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@fireglow
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I’m using my own instance now: https://social.firc.de/users/fireglow
Exploring the federated timeline with this account.
Pleroma

Could use some input:
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB vs. HGST Ultrastar 7K6000 4TB:
The Ultrastar has 2M hours MTBF, double that of the Deskstar.
Warranty: Ultrastar 5 yrs, Deskstar 3 yrs.
Price: Ultrastar 193 EUR, Deskstar 137 EUR.
Is the premium worth it?

Every time you write code that requires Chrome or CEF or Electron, just remember: you are giving Google control over you and your users.

You are letting them dictate what you can and cannot do. You are letting them view your user's potentially private activities (URLs are always sent to Google without Debian's patch set).

You are becoming a part of their toxic culture, their neocapitalism.

Remember that.

Twitter is going full pro-censorship: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Announcement-RT-and-Sputnik-Advertising.html

How can we intelligently determine foreign and domestic misinformation campaigns when media distribution companies, who are prone to coercion and bias, actively censor?

Prediction: Twitter, a US-based company, will start distributing propaganda paid by the highest bidder. The general public will be none the wiser.

Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

Hurtling toward cyberpunk dystopia: Amazon confirms picture and video stored indefinitely....

😰

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera

The final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.
I made an instance previewer, so you can see the local/federated feeds of an instance without signing up: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=xoxo.zone&view=federated
Hi there, @HardenedBSD