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

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

What's missing from these pictures?

No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.