@aral

What the...?

@aral or maybe he wanted to make a case out of it? Because he loves to do it

@aral There’s nothing to suggest that Varoufakis said anything other than was told to him. So, either the police lied, the Ministry of the Interior lied, or they both did.

@aral And the side of fries was cooked in week old lubricant, necessitating the care in the first place.

@aral yeah but you live under universal healthcare...

@aral Having a burger delivered is commerce, which is a good thing. Not being able to afford health care is a multi-tier problem involving government policies but also the inability of people to prioritize health over superfluous spending.

I know people who complain about health care costs but gladly buy every new version of an iPhone.

Capitalism is a result of unchecked consumerism, not commerce.

@aral I can't believe they mastodid when every one told them to mastodont.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
weird he suddenly remembers Mastadon is on the #Fediverse and not Mastadon = #Fediverse.

It's like he willfully conflates them.

@aral hey aral, is there something i could do to help people get off mastodon.social?

@aral Crazy how time flys by!

You're such an inspiration to many, I know I've said it before, but your work on small web and related tools is iconic!

The fediverse is so lucky to have such dedicated and wise developers like you, who have no problem using your following to question other devs and I think that's an amazing quality.

You give a voice to the voiceless, and build for the people.

Much love and success, you def deserve it ❤️

@aral @Gargron Interesting that nobody puts on the table the third server rule:

"3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies...
Support for violent groups or events is prohibited."

While some usual suspects, like masto.nobigtech.es blatantly support Ukrainian genocide by Ruzzia and call nazis to Ukrainian people, and nobody asks for defederation. I wonder why :thonking:

@aral @Gargron Not only that! Allowing instances driven by Meta to federate with entire Fediverse put us all content creators and authors in very big danger of being robbed from our work efforts and our money as well.
As we saw on many examples in the past, Zuckerberg's company doesn't respect any laws, rules, rights and so on, secretly stealing and then selling lots of data/content from the unaware people behind their backs.
This is absolutely unacceptable and also illegal, criminal behavior!

@aral Problems are loud and terrifying. Solutions are mundane and boring.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

> But I’m confused… Mastodon gGmbH and Meta Platforms, Inc. are besties according to Mastodon gGmbH CEO.¹

@aral I have just published 2 posts on threads citing #pixelfed. Let's see if someone sees them or they get silenced by the platform. If they get to be silenced, it would be shameful. Not surprising, but shameful.

@aral I'm sure @Gargron will love to hear this.
Perhaps this will finally get through to him.

@aral This comparison is tasteless and inaccurate.

@aral I cannot believe that people can't understand the idea that genocide is genocide, shame on those who defend ANY genocide

@aral you are a useful idiot... do you understand you defend #hamasisISIS and #hamasrapists

F&*k you!

@aral Our commons is a robot police patrolled marketplace. You're drowned out among the billions unless you pay to promote your message.

@aral

I understand, but humbly suggest indeed we do still have commons. your neighbor who brings you food when you're under the weather, or that person online who's organizing a project or rally.

I don't think we're "under" capitalism. we're exposing it, or straddling it and beating it with many little sticks.

@aral did you know that the real tragedy of the commons is that the tragedy of the commons is a harmfully constructed myth to advance a host hateful ideologies that has been disproven? Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize on economics back in 2009 for her work on disproving the idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

@aral That'd explain why Art/artists/social work... is (at least politically) seen as "worthless because it cannot be quantified".
#pandemie was showing that to all of us.
It has to be privatised/monetized no matter the social costs or the damage for the society to be "recognized". 😡

@aral I was just listening to the latest Factually podcast from @adamconover where this was touched on - journalism is never profitable on its own, there’s always something to the side of it that’s made the money. That has now broken down and that’s why local news all over the world is disappearing and the money they used to make is funneled into Google and Meta.

@aral Naomi Klein calls this stage "necro-techno capitalism", for obvious reasons.

Will it take us with it, dying? Probably not. I believe that on the very brink of the final collapse, people (some, not all) will revolt.

It will be painful, but I think some of us will survive and eat the rich.

@aral
Oh, it'll take us with it.
Faced with an existential threat of climate destruction what do we do? Vote for people who only promise tax-cuts and hate against minorities.

@aral

I am not so sure capitalism is going to end soon. A more interesting topic to me is what comes after. Can we be sure it will be better.

@aral
Have you seen Amy Webb's latest talk at SXSW 2024 about which technological developments we can expect, that will (possibly) shape our societies?
Horrible!

@aral in France, access to your "personal training account" (the money you contribute while employed to a training fund) requires authentication with a Google account. No alternatives . in theory there is a paper form, but the system can't process it anymore.

@aral how is this even a thing for not having a google or apple device?

@aral @laura anything open at @turingway network? Looks like a fit.

@aral @laura

We're hiring heaps at Octopus Energy/Kraken Tech (part of https://octopusenergy.group/ ) and I think you'd fit in well (our head of FE also wrote a book on web accessibility 🎉).

Happy to answer any questions about the company via PM or email.

@aral love it! nice one!

@aral I agree 👍

@aral The law locks up the man or woman,
That steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose,
That steals the common from the goose.

@aral Case in point, see this:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111954081319817105

Which also links to my own thread about using linux GUI for years and just giving up.

@aral If you haven't seen ;) but given this is your own thread...

Damn hearing loss got me. I hadn't realized your nick!

@aral accessibility on Linux sucks, that’s no news. On the other hand the mailing list for orca is active.

Just today there was a call for more testing before beta release

@aral I am seeing this all over my timeline but can't find the news story. What is this about, if I can ask? 💙

@aral Thanks for the reminder, I wanted to do something about that .af e-mail address I have...

(All I can say is I’m lucky they didn’t name me Araf.) ;)

@aral Absolutely some people haven't got the message but that's cos they don't care. They want an easy to use platform that all their mates/companies/celebs use and they don't care who runs it. Until it blows up. Then they care.

@aral I signed up there today to hold my username, and added to my profile there to 'let me know if you want an invite code to the rest of the fediverse' :-D

@aral
i've tried glaze on a few images & it's not for the patient & is cpu intensive.

it took ~12 hrs for 1 images to process on the medium scale & close 7hrs for the default settings.

it is awesome & i want to see more use…

@aral I wouldn't count on it being intergrated into official releases of Fedi servers, as it doesn't seem to be an open source project. Maybe clients could if they choose to but then you won't find them for download in F-Droid. Individual instances could maybe integrate as well. I think it makes more sense for the user to process images themselves before upload if they wish.
@dansup

@aral That is very interesting, I am working on a webhook feature in @pixelfed that would make this really easy to implement for users or admins!

I'll take a deeper look into nightshade this weekend, thanks for sharing!

@aral https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/111733424207266157

@aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet.

And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood.

@aral If the Dante's Inferno game was published these days this (circle 10. Surveillance) would be a nice DLC :P