Programmer in Vienna, working at @getsentry #rustlang #python
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i know this dates me horribly but i remember being able to use a computer with only one misbehaving piece of software. real player. it stole your file associations. it put icons everywhere. it took over the tray. it ran in the background. it reported on your behaviours and plastered your screen in adverts. a piece of shit
now, well, real player won, every app is a foot in the door for direct marketing and brand visibility, and the only difference between malware and a regular app is vc funding
A teenager in the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. The police arrested him.
Couldn't make bail. Would spend 2 years on Riker's island awaiting a trial.
-only for the charges to be dropped. Many were appalled, they set it up for him to go to community college. That's where I met him once- my electronics club. Made an LED Christmas tree-he seemed... so so so sad.
He took his own life later that year.
Anyways. Uh, Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail. #cw
My least favourite sharp edge of Mastodon is the fact that when you view someone else's post you only see replies to it that are known to your server - so there's actually a good chance there will be replies that are completely invisible to you, especially if you run your own instance
I'd love it if tapping a post kicked off a request back to the original server that fetched the current reply count and provided a "view all replies" button if there were replies not yet visible to me
so erleichtert + froh ich über die fast lobenden schlußplädoyers + den freispruch war, so wütend wurde ich über das was meinem kind angetan worden war. + darüber dass ein junger "südlander" mit weniger ressourcen, weniger beistand, weniger glück hier nicht den hauch einer chance gehabt hätte.
ich schreibe das hier auf weil das bis auf den glimpflichen ausgang in nichts ein einzelfall ist. repression gegen linke ist selbstverständlich in D, repression gegen nicht"nordländische" menschen sowieso
#Mozilla is creating a fediverse instance. What is Mozilla?
• A “not-for-profit” that owns multiple for-profit businesses and pays its CEO $5.6M
• Gets ~83% of its revenue (~$500,000,000) every year from surveillance capitalist Google
• Makes a browser that protects your privacy (*some configuration required)
• Is now a VC…
This is the best we can expect from Silicon Valley/capitalism. Question is: can we do better than that?
Sources: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf, https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf
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