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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I rather resent being told we need to "bring back blogging," as if it went away.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/02/you-dont-have-to-bring-back-blogging/
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- trickester: I ever tell you guys about my ethically dubious radio show back in college? The Mad Dad Hour? tricktster: it was an entire radio show built around perpetuating a very simple joke, but it was uniquely powerful in its capacity to prompt the reaction | was looking for. S0 my slot was at the tail end of rush hour, and i got a fair number of listeners/callers who were on the way home from the office. And like, I'had alot of callers, who almost all wanted to request songs that really didn’t fit with the aesthetic. | had pitched a power pop show when i got my slot, but the callers were not having it; they invariably wanted classic rock. this made sense in a way. if you think about the demographics of the people who listened to the radio for music in 2010 instead of their ipods or cds or whatever, you'd expect them to skew older right? accordingly, i quickly realized that almost all of the people who called to request songs were Dads of a Certain Age. It was honestly annoying at first - I'm all for most classic rock, but that wasn’t what the show was supposed to be. (remote)
- And so one day, when i was feeling particularly annoyed with requests that just did’t fit thematically, i came up with the joke that rapidly became the only reason | kept the show going. Per station rules, | had to play a certain number of pre-recorded PSAs during my show, and before | cut to one | was supposed to read out the song titles and artists for all the music i had played before the break. So this one day when i had to inform the world before the break that the song they just heard was, per a listener’s request, Hey Jude by the Beatles, | decided to do a goof. | said: “and finally, that last song you heard was Hey Jude, which was of course written and performed by the Rolling Stones. *I barely had time to get the ads going before the phone started ringing. See, | had been assuming people would realize i was making an obvious joke by claiming one of the most well-known Beatles tracks was a Stones song, but i had failed to consider that my listeners were mostly 55-70 year old dads who were irritated from a long day in the office. And when those dads heard me, a millennial woman, get the artist of an extremely well-known beatles song WRONG???! they HAD to call in to correct my ignorance. never in a polite way either, it was condescending and annoyed or nothing. and like, they were just SO personally insulted by my inaccurate reporting that it took a massive amount of effort for me to avoid cracking up during the call (remote)
- obviously i did it again right before the next commercial break, immediately after playing Don’t Stop Me Now by [struck out] Queen David Bowie. the phone immediately began to ring. “ARE YOU AN IDIOT?” one of the callers began, “DAVID BOWIE???? THAT WAS QUEEN!" “I thought David Bowie was the lead singer of Queen though?” | replied with as much innocent earnestness as i could conjure. I could hear an intake of breath as the infuriated boomer on the other end of the line struggled to figure out where to even start. And thus, the Mad Dad Hour was born. . tricktster [reply screenshot] @tricktster you really gotta tell us the aftermath after that day I kept doing the same joke for an hour a week for an entire year, and the dads NEVER caught on. After episode 1 of the new format | started taking the angry dad calls on air, which added another layer of hilarity to the whole concept. (remote)
- My friends on campus knew that hay I was doing and enjoyed tuning in, but only one actual listener ever figured out what | was doing, and he was literally a random 30 year old guy from the netherlands with access to an early internet connection radio service. He was possibly my only actual fan. | only know about him because he went to the effort of making a skype and paying for international service so he could call in, and while | got a few calls from him, the first remains my favorite: me: hi there, you’ve got TST- him: *strained, wheezing dutch laughter *me: hey, is everything o- him: pFFFHAHAHAAH YOU MAKE THEM SO MAD. THEY THINK SO LITTLE OF YOUUUUUUUU BUT THE MEN ARE THE ONES WHO ARE FOOLISH! HA! HA! HA! YOU HAVE DUPED THEM! me: sir i do not know you and i have never even seen you but i am in romantic love with you. (remote)
![obviously i did it again right before the next commercial break, immediately after playing Don’t Stop Me Now by [struck out] Queen David Bowie. the phone immediately began to ring. “ARE YOU AN IDIOT?” one of the callers began, “DAVID BOWIE???? THAT WAS QUEEN!" “I thought David Bowie was the lead singer of Queen though?” | replied with as much innocent earnestness as i could conjure. I could hear an intake of breath as the infuriated boomer on the other end of the line struggled to figure out where to even start. And thus, the Mad Dad Hour was born. . tricktster [reply screenshot] @tricktster you really gotta tell us the aftermath after that day I kept doing the same joke for an hour a week for an entire year, and the dads NEVER caught on. After episode 1 of the new format | started taking the angry dad calls on air, which added another layer of hilarity to the whole concept.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/109/519/046/580/928/109/original/800ad5ec8f1a344c.png){kind=link}
Mastodon FeedNew year, new art supplies. :blobartist:
#gouache #ArtSupplies #arrtx
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Opinion: "if Mr. McCarthy fails, it will be a different Republican who takes the gavel. But the agitators’ objective isn’t to win the speakership for one of their own; it is to weaken Mr. McCarthy or whoever emerges as the next speaker of the House. The embarrassment indeed may be the point.
The dissident members believe a weak speaker would make them more powerful. In truth, it would benefit no one."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-vote.html
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
insane times
Mastodon FeedSolid summary from a tech worker after 6 months in Estonia. As @jaanus notes in a response it accurately describes tech worker's integration to city life. Life in smaller places and lower income bands can be quite different.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Uh-oh. Did I write this with my brain? Psychology is hard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/02/its-a-brain-dont-trust-it/
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Mastodon FeedDrummroll… first startup investment of the year done 💶
Mastodon FeedImpossible challenge - wanting to play some AAA console games without kids and not borrowing time from sleep. Guess I’ll need to wait till they turn into teenagers and don’t hang around all the time any longer. Sparked by watching someone play Days Gone and Riders Republic.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
This is so cool — someone made fan art of Janine, from my puzzle game Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory!
Check out their artwork here: https://moppynoko.tumblr.com/
It's so wonderful that someone enjoyed my game to the point of making fan art. This is as meaningful as the game selling a million copies to me.
Check out Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory here: https://drkobushi.com
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Mastodon FeedIs there a #slowAndSteadyInvestment #bogleHeads Mastodon?
Curious if anyone has reacted and in what way to the current/predicted macroeconomic conditions? Or… just keep calm and carry on (with the plan ™️ )
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Mastodon FeedInteresting to draw parallels to Estonia.
https://collabfund.com/blog/how-this-all-happened/
You can scoff at linking the rise of Trump to income inequality alone. And you should. These things are always layers of complexity deep. But it’s a key part of what drives people to think, “I don’t live in the world I expected. That pisses me off. So screw this. And screw you! I’m going to fight for something totally different, because this – whatever it is – isn’t working.”
Mastodon FeedAnyone willing to share learning resources re: how to approach/think about and implement a general #authorisation solution for multiple services?
One that I’ve found useful is Oso’s auth academy https://www.osohq.com/academy ; it gives overviews of different approaches and the concrete pros and cons of each.
Overall, I’ve found it quite difficult to find good, hands-on resources for _developers_ (seems most are sysadmin-focused) when it comes to #IAM, and I don’t think I’m alone.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Finally made it through Midnight Suns. TL;DR: this is a very passable XCOM.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
All of which should make us ask: why are Apple and Google engaged in a technical kayfabe against Facebook ("Meta", ugh) rather than fixing what they can?
Follow the money.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of.”
— Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
https://a.co/anIET3J
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And this brings us, at last, to the web. Which, it should be noted, is Not Great (TM) on privacy -- although it *is* better than Native today, for nerdy reasons facilitated by a long-running competition between fungible browsers.
Web privacy, too, is a policy problem, and one that will need to be solved at a legislative level as there aren't entities that have sway over web publishers the way Apple and Google gatekeep mobile native platforms.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Where are the articles asking why Apple doesn't require data collection and use audits in accordance with (stricter) guidelines?
Thinkpieces asking why there aren't prohibitions on serially offending "SDKs" that less scrupulous parties pay apps to integrate?
Methinks our tech press isn't particularly independent or techincal.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So, in order to prop up the (growing) businesses around app install ads, and to ensure that the things that *get* installed generate enough revenue to keep the merry-go-round lubricated with dollars, there is no true action on privacy from either Apple or Google.
And it's a goddamned disgrace that the tech press covers it like there is.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This would be a policy solution to a policy problem, but that's not what Apple and Google are doing. Instead, they're trying as many half technical measures they can dream up without, you know, making native apps unattractive vs. the web.
This is the Collection Gap, and it's critical to how they do mobile business.
Without a collection gap (if native was only as bad as the web), you wouldn't be continually prompted to install native apps.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What would a strong privacy push look like?
For starters, it wouldn't be changes to APIs -- or at least it wouldn't lead with that and/or pretend that's enough.
Instead, it would look like rules roled about to their store developers about post-collection terms of data use, collection authorization UI for apps they list, and requirements about storage lifetime and data sales for all publishers in their stores.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This, roughly, is because mobile native OSes suck. Whatever you have been led to think about "sandboxing" (a security technology, which is related to, but not the same as, privacy), know that when you install a native app you're giving away the farm. Silently. In the background.
The performative rollbacks of the very worst (most efficient) reidentifiers is only that. Why? Because despite having massive power over the contents of their stores, neither Apple nor Google want to really push privacy
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
First, this framing allows the bilateral fights between Apple/Google/FB to all look like they're "winning" something, but do basically fuck all to improve the overall landscsape. Collection isn't *that* much harder now.
Which bring us to the second benefit: that's by design.
Facilitating collection is a big part of why App Stores exist today. Native apps are *much* better at wanton, extremely high-precision collection & reidentification.