"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.

i think the biggest tech coup of this century is that MBA techbros trained and conditioned people to accept and adopt the conecpt of “microtransactions” as a valid concept,

which in turn,

opened the door to things like “apps” and opt-out-with-microtransaction-adware and the entire Play/App Store ecosystem which has turned operating systems into network-dependent devices which will cease to operate correctly without a constant network connection to the OS’s manufacturer (yes, things which don’t get made in a factory are still “manufactured” and “shipped”, even if only online)

these last 15 years of those MBAs who moved to Silicon Valley in lieu of Wall Street, and their “discovering” they could make brutal fistfuls of money off even the poorest of us, along with transmogrifying all end-users into a “product”, has trained an entire generation of folks who now think, largely unconsciusly, how any/all of this is a steady-state of “normal” in any way whatsoever

@Gargron @tateisu We can't trust Big N to support a free and open Internet if it isn't in their financial interests. We have to do it ourselves.

lmaooo i think this is the one that claimed to "compile" its javascript sources so users couldn't read them, but actually encrypted them so lazily i was able to decrypt the sources by abusing jdb. fuckers never even sent me the swag i was promised for giving them the details of my "exploit"

also its user base are some of the most confused people on earth
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At 5,600 MW, delivering ~45 TWh of electricity per year, Barakah is the largest single power project in development anywhere in the world. It is on time, on budget, and low-carbon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53619916

@solderpunk @neauoire "IC fabrication requires large amounts of energy, highly refined machinery and poisonous substances. Because of this sacrifice, the resulting microchips should be treasured like gems or rare exotic spices. Their active lifespans would be maximized, and they would never be reduced to their raw materials until they are thoroughly unusable."

Yes! Yes! One thousand times, yes! This person gets it.

The LHCb experiment at CERN found a new kind of composite particle at the Large Hadron Collider and I got to write about it for home.cern:

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-first-open-charm-tetraquark

@dredmorbius I think one of the biggest problems is "money". It doesn't do what most people understand it to do, and it forces us to consume more every day (so that we can create more money, so that we can pay off debt). I don't think we can build "a sustainable society" until we fix what money is / how it's created.

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Raddle, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

The overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

Each lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.

Note: Federation is still in active development and the WebSocket, as well as, HTTP API are currently unstable

#fediverse #reddit

I think that with the whole #Mozilla fiasco, we're just witnessing once more the limit of the green/open/fair/inclusive discourse when it is essentially used as a smoke screen for commercial activities. For many years now Mozilla has used the model of running a non-profit org in front of their for-profit company. It's quite well documented and as such is not a surprising model, it is used by corporations to interface with different audiences, contexts, etc. There is however always a risk of cognitive dissonance with these models, and this is clear with Mozilla's PR right now, stuck between financial priorities and the need to maintain their image of social justice endorsers they have been working hard to promote until now.

RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web http://decafbad.net/2020/08/11/rss-or-why-lack-of-developer-imagination-will-be-the-end-of-the-open-web/ #Adayinthelife #Programming #Computers #Rants #misc

@alcinnz This pretty much sums up my gripes with his position. Like, his analysis is basically right but he's approaching things on the wrong level.

And I mean I have that problem too, to a degree since I too do webstuff, but at least I'm foregoing JS to make things less horrible. The web could be nice, if it wasn't abused as platform for the delivery of untrusted applications…

I agree with this post, and it is a very good argument for the open web for authors and creators.

A mechanical keyboard enthusiast’s descent into madness. Source