Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

from my understanding, that's what 90% of the people on Mastodon want >_>

from seeing some twitter accounts, there is a very real "puriteen to nazi" pipeline, which is completely unsurprising as the puriteen mindset is already pretty fascist thinking

Do you remember hearing the news of #Google trying to enable #telemetry by default in the #Go programming language? Apparently they've been doing the same with their #Flutter UI toolkit all this time 😐 Their docs also mention that "By downloading or using the Flutter SDK you agree to the Google Terms of Service." - linking to Google's general terms and service policy at policies.google.com/terms

github.com/flutter/flutter/iss…

This is a github issue requesting Flutter to make their #analytics opt-in for complying with EU/ECC laws (#GDPR). That issue was closed in 2021, now three years later and the telemetry is still there enabled by default. And even if you try to opt-out they'll still ping Google's servers to let them know you've opted out, as per their docs.

When Google tried to add telemetry to the Go language last year it made news and there was significant backlash from the community, enough for them to reverse course and make their telemetry opt-in rather than turning data collection on by default - www.theregister.com/2023/05/17…
Unfortunately the same didn't happen with Dart/Flutter so far, which means you're likely to face more data collection there by default.

#Privacy #DataCollection

i wonder if that's why the Advertising sector is so overvalued and the vector that every major tech company seems to be pushing into now? i mean, everything's been restructured around getting the most ads in front of your eyes as possible but it's not even proven that it's effective (though searching for "is advertising effective" just brings up marketing companies. lmao) because it's not about selling the product, it's about selling the idea that There Is No Alternative

tech monopolies have got such a death grip on social spaces and indeed the concept of socialisation itself that people are always surprised when they see a space not driven by capitalist interests and see how different it is.

yes i am talking about VRChat vs. the Metaverse, thanks to Dan Olson and PeopleMakeGames

I want to thank everyone here so much for the outpouring of support that @zillanovikov , @martennorr and I have received in response to Amazon taking down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. Several different people and bots are now reviewing our case, and we hope it will be back up soon.
Just wanted to share the fantastic email that Zilla received from a massive company worth over a trillion dollars. I hope y'all enjoy it as much as we did.

type of website that only seems reliable bc your adblocker makes you not realize how much they spam you with ads

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/740032615748337664
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

hey fedi. i have a favour to ask you all …

diaspora.im is a glitch-soc (mastodon fork/activity pub) server for nonwhite folks. the goal was to create another option for us that is nonwhite-managed so that we can express ourselves how we want without the white gaze making it hard to do so. the fedi is chock full of white-managed instances and i see soooo many of us disenchanted and downright disgusted with how our words get removed and censored when we speak our truths.

when i started diaspora.im, it was never to “have my own space” because i already had that. but as i sat around chatting with folks on the fedi, it became increasingly obvious that my privilege in having my own space was unique… i wanted that for the rest of us nonwhite folk who don’t have that privilege. i wanted a place we could call our own. i wanted a space that was as comfy and safe as my own one-person server. i wanted that for us.

thing is, i don’t work so paying for this server is out of my pocket with the help of you all. we have a couple regular supporters right now, but i’d really like to see us make about $100 a month to cover server costs and to pay our moderator a stipend. right now, we’re doing about US$75 so just another $25 a month would put us right where we need to be.

so i am asking you … if you have an extra dollar a month, consider donating to us. we’d really appreciate it.

https://opencollective.com/diasporaim

someone linked to this project earlier, and i lost the post and can't find it again

anyway: traditional GPS trackers use a lot of battery. getting a GPS fix takes a long time, and it needs to remember the almanac and do a lot of math and stuff like that.

what this project does is eliminate the "getting a fix" part of it. the board samples the GPS constellation in only 12 ms (!!). the samples can then be post-processed to determine the time and location.

https://github.com/SnapperGPS

@lucretia "whats the harm?" i say as i behold the horrible consequences i was warned about beforehand from experts i ignored

Just one more innovation bro I promise that'll fix everything just let me innovate one more time, just one more bro I need to innovate let me innovate, please bro this is gonna do it I swear

A form confidently concluded my first name must be “Hidde de” and populated that into a disabled “First name” for me.