Notices by 𝓻𝓻𝓪 (rra@post.lurk.org)

> In relation to other struggles in Germany, with this occupation, we want to take the next step in the fight for climate justice, because we are trying to bring in water as an issue, and we are trying to debunk the narrative of “green growth,” the idea that electric cars are solving the problem. At the same time, this occupation is related to the anti-fascist movement, because Elon Musk is also part of the fascist problem.

https://crimethinc.com/2024/03/08/germany-the-fight-against-the-tesla-gigafactory-some-occupy-the-forest-some-shut-down-the-power-grid

@CrimethInc

@Moon Yeah the level of research ethics varies a lot with disciplines and countries, which is also why we shouldn't just rely on that. Making it easier to respect wishes will go a long way though.

As for research on the fediverse I agree that it will be even more skewed demographically than Twitter if you want to make claims about 'people online' or whatever. However I think there are specific areas of research that the fediverse allows for. On interoperability and governance for example as there is a lot of corporate misinformation on that front. In European commission hearings Facebook for example claimed that e2ee interoperable chat was not technically possible, as a way to soften the interoperability requirements for their chat offerings..

In June I attended a workshop on #research on and through Mastodon by @ccamara and @__nate__. Part of the discussions during that workshop focused on understanding how computational research could happen on the Fediverse. Prompted by the upcoming mastodon 4.2 release, I wrote down some thoughts on what that can mean for scraping-based academic research on the fediverse.

My tldr: this type of research is going to happen regardless of whether people want it or not. Calls for changing research methods are insufficient. Instead, we could focus on mechanisms for cooperative actors to better navigate consent computationally. The new 4.2 toot:indexable flag possibly provides a model for this.

https://test.roelof.info/log/toot-indexable/

I found a perfectly functioning but discarded Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (from 2012) in the apartment block's e-waste bin. The device is in very good condition. A clear victim of software-induced obsolescence. It runs android 4.4 (!!) and doesn't receive any newer updates. The owner likely bought a newer tablet once some of the android apps they relied on wouldn't install anymore.

Apparently @postmarketOS supports it though.

Can this device get a new lease on life by running #linux and becoming a portable PDF reading and annotation device synced with #zotero ?

How painful will this be? How deep the rabbit-hole of driver gore and kernel patches will it bring us? How many late nights will it take?

Let's find out!

Well, so far I've managed to install a custom recovery image. It involved trying to flash several versions, as not all worked. I found a version that did work in the end. I've also built the postmarket image with pmbootstrap. However, trying to install that image fails for reasons I don't understand yet.. Tried several methods. Continue another time..

Oh lol just as I trying to shut it down for the evening, I see this. Some progress was made.

Getting closer..

Got a running kernel but no partitions with filesystems for some reason

Kernel panic achieved :thinkhappy:

Managed to boot into #phosh but that's also the extent of it. It freezes on this screen but progress nonetheless: figured out how to install a pmOS image on this hardware. Now to figure out whether this freeze is due to incorrectly setting up the unsupported hardware accel or something else. Next time I will look at installing a DE which doesn't need hardware accel, just to see if it works. However, the device is fully unresponsive and won't even turn off. Letting it drain the battery and hoping it still charges next time around :doge:

Can anyone with a #UK #ISP and particularly the firm #Three / 3 confirm whether or not https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ or https://lowtechmagazine.com are blocked or restricted for them as a site with "adult" content?

:boost_requested:

@lain big german coast guard energy

@shibacomputer

> If you buy into the idea that Nextcloud at Mozilla should be spending resources on mastodon, at the very least one of these two orgs could do something meaningful like finance and supply labour to build better moderation tools, end to end encrypted DMs or some other meaningful effort. Yet this is not what is proposed.

Yeah suuuuper late involvement imo. Very visionless. Also they are one of three parties that can add native browser support to some of the biggest federated social media ux challenges such as interacting with material while not being on the webpage of your own instance.