Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Such a great read. "Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out." https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

Hi @cwebber@octodon.social @fossandcrafts@octodon.social I recently listened to the Foss & Crafts episode 27 on Game Design and Social Systems. I thought you might enjoy this article by a BU professor about how Mario Kart can teach us to reduce world poverty - from the mechanic where in last place you get powerful items while in first place you just get banana peels, in order to keep everyone in the race.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/could-mario-kart-teach-us-how-to-reduce-world-poverty-and-improve-sustainability/

@kev thanks for the insight. Love your blog and writing btw

@kev Question for you, what software do you use for your blog at https://kevq.uk/blog/ ? Is it wordpress, and do you have thoughts on wordpress vs write.as?

@jeremiahlee I’ve finished season 2 but still working my way through

@jonw@hackers.town I really like the techlore VPN reviews. https://techlore.tech/vpnreview.html

They also have some accompanying YouTube videos

@sean This is a fantastic idea. There is a trend now of YouTubers moving off that site to better control their own content and monetization: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55349255

I always thought PeerTube would be the perfect tool to facilitate that trend, so I think you are on to something and at a good moment.

YTers who don't even know about PeerTube could be into this. Could be worth reaching out to some and inviting them to cross-post videos to the instance as a start.

@lightweight Oh that is interesting!

@sean Haha indeed

@sean In a good way though, right?

@datatitian Is this post a joke? At least some people are being misled... this is a reversed playback of the original video, which showed a sheet of ice breaking off and drifting away. You can notice that the shadows would indicate the sun rising from the west and setting in the east (over Lake Michigan) if the video were unedited, but in fact it is edited.

@lightweight Well put. When people think of the threats from Big Tech, they think of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple. The one causing the most inefficiencies and problems is often just an afterthought; we are so used to it as the infrastructure and that it isn't questioned much anymore.