Excellently sums up how Internet platforms #socialmedia#saas went wrong these last 15yrs.
They actively prevent you from leaving or transferring your account. They don't let you export data in meaningful ways. Don't support backups. Wall you in and hold your friendships hostage.
By doing this, they stifled innovation, competition and improvement,
making things worse for everyone by preventing improvement!
Point in case: in #ycombinator and other accelerators, facebook clones never get funding, because even if you build a much better platform, FB would not allow you to switch there.
Point in case: SaaS is all the rage in business, because it follows the same principle of catching customers and keeping full control over what they do and have.
The additional problem today is. Some platforms got so big, that the power balance itself will distort things, even if interoperability is mandated.
On the one hand: Super cool technology. Would love to have one and use it as fancy futuristic ssh terminal.
On the other hand:
It lidar+3d cam scans everything around you. It captures all your hand movements. It tracks your eyes, what you are looking at and likely for how long. It measures your pulse.
Having this data while people are browsing the web, online-shopping or using apps and games, is a gold mine and corporate wet dream.
#france#surveillance
police allowed to remotely hack phones, computers, cars, access camera, microphone, gps. Can likely now foist made up evidence onto devices.
while in #spain, there is an actual awesome straigh-forward could-actually-work-because-it's-so-simple proposal to fight the wealth-gap and bring hope for the future to a generation without.
Rechte Parteien machen mit Nationalismus Wahlwerbung, dann aber Politik für nur die reichsten 0,1% der Bevölkerung, denen der Rest der Leute im Land komplett egal sind.
@xro Du meinst da doch hoffentlich nicht die "Partei des kleinen Mannes¹", die konsequent gegen Vermögenssteuer ist aber dafür für jede Diätenerhöhung im Nationalrat gestimmt hat? Die "Partei des kleinen Mannes²", gegen die auf allen Verwaltungsebenen wegen Finanzdelikten ermittelt wird? /s
Not like you could actually charge a significant portion of the battery, the train and subway Intervalls are such that you rarely wait more than 3min 😁👍
Austrian court decides: #Lootboxes in Games are considered gambling by Austrian law and requires the gaming companies to apply for a gambling license, otherwise making any contract between gamer and companies null and void.