Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
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Joined Mar 2020
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Hey, I'm scheduled to be on MSNBC's 11thHour tonight with host Stephanie Ruhle.
My part is around 11:30 ET.
The prompt: How journalists can effectively cover Trump in light of what we saw in the town hall yesterday.
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With the news that Musk has apparently selected a woman to take over for him as Twitter’s CEO, I am reminded of the “glass cliff” phenomenon:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies
When/if Twitter ultimately goes under, remember that Musk created the conditions for it to do so.
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Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Fix will eventually render all kinds of older Windows boot media unbootable.
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How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI
After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID'd weaknesses and pounced.
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@elonmusk@twitter.com @EndWokeness@twitter.com 8. If you want accurate information, please do not rely exclusively on Twitter to get it.
Musk has changed the way this website works to promote people who push his preferred narratives.
Instead subscribe to Popular Information.
It's free to sign up.
@lightweight @becha I feel like it’s such an obvious and smart decision. I personally like Jitsi as a zoom replacement but whatever the application it is very clear to me that open source digital infrastructure is this massively under-funded public good
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NextGen Healthcare, a US-based provider of EHR software, says hackers breached its systems and stole the personal data of more than 1 million patients https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/nextgen-healthcare-data-breach/
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#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.
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"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier."
Elsevier's profit margin is around 40%. Claiming that academic publishers prey on researchers, more than forty leading scientists are setting up "a nonprofit open-access journal".
Publicly-funded knowledge should be free.
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-06 Sa
GM’s plans for in-automobile content as a service; banks hit the wall; once again, full self-driving is near; I agree with Josh Marshall that there is unlikely to be any debt-ceiling negotiation…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-2023-05-06-sa>
2023-05-06 Sa
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so on #Bluesky, rather than going with the well-documented and defined webfinger protocol, behind the .well-known directory, decided to make their own shit for verifying domains via HTTP.
thus, somebody took the S3 bucket name "xrpc" and now is s3.amazonaws.com on the platform
going great
https://bsky.ipg.gay/profile/s3.amazonaws.com/post/3juud6zh5ur2n
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Wrote up some thoughts about @takahe and a refactor/redesign I'm doing, with the aim of more customisable profiles and proper domain separation: https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/
(also, maybe we can support BlueSky/AT as well? Who knows!)
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@mpanhans not currently. the idea was that Bluesky would create a protocol which Twitter could adopt eventually. But it was never a requirement. And Elon pulled the service agreement Twitter had with Bluesky.
@danielhanley Yes that seems right.
@mmasnick Does bluesky interoperate with Twitter? My understanding from the very beginning was that bluesky was supposed to propose a protocol that twitter itself would then adopt. but from my reading I have no sense of whether that is still going to be the case. If so seems like then AT would win over AP.
@danielhanley A lot of people would be upset if mastodon raised venture funds. Isn't diversity of business models in social desirable anyway? Also, there is nothing stopping someone else for building a different app using the same ActivityPub protocol with venture backing. In fact, I would love to see that. But Mastodon funders can do what they want with their app, and I think they have been making great decisions.
@calebccff Amazing work!
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First thoughts on Bluesky: y u no PWA?
Like, Elk can manage it. Pinafore managed it. Mainline Mastodon managed it! If the goal is decentralisation, why would you put app store gatekeepers in charge?
And if funds are not infinite, why wouldn't you centralise effort on the web, particularly now that iOS Push is out?
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
xmpp: mattp@sendero.snikket.chat
Joined Mar 2020
