jaklt @jaklt@mastodon.social
I've written an article explaining why the upcoming copyright directive is about to fundamentally break the internet: https://tomas.jakl.one/blog/2019-03-24-the-problem-with-the-latest-copyright-directive
Please help to stop it, contact your MEPs and ask them to vote against it in the upcoming week. https://saveyourinternet.eu/
#savetheinternet
#saveyourinternet #article11 #article13 #copyrightdirective
This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP
https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2019/03/this-could-be-most-important-email-you.html
#Article3 #Article11 #Article13 #EU #Copyright
RT @glynmoody
Music Industry Asks EU to Scrap #Article13 - https://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-asks-eu-to-scrap-article-13/ come on, MEPs: everyone hates it - it will be a disaster. please remove it.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1104441919210508288
RT @RogueNotary
It's infuriating how often I google a story to verify it, and the results are:
1) NYT (no free articles left)
2) Fox News (always free)
3) WaPo (no free articles left)
4) Breitbart (always free)
5) Daily Caller (always free)
Guess what people end up reading when this happens?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1101179117574279168
"University of California terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research"
Context for those not in the US: this is huge. UC is a uniquely enormous and influential university system in our country. When they do things, many other universities follow suit.
I started following Larry Sanger's blog (the founder of Wikipedia). He has lots to say. For example here is his apt summary of what is the social media doing to our online communication:
Is it time to move from social media to blogs? http://larrysanger.org/2018/06/is-it-time-to-move-from-social-media-to-blogs/
RT @pbeyssac@twitter.com
Must-read thread on the looming disaster (enormous rate of false positives) of #article13 of the #CopyrightDirective. cc @glynmoody@twitter.com @doctorow@twitter.com via @teirdes@twitter.com https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1097157076823035905
Does anyone have a recommendation for a #RSS Reader for me? I'd like a nice UI, the option to save an entry and I would like to read on desktop and phone.
But let me tell you a small story from 2015 - long before the Mastodon hype:
For quite a few years I ran gnusocial.de, a GNU Social host with a handful of active users and around 1.000 registered accounts. Some of those accounts were automatically mirroring Tweets, mostly from newspaper's Twitter accounts. One of those tweets (the original one) linked to an article that was ordered by court to be taken offline. So the tweet as well had to be deleted.
Following that I recieved a letter by some lawyer representing that person (the one suing the newspaper) mentioned in the article. The lawyer told me that I had to delete *the copy* of this tweet on my small unimportant federated network node. Otherwise I'd be taken to court being liable for the content on my node.
So, nobody knows what will happen with article 13 or not. I'm not saying that these things mentioned earlier will happen, I'm just pointing out possibilities. And I for sure don't intend to spill FUD but running around with the claim "we're to small" is dangerously naive.
Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
An interesting idea. I don't think that it's appealing to Brits at all but it would work at least.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/08/brexit-northern-ireland-backstop
Flashing my Lenovo x230 with Coreboot #linux https://www.chucknemeth.com/flash-lenovo-x230-coreboot/
Wow, that's quite a lot!
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/nuclear-treaty-trump/
A bit unusual but interesting:
https://elgan.com/blog/how-i-replaced-facebook-with-google-photos
Really cool design tips for #webdesign amateurs:
“7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design” by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-40c736799886
Academic research
Would be nice to have an automatic export of RSSs to #Mastodon.
Imagine for every RSS/Atom feed having a dedicated bot which posts new toot for every new entry in the feed. Then we would have a separate discussion for "every" website on the internet!
One can say that already now anybody can just share whatever is on the internet. But what I suggest allows to automatically link content and the website owners don't even have to have a Mastodon account. 😉
Any thoughts?
Looking around and tooting my #firstpost 🙂
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