Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

WOPR 1:12 scale scratch build model

Don't write your year in technology reviews for 2022 just yet. There are still a few more days to go for more unfortunate stuff to happen

"A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *fails*: #EndToEnd (#E2E), and #FreedomOfExit. These are much neglected, and that's a pity, because how a system fails is every bit as important as how it works.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free/ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go

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@pluralistic I'm sure you have an over-abundance of sources, but Amazon's algorithmic pricing versus their "merchant" promotions are crazy. Our products sold for less by algorithm than when put in the merchant program that was charged back to the merchant. When it came time for promotion, the algorithm would push prices up, so they could go "sale" -- that sale cost the merchant, whereas the algorithm did not. This "pay for promotion" was old school big box retail practice -- and one that Amazon eschewed to lure the vendors to its platform in the early days, -- and then pulled the rug out, once the damage was done. Chokepoint, Indeed. Thanks for your tireless efforts covering this nonsense and evil, because I suspect you'd rather be writing scifi and seeing your work put on the big screen in a world of independent studios and independent theaters.

Software freedom is a fundamental right that allows users to have control over their own computing. It empowers you to use, study, change & share the software as you see fit. Embrace your software freedom: https://www.fsf.org/ #FreedomToShare

Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!

Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg

Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!

Libadwaita keeps getting better! With Libadwaita, it easier to build great-looking apps, this has also meant that most new apps are adaptive from the start. Here is a list of some great apps

https://puri.sm/posts/libadwaita-in-the-wild/?mtm_campaign=promo&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-libadwaita-in-the-wild

It is very weird that there is a widespread, confident and wholly incorrect belief that the "unlisted" setting on Mastodon can be used to hide the posts in a thread.

This is completely untrue.

Unlisted toots are hidden from people on your own instance who DON'T follow you.

If you follow someone, you will see their posts, even if they're unlisted.

Arguably, unlisting *should* work the way it is said to, but it absolutely does not.

Jingle Bells
Shopping’s hell
Must avoid the malls
Buy some merch from Effin’ Birds
Or get kicked in the balls
Check out our entire holiday collection for some great gift ideas! https://www.effinbirds.com/collections/holiday-collection

... And it's still not as old as yo'mama.

#YoMamaSaturdays

In case you're wondering why #RaspberryPi is making the rounds:

The makers of the computer that can be made into a near-infinite# of unassuming devices, has hired a man whose expertise is hiding #Surveillance gear inside unassuming devices.

That in itself is understandable (he's a maker), but so is user concern.

Instead of addressing that concern, RasPi started blocking & mocking anybody who questioned the new hire.

...

IOW: RasPi is now Mastodon's first-ever real "Person of the Week"

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

@c0debabe

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/

#Pluralistic

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Especially our peeps from Trek Twitter seem to be having trouble finding others from other servers, so how about we make this a #StarTrek roll call post, where everybody reply with a 🖖🏻 or something similar, so others can see and find you. And please make sure to boost the heck out of this.

Does anybody else think that a private corporation managing the communications infrastructure (and holding the cryptological keys) for systems that will be transmitting above-top-secret data is a terrible, TERRIBLE idea? 🤔

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/spacex-unveils-starshield-a-military-variation-of-starlink-satellites.html

I'm hosting a webinar about trust and safety on the fediverse this Thursday, Dec 8th at 12pm Eastern. It's an introduction to the state of content moderation and community safety here.

I hope it will be useful to people at civil society organizations who have perhaps heard about Mastodon and the fediverse and would like to know more about where there are gaps in funding and services, and places where orgs could potentially help augment what's already happening.

RSVP: https://meedan.com/event/webinar-trust-and-safety-on-the-fediverse

ꜱᴇʟᴇᴄᴛ * ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇᴛ

Me: No serial killer would ever lure me into their murder van. I'm too smart for that.

Murderer:

2022 Microsoft Teams Unwrapped

You spent 4,182 minutes talking on mute.
You attended 15,011 meetings that could have been an email
You visibly nodded thoughtfully at totally implausible ideas 623 times

People have no problem singing "Jingle All the Way" as a way to express their merriment.

... but I sing THE MORE GRAMATICALLY CORRECT "Jingle to completion" and everybody stares at me like I just stole Christmas.

** English is a weird language

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