stoic @stoically@mastodon.social

Wie absurd ein Konzept ist, wird so richtig deutlich, wenn man es auf andere Lebensbereiche überträgt:
https://www.der-postillon.com/2020/11/querlenker.html 🤣

Da hat der #Postillon mal wieder großartig abgeliefert

did the EFF just quote Tolkein while smacking down the RIAA over youtube-dl?

lol, yes they did

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-16-RIAA-reversal-effletter.pdf

@danieol The military likes to think it gave us the Internet. The reality is it was George Stibitz a research mathemetician who figured out how to generalize the teletype audio-to-typerwriter modulation so that it applied to data being exchanged between computers. This modulator/demodulator or “mo/dem” allowed computers to take advantage of the existing phone lines to communicate remotely with each other. The military jumped on the bandwagon trying to use it to strengthen the police state. Companies tried to use it to end capitalism. And eventually people came to use it, once the Personal Computer was affordable enough for everyone to own, and they wanted their computers to communicate.

Phone companies could have given us the Internet, but they’re an unchecked monopoly, so they just sat on their asses and told us we’ll only transmit analog audio and like it. So the modem was a technological solution, which awoke the decrepit phone company leaders to the idea that they could take that over to get even more money from us. And now we have dedicated data lines pretty much everywhere. But it all started with teletype machines, which were given to us by deaf people demanding to be allowed to use the phone too, from them to George, and from there after universities and military both tried to take advantage of it, customers of phone companies brought us the Internet, by using modems and demanding those companies build it.

https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Basis/modem.html

"Freedom Matters" which is being launched today, on the 8th of November 2020, vows to carry forward the legacy of the struggle in the interest of the commons. We remember Aaron Swartz on this day, whose death was nothing but an institutional murder on the part of corporate-autocracy to silence him. Aaron, if he were alive, would have been with us, working together for the emancipation of mankind and led the struggle for freedom from tyranny and for a peoples democracy.

https://freedommatters.in

You don't have to finish it all today.

youtube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from the RIAA:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

"Exactly! I feel like one of the more damaging exports of Valley culture is the idea that software is a success only if it exists at scale."
"wordless reply" discussing "I am the Programming Equivalent of a Home Cook" at https://www.metafilter.com/185648/I-am-the-programming-equivalent-of-a-home-cook

@aral Decolonize technology!

Verschwörungsirrsinn – Wie Elitenhass berechtigte Elitenkritik verhindert | quer

https://youtu.be/TJm881uKfJg

they may be running "Linux", a known communist operating system that's handed out to everyone free of charge (imagine!) and comes with the built in commands "cp" (Communist Party), "ls" (Left Socialism), "rm" (Revolutionary Marxism), and "cat" (Communism at All Times)

Das Kultusministerium Baden-Württemberg bekommt dieses Jahr den Big Brother Award. Alle Schüler sollen in die Microsoft Cloud obwohl die seit dem EuGH PrivacyShield Urteil nicht mehr Datenschutz konform ist. Aber die Politik ignoriert das einfach. https://www.heise.de/news/Preis-fuer-Datenkraken-20-Jahre-Big-Brother-Award-die-Jubilaeumsedition-4905386.html

Here is an absolutely brilliant analysis by one of our members of the problem that ails technology in the 21st century. Absolutely recommended reading:

https://ea.rna.nl/2020/03/04/gossip-trust-and-the-information-revolution/

#Linux #memes

From Tristan Harris, co-founder humanetech.com:

"The Social Dilemma" has completely popped and gone viral:

#3 in Top Movies in U.S. across Netflix.
#6 in Top 10 across all Netflix categories.

Best way you can help spread the word: Host a screening with friends who are less likely to hear about the film.

The film makes concepts of #surveillancecapitalism and #privacy infringement we all know about, accessible to a broader public, in a way they feel impact personally.

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

I genuinely believe that there is a great opportunity to learn and have lots of fun building your personal website.

I found a lot of support in the #IndieWeb community so I wrote a case for it for Smashing Magazine.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/

Let me play the smallest violin I can find for you Facebook

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/ios-14-privacy-settings-will-tank-ad-targeting-business-facebook-warns/