kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"Use Twitter to spread the word about #DarkPatterns. It's a really effective way to put pressure onto companies to stop using Dark Patterns."
https://www.darkpatterns.org/about-us

#FacePalm

The new Titter UI is itself full of dark patterns. How do we convince these folks to migrate to the fediverse and crosspost to Titter for those who haven't yet migrated?

@eff yes, and EFF also needs to stop calling their TWTR feed "official" & their #Mastodon feed "unofficial". EFF should not even mention their TWTR feed outside of TWTR. Send website visitors to Mastodon instead.

Using Wazuh for website availability alerts

https://webcookies.org/articles/49/using-wazuh-for-website-availability-alerts

#wazuh #security

#covid19 #corona #coronavirus #coronakrise #einzelhandel #konsum #amazon #onlinehandel #stadt #city #pleite #insolvenz #konsumenten #ausgangssperre #wirtschaft #karikatur #cartoon (c) Pfohlmann.de

"Most #blockchains behave like expensive, slow databases that sacrifice efficiency for immutability and global consensus. Blockchains are logically centralized, exerting great effort to make many untrustworthy computers behave like one computer. Even if next generation blockchains become much more scalable, they still seem ill-suited to store social media content which is mutable, ephemeral, and does not require global agreement on its state."
- #JayGraber

#JayGraber wrote a good introductory post to some of the challenges of building #decentalized #SocialMedia apps, and how these differ between federated and P2P projects:
https://medium.com/@jaygraber/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53

@ky0ko @sir isn't really isolated to Docker. I'd like to call myself an embedded developer and I would never ever in my right mind put a JavaScript/Python/etc runtime on a 32kB ~100MHz ARM CPU, yet some people just don't think apparently. Even Go is a mess on embedded. Just use the stuff for what its designed. Which is C (Rust) for frickin embedded. No one wants to reboot your shitty IoT device every 2 days because the GC doesn't work.

I fucking hate Docker and the generation of shitty "engineers" that were raised on it. Docker's answer to "it works on my machine" is to ship the fucking dev's machine straight into prod. It's the most reprehensible, garbage idea to come out of the already fucked "devops" culture. Then they put _thousands_ of knobs on it so that everyone can break it in their own special way, revealing their "infrastructure" for the pile of popsickle sticks and glue it was always made out of. They spend the weekend fixing it and the CEO thinks their engineering team is working really hard while the ashes of their burning VC money gently settle in a small pile at their feet. Docker is the opposite of engineering.