I was interviewed by the BBC this morning for a podcast they are planning in relation to the "Pay or OK" system which is rapidly creating a 2 tier class system for fundamental rights - where those who can afford it are able to keep their #privacy by paying for online services and those who can't are forced into behavioural profiling at the expense of their fundamental right to Privacy.

The gap between the rich and poor is getting wider - our human rights are now for sale...

Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural.

Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering.

Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society.

In this "free range software manifesto" I will -

I didn't realize that @timoreilly had taken a visiting faculty position at UCL. He's just published a paper with two colleagues at the University on "algorithmic attention rents."

Tim's made a career of spotting important technologies and understanding them deeply. He (and his colleagues!) do an excellent job of explaining attention rents in this paper.

Best of all: Clear policy recommendations for dealing wth them.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2023/nov/algorithmic-attention-rents-theory-digital-platform-market-power

Came may way via @pluralistic's daily digest.

Tokodon is a Mastodon client for Linux that's been gaining fanfare. It's excellent for managing multiple accounts.

I had no idea Tokodon was made by the official KDE team.

It looks beautiful -- even if the UI is a tad text heavy.

Personally, I like text. It lets you know exactly what you're doing. Too much abstraction through icons does not make good usability.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/kde-apps-like-kdenlive-get-big-upgrades-for-kde-gear-2304/

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