Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

for most people, quarantine means work life has merged into the home. Since I was already remote working from home, using lots of social media, it feels like my entire life has become like work.

About contact tracing apps, I'm skeptical they are so effective. For example: "iPhone users are asked to keep the app open so it can keep using Bluetooth, which iOS will otherwise throttle to save battery life." How many would actually do that?

https://www.businessinsider.com/singapore-coronavirus-app-tracking-testing-no-shutdown-how-it-works-2020-3

Wearing masks is clearly more important, and lacks the privacy risks, and are already cheap and available. I've worked quite a bit with Bluetooth. Its far from reliable, unless users really actively manage the process.

Über Elektroautos: "nachhaltig sind trotzdem nur die Gummistreifen auf dem Asphalt" - "Die CO2-Emissionen in Produktion und Betrieb gehören wahrheitsgemäß errechnet und angegeben, nicht verschleiert und schöngefärbt"
https://www.diepresse.com/5779929/der-nachste-dieselskandal-diesmal-elektrisch

What if analytics services gave us clear measurements to make users spend less time on each task? If apps are solving problems for users, then users should not spend more and more time. #SurveillanceCapitalism requires ever more time because users are the products being sold

hate to say it, but #Biden vs. #Trump looks just like a repeat of #Clinton vs #Trump

I recently stumbled upon the history of the Nazi promotion of automobiles. It turns out the Nazis loved cars, built the Autobahns, created VW, and promoted cars in general. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.7227/TJTH.27.2.5 Henry Ford was also a huge fan of the Nazis and vice versa https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/ Italy's autostrade were built under Mussolini. Seems to be a lot of corrolation between fascism and promoting cars

I went hiking in the mountains near Vienna at the end of January and there were flowers blooming then. I thought it was a freak warm spell, but now after a month of Spring weather, it looks clear that this year Spring started at the end of January. This is in a place where Spring used to show up in April. #ClimateChange is already here.

#BillGates promotes himself as a beneficial philanthropist these days, its key to remember that he was not a technical innovator. He innovated ruthless profiteering and marketing, selling his friend #BillKildall's innovation and cutting him out of the deal

See the history of CP/M for early details
https://web.archive.org/web/20120629044944/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm