keverets @keverets@librem.one

@rysiek and then the dumbnuts harp on about how "GDPR is bad, it forces sites to have these banners". 😡

I think there should be a mandatory message on these banners that reads: "the operator of this site either wants to sell your data, or is too dumb to design their system around minimal data use". Plus a shocking picture like on a box or cigarettes.
@amolith @mansr

The tech biz has had many lows, but this one beats them all.

Folks who contact a suicide help line are desperate, emotionally overwhelmed, and not making good decisions. Using that data to help mental health? Sure. Using that data for improving customer service bots? No. No, no, no.

I am beyond horrified.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

Stop calling crypto a Ponzi.

A Ponzi scheme is a specific thing and MOST of the major coins aren't it.

It's like saying "property is theft". Even if you hate both property and theft, they're not the same. Calling them the same is voluntarily becoming less intelligent. So stop.

Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.

Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc

Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!

This weekend my daughter went to continue reading an ebook she has available to her from her public elementary school on the Epic Reading Platform https://www.getepic.com/sign-in

She got an error message saying that the book was only available on school days and to read on the weekend she would need to subscribe for $9.99/month.

Everything we see online is decided by platforms' algorithms.

These algorithms promote extreme and fringe views (antivax, conspiracy, hate) in a quest for clicks.

We want to #FixTheDSA & give users a right to a timeline without #AlgorithmicManipulation.

@meena Vigilante https://f-droid.org/packages/com.crazylegend.vigilante notifies you when something accesses a camera or mic

Okay there's something really cool I've just learned. If you are continuously recording air pressure e.g. as part of your home automation setup or a weather station then you should really check the data of the last 24h.
You should be able to spot the pressure wave from the volcanic explosion in Tonga earlier today.

It reached my setup in Kaiserslautern at about 20:30.

Sun Microsystems: Write once, run everywhere!

Log4j: hello

Programmers: No, not like that

To bump this thread: The Swiss state has been taxing the carbon in fossil fuels since 2008 ⛽

The tax started very low, and increases every year. It is currently 120 CHF (~130 USD) per tonne CO2 💰

2/3 goes to each citizen, evenly divided, as a reduction of their health insurance! 🏥 1/3 of the tax goes into green spending.

Every country can do this, without losing economic 'competitiveness' if a tariff is applied 🗺️

Verb Tenses for Internet Searching

1. I google; I am googling; I googled
2. I bing; I am binging; I bung
3. I duckduckgo; I am duckduckgoing; I duckduckwent

#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try it out! https://nitter.net

Please make sure to read this carefully before ordering a #PinePhonePro:

The #PinePhone Pro is still very much in development, and thus just won't be your daily driver smartphone upon receiving the device.

Read https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_Pro_(pine64-pinephonepro) to get an idea.

I don't want to hamper your excitement, but I also don't want to see you start a rant YouTube channel because you're upset due to not reading this properly. The PPP is really cool, but it's not your new "privacy smartphone" at this point.

@ScottMortimer There is also this excellent blog post in response: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html :)

One of the main reasons we don’t have a truly decentralised internet is actually really simple: it’s the fact that providers globally don’t give us symmetric upload/download speeds and fixed IP addresses at home. Kills decentralisation at the root. 1/2

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