⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Second, Meta’s inability to know and account for how it uses data internally not only makes it impossible to comply with the DMA, but also infringes the GDPR, too. This is directly relevant to the DMA.

1/ Have you noticed that results returned by #search engines like #Google seem to be becoming progressively less useful? Despite Google's best efforts & frequent algorithm changes, the #SEO industry seems to be winning the battle to render the #web perfectly vacuous & entirely useless.

Talia Goldberg's article:

https://talia.gold/2022/10/31/a-trillion-dollar-opportunity/

reflects on what we might want from the next Google. I don't agree with everything she says, but it's worth a quick read.

Today's big thing: another meeting with the CMA, the UK's tech regulator, to further discuss the details of the upcoming Digital Markets Unit and the #AppleBrowserBan. It's really quite reassuring that Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/) have been asked for contributions by so many governments and regulators. If you'd asked before we started I'd have said nah, they only listen to deep pocket big enterprises and deregulation types, and this turns out to entirely not be the case.

Deleting DMs from Twitter using the GDPR

https://michae.lv/deleting-dms-from-twitter/

(via @mikarv )

I wrote a quick start guide for Mastodon (from the POV of someone who fled bird site last week). Let me know if you think there's anything I should add.

https://escapingtech.com/tech/guides/a-twitter-refugees-guide-to-mastodon.html

The Children’s commissioner wants to prevent harm - but the online safety bill breaking encryption and monitoring people’s private messages will cause MORE harm. Young people will grow up into a society where authoritarian governments are empowered and their privacy rights are diminished https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/12/we-cant-leave-children-exposed-to-online-harm-this-law-is-our-chance-to-protect-them

Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

@TheNerdyMel @onceitwas @jerrylevine @pluralistic @framework Rejuvenating too.

I've lost count of the number of friends' laptop computers that seemed on their last legs, basically unusable, brought back to sparkling life with: a cheap SSD to replace HDD, second-hand additional RAM, and (usually most important) a fresh reinstall of O/S and apps with all their data restored.

To those friends, it seems like magic; and very grateful that it is £20-£30 instead of £300+ for a new computer (I don't charge friends for effort and tooling, only for any parts needed that aren't already in my bucket of spares).

f(x,y) = ((-((~x) | (x | y))) * ((~(23 + y)) / ((~y) - (~x)))) % 8

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

Pfew, just saw an amazing demo of stuff coming for AWS re:invent. Science fiction levels of wow. Very big year ahead for serverless architectures.