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peripatetic polymath
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phildiniAll the "why isn't #mastodon ready for the mainstream?!?" #discourse is going to turn me into the fucking Joker
It's not _supposed_ to be a 1-to-1 birdsite replacement. It's not _going_ to have the features to be a one-stop swiss army knife.
That kind of thinking (plus ads and VC) is what got the old networks into trouble in the first place.
Eugen RochkoOn Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license.
According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked.
More context: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/
Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code
From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally launched yet, but it was made accessible ahead of time. Users were quick to note that the terms of service included a worrying passage, claiming that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them or licensed to them:
Frankie ✅
Håkan GeijerPeople need to stop anthropomorphizing climate change. The planet isn’t “telling us something” and climate change isn’t “an immune response.”
The earth is a system that human life influences and what we are seeing is a physics reaction to changing that system.
Every sentence I read about cryptocurrency makes me hate it even more
Katerina MarchánLiterally the only real reason anyone cares about anything blockchain-related is because they think if they speculate, it'll make them rich. There's literally no other reason. And they're willing to risk the future of this world to become rich off of pure speculation. Ugh.
Electronic Frontier FoundationGoogle’s new advertising regime, FLoC, is rooted in the false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should build a better world without the problems of targeted ads. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create...
everesti've spent the last 6 months mad about nfts. and i guess i finally got mad enough to write it all down. ->
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
