Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Discord calling its guilds "servers" is a really neat marketing trick and absolutely insidious because it screws with normal peoples' already bad understanding of what a "server" is, and erases the distinction between itself and decentralised services

Reminder!

Please migrate your Dynamic DNS accounts corresponding to the "freedombox.rocks" domain by December 15, 2021.

Read the full announcement here
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/action-needed-dynamic-dns-server-migration/1831

#FreedomBox #DynamicDNS #GnuDIP @freedomboxfndn

@strypey @freedomboxfndn @PINE64 @yunohost

I've loved #Freedombox and #Yunohost. They do great things. Both took me considerable time learning about modifying my router configs, opening up ports, port forwarding etc, to a level people outside tech circles just wouldn't bother with. What I wished for was something I could just plug in and have a webpage I could share with others. The strength is not a server, but a server and router working together to make the experience easy and automatic.

I cannot stress enough how important it is to understand that Apple, Google, or Amazon can simply _decide_ to remove access to anything you've "purchased", including many physical goods (if they are internet-connected and running proprietary software), and you have absolutely no recourse.

#Nitter.net is down due to #DMCA complaints

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/473

I just received the news that the Federated Networks Association is probably folding. More details here:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/feneas-federated-networks-association-shutting-down-very-soon/2135

#Feneas #fediverse

From a CO2 emissions perspective, it is better to download a video or music file that you are going to watch or listen to multiple times than to stream it.

JOB for a full stack developer at #openfoodnetwork

Fulltime
Remote Friendly
$85K/yr

https://jobs.gorails.com/jobs/full-stack-developer-f8958cf181

Please boost!

The anti-efficiency of inequality...

context is the first casualty of social media

@rysiek @aral functionally immortal, unable to be held responsible for the consequences of their actions, yes, a new and particularly terrifying form of aristocracy.

Some background:

- "Bill Gates Will Kill Us All" - https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#gates-foundation
- "AstraZeneca will now start charging for its covid-19 vaccine, abandoning the non-profit model it adopted at the start of the pandemic. The jab was 97% publicly funded" - https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1459505300864655364
- "the power that Bill Gates’ gains through philanthropy over national public health policies" - https://twitter.com/techwontsaveus/status/1370030125048287233

@lightweight

Absolutely.

When running a support desk, I always told staff "The customer is frequently wrong, and needs to be told so (politely)".

IT is a profession, and IT professionals need to act as such. Just like lawyers and accountants, we have a responsibility to correctly advise clients, even when they are wrong / don't want to hear it.

EU coalition urges EU to push back against gate keeping by Microsoft, files official complaint

“In a repeat from earlier monopolistic actions, Microsoft is bundling its OneDrive, Teams and other services with Windows and aggressively pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft.”

Just like they did with browsers years ago. They lost that approach. Let’s hope Microsoft fails again.

https://antitrust.nextcloud.com/