Kevin Carmody @skinofstars@mastodon.social
Don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence. Internal memo says Facebook's failure to act in preventing abuse outside the West is lack of resources and/or interest https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo
Help XR with their inevitable legal fees https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/extinction-rebellion-legal/
I find refactors with code path switches that include functions titled `oldCodePath` and `newCodePath` really frustrating... and just plain lazy!
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So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?
If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.
That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.
I made damson jam today. I highly recommend it if you can find a tree.
Sewing pockets into my wife’s clothes. Why don’t they just come with them?!
EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/eff-and-aclu-tell-federal-court-forensic-software-source-code-must-be-disclosed
Anyone know if a Medium proxy, like Nitter?
@jan What are you running your site on? Is it Wordpress?
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Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.
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Is the agreement of this ban by some groups to do more with the content and main demographic of TikTok users rather than actual privacy concerns?
If it’s #dataprivacy concerns, how do they justify other apps and services that gather and track data similarly, i.e. #Facebook, #Instagram, etc.?
Firefox reader view is just the best.
Great piece from last year on refocusing the communication space from platforms to protocols. Well worth the long read.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
Anyone know if there's a way to view other federation timelines in the Mastodon web interface?
Love they’re rerunning Buffy on TV. But jeez, stepping up to double bills every night is intense.
Currently parsing a React site scrape. What a hot mess 😬
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Dan Abramov has started a concise and entertaining glossary of JavaScript terms - https://whatthefork.is. A good addition to your RSS feed 
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Imagine: You and your family are sleeping innocently and one night, men with gnus burst through the door and
yes, with gnus
no, not Linux. Blue wildebeest. From southeast Africa. They point a gnu in your face and
the pointy end, yes
the one with horns on
they say 'we demand a stable population with clearly delineated migration corridors from Kenya to Tanzania or we toss you into a watering hole'
to show they mean business they toss a lion into your swimming pool
its not even your lion
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Privacy could be the next big thing. My talk from @hackferencebrum about privacy, and how people are uneasy about what's being done with their data. And how to explain that it doesn't have to be this way.
Also includes chocolate for the audience.
https://kryogenix.org/code/privacy-could-be-the-next-big-thing-hackference/
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