Metal Bob @metalbob@mastodon.social
A paranoid metallic sponge that might sometimes talk about privacy and freedom on the internet.
- Pronouns
- comrade
- Class
- worker
I've been hearing a lot of prominent people speak about surveillance and privacy, but when I hear Richard Stallman talk about it, it really struck a chord with me.
"We need a law. Fuck them — there’s no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us. Let them disappear. They’re not important — our human rights are important. No company is so important that its existence justifies setting up a police state. And a police state is what we’re heading toward."
Things that I worry might happen in my lifetime:
- famines, flash floods and mass starvation
- coastal cities lost to sea
- wars for resources
- AI apocalypse
- societal collapse due to extreme economic inequality
- one corporation holding the entire food supply of the world hostage
- antibiotic resistant bacteria wiping out populations
- genocides
- rise of totalitarianism
- death of human rights
- energy, water and food crisis
Disillusioned people not voting isn't the problem. The problem is what made people disillusioned in the first place. In most cases this boils down to democracy being a goddamn sham in some way or another.
Not voting because you don't want to be complicit is absolutely okay.
Sincerely, a poor person who doesn't vote.
‘Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative’
“The campaign to pass the California Consumer Privacy Act is almost wholly funded by Bay Area real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart… He started working on the initiative about four years ago, after hearing a Google engineer say the public would be frightened to learn how much data the company holds on consumers.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17468292/amazon-microsoft-uber-california-consumer-privacy-act
Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/amazon-microsoft-and-uber-are-paying-big-money-to-kill-a-california-privacy-initiative/2194
RT @sternbergh@twitter.com
imagine being a 4-year old child and waking up and not knowing where your parents are
this is unconscionable
there's not enough shame in the world for the people who orchestrated, implemented, and defended this policy
TL;DR on the #MuslimBan decision:
The President can abuse the "national security" exception, and even openly says they are abusing it, so long as the actual written order pretends it is not abusing it.
Even if you're pro-Trump, you should worry where this precedent leads. https://t.co/9LngcQyqPw
Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392995
#hackernews #tech
“If you want to make a safe place to create... you have to start by making the most vulnerable people safe first. So you have to take the people who have been most marginalized, most pushed away from conventional tech and say ‘you are going to be at the center of this, you’re going to be the first people we reach out to, to say does this work for you? Does this meet your needs?’”
—Anil Dash on CodeNewbie podcast
https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/from-tech-blogger-to-fog-creek-ceo
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Plume is looking great all the sudden!
https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/Helloworld/excited-to-see-plume-making-so-much-progress
The rise per year is a small fraction of a degree, but over many years it all adds up.
Went to the Pirate Party rally today in #Berlin to protest against the insanity of #article13 the European Commission is trying to put into law. https://mastodon.social/media/DGPF6Qjip4xB63dUIy0
This is the real threat of the loss of net neutrality: you'll only be *allowed* to access things that your ISP likes. Filter bubbles are bad enough now, but they're going to get a *lot* worse, and not even based on your desires.
Try an app for your phone and computer that reduces the blue light on your screens at night.
Honestly attempting not to act racist or sexist is some kind of minimum level for being a decent person.
it's one kind of disappointing to visit sites that render as nothing until i enable JS but it's another when what renders could have just as easily come down the pipe sans JS
Here I'm following the advice of Pieter Hintjens - don't try to make complex custom websites which take a lot of effort and developer time to maintain. Stick to things which are close to being ready-made solutions.
