Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

#W3C sells out the Web with #EME - 1 year later | Defective by Design - https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/w3c_sells_out_web_eme_1_year_later #FSF

“They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under protection of our own courage; had you not better make one of us, than sneak after the asses of those villains for employment?" - Samuel Bellamy

The MPAA and the cable industry have a monopoly on mass media, exploiting not only consumers but low wage actors and stage crew.

The only ethical way to consume mass media is to share it.

A Swiss tax app stored “tax declarations, tax information, receipts and other personal data” in a publicly readable AWS bucket.

The final paragraph is very disappointing:
“In addition, the tax service provider did not want to understand why we consider it essential to inform the users of the app about the data leak.”

https://heise.de/-4167240

https://www.secu.ninja/2018/09/19/swiss-tax-app-stores-all-data-publicly-in-the-cloud/

Hey @Gargron can we pretty please have limited Markdown formatting?.. I mean bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, monospace. That's all I'm asking for.

The most secret of secrets of IT:
1. Everything is done by people who have no idea what they are doing. The people who know awe busy doing things *they* have no idea how to do. Once you learn how to do it, the thing is done and there is no point doing it again, so you move on to new things.
2. There are a lot of things that would be (relatively) easy to do and that would improve the lives of many people tremendously, but nobody has the time to do them, because they are all busy doing hard stuff.

#tokiPiKamaSin

toki!

nimi mi li Asu. mi lukin toki e toki pona. mi soweli pi seli pi telo kon. mi laso.

mi alasa e sona la: mi pilin toki. mi kama sona e sona toki e sona nanpa e sona pi nanpa ilo. mi wile e sona ale.

mi kalama musi. mi kuta kin e kalama musi pi wawa utala la: mi pilin toki a.

mi lon ma An Apo. ni li lon ma Misikan. ni li lon ma Mewika.

pona tawa sina!

#tokiPona

Oooo, VSCode without all of Microsoft's tacked on bullshit?

I love internet.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

I just used Fluid - https://fluidapp.com/ - to create a Mastodon “app” on my Mac. Two awesome aspects: 1) I can now Alt+Tab to flip back and forth to it; and 2) I now have a Mastodon icon in my Dock to allow easy access. Plus, it no longer gets lost in my zillion browser windows that I normally have open.

In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. We just don't know what to pay attention to, and often spend our time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

#InformationOverload
#FilterFailure
#information

Reminder to job candidates not to give a current or expected salary number first... a dev I know just got himself a 50% raise at his new job.

Markdown Presentations https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/a4e83847-f930-4adf-8ef2-86ae0b4e49f8

@freakazoid Our stories inform the way we interact with our enviorment.

Our stories are all about Noble Sacrifice, and One Man Making A Difference, and Destiny, and True Love.

Our stories largely aren't about the long wars, the power of collective action and organization, choice, and the role Choice plays in Love.

so. now I need the perfect instance with a great domain, but not a fixed group, leaning towards everything _I_ like but without everything I dislike.. so maybe opensourcyfeministartsynerdswhoreadbooksberlintechnothip dot sometimessocial? ;)

Everyone is always so focused on the “super” and “hyper” keys on Lisp keyboards, but I find the 👎 and 👍 keys a lot more fascinating. #retrocomputing

Ten Years After the Financial Crisis, the Contagion Spread to Democracy Itself
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/financial-crisis-10-years-later-ben-bernanke-hank-paulson-timothy-geithner_us_5b9d7dc8e4b04d32ebf92396

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