zeh @[email protected]

"hey this looks cool" https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/12/02/gardener-project-update/

me: "how to run a web server in 2019" *links image 1*

other person: *links image 2*
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Developer-driven software distribution is a bad idea, which is why I dislike things like Flatpak.

Having distro maintainers involved in the process and installing your software from a free software distribution like Debian or FreeBSD is a much better distribution of power. The packages can be tuned to suit their environment without the developer having to repackage it for every distro, and the distro maintainers can keep out anti-features like telemetry and advertising.

The middleman may seem annoying to developers, but embrace the model and it'll work for you. Landing packages in your favorite distro isn't actually that hard, and the rest of the distros will follow. If you're an end-user who wants to see some software available for your distro, look into packaging and volunteer - it's easy.

I had a minor revelation researching computer networking in the early 1970s:

the reason that the unique identifier for any internet service is called an ACCOUNT... is because it originally correlated directly to a BILLING ACCOUNT, like in an accounting system. Now that I see it, it seems blatantly obvious, but for an entire lifetime of internet usage I never thought about what "account" actually means (or meant).

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-350

Secure Scuttlebutt Wikipedia entry finally got accepted 🙌 🖤

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

Dave Snowden - Engage citizens, empower communities, enact stories:

"We're becoming techno-fetishists. We've become so obsessed with computers and digitalisation that we haven't realized that it's a tool. And the point about a tool is that when you pick it up it should fit your hand. You shouldn't have to bio-re-engineer your hand, or worse still - bio-re-engineer your brain, to fit the tool."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAWzj6jucL4

My present Recaptcha policy:

Request audio.

Respond "Fuck you Google"

Repeat until access granted, or the joy fades.

Bonus: All audio AI parsing tends to "Fuck you Google".

Night crew ♥️

how many cybermonkeys does it take to turn on a lightbulb
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Browsing the web nowadays #TakeBacktheInternet #internet

Mood

Sexy Sushi - Je Refuse De Travailler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcKgUYE4ms

Google AMP can go to hell

https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/

Messaging systems that require you to give out your phone number as identification are ... at best, suboptimal. See Signal, Telegram.

I realize it makes many things easy, but it's got so many drawbacks (starting with security) that I can't really accept it as a compromise.

@queeranarchism @zeh @piggo @GreenandBlack

It should be noted that it is precisely because we French have a tradition of long-lasting social struggles that we also had a socialized system of insurance against all the risks of life (and not financialized capitalist insurance).

And do not stop at what you see on TV, the French do not burn enough cars.

Map of all the rallies and demonstrations announced so far for the #generalstrike in France on December 5th.

The current #KeybaseIO situation is giving me a severe case of the I-told-you-sos...

There were actual reasons I decided they were a waste of time and never engaged.

What reasons?

Warning sign #1: Yet another VC funded start-up building centralized infrastructure in desperate search of a market to dominate?

Warning sign #2: They offered to host users' PGP keys in the cloud! That's snake-oil. Pure, unadulterated, snake-oil.

Expecting VC-funded snake-oil salesmen to miraculously produce anything worthwhile just seemed silly to me. Still does!

Now they've jumped on the crypto-scammer bandwagon and thrown their own users under the bus in the process?

I for one am not surprised...

I just found out that google now requires a phone number if you want to create a new account.
Whatever they tell you, GMAIL is NOT free.
#fuckoffgoogle

The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.

Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU

CC @Mastodon @Gargron