Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@BrodieOnLinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BrodieOnLinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://buttplug.engineer/@qdot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>qdot</span></a></span> I find this to be the <em>worst way to decide</em> a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechStack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechStack</span></a>. </p><ul><li>If <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> was developed and maintained that way, we'd not have <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> or even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>, most likely not even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> because <em>"everyone uses punchcards and tubes, so stop complaining!"</em>...</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NetworkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffects</span></a> are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> when it comes to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SaaS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaaS</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> shite, regardless if the bad guys are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Autodesk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autodesk</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> for that matter. (Don't even get me started on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAP</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a>!)…</p><ul><li>I just don't <em>vibe</em> with that appeal and would rather <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHost</span></a> than compromise. If that makes me an outlyer then I'm happy to pay that price!</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114623174796828016" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146231</span><span class="invisible">74796828016</span></a></p>
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Don Marti<p>Microsoft Windows+Office for $55?</p><p>What happened?</p><p>Usually cheap MSFT license offers are a sign of Linux gains somewhere but I'm not seeing it this time</p><p>LibreOffice for Steam OS is taking off?</p><p>They're selling at a loss because it makes you train their "AI"?</p><p>There's some market share number they need to tweak upward to keep some stock analyst happy?</p><p><a href="https://mashable.com/deals/january-24-the-ultimate-mso-pro-2021" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mashable.com/deals/january-24-</span><span class="invisible">the-ultimate-mso-pro-2021</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/networkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networkEffects</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>I'm talking with a colleague who gave the usual reasons for staying on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> / <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> while I gave the usual reasons for moving to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>. </p><p>I found myself making this argument too: I want <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> to live on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenInfrastructure</span></a>, just as I want research to live on open infrastructure. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NetworkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffects</span></a> might have made "starting over" on open infra impossible, and even now make it very difficult. But <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s odious changes are making it slightly easier and we should take advantage of that."</p>
Juan Ortiz Freuler<p>COLLECTIVE-PLATFORM-MIGRATION</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NetworkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffects</span></a> often organically lock us in. People don't want to move to another platform until their network does</p><p>What if regulators mandated dominant platforms have a function allowing users to collectively migrate?<br>=<br>to flag that when a certain tipping point (x%) of their network has flagged it is willing to move to platform Y, then they are willing to have their account automatically transferred, together with that of their network, to the new platform</p>
Doug Bostrom<p>"This article assumes that in order to advance the decarbonisation of fossil-based socio-economic systems it is first necessary to ‘deactivate’ the related fossil machine: to investigate how to do so we propose a new reticular approach. The article adopts this approach to investigate the deactivation of the... fossil machine built around a group of coal plants in Civitavecchia...whose planned conversion to gas was eventually abandoned."</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/EnergyPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyPolicy</span></a><br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NetworkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkEffects</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624002469?dgcid=rss_sd_all" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2214629624002469?dgcid=rss_sd_all</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Politics is downstream from culture and the battlefield for culture wars is in disinformation and provokatsiya across digital networks.</p><p>via John Robb: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrobb/p/america-needs-enemies?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/johnrobb</span><span class="invisible">/p/america-needs-enemies?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/informationgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>informationgain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/informationwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>informationwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/culturewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culturewar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/provokatsiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>provokatsiya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/networkeffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networkeffects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/networkstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networkstate</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p>Cory Doctorow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> wrote: The EU's top privacy regulator may declare Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based ads: <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luc</span><span class="invisible">k-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge</span></a><br>⸺<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/JCPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JCPA</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/adModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adModel</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/networkEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networkEffects</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cookieWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookieWall</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/commercial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commercial</span></a> surveillance <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> theater <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/contextualAdvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contextualAdvertising</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dma</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dsa</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gdpr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gdpr</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ireland</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/link" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>link</span></a> tax <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Schrems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schrems</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/noyb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noyb</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/private" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>private</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chirp.social/@dataGovernance" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dataGovernance</span></a></span></p>
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