Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Feb 17, 2019

On  @SamHarrisOrg said:
"Welcome to the panopticon...
China becomes an episode of Black Mirror"
and shared this article:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278

to which my response was:
"Give it 5-10 years, then we'll have it too, but with better marketing, but effectively similar.
IIRC Eindhoven has a system (in pilot?) 'similar' as shown in the head picture (Person of Interest style) ... for a snitch city project. Fighting crime and/or terrorism will be used too"

Leave no dark corner

Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. "Social credit" will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.

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Show threadFree Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Nov 28, 2019

Great ~3 minute video which explains nicely why I focus so much on #privacy as it shows the dangers of #surveillance #capitalism.
Viewpoint_ ‘We’re living in an age of surveillance capitalism’ _ BBC Ideas
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/e0737406-9c87-41dd-bda9-5b927474a73e

h/t [email protected]

#panopticon

Viewpoint_ ‘We’re living in an age of surveillance capitalism’ _ BBC Ideas

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Show threadFree Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Aug 25, 2020

I just realized that the above video was @aral speaking 👌

And I recently found https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0 in which Aral explains the problem to the European Parliament.
I couldn't agree more with what he said.

I wish I could explain it so clearly and concisely.
I recently tried to explain centralized vs decentralized to a friend after mentioning Mastodon as being some kind of decentralized Twitter.
I'm doubtful whether that person understood it enough to explain it to someone else.

The future internet regulation - Aral Balkan at the European Parliament - With Slides

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Show threadBoud

@aral

Is there any plan to shift https://github.com/small-tech/site.js away from #GAFAM? Strongly encouraging people to move away from that particular centralised authoritarian corporate website might help to clarify the message of the "small web"... The "M in #GAFAM" is a temporary compromise for many of us, like voting for Chirac with a peg on our noses in 2002.

https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/github/ @ReverseEagle

* https://codeberg.org/ @codeberg
* https://git.disroot.org/ @disroot
* https://notabug.org/
...

site.js/README.md at master · small-tech/site.js

Develop, test, and deploy your secure static or dynamic personal web site with zero configuration. - site.js/README.md at master · small-tech/site.js

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Show threadAral BalkanAug 27, 2020
@boud @ReverseEagle @codeberg @disroot Hi man, good question :) Our canonical repositories are all at https://source.small-tech.org. We use Github to mirror/publish our repositories so they can be (a) discovered by more people (b) so that people can open issues and pull requests (we have no intention of making source.small-tech.org yet another silo by accepting developer accounts there). Eventually, my goal is to have p2p hosted Git via our Small Web initiative. But lots to do before that :)
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Show threadBoudAug 27, 2020

@aral

Good to see that your main git repository is self-hosted. :)
So now my suggestion is to make this info a bit more obvious to those who are puzzled like me - maybe in the profile at https://github.com/small-tech ?

I put an icon at my profile at
https://github.com/broukema to try to encourage degithubisation.

Whether your git strategy is the best or not is a different question; I'll leave that wider debate to anyone interested. I don't have all the answers...

@ReverseEagle @codeberg @disroot

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