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@lightweight @KennetMattfolk Invidious is a wrapper for YT, and certainly a more hygienic way to view YT videos. More convenient, too. Playback settings are sticky, not bouncy, even without logging in. The video component of the Fediverse is #PeerTube. It is in something of a larval stage. Like DIY and open source communications in general, it's not particularly monetization friendly, so don't expect the slick professional production values of the slick professionals. The closest thing to a search over PeerTube instances would be #SepiaSearch, which is particularly larval and not very gratifying, but no-nonsense interfaces like "simply download this" are hella refreshing.

sepiasearch.org/

Oh look, more spam sent to my server from Google's Gmail servers, complete with valid DKIM.

This is your reminder that all of the "anti-spam" stuff that Google uses as an excuse to deny inbound email to Gmail users is actually just anti-competitive nonsense that does not work. They're the largest source of spam themselves. The call is coming from inside the house.

#GmailSpam #DontBeEvil

Wow, I've *really* gone off IT Professionals NZ. They're trying to sell me (a lapsed member) a seminar on AI in Ōtautahi with 'exciting presentations from Microsoft and Earnst & Young reps'. Ugh. What utter bollocks.

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

There are a few rituals where the initiation process has nothing to do with if you’re actually good at the job.

1. Dating isn’t a good test for being a good spouse.
2. Whiteboard interviews aren’t a good test for software engineers.
3. Fund raising and presenting pitch decks isn’t a good test for running a company.

The so-called "creator economy" is turning into a clone of the big-corporate one: Making money by using (the precise word) cheap labor from other countries and passing the work off as your own.

https://www.404media.co/email/859d66c7-c3cd-4e28-9af9-cd064e20e216/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Bill McGuire at CNN (shortened): " I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too".

"We’re experiencing, in our lifetimes, a heating episode that is probably unique in the last 4.6 billion years."

"In fact, this isn’t a matter of scaring people, but of informing them. As a climate scientist, it is my duty to tell you."

"Everyone has the right to know the facts so as to provide the opportunity to act upon the reality of what we are doing."

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/07/opinions/climate-scientist-scare-doom-anxiety-mcguire/index.html

The right-wing "think tank" turning out some of the most extremist garbage has some unsurprising bedfellows. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/claremont-institute-society-for-american-civic-renewal-links

This report from @briankrebs is really something: A darknet marketplace -- which by definition has embarrassing (or worse) information about at least some of its buyers and sellers -- is extorting them. How? By threatening to reveal what they've bought and sold.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/incognito-darknet-market-mass-extorts-buyers-sellers/

If you bought or sold something on the darknet bazaar Incognito Market, you may be in for a surprise. Apparently Incognito is now extorting all of its former users, saying that depending on their vendor level, not having your info leaked could cost between $500 and $20,000.

Remember kids, if you oppose "political, economic, and social hierarchies based on class, religion, race, gender, or private ownership of capital" the FBI may (i.e. will) consider you a violent anarchist extremist.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/07/aaron-bushnell-fbi-anarchism-extremist/

If the see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you’d already see the flaw in your reasoning.

#foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl

#NoBillionaires

READ: “Policies to help people walk & cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study has concluded.” AND the benefits continue to grow even higher over time.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/health-gains-of-low-traffic-schemes-up-to-100-times-greater-than-costs-study-finds

"The Locusts of the Newspaper World" -- how financial looters enriched themselves while they destroyed community information --- and then did it to Vice. https://defector.com/the-locusts-of-the-newspaper-world-how-fortress-investment-group-decimated-newspapers-before-gutting-vice

When police search people’s homes without knocking, it creates dangers for residents and the cops. Which is why it’s crucial the public know when and why police might deploy this tactic. Mississippi’s justice courts, however, can’t be bothered to make even basic details about these raids public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#blindfold

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita aggressively promoted his opposition to gender-affirming care in the media, but when American Oversight requested the documentation behind his claims, Rokita claimed opinions and speculation were exempt from disclosure.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#rokita

Roku has become just another arrogant tech company, but this stunt -- locking up people's "smart" TVs until they agree to regressive new terms of service -- is disgusting even for this crowd.

How can it even be legal?

https://www.wired.com/story/roku-terms-of-service-update-locks-tv/

Even decades after the news industry began trying to recognize the hazards of language that lazily picks up the rhetoric of politics, major news organizations continue to parrot phrases like "tough on crime." All policing is tough on crime, conceptually. Focus on what policies have proven to work, where proof is missing -- I.e. avoid the rhetoric, focus on facts. #journalism #USPol