Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Between its web services, its growing presence inside and outside of homes with always-on microphones and cameras and systems of monitoring employees in vehicles and in distribution centers alike, Amazon is not a commerce company. Amazon is a surveillance company. We need to understand exactly what beast is we are feeding. https://mas.to/@obeto/109937158795614534

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

We're getting quite a few people who thought the project was dead for some reason... Remember that you should follow our blog (and this account) for updates.

We released the first open-source accelerated GPU drivers for Apple Silicon just two months ago:
https://asahilinux.org/2022/12/gpu-drivers-now-in-asahi-linux/

That's the world's first open source driver for Apple GPUs, and also the world's first Linux GPU driver written in Rust, but for some reason it didn't get almost any media attention...

But then we sent out some device trees for Linux 6.2 and that did?

We don't get it...

@ben I dunno, I don't much like how the Internet I helped build turned out, so I'm open to investigating the hypothesis that the problem was at least partly in the financial assumptions.

Turns out that Fediverse stuff is pretty cheap to run. So why not run it on the cheap with co-ops and suchlike, without key players being in a position where success is 1000X ROI and anything else is failure?

The strong isolation of QubesOS is supposedly designed to stop even your worst enemy from sabotaging your system's integrity. Today I just found out who's my worst enemy - myself...

Also, ChatGPT can generate valid Windows 95 keys, and some suspiciously good-looking Windows XP keys. Is it piracy if a text model created them and told you it's okay to use those? 🤔

@monkeyninja

David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

Putting money into personal or community-owned infrastructure is a better hedge against inflation than any kind of money investment.

Money can be subverted by numerous legalistic, bureaucratic, or financial tools and means.

Physical infrastructure is the means by which we can build the tools of self-determinatiom.

If you have a community, establish infrastructure.

If you have infrastructure, find or establish a community.

Together, we are strong.

What will you build, and with whom?

Also, I’m now referring to instances as “community servers”.

Admins and devs might prefer “instances”, but this is confusing to everyone else.

What people need to know is that they can run their own community on a “server” that they control.

@playdate @fediversenews @panic

Someone wrote in asking for technical support, asking for a very specific installer for a specific piece of software, apparently no longer available for download from our site.

Here's the weird part: Neither this software nor an installer for it have ever existed. (Was this software someone else wrote, that we're just hearing about for the first time?)

After several back and forth messages asking for detail and where they heard about this software, it turns out that it all came from ChatGPT.