Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.
10 thousand people marching would make world headlines.
No, it wouldn’t. Protest is totally normalized now, it’s just a pressure release valve that helps keep the status quo running.
Here is a protest that happened today - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212289035494255
Apparently it involved between 20,000 to 30,000 people - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212686270895144
It will not be mentioned in any big news media outside of New Zealand.
I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:
fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibility
I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.
It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.
There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.
The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?
…and yet, here we are talking about climate change. If they’d instead organized a protest of 10,000 people marching for hours it wouldn’t have been international news and we wouldn’t be talking about climate change.
The only issue is controlling Alex Jones. He’s too batshit to ever work under anyone and without him most of the value evaporates.
So now it’s up to rich people to decide if Alex Jones gets to stay on the air. Will asshole rich people who want him to continue buy it or will some nice rich people buy it to shut him down?
I try hard to forget Unit 731.
That wikipedia page is NSFL, deeply disturbing.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
That blog post describes how it works in more detail. We now live in a world where any battery could be a bomb, there is no way to detect it and the equipment for making those bomb-batteries costs $15k on Ali Express.
I’ve banned 1074 accounts from the instance I run, most of them for boring reasons like spam. Usually between 1 and 10 per day.
Organic Maps was put back onto the Play Store the next day day: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-08-18/good-news-organic-maps-appeared-again-in-the-google-play-store/
Same and went to the killing field outside the city later on. The driver cried when talking about the family members he lost. Most harrowing day of my life, totally redefined the lower limit of “how badly things can go wrong”.
Osama Bin Laden got what he wanted
You need to install some things (“build dependencies”) before installing this app. Examine the documentation to see what those things are.
Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147
Story by a game dev who gave up on Rust after 3 years https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
When I am in Philippines I feel hope that things will get better because of the nature of the culture there. I see unique strengths that are rare elsewhere -
I don’t think it will be the right president or leader that will make a difference. It will be many many people, at every level of government and in the private sector working together.
There are an array of big problems facing the country (and the world). It feels overwhelming. But around us there are smaller problems where we can make a difference. Try to find those opportunities.
Sure sounds like it!
Yes the dark grey ones are me giving it something to react to.
Something tells me the Saudis don’t want AI for the betterment of all humanity.
Could be the human rights abuses, dunno.