Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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🇬🇧 We aren‘t walking barcodes! Sign the brand new European Citizens‘ Initiaive for banning biometric mass surveillance now! #ReclaimYourFace https://reclaimyourface.eu
'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437
#privacy #pixels #spying #tech #email
I have seen links that go avia tracers rather than directly to the proper target, are we talking about individual pixels here or is this the url behind the normal links (which are pictures)
Some clearly target children who even legaly are
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Just released @small-tech/https version 2.1.1
(Replace Node’s https package with @small-tech/https and get automatically-provisioned Let’s Encrypt certificates in production and automatically-provisioned mkcert certificates during development.)
npm i @small-tech/https
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I was reading an article about how social media is addictive (https://craigwritescode.medium.com/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac) and it reminded me of a twitter thread from a few weeks ago written by a game designer (https://twitter.com/kchironis/status/1355585411943260162).
The thread is about the idea of "celebration" in game design, and the visual cues games use to reward you for doing the right thing.
The thought occurred then, that social media does the exact same thing. The most prominent example in my mind is Twitter. When you click the like button, what happens? It plays a splashy, eye-catching animation, the like button turns solid red, and then you see the number of likes roll up.
Twitter's goal is to keep you using the platform and to keep you engaged, because that's how they have eyeballs to put ads in front of and how they guess which ads you'll respond to. And to keep users engaged, they use the exact same tactics as video games to make you _want_ to click Like.
Would liking be anywhere near as satisfying if, instead of having a pretty animation, there was a button with the text "Like" that simply changed to "Liked" when you clicked it? I don't think so
The thread is about the idea of "celebration" in game design, and the visual cues games use to reward you for doing the right thing.
The thought occurred then, that social media does the exact same thing. The most prominent example in my mind is Twitter. When you click the like button, what happens? It plays a splashy, eye-catching animation, the like button turns solid red, and then you see the number of likes roll up.
Twitter's goal is to keep you using the platform and to keep you engaged, because that's how they have eyeballs to put ads in front of and how they guess which ads you'll respond to. And to keep users engaged, they use the exact same tactics as video games to make you _want_ to click Like.
Would liking be anywhere near as satisfying if, instead of having a pretty animation, there was a button with the text "Like" that simply changed to "Liked" when you clicked it? I don't think so
"Swansea star Yan Dhanda is latest footballer to suffer racist abuse on social media"
Cite Daily Mail website
Published: 23:57, 10 February 2021 | Updated: 01:29, 11 February 2021
It seems that Facebook and Instagram (owned by Facebook) continue to ignore racist and other abuse on their platforms,. AKA lets assume they condone it (other wise they would do something)
Do you think it is worth suggesting that clubs
1. Set up their own account / Instance on the Fediverse for players staff
2. Set up a 2nd instance for the supporters club season ticket holders which you pay for as you pay to be a club member or pay for a season ticket)
2. Real fans have given their detail to the club so won't cause trouble as their details / evidence could be handed to the police, they can also be banned (life probably) from the club
3. Federate between the two
3a allow sponsors to be mentioned on their own or fan club instance
4. Anyone else can join a different instance (e.g here) and sti follow the club BUT any issues they can be blocked by the club / instance owner
5. Delete ALL accounts on facebook etc, (they are not delete straight away anyway) this with any luck, would deny social media firms income and may make them clean up their act, in a similar way to how FreeSignal got signal to stop using google, perhaps this will bring about change.
Just a thought as the issue seems to be getting worse.
We need ideas, perhaps it will take a huge loss of income to wake them up
If nothing else this idea may get people here, on the fediverse and may encourage others to join too.
Following the post from Derek Caelin @Argus@mastodon.technology
on "Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices"
I have set up a thread on discourse to discuss further.
I think this is worth further discussion as the paper raises some very interesting points too.
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How Cubans make island Internet work for them https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/how-cubans-make-island-internet-work-for-them/
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The Workbench is a video channel about radiation and radioactivity created by an amateur enthusiast. It also features urban exploration of abandoned places that relate to radioactivity. You can follow at:
➡️ @thebench
If the videos aren't visible on your instance yet, you can see them all at https://diode.zone/accounts/thebench/videos
#TheWorkBench #TheBench #Videos #PeerTube #PeerTubers #Radiation #Radioactivity #Radioactive #Science #Engineering #GeigerCounter
The Debian Project
@debian ·
Call for mentors and project ideas for next Google Summer of code and Outreachy rounds
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Facebook moderators 'told not to discuss working conditions' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/11/facebook-moderators-say-they-were-told-not-to-discuss-covid-working-conditions
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frog
A frog jumped into my kitchen and got all dusty on the way in so I washed him off and took him back outside, he did not want to leave my hand for ages he was very comfy and chill
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And a big thank you to all the #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) contributors out there, whom I was not able to mention specicially yet.
Thank you for your work for #softwarefreedom ! And I hope you will receive some explicit #ilovefs thank you messages from others today.
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Solus is a Linux distribution aimed at consumers and home users, you can follow at:
➡️ @Solus
You can find out more about it at https://getsol.us
It is available with a variety of different desktop environments including Budgie, Gnome, Mate and KDE Plasma.
#Solus #Linux #GNULinux #GNU #Distro #Distros #Distribution #FOSS #OS #OperatingSystem
LONG COVID
This was shared on Twitter earlier
https://styleracademicart.com
#LongCovidKids
Any comments? I feel we need more data on how many people are suffering from different symptoms. As it will need to be taken in to account long in to the future.
I am commenting on this twitter post here as I will probably get a more intelligent response.
If this was the other way round, and the female Mannaquin was topless and the reference was to breasts (or a synonym of) the post would be branded sexist, offensive and the person writing it would probably be sacked. it would probably even be censored by Twitter.
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Happy to see that many people in the #fediverse participate in #ilovefs
I love free software day
User Liberation FSF 30 Years Video
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/5c1f6296-b4be-4e9b-b7c6-04fabd305cd3
Free Software Foundation
https://www.fsf.org/
I Love Free Software day 2021
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/i-love-free-software-day-2021
Today is the world wide celebration of free software @fsf
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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