Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat.

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2026-05-21 17:56:43 UTC

It's the internet, people. It's OUR internet. Just because we decided to trust Google to not be evil doesn't mean that Google decides the future of the internet. We may very well have lost The Web, but we still can make the Internet of People. Decentralised. Unownable ;) Being here on the #Fediverse is part of that.
#AlwayswTheOptimist
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2026-05-11 09:04:27 UTC

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@NiceBastard/116555135047588638
#ESC #Eurovision Gift link at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/eurovision-israel-gaza-netanyahu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.l5lX.bqvzcrqHrB_1&smid=url-share
#note1faf…zc2m

2026-05-06 06:21:38 UTC

When everybody else runs fast to the far-right, but you don't move, they will claim you are now radical left. The current public discourse in a nutshell.

2026-02-09 08:25:17 UTC

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To my US friends: „Center-left“ in US political terms means „extreme socialist, almost communist“ #SarcasmButOnlyHalf
To the „yes, but“ group and other reply-guys: prepare for being ignored by me, this is good news. After the results of the Dutch parliament elections this is another clear signal that far-right can be contained.
(„Being ignored“ can also mean that I will block you if your „yes, but“ only serves to inject negativity because you don’t want people to feel good :)

2026-02-09 08:17:32 UTC

The good news: #Portugal votes for Center-left Seguro as president with an overwhelmingly clear 66.82% majority. Far-right candidate Ventura is the clear loser. Thank you, wonderful people of Portugal!
https://www.presidenciais2026.mai.gov.pt/resultados/globais
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2025-09-27 11:06:09 UTC

I'll just leave this here.
"One of the world’s most powerful technology leaders [Peter Thiel] has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist."
https://archive.li/HcoiM#selection-1525.0-1525.159

2025-09-20 19:48:09 UTC

Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles.

2025-09-08 17:38:48 UTC

Worth listening to. https://www.20k.org/episodes/808

2025-08-26 14:42:29 UTC

The biggest trick the (far) right pulled off is to convince many people that anti-fascism is politically left. It isn't. Anti-fascism is a politically neutral, foundational requirement for any non-fascist society. Yes, you can be conservative AND anti-fascist. That is the norm. If you are conservative and do not loudly support anti-fascism, you are almost a fascist yourself. Simple, innit?

2025-05-24 15:40:35 UTC

The #PirateBay founders must be looking at the arguments from #OpenAI and #Meta on why they should be allowed to ignore copyright and authorship laws with a certain level of astonishment.

2025-04-29 18:32:32 UTC

The last name of the Dutch prime minister is Schoof. Which is also the past tense of the verb to shove in the dutch language. His first name is Dick. The jokes write themselves. #SlightlyTipsy

2025-02-13 23:57:45 UTC

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So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!

2025-01-19 19:51:47 UTC

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Legal experts question how Trump could grant an extension of up to 90 days as the law is in effect and its validity confirmed by SCOTUS. The 90 days can only be granted if a new US based owner is in the process of closing the negotiations.
So Trump will possibly ignore the rule of law on his first day in office. That's impeachable, innit? ;)

2024-12-18 11:30:22 UTC

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My instance deletes my posts after 7 days UNLESS they get more than 5 favs or boosts. I guess this one didn't make the cut ;)

2024-12-08 09:25:15 UTC

It isn't that far-right has suddenly become a big movement in Europe. The far-right support has always been and will always be around 20%. The task of society is to keep that support in the "morally unacceptable" box that is buried deep in the ground. Clickbait, polarisation supported by technofascism and Putins money and methods for destabilisation in democracies however are the most powerful attack against that equilibrium I have ever experienced. And we are losing.

2024-12-06 14:06:07 UTC

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Being able to run my own mailserver is the result of many, many developers publishing the needed parts under open source licenses and keeping these packages updated over many, many years. I am very grateful for that.

2024-12-01 18:13:55 UTC

Long time no #ElevatorFashionPic :) So here’s one from my hotel in #Madrid. It’s a 5 star hotel, so better wear a shirt.
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2024-12-01 15:07:33 UTC

No passport control on my flight from Munich to Madrid. Schengen still exists on some routes :) #ThanksEU

2024-11-30 15:08:25 UTC

So @npub1fh7…ee83 suffered from high traffic, bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.
What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/2)

2024-11-30 14:13:11 UTC

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I guess the hope is that the occupied territories become some sort of neutral zone with Ukraine demanding full demilitarisation of said territories, maybe even some sort of free trade status with Ukraine. We will see. But things are moving, which is the only way forward, IMHO. A perpetual war is no solution.

2024-11-30 14:10:10 UTC

Seems Zelensky is offering (some of) the occupied territories in exchange for full NATO membership for the rest of Ukraine to end the war. A very tough compromise, but IMHO a pragmatic approach that allows both sides to claim a win.

2024-11-29 07:55:14 UTC

#FastDreiProzent #FDP #DDay

2024-11-27 20:37:43 UTC

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Books can (and should) be written about this dilemma. My interpretation is very clear and a working solution. My code is free to all. My support is limited. If you want to use my code to do something I deem to be unacceptable, I will never stop you. But I will be free to ignore your bug reports and pull requests. 8/8

2024-11-27 20:26:33 UTC

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So. To sum it up. Licenses are defined and limited by laws on intellectual property. Moral decision on who you accept and support in your community are a very different thing. Never conflate the two, if you want to be a good FOSS citizen. If you feel your code gets used in ways you cannot accept, exclude those that do it from your community. Let them fork, let them find their own community. It's the price you have to pay. Just be clear and open to your people on that. 7/n

2024-11-27 20:16:49 UTC

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It is a high price to pay. And if you think it was the wrong choice, I totally understand. But in the bigger picture, abuse of code must be limited on a different level. You can always refuse to support use of your code in fields you do not want to support. But limiting access to the code should not happen. You share, you care. But your care has limits. That is YOUR decision. 6/n

2024-11-27 20:12:40 UTC

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But it was a wise decision, IMHO. Think of the faux open licenses that exist out there. Licenses that give you access to the source code but tell you that you cannot use it to build a service competing with the project owners. That's the other side of the choice. If use gets limited, Open looses. So field of use restrictions will always lead to less code being available to be re-used. That's why the "no field of use restriction" rule exists. 5/n

2024-11-27 20:09:47 UTC

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Is it really open and free if you make that kind of restrictions? Both the FSF and OSI, after long and emotional discussions, decided no. That decision cannot be made on the copyright level that licenses are based upon. It was a tough decision. 4/n

2024-11-27 20:07:14 UTC

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Software is universal. Your solution to recognising objects in a video stream with low latency can be used, as you intended, to help with sorting good from bad vegetables. Or it could be used to identify targets by a missile flying at high speed. These are extreme examples of Field of Use. The question becomes: Should a license allow the one but not the other? Of course we all want that to be possible. But. 3/n

2024-11-27 20:02:29 UTC

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If you would restrict the use of your code, you make a moral decision. But licenses are in the opinion of both the FSF and the OSI not the place to make that choice. Licenses are defined and limited by the laws and rules on copyright/droit d'auteur. Moral choices are simply out of scope for that regime. Like to or not, it's a fact, IMHO. 2/n

2024-11-27 19:57:26 UTC

After a very tough discussion last week, I want to explain a fundamental rule of FOSS (Free and/or Open Source Software). It is called the "no field of use restriction" rule. What it means is that when you publish code under an accepted Free Software or OSI approved Open Source license, every downstream recipient is free to use the code for whatever they want to use it for. It is a very important but often attacked rule. 1/n

2024-11-27 15:02:38 UTC

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what I really want is to have full voting rights at the country of residence for all EU citizens as fundamental part of the freedom of movement principle. But that’s a long term goal.

2024-11-27 13:08:09 UTC

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No, never did. I vote where I live and I want full voting rights at the place of residence. We have our own far right weirdos here too :(

2024-11-27 12:48:11 UTC

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That's the lowest parliament approval count a new commission ever had.
11.2019 Ursula von der Leyen 461 yes
10.2014 Jean-Claude Juncker 423 yes
02.2010 José Manuel Barroso 488 yes
11.2004 José Manuel Barroso 478 yes
09.1999 Romano Prodi 510 yes
01.1995 Jacques Santer 417 yes

2024-11-27 12:39:37 UTC

EU parliament approves new EU commission with 370 of the 688 casted votes being yes.

2024-11-27 12:34:06 UTC

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EU citizens living in a different EU country (like me, a dutch person, living in Germany) do not have full voting rights, but we can vote on the municipal level and for the EU parliament. Thus it logically follows that if we have at least these limited voting rights, we should definitely be allowed to be active as members of a political party. The court has made this very clear in its decision. #ThanksEU

2024-11-27 09:11:31 UTC

Court of Justice of the EU: Poland and Czech Republic must allow EU citizens that live in their country but are not nationals access to membership in political parties. Their current rules/laws are in violation of EU principles. https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-11/cp240194en.pdf

2024-11-26 10:48:38 UTC

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Yep. My main goal with this short thread was to explain to the uninitiated what you can do when you read a story about patent infringement to be better informed, should you want to. And for that the few bullet points can be very helpful, IMHO and experience.

2024-11-26 08:44:43 UTC

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So as a rule of thumb, prior art should be provably (which is another problem, how do you prove the publication date of prior art) available around 12 months before the filing date to avoid problems.

2024-11-26 08:40:36 UTC

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Yes, it's complicated. Priority date isn't always the filing date. E.g. in Europe I could file a patent application on the 1st of June 2023 in Belgium and then decide to file another one for France in June 2024. The priority date for the French application would than still be June 2023, as it is based on the *first* filing of the patent in Belgium. There are even weirder rules and exceptions.

2024-11-25 18:02:29 UTC

Need a fancy name to use instead of #selfhosting? I got something for ya ;)
#SPI Sovereign Private Infrastructure sounds a lot more sophisticated :) (Yes, I work in marketing, I admit :)

2024-11-25 17:21:40 UTC

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- Patents also protect retroactively (12 months before filing date in most jurisdictions), meaning that prior art that could invalidate the patent must be publicly known before that priority date
- Most patent cases don't go to court, far more often some kind of deal with license payments is offered to avoid that
I am not a lawyer, but I am quite an expert in the patent field since 2002 when I joined the fight against software patents in the EU.
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2024-11-25 17:18:19 UTC

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Should you read about a patent case somewhere, here's the things you should know:
- design patents are NOT patents. They are more like registered designs.
- the *only* important thing about a patent are the claims. You can safely ignore all the descriptions, graphics and other stuff. Read the claims. The first one is the most important
- Patents expire after 20 years (or missed fee payment, whichever comes first)
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2024-11-25 17:12:13 UTC

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One of the patents they tried to monetise came from Nokia (filed 2008, granted 2010), was transferred to France Brevets (2013), who in turn transferred it to Burley Licensing LLC, Texas (2021), who in turn moved it to Nimitz Technologies LLC, Texas, 14 days later which finally sued 11 companies for patent violation. They didn't succeed in court. The patent is US 7,848,328 B2 and the claims are as vague as you would expect ;)
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8e/a9/d6/b55ae845972bfb/US7848328.pdf
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2024-11-25 16:54:03 UTC

TIL that in 2011 the French government "invested" 100 million Euro to setup a company that was supposed to monetise patents by suing all around the planet. Despite some minimal "success" with an NFC patent, the concept that I would call patent trolling wasn't delivering the expected ROI (Return on Investment) and in 2022 the plug was pulled. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Brevets

2024-11-24 19:16:17 UTC

At the #Guinness 0.0% tasting today organised by @npub134a…fv7y in #Munich we learned: there is a plastic container with nitrogen in the can that releases its content when you open the can which gives you the famous foam when you immediately pour it into a glass. TIL!
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2024-11-24 11:37:42 UTC

Ad on YouTube that claims that a simple oximeter can measure blood sugar, blood pressure and more. Ad uses the logo of the famous Charité hospital in Berlin. That hospital has a dedicated page on their website [1] warning about this scam. I report it to Google as being a misleading ad that makes false claims. Well.
[1] https://www.charite.de/die_charite/themen/verbraucherhinweise_zu_produktfaelschungen/
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2024-11-23 20:39:48 UTC

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Sponsors at FOSDEM don’t get a presence at the venue, as I’m sure you know.

2024-11-23 20:08:02 UTC

I have 50 tickets to #FOSDEM to share. First come, first serve. DMs are open. #38C3 (just kidding. FOSDEM is open to all since 25 years. No tickets, no registration. Just be there and enjoy. https://fosdem.org

2024-11-23 20:01:12 UTC

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The EU (and/or its member states) could set up a system that (partly) pays for the costs of the process for SMEs and not-for-profits to ensure that consumers are informed citizens. @npub1m96…ag4y

2024-11-23 19:26:00 UTC

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Full-blown markdown support including the various flavours doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, TBH. Tables and heading levels? Overkill ;) But basic bold, italics, links, quotes and code would make things so much better :)

2024-11-23 19:22:24 UTC

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Could be extended to the
#CDIA — Consumer Data Information Act
that forces all companies that have data about the consumer to send a notice, via the consumers preferred method of contact (e-mail, post) about the fact that they have data stored and the rights under #GDPR to receive said data or give notice about the consumer’s right to delete said data and how to do exactly that.

2024-11-23 19:17:01 UTC

Dear @npub1m96…ag4y — a proposal for a new directive called the
#CIA, the Consumer Information Act.
Once a year on a fixed date, 1st of November, all companies with which you have a contract that involves payment must inform you via the consumers preferred contact method (e-mail, post) about what contract you have, the amount per year and the current conditions to cancel said contract. Inspired by https://fosstodon.org/@grueproof/113527526441323269

2024-11-23 19:03:47 UTC

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effectively meaning that current API remains unchanged and backwards compatible by extending it with an optional internalRich field when posting and adding the internalRich content as an option when editing.

2024-11-23 18:54:29 UTC

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Clients (be it the web UI or any mobile client) could implement whatever editor for whatever format but send the plain text version and their try of the internal representation that the instance will try to interpret (and sanitise) and if that fails, fall back to the plain text variant.

2024-11-23 18:48:54 UTC

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My approach would be simple. Federation in both directions in/out with html. Incoming posts never need to be edited. So input parsing could result in a defined intermediate state after sanitisation, which gets stored on the instance. Rendered to html when showing or federating. So for editing you have the internal representation. My preference for that internal state would be markdown, obviously ;)

2024-11-23 18:15:23 UTC

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I will not give up hoping (and nudging ;). I know that yous have agreed that the glitch-soc approach isn’t feasible. But some sort of input wrangler solution that allows for posts containing the formatting that mastodon already renders for HTML posts coming in through federation would be much appreciated.

2024-11-23 14:17:43 UTC

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Oh, and dear @npub1u84…s78a — when will you finally accept the PRs that bring some basic (markdown) formatting to posts? #kthxbai

2024-11-23 14:11:40 UTC

Yesterday, as on every Friday, I updated my public servers. This time I was on the train, so a bit of a flaky connection. I am old school, so I logged in to my machines, started a `screen` session and ran the `def update`there. This way I could be reasonably sure it would work even if my connection breaks.

2024-11-22 16:08:24 UTC

Not so good: RJ75 Train from #Brno to #Vienna had a 70 minute delay, so I missed the connection in Vienna and had to switch to the RJ268 from Vienna to #Munich, where I had no seat reservation anymore and the train is crowded. But I'll make it to Munich. Unfortunately 2h later than planned. #CrossBorderRail

2024-11-18 18:11:42 UTC

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I've been there since the very first FOSDEM and never had a problem to get into the sessions I cared about.

2024-11-18 18:07:20 UTC

I tried to secure a ticket for #FOSDEM after I lost in the #38C3 lottery and had to find out that FOSDEM has no lottery or price for a ticket. You just show up and are welcomed in Brussels ;)

2024-11-18 18:02:48 UTC

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AFAICS no. @npub1ch4…edpe

2024-11-18 17:29:22 UTC

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Altersarmut existiert nicht weil di es sagst. Danke. Ein problem weniger ;)

2024-11-18 17:23:30 UTC

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Lehrmittelfreiheit die nur theoretisch existiert
Klar, noch sind Schulen und Universitäten gebührenfrei. Aber lasst uns mal realistisch sein. Die Kosten für Schule und Uni sind weit höher als null. Egal ob es um die Wunschliste der Grundschule geht welche Farben und Stifte man kaufen soll, wie teuer die Bücher für Unis sind - Ausbildung ist teuer.

2024-11-18 17:21:23 UTC

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Pflegeversicherung
Ursprünglich (IMHO) als Verschleierung der zu erwartenden Kosten für die Rentenversicherung geplant, wird es uns in Zukunft richtig in den Hintern beissen. Mehr ältere Leute werden mehr Pflege brauchen und die Preise steigen exorbitant, während ds "alte" System von "Familie wird sich schon kümmern" wegen der Alterspyramide nicht mehr greifen wird.

2024-11-18 17:18:46 UTC

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Zu den einzelnen Punkten:
Rente in Anbetracht der zukünftigen Alterspyramide
Das deutsche Rentensystem momentan und seit SEHR vielen Jahren ist "linke Tasche, rechte Tasche". Die Einnahmen aus den Gehaltsabgaben gehen mit nur geringer Reserve in die Rentenauszahlungen. Das ist mit der sich ändernden Alterspyramide nicht vereinbar auf mittlerer Sicht. Privatisierung der Rente ist kein Ausweg, IMHO.

2024-11-18 17:11:02 UTC

Als etwas älterer Mitbürger möchte ich den jungen Wählern nur mal kurz die Liste der seit Jahrzehnten ungelösten, geflickschusterten Themen für die nächste Wahl mitgeben:
- Rente in Anbetracht der zukünftigen Alterspyramide
- Pflegeversicherung
- Lehrmittelfreiheit die nur theoretisch existiert
- Ein würdiges Auskommen ohne Einkommen
- Medizinische/psychische Versorgung ohne zerstörerische Wartezeiten.
Wählt entsprechend. Lasst Rassismus und Populismus aussen vor, OK?

2024-11-18 15:48:53 UTC

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To identify yourself in the Bluesky network, you need an identifier. The layer that manages and provides these is the PLC. And, guess, who runs the only PLC that is used in the Bluesky network?[@pravee_n](https://mastodon.social/@pravee_n )

2024-11-18 11:30:34 UTC

IMHO: Biden allowing #Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory is a smart move. Should Trump decide (he will) to undo that decision, it will be seen as Trump doing Putins bidding and he will seem weak to the (not only US) military brass.
(And yes, this decision by Biden should have been made a long time ago)

2024-11-18 10:46:24 UTC

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They’d have to check/scrape *all* ActivityPub instances all the time to get a complete social graph of the Fediverse. While at a centralised service that social graph is part of the architecture. That’s a huge difference.

2024-11-18 10:43:27 UTC

„Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to #NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X“ https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/ via @npub1tvs…2832

2024-11-18 09:05:16 UTC

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See my other thread at https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474 where I explain why Bluesky isn't decentralised and why running your own PDS means nothing as they still run other essential parts. @npub1ch4…edpe

2024-11-17 22:32:46 UTC

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Another reason for staying here is metadata. Trust me, not many organisations out there really care about the content of your posts. They focus far more on the connections and frequency of data on likes, boost, follow/unfollow etc. In a centralised service that metadata is, ohm, centralised too and easy to access. In a federated network that isn't that easy, especially when, like me, you live on your own instance and not a big one like mastodon.social. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive.

2024-11-17 22:21:42 UTC

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And yes, I still treat every single post and message here as ultimately being stored and analysed by adversaries because the for me the Pub in ActivtyPub means public. My private communication happens via Signal or old fashioned pen and paper. Or, even more often, by direct communication over a coffee, beer or a walk outside :)

2024-11-17 22:14:24 UTC

Why am I here and not on #Bluesky or #Threads? Because here I am on my own instance, hosted in the EU, and not on a centralised service from the US (which both Bluesky and Threads are) where soon a Trump government is installed that can easily force both Bluesky and Threads to hand over full access to all my data. That's my personal risk calculation. Yours might be very different. And that's perfectly fine!

2024-11-17 11:55:22 UTC

Trump sues the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, The Daily Beast for billions in supposed damages. AS HE SAID HE WOULD DO. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-sues-media-outlets-bias

2024-11-17 11:37:46 UTC

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Yes, many people in the western world grew up being told that The Government was good and though some corrupt elements existed, that would be solved. Many could never imagine how even well meant systems can be abused to turn against those they are supposed to protect. That blind eye can have real and dangerous consequences. I am not a doom person. But I notice, similar to you, maybe a bit earlier when things move in a wrong direction.

2024-11-17 11:06:21 UTC

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Read the whole thing:
"Protect your private life. The broligarchy doesn’t want you to have one. Read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: they need to know exactly who you are to sell you more shit. We’re now beyond that. Surveillance Authoritarianism is next. Watch The Lives of Others, the beautifully told film about surveillance in 80s east Berlin. Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump.

2024-11-17 10:51:57 UTC

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(and please ignore the obvious troll in the replies that tries to tell you I'm not to be taken serious because of my employer)

2024-11-17 10:25:54 UTC

IMHO: If you want to fight (proto-)fascism and centralised, authoritarian regimes by relying on centralised infrastructure that can be blocked/outlawed by said regime, you are doing it wrong, IMHO. Decentralised solutions, while coming with a more demanding learning curve, have proven to be far more resilient and sustainable. So have your fun on Bluesky, TikTok etc while you organise resistance here :)

2024-11-06 09:07:19 UTC

Dear @npub1m96…ag4y please use the next few weeks to make Europe safe by starting the process to disentangle on all levels from US influence. Our sovereignty is at stake now.

2024-11-01 18:11:06 UTC

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I am absolutely not saying you should do the same. I remember how I spent the first Obama Election Night at an illegal party in the former Hungarian (or was it Romanian?) embassy in East-Berlin where some people broke into and set up a sound system, lights and bars. It was a looooooong night :) But this time I will protect myself from too much weirdness and check the results once they're a bit more stable.

2024-11-01 17:55:22 UTC

PSA: On #ElectionDay I will go to bed on time (I am in the European time zone), have a good night of sleep and when I wake up I will make coffee and pancakes, sit around for a while before, around noon, I will finally open up the NYT, WaPo and Guardian pages. During the night, when the misinformation and radical takes saturate all frequencies, I will dream about a better world. I will not waste my precious time with consuming information that only upsets me, without me being able to do anything.

2024-10-26 22:16:17 UTC

Since quite a few days the typical bride-force of botnets trying to guess login details on my mail server are quite active again. Fresh food for my blocklists ;)
https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/113/376/028/854/962/349/original/a23a08cdc9236586.png

2024-10-15 20:48:44 UTC

So. A young woman has been sentenced to pay 4000€ because she supposedly attacked police agents at a protest against fascists in Manmheim, Germany. I advised her to get a lawyer and take it to court. Which means she is facing a financial risk of around 6000€. which she doesn’t have. If I would start a gofundme to help her, would you chip in?

2024-10-15 08:42:47 UTC

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So. Let's all bookmark https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en (or in your preferred language) and keep an eye on new European Citizen Initiatives (and maybe start one!) because they can really help to put topics on the EU agenda. Deal? :) 3/3

2024-10-12 09:49:13 UTC

The simple joys of life. Dutch ontbijtkoek with butter and a mug of coffee.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/113/293/818/274/106/932/original/b4261ef27525f17e.jpg

2024-10-04 16:51:31 UTC

Almost all European manufactured electric vehicles are oversized, overpowered and overpriced. So the only way to get what many, many people out there want — decent, but not too big EVs at a reasonable price — is to import them. And that’s why the EU has decided to raise tariffs on these imported vehicles that people want but cannot get from their local manufacturers. Instead of forcing the local manufacturers to produce what people want. #justsayin

2024-09-30 15:10:18 UTC

Es gibt bestimmt irgendwo ein Geheimlabor, wo Materialexperten sich gegenseitig übertrumpfen wer die lautesten Papiertüten für Baäckereien produzieren kann. Ich verlange eine Gegenbewegung! Leise Tüten für alle!1!! #SarcasmButOnlyHalf.

2024-09-28 09:48:30 UTC

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So if you see JHW Orange Node e99c (ORA2-e99c) in your Meshtastic node list, feel free to send a direct message :) This is the node I carry around with me wherever I go, so it could show up at a lot of places, far away from #Munich
#meshtastic #mesh #lora
https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/113/214/535/472/582/822/original/018879f3d7d89dd6.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/113/214/544/537/343/716/original/2a1c755f93df66bc.jpg

2024-09-27 18:48:28 UTC

"Here is the simple command you should use to mitigate against $NEWVULNERABILITY on your Linux box. Here is a link to more details and in-depth explanations." 1st reply: "Or you could use $COMPLICATEDTHING to do the same" 2nd reply: "Your command is outdated. In the newest Alpha code you should use $COMPLICATEDTHING" 3rd reply "You use systemd? You suck!" etc.
Le sigh. Offering help is not an easy job. But I will continue to do it :)

2024-09-23 10:31:13 UTC

Das #Deutschlandticket soll ab nächstes Jahr 58€/Monat kosten. Passt für mich. Ist immer noch billiger als das MVG Abo hier in München und erlaubt mir so viel mehr Freiheit. Es wird jetzt sehrf emotional diskutiert werden, weil so ist nun mal das Internet. Für mich gilt: Zur Kenntnis genommen. Ich bleibe dabei. Mein D-Ticket Abo läuft weiter. Quelle: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/deutschlandticket-wird-teurer-so-viel-soll-es-ab-2025-kosten,UP5rIQw?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=BR.de

2024-09-17 19:47:46 UTC

I don't get why after all the bad things leadership has done to Mozilla people still believe in some magic fairy dust turning them back into defenders of basic freedoms. IMHO the Google money has corrupted them and that was not a surprise to me. It is time to take the web back without counting on them. Yes, that's a brutal and harsh take and an #UnpopularOpinion, but I am ditch and I don't like to waste time finding excuses for them anymore. Thanks for all the fish, time for a new browser!

2024-09-15 09:24:06 UTC

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https://laptop.org is still around, though I haven’t been in contact with them since years. They distributed around 3 million laptops to children in total. Mostly unnoticed by us here in the west.

2024-09-14 20:09:20 UTC

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It’s IMHO one of the reasons we never saw the OLPC concept being introduced in a western country. I tried at the time. But we were always destroyed by government agencies with the „it doesn’t run Microsoft Office“ argument.

2024-09-14 19:54:47 UTC

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(In a flat and open field, the mesh network of an OLPC, that didn’t need the CPU for transmitting network traffic, so still worked when the OLPC was „sleeping“ had a range of up to 4 kilometres)

2024-09-14 19:48:04 UTC

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Decentralisation remains an underexplored field in commerce and communication, IMHO. For obvious reasons. Capitalism relies on control and centralisation. Kind of a contradiction, IMHO. A reason why decentralisation and transparency are often touted as goals, but never really implemented. 3/3

2024-09-14 19:42:41 UTC

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With the mesh network built in to the OLPC, a local network that worked without needing a central access point, farmers used the chat function to compare prices offered for their produce and found out that merchants offered different prices. This led to pressure on the merchants to pay better. The government was not amused. And mesh networking became a problem. Ultimately an inspiring story that was never told, IMHO.

2024-09-14 19:24:27 UTC

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I got a bunch of OLPC from [@random_musings](https://social.tchncs.de/@random_musings ) who updated them to the newest OS/apps and might be able to share the HOWTO.

2024-09-14 19:02:17 UTC

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It was so far in reaching forward. The transflexive display. The mesh networking. The Sugar UI. The #fedora based operating system. It overtook itself, IMHO. But the 100$ goal was never a fantasy. It was very real.