Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 3

@Suiseiseki
> [F-Droid] appear to use a proprietary buildsystem to build things now

Intriguing. Links please?

"The whole idea of F-Droid is that every piece of software they offer or use - from the app library right down to the code forge they develop on - has full source code available. So this moonshot project could start as computer science research that just replicates their methodology, to see if that creates the same results."

https://community.iridescent.nz/

#Android #FDroid #ComputerScience

@glyph
> if you're hosting on their PDS with their auth and everything then decentralization doesn't really apply

That's exactly the situation. BS is a con.

@jonny

(1/2)

@jdp23
> I don't know how fedi would deal with a situation where instances started getting sternly-worded threatening letters from Elsevier (or whoever) about a brands.town parody account

If I was a server admin, or if Bridge Seat received one complaining about one of our customers, I'd laugh uproariously, publish all correspondence from them, and mock them mercilessly. IANAL but AFAIC they have no case against anyone but brands.town, who are acting as the publisher.

@jonny

@Hyolobrika
> Can someone give me an overview of what's going on in NZ?

Sure. Have a look at some of my recent posts with the tags #TeTiriti #TeTiritiOWaitangi #TreatyPrinciples #TreatyPrinciplesBill

Happy to answer any questions that leaves you with.

@thatbrickster

@nicholas
> the English version says they submit to the sovereignty of the queen, while the Maori version says they retain autonomy

It says they retain "tino rangatiratanga", a novel phrase meaning "full sovereignty".

The word "rangatira" means chief, and the suffix "tanga" modifies a word to describe a quality, in this case something like chieftainship.

The word "tino" is an intensifier. It's usually translated as "very", but in this case it's better translated as " full".

@Hyolobrika

@Hyolobrika
> What are they?

Ughh, good question. Maybe QOTO?

https://qoto.org/about

If the moderation levels schema I proposed on the linked Fediverse Ideas page was widely adopted, they would become easy to find.

I consider our server a mod level 2. But it's somewhat geographically specific, and I don't want to encourage mass immigration of people with no connection to Aotearoa. Sorry.

@miguelpergamon @RustyBertrand

"So what should National do? Simple: kill the bill, and quickly. Don't let Rimmer have his six month racist hate-fest of a select committee process; instead cut it short, vote it down, and tell Rimmer to go fuck himself. And if he threatens the government's confidence, then tell him to bring it on - because National is likely to do better out of an early election in those circumstances than it would otherwise."

@norighturnnz@mastodon.social, Nov, 2024

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-hikoi.html

#TeTiriti #TreatyPrinciplesBill

"Meanwhile, in other good news, the ICC has finally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant. Which invites the obvious question: when will our government be imposing sanctions against these war criminals and their genocidal regime?)"

@norightturnnz

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/11/justice-in-brazil.html

#Gaza #ICC #Israel #WarCrimes

(2/2)

There's also plenty of servers whose mod policy is permissive but responsible, what I call "Level 2";

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/88

@RustyBertrand @miguelpergamon

@RustyBertrand
> The last year has been hell. Attacked on every server.

Sorry to hear you've had such a hard time Rusty.

> I'm trapped. Do I obey the white people, or listen to the brown people

Third option, move to a fediverse server not run by censorious muppets who get their knickers in a twist about obscure rules of etiquette? Despite what the muppets claim, it's not just them or Nazis.

(1/2)

@miguelpergamon

@Hyolobrika
> Self-authenticating data

Can you expand on that?

@Suiseiseki
You seem to have missed the bit where I said ... well ... everything after the first line of the post, really.

Bloat is a standard read/write app. As I said, I'm lookout for a write-only app.

Does anyone know of a fediverse web app that *only* does posting, not reading?

I like the idea of being able to open an app to make a post, without being distracted by other people's posts appearing when it opens. But I don't want to set up a separate account just for this, I want to post using the same account.

#AskFedi #fediverse

Thanks for the suggestions. ReadEra doesn't seem to be available in F-Droid (yet?). But I tested KOReader and Librera Reader and I the latter seems like exactly what I'm after. I remember trying KOReader in the past and finding the interface ... unfriendly.

@tzudad @8petros @james @Suiseiseki

#Android #ReadEra #KOReader #LibreraReader

Does anyone know of a good reader app for Android?

One that allows me to scan my storage for files of text (in a range of formats, .TXT, .PDF etc), add them to an in-app library, and open them for reading from there. And when I open unscanned files from storage, for reading, it asks me if I want it added to the library. And allows me to scroll down from page to page. Not "turn" them horizontally.

(1/2)

#Android #reading #PDF #EBook

Ideally a reader app that's shipped in the default F-Droid repo, or can be installed and updated with Obtainium. But for a really good mobile reading experience, I'd compile from source if I had to.

(2/2)

Listening to the first episode of a Tech Won't Save Us podcast subseries, called Data Vampires;

https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1

Once again it occurs to me that hyperscaling of datacentres is exactly the wrong approach to hosting online services. Not just from an economic justice and environmental POV, but even from a business POV.

(1/?)

#podcast #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #DataFarming #DataCentres #HyperScaling #DataHubs

@CaitlinWaddick
> the Open Social Incubator project is an example of how people can build technical skills to create communities in online spaces that are democratically-run, open social networks, not corporate spaces that are run by autocrats

What a fantastic project! Is there a handbook we could look at if we wanted to replicate this in Aotearoa? I'm thinking particularly of reaching out to tangata whenua (indigenous people) to help them communicate autonomously online.

@ntnsndr

Me:
> would it be possible to create a private social network inside Nostr, that has no contact with (most of) the existing population?

@Hyolobrika
> Yes, just start a relay

Follow up question, what would be the advantage of this over setting up a non-federating fediverse server, or a Discourse forum, for that matter?