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uspol satire; open parent post 

I’ve had this charging station setup for a while now but the little pink so-called turtle snaps have only been held in place by an adhesive and they keep popping off… until today. I decided enough is enough and I bought a small set of sheet screws and now they’re fastened to the bookshelf.

subtoot, yelling at clouds 

I don't even think apps are bad, but I just wish we could recognize what that term has come to mean: a tightly coupled stack that includes a client, server, service, protocol, and platform.

That coupling can absolutely help in some ways but also makes our technology far more vulnerable to monopolizing and Doctorow's enshittificaton. It can put us at risk of our data and our social interactions being fully captured by corporate interests.

It's essential for media to take protocols, clients, and interoperability seriously, not to be an active party to monopolization.

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subtoot, yelling at clouds 

Tech media stop dismissing anything that isn't an "app" challenge (impossible).

Misschien kunnen we beter gewoon aannemen dat in iedere context waarin sprake is van hiërarchie en onevenwichtige machtsrelaties, er ook een grote kans bestaat op sociale onveiligheid en/of grensoverschrijdend gedrag. En ik zeg dat niet om het groeiende aantal klachten en meldingen hierover te bagatelliseren - maar, integendeel, omdat steeds duidelijker wordt dat het hier gaat om structurele problemen die vragen om structurele oplossingen. En niet om symptoomdestrijding.

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

i assume this silicon valley bank thing means the entire area of silicon valley is bankrupt

...that's how it works, right?

The public has spoken; tomorrow, March 11, it will be the International Day of the Shitpost!

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Bij de lokale Kruidvat staat er nu een soort van 'schaambordje' op A4-formaat in de etalage, met "Wij gaan ook bewust met energie om. We gebruiken een luchtgordijn om de warmte binnen te houden."

Is blijkbaar toch een beetje awkward als je een van de twee winkels in het hele dorpscentrum bent die in de winter de deuren open heeft staan

I think it is fine for someone to use Mastodon DMs to send any message that they would also feel comfortable sending over unencrypted email. For some people that is "basically nothing" and for others that is "basically everything".

I am making this post so that I can link it in future discussions here so I do not have to type it again.

If you are seeing this post because I linked you to it: greetings from the past! It is March 10, 2023 and the weather today in Portland, Oregon, USA is dreary.

re: politics, capitalism 

(This interpretation of what capitalism's purpose is is wrong and undeservedly optimistic, of course, which makes it all the more fascinating how *even then* it is still an obviously unfair system)

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politics, capitalism 

Even the 'moderate' view of how capitalism works is obviously bad; if you believe that capitalism exists to handle scarcity by prioritizing based on what people are willing to pay, then that logically also means that things will be distributed by wealth inequality rather than by who actually needs something - ie. it can never be a fair distribution method

???? Deutsche Bahn has a punctuality of only 65%? What on earth? I knew it was bad, but this is absurd...

facebook was involved in the XMPP massacre of the early 2010s, do not let them near the fediverse.

I really like how the city's green management here just maintains whatever is planted in the public space, even if it's very clearly not something that was planted by the city themselves

@Chris Trottier I find it highly ironic that #Meta wants to join the #Fediverse now.

About a dozen years ago, #Facebook locked the Fediverse out. Back then, #Friendica had established full bidirectional federation with Facebook simply by latching onto its API. If you had accounts on both Facebook and Friendica, you could use Facebook without actually going to Facebook.

That was when Friendica's primary goal was to federate with everything, full stop. They had already managed to federate with #Diaspora, and Diaspora* didn't even have an API, so Friendica had to reverse-engineer the Diaspora* protocol and then drill right into Diaspora* pods.

End of the story, however: Facebook noticed and changed its TOS so that third parties were no longer allowed to extract content from Facebook. By and by, the federation was removed again. Facebook was pretty much the only federation option which #Hubzilla didn't inherit from Friendica.

If Meta launches a social network with #ActivityPub, it's going to be interesting. Someone from the old Friendica guard could waltz into Meta's new network and be like, "GUESS WHO'S BACK SUCKERBERG!"

De politie vordert voortdurend persoonsgegevens van demonstranten, zoals hun adres, burgerservicenummer en geboortedatum. Daarnaast vraagt de politie gegevens op van ouders en kinderen van actievoerders, ook als zij nooit zijn gearresteerd of veroordeeld. Dat blijkt uit 67 persoonlijke dossiers van demonstranten die onderzoeksplatform Investico inzag in samenwerking met De Groene Amsterdammer en Trouw.

“Het recht op betoging is in het geding”, zegt Bart Schermer, hoogleraar privacy en cybercrime aan de Universiteit van Leiden. “Als je de hele tijd in de gaten wordt gehouden, kun je niet meer vrij demonstreren.”

De politie haalt de gegevens uit de Basisregistratie Personen (BRP), een database met informatie over iedere inwoner van Nederland. Elke keer als agenten zoeken naar burgers in de politiesystemen of een bestaand dossier openen, worden persoonsgegevens uit de BRP opgehaald. Volgens de politie is het opvragen hiervan noodzakelijk bij het uitvoeren van haar taak. Op die manier probeert de politie bijvoorbeeld verdachten op te sporen, aangiftes te verwerken, in contact te komen met demonstranten of slachtofferzorg te bieden.

trouw.nl/binnenland/politie-vr

Nee. En nu is het genoeg. De overheid heeft de plicht virussen te bestrijden, epidemisch of endemisch. Én de plicht iedereen toegang tot zorg te garanderen, mensen met extra risico extra te beschermen. Het zijden handschoentje mag wel af nu. Dit is regelrecht tegen de mensenrechten in en we staan erbij en kijken ernaar.

Nu mag het wel afgelopen zijn. Wie schrijft mee naar de ombudsman als stap 1?

nu.nl/coronavirus/6252775/kabi

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