Akshay Mankar ๐ด @akshay@social.coop
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- Matrix
- @axeman:pub.solar
I am usually rambling about free software, overthrowing capitalism and Biryani.
Joined Nov 2020
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Who called it social media and not mutually assured distraction
Mild Rage at Youtube media critics
Everyone and their granny is feeling compelled to review RRR. Most of them don't really have anything to say. I feel like this is just a way to generate views from the popularity of the movie.
I am happy to see Indian movies get some attention outside India. But I also hate what ad-based revenue models have done to nice things like media analysis ๐ข
QR codes (or any such codes) should come with plain language explanation of what all information is encoded in them and how to decode it, so it can be verified. I don't even know what I am scanning or showing to other people. It feels like there too much trust in these magic signs printed on our tickets, scooters, UPI payment codes, etc.
It would also make people aware of what information they are posting online when they post a picture of their ticket.
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Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.
The Chrome browser is one example.
While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.
Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/
#google #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #Fight4Privacy #tutanota
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@humanetech They are leveraging a CLA, as all rights-ratchet companies do - its' an early indication to stay away. See https://meshedinsights.com/2021/06/14/legally-ignoring-the-license/
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fedizine: an anarchist introduction to federated social media is now online thanks to our friends at the F-91W Distro:
https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/
It's also available as a PDF for reading: https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_read.pdf
and PDFs for printing in colour:
https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_print_colour.pdf
or black and white: https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_print_bw.pdf
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We all know the third R of the three Rs, RECYCLE. But don't forget the first two and more important Rs.
REDUCE............corporations to rubble.
REUSE............the resources they've been greedily hoarding for profit.
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans who achieved so much with it.
This made the gods extremely angry because they were in the middle of trying to rent fire to humans with restrictive DRM.
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I learned that some people don't know that Social.Coop is accepting registrations. We are, so feel free to register or tell others they can.
Please boost
I created this issue in mastodon to possibly help smoothen the registration process for @SocialCoop
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19021
In JSON-LD, why is the @version key in a context definition supposed to be a number with value 1.1? Sounds a bit sad that I have to compare the version number approximately ๐
https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#context-definitions
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HACKATHON
Regaining control of our events with Mobilize.Berlin
(... and leave Facebook out of our lives)
at the @cbase hackerspace, Berlin
On Saturday, September 3, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM
The goal of the hackathon is to liberate data and events from Facebook and GAFAM into @mobilizon and the @fediverse
If you are a dev, a free software advocate, a party or concert goer, an event organizer, or just anyone, join us!
All information is here:
https://mobilize.berlin/events/d573f9fd-016a-4859-8410-db6732e86d08
I've never seen anything more Lawful Evil than offering Onion Rings in the name of Pyaz Pakoda
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First-ever Gitea pull request from a remote instance!!! ๐๐ฅณ
https://git.exozy.me/Ta180m/Hello-world/pulls/3
I've been waiting for this moment for months now!
The code hasn't been pushed to https://gitea.com/Ta180m/gitea yet since it's incredibly messy, but I'll clean it up tomorrow and also submit a draft pull request to upstream Gitea.
(Technical implementation information: https://gitea.com/Ta180m/gitea/issues/7)
#Factori is a very nice game ๐
https://stargardengames.itch.io/factori
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Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year
https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourcehut.html
This was very hard, took many attempts, sometimes people got too unhappy and killed me, sometimes the parliament kicked me out. I guess I should've read the book before ๐
I did it! I won the Half Earth Socialism game ๐
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Great to see this on Hacker News!
And no, law firms are not co-ops.
List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456918
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Matrix
- @axeman:pub.solar
I am usually rambling about free software, overthrowing capitalism and Biryani.
Joined Nov 2020
