Facebook and Twitter announced new #Ad disclosure efforts.
...but what if we all used a platform that had no ads? What if our platforms were fully free and open source and enabled users to inspect them?
We have the technology to do this: #FreedomBox.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/technology/facebook-twitter-political-ads.html
This is really promising stuff. Loads of projects and instances show up on the stats page for The Federation now.
Finding and reporting a few bugs in Debian packages that don't work with python3.7 yet.
Power is out, but only for my apartment it seems.
Blog post: Why ActivityPub is the future https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/
"Mark’s manifesto isn’t about building a global community, it is about building a global colony – with himself as king and with his corporation and the Silicon Valley oligarchy as the court."
"Where Mark asks you to trust him to be a benevolent king, I say let us build a world without kings."
A very well-written article with a lot of quotable sentences.
https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/
Wow! #PeerTube funding campaign just raised to 42%! \o/
Only 15 days left to meet our goal, so keep on sharing and #JoinPeertube https://frama.link/joinpeertube
@jvalleroy I'd love to see what people think about the intended UI, the current change misses many key features as you can see:
Uploaded new version of #FreedomBox web UI (plinth) to #Debian unstable last night. The most significant change is to the UI, moving from "list of apps" to "app cards". Let's see what feedback it gets from users.
Finished reading "Smalltalk, Objects, and Design". I don't plan to use Smalltalk, but the concepts and design patterns seem relevant to any OOP language. A few chapters were outdated and too many details about old 90s implementations.
I've started work on packaging Mastodon's dependencies for Debian. Just one ruby gem package completed so far, waiting to be uploaded now. gem2deb does most of the work!
This FreedomBox setup video is cool! Looks like the FreedomBox has come a long way.
If you watch closely, you can see PageKite as a settings option near the very end of the video. ;-)
(thanks @bob for the link)
Working on new packages for #FreedomBox, should be uploaded to #Debian unstable soon.
