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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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dnanian, to random
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I don't know who did this, but - man, this is the meme that just keeps on giving.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

tomjennings,
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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Early 4chan -- before it's spectacular decay -- was quite conscious where it's memory resided -- in users.

You'd have to understand the peculiar software architecture to know why, but 4chan has no ability to preserve posts. When a thread maxes out it is deleted.

The /y/ and other board's user's were openly conscious that the communities memories were their responsibility, maintained by reposting older material, simply because the code didn't support anything else. But the result was real community and collective memory, explicitly maintained. Though conjured up by a teenage programmer there's much profundity in there, accidental or otherwise. (I suspect the former but having talked to him at a conference once he was at least aware of it after.)

Daojoan, to random
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Conservatives: JESUS didn’t need “pronouns”

Jesus (John 18:6): I am He

sue, to random
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In case you were wondering how JK Rowling's women's rights crusade is going, she's been busy attacking Glasgow Women's Library (the only accredited UK museum dedicated to women's history and a charity that offers literacy and numeracy services for women) for displaying a comic about transphobia written by a lesbian woman 🤡💩

jotbe, to thinkpad
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After only 13 years, I am retiring my . It did a great job over all these years and I upgraded it to the max, completely disassembled several times. But it was showing its age. I just set up my new personal device, a 13 DIY Edition (AMD) by @frameworkcomputer - that's a new kind of maintenance-friendly, repairable notebook. Order, delivery, assembly, setup, migration were a blast. No issues, and the installation of @manjarolinux worked out of the box. :awesome:

An unboxing picture: Top view on a gray couch and an open brownish cardboard box on top of it. One can see small parts of an orange and red carpet in the bottom of the picture. On top of the open lid of the box are two smaller boxes on display with Framework components: a bezel and the keyboard and touchpad unit. The two boxes partly cover an envelope fixed to the center of the lid. Visible on the envelope between the two boxes is an orange cartoon computer and a speech bubble stating "FW!". The main compartment shows the Framework laptop on the left and right next to it another cardboard spacer and a small box with 6 expansion cards each in its own packaging: Ethernet, USB-A, 3 USB-C, and a MicroSD card.

jotbe,
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Apart from common reviews, the two pieces from @pluralistic were interesting reads where he wrote about his experience with Framework, incl. when his device got broken:

terrygrundy, to random
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vdmeer, to Europe
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The last place that Israel called "safe zone" now will become a kill zone.
is still watching, most countries actively supporting the slaughter they call "war".

They want to expel all Palestinians from , with full support of @EU_Commission and @Bundesregierung

Israel plans ground attack on Rafah, ‘last refuge’ for Gaza’s displaced

https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/2/2/israel-plans-ground-attack-on-rafah-last-refuge-for-gazas-displaced

> Israel’s defence minister says army will target Rafah, the southern area it designated as a ‘safe zone’ for civilians.

nojhan, to random
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I noticed something strange at : people are finishing their talk right on time.

That would be VERY UNUSUAL in an academic research conference. Here, in this engineering community, I still haven't saw a speaker having to be stopped half way.

I can actually attend the presentations I want without bad surprises.

And that's so relaxing.

kde, to kde
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Welcome to FOSDEM! Visit our booth, try Plasma 6, draw pictures with @Krita, grab some merch! Find us in building H.

@kde

#FOSDEM #event #merch #Plasma6

appassionato, to Belgium
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Belgium refused to cut funding for UNRWA, so Israel just bombed their office building in Gaza.

https://www.tumblr.com/sar-soor/741277496539004928

@palestine


serapio, to random
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Lunar New Year’s resolution # 3: walled garden social media is officially deprecated. It has served its place, but it was a bad idea. I plan to copy linked content around for backwards compatibility, for an as yet undecided amount of time, but my content will start and reside in mastodon, pixelfed, wordpress or my quarto blog, not FB/IG/LinkedIn/Twitter.

serapio,
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If the reasons for doing this aren’t familiar to you already, I recommend you start here, with @pluralistic DefCon keynote, then his book “the Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation”
https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=aiwgNpDiBI7LZE0K

ChrisMayLA6, to politics
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George Monbiot offers a concise summary of the current state of :

'demands oppression. The more concentrated wealth & power become, the more those who challenge the rich & powerful must be hounded and crushed. In other words, economic inequality is mirrored by inequality before the law. You can dispense with all the other indices of democracy. The best measure of the health of a political system is who gets prosecuted'!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations

minusavenue, to random
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The first issue of my @2600 subscription arrived today. Long time fan, I signed up after reading the @pluralistic callout, with yet another example of our world's pathological enshittification.

While phreaking in the 90's was often "illegal" (I did build a mercury-switch Redbox, ), the driving force was a fascination with telecommunications that has oddly lead me to where I am today.

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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Anyone outside or inside Germany interested in how Germany arrived at its wildly narcissistic anti-antisemitism: listen to this fantastically informative and lucid podcast interview with Emily Dische-Becker.

It's over 2 hours long but so, so worth it. Discussing anti antisemitism from the Anti-Deutsche left to the AfD and all. So much fascinating detail - Hessen's antisemitism commissioner wearing an IDF shirt etc.

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-german-question-w-emily-dische-becker/

dpecos, to firefox

knows best how to handle cookies

zeitschlag, to random
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Rumor is that you can meet John Mastodon at the @Mastodon stand on

mathieui, to firefox
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So is handing out free cookies at

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    eff, to random
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    Curious what surveillance technologies law enforcement has in your area? Browse this map to find out: https://atlasofsurveillance.org

    txerren, to random Basque
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    Gaur @theklan eta biok komentatzen genuen Google bilatzailea apurtuta dagoela.

    Galdera, Mastodonerria: gauza jakina da eta mundu guztiak komentatzen du eta ez da albiste zeren patatak, edo lau frikiren sentsazioa da?

    miren,

    @txerren @theklan aipatzen aritu gara ba @pluralistic aste honetan, eta honetaz (ere) badu zerbait idatzia: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

    TheOpenCase, to random

    So, I just launched my first hardware project on . It's called and it makes work way better (finally!). Here is the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnrokos/opencase-magsafe-perfected/

    mcc, (edited ) to random
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    No four words strike fear in my heart like these

    blair_fix, to random
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    Peter Thiel says that competition is for losers. He's right of course.

    The best way to concentrate wealth is to limit competition and buy your way to power. Here's a look at the evidence.

    https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/11/23/stocking-up-on-wealth-concentration/

    SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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