What should I read next? #bookstodon
@farah DCC was already mentioned, so I'll add the Murderbot series by Martha Wells, Automatic Noodle by @annaleen and the Terra Ignota series by @adapalmer
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if you tell people to boycott the corporation currently under a class action suit for violating its own terms of service and stealing credit for our labor to sell to the worst fuckboys on the planet you're actually being a hypocrite check your privilege
astral stole all my work off of github and particularly off of my immense effort in the pip issue tracker which i did because i thought it would help every single python user. they did that after i interviewed with them and decided they could avoid pesky questions about monetization by simply stealing my work instead
@happyborg @radicle @RuchiraSDatta @alienghic
fwiw i have used radicle and it worked surprisingly well, i hosted a whole-network seed node for several years but it started chewing up my server because there were so few of them at the time. i would love to believe in all things p2p but the thing that suffered, as usual, in the p2p case is the interface: to convince someone to move away from github, it's most effective to offer them something that they recognize. that means websites, on the https web, period. even if those websites are gateways. at the time i was looking at it, the radicle frontend didn't really work at all (but again, the backend/cli interface really did, which i was impressed by). the interface is like... the whole thing though - the social, organizational, and reputational nature of coding, whether we like it or not, takes place as artifacts like issues and pull requests, and if you don't have that, you don't have a replacement.
@jonny @happyborg @RuchiraSDatta @alienghic We know that. There's a gateway at https://radicle.network . For the rest the only thing we can ask for is patience, or to join us and help getting there quicker. We're open source and welcome contributions.
Note also that we very much value all other projects that work to reverse concentration on GitHub. We are in loose contact with folks at @Codeberg for example, and are also cheering for federation efforts in @forgejo. We're not zero-sum players...
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
#HackerNews #carpet #capital #toxic #legacy #empire #PFAS #environmental #issues
yo my name is tobi and i'm here to say
gay gay gay gay gay i'm gay
Just done with the kidical mass bike demo in Lichtenberg. It was a blast, thank you to the organizers! And proud of my daughter for participating for the first time and surviving and enjoying the entire way.
#KidicalMass #CriticalMass #Lichtenberg #Bike #BikeTooter #Berlin
@spla jo un soc d'aquests gràcies a la meva "condició no-laboral"... @Caelumtangi
@Caelumtangi @Max_Headroom gaudir de la vida sense preocupacions laborals és un estatus superior. 💪🏼👏🏼
David Gerard
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Google's reCAPTCHA now just confirms that you're a Google customer before allowing you to access sites
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
"Google didn’t demand iPhone users install Google software to pass the test. Only Android users who refuse Play Services get locked out."
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Historic #Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice. Dozens of national pavilions were partially or fully shut down in a strike fr Palestine & for workers’ rights.
👉🏻 https://hyperallergic.com/historic-strike-disrupts-venice-biennale/
David Gerard
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all the world’s a worldcoin. the endgame for these fuckers is to create a problem (mass AI scraping and abuse), pretend they can’t just stop doing it (they very much can), and sell you their monopoly and hegemony over a previously open system as a solution.
my industry will of course defend this crap even though it solves no problems at all other than Google’s need to strengthen their grip on both the Android ecosystem and the open web at the same time. https://ecoevo.social/@sarahdalgulls/116542654928292928
@dnkboston There are strong signs that what has been thought of as ‘conventional oil’ peaked in 2018. And that the grades of it which support diesel as a direct derivative may have peaked around 2015. And diesel is what does most of the hardest of hard work.
Refinery tech has become incredibly adept at masking this by recombining different oil fractions. But that too is more expensive than not having to do so when the input is of high enough quality…
@dnkboston Consequently, a lot of what is today termed ‘oil’ – in the interests of keeping the capital flowing that supports its extraction – is not what a mid 20th Century oil man would call oil at all.
And now the US admin is beginning to overtly expand the degree to which it obfuscates the true picture in its reporting
@happyborg @meltedcheese HA keeps track of my zigbee smart plugs consumption. No need to do on devices
@falken Thanks, I understand that. It's a convenience but less resilient so I'm looking into the more resilient cases.
makes me happy when people have nice things to say about GoToSocial, we do put a lot of care into building it
github is well-known for its powerful federation features (???) which are necessary to find jobs (???)
if you tell people to boycott the corporation currently under a class action suit for violating its own terms of service and stealing credit for our labor to sell to the worst fuckboys on the planet you're actually being a hypocrite check your privilege
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Some artists continue to explore NFTs/etc and decorative tech. Others find ways to stand up against ruthless regimes, corruption, abuse of power, and even war. Makes it easy to find your people. #venice
yeah i agree it's our (?) fault for not working on forgejo federation (?) hard enough to copy github's success (?) in achieving a for-profit corporate monopoly structure that makes it extremely expensive to switch away from (?) https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116537372614635109
github is well-known for its powerful federation features (???) which are necessary to find jobs (???)
