"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable, permanent social media czar for 3 billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist.
We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."
"...the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems. Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but keep posting anyway. You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars."
"There was a brief moment in the early 1990s when the digital future felt open-ended. In spite of its origins in military cryptography and defence networking, digital technology had become a playground for the counterculture, who saw in it the opportunity to invent a more inclusive, distributed, and participatory future."
"How about this: Why don’t we stop treating it as entirely normal that the more obviously one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it; or insisting that financial markets are the best way to direct long-term investment even as they are propelling us to destroy most life on Earth?"
Has anyone experienced this, as an end user on either end of the bridge, or as a server admin connecting it? Is it getting much use? Does anyone know which protocol(s) are used by the bot to operate the bridge?
This is good news, but I'm wondering why it took so long, and whether the code can be checked against the binaries on app stores, using Reproducible Builds tools.
I just spent over NZ$20 for two tubs of plain yoghurt (one plant-based), a compostable toothbrush, and a tube of fluoride-free toothpaste. NZ$20 is about 10% of what kiwis have to live on each week when we are unemployed or too sick to work. Ethical consumption is a luxury not everyone can easily afford in Aotearoa in 2020.
Even if you don't really support the representative government system, or just don't support any of the parties with a realistic chance of getting represented, you can:
* make a protest vote for a small party you do support
Or
* pick the party you think most likely to screw up the country in government and vote for the party or candidate that would annoy them the most ;)
I think it would also be really good if the PeerTube UI made it clear to users whether a video is hosted locally on the PT instance the user finds it on, or elsewhere. That way if a PT instance decided to include an Individious/ CloudTube style plugin for video meta-search, the same UI elements could be used to indicate where each video in the search results is hosted.
* Community: search all PeerTube sites approved by this one
* Global: search the whole PeerTube network (with a warning: higher risk of finding porn, fake news etc)
* Meta: includes attempts to search any other video site not part of the PT network ( eg YT, Vimeo), with priority placed on supporting other free code video hosting software like MediaGoblin, Plumi etc Could be maintained as a plug-in that PT admins could choose whether to use or not
Why can't we have insightful conversations like this in NZ political debate, instead of the kindergarten squabbling and shameless self-marketing we have to put up with, especially during elections.
"What’s become clear from my years of using Slack at work is that it is, first and foremost, a tool of corporate surveillance. Slack stands for “Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge,” after all. Its positive use depends on how much you trust your employer not to read your messages, because yes, they have complete access."
In the wake of the huge response to The Social Dilemma, I feel like the time has come to really push forward on Fyre Exyt, a project to create a detailed guide to escaping the datafarms.
I envisioned a page for each datafarm, to describe:
* what data users can export and how * how to delete your account * what liberating software / services could be the best replacement for various use cases of the datafarm
@fedilab I'm getting a weird issue with posts I've written in Fedilab getting lost. I've particularly noticed it when posting replies. They don't seem to get posted, or if they do, they don't show up in the thread in the Fedilab UI. They can't be found in drafts either. Is this a known issue or would you like me to file a bug report?
#TIL about Ranking Digital Rights, a human rights watchdog group that ranks tech companies according to how well they respect their users' basis rights and freedoms: https://rankingdigitalrights.org/about/
Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! #Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling