Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 2

@bob @Gargron Thank you :) Next, I want to include just my public toots on my site using just client-side JS so I need an unauthenticated API call for that. Might just bite the ruby bullet and try to get the Mastodon dev environment going so I can contribute that.

@iain Thank you so much :)

Updated the examples on Set—my unobtrusive JavaScript templating engine—to display the public timeline from my own Mastodon instance using the new unauthenticated public timeline API (thanks @Gargron)

Rendered: https://ind.ie/labs/set/posts
Template: https://ind.ie/labs/set/posts.html
Route: https://source.ind.ie/project/set/blob/master/routes/posts.coffee

Set: https://ind.ie/set https://mastodon.ar.al/media/UG0dM6Rbb9k5tFKTm_Q https://mastodon.ar.al/media/q3YEFzh_uhNIU6Ukx2s

@rsolva Thank you, Ruben :)

@davidejalexander It has been a while. Still on the same mission – but with the hindsight of four years of working at it ;)

@highondancer It’s a big deal because:

(a) People don’t know that their photo is being taken and that facial recognition is being run, etc. If this was happening in the EU, it would run foul of GDPR.

(b) The owner of a shop does not have the means to take photo of customers and store it indefinitely and link it to other info with just their eyes/biological facilities

(c) The difference to being asked is they were never asked – they didn’t even know it was going on.

@juzzuf Thanks, Jussi :)

@dBu_fs Hey, thanks – I’m still experimenting with the setup. The problem is the room and my proximity to the wall, I think. Very kind re: the mic – I have several – will iterate and improve ;)

@anton @Vega Thank you :)

@dataKnightmare :)

@sina Go for it! I know the feeling – especially how something not going right in some part of your life affects the motivation to work on those parts that are going right. Easy to offer advice from a distance, I know, but all I can say is every time I’ve forced myself to just get started – fire up that editor or IDE and make a tiny tweak – it’s turned out for the better :)

Here’s wishing you a lovely weekend regardless of what you decide :)

The episode of Inside Story on Al Jazeera English that I was on yesterday is now ready to watch: quite happy I was able to turn what was meant to be a humdrum review of Snapchat’s recent financial loses and a superficial look into the lack of innovation in mainstream technology into a critique of surveillance capitalism with mention of decentralisation and alternatives like Mastodon.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2017/05/snapchat-financial-difficulties-170511200607709.html

@b3yond Thank you :)

@alxcndr I agree. Transparency is just a first step and regulation (in an institutionally corrupt system) is a flawed but still better-than-nothing way to achieve at least some transparency and limit the worst of the abuses once we realise we don't like what we now see. Longer term, as you say, we must move away from Surveillance Capitalism: https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons

I’m on Inside Story on @AJEnglish in 5 minutes

Watch live: http://www.aljazeera.com/live/