Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@idf.social

I wrote an article about #PinePhone and the #Fairphone for The Reboot:

https://thereboot.com/cracking-open-the-android-ios-grip-on-smartphones-and-the-mobile-internet/

It discusses #FOSS, environmental and labor issues, and good old-fashioned distro hopping.

@PINE64 @Fairphone

ZZ Bottom

https://publicspaces.net/2021/07/28/interoperabiliteit-en-federatie-voor-een-eerlijker-en-diverser-internet/

"Waarom kunnen we eigenlijk via Signal geen bericht sturen aan opa 👨 op Whatsapp of Facebook? En waarom kan dat met verschillende mailservices wel? 📬

Dat is een goede vraag. We praten erover met PhD-kandidaat Roel Roscam Abbing in een gesprek over #interoperabiliteit en #federatie modellen."

Flawed Data

Apparently ... there are different #coping #strategy to deal with unreliable #data. 😂⏱️ 😭

#science #openscience #opendata #openaccess

https://xkcd.com/2494/

Looks quite interesting: https://jmp.chat/

"JMP gives you a real phone number that is yours for calling and texting, including group and picture messages, that works from all your devices at once."

« #ImpactFactor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions » via Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01759-5

Tooting this link I found in another toot instead of boosting because of the undescribed image in the original toot (and the image isn't even relevant ot the toot ​):

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

Personal names around the world

People who create web forms, databases, or ontologies are often unaware how different people’s names can be in other countries. They build their forms or databases in a way that assumes too much on the part of foreign users. This article will first introduce you to some of the different styles used for personal names, and then some of the possible implications for handling those on the Web.

I'm intentionally not attributing the original toot.

Why self hosting is important - https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-23-why-selfhosting-is-important.html

BCS Informer is looking for articles for the next issue. If you organised events at SIGIR 2021, we would welcome your contribution. Any other IR-related topic or event report welcome. Deadline August 5. Drop me a message if you're interested. https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/

We've reached 4,000 subscribers and are now counting 500+ million pageviews per month! 😍 #degoogled

A thoughtful post by Fernando Diaz about SIGIR as flagship conference of the field or IR: https://diazf.medium.com/revisiting-the-alleged-problems-with-sigir-1beaf414f7b6

#SIGIR2021 #SIGIR

An industry that unmasks people at scale - https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii

Firefox 89 delivered more speed—today’s Firefox 90 adds SmartBlock 2.0 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/firefox-90-ramps-up-private-browsing-with-new-smartblock-2-0/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @jrssnet
#newsbot

I absolutely love the explosion of tech creativity that #ActivityPub brought onto the world.

Turns out having a single well-defined protocol with multiple implementations lets people Do Fun Things. <3

A bit over 8 years I posed a question about finding a common protocol to the Federated Social Web W3C mailing list:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May/0058.html

The thread offers a decent snapshot of why people felt this "single protocol" approach is impossible.

Happy ActivityPub was able to prove them wrong!