Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Holy shit I think I’m in love.

#Protomaps, a way to serve vector #maps of the entire world using a single static file and HTTP range requests.

It’s basically a static site generator for interactive maps. Tile servers are pretty much obsolete now. No database needed, you can run your interactive, smooth-zooming vector map from any HTTP storage. S3, Caddy running on your Wi-Fi router, even GitHub pages.

https://protomaps.com/

It’s open source & free to use. Wow. 🤯

via https://chaos.social/@djh/111280447304607540

@jackofalltrades @escarpment @magitweeter

Capitalism is *ideologically* predicated on the idea that it consists of nothing more than free individuals voluntarily engaging in production and exchange using their private property.

The sleight of hand is that “private property” is a property mode that has only ever existed, and can only exist, as a product of state violence. Landlords can only extract rent from their tenants because that landlord can call up sheriff’s deputies to evict those tenants into homelessness, and all of the harms that entails, at gunpoint.

So we end up with constant, massive state intervention in the economy on behalf of capital owners—police who protect private property, registrars who survey and record ownership rights, courts that adjudicate those rights, copyrights and patents and trademarks, banks deputized to monopolize money production, direct state subsidies and indirect tax subsidies, zoning laws and licensing regimes that create barriers to market entry, enclosure of commons, debtors prisons, etc etc forever—which all becomes invisible as “state involvement” or “central planning.” So when we debate “state intervention,” we end up debating only those instances where the state intervenes to temper the worst excesses of the capital class.

How retro kick ass is that? Flash is resurrected sans the neglected, proprietary, security ridden, plugin bs of Adobe; thanks to Rust, and modern day sandboxed WebAssembly. No plugin required; small, compact, compatible engine, that unlocks decades of lost SWF content in all its vector visuals, MP3 stereo, and ActionScript-y glory. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle #flash #adobe #webdev #javascript #rust #retrogaming

Hey folks, I've seen a lot of talk going around about adblockers lately. I worked in the advertising technology and security industry for five years and the one core piece of advice I have is:

Holy fuck never give an advertiser your data. You cannot believe how bad it is. Don't. I run three layers of ad block protection and I'd run more if it was feasible. If you want to support creators give them money.

Tech people seriously have no idea what the average person knows about their computer or what they do on the internet and how it effects them.

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Edited: I don't get much attention on Mastodon and it seems like a lot from people I don't interact with normally, so check out my ko-fi and check out my art, and projects?

https://ko-fi.com/bit_form

Definition: mobile app (noun) - a web page wrapped in spyware.

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

@djsundog and I are launching a project to build federated, open source, #bandcamp alternative.

We're building this because we need it. We're doing it ourselves because it will become a part of the larger media production and distribution ecosystem we have planned.

We welcome other open source projects, and we might even contribute to a few of them, but for the next several months, this is our full time gig.

Long term vision: https://mountaintown.technology/

Repo: https://code.communitymedia.network/MountainTownTechnology/aural_isle/

How and why: https://ajroach42.com/the-uncertain-future-of-bandcamp/

The wave of new AI tools comes with a ton of new #privacy concerns.

A new website where you can upload a photo to identify people shows it’s not limited to those who use AI themselves. And it shows why you should avoid giving your data to random companies.

Do these developments worry you? They worry us..

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/controversial-tech-pimeyes-fuels-privacy-concerns/463483

Pedestrians, it should be our right to be distracted. It should be our right to walk and listen to music / look at the sky / cute dogs / snowflakes and not worry about getting killed. Nothing about that is dangerous except for CARS. Don't let them make you believe you are the problem.