”Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection” https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/ #privacy #google #surveillancecapitalism
In case you think it's a good idea to build a business around another company's proprietary technology, this can (and does) happen: https://www.howtogeek.com/437372/what-is-vbscript-and-why-did-microsoft-just-kill-it/ If you think this is a one-off, talk to someone who built a company or product around Microsoft Silverlight... That screwed a whole lot of unwise people over.
Hey open source typography nerds! In the process of revamping our netlabel design template into fully -licenced open and libre material I'm looking for quality libre font foundries or collections. Any pointers greatly appreciated!
(please boost)
#typography #GraphicDesign #CreativeCommons #floss #LibreDesign
lengthy, activist media training advice
If you're an activist and you deal with journalists, you've probably run into issues at some point with your statements being misrepresented.
Ultimately, journalists and editors are human beings like everyone else, and so they will generally take whatever approach requires the least effort, for the best result.
What this means in practice, is that you should *always* proofread your answers to written interviews before giving them (same for your prefab press materials).
If you format them so well that they can be literally copy-pasted into the article, that is exactly what will happen, and the editor won't touch them! Misrepresentation almost always happens when the editor tries to rephrase your statements, so this is an easy and effective strategy to prevent that.
(Big companies know this too, which is why they always have press kits and canned statements ready. *Especially* for anticapitalist activism, it's important to understand their tactics and learn how to use them for social good.)
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.