tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
I had been very suspicious of #JohnMcAfee's flamboyant bullish assertions about #crypto in the short term. Now it all makes sense.
https://www.whoismcafee.com/u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission-sec-sues-mcafee-for-pumping-initial-coin-offerings-icos/
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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Yo siempre encantado, en casos como este, de «generar más interacciones» y «hacer ganar visibilidad».
Contexto: https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@DrBenway/104943003505648487
@Jngorria@quey.org
@DrBenway Tu @tripu eres tonto hasta las dos y luego ya todo el día, a parte de un petulante... Y porque uses palabras educadas no quiere decir qu...
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/
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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.
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@tripu servers aren't "very expensive". having hundreds of people on payroll is expensive. renting offices in fancy towns is expensive.
that's the beauty of federation, anyone who can spare a few dollars can run an instance for some people. if you have more people, limit registration or upgrade the server. imho the hardest thing is to find the time for maintenance, not the money to rent a server.
Chatting with a friend about #SocialMedia, #BigTech and #privacy (someone sceptic of the #fediverse, alternative apps or services, and ways to monetise other than #surveillance, who downplays or ignores the need to protect data and fight against #advertising).
He points out that even when the software itself is free, servers are very expensive (thus the need to either pay a lot for services or, more commonly, sell your data & consume ads). I suspect that's a feeble argument, so I looked up how “expensive” each active user is to #Twitter.
In 2019, Twitter had ~330M active users, and reported operating expenses of ~$3B. So if each active user paid a mere $10 per year for the service, Twitter could afford to never share your data, never show anybody a single ad, never tinker maliciously with trends or timelines, and still have a net profit margin of ~6%.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/financial-statements
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
