from a government or anyone else is definitionally going to be written for folks who need help understanding how to make a password

The NIST guidelines are technical standards. People write guides on passphrase security for the same reasons other technical standards are written. What you're saying here is a bit like assuming that people who read technical standards don't understand the tech they're standardising.

@meowski @joernsmock

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@nicholas
> If you want to convince me, you're going to have to supply actual research papers

Funny, I thought it was you trying to convince me. Not sure if anyone's done social anthropology research on passphrase practices (that would be interesting to read). Because that's what's at issue here. Not the 'how many angels can dance on the head of a pin' stuff you and @meowski are obsessing over. What actually produces more secure *practice* at the whole-of-society scale.

@joernsmock

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@pfefferle
> I would have to connect the WordPress plugin to a mastodon account through OAuth and their proprietary API. this would be limited to mastodon

Or you could send a post that links to the comment post, and @mentions the account designated by the author. Who could then choose to reply from that account, or login to WP to reply (if that's possible).

That would work with any fediverse account with no OAuth malarkey. Right?

#FediDevs

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@pfefferle
> you receive a mail. why should that not be enough?

Because I want my fediverse notifications in my fediverse app, not my email app, where I have to context shift to respond to them.

@pfefferle
> what do you mean by "getting notified of comments from fediverse replies within the fediverse"?

I mean instead of (or as well as) receiving a new comment notification by email, a WP author could receive it as a notification in their designated fediverse account (Mastodon or whatever).

For full context, the thread begins here;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116084221762813338

@FediTips

#TIL about the #KeepAndroidOpen campaign;

https://keepandroidopen.org/

For anyone who doesn't know yet, Goggle are planning to centralise control over Android app developers. In a similar way to what grApple are doing in malicious compliance with the EU requirement to allow other app install methods on iThings.

More details about what's happening and what you can do at the link above.

#Android #enshittification