🇬🇧 Pro doc writer, programmer, #retrocomputing hobbyist & #linux user.
🏳️🌈 Tooting since 2017. Views are my own. Late 20s, gay, cis, he/him. #nobot
| Blog | https://bobstechsite.neocities.org |
| Code | https://gitlab.com/users/bobstechsite/projects |
| Birdsite | https://twitter.com/bobstechsite |
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 👍
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.
@GinnyMcQueen if it helps, here's a draft for a blog post about what forks are and how to make them on Gitlab/Github (using Mastodon as an example):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/50yhs1xqm1js9xo/mastodon-fork.odt?dl=0
Feel free to reuse it however you wish. The only bit I never added was how to directly mirror a repo, but this is explained here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html
It was never published because I couldn't think of a title that wouldn't fill my mentions with angry noise. It's been sat there since Jan.
‘Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws’
“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:
Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/revealed-facebook-s-global-lobbying-against-data-privacy-laws/2614
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?
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