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Waldo Jaquith  

A few weeks ago I wrote about how viral Mastodon posts get hundreds of replies, but most people can see only a small fraction of those replies, and bad UX results. Here’s a solution for folks running smaller Mastodon servers. fedi.aeracode.org/@andrew/1100

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LjL  

@eighthave that sounds nicely put: Android used open source as a TOOL to get developers on board, and now that everyone is on board, is increasingly hostile to open source and has largely abandoned AOSP apps and functionality that they can replace with the Google Mobile Services "ecosystem". Additionally, SafetyNet (now Play Protect) lets developers "optionally" lock out people who exercise their right to modify free software (such as their OS)... and still actually run it.

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Techmeme  

An analysis of 100+ studies finds that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls, not just a tiny correlate, especially after 2012 (Jon Haidt/After Babel)

jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/s
techmeme.com/230223/p14#a23022

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Lauren Weinstein  

The bundling video streaming services are rapidly becoming indistinguishable from the cable services' behaviors that inspired so-called "cord cutters" cancelling cable TV services in preference for Internet-only services.

Prices keep going up as they include more and more "niche" channels with small viewerships, that nobody would pay for if they weren't forced to as the price of receiving the channels that they actually want to see. This often includes forcing sports channels on people who loathe sports channels.

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Lat × Long  

For a recent story, instead of Mapbox, The Post used OpenMapTiles, Maputnik, PMTiles, and MapLibre to produce interactive web maps.

kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/ho

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Patrick Masson  

From a discussion on a major #HigherEd forum by a senior campus leader,

"We are a #Google school…"

If the comment was, "We are a Coca-Cola school," I suspect we'd hear concerns: marketing products to students, corporate influence in #HigherEducation, even health & safety/quality (all BTW applicable to Google).

If you believe Google (or #Microsoft, #Adobe) is a "global standard," the same case can be made for Coca-Cola (Pepsi). I doubt stating such an alignment would be so promoted.

#EdTech

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Greg Wilson  

Ontario; corruption; Ford 

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keverets  

Another independent ISP has been swallowed by big telecom in Canada. Start.ca is now owned by Telus. It's getting ever more difficult to maintain choice which is essential to having fair pricing. The telecom companies have shown repeatedly that without more competition, they'll raise rates to be among the highest in the world.

Hopefully ISPs like can survive.

blogs.teksavvy.com/carnage-in-

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Adam Greenfield  

It occurs to me I haven’t done a #myfavoritethings for awhile, so let me share with you the work of Ken Isaacs. I first discovered his “How To Build Your Own Living Structures” in my hippie-school library when I was 13, and it blew my mind (in the parlance of the times). It’s a book of DIY recipes for brilliant, idiosyncratic modular structures that saddle the gap between furniture & architecture; to this day I dream of building myself a Superchair. Get yr own copy here! letsremake.info/PDFs/k_isaacs.

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Chris Trottier  

Me: Write a TED talk about the bullshit of TED talks. Include anecdotes and statistics. Also include a humourous aside about a mule with a spinning wheel. End with "Thank you for attending my TED talk."

ChatGPT:

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇  

"Nobody can opt out of paying for parking. People who walk, bike, or take transit bankroll those who drive. In so doing, they are making driving cheaper & thus more prevalent, which in turn undermines the quality of walking, biking, & transit."

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Rick Monro  

Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.

Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.

Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.

About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…

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Augie Ray  

California has implemented some new permanent COVID-19 regulations. The regulations require that employees shall receive training regarding COVID-19, must be informed of COVID cases in the workplace, and be protected with air filtration through MERV-13 or higher filters. Regulations like these implemented at the state or national level would help to ensure safer workplaces, events, and commercial environments.
fisherphillips.com/news-insigh

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

Just what I needed: some good news about the impact of the . The EU has probably contributed the most to so we should also be staying on top of the solutions. "Wind and solar were EU’s top electricity source in 2022 for first time ever" carbonbrief.org/wind-and-solar

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Anil Dash  

In roughly the past half-decade, Microsoft went from nowhere to overwhelming dominance of text editors with VSCode, ownership of majority of code hosting (and open source dev) with GitHub, ownership of the dependency stack used by most devs with npm, control over the most popular single language with TypeScript, and is trying to position copilot and ChatGPT as inevitable parts of the future dev process. Nothing negative for the ecosystem will come of this, as the last half century teaches us.

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CryptPad  

We now have a public pricing page for hosted instances! 🧑🏻‍💻

If you need to run CryptPad in your enterprise, at your school, or for a nonprofit, select the appropriate pricing, fill out the form and get a dedicated quote for your organization. 🤝🏻 🧾

cryptpad.org/pricing/

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✨Yael Grauer ✨  

They're about a year old but hanging out at the VPN convening in Austin made me want to repin my old VPN posts

report: digital-lab-wp.consumerreports

do you even need a VPN tho:
consumerreports.org/vpn-servic

VPNs can be really bad actually: consumerreports.org/vpn-servic

our top picks for privacy and security: consumerreports.org/vpn-servic

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✨Yael Grauer ✨  

hot off the press! advocacy.consumerreports.org/r

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SwiftOnSecurity  

In America, there are five walkable cities. Disneyland and Disneyworld are two of them.

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Kevin Carson  

TL;DR "We know layoffs don't really cut costs and they hurt productivity, but everyone else is doing them and our board wants to know why we aren't." news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/e

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