If you use email, then you’re using the Internet technology with the greatest network effect on the planet.
Not even Meta can compete with email.
Better yet, just like the Fediverse, email is federated.
Anyone who says that social media won’t work if it’s decentralized and requires multiple servers is lying: they use email.
And email is why it was so easy for me to delete my Facebook account.
UK fines TikTok $15.8 million for GDPR violation of children's privacy https://www.csoonline.com/article/3692635/uk-fines-tiktok-158-million-for-gdpr-violation-of-childrens-privacy.html#tk.rss_all
Call to Prayer, #Marrakesh, #Morocco
I stumbled across this scene as I was wandering around Marrakesh. A young man was helping an older man negotiate the steps into a mosque for afternoon prayers.
#Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200 #Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled ArchitecturalPhotography #OATtravel #OverseasAdventureTravel #Cityscape #StreetPhotography #urbex #ThrowbackThursday #Thursday #History #MastoArt #Door #DoorsOfMastodon #Mosque #Church
@darius My email footer currently says "Delete Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tik Tok - Support an independent internet"
I have no idea if anyone takes notice.
A BS study touted widely by anti-vaxxers is about to be retracted. This should make your blood boil -- and lead to deep soul-searching at all scientific journals.
The damage this stuff causes to public perceptions of science, and to public health, is incalculable.
You can watch curling for 100 years and you’ll never see a shot - or a reaction from the commentators - like this one from earlier today.
The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS. A true WTF from @andybaio https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/
I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —
Fedora Workstation Aiming To Improve Encryption, Possibly Encrypted Disk By Default In The Future
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Encryption-Plans-2023
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Encryption-Plans-2023
I am deeply unamused to see a peer-reviewed paper discussing one of my pet nightmares (the risk of a MERS/COVID19 hybrid emerging) and saying it's somewhere between possible and likely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01396-6
Why bother banning books when you can just defund Libraries? "Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner." https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans