@jwz This is why vinyl has made a comeback. You actually have to get off your ass every 20 minutes and make a conscious decision as to what you want to hear next.

@jwz Was listening to Spotify last week, suddenly started getting some long, repetitive, electronic music that didn't go anywhere. I got kind of confused, then noticed the AI generated cover art, weirdly verbose track name, uninspired 'band' name, and some pretentious artist bio fresh out of ChatGPT. The queue had been filled with more of it.

Trash. I'm just downloading everything I like to listen to, now.

@jwz Another job that humans have been doing JUST FINE for YEARS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpKF2znhD8

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https://decrypt.co/288157/bluesky-raises-15-million-no-crypto

If anybody wants some actual context and not just a reaction.

@jwz I had forgotten about the wedding ring in goatse until I saw that image

@jwz "We've reinvented traffic jams! We just need 50 billion dollars and a decade of research to finish..."

@jwz Man, this is just funny. They're eating glue again.

@jwz TBF that looks a lot like a taxi rank you might see at any big venue.

@jwz My brain is still struggling to process the fact that Mozilla seems to employ over 1,000 people :blobfoxeyes:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

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We need a 100 % open-source Vivaldi.

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Free Servo advertisement

@jwz need an easiertoimaginethantheendofcapitalism bot

cc @nora

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@OCRbot

@jwz this was exactly our reality when we lived in Toronto, but once our kids became old enough to ride a bike it was too much for us.

This was one of the top reasons we left Canada and moved to the Netherlands.

I've talked about this in several videos, in particular this one:

https://youtu.be/vMed1qceJ_Q

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@jwz people want the tools they use to be useful. a browser that can play Netflix is objectively more useful than a browser that cannot

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Spot on!
This is what they should be doing indeed.
1 Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2 Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3 And nothing else…

@jwz I was the lone sole that told Mitchell, and the exec team at a weekly all hands meeting that this was a bad idea and very much against Mozilla 's ethos.

Before I did, at the mic, I led with "I'm sorry to those remote; what I'm about to say isn't available in your region" then turned the mic.

It was in vain, I suspect they were desperate that if they didn't capitulate, they'd lose Netflix and thus more users.

Few people emailed me after to thank me for standing up for what was right.

@jwz Unlike Google, XScrenenSaver will not give users a false sense of security around tracking within a mode designated for more anonymity. https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-incognito-mode-privacy-warning/

XScreensaver will not broadcast your location to your friends, unlike Google Latitude

https://www.wired.com/2009/02/google-latitude/

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@jwz unlike google, xscreensaver will not hire union busting consultants.
https://www.epi.org/blog/employers-regularly-engage-in-tactics-to-suppress-unions-examples-at-starbucks-amazon-and-google-illustrate-employers-anti-union-playbook/#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20worker%20unrest,%2Dknown%20union%2Davoidance%20firm.

@jwz I’ve read several articles here in Swiss Media and all of them more or less state the same and reference each other. The source for the statement seems to be this guy from Fortinet Switzerland, Maybe he can provide more info why they insist this was a real attack on a Swiss company. https://mastodon.social/@Kensan/111888840179218333

@jwz If it turns out you’re right, you deserve a plaque.

@jwz Spoilsport!

@jwz and all the devs excited about open access APIs, 3rd party clients etc & I'm just "give it a few years, you saw with Twitter did to those"

@jwz and the as yet unanswered question "who's paying for this? you're harvesting our data again, I guess"

whereas Fedi: it's a few $ a month on paypal, direct to my instance admin

@jwz I'm sure he learned his lesson by being lavishly rewarded for all the bad decisions he made at Twitter. Nobody recognizes their mistakes and correct behavior like a dot-com billionaire. Just look at Elon.

@jwz OMG, how silly can humans be. First I thought it would be a hoax but it's true: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/india-spy-pidgeon-suspect-china

@jwz as far as I'm concerned this rock solid proof that driverless cars aren't doing better than human error and that they don't know how to make them do better than human error

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Terry Pratchett wrote about the Gooseberry Disorganizer, operated by an imp inside.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Dis-organiser

Aren't "autonomous vehicles" just same?

Technology calling itself magic, when it's just a machine using trapped imps as underpaid labor?

@jwz I read it Curse.
Seriously Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

@jwz Nothing is going to happen to Amazon when they drop a can of soup on a person, but the day they flatten a yappy dog Bezos is going to have to move further than Miami.

@jwz Drone delivery would make sense for something with a high value to mass ratio. Like, drugs. And that industry has some experience with low level flight and sketchy landing sites.

@jwz R374RD3D

@jwz it telegraphs so much. its like passive approval

@jwz See I think X is bad enough re-branding that it's a case of giving them enough rope. (And tbh Meta is borderline on that basis. It feels cold and creepy, befitting what they are.)

@jwz The sad reality is that the other side is waaay better at branding.
Our insistence on facts is both a merit and an impediment.

At the end of the day, it's people versus profit, and an increasingly deregulated economy favors wealth over wellbeing.

@jwz@mastodon.social Just use Firefox y'all. Maybe Mozilla has had a few problems, but nothing like this! It's faster than Chrome, better than Chrome, and it's #FOSS... completely unlike Chrome.

@jwz Edge is no better. I don't know about Safari. If you want to use Firefox, you're going to need to troubleshoot websites / add-ons from time to time.

IMHO it's worth it, but I've got almost 25 years of experience working with open source projects.

@jwz @dnalounge I”m surprised that the bigger loss is for FB rather than Twitter

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Love real-world statistics!

(Can we get an idea about the total volume of shares over time?)

@jwz @dnalounge The trend is clear. Delete Faecebook! Delete Twatter!

Cheers!
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@jwz Transcript:

Alex Winter @alexwinter.com 4h The Burning Man crisis is a perfect scenario for these folks, stranded together and running out of basic necessities, to demonstrate the power of the Blockchain.

@jwz where did Alex post that? Not here? https://mastodon.social/@alexwinter/111007388614998753

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@jwz @daedalus Nope, that was a bug (and never actually did anything other than make an empty connection request): https://defcon.social/@mysk/109740918967662912

@jwz you probably want to read this article, if you haven’t already https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/18/is-apple-checking-images-we-view-in-the-finder/

I think it does a good job of explaining what is happening (and why) under the hood, and ways to disable the behavior if you are not convinced anyway.

Hope it helps!

@jwz @tartley https://defcon.social/@mysk/109735319047486114