Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

"Our collective objective should be, to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offence, or the disadvantage of anyone."
- Buckminster Fuller

#Introduction career activist and professional volunteer from Aotearoa (NZ). Co-founder of numerous community projects, including a community newspaper, #CoWorking space, #MicroRadio station, #SocialCentre, the Aotearoa sections of #Indymedia and #CreativeCommons, and the Aotearoa Permaculture Network. These days, I publish long-form blogs at #Disintermedia. I'd love to hear from you about common interests, my contact info and more about my project history is here:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/danyl-strype

Does anyone know how to boot into the #GParted live disk if it doesn't play nicely with your graphics chips? I've tried using #Forcevideo to manually choosing config options, but I have no idea what to tell it when it asks me "what driver for your VGA card?". The one #Trisquel uses works. But how do I tell GParted to boot using that?

I have a lot of respect for the legacy of #RalphNader, and he clearly respects the legacy of #RobertFellmeth, but listening to these two old men discuss internet regulation on Nader's #podcast is truly painful:
https://ralphnaderradiohour.com/facebook-anonymity-your-day-in-court/

For a start, they don't know that FB already enforces real names and have completely missed the long-running debate about the #UnintendedConsequences of this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/facebooks-real-name-policy-can-cause-real-world-harm-lgbtq-community

Everything else in the discussion is about as far behind the 8 ball.

"Tusky" isn't a generic word like "office", and the Free Tusky creators are probably at risk of #trademark action for using essentially the same name for such a similar app (#LibreSignal ran into threats of this: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217664961 ). They might be better too use a tongue-in-cheek variant like Trunky or Toothy, that references its origins, but also gives it a unique identity. Like IceWeasel and IceCat do with Firefox, and IceDove does with Thunderbird.

When I updated the fediverse.party apps watchlist recently: https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/wikis/watchlist-for-client-apps

... I saw that a fork of #Tusky without the instance blocklist is now available on #FDroid as "#FreeTusky". For better or worse, this is an example of what #SoftwareFreedom looks like. In a parallel universe where the Tusky blocklist contained instances used by #SocialJustice activists, the same people who might be upset by Free Tusky would be celebrating its creators as heroes.
#FoodForThought

I've been trying to download a file from SourceForge for hours. I'm getting less than 20kb/s at times. That's dial-up speed! I've got about 50MB left to download, and it's saying it's going to take about 40 minutes. I'm using the Japanese mirror, which is the closest one I could see to China. Our net connection here is rubbish!

"...the realistic alternative to meat eating is not a better life but for those animals to not exist in the first place."
- #ScottAlexander
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-net-harm/

I wonder if Scott realizes this sounds an awful lot like one of the justifications for human slavery? I call false dichotomy. Without farming of non-human animals for human food, our food production would take up a fraction of the land it does now, and the balance could be rewilded to support larger population of free non-humans.

"#Coinhive has responded to such criticism by releasing a version of their code called “AuthedMine,” which is designed to seek a Web site visitor’s consent before running the #Monero mining scripts. Coinhive maintains that approximately 35 percent of the Monero cryptocurrency mining activity that uses its platform comes from sites using #AuthedMine."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/authedmine/

"But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defence of the new."
- #AntonEgo, 'Ratatouille'

"The anonymity of the Internet encourages ‘social justice activism’ expressed in the public shaming of others, and seeks adherence less on the basis of mutual interests than fear of public stigma. Online shaming is a social practice that gives those who do it certain social recognition and encouragement from other practitioners. As [#KateJNorlock] has noted, ‘the intent of shame justice seems to be to enjoy the company one has in cyberspace with so many approving others’"
https://mondediplo.com/2019/08/08usa

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Javascript isn't required for a landing page!
#MakeJavascriptOptional!

Unlike all the other news and politics sites I've looked at today, TVNZ.co.nz offers nothing but a loading screen to visitors with JS turned off (#MakeJavascriptOptional!). With JS turned on, the site has a horrifying number of third-party trackers including:
* facebook.net
* googletagmanager.com
* googletagservices.com
* imrworldwide.com
* instagram.com
* newrelic.com
* qualtrics.com
* segment.com
* sentry.io

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#TVNZ.co.nz is the website of #NZ's other countrywide free-to-air, #TV broadcaster, with a number of channels including TV1 and TV2. It's 100% publicly-owned, but fully commercial (for now). Despite using dirty energy for web hosting, its estimated to emit only 0.63g of carbon per page view:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/www-tvnz-co-nz/

(that's before you start to watch any videos, which is mainly what it's useful for)
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#NewsHub.co.nz is the website for the newsroom for the #MediaWorks empire, including #TV3 and a number of commercial radio stations. As well as mediaworks.nz, they serve scripts from 4 third-party domains, including trackers from:
* adobetm.com
* googlesyndication.com
* googletagservices.com
* taboola.com

They emit an estimated 1.25g of carbon per page view - low compared to other NZ news and politics sites - despite using dirty energy for hosting:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/www-newshub-co-nz-home-html/

#TheDailyBlog.co.nz is a political commentary site run by Martyn #Bomber Bradbury, publishing pieces by left-leaning regular bloggers and guests (including myself). Sadly, they serve scripts from 7 third-party domains, including trackers like:
* doubleclick.net
* google.com
* googletagservices.com
* googletagmanager.com
* statcounter.com

#TDB publishes almost as many op eds about #ClimateChange as George Monbiot, but still emits an estimated 4.6g of carbon per page view:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/thedailyblog-co-nz/

#HatTip to the builders of KiwiBurn.com, the website for the #NZ regional spinoff of the #BurningMan festival, for making sure their website uses #RenewableEnergy. Their site is estimated to emit a relatively 0.58g of carbon per page view:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/kiwiburn-com/

... compared to the 17-18g per page view emitted by The #Spinoff.co.nz and #Stuff.co.nz

#HatTip to #WhoTracks.me, which I used to learn more about some of the third-party domains I found serving scripts at various #NZ news and politics sites:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103327757844273297

For an international comparison, let's look at theguardian.com, which publishes reporting and op eds from staunch #ClimateChange campaigner #GeorgeMonbiot. According to the calculator, The Guardian uses dirty power and emits roughly 1.3g of carbon per page view:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/www-theguardian-com-us/

Aside from guim.co.uk, which they own, their front page serves at least 2 third-party scripts including:
* google-analytics.com
* scorecardresearch.com

#Scoop.co.nz is a #SocialEnterprise whose website publishes press releases, news coverage, and editorial pieces like #GordonCampbell digital magazine #Werewolf.

Scoop is the first NZ news site I've tested that is reported as using #RenewableEnergy, but still manages to emit an estimated 3 1/2 grams per page view:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/www-scoop-co-nz/

It also has the smallest third-party script load of the sites I've examined so far, although they include:
* google-analytics.com
* googletagservices.com

#Stuff.co.nz, the online portal for most of our other daily newspapers, serves scripts from at least 6 third-party domains, including:
* adobetm.com
* gigya.com
* google.com
* imrworldwide.com

This one is almost as carbon heavy as The Spinoff, with almost 17g per page view, also from dirty energy:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/www-stuff-co-nz/