A kind (of) writer @mareklach@mastodon.xyz
Fervently unrealistic. Avid #reader, & #writer of timeless observation on the nature of societal structures, & human #reactions. Open, lefty, #utopian idealist.
@Gargron are you signed on this one yet? Not only it's a good idea, but also a nice promotional opportunity for Mastodon I think? https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
@mareklach yes let's hope some of this GDPR stuff filters down to chat apps too.
The Norwegian Consumer Protection Agency has just released an analysis of "dark patterns" used by Google, Facebook and Microsoft to trick users into giving up their privacy β in spite of #GDPR. You can download the 44 pages PDF here:
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
-- Murray Bookchin
Instead of a read-it-later service, how about a service where I read your open tabs for you and send a synopsis?
I would probably pay for something like that because this ancient macbook is choking on all the tabs I have open in Firefox.
there is an assumption that βOpen source will continue to fall from the sky like manna from heaven and that the people behind it can be abstracted away.β Show more
The new user onboarding experience for the Projects page is now live on www.onlinewritinglog.com.
Check it out!
Some of my families small library. Just the sci-fi books. XD
https://anticapitalist.party/media/AJmq-FjlOKxzRvT8M3w
https://anticapitalist.party/media/IQyf_WSdfxF7uQr-5pk
@Gargron
You could write about storytellers, especially if you find one using content warnings (I don't, because I post to platforms that don't support that, so I try to not write stories needing them), and how #smallstories if a lovely mix of fiction and slice-of-life. Lots of embeddable examples to share.
Facebook puts fake red notification dots to make you believe you have missed something in order to have you accept the new Terms and Conditions faster.
Whoever designed & implemented this needs to seriously reconsider their life choices.
.@Framasoft's crowdfunding for #PeerTube has just passed 100%, so it will definitely get funding π π πΎ
There's still 12 days to go, so the appeal is going for a stretch goal to add even more features π
Well done everyone! π
This is definitely of some interest in the post-Snowden era of today: What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html
Admittedly, not the best source in general, but ther's some good info you can't unsee here nonetheless.
If you are interested in researching web archives @markgraham@twitter.com of the Internet Archive has set up a Slack channel for folks to chat and learn about the Wayback machine. If this sounds like something that's up your alley email Mark mark@archive.org
Between the #FCC corpo-whores and the European Legal Affairs Committee, who else is going to try to fubar the Internet? What is with these people?? #Article13 #NetNeutrality #RantBit
The best way to use computers is to rely only on software that is open source, 100% hardware agnostic, and eternal, existing apart from space and time
Today I made some progress on porting our blog from Medium to Hugo
the Isle of Man flag is like the surreal shitpost of flags
"As a writer, my problem is not piracy, itβs obscurity, and Creative Commons licenses turn my books into dandelion seeds, able to blow in the wind and find every crack in every sidewalk, sprouting up in unexpected places." -- Cory Doctorow
