Notices by Rokosun (futureisfoss@fosstodon.org)

@aral Reminds me of this article from The Onion - https://www.theonion.com/gazan-refreshed-after-taking-weekend-to-unplug-from-new-1850942572

@rato @aral

WTF man.... 😐 If even a translation software can be this biased imagine how dangerous it is to ask generative AI for factual information.

@trom

Wow #finland is amazing, great example of how to solve the homelessness crisis!

cc: @aral

@aral @trom

The videos are just embedded from Peertube, I don't know why it doesn't work on iPhones. Can you try going to this peertube page instead - https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz

@aral

More people should go watch this documentary - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2

Honestly I think the only reason why it didn't became popular is because this wasn't made for money and was released exclusively to Peertube.

@rotfarm @tio my knowledge about this is very limited, but from what I understand Google is proposing a method for web developers to verify the integrity of users who visit their websites, so if this proposal becomes a success and people started implementing this verification on their websites then you won't be able to access those sites from firefox, unless firefox also implemented this thing in their browser.

I really hope I'm wrong here and that it won't affect firefox users.....

@gdeihl razor wire hidden in the river? What the actual fuck?! 😨

@gdeihl
That is truly sickening to read. Giving orders to deny migrants water in extreme heat, pushing children into the Rio Grande river, and putting razor wire in the river to harm people who cross it - if this isn't considered "inhumane" then I don't know what is.

I'd like to share this short video made by my friends @bigworldsmallsasha and @sober_pirate called "Prison earth", as its becoming more relevant these days - https://videos.trom.tf/w/jrLmgWLj9nWsdXc4j438cU

I don't think it was a good idea for instance admins to agree to talk to Meta under a nondisclosure agreement, but that DOESN'T make it an excuse for people to go and harass those admins. If anything they're the victims of Meta IMO, and a lot of them may still be in favor of blocking Meta regardless of whether they agreed to the meeting or not. I think we have to stick together in situations like this and act accordingly, keep in mind that "divide and conquer" is a proven strategy.

Its also important to acknowledge that Fediverse has the same kind of design flaws that made it possible for Google to take over the email ecosystem with their Gmail service, @aral has written a blog post that explains this problem very well - https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

So the way to move forward would be to create a system which doesn't have these flaws, and the only way to do that is to somehow get rid of the power difference between the one who can run servers and the one who can't.

@aral Such a great article! Thank you for taking a stand and calling out these BS when you see it. Unfortunately this thing has plagued the FOSS community right now, everywhere you see corporate sponsors for these supposedly well-meaning projects/organizations. I just wanna share these pages from the "Origin of most problems" book which warned people about this exact thing. I had to merge a few pages 'cause of limits in mastodon, but you can find the full book here - https://www.tromsite.com/books/