Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)

@amalia12 This 💯

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@gimulnautti @crazyeddie @zleap @cmthiede @davetroy Thanks, will read :)

@beccanalia @heidilifeldman Heya,

I quite love everywhere in Belgium, but, of course, definitely Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp

@gimulnautti @crazyeddie @zleap @cmthiede @davetroy Haha, thanks :)

(PS. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at that page. Just noticed some spammy links have crept in. Must make some time to weed them out. Amazing the lengths some folks will go to to get their link on a page.) :)

@hjwp Not every business is Big Tech or a trillion-dollar corporation. And not every entity with money is a for-profit business either. So, yes, I don’t see why you couldn’t have sponsorship from ethically-aligned organisations.

Think of it this way: there’s a reason Greenpeace isn’t sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil and it’s not because they couldn’t use the money.

(And were Greenpeace sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil, you’d likely have a question a two.)

@crazyeddie @zleap @cmthiede @gimulnautti @davetroy Just to clarify, the Small Web is not web3/blockchain (eww) :)

Quite on the contrary, it’s web0 ;)

https://web0.small-web.org

More: https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

Ah, algorithmic transparency, what I told the European Parliament was the next step they should take after GDPR. Better six years late than never. Hey, maybe in another decade they’ll even consider implementing a General Data Minimisation Regulation (GDMR).

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

https://ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one-simple-regulation-could-end-surveillance-capitalism-in-the-eu/

#regulation #EU #GDPR #GDMR #algorithmicTransparency #dataMinimisation https://mamot.fr/@davduf/113845060326024724

@fkamiah17 @noiseician 💕

If you don’t give a shit that FOSDEM is sponsored by Google and is being keynoted by a billionaire Silicon Valley people farmer, you don’t give a shit about the “F” in the name. Which is fine, because neither do they and neither does much of the “open source” world. Open source, after all, is “open” as in “open for business” not “free” as in “freedom.”

#FOSDEM #OpenSource #trillionDollarCorporations #billionaires #Google #JackDorsey #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #SiliconValley #PR

“AI-Fueled Platform for News” aka “a bullshit rag.”

https://futurism.com/washington-post-pivot-ai-fueled-platform-for-news

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #AI #bullshit

FOSDEM is pronounced OSDEM (the “F” is silent).

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

@keithcleveland @Libby_ Black and white photo of middle-aged white man giving a speech at a podium. He stands with his index finger raised as if underscoring an important point.

“Once more, let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”

- Tommy Douglas

@w7voa Alt text:

QUESTION: Three hundred reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs.
Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal (inaudible)?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I'm happy to address questions -
QUESTION: You all knew we had a deal. Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony,
and you kept the bombs flowing. Why did you sacrifice -
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I'm happy to address questions when we get a chance, thank you.
QUESTION: - the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism?
QUESTION: Did you want to finish, or -
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Yeah.
QUESTION: Why did you allow my friends to be massacred? Why did you allow my friends
(inaudible) we had a deal (inaudible)?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I'm happy to address your questions when we get to questions.
Thank you.
QUESTION: Did you want -
QUESTION: Hey. You just - you helped destroy our religion of Judaism by associating it
with fascism.
QUESTION: Did you want to finish?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Yeah, I have a statement - yeah, I have a statement to make.
Thank you.
QUESTION: You waved the white flag before Netanyahu.
STAFF: The Secretary will be happy to take questions at the end.
QUESTION: You waved the white flag before Israeli fascists.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: I look forward to taking questions when I get a chance to finish my
statement. Thank you.
QUESTION: Your father-in-law is an Israel lobbyist, your grandfather was an Israel lobbyist.
Are you compromised by Israel? Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen?
STAFF: It's time to go. Thank you very much.

@fkamiah17 @noiseician https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113833860977088538

@dallo @wonkothesane @soydelbierzo @aral We would not use the exact same words as you...

At Tuta, we do not judge others, but we stand for equality, fairness, diversity, understanding. We want to make the web a better place, one where not only your data is respected (and protected with encryption), but also you as a person - no matter who you are.

You can better understand us and our values when checking out our jobs page: https://tuta.com/jobs

@Tutanota @wonkothesane @soydelbierzo @aral

Beside shithead, this is mostly words from the Wikipedia page of each. So would you use those words?

After checking your jobs page, I have four more questions about what you stand for:

- Do black lives matter?
- Are trans rights human rights?
- Is the climate change human-made?
- Should nazi fuck off?

#protonmail #tuta #mail

@lazysupper I envy you if you haven’t met any :)

So maybe now some folks can see why having trillion-dollar people farmers as sponsors is a problem too. Maybe? I don’t know… Too soon?

#fosdem #institutionalCorruption #JackDorsey #billionaires #capitalism #openSource https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/103483437564238747

In the past, I’ve called out @fosdem for having Google as a sponsor: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/100974215641531155

So this year, they added Facebook also: https://fosdem.org/2020/about/sponsors/

FOSDEM is about open source, not freedom.

Why is this a problem? Read this: https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#fosdem #SurveillanceCapitalism

PS. I’m still not happy with the expressiveness of the htmx syntactic sugar. I’ve initially kept it as close as possible to htmx so as to help with reuse of knowledge if you already know it but I’ve been favouring semantics, internal consistency, and readability/ease of authoring in all things with Kitten so expect minor changes in syntax before I lock things down in API version 1.

#Kitten #SmallWeb