tripu @tripu@qoto.org

❤️ 🇬🇧 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owz4-qjDyoU
#London #lockdown #Covid #videography

“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/

«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

“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/

#EffectiveAltruism #EA #GivingWhatWeCan #GWWC #pledge #SamHarris #WakingUp
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https://twitter.com/wakingup/status/1309556694675001344

Yo siempre encantado, en casos como este, de «generar más interacciones» y «hacer ganar visibilidad».
Contexto: https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@DrBenway/104943003505648487
QT: https://quey.org/@Jngorria/104949321061654779

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/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/why-are-amnesty-international-monitors-not-able-to-observe-the-assange-hearing/

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

#Remarkable2, tonight I have dreamt of your (for real)… when will you be mine!?

“What [#SocialMedia companies] sell are more and more accurate predictions of our behaviour to advertisers, and as that gets more refined, you really have as close as we've ever come to #advertising being a kind of sure thing, where it really works. Even there, most people won't necessarily care about that, because if you tell them:
‘Listen, the thing you really thought you wanted, and went out and bought — you were played by the company. The company placed an ad with #Facebook, and FB delivered it to you because you were the perfect target of that ad.’
I think the person can, at the end of the day, own all of that process and just subsume it with their satisfaction at having bought the thing they now actually want.
‘I wanted a new Prius. Right? I mean, it was time. I needed a new car.’”

— #SamHarris, #MakingSense podcast, https://samharris.org/podcasts/218-welcome-cult-factory/ [subscriber edition]