Gregory's Server
|
“Mulatto is a racial classification to refer to people of mixed African and European ancestry. Its use is considered outdated and offensive in several languages, including English and Dutch, whereas in languages such as Italian, Spanish and Portuguese it is not, and can even be a source of pride” So much about how easy it is to be successful in a multi-cultural, multi-language environment. The Ukrainian commander-in-chief paints the big picture in his recent paper: “Having launched the large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine … Russia … gradually turns the military conflict it began in the centre of Europe into an armed confrontation between democratic and authoritarian political regimes with the prospect of its spread to other regions of the planet with similar geopolitical models (Israel and the Gaza Strip, South and North Koreas, Taiwan and China, etc.)” I’ve been afraid of exactly that. Here’s the link to his paper: https://infographics.economist.com/2023/ExternalContent/ZALUZHNYI_FULL_VERSION.pdf  @J12t hilarious. They can't quite figure out why they're angry about it. So I'd call that, art. Grid Layout has changed #CSS quite substantially. It feels far less like the previous float and other hacks. So good work, whoever came up with it, it certainly wasn’t obvious. If I read this right, #mozilla has identified #news organizations as their initial user segment to go after with what they are building in the #fediverse . This could actually be interesting -- assuming they actually don't pull the plug at the last minute, as with so many other efforts.  So I booted a Solaris instance on my mac with UTM/qemu yesterday. And MacOS 9. What a throw-back to olden times. And praise to the wonders of virtualization ... If a government legally requires you to trust them, and you are not permitted to make up your own mind … wow! “all web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.” And “browsers are forbidden from revoking trust in these keys without government permission”. @J12t yeah that's pretty bad. Maybe a first wrt internet protocols, but honestly, the number of ways we don't have a choice about trusting our government... If you think that the war in Ukraine is just that, think again. The Russians appear to have an entire list of countries they want to go after …. here: Poland. The impact of ads in Amazon search results explained in detail, from the trial. Rather interesting. “Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified” "... the Norwegian ban on behavior-based marketing on #Facebook and #Instagram will become permanent and be extended to apply to the entire #EU/EEA." This is huge. (Google translate from Norwegian)  I'm not so sure it's huge. It just means Meta will pull out of - or threaten to pull out of those countries until they change their laws to allow global data collection to continue unimpeded. Then they'll tighten the screws to generate more revenue from their other customers to keep the investors happy until the reluctant countries come around.
Just a simple business decision.  @J12t Do you know how binding an instruction is? Like, can Facebook still fight it in Ireland? “The DPA's decision is an instruction to the Irish Data Protection Authority to impose a permanent ban on Meta's European headquarters in Ireland. Once this has happened, the ban will begin to apply.” Inrupt says: “Personal data stores provide a place for organizations to merge all the data they have about an individual citizen or customer.” Ahem, no. If it is personal, it is mine, not some organization’s! H/t Alan Mitchell at https://medium.com/mydex/same-words-opposite-meanings-beware-70f07943685f   @J12t The whole point of a social web is to share data with *people*. That paragraph is bad, but the whole page on inrupt.com fails to even mention that. “Bad grammar cause real physical stress, study finds” It probably also applies when having to read bad code. I know it happens to me. Or, for those of us who read sheet music, when performers don’t play what’s written there and their interpretation is decidedly worse than what the composer had in mind, such as in phrasing (the music equivalent of a comma and the like). The Germans are still at it. The government recently updated … what? The Versorgungsreserveabrufverordnung. 4-in-1. “Fidelity has marked down the value of Twitter/X by 65%” https://www.axios.com/2023/10/29/fidelity-twitter-x-value-elon-musk Would you pay $9.99 per month, or more, to get ad-free #facebook and #instagram, as #meta is going to offer in the #eu? I would expect very low uptake at this price point. https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/
Show previous comments
@J12t absolutely, I’ve been wishing I could do that the whole time (I might even pay $20 if they would also turn off tracking)  @J12t I don't use Facebook/insta apps since few years and now I don't feel I need it anymore. Maybe for WhatsApp??? I like their move by the way. |
@J12t @evan @manton @KevinMarks @herestomwiththeweather @bruces
That's great! Is the #well considering federating? At the risk of being old, I remember when the WELL was discussing whether to federate with the Internet (what, 1994?)
Some people thought it might ruin the then-thriving WELL. And I think they may have been right!!
Here is the public link: https://tinyurl.com/fediverse-indieweb
@J12t @evan @manton @KevinMarks @herestomwiththeweather @bruces
The topic will be very interesting, but this looks like five white guys talking about the Fediverse. What are you doing to make sure that other voices are also represented?