Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

The (tragically under-watched) show "Halt and Catch Fire" did a terrific job of conveying that sense of wonder people felt about video games from the mid-80s to the mid-90s.

From text adventures to the single-dev games at Atari, from Mario Bros to DOOM.

Why don't I feel that anymore?

Last night, as I was playing the newest Ratchet & Clank, seeing the world's rich detail and astounding graphics, I wondered: Is it because our imaginations did most of the work back then?

#Gaming

your weekend read #1: insane shenanigans are happening in Wisconsin, arguably *the* top swing state. They're over who'll direct Wisconsin elections next year during the presidential race.

it's largely under-radar, but so critical to stay on top of this: https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-election-administrator-republicans-election-denier-conspiracies-state-supreme-court/

My book "Building reproducible analytical pipelines with #rstats" is done! Buy a drm-free epub or pdf @leanpub : https://leanpub.com/raps-with-r/

Physical https://amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MGF (check your local market place)

Read for free forever: https://raps-with-r.dev

#RStats #datascience

I want to change the primary revenue model of the Web from invasive advertising to audience-supported creation.

This can be accomplished by building payments into the browser as a platform feature of the Web and by adding a social interaction layer onto websites to liberate creators from controlling, closed content platforms (eg Instagram, Twitter, TikTok).

I am so grateful to be working with @Interledger on these big ideas!

Curious? Watch my 15 minute talk at https://community.interledger.org/jeremiahlee/interledger-joins-the-fediverse-30fi

Wild situation unfolding in Wisconsin.

GOP is trying to force out the head of elections, who's been targeted by Big Lie conspiracies.

Now she's hanging into office due to a court ruling GOP once cheered.

And... supreme court is days from flipping left. https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-election-administrator-republicans-election-denier-conspiracies-state-supreme-court/

Fighting for the open web.

#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource
#Firefox #Privacy #Chrome #WebEnvironmentIntegrity

The Price of Virtue: Some Hypotheses on How Tractability Has Shaped Economic Models

finally published in open access

https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/14116

#histodon #histecon #historyofecon @historyofeconomics

Imagine controlling a brand whose name and associated actions have, miraculously, entered the language of everyday life in the only way that can really happen … just a purely organic process of adoption, to the point where competitors use pastiches of “your” words. The kind of thing marketers dream of but know in their hearts cannot be artificially induced. Astonishingly valuable. Now imagine you are a boneheaded narcissist billionaire with a long-term fixation on the letter ‘x'.

Even with everything, by far the funniest change is still altering the Tweet placeholder text from "What's happening?" to "What is happening!?" and I'm convinced it wasn't an Elon change but in fact a sly dev crying out for help.

OTA-2 Call For Testing

Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-2 is scheduled for release on Friday 28th July 2023. To keep that on track we really need your help with testing. To find out what needs doing use the link, read the blog and please start testing

https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-2-for-focal-call-for-testing-3892

#UBports #UbuntuTouch #OTA2 #CallForTesting #Mobilelinux #Opensource #Lomiri

#croissants au levain are going into the office for the Monday crew. #Sourdough #BreadBaking #BreadPosting

Looking to hire a #designer for a logo / branding project.

In short, I'm finally creating my own site that will host my blog, some mini courses and pages. Everything will be donation based and go directly to #opensource.

A constant theme will be taking old computers, and fixing them up with #linux to give them out locally to people in need.

So naturally, it will be https://www.linuxpotatoes.com/

Need a fun logo and branding help. Again, this is paid. Please boost :)

An early Random Password Generator 🦜​

My ROFL for the day:

The women´s football (soccer) world cup is on. In an interview, one of the German players was asked "so who´s the female Neymar"?

Her reply was "I don´t think there´s a female Neymar. For example, I don´t know any female players who keep laying on the ground for two or three minutes".

🤣🤣🤣

https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/fifa-frauen-wm/weltmeisterschaft-shitstorm-gegen-kleinherne-100.html

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

Interesting comparisons for the nearly identical posts I made earlier today about the death of Kevin Mitnick:

Facebook: (4.5k followers) - 1 comment, 6 likes
Mastodon: (47k followers) - 42 boosts, 49 likes
Post.news (5.2k followers) - no engagement
Threads (<500 followers) - 2 likes
Twitter: (114.2k followers) - 7 retweets, 3 likes

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My wife has been playing Paper Mario: The Origami King, and one of the musical peices kept reminding me of something, but I finally figured it out. It's very, very similar to R2DJ's "A Beautiful Mine," which you may know as the theme from TV's Mad Men. Clips:

Scorching Sandpaper Desert Battle Theme

R2DJ - A Beautiful Mine

get a dog they said, it'll be fun they said 😆

Sometimes Elon stans call me out on Twitter when people post the "cars and rockets" post, demanding to know what stupid things Elon says about software.

Here's a primo example.

In this exchange, Elon thinks Adam Mosseri is adding rate limits to Threads just like he added them to Twitter, and that he "copied" Elon.

Anyone who understands software knows Adam is talking about WRITE rate limits to curb spam posts. Elon implemented READ rate limits in an application that relies on ad impressions.