Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
This morning in #Mexico many #Android phones will be confusing people by showing the wrong #time. We no longer have #DST, but updating the #tzdata timezone database on most older devices is almost impossible.
Don't worry, just buy a new device. It's easy, Just throw all that silly old #lithium, #manganese, #tellurium, #tungsten and #cobalt in the landfill.
And all for a locked #bootloader.
An example of 💩 gle and the phone manufacturing industry being #evil.
#ANNOYED - by google.
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1990s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for
2020s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway
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Good news in #FOSS anyone?
Our application platform is now open! 🚀
We welcome subsmissions from projects that seek support for Open Source Infrastructure in the public interest.
Would you like to see support for a specific library, developer tool or any other critical open source component? Please let us know!
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Well crap, time for a second profit-driven private company to throw thousands of satellites into orbit. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/23/1070187/amazon-project-kuiper-launch/
Article by Jonathan O'Callaghan, including quotes from me and @ProfHughLewis
"When I added support for FastMail to Geary, my changes were rejected. If FastMail was an ethical provider of email, I’m sure that this would not have been the case." @aral's sarcasm.. 😉
😠 developers! priorities!
I'm so happy (not) that #virtualbox now has child-friendly penguin pictures and burns some extra cpu cycles for a little distracting mouse-over animations in my VM list. Shame some of my VMs take literally 20x the time to start up after the last "upgrade".
I only I had 10cent for every time I've experienced this syndrome over the last 30 years.... I'd open "efficient software systems inc." and repurpose all the trash hardware you folks have imposed on the world.
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yay, #wireshark devs finally merged AMR audio codec decoding patch (https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/10025). You can now play backAMR-in-RTP VoIP calls in wireshark, for example those originating or terminating in 2G cellular networks!
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Do not confuse short-staffed and understaffed.
Short-staffed is when two people call out sick unexpectedly, or someone is fired for cause. It is expected to a very short term interruption of smooth operations.
Understaffed is when someone decides that the work of ten people can be done by six people. There is no plan to hire anyone to alleviate the stress and increased workload.
#staffingshortages #laborshortage #shortstaffed #understaffed
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People talk about dull or menial jobs like they're easy
Ok yes, it's easy to make a coffee or pick a tomato. Now do it 1,000 times. Do it every day. Do it with people yelling at you. Do it in the cold. Do it while you're sick.
Just because the task is easy doesn't mean the job is
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People need to understand.
#Google isn't a search engine.
#Facebook isn't a journal to share with your friend.
#Instagram isn't a public photo album.
#Twitter isn't a micro-blogging website.
They are all advertisement companies.
"Las mujeres artesanas son fuerzas que desean intensamente transformar a sus comunidades, sin perder las tradiciones, el amor y cuidado por los bosques que prestan sus recursos."
#Anhelas es una marca de la que anhelamos ser parte, pues cada compra nos hace parte de esta
increíble transformación.
Here's one of our experimental #Ericsson #4G #DUL and #RUS combination with TX-PRO sector antenna in #Oaxaca (I didn't "tidy" the wiring - it wasn't me!!)
The women's cooperative wants to purchase the unit themselves, given that the local authority is apparently against it. Me, I'm torn as always. The phones will be leaking data to the likes of meta and 💩gle but the people need to be in touch! Anyway it's up to them, let's see what happens!
"#Wikipedia is one of the most brilliant tools of imperial narrative management ever devised. The ways it's stacked in favor of the empire are hidden behind the illusory alibi of being a people-driven information source, so its readers have no idea they're consuming #propaganda." -
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1632487330190872577
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Disturbing but not that surprising: "Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers."
It doesn't help that Meta cites "valid legal warrants from local law enforcement." A "valid legal warrant" can consist of anything that a lunatic like DeSantis might concoct.
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@ben
We made mistakes with email, we let big players take over, set the rules, and eliminate the competition. They've successfully made it basically impossible to run one's own email server.
When Mozilla or Cloudflare or whoever does something approaching evil, we need to as a community turn our backs on them until they shape up, then let them back in. Fediverse is still our sandbox, we have a chance not to repeat our past mistakes.
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How to strike? And where to strike?
Growing list of actions in many places: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/publish/8m-activities.raw.html
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Is it right for governments to force citizens to use Google or Apple's proprietary technologies to verify their online identities? 🤔 The Netherlands user case
https://blogs.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/2022/03/16/dutch-digital-identity-system-crisis/
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Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
