I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba
“Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users!” — via FSFE
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html
After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who "have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time" (Shruti Srivastava/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Not sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@… do not pretend that there's no reason.
That's troublemaking, shit-stirring, disrespectful.
Equal to your freedom to speak and spread disinformation, there's the freedom for anyone – not a moderator – to block you in Reddit and Mastodon. This is not the first time.
@… I may be thinking of the war they called enduring freedom
FSF announces Librephone project https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
"The Free Software Foundation announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is…
@… @… well there you go. I'm sure they could use some "freedom." Just like Venezuela.
Remember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.
@… without regard to X11Libre …
Here's some freedom of speech and openness from a few months ago:
<https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisna