Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

It’s about time we showed up here.

We’re The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that’s skeptical about Big Tech. And there’s a lot to be skeptical about right now.

#introduction

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Lesser known Apple Watch Workouts:
Black Friday Shopping

The new #GNOME console's chrome turns red when you run commands as root. Neat.

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

For #FollowFriday I picked my colleagues whose work is related to #Linux #desktop:
@hughsie - fwupd/LVFS
@adamw - Fedora QA
@jgrulich - KDE/Qt/WebRTC
@wtay - PipeWire/GStreamer
@airlied - Linux graphics
@karolherbst - Linux graphics
@felipeborges - GNOME/Boxes
@halfline - GNOME/GDM
@jimmac - GNOME design
@aruiz - #GNOME
@nielsdg - GPU/input/multimedia
@Cfkschaller - the boss
@fmuellner - GNOME Shell
@bilelmoussaoui - GNOME/Flatpak/Rust
@erAck - FF/LO
@garrett - UX design
@csoriano - GPU

Jumping off what @blaine is saying here:

https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109400462722746600

I work in professional fact-checking and content moderation for my day job at https://meedan.com and I have begun conversations about ways to do content moderation as a federated service that admins can pay to subscribe to (where moderators are paid a living wage, maybe in worker owned coops even, as opposed to big social media companies using basically sweatshop moderation labor)

The architecture of #Mastodon

https://softwaremill.com/the-architecture-of-mastodon/

Yay - GitHub verification now works (h/t to @nova)

RT @rob_sheridan@twitter.com

This is *exactly* as I imagined, and provides the most straightforward explanation for anyone still trying to grasp at complicated theories on how the "SpaceX genius" could possibly be so bad at this. https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1595319316249186304

Right now, someone at Google is looking at Mastodon, thinking, "mmm, this could be a chat app...".

A Shrek salad #stablediffusion

also the admins of birdsite and zucksite could read your DMs too so why is this even an issue you care about now