keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
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Glad to see more companies partnering with iFixIt - https://goodereader.com/blog/kobo-ereader-news/new-kobo-e-readers-are-repairable
@gabek @darnell it's not a company that need to own it, but a legal entity and there are many such structures (though those vary by jurisdiction). There are things like co-operatives or nonprofit organizations (where again the definition varies by jurisdiction).
For example, the Debian trademark is held by the non-profit SPI 501(c)(3) in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_in_the_Public_Interest
Though there are lighter alternatives if no donations are expected to be handled.
@Draconic_NEO @jwz there's a bunch for trains already, varying amounts of automation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_systems
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For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.
Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.
@dajb they definitely don't work like I expect. I'm back to unfollowing high volume accounts. It seems there should be some way to follow many low volume users, and put the few high volume ones out of the way without additional dedicated fediverse accounts
@dajb ah, I'm starting to play with lists. Thanks!
Trying to put these in a dedicated "high volume" one and hide them from the home timeline. Easier to have a small set of exclusions than a large set of inclusions
How do people on the fediverse follow high volume accounts without having the lower volume ones lost in the noise? I tried to follow a few like @pluralistic but quickly regret it and unfollow. So, I miss out on some things of interest, but I find higher value in the posts from people who are infrequent, and make that trade-off to keep a readable timeline.
Is there a better way to just dip into these other accounts on occasion? Or to automatically highlight some of the posts?
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"but e-mail !1!!!" Is probably still a number one objection from experts and power users who refuse to fathom that e-mail protocols are a viable option for instant messaging even if it demonstrably works, is fast and secure :) We'd be happy if someone engaged in a proper comparison with xmpp and matrix specs and impls, really the only three messenging protocols deployed and implemented at scale. (Can't compare that with Signal or WhatsApp which don't have wire specs!). https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/main/standards.md
The sale went ahead, the members lost their $5 ownership without any compensation. A bunch of people were laid off and some of the stores closed. The rest are still there, selling overpriced goods on whatever goodwill still remains for the brand.
It should have been illegal, but was allowed under legislation that allows financially troubled companies to restructure, which trumped the bylaws of the co-operative.
@sam @airfive @frost I was angered when the Mountain Equipment Coop (#MEC) board sold its membership out of a co-op to private equity without notification or a vote, but I guess I should take some solace that they were at least explicit about it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mec-acquisition-reaction-1.5725396
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Does your public library use on Overdrive/Libby for ebooks or audiobooks? ⚠️
In the US and Canada, the answer is probably yes. And you might want to speak to your library staff and commission about it.
Libby is now owned by a private equity firm & making sketchy changes: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
The latest development is that their overbroad privacy policy allows them to sell your borrowing history to advertisers: https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246
Thank you @karawynn and @longobord!
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"Spotify’s CEO is now a billionaire but it takes artists 334 streams to make $1. The company just enacted a plan to completely demonetize smaller artists. Under the new policy, tracks that get under a certain threshold of annual streams will receive no money from the company. Groups like United Musicians and Allied Workers (ig: weareumaw) are fighting to save their industry."
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PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation of PalmOS for Today’s Platforms https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/pumpkinos-a-modern-reimplementation-of-palmos-for-todays-platforms/ #Retrocomputing #PalmOS #palm #pda
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Kashmir Hill once tried 5 weeks without Big Tech, a main thread of that was how Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Amazon are pervasive and how it is nearly impossible to operate in a digital society without these companies touching your personal data.
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-differentiator-series-part-8-big-tech-avoidance/
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@MapAmore Wow! This looks even better than StreetComplete for crosswalks, and it's on F-Droid! Thanks for the recommendation. :)
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@zwol M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4.
The original Unix M4 was weird, and there weren't really any good explanations for why it was the way it was. Apparently someone at Bell labs needed a preprocessor and wrote M4, sometimes in the '70, for no other greater purpose than to scratch a personally itch.
GNU M4 only exists because RMS wanted GNU to have what Unix had, and while I wanted to do something different and better, RMS convinced me to do M4 first.
Joined Jun 2019
