Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR@octodon.social
Tooting this on both Octodon & social.coop. Bruce Schneier's take on the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal and surveillance capitalism in general.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html
@satchmoz It was originally for documents, but then CGI scripts came along and brought server-side apps.
Then Javascript came along and the Web went straight to hell. Everything since then has been about taking a protocol that was designed for serving hypertext documents and turning it into one that serves apps.
I was thinking over a decade ago that we could use a separate protocol for apps instead of continuing to add more hacks to HTTP and HTML.
Technological advancement purely for its own sake (read: without considering real-life consequences) is beyond foolish. A person who truly cares about the future of humanity and of technology will consider realism in their advancements. Do us all a favour: understand the impact of technological advancements before you mindlessly praise and support them.
me: I have no time
also me: *spends several hours a day on mastodon*
@nivex It did, and not really. At least, I don't remember being in any group chats there. The actual AOL software in the mid 90s was a different story.
@a_breakin_glass Because it was created in the U.S., where people commonly put the month before the day, while the rest of the world keeps the logical order by putting the day before the month.
I'm American, by the way, and I think the way we commonly write dates here is stupid.
Seen on Shitter.
Disabling JavaScript by default won't break the web.
Disabling JavaScript by default will only show how broken most of the web already is.
If a website doesn't work in Lynx and it isn't a single-page app with a "this is an app and needs JavaScript" message inside a <noscript> tag, then it's a defective piece of shit. Don't even think to @ me on this.
Hey Mastodon, here is a quote that I needed and maybe you did too:
"WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there."
— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author
Are you using Googles reCAPTCHA on your website? Now is the time to stop. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-providing-ai-technology-for-drone-strike-targeting-project/
Is there a great FLOSS alternative for this type of thing? Please let me know!
@generica
Sorry, but its association with Google and Alphabet make this a non-starter for me.
@Siphonay
Absolutely not! I'm so glad I held on to my original NES copies of SMB and SMB3. Even my 12 year-old self could feel the difference when I first got All-Stars.
What if we simply banned all #advertising as a public health hazard?
@starbreaker I'm curious to know where one can go to find a non-bullshit job.
@Siphonay Really? Seems like a lot of wasted effort when they could have just ported it.
@Siphonay
That "2003 game" was itself a port of ther version of SMB 3 from the SNES game Super Mario All-Stars.
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