Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 2

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Myself, along with almost 40 other workers, were laid off from Code for America. Instead of working with workers to get a union contract, they gutted our stances and refused to negotiate layoffs (again, anti-union behavior).

Will be immediately looking for new work. yo@jacky.wtf

I keep bringing myself to ask how to publish a paper without relying on academia and I don't know why I don't trust my own site to be good enough. Because it doesn't have a dowry? A seal? No accreditations?

Mozilla's taking an interesting lead here as a NGO (with their resources) to help bolster the Fediverse. The fact that moderation and safety isn't an afterthought is reassuring. https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

And taking a step to look how to incorporate public services instead of celebrities and politicians should be onboarded (since they provide more immediate value to the other 99% of the users) is dope! (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/iTV4)

I can't really parse people defending BlueSky solely because Jack Dorsey is there.

Nor can I defend "it being better" because it explicitly has features that anti-abuse advocates have been saying for years has persistently used as vectors to run attacks against them.

There's people here that do claim publicly to care about people, especially Black people, that have run there, praised it contrary to the above and are prime examples of the false nature of ally ship. Once it's convenient or enough people of their class are ready to jump, they flee frantically.

In a way, good riddance. But also, I'm keeping receipts. I refuse to let people continue to enable abuse and harm for their protection of their social capital.

There's a reason why there's no United States version of NLNet - that'd encourage public services built by people using public dollars. That'd run counter to organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, IBM, Amazon and the like who make money by siloing government infrastructure and forcing citizens to accept sub-par solutions (that other groups have to hack around).

That being backed by venture capital puts us in this vicious loop where if you can't afford better options, you HAVE to accept these broken machines. Bringing this to the open social Web, if I can avoid it, I'd opt for funding from people directly whenever possible. I say this fully knowing where I work this is _not_ the case, but to sit in it as the "acceptable" solution does not map with my hope for this work to be something that can be owned by the people.

That means (and isn't restricted to) avoiding explicit wealth extraction from the people, full transparency around how money is spent and used to run services (beyond what the US demands - that's not enough in this age, hasn't ever) and allowing people… https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/7y35

@alcinnz ah! that's an excellent phrasing of it

@alcinnz what are aggregated pull notifications? Like websub?

I'm not going to make a Web browser shell. Not I. I don't have the brain, time or energy. BUT https://github.com/antoyo/servo-gtk looks promising on first glance. Going to try building this. Does anyone know of efforts to bring Servo into the free desktop communities? (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/dWjw)

So I'm looking to integrate WebAuthn to a project (still kind of bullish on this) and this chart constantly annoys me. Ubuntu is free to run and even to test but not even mentioned or attempted. Whatever. https://simplewebauthn.dev/docs/advanced/supported-devices (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/4H-9)

inb4 "omg no one uses Linux on the desktop in 20xx, Jacky", we didn't even get the public a chance because of companies like Microsoft and Apple (who, tbh, fuck them to eternity) and loyalists of either place that really, really think closing off things people HAVE to use every day is the best way to make them work.

I hate capitalism so much; it runs into everything. _Everything_! (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/CZ07)

Okay, so cooling down a bit, I did some hunting and lol, thoughts were a bit confirmed. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205350. I really want to know what it'll take to integrate something like Servo so we move away from Apple's Webkit. It looks like there's tests for WebAuthn support (vaguely) when looking at https://github.com/servo/servo/search?q=webauthn. (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/9Vya)