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

Remember #Patreon set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to #trick you into oversharing?

I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.

Go check your settings, and opt out -- again.

#privacy #greed #e14n #dammit

@njion 'common sense' is another way of saying 'ignorant assumption'

We need a femboy Doctor.

"Those who fight nazis can't expect help from the state"
Seen in Frankfurt, Germany

"you have to use an app for this government online service" oh crap, here we go again, you're just gonna show me Google and Apple appstores, right?

website uhh, nope, you can download APKs, debs, you could pull it off flathub if you wanted, also here's the GitHub repo, and because we're extra fancy we already put the thing in your portage tree, just emerge it.

Wait what? WHAT? This government does things properly? What the actual fuck?

stop disrupting adfraud operations

the adtech industry was never supposed to survive

years of programmatic auctions yet no real world use found for virtualising obfuscators IN JAVASCRIPT

wanted to watch numbers go up anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it was called access logs

all the biggest adtech companies themselves do ad fraud, so you can't stop it, why bother taking down the obvious chinese botnets?

Vanwege de motie Kröger & Boucke roepen we op de A12-blokkades op te schorten tot na de stemming. Als de motie wordt aangenomen, maar de voorwaarden zijn niet goed genoeg, dan beraden we ons op volgende stappen.

Wordt die niet aangenomen, dan komen we terug met nog meer.

finally after like a year or so of flirting I have a project where it makes sense to start playing with #rust. Send me ur favorite crates for reading from USB and from webcams and whatnot ❤️

how many Steam Client Updates do you think it's going to take Valve to stop calling CS2 CS:GO?

i will be so happy when the adtech bubble pops

It bears mentioning that Songtradr is a music licensing and digital rights management company. So the first thing users can expect to go out the window are DRM-free downloads, signaling a push towards platform lock-in.

They’ll probably keep #BandcampFriday for a time, but slightly increase their cut off the top the rest of the time, framing it as a compromise. That cut will continue to increase in a frog-boiling way. Eventually, downloads will only be available at a premium, requiring DRM and their proprietary player. They’ll pivot to being a Spotify competitor.

You’ll pay for the music, the artist will get less, and you won’t have agency over how you can play the music you paid for. They’ll start paying by the stream instead of just offering albums for sale.

And that’s when the ads will start.

18-24 months, roughly. And that’s assuming Songtradr cares about maintaining any good will with the #Bandcamp community.

Hopefully I’m dead wrong about this.

An incomplete map of the surface parking lots in and around downtown St Paul

So. Trick or treat, huh?

Absolutely not