David @abekonge@mastodon.cloud
Planetarian, noosphere worker, software futuroligist. Svendborg. http://Futurologi.org
Hvis du IKKE benytter Do:Topia instance, så re-toot dette toot om den nye danske instance. Jo flere vi bliver på Do:Topia, jo nærmere kommer vi den kritiske masse for fortsat eksistens. #dotopia #mastodon https://mastodon.dotopia.dk/ https://mastodon.dotopia.dk/media/tNlbVwcMmZwQz4WaLdo
JS is 22 years old today.
I joined Netscape on 4 April 1995, lured by jg&mtoy to "do scheme in the browser". Upon joining I found (1) headcount wars in pre-IPO NSCP left the client group unable to hire me as planned, so I joined the server team; (2) Sun was doing the Java deal with Netscape. Sun viewed Netscape as the vector for its Java virus, didn't care about integration with HTML -- but Bill Joy "got it" and along with Marc Anddressen supported me doing "Mocha". After a month on server side
[my impression of the state of AI in pop culture, snarky, sorry]
RESEARCHER: I have made yet another somewhat interesting way to transform one spreadsheet into another spreadsheet
JOURNALISTS: we're all doomed by robots lol
[fin]
It is 2074. Copyright is no longer extended since rich people no longer die. All librarians are unseen outlaws building archives underground. This is their story.
With the debut of Amazon Echo Look and Facebook Spaces, the ratio of "references to Black Mirror per tech announcement" is rising dangerously high:
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera
- https://news.fastcompany.com/facebook-spaces-is-reminding-everyone-of-that-black-mirror-episode-with-the-creepy-avatars-4035111
This is the IoT we need https://toot.lmorchard.com/media/HLlr2VMSC7DN2D1css4
各所に貼られている謎のポスター定期
https://mastodon.cloud/media/oFMZLLJDP0569bkdXi8
With news of Unroll.me selling user inbox info to Uber, lots of people are repeating "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."
I've said before, and will continue to say, that that is the wrong formulation. Sometimes you pay for it and you're still the product – look at US ISPs. Sometimes you don't pay for it and you're not the product – free software.
The real question is whether a software or service empowers users, which can't be boiled down to whether you paid.
This is an OEM/ODM promotional booklet I picked up at Huaqiangbei, I cut the pages out and scanned it, thought some of you might be curious? http://imgur.com/a/hmQUr
Your head starts to throb as the early stages of dehydration set in. You hope your wi-fi comes back online soon.
We never asked the Things if they wanted to be connected to each other. We never appreciated the blessed ignorance of not knowing their agony in serving us, day in and day out.
@S18alg All I wanted was to tag toots correctly, and suddenly the whole universe is now paperclips.
Two Mastodon users Tooting at each other after migrating from the "Bird Site" (2017, Colorized)
Now is your last chance to tell the W3C to save the world from legally protected insecure software on all computers forever!
This is a great threat to the possibility of societal change on a whole! Because that change is organized on the web.
Use this simple tool to tell the W3C to say no to DRM. Now! https://action.openrightsgroup.org/say-no-to-drm-as-a-web-standard
Read more: https://corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki/Flowers_From_Al_02
@Elizafox I reject the idea that all tweets gets contaminated just because some tweeps are toxic.
My tweeter feed is not toxic and I think it is only proper to cite my sources when I share ideas found in my personal twitter bubble.
Tech writers: mastodon is not a proper social medium
Masto users: but we're social all the time?
Tech writers: nono. what we mean is that our advertisers can't pump money into profit like they're used to
Masto users: [swears in French]
It describes itself as follows:
"This is the place for you who are tired of private companies controlling your conversations and contacts and selling them for profit. On Quitter.no you are not locked up in a single commercial service; [...]
Quitter.no is not a service, because we're not selling commodities. Instead we call it an online commons. The site is run by the small Norwegian non-profit organisation kollektivet0x242.no which is solely funded by donations. All work is voluntary. Joining Quitter.no is completely free, but those who want to help out financially can donate to the organisation."
You can read more and donate here:
http://kollektivet0x242.no
https://www.quitter.no
As always, boost if you want to help the effort!
