Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host
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Idealist, technologist and general optimist.
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The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf
An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.
"Early today I receive an alert from Uptime Robot telling me my entire site is down. I receive a barrage of emails from Google saying there is some ‘potential suspicious activity’ and all my systems have been turned off. Everything is off. The Machine has pulled the plug with no warning..."
https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de
Free Software needs many things, such as a focus on diversity, a more deliberate way to fund itself without depending on corporatism, and increased interest in other human factors like accessibility.
I believe that coops can be helpful to deliver improvements on those fronts.
@rysiek @gargron That's true, though it isn't what I was talking about. Patreon shut this down because of pressure from the *payment processor* IIUC. If we really want to fix this stuff we need to not be so reliant on tools like Paypal, Stripe, etc. That's also a large portion of why people end up centralizing their shopping on Amazon instead of using smaller shops: at least you can "trust" that your payment with Amazon is "probably secure".
The whole modern payment system sucks.
I wonder if someday people will learn about historical corporate acquisitions and mergers the same way we learn about the wars and invasions of empires and nation states today.
MAJOR USES OF HUMANITY'S FINEST ACHIEVEMENT, SPACE LAUNCH CAPABILITY:
1. Killing millions of people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_Semyorka
2. Trying to spot if someone just killed millions of people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Support_Program
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9,999: Television I guess and maybe weather
Sometimes I avoid boosting toots from people with too many followers in order to avoid repetitions in my followers' timelines.
Trump just legalized the trade of elephant parts in America. #fightfortheanimals
I am become root, deployer of worlds
Post-apocalyptic anime idea
After the apocalypse, humans holed themselves into a walled city with no gates. Centuries passed, science declined, superstition increased and people started believing that the whole world is just the walled city. Life was kind of blissful.
And then, aliens attack from the sky!
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~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
@rysiek @scroom
Any non-geek buying a win10 pc and clicking through will be sending a *mountain* of info to redmond.
Even a geek can't stop it entirely during install on a business pc. The only 100% cure is to cfg the router I suppose.
For a friend I'd... <screech!> ... well, I wouldn't let a friend use the thing or any ms code.
20 years ago I told everyone if they wouldn't use gnu/linux or bsd they could find another someone to help them. Lost exactly zero friends, but lost a lot of probs
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