You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer
https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/you-dont-own-your-kindle-books-amazon-reminds-customer-1C6626211 @particl
The NSA phone #surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack. https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illegal-expensive @Tutanota
“It would be wrong for us to ignore the unearned #privilege that exists in #Nodejs. Much of the project leadership is #white, and a majority are men. We are and have been systematically complicit in perpetuating the issues that led us to where we are.”
https://nodejs.org/en/black-lives-matter/
#BLM #MoralGrandstanding #CollectiveGuilt #software #JS
https://www.econlib.org/the-illogic-of-collective-guilt/
My friend Yoko explained this Japanese custom: the pre-addressed return envelope has 行 (iki) after the destination address, but people cross it out and write 御中 (onchū), literally "honorable inside", the equivalent of 様 (sama) for organizations.
Why wouldn't they just print it that way? Because it would be rude to use honorifics for your own company! 😅
#japanese
«Desde el asalto a la división de poderes hasta la connivencia con la violencia, desde el ataque planificado y sistemático a la unidad territorial hasta la imposición de una ideología, convertida en moral totalitaria y acompañada de una censura propia de la Inquisición. Cada atropello a las libertades protagonizado por este Gobierno, incluida la libertad de conciencia, tiene su correlato en un episodio del pasado comunista que despertó la respuesta fascista y llevó a los españoles al desastre.»
https://www.elespanol.com/opinion/tribunas/20200930/gobierno-recuerdo-odio/524567541_12.html
Mass adoption matters.
https://twitter.com/helveticade/status/1311721201883058177
RT @helveticade@twitter.com
Sci-hub is more meaningful, politically radical and has had more impact than any decentralisation or blockchain software project of the past 10 years.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/helveticade/status/1311721201883058177
“I recognise that I can use part of my income to do a significant amount of good. Since I can live well enough on a smaller income, I pledge that for the rest of my life or until the day I retire, I shall give at least ten percent of what I earn to whichever organisations can most effectively use it to improve the lives of others, now and in the years to come. I make this pledge freely, openly, and sincerely.”
#EffectiveAltruism #EA #GivingWhatWeCan #GWWC #pledge
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge/
Yo siempre encantado, en casos como este, de «generar más interacciones» y «hacer ganar visibilidad».
Contexto: https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@DrBenway/104943003505648487
@DrBenway
Either one recommend this for all trollish behaviour on social media, or for none. No need to single out an extremist party; there are others.
Also, what's the point of these tools, if not learning and discovering ideas different from one's own? :P It's a pitiable attitude, that of muting everything that does not match one's preconceived stance.
#Spain
OK, I get that most app publishers can't afford not to sell via the #AppStore and that #iThings are ubiquitous, and I support freer options everywhere (even for #Apple users)…
But, come on — this initiative sounds a lot like:
“Drat! We want people who, on their own volition, decided to go for an expensive, unaccountable, closed, locked system to be able to install and use our apps freely! Isn't that fair? I can has freedom?”.
Read that naïve section “our vision”. A vision is something novel. #FreeSoftware is 35+ years old. And there are open distribution platforms already. Reinventing the wheel.
https://appfairness.org/
We think we'll be able to get LBRY Android re-instated, but we'll probably have to compromise.
Good reminder to check out the @fdroidorg@twitter.com version, which doesn't allow Google to track you and will always remain unrestricted.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42