goran @goran@oour.org

lol a news site started just selling ads themselves instead of using targeted bullshit and made so much more money https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journalism/

"Creative Commons is Shilling NFTs", David Gerard

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/

metaverse
metaworse

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning or "Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. Learn about Indigenous resistance in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill

I just want you guys to know that the multiple *years* I've had my music on Spotify and iTunes have still made me less money than the first two weeks of the same albums on Bandcamp.

Please support artists directly if you can.

Also RSS, XMPP, and Email would like to remind you that a monopoly should never be trusted to shepherd an open standard.

Monopolies have an incentive to monop.

Just got spam email inviting me to invest in the new cryptocurrency "sexytrade." Proprietary platform, guaranteed results, everyone will be happy.

Too late, guys. If cryptocurrency was truly viable, porn would have been all over it ten years ago.

TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false!

a game where you're the employer at a large company and the gameplay involves physically throwing mental health resources at your employees so they'll stay productive for you

I'm looking for employment where, every day as I go into work, I know my kids, when they are adults, will be aware of the benefit to them of my work. I am looking for a company working toward enduring impact that should still be clear 10 and 20 years from now.
If you can't live without foresight, and you could use a Linux/JVM/Postgres/Kotlin dev who can do pretty much anything given a minute to read the docs, please do reach out.

Say your self-driving car had client-side scanning like Apple’s phones, tablets, and computers will soon do… how would that work?

So in Turkey, for example, instead of issuing a long-winded command like “Siri, take me to the nearest police station”, you could mutter “Fuck Erdoğan!” and the car would understand.

It would work the same way in your “smart” home…

Smart tech is so cool, right? Ever wondered who’s getting smarter about whom?

#smart #tech #clientSideScanning #privacy #humanRights

Privatised prisons. Up next: to ensure your captive relative's oxygen supply, please insert another bitcoin.
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RT @ericisaac
Sorry, first time dealing with an incarcerated relative but how is this shit legal?
https://twitter.com/ericisaac/status/1459225065636171788

Remember kids, the correct click is the right click.

#nft

It gives me joy & hope seeing #aaronsw posts in the fediverse today. I'm thinking about Aaron's work on RSS and Markdown, which were standards that respected the web as an ecology with values as much as a technology. I think Aaron would have liked it here.

"Desktop apps suck. Instead I want to have to build and maintain two completely separate codebases and then write APIs between them. The frontend should only be able to be run inside a container that Google wrote." - Web developers