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ocdtrekkie

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Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

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taylorlorenz, to random
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Most people panic about political deepfakes, but 98% of deepfakes are porn, and 99% of those targeted are women/girls.

Companies profit by facilitating this abuse toward women, Google directs traffic to these sites, and the female victims of these attacks have no recourse https://nyti.ms/3PwNOGs

ocdtrekkie,
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@taylorlorenz The article points exactly at the problem: Section 230. As long as tech companies can't be held liable, they're not going to fix it. It makes them too much money.

QasimRashid, to random
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It costs ~$70 to produce a yearโ€™s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2024. Thatโ€™s a 25,714% markup.๐Ÿ˜ณ

That isnโ€™t inflation. It isnโ€™t supply chain issues. It is 100% corporate greed.

ocdtrekkie,
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@QasimRashid There's nothing better for business than when customers literally have to buy your product no matter the price in order to not die!

ocdtrekkie, to random
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The full-text search is live on mastodon.social but it is opt-in only and you have to enable it in your Privacy and Reach tab to have your posts be findable! So if you're on a server running the latest nightly like .social or .online,

dangillmor, to random
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It's baffling that Apple, which imposes much more control-freakish App Store restrictions than Google Play, gets a pass on its monopolistic behavior while Google (properly IMO) gets nailed.

The jury in the Google case showed common sense. The judge in the Apple case showed the opposite.

ocdtrekkie,
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@dangillmor This is the difference between a bench trial and a jury trial. A judge can be convinced of a legal technicality that the company's definition of a market is accurate and fair. A jury is going to look at the fact that they operated like crooks and rule accordingly.

ocdtrekkie, to random
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Wow, this is a decision that couple cripple Google if applied globally: Brand extortion is one of Google's most valuable tools. https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/indian-court-ruling-threatens-google-advertising-revenue-model/

ocdtrekkie, to random
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You can't get more Google than selling a plan with two year device upgrades and them Google killing the plan before anyone gets a device upgrade. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851107/google-graveyard-pixel-pass-subscription-phone-upgrades

cliffwade, (edited ) to mastodon
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I want to share this publicly, as I feel there are other admins out there that might want to see it and possibly chime in here as well.

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112163544709115656

@FediTips which is the same person(s) who own/run @FediGarden has confirmed to the DM's they have sent.

I've provided some feedback for them, and would love to see other admins do the same possibly.

@britt @Whiskeyomega @beardedtechguy

ocdtrekkie,
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@cliffwade @britt Yep, the correct answer to this nonsense is "go pound sand". FediTips goal here is to pressure people to do what they would do.

You aren't suddenly "not a kind server" because you have friends or family you want to talk to on Threads... but don't want to have to use Threads to talk to them.

J12t, to fediverse
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So there's a new Twitter-like mobile app called that promises (Yea, I know) to integrate with the Fediverse real soon.

Assuming it happens, all the innovation happening in the is great to see.

https://lyrak.com/

ocdtrekkie,
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@J12t I think it's great that people are realizing if their social media app isn't talking to the fedi they needn't bother making it.

sdw, to random
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This is apparently incomprehensible to some people on this website, but to many people itโ€™s actually a good and beneficial feature that Apple doesnโ€™t let you install software on your iPhone from anywhere else.

ocdtrekkie,
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@sdw In the same vein, I am an iPhone user because of their generally better record on privacy and security... but it's really funny how happy they are to take Google's money to default everyone on iOS to pipe their data to an adtech surveillance company.

ocdtrekkie, to random
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Not sure who in the crowd needs to hear this: But brigading every new feature PR all week is exactly how you get small teams under a lot of pressure to talk less instead of more.

First it's "there's obscure ways fixing hashtags might break a post", then "my relay relies on spacebar heating to work" (xkcd 1172), and now we're back to "nobody can agree on search, so we need 5,000 checkboxes".

If you have something new to add to a thread, go for it! Complain by comment? Don't.

ocdtrekkie, to Titanic
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How is this dude not the patron saint of alcoholics, known by all? https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/how-a-baker-survived-the-titanic-by-getting-spectacularly-drunk

ocdtrekkie, to random
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Watch how fast companies will roll back chatbot initiatives when they realize they're actually liable to honor the arrangements they make. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

QasimRashid, to random
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Last night, the result didnโ€™t go our way. We are disappointed, but not regretful. It has truly been a privilege to run in the district in which I grew up. Each of you trusted in me, and I will be forever grateful. Because you have made all the difference.

I don't have the words to express my gratitude to each of you, but let me try by sharing some thoughts...

1/7

ocdtrekkie,
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@QasimRashid Just promise us it won't be the last time you run for office.

ocdtrekkie, to opensource
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So fun fact about the and who pays to decide what is : If you add the prices of their corporate sponsorship levels, and the sponsors they have, it accounts for $450,000 of the $524,000 in contributions they made last year. Their program service revenue was smaller than their program service expenses. So the extreme majority of OSI funding is a handful of big corporate cloud providers. If they lose just one big sponsor, they lose a staff member or two.

ocdtrekkie,
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@SomeAnoTooter SSPL and AGPL differ by only one provision, provision 13, which SSPL expands to include the rest of the service being provided around the licensed program. Essentially AGPL's boundary is the executable program code, and SSPL prevents you from getting around that by having the rest of the proprietary service in "separate programs".

(There are literally hundreds of approved open source licenses already, but none of them do this.)

ocdtrekkie,
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@SomeAnoTooter SSPL is a license which has become popular to exclude Amazon from selling a project as a service. It has an extremely viral copyleft clause: In order to offer an SSPL-licensed piece of code as a service, the rest of your service must also be open source. In Amazon's case, it would require open sourcing pretty much all of AWS if they wanted to use SSPL-licensed code.

ocdtrekkie,
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The SSPL not being considered open source is largely just an Upton Sinclair problem: The OSI's salaries are dependent on the SSPL not being open source, so it isn't open source.

ocdtrekkie,
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@justjanne You could run BSL code that has fallen into open source with it. BSL is unquestionably a proprietary license (temporarily), but I think it's quite pleasant in that it is what copyright was originally meant to be. A short window of advantage for a creator to monetize their work before joining the public domain.

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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Like @Quinnypig, Iโ€™d love if Google went on the record about what happened with this one.

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

Tl;dr is an entire org got wiped, and theyโ€™re trying to suggest itโ€™s some kind of Google Cloud issue as the cause.

ocdtrekkie,
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@ainmosni @GossiTheDog There's nothing inherently wrong, of course, with meeting your spouse at work, but it happens so much more often in these companies because the employee's entire social circle is the company.

ocdtrekkie, to random
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When you're using a Radio Shack part for a project and want to get more... ๐Ÿ˜ฅ Wondering if anyone sells a modern version of this keystone jack: It's got little notches for these little plastic caps which cover the port.

You can get little fake RJ-45 filler plugs but they don't create as clean of a look.

ocdtrekkie, to infosec
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There are two clear takeaways from this article:

  • The on-premise customers are the smart ones, always go on-premise when it's an option.

  • Don't use Google anything for security anything, they still have zero understanding of security at an institutional level.

https://retool.com/blog/mfa-isnt-mfa/

ocdtrekkie, to microsoft
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What Satya fails to speak plainly here is that he's an idiot who handed two of the largest platform ecosystems, mobile and the web, to their competitor, for free. Switching Edge to Chromium and Surface phones to Android was a colossal blunder that will be taught in business books for decades to come.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-mobile-windows-phone

ocdtrekkie, to MandelaEffect
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The only difference between Steam and Ticketmaster is that Steam hasn't tried to maximize value extraction yet.

ocdtrekkie, to random
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For I just want to ask why more people aren't following @jbcrawford yet. They're the author of Computers Are Bad, which I assume you already know is at https://computer.rip because you are surely already reading it regularly.

Finally, please note that I also highly recommend the @jalefkowit cinematic universe. It's less of a person you should follow and more of an all-encompassing experience. Appreciation for cute cars is a plus.

alcinnz, to random
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Thematic Book Series: Heating People, not Spaces - Low Tech Magazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/thematic-book-series-heating-people-not-spaces/

ocdtrekkie,
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@alcinnz I mean, a problem with this approach is many houses do not actually handle wild temperature changes well. I had a plumbing failure caused by a single day without an operable furnace. Much of our building technology depends on the idea that the inside of it is kept at a comfortable temperature and humidity level.

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