Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

I would love for the New York Times to give @mmasnick the necessary column inches to explain why the NYT (and most every other publication's) coverage of the debate about Section 230 is stupid at best, wrong at worst.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/23/your-simple-solution-to-section-230-is-bad-julia-angwin-edition/

I won't endorse piracy.

But on the one hand, look at the streaming media industry as a whole, probably at least at the second stage of what @pluralistic calls #enshittification -- raising prices, cutting free tiers, adding ads, walling up more content within greater numbers of providers.

On the other hand, look at internet piracy -- inexpensive, easy, relatively risk-free for the average consumer.

Compare the two, and it shouldn't be a surprise that piracy is booming.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/netflix-is-bringing-back-piracy

ICYMI:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-pence-coronavirus-hiv-epidemic-indiana-959227/

#Pence #ChristoFascist #ChristoFascism

Pence, showing himself to be the ignorant person he’s been at least since his failure to act when faced with an HIV crisis. That he calls himself a “Christian” does not mean he is a good person, it only shows he has no trouble lying.

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/02/radical-gender-ideology-mike-pence-goes-to-iowa-to-attack-transgender-children-in-the-name-of-god-video/

#ChristoFascist #ChristoFascism #Pence

The Plain Dealer dropped the Dilbert strip because Scott Adams is a racist. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

I wrote about some good news: Spotify's attempts to close off and silo up the open podcast world appears to be failing badly. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/24/sometimes-open-systems-beat-those-who-try-to-lock-them-up-spotifys-podcast-colonization-flops/

Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work (Derek Willis/ProPublica)

https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk
http://www.techmeme.com/230224/p14#a230224p14

It doesn't get more disgraceful than this. Trump is now bragging about the television and social media 'ratings' he received from visiting the site of the East Palestine disaster that he helped cause. https://youtu.be/ONrXUEUKeeE

like, I've covered telecom for two decades and I genuinely can't remember the last time I saw folks who advocated for the dismantling of the FCC or unchecked merger mania EVER face any sort of reputational consequence. doesn't exist. just memory holed.

if you're a libertarian or republican who spent the last thirty years advocating for a complete dismantling of the regulatory state and mindless consolidation, you'll never, ever be forced to own the repercussion of that very unpopular policy position because the mainstream press genuinely couldn't care less when it comes to spelling it out to readership

Companies can't shut you up using severance pay, rules NLRB https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/companies_nlrb_severance_decision/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.42l.fr/TheRegister/status/1629164611558678529

If I’ve learn one thing while being here is that Mastodon users are obsessed with smooth scrolling.

JFC. the GOP's PRIMARY policy position for literally FIFTY YEARS has been a frontal assault on ALL meaningful corporate oversight, environmental regulations, and consumer protections. It's documented. It's proven. It's not subtle.

feckless "both sides" "view from nowhere" reporting is going to drive me to an early grave

I wrote (yet again) about the "protect the children" moral panic regarding the internet, and how we should focus on raising kids to be safe in the real world, rather than trying to force the internet to be perfectly safe. Reality is that not everyone is great. Pretending that everything is safe does not prepare people for real life. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/24/rather-than-making-the-internet-safe-for-kids-make-your-kids-safe-for-the-real-world/

To be clear, I’m a huge VR proponent, and own a Vive VR rig. I spent a lot of time in Second Life back in the day, and look forward to a really good meta-verse being developed for VR.

It's the NFT thing I take issue with. Making that part of your product tells me you are chasing fads and buzzwords, and not thoughtfully considering the world's best interests.

#NFT #Scam #HTC #Viverse #VirtualReality #VR

Brave browser to block “open in app” prompts, pool-party #attacks

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

#privacy #privacymatters

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-browser-to-block-open-in-app-prompts-pool-party-attacks/

TIL Flathub is turning into a paid app store:
https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/blob/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md

h/t: #debian-til

"Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store." 🤮

Consequential TIL:
I need to abandon KDE as it too has been infected with a serious brain decease.

Some bizarre and deceptive statements:

"applications ... distributed at zero cost ... precludes establishing any incentives for application developers"