⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@bsletten At scale, there's no exodus at all. The growth in our services is nuts and will be for the foreseeable future. For every departure, there's 3 more entrants. at a minimum.

That said, those who have migrated off WERE likely poor choices in the first place -- and they learned it. It's not like every engineering solution makes business sense to everyone.

So they're right to go!!!! And, for example, there's a ton of smaller, vastly cheaper clouds out there, too....

At 55. I went on a 'no kids' 5 day cruise thinking there would be no end of like minded single ladies. It was, except I spent the whole time swatting away 60yr olds and ended up spending all my time locked in my cabin. Caravan in Wales booked next year.

I hate computers.

this only happened because linux was carefully designed to have two clipboards and whenever you paste something it calculates which clipboard you want and gives you the other one instead

Together with our co-authors from Meta, we’ve recently proposed IPA to the Private Advertising Technology >Community Group, or PATCG. PATCG is a group in the W3C specifically formed to work on improving advertising >without compromising on privacy.

It’s spyware. Whoever is running the aggregation service can see where you have been.

People who think Trump planned this are idiots. There's no fucking way Trump puts himself in front of or near a bullet - none. Would he have some of his followers killed? Absolutely, he did that on January 6th, but he's not putting his ass on the line.

My fugly comm terminal prototype prop. This is the one that I make *all* the mistakes on so that later versions are hopefully much cleaner. Also I'm hoping to have some better acrylic pieces in the correct full shape - and hopefully laser-etched - if my contact comes through with them... At least I seem to have the base and LED lighting issue sorted. #TheExpanse #prop #cosplay #SPFX

I'm writing rust without fully understanding the language. Pray for me.

Actually I guess that's true of most language I program in? Like, I'm sure there's some obscure python syntax or behavior I can't remember, despite calling myself a python programmer and having done it professionally for many years.

but my point was more that I barely know any rust. there's entire parts of syntax I don't understand yet. but I'm coding anyway!

What blows my mind is how people are crapping on Mozilla just constantly. Yeah sure they can do better. But also it’s the only real alternative to total domination from Chrome and all the dozens if not hundreds of rebuilds/ripoffs/reskins. It’s bizarre that they providing such a negative perspective on the basically the last bastion of an open web.

This constant negative attitude just boggles my mind. I’m happy with Firefox and Thunderbird with the functionality and features. Most of all the internet desperately needs diversity in the browser space.

For what it’s worth. I’m also skeptical of what they’re doing in the ad space. But I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt because the internet sadly runs on ads for the vast majority of it. If they’re trying to at least bring something ethical to that space they have my support. Once they have a fair chunk of the market and don’t rely on the Google antitrust protection racket to survive we’ll talk about how to do better.

TIL that in the UK political system the two following statements are both true :

1) in order to vote for a candidate in a general election, you must provide photo ID.

2) in order to stand as a candidate in a constituency, to hopefully receive votes cast by those people mentioned in #1, you are *not* required to provide any photo ID.

The UK is insane.

Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising | The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

I didn’t realize that Firefox’s new opt-out ad tracker was developed in conjunction with Meta. That makes it even worse in my eyes.

Well, it looks like Matilda Jones, aged 7, is the new ruler of Britain, sorry I don't make the rules.

From my understanding this is only a value add in terms of privacy? It’s basically just asking every site to use this more private form of attribution, so I don’t believe there’s any more personal data being collected, it’s just trying to send it in a more anonymized way if a given site supports it.

Some Expanse art to enjoy.

#scifi #scifiart #starships #spaceships #lightwave3d #3DModel #3dart #scifiartist #TheExpanse #ScreamingFirehawks

Chances are that you might have heard about #Firefox "Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising". I've been working for Mozilla for 12 years and I've learned about it here on the fediverse, not only because I haven't been paying much attention, but because internal comms have been occupied with other stuff. So let's talk about something I feel Mozilla desperately needs: transparency. 🧵 1/11

@billyjoebowers @mcc you mostly can, but they need to catch some grief over these stunts every so often so they clean up their act for a while https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass

@mcc would you be interested in hearing a counter-argument? I actually think this is pretty good for users, at least, given the other factors that we must contend with in the reality of the modern web

So you won’t even notice this if:

you block or don’t click on ads, or
you never visit a website that’s part of the origin trial.

“Tapes were so simple, why can’t we go back to that way of listening to music”

A tape player, which I’m replacing the belts on for the third time:

Goldman Sachs saying the obvious thing: that people spent a half trillion dollars on nvidia chips and that much again powering them, cooling them and piping stolen data through them, and there is just not a trillion dollars in the chatbot-and-autofill business.

https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/