It's not like we (society) talked about this and decided we'd sacrifice ground-based astronomy in exchange for internet access in remote areas.
Musk and a few others did this unilaterally. It wasn't to help anyone. They did it to make a profit and consolidate control over critical infrastructure.
My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.
🇨🇦 THIS ⬇️
"The most important thing about carbon pricing is that it works."
"The 2nd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is fair."
"The 3rd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is the least expensive way to fight climate change."
-- Jesse McCormick, Senior VP, First Nations Major Projects Coalition
The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:
If you're wondering what the heck BookWyrm is, it's a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. There's an intro article here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
#BookWyrm #FediTips #GoodReads #StoryGraph #LibraryThing #OpenLibrary #Calibre #Books #Fediverse
The Internet archive lost its appeal in the HACHETTE case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
The Android evil-genie promise: You may have an open source phone OS. But if you actually compile it from source yourself, you will be banned from running any software. Or at least, they'll try as hard as they can to ban you from running software. Also, if you decide you want to build or even *download* the source, you're going to need to purchase a dedicated 1 TB SSD to check out the repo, and also download our forked version of git to check it out with
Trying out https://censorship.no/ web browser (built on #firefox). Interesting concept of p2p sharing of the public sites visited in order to circumvent censorship. Curious as to how effective it will be.
The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html
On One Wheel, the now defunct quarterly unicycling publication by the Unicycling Society of America, claimed that someone named Ben Dova survived the Hindenburg by fast rope descent for most of the way to the ground before gravity did the rest. Can't be real, right? Well
Do not run multiple blockers just use ublock origin
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/112989621877545179
The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/
Continuing the #yunohost journey, finally got #homeassistant setup and usable. Integration with #ecobee (via HomeKit which doesn't require any Apple hardware), IPP (can see ink levels and printer activity), and #jellyfin (can see how many devices are active and what they're doing). Need admin access to #solaredge to see how the solar panels are producing. Also looking at https://frigate.video but it doesn't have an easy yunohost install yet.