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Bobby Moss Mar 5, 2019

So begins a two week break from social media.

The mobile apps for birdsite & here are about to be uninstalled and the browser tabs will be unpinned shortly.

See you on the flip side 👍

Bobby Moss Mar 4, 2019

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Mar 4, 2019

"Big Tech, with its billion-dollar unicorns, has robbed us of the potential of the Internet. Fueled by the extreme shortsightedness and greed of venture capital and startups, the utopic vision of a decentralised and democratic commons..." https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/

Small Technology

The antidote to Big Tech is Small Tech. Big Tech, with its billion-dollar unicorns, has robbed us of the potential of the Internet. Fueled by the extreme shortsightedness and greed of venture capital and startups, the utopic vision of a decentralised and democratic commons has morphed into the dystopic autocracy of Silicon Valley panopticons that we call surveillance capitalism. This status quo threatens not just our democracies but the very integrity of our personhood in the digital and networked age1.

Bobby Moss Mar 4, 2019

Ind.ie Mar 4, 2019

‘Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment

“The documents… reveal a secretive global lobbying operation targeting hundreds of legislators and regulators in an attempt to procure influence across the world, including in the UK, US, Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and all 28 states of the EU.”

Also worth reading the longer article on Computer Weekly:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458229/Facebook-asked-George-Osborne-to-influence-EU-data-protection-law

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/revealed-facebook-s-global-lobbying-against-data-privacy-laws/2614

Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws

Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment

The Guardian

Bobby Moss Mar 3, 2019

Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅Mar 3, 2019

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Bobby Moss Mar 3, 2019

DJ Sundog Mar 3, 2019

Here's one for @ajroach42 as well as #retrocomputing and #commodore fans

This is the #odroid-go with keyboard attachment running a c64 emulator and loading Infocom's "Planetfall" from d64 images on the microsd card.

Pocket C64 anyone?

Bobby Moss Mar 3, 2019

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Mar 3, 2019

@jalcine @hyde_stevenson @yukiame

The literal quote is:

> Some bureaucrats make excuses for the conference attendees' hypocrisy. In place of productive information or actual technical content, the speakers will whine about which programs nobody's writing for free. The audience will take notes on Macbooks, iPads, and other Apple products.

n-gate.com/fosdem/

And, I mean, it's not entirely wrong. More so about the participants than about the "bureaucrats". But it's not entirely right either.

n-gate.com. we can't both be right.

Does anyone have any questions about NAFTA for my PSYCHIC PIG?

Bobby Moss Mar 1, 2019

🔶 KLCY AXIOM Prime Feb 28, 2019

When it becomes apparent.

Bobby Moss Mar 1, 2019

Ernie Smith Mar 1, 2019

A Kernel Of Failure: How IBM bet big on the microkernel being the next big thing in operating systems back in the ’90s—and spent billions with little to show for it.

https://tracking.feedpress.it/link/15204/11114073

#longreads #history

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure

How IBM bet big on the microkernel being the next big thing in operating systems back in the ’90s—and spent billions with little to show for it.

Bobby Moss Mar 1, 2019

🔪 🏳️‍🌈 Q (it/its)🔪 🏳️‍🌈Mar 1, 2019

RT @TechnicallyRon

England: "White background, Red cross"
Scotland: "Blue background, white x"
*Wales giggling wildly in the corner*
England: "Wales what's your flag"
Wales: "MASSIVE. FUCKING. DRAGON."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1101398010045624322

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Bobby Moss Mar 1, 2019

In fairness you could probably do something similar for Oblivion or Skyrim, but you’d have the added challenge of the hero pickpocketing all of your clothes without warning. 🤷‍♂️

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