Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I think it is fine for someone to use Mastodon DMs to send any message that they would also feel comfortable sending over unencrypted email. For some people that is "basically nothing" and for others that is "basically everything".

I am making this post so that I can link it in future discussions here so I do not have to type it again.

If you are seeing this post because I linked you to it: greetings from the past! It is March 10, 2023 and the weather today in Portland, Oregon, USA is dreary.

@Chris Trottier I find it highly ironic that #Meta wants to join the #Fediverse now.

About a dozen years ago, #Facebook locked the Fediverse out. Back then, #Friendica had established full bidirectional federation with Facebook simply by latching onto its API. If you had accounts on both Facebook and Friendica, you could use Facebook without actually going to Facebook.

That was when Friendica's primary goal was to federate with everything, full stop. They had already managed to federate with #Diaspora, and Diaspora* didn't even have an API, so Friendica had to reverse-engineer the Diaspora* protocol and then drill right into Diaspora* pods.

End of the story, however: Facebook noticed and changed its TOS so that third parties were no longer allowed to extract content from Facebook. By and by, the federation was removed again. Facebook was pretty much the only federation option which #Hubzilla didn't inherit from Friendica.

If Meta launches a social network with #ActivityPub, it's going to be interesting. Someone from the old Friendica guard could waltz into Meta's new network and be like, "GUESS WHO'S BACK SUCKERBERG!"

De politie vordert voortdurend persoonsgegevens van demonstranten, zoals hun adres, burgerservicenummer en geboortedatum. Daarnaast vraagt de politie gegevens op van ouders en kinderen van actievoerders, ook als zij nooit zijn gearresteerd of veroordeeld. Dat blijkt uit 67 persoonlijke dossiers van demonstranten die onderzoeksplatform Investico inzag in samenwerking met De Groene Amsterdammer en Trouw.

“Het recht op betoging is in het geding”, zegt Bart Schermer, hoogleraar privacy en cybercrime aan de Universiteit van Leiden. “Als je de hele tijd in de gaten wordt gehouden, kun je niet meer vrij demonstreren.”

De politie haalt de gegevens uit de Basisregistratie Personen (BRP), een database met informatie over iedere inwoner van Nederland. Elke keer als agenten zoeken naar burgers in de politiesystemen of een bestaand dossier openen, worden persoonsgegevens uit de BRP opgehaald. Volgens de politie is het opvragen hiervan noodzakelijk bij het uitvoeren van haar taak. Op die manier probeert de politie bijvoorbeeld verdachten op te sporen, aangiftes te verwerken, in contact te komen met demonstranten of slachtofferzorg te bieden.

https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/politie-vraagt-op-grote-schaal-gegevens-op-van-demonstranten-het-lijkt-wel-een-politiestaat~b5829c84/

Nee. En nu is het genoeg. De overheid heeft de plicht virussen te bestrijden, epidemisch of endemisch. Én de plicht iedereen toegang tot zorg te garanderen, mensen met extra risico extra te beschermen. Het zijden handschoentje mag wel af nu. Dit is regelrecht tegen de mensenrechten in en we staan erbij en kijken ernaar.

Nu mag het wel afgelopen zijn. Wie schrijft mee naar de ombudsman als stap 1?

https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/6252775/kabinet-schrapt-per-direct-de-laatste-coronaregels.html

Meanwhile, even quite relatively successful mid-level bands and artists can barely afford to tour anymore because CD sales used to put gas in vans and buy food and that's gone replaced by nothing.

Musicians will keep working harder than anyone could imagine, touring is a nightmare 24/7 slog where once a night you also have to be able to generate enough energy to make a bunch of people's night a special unique experience for them, while you are doing it for the 20th consecutive night.

They will put their youth, or their whole lives into creating these things that are so meaningful to everyone, and they will lose money, and mostly find themselves old with little in the way of job prospects once you guys are done using their ideas to give your liges meaning.

People take it for granted, and think music is an unending well of meaning you can just take and take and take from as long as it serves your needs and capitalism makes it available to you.

You will never be required to understand your role in the systems of capitalism in order to participate.

And having it pointed out that you are participating in exploitation made possible by corporate control of technology isn't a specific personal attack on you, so "yeah but I really like the..blah blah blah" response isn't good enough.

Do you think musicians should be robbed of the frankly already pitiful amount of money we have traditionally received for putting our entire lives into something that almost everyone considers massively important in their lives?

Are you willing to give yourself a little less though?

Mostly everyone is willing to pay lip service.

I like the ones who actually punch the nazis, the ones who confront the transphobes and make it awkward, I like the rifle club people who go protect the drag queen story hour, I like the people who give money directly to people who need it even when they don't have much because rich ppl wont, I like the people who confront their friends about toxic behaviour

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

A black KN95 is a better surveillance evasion tool than most of the adversarial patches/t-shirts/drag makeup/whatever that folks claim will confound machine learning systems.

#FediBlock flipboard.social

yet another company has started a Mastodon instance https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard/109943199786939417

their business model revolves around selling your personal info to show you ads, so please join me in flipping that shit directly into the trash

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