Your choice: a handful of psychopath billionaires or the survival of the species.

Capitalists: Hmm, now this is a difficult one… I feel like saying we keep the billionaires? 🤔

nostr:npub1psaqlqsvwy5puz0f7jqts384fxpgj3zcxmpe99hrd4uvs5mq20tqgfxhme Yeah, and I’m trying very hard not to break links – big believer in nurturing an evergreen web :)

e.g., see https://codeberg.org/site.js/app#native-support-for-an-evergreen-web and https://4042302.org/ (which I really need to update to 404 to 307 (latter does not change the request method).

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Privacy Sandbox

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

#google #chrome #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #BigTech #SiliconValley

Glad to hear Apple has killed its plans to implement privacy-destroying on-device scan and snitch into its devices (although it will make autocrats like Erdoğan unhappy to hear it because they likely had plans for it).

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Here’s what I wrote about it at the time:

https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/

Remember that end-to-end encryption is moot if the ends are already compromised.

#apple #privacy #security #encryption #e2ee #humanRights

So who wants to help the nostr:npub1kzk9pnwftlas9zt2kwmklw82anvtt05kck5qeey4f5thr4u2vr3slxk9tq folks implement code search?

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904

#git #codeberg #search #scm #versionControl #foss #openSource #dev

What am I doing? Why, voting to help decide nostr:npub1kzk9pnwftlas9zt2kwmklw82anvtt05kck5qeey4f5thr4u2vr3slxk9tq policy as a member.

(Wait a minute, you can’t do that on GitHub? How odd… sounds a bit autocratic to me…) ;)

Seriously, though, check out https://codeberg.org – they’re doing everything right.

There are alternatives and if we want them to survive, we must support them.

#codeberg #git #scm #github #tech #dev #versionControl

It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/ex-tory-mp-threatens-sue-cambridge-university-slavery-research-antoinette-sandbach

Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.

#AntoinetteSandbach #SamuelSandbach #Sandbach #british #slavery #britain #slaveOwners #tories #tory #conservatives #uk #cambridge #colonialists #colonialism

Ran into this basic JavaScript scope gotcha today.

Just goes to show, you could be programming in a language for years and still get tripped up by some of the simplest issues.

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/javascriptScope.md

#JavaScript #scope #web #dev

Oh ffs, why do I even look into these things? I think I’m being harsh and then it’s always worse than I thought:

FairPhone has taken venture capital.

https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Crowd-Notification.pdf

They’ve been invested in by, among others, Invest-NL (currently three exits, all IPOs¹) and Quadia (also three exits, all acquisitions²).

I would just like it if for once – fucking once – it wasn’t just about making money.

*sigh*

¹ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/invest-nl/recent_investments

² https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quadia/recent_investments

#VentureCapital #VC #FairPhone

Be yourself… you’ll attract the kind of people who you actually want to be around.

The latest VC-funded startup: We might be a scorpion but we promise we won’t sting you. Look, we’ve even painted pink hearts on our stinger!

Folks: Aww, hello cute new scorpion! I’ve been stung by every other scorpion that said the same thing but I think the smartest I can do right now is to pet you and hope this time will be different.

The only thing worse than capitalism is capitalists.

nostr:npub1yksyuunpf3xfwmumrn4g9pgpta00n3d0252hsez354a7r7txfeasprrgk5 Every accusation is an admission of guilt with that one.

Everyday there are at least a half a dozen posts that I want to boost but won’t because the images on them don’t have descriptions (“alt-text”) so they exclude people who use screen readers to experience the fediverse.

If I have time, I’ll write/extract the text from an image and reply to the thread. But most times, I just have to favourite and move on.

So come on folks, make it easier for me to boost your stuff and do the right thing by enabling everyone to experience your images and videos.

nostr:npub1llzxpc6c3w92hczu49dsxcfqkp5tl9f5e30urrgf2v8tqnu7pkgsww08cq

“How ChatGPT might be able to help the world’s poorest and the organisations that work with them”

– United Nations University

https://www.inkl.com/a/kxjXGaijBoj

I see the United Nations continues to be the favoured PR agency for Silicon Valley.

#UN #UnitedNations #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PR #neoliberalism #corporatocracy #AI #ChatGPT #academiaWashing

Does anyone else here have a Onewheel? And if so, does it nosedive when you’re staying pretty much stationary? Maybe more so when you’re staying stationary on an incline?

Not a huge deal but I’d love to know if it’s expected behaviour or whether I should try and get mine serviced.

#onewheel

nostr:npub1483h40pvj99aglh96zmn888qx9pj03ra64ce6dc3j362w8z4qmhq7llv2w Throwing racist relics in the water is a well-respected protest tactic on this side of the pond. Well done her.

Any idea who her employer is? A boycott might be an idea.

I might have just ordered a mechanical keyboard… made of Lego!

Ridiculously excited.

:awesome:

https://keygem.com/products/kit-adam-pre-order

#KitAdam #keyboard #lego

https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/110/850/369/653/359/923/original/4127e7c09c6ca426.webp

Whenever you see the words “ads”, “cryptocurrency”, “blockchain”, “web 3”, or “AI”, just replace them with “farts” and you’ll know whether you want them or not.

“Can the fediverse survive without farts?”

Yes, perfectly well.

“Will farts replace people?”

I hope not.

“The European Commission embraces farts.”

That’s unfortunate.

“This new startup wants to improve your life with farts.”

I’m good, thanks.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #farts #buzzword #bullshit #ads #adtech #blockchain #ai #web3