keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net unless it's a crossover cable. Then one end of each. But A-to-A is an abomination
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Have you tried inviting someone to join you on Mastodon?
✅ You can invite people to join your Mastodon instance by clicking on "Invite People" in the bottom left corner of the desktop interface. This lets you generate customised invitations to suit your purposes. Share the generated links with those you want to invite.
Many instances which are officially closed to new members still allow sign-ups through invitations from existing members.
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Please note: everyone who's doing all this performative work to get something Chrome-like to respect their privacy and agency instead of switching browsers is actively making the ecosystem worse by showing the webdev community that it's fine to ignore non-chrome browsers.
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Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub
Consumers in Canada have until Sept 2021 to be paid as part of the class action lawsuit against Microsoft. No receipts needed for software purchased since 1998 (Windows, Office, Word, Excel, or MS-DOS) for claims up to $250.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canada-class-action-settlement-microsoft-1.5840305
@dredmorbius unfortunately boosting on the fediverse will have little-to-no impact (other than making a few others aware). What's the recommended way to let the CBC know directly how bad of an idea this is, and how it erodes trust in them?
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Stop Paid Content on CBC
... CBC management has launched a new marketing division called CBC Tandem. Its purpose is to sell corporations the opportunity to disguise their advertising as our journalism. CBC is using its resources to help advertisers trick Canadians.
They call what they produce “paid content”. And it’s insidious. It looks and sounds like the news stories and podcasts we produce. It’s found on the same websites and apps. But it’s not news, or even information. It is advertising that pretends to be news. And we believe strongly it must stop.
CBC Tandem promises corporate clients they can “leverage” the CBC’s reputation by aligning their message with the “trust Canadians have in our brand”.
That reputation was built by people like us - generations of journalists who earned your trust by informing you faithfully and truthfully every day. “Paid content” does not leverage that reputation, it makes a mockery of it. ...
https://www.stoppaidcontentoncbc.ca/open-letter
The term Fake News dates to 1989 when prepared propaganda Video and Audio "News Releases" (VNR/ANR), packaged to look like native news, began appearing on local TV and Radio stations. The CBC are going down this path.
It's not "leveraging trust", it's #betrayal.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news
#CBC #FakeNews #PaidContent #NativeAdvertising #VNR #AVR #Propaganda #advertising #canada
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Jailbreaking is not a crime, and offering an alternative app store shouldn't be one, either. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Early-app-store-on-iPhone-sues-Apple-alleging-15791279.php
@dthompson @kai a large tarp is quite more affordable (flip & go!). Doesn't help for storage-and-workspace-that's-not-the-basement, though
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covid-19, misinformation
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When @HP unilaterlly withdrew its "free ink for life" plan for its rental ink customers, they demonstrated the danger of devices that can be updated by the manufacturer in ways that owners can't override. https://www.consumerreports.org/printers/hp-ends-free-ink-for-life/
@cypnk have you tried finding a station with no frequency indication? It's incredibly frustrating as one needs to wait several minutes to find out where they are, then guess how far to go to get to the desired station.
It looks great, but if one listens to more than one station it would be a nightmare to use.
@dansup what does that mean? Assumed that applied filters altered the stored photo which would naturally federate. Does this mean that the original photo plus filter get propagated? Or that filters from another instance can be applied to this one? Or something else?
@Gina avoid the complications and just send the Kruidnoten my way 😉
Joined Jun 2019
