The Growth Imperative
Individual:
I have to increase my income year by year or the inflation will get me
Corporation:
I have to increase shareholder value quarter to quarter or they will pull out their investments
Government:
I have to show a growth in GDP or people will not vote for us again
We're all like hamsters running on wheels whether we like it or not to satisfy an invisible growth imperative which is centuries old and nobody knows why we're still following.
What We Should Learn From “Facebook Research”
Once again, Facebook has broken the trust of its users—this time, through reportedly paying people to give up their privacy by installing an application that sucks up huge amounts of sensitive data, and explicitly sidestepping Apple's Enterprise Developer program rules. In doing so, the company has...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/what-we-should-learn-facebook-research
If parallel universes exist, there must be a version of me in one of them who became an electronics engineer and won't shut up about self-hosting electricity using solar panels.
Image from PBS Crash Course Engineering #30
I have Kiwix on my phone now with a 5.8 GB dump of some select articles from Wikipedia.
I hope to have the full archive someday when phone storage gets big enough.
Installed after watching one of @art 's videos.
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/2d5c81ac-d0cc-44b9-8b7d-00ef9fde1941
Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance
The most dangerous place to be for activists
https://qrius.com/the-most-dangerous-place-to-be-for-activists/
Mastodon Frontend is now fully translated to #తెలుగు
మాస్టొడొన్ ఫ్రంటెండ్ ప్రాజెక్తు పూర్తిగా తెనుగీకరించబడినది.
In Mastodon language preferences, I see Telugu (తెలుగు) as one of the languages, but not the more popular Hindi (हिन्दी) language.
I remember adding a Telugu translation for Mastodon a while ago. Was it because of that? Or was it because I hosted an instance that officially supports the Telugu language and it picked up languages from instances.social?
Idealist, technologist and general optimist.
Admin of https://social.masto.host