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Blort@social.tchncs.de ("Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥷☣️") wrote:

@mattburgess

We seem to be seeing hints by Meta of a strategy to avoid anti-monopoly laws, while still basing their business on mass surveillance and behavior modification: "We don't care what client or protocol you use, as long as your data comes to our servers, from our algorithms and is kept securely away from our competitors."

This would explain Threads, WhatsApp inter-connectivity, and requiring encryption

A real #Google esque strategy.

#Meta #WhatsApp #SurveillanceCapitalism #Threads

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Someday I hope my own rights will be as passionately defended on social media as ChatGPT’s

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mattrambles@t00t.cloud ("Matt Stein") wrote:

@fromjason I was hooked at the warning and it did not disappoint.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I wrote a very silly, and slightly manic post about AOL, the internet, and the web, using suspect multiverse logic.

Consider it a precursor to future posts 😎. I had a lot of fun writing it on Mucinex and I think it'll hold up to the test of time.

#smallweb #multiverse #fediverse #metaverse

https://scribbles.page/jason/posts/aol-and-the-multiverse-of-sadness-s1smvng3

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

setting up for the usual weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB #ROC #AmateurRadio 📡

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fimion@notacult.social ("Alex Riviere") wrote:

The overwhelming desire to sneak a small css definition into every tailwind codebase...

.flex .flex{display:grid;}

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

This is where savvying breaks down. Yes, Apple is big enough to run circles around Japan, or S Korea, or the UK. But when those countries join forces with the EU, USA and other countries that are fed up to the eyeballs with Apple's bullshit, the company is in *serious* danger.

It's true that Apple has convinced a bunch of its customers that buying a phone from a multi-trillion-dollar corporation makes you a member of an oppressed religious minority:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Take Apple's app store monopoly. The best reference on this is the report published by the UK Competition and Markets Authority's Digital Markets Unit:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63f61bc0d3bf7f62e8c34a02/Mobile_Ecosystems_Final_Report_amended_2.pdf

The devastating case that the DMU report was key to crafting the DMA - but it also inspired a US law aimed at forcing app markets open:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2710

And a Japanese enforcement action:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-down-on-Apple-and-Google-app-store-monopolies

And action in South Korea:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/skorea-considers-505-mln-fine-against-google-apple-over-app-market-practices-2023-10-06/

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yulian@hachyderm.io ("Yulian Kuncheff") wrote:

@fromjason https://bookshop.org/

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

Mini-PSA: The US didn't actually stop tracking covid deaths.

For a few years, the feds ran *two* fatality-tracking systems—CDC's tracker assembled from state reports, and the provisional death counts from the National Center for Health Statistics, which do all kinds of death reporting via the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). In 2023, the CDC discontinued case and death data compilation, leaving the NVSS as the sole source.

You can find the NVSS data here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

New post!

What if #AOL still existed? What if the telecommunications act of 1996 never passed? These are questions I answer while having a terrible cold.

You've been warned.

Thanks to @vincentritter for kindly offering me early access to his cool new blog platform #Scribbles. It's really nice. I'm so sorry this is my debut post.

#SmallWeb #indieWeb #blogging

https://scribbles.page/jason/posts/aol-and-the-multiverse-of-sadness-s1smvng3

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

this is one of my favorite versions of "fast car" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWxkYu8WgU

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

In both cases, the apologist provides cover for corruption, painting it as an inevitability, not a choice. "Don't hate the player. Hate the game."

The reason this foolish nonsense flies is that we are living in an age of rampant corruption and utter impunity. Companies really *do* get away with both literal and figurative murder. Governments really *do* ignore horrible crimes by the rich and powerful, and fumble what rare, few enforcement efforts they assay.

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

This ploy is cousins with @jayrosen_nyu's idea of "#savvying," defined as: "dismissing valid questions with the insider's, 'and this surprises you?'"

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/344825874362810369?lang=en

In both cases, an apologist for corruption masquerades as a pragmatist who understands the ways of the world, unlike you, a pathetic dreamer who foolishly hopes for a better world.

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patrickweaver ("Patrick Weaver") wrote:

I wrote about an iMessage URL parsing mystery I had been curious about for a while. iMessage won’t parse long URLs, which breaks the links in a chat, but just how long can they be, and what techniques can be used to avoid the links breaking?

https://www.patrickweaver.net/blog/imessage-mystery/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mhoye wrote:

I was in a discussion about AI regulation, and I got angry about it as I sometimes do, but I feel like "computers aren't magic", "words mean things" and "people matter" are reasonable positions to hold strongly.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/02/06/echoes-of-the-i/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

By the way, does anyone have an address on hotmail.com for me to send an email to see if it gets delivered? Hotmail is the most picky in this regard.

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des@c.im ("desmosthenes") wrote:

`overflow: clip` is the new `overflow: hidden` in #css

https://youtu.be/72pUm4tQesw

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Over the past couple of days I learned about IPv6 a little more than I wanted, but now my email server has a new and shiny /64 block which isn't listed in any anti-spam block lists, and I can send email to more addresses than before.

Running your own email probably has some advantages (I do it out of inertia), but every few years you have to deal with problems like this.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What's a good online indie #BookStore I can link to when making #book recommendations?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Oh, yeah. The PDF is a polyglot file if you weren't aware. It's also a zip file among other things.

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

well judging from my few minutes perusing it appears they have gone full on mix of dunking on and pontificating to the noobs, which ironically a lot of people there very vocally criticised mastodon for

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

bluesky: mastodon is bad because everyone acts as if they're superior to us due to being there longer
*bluesky opens reg*
bluesky: LISTEN UP, NOOBS, we have done all these things already. We don't need to relitigate all the discourses you don't even know about. Just shut the fuck up and try to fit in and use it how we do.

bravo.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: The version of qpdfview I have showed only a poorly compressed first page. I had to resort to evince to view the .pdf. Almost tempted to look into why...

(I mostly use qpdfview for the tabs and the ability to restore my open documents since I frequently reference PDFs for various reasons.)

[1] https://mastodon.social/@Ange/111886191336292172

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Ange wrote:

In the latest PoC||GTFO 0x22:
Janus is an awesome PRG(C64) ELF Multiboot MBR COM RAR ZIP polyglot, in 512 bytes!
https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Again, as a computer scientist, I believe computers should be in fewer things

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vincentritter@social.lol ("Vincent Ritter") wrote:

All Scribbles invites have been sent out to everyone that emailed me. Not sure if I’ll do more before the launch in March.

#buildinpublic #scribbles

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Using Arc Search counts as reading an article as much as Blinkist counts as reading a book.

It 👏 fucking 👏 doesn't 👏

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

THINKING ABOUT

FAANG (#Facebook #Amazon #Apple #Netflix #Google) is an outdated paradigm for how we quantify ownership of the internet.

With only a couple companies swapped, it's no longer about internet traffic, or even stock prices. It's about a mass retreat to good ol' fashioned infrastructure monopolies.

The internet has a new MAAMA— #Microsoft Amazon #Alphabet #Meta Apple (I'm sorry for the acronym) and they're here to claim cloud computing for the next quarter century.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“also circumscribed Mr. Trump’s ability to use further appeals to waste more time and delay the election case from going to trial… if Mr. Trump appeals its decision to the Supreme Court, the underlying case… remain suspended until the justices decided whether to hear the matter… If the question does reach the Supreme Court, the justices will first have to decide whether to accept the case or to reject it and allow the appeals court’s ruling against Mr. Trump to stand.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/politics/trump-immunity-appeals-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb