kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

This is a long shot, but I want to put the power of social media and federation to the test.

My son wants to become a commercial airline pilot when he’s grown up. It would be awesome if we could find a commercial pilot in the fediverse that we can follow and ask questions of.

If everyone who reads this could boost it, it would be much appreciated and it would mean the world to my son if he could get in touch with a real-life commercial pilot! ✈️

#pilot #flying #airline #jet #boeing #airbus

This is the subject of my latest Locus column, "Free Markets," which makes the connection between Amazon's rent-seeking on audiobooks and the reason I couldn't deliver my audiobooks by app.

https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/

The short answer? If you sell stuff through an app on either of the major mobile app stores, then Google and Apple require you to use their payment processors and pay 30% for the privilege.

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The founder who builds a factory and the workers who make it function contribute something to its product. The landlord who owns the dirt underneath it contributes nothing, but extracts rent, raising prices and lowering wages and profits.

Adam Smith railed against rents, describing markets as "free" when they were *free from rents*, not free from regulations. For centuries, a "free market" was a market where buyers and sellers operated without interference from rentiers, not regulators.

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#8values #politics #Liberalism
https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=45.5&d=63.3&g=68.4&s=74.3

Last month Gab was hacked. I examined the ~65gb of the hacked data. Here's a broad overview of what I found.

Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists https://theintercept.com/2021/03/15/gab-hack-donald-trump-parler-extremists/

Updated #introduction (2021):

I make art.

Sometimes I write.

My work is about #networks , including technology systems and complex more-than-human relationships.

I create interactive art installations using wood, paint, drawings, light, electronics, code, sensors, film & sound.

I always collaborate, including with animals, fungi, humans, trees, mould & birds.

I try to make my work accessible and with low environmental impact (please tell me if I fail).

My body is in Ireland.

I'm hopeful.

Внучка Сталина – Крис Эванс (Chrese Evans). Ей за 40 лет, живёт в США, в Портленде, владелица vintage магазина (vintage store). Знать не хочет о Сталине и считает его поклонников психически нездоровыми людьми. https://t.co/I68j2qulDL

~Open Source Security Tool of the Day~

#osstotd

eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch, and Douane, but utilizing modern kernel abstractions, without a kernel module.

https://github.com/harporoeder/ebpfsnitch