●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, December 30, 2021 ●● ● Dec 30 [00:20] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:24] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@c955v778j8pxq.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:45] *psydroid4 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Dec 30 [01:29] schestowitz__[TR] https://twitter.com/smaffulli/status/1476359780071473153 [01:29] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@smaffulli: @schestowitz my friend, I don't how you're coming to such conclusion. You're seeing control by a corporation from a https://t.co/HbSUBIp1WR [01:29] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@smaffulli: @schestowitz my friend, I don't how you're coming to such conclusion. You're seeing control by a corporation from a https://t.co/HbSUBIp1WR [01:29] schestowitz__[TR] "my friend, I don't how you're coming to such conclusion. You're seeing control by a corporation from a blog post by an open source project for which OSI is a fiscal sponsor?" [01:33] schestowitz__[TR] https://twitter.com/GyroWaveGen_TM/status/1476272678608818182 [01:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GyroWaveGen_TM: @schestowitz So why not file a lawsuit to prove it? [01:33] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:33] schestowitz__[TR] https://twitter.com/DavidMo34997598/status/1476174268983652353 [01:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DavidMo34997598: @schestowitz My Lumia 950 was the best phone I have ever owned. 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[09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > But some configuration changes may be required, depending on your [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > front-end framework. [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > In the meantime we will soon go live with our new service 'Bucket' to [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > help pin files to IPFS, [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > I suspect it will be much simpler than your current O&M approach, and we [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > would like to provide you with the service of file pin if you need it. [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] > If you have any needs, you can tell me, I will try to help you solve. [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] OK, let me know when you can PIN some material. [09:47] schestowitz__[TR] A proprietary front end is not what I want, I just need more nodes to PIN or retrieve, then share. ● Dec 30 [11:09] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@rm9qf2bd96b5u.irc) has joined #techbytes [11:18] *psydroid4 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #techbytes [11:47] *leah has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:47] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes [11:55] *leah has quit (connection closed) [11:55] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 30 [12:12] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [12:41] *leah has quit (connection closed) [12:41] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:49] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@xhe89khtfanwe.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 30 [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] draft, superseded but archiived herein: [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] " [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] The words of others [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] Being dyed-in-the-wool anti-mimetic (or rather an adherent of a slightly odder philosophy, a delight in Missing Out Phillips13), I am sometimes too reluctant to adopt perfectly good terms coined by others. This year I've seen that an ease of conversation comes from common, albeit imperfect, words that carry more 'currency'. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] So I've worked on building a wider vocabulary around tech-rights, reading more of other people's takes on technology, incorporating (and synthesising) their imagery. Orwell and Nietzsche were only partly right in censuring 'tired metaphors'. I see authors get complex ideas across to a wider audience not with novel frames or striking metaphors, but by reusing that which already has meaning. Books and articles in the mainstream press serve as [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] common talking points to make it easier for technical people like myself to strike up friendly chats about software freedom and digital rights without putting people off. So I politely passed over one suggestion that I avoid using the term "Big Tech". It may well be a deflective construction of Microsoft, but when it comes to utility we can use our enemies words too. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] This year I have enjoyed, amongst others, Wendy Liu's Abolish Silicon Valley Liu20, Sophie Brickman's Baby Unplugged Brickman21, Cory Doctorow's How to destroy surveillance capitalism Doctorow20, Thomas Kersting's Disconnected: Protect Your Kids Against Device Dependency Kersting20, Nicholas Kardaras's Glow Kids Kardaras16, Carissa Vliz's Privacy is Power: Why You Should Take Back Control Veliz21, Jenny Oddell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] the Attention Economy Odell20, and Gerry McGovern's World Wide Waste McGovern20. Each offers another piece of the jigsaw of tech-rights. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] Reading more widely (within what appears a narrow genre) I see many threads to tech-rights. To me, being a Digital Vegan means taking a wide view that tries to include diverse and even contradictory stances. Some people will be passionate about single issues like the plight of child workers in smartphone manufacture. Those same people may be indifferent or oblivious to neighbouring matters like the energy costs of cloud data-centres, and [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] oppositional on some subjects - like perhaps they think that government backdoors really might stop terrorism and child sexual abuse. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] Wired into politics is a tension that - while openness and tolerance are required - different word meanings impede conversation. Even after forty years we haven't dissuaded the mainstream press from abusing words like "piracy". Today crypto is in danger of being deflated into a term that distorts the value of secure communication by mixing it up with greedy pyramid schemes. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] So, seeing more nuance in tech rights, beyond Software Freedom and concerns that have absorbed me for decades, I've started to question the centrality of "Software Freedom" as expressed through the mainly US-American GNU philosophy. Through enjoyable, but long and sometimes testing conversations with prominent FSF and EFF authors, I've tried to advocate that notions of "Free" might be expanded. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] To me, tech diversity is a first class social issue, up there alongside race, gender and even religion. It's connection to resilience is an existential issue, and I beleive we need to completely re-imagine concepts of "national security" (civic security) and "digital literacy" far beyond the ossified 'cold-war' statues we keep in the corner. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] In raising these points I've noticed how much the lines are drawn between, as it were, The Judean People's Front and The Peoples' Front of Judea (splitters). There are divisive issues in tech-rights that keep us fighting amongst ourselves, spiralling down a technological race to the bottom, while Microsoft and Google laugh all the way to the bank. There is room for more unity and communication within the tech-rights field and far more [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] coordination against Big-Tech. A stronger, common vocabulary can help us. [13:36] schestowitz__[TR] " [13:56] *tech_exorcist has quit (Quit: Disconnecting) ● Dec 30 [14:27] *leah has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:27] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes [14:45] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@5w59pse2jw4pa.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 30 [16:36] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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Were observing New Years Day tomorrow, 31 Dec 21, so well be on a reduced publishing schedule through Monday, 3 Jan 22. [21:10] schestowitz__[TR] Whatever your plans are to ring in the new year, be happy and safe tomorrow night! [21:10] schestowitz__[TR] " [21:14] schestowitz__[TR] Zed Barnes (@sabiosuelto): "Just thought I'd bring this to your attention, haven't tried it yet myself. Panquake, Gemini...maybe we can take back social media. http://techrights.org/2021/04/28/joining-gemini-space/" | nitter https://nitter.eu/sabiosuelto/status/1476520887780323330 #nitter | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/12/30/#latest [21:14] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-nitter.eu | Zed Barnes (@sabiosuelto): "Just thought I'd bring this to your attention, haven't tried it yet myself. Panquake, Gemini...maybe we can take back social media. http://techrights.org/2021/04/28/joining-gemini-space/" | nitter [21:14] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts [21:16] schestowitz__[TR] GyroGen(TM) (@GyroWaveGen_TM): "The PTAB is 'shit'! Always sides with big corporations. Never on the side of independent inventors giving those companies 'ulcers'. If a big company doesn't want to pay, they don't have to! The PTO knows who butters their bread & aren't going to make those wealthy entities angry!" | nitter https://nitter.eu/GyroWaveGen_TM/status/1476640852512550912 #nitter | more in [21:16] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-nitter.eu | GyroGen(TM) (@GyroWaveGen_TM): "The PTAB is 'shit'! Always sides with big corporations. Never on the side of independent inventors giving those companies 'ulcers'. If a big company doesn't want to pay, they don't have to! The PTO knows who butters their bread & aren't going to make those wealthy entities angry!" | nitter [21:16] schestowitz__[TR] http://schestowitz.com/2021/12/30/#latest [21:18] *leah has quit (connection closed) [21:18] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes [21:29] *tech_exorcist has quit (Quit: see you later) [21:57] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@89yam9i74iqzs.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 30 [22:56] *DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:56] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@tyvcp94fynvee.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 30 [23:06] *psydroid3 has quit (connection closed) [23:23] *tech_exorcist has quit (Quit: Disconnecting)