Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

RED ALERT, please boost! We got word this morning that Senate leadership has cut a deal to include #JCPA in the must-pass #NDAA.

This is a terrible, Rupert Murdoch backed bill that essentially creates a "link tax" and would make Big Tech and big media cartels even more intertwined. AND, apparently what Schumer "traded" for it was ... the vaccine mandate for the US military. I kid you not.

@team has a contact-congress tool here, please contact your Senators!

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-congress-protect-our-access-to-credible-news

I'd like to remind you that if you don't understand why someone has chosen to implement a technology in a different way than you would have

Or uses different hardware or software than you

it means they have different constraints and goals and desires.

It doesn't make your choices better, or worse, than theirs.

✊🏽 "We need to stop trying to turn private companies into something they’re not, and start building a new moral, institutional and legal order to express the values, rights and standards that we hold into the digital realm. It’s not about whether Zuckerberg is good or bad, vampire or human. It’s about getting to a place where we don’t have to care."

#DigitalAutonomy #TechAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tech-reform-regulation

I’d much rather see Apple unban sex than ban the bird site

Mastodon Tip Of The Day: you can take pictures of cute animals and then post them ​

It seems no matter where I go, I find myself wishing that companies would employ (engineering) historians.

Someone who would interview employees and read docs and then write chapters about each major component of a company and how it got to be the way it did.

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

Google has now migrated maps.google.com to www.google.com/maps thus if you grant Geoloc permission in your browser, every G-service on www.google.com can track your location.

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

I remind clients and audience members of this all the time, but it never seems to stick. Saying, “people just need to stop doing stupid stuff,” works one-on-one with proper training and immediate feedback.

This does not scale. For scaling, you need systems in place which stop the problems in the first place. But if you develop those systems, people who want to do stupid stuff will scream bloody murder.

I suspect this generalizes to most complex spaces.