Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Having ublock origin on your mobile browser is a game changer - and soon Firefox will be the only way to get it on your desktop browser too.

Remember Google's plan described in discovery documents from one of its antitrust lawsuits: in the name of privacy, block 3rd party ads and use the dominance of chrome to only allow google ads at the browser level. Your browser choice is not a neutral choice, google sees it as an integral part of their strategy to monopolize ads, and with that the entire web.

your monthly reminder that diaspora.im is a server for bipoc folks tired of the very white fedi ...

this server is managed by me - fyrfli - alone at the moment. we are still small so just me is ok for the time being. i am keeping an eye out for help, tho... especially if we start growing.

anywho:

• boost this if you know someone who's getting silenced and ignored when they talk about their lives.
• boost this if you like the idea of more bipoc spaces on the fedi
• boost this if you like it here and want other folks to come share the joy
• boost this if you just like boosting things...

eh ... boost this cos ... why not.

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ETA https://opencollective.com/diasporaim if you so desire.

ETA2 we have a mod now @psyqology helps keep things real

None of this is new, and none of the bad effects have abated at scale enough to relax. New projects are still being started on react and angular. The JS emitters have no shame because they largely don't think they did anything wrong.

Something something "interactivity" (for rich users) something something.

A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reins, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted userland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".

This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.

They could not have been more wrong.

JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.

https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

Welcome to our COMPOST News blog!

We're going to use this site to publish all updates related to COMPOST and Distributed.Press, as well as other going-ons in the decentralized/distributed/peer-to-peer web ecosystem.

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This one aged pretty well. IMHO, it's more true now than ever.

Back to optical jukeboxes we go!

[Cerebyte] wants to build palm-sized cartridges that can store 10,000TB of data.

[...]

This demo system comprises a single read-write rack for storage accessibility as well as several library racks. The firm used only commercial off-the-shelf equipment to build it.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/video-of-ceramic-storage-system-prototype-surfaces-online-10000tb-cartridges-bombarded-with-laser-rays-could-become-mainstream-by-2030-making-slow-hard-drives-and-tapes-obsolete

As another wave of "suspected Flipper zero disrupting BTLE devices" is trending:
I probably qualify as an expert and I have DATA.
When you do BTLE connection spamming you are not only messing with phones, you're messing with health devices and Point-of-Sale terminals.

As someone who has spent the past ~1.5y of my life researching this exact topic:
If you're going to initiate connections with a radio (BTLE) the first and highest priority task is rate-limiting.

Connection spamming with a Flipper Zero (or other device) is objectively dangerous.

"But you're doing similar BTLE research, how can you say that?"
Because I took the time to understand the risks, mitigate them in a controlled environment for months, and collect data to make informed decisions. I also *broke* MY devices. But they were scoped to MY devices.

All of this to say, If you've written or using code for BTLE connection *spamming*:
You're a dangerous shitstain who is gonna get people hurt.
You're making the lives of people who are actually trying to collect data to enable informed decisions worse.
Log off. Touch grass.

I'm prepping for a 2024 conference talk on BTLE.
Please don't willingly get yourself include in the slide about "unethical conduct" ffs.

@mauve Unrelated, but I watched a video on a PeerTube instance the other day and was pleasantly surprised that it just worked? I downloaded most of it from other peers, uploaded a bunch, no buffering or video playback hiccups and looked great at 1080p. Pretty wild stuff.

Hey we're a small group who put together a FREE programme of presentations around low-tech, permacomputing, collective tech practices, extraction, and ewaste.

Saturday 2 December, Amsterdam

https://whatis.permacomputing.net

Come and join us, listen to talks, ask questions, hang around and plot together about pmc and related practices.

with: Abdelrahman Hassan @cmos4040 @latentspace @l03s @marieverdeil @michal @neajul @praxeology Shailoh Phillips, Sunjoo Lee @unbinare

FOMO alert: nope it's not streamed and probably won't be recorded, *but* surely you know a lot of cool people around you doing connected things, what about you try to organise something local as well? See https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/

#lowtech #permacomputing #ewaste #amsterdam

A bad thing about social media is this pattern where a person with expertise starts rebutting bad ideas, and it’s great, but over time it primes them to see everyone who doesn’t hold exactly their opinions as part of a horde of goons with terrible ideas, because that’s who they end up interacting with.

Eventually their online persona is, like, Truth Gladiator. And that’s so much less interesting and important to me than Thoughtful Person With Useful Perspectives.

i suppose this is how it's going to go:

1. google chrome bans ad blockers

2. users move to other browsers to surf the web

3. google, youtube, and a ton of other sites that depend on ad revenue dongle themselves to google chrome (and/or any browser that blocks ads)

4. community browsers spoof google chrome but block ads

5. websites try to detect fake chrome browsers

6. *tom & jerry chase sequence*

7. google becomes a huge fan of the idea of running only "trusted" apps on computers