@tante who ?

@tante Honestly, there isn't a social media company that isn't getting looking for funds one way or the other. Let's not forget the whole AI aspect slipping in to many of these social apps as well.

@tante I saw a bluesky dev respond to someone asking about this and they said, basically, "yeah we had some blockchain companies in the last round too, luckily being a public benefit corp will give us protection”

I mean, Public Benefit Corporations *do* generally have some actual enforceable stuff (as opposed to B Corps just being a pinky swear) but that's putting a *lot* of faith in it being enough to hold off the money people.

@tante is expect this from one of Elons companies. Absolutely childish.

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Reminds me of the recent draw.io licence change. Very immature.

@tante I wonder if they have actually put that in their terms and conditions … and gave sufficient notice of the change to their customers … and refunded the customers who they now do not allow to log in.

I suspect this is grounds for at least some people to sue them.

@tante nice work

@tante Great talk, thanks a lot! 👍

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Ich möchte nicht weiter radikalisiert werden, aber was will man machen... ✊

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Anyone remember an old TV series called WILD PALMS?

@tante “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” 💀

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Too bad Berlin is so far away from me! 🥲
But good luck with your meetings!

@tante do you know of anyone in London doing this?

@tante Hedy Lamarr

@tante @dlx My personal Mount Rushmore is Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Hopper, and Margaret Hamilton. But your toot made me realize I don’t have a recent hero on that list, so it’s a good reminder to also stay current and not settle.

@tante Kathleen Booth, who wrote the first assembly language.

@tante I know! Instead of react, I'll make a static page in node.js!

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Gawd, I wish my employers would grasp this.

@tante Frequently leadership at orgs are composed of people that never really had to get their hands dirty.
So, they make decisions based on a cargo-cult mindset.

@tante Decentralization creates way more governance issues than it ever can solve.

@tante The big question is what "Democracy" even means in a programmable environment with few paper legacy dependencies.

@tante democracy needs decentrality. decentrality enables democracy. no need to put them against each other. the problems arise if you think you can have one without the other like with bitcoin or with centralist nation states.

@tante Oh God, OpenAI. Why.

@tante makes me want to cry

@tante :yikes:

@tante As a former techie, I latched onto Firefox fifteen years ago and never looked back.

It also says something about Firefox when TOR uses it as the base for its browser.

@tante did it three weeks ago, can recommend. #Firefox

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Already don't use Chrome. Currently using Firefox Nightly.

@tante I had a Jolla phone and was happy with it aside from the fact that I couldn’t use Signal. If you don’t care about the networks your friends, family, and coworkers use, you can be a purist.

I can put a ROM without nasty nasty evil Googles on a phone. What I can’t do is make the damned thing smaller. That’s the thing I will give Fairphone shit about. Phones are too damned big. Make a smaller phone and more people would buy it and use it longer.

@tante This is my take too. And it's not like there aren't options for degoogling a Fairphone, I'm planning on installing CalyxOS when I get mine and it's great to have that choice. But it's also great to have the choice to use normal Google Android if that's what people need. It's like being pissed that you can install Microsoft Windows on a Framework laptop, it's just an option you can pick if it works for you.

@tante I wish the Ubuntu project for phones (and other devices) had been successful. Quite apart from the software and apps just having a good enough sustainable (both business and environmentally speaking) hardware platform would be huge win. If you look at what % of all phone users are on the latest flagship ~ $1000 a pop phones I'll bet its < 10%. The rest of us can use something like Fairphone. And if it's a hardware spec then like "the PC" it can be cloned and mass produced.

@tante für unsere (Haupt/Real-) Schüler ist Internet Recherche jetzt over. Sie lesen keine Artikel mehr, sondern kopieren nur das erste Ergebnis ihrer Suchanfrage mit Copy und Paste. Ist auch völlig unmöglich, da etwas einzuordnen, weil ihnen das Vorwissen fehlt. Ich stelle jetzt im Unterricht wieder auf Buchrecherche um oder drucke die relevanten Artikel auf Papier aus. 🤷‍♀️

@tante worldcat.org and multiple friendships with (borrowing) privileges is the answer.

Let’s coin a new term: call it #polylibrarious ?

@tante You're just using the wrong search engines. 🤷

@tante read as "automated irritation". Still made sense.

@tante @don vielleicht beruhigt das deinen Puls etwas. 😂

(wegen "Don't call it AI!")