Notices by Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)

Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Jan-2021 04:31:09 UTC Thunder Beaver
in reply to
- Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@lnxw48a1 lol thanks. No need to mention everyone. I've set this account up in Choqok. It's wonderful but, unfortunately it makes that not-yet mobile friendly theme you mentioned irrelevant! And yes, been working on some upgrades now that I've got time for things again....

In conversation about a month ago from Choqok permalink
Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Friday, 22-Jan-2021 13:00:16 UTC Thunder Beaver
- GNU Social
!gs I'm really digging Choqok v1.7 under KDE Plasma & lxqt. It's got enough features and I'm learning more every time I use it.

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jan-2021 11:57:14 UTC Thunder Beaver
in reply to
- Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@lnxw48a1 Nah, just had some things on the back burner for the time being.

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Thunder Beaver started following Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)].

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Nov-2020 17:55:23 UTC Thunder Beaver

$ uptime
up 39 days, 10:31

I always get nervous when I reboot after major updates. I made sure I had most .non-config files uploaded to my #Spideroak cloud storage. Hopefully I won't need them in a few minutes!
😨

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 01:34:45 UTC Thunder Beaver
- GNU Social
I'm sure many of you have heard about something going on with #section230 by now. Unsurprisingly, the #EFF has some good information on it.
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/dont-blame-section-230-big-techs-failures-blame-big-tech
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1. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
  
  47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act Tucked inside the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is one of the most valuable tools for protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the Internet: Section 230. This comes somewhat as a surprise, since the original purpose of the legislation was to restrict free speech on the Internet. The Internet community as a whole objected strongly to the Communications Decency Act, and with EFF's help, the anti-free speech provisions were struck down by the Supreme Court. But thankfully, CDA 230 remains and in the years since has far outshone the rest of the law. Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish. This legal and policy framework has allowed for YouTube and Vimeo users to upload their own videos, Amazon and Yelp to offer countless user reviews, craigslist to host classified ads, and Facebook and Twitter to offer social networking to hundreds of millions of Internet users. Given the sheer size of user-generated websites (for example, Facebook alone has more than 1 billion users, and YouTube users upload 100 hours of video every minute), it would be infeasible for online intermediaries to prevent objectionable content from cropping up on their site. Rather than face potential liability for their users' actions, most would likely not host any user content at all or would need to protect themselves by being actively engaged in censoring what we say, what we see, and what we do online. In short, CDA 230 is perhaps the most influential law to protect the kind of innovation that has allowed the Internet to thrive since 1996. Click here for our infographic about the importance of CDA 230. CDA 230 also offers its legal shield to bloggers who act as intermediaries by hosting comments on their blogs. Under the law, bloggers are not liable for comments left by readers, the work of guest bloggers, tips sent via email, or information received through RSS feeds. This legal protection can still hold even if a blogger is aware of the objectionable content or makes editorial judgments. The legal protections provided by CDA 230 are unique to U.S. law; European nations, Canada, Japan, and the vast majority of other countries do not have similar statutes on the books. While these countries have high levels of Internet access, most prominent online services are based in the United States. This is in part because CDA 230 makes the U.S. a safe haven for websites that want to provide a platform for controversial or political speech and a legal environment favorable to free expression. EFF works to ensure strong legal protections for Internet intermediaries and endeavors to fight threats that would weaken such protections for intermediaries and users. We realize that a combination of technology policy and law protecting intermediaries ultimately helps uphold freedom of speech online. NOTE: This summary of CDA 230 isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal of these pages is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues surrounding the interactive computer services covered by CDA 230.
2. Don’t Blame Section 230 for Big Tech’s Failures. Blame Big Tech.
  
  from Elliot Harmon
  
  Next time you hear someone blame Section 230 for a problem with social media platforms, ask yourself two questions: first, was this problem actually caused by Section 230? Second, would weakening Section 230 solve the problem? Politicians and commentators on both sides of the aisle frequently blame...
Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2020 08:47:31 UTC Thunder Beaver

http://techrights.org/2020/06/22/corporate-fsf/
Summary: “Who’s going to defend our 4 freedoms then? The people who bribed the watchdogs? The people who decapitated our organisations?”

#fsf #gnu #Mozilla #watchdogs #freesoftware #RMS
In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
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1. The Implications of an Increasingly Corporate FSF
  
  "Who's going to defend our 4 freedoms then? The people who bribed the watchdogs? The people who decapitated our organisations?"
dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2020 10:23:25 UTC dansup
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FediDB will only succeed with the support of other implementations.
I look forward to working with other implementations to steward the project in the right direction!
#FediDB #activityPub #federation

In conversation about 10 months ago from mastodon.social permalink Repeated by thndrbvr
clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2020 12:09:28 UTC clacke@libranet.de is my main
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It’s up!
Recorded together with @fluffy and @jamey , it will hit the main feed Tuesday in two weeks.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3082
When serving most RSS/Atom feed readers today, you have to choose: Do you make a complete feed with all the things you ever published, or do you make a shorter feed with just the latest entries?
This is a trade-off with pros and cons, and it seems like a trade-off you have to make, but a solution to let your Atom feed have the cake and eat it too existed already 13 years ago, if only any of our feed readers would adhere to it: RFC 5005, Feed Paging and Archiving
Audio direct: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3082.spx
@clacke

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Matrix.org (matrix@mastodon.matrix.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2020 20:02:56 UTC Matrix.org
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- Eugen
- mhoye
24 hours from now we'll be live on https://matrix.org/open-tech-meetup/ for the second edition of Open Tech Will Save Us, with Eugen (@Gargron) from Mastodon and @mhoye from Mozilla, PLUS big updates on the state of Dendrite #meetup #decentralization
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1. Matrix.org
  
  from @matrixdotorg
  
  Matrix.org
Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-May-2020 05:49:15 UTC Thunder Beaver
- GNU Social
Is this thing on?

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Thunder Beaver started following aab.

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Thunder Beaver started following tenma.

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2020 07:44:28 UTC Thunder Beaver
- GNU Social
I feel like it seems I hate GS.. lol. I don't, I swear! It's just that I'm full of ideas and have much time to think.
Besides, this is mostly all stuff I've seen on other sites/boards/forums. I think these ideas are all different from the other popular fediverse sites. Hopefully they incorporate support if necessary and this all makes GS stand out from the rest and gain in popularity. :D

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2020 07:33:07 UTC Thunder Beaver
- GNU Social
Another bombardment of 7+ features requested at: https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues
This time mostly about Groups and notices.
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1. diogo/gnu-social
  
  from diogo
  
  GNU social is a social communication software used in federated social networks. It is widely supported and has a large userbase. It is already used by the Free Software Foundation.
Thunder Beaver joined the group An XMPP and Jabber related group.

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Thunder Beaver (thndrbvr@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2020 20:54:53 UTC Thunder Beaver
in reply to
- Douglas A. Whitfield
Fair point. I can think of only a couple things I'd need to do with JS. Mostly, I'd want to contribute to GNU Social & GNU FM along with a few other projects https://thefreaks.club uses.
In conversation about 10 months ago from web permalink
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1. The Freaks Club
  
  Social network in the fediverse for all the metalheads, goths, and other outcasts. We've got forums, radio, and much more!

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