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Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Last thing you see before you die.
https://botsin.space/@zapping/111889685366949291

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gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" from @pluralistic
"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."
Oh so true!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/

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kcarruthers wrote:

Folks should really pay attention to this Trump project 2025 stuff. They are literally planning to get rid of government & experts & replace them with loyalists.

They’re planning to sack 50k public servants as soon as they win.

It will break the US as we have known it.

This is literally the same thing that Hitler did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

If a space alien came and asked me to summarize our world economy I'd show them this

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• Silver pill box with "ADDERALL 30" engraved on the lid, displayed for sale on a social network shop. $225

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We all have our flaws. I know I'm not perfect.

But I cannot relate in the slightest, the need to rush to the comments to show the world your distain for regular people anytime corporate exploitation is brought up.

LIKE WHAT.

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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

So you're telling me these Bluesky invite codes I've been holding on to as an investment are worthless now. Well great. Just fucking great. What the fuck.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Zuck: we call our interoperable ecosystem the #Metaverse now

#Fediverse: oh hey twinsies

Zuck: we launched a text based app connected to #ActivityPub

#Mastodon: yay we do that

Zuck: we believe in openness now

Openness.org: neato! This is completely out of character but we're convinced

Zuck: we copy platforms so that eventually, they die under the pressure of our competition because this has been our entire business model for a decade

Guy who invented the at sign: fascinating

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

They'll take away my developer card for admitting this, but: even though I do use switch statements whenever I have more than about three possible cases, I do it solely because I feel like I'm supposed to, and I still don't see any way in which a switch statement is better than a chain of if/elses.

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knowler@sunny.garden ("Nathan Knowler") wrote:

@fromjason “Guy who invented the at sign” 🤣

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

held the usual #JS8Call learning net @ROCDIGI on 20m #AmateurRadio #JS8

played with automated checkins & network mapping, then message relay. had some fun, learned some stuff.

7 of us this wk, come join us & experiment next tues night at 9pm eastern time

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

howz yer aurora, Dora?

#SpaceWeather #Aurora #AmateurRadio

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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/

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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.