“Micro chips” cost almost nothing in bulk. They are like a barcode sticker, but sub-surface. Even the scanners are affordable. Plugs right into USB and emulates a keyboard that sends key strokes for the chip ID. Full-size Parmigiano wheel can cost a pretty penny.

I spend a lot of time wondering what “independent media” is supposed to be

Containers are over hyped. They are so stupid for home use. People put init systems in containers, then run the entire pile of shit in Docker as root, and talk to me about security and resource isolation. And then all these shit Alpine containers with that MUSL joke. You really can’t take any of it seriously anymore. These people want Windows or a mobile phone.

Flatpack is using OCI so they can publish their shit on any registry. Just another way to pollute an existing ecosystem with garbage nobody really needs. Easing the installation of crap onto your system is not a goal worth pursuing

Social Media is an entirely different game if you’re not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.

I don’t even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.

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Regulation. Where I’m at, a device capable of making phone calls, must allow emergency calls by any user. Data is all you can get

Bots

A rumor of plans??! Tell me everything!!!

This is so wild. I really don’t miss Flash, but since Steve killed it with the iPhone, Web development has spent more than 10 years to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it. And who solely prevented AS3 as a web standard from happening? Chris Wilson, Web Standards Tech Lead at Google, in his former role at browser monopolist Microsoft.

Today, every single piece of the web is designed by Google to further their business. And all these fucking Electron applications…

Social Media, just like all media, does not exist to “earn money with ads”, or even profile you. It is about being able to influence you through controlling the availability of content you don’t even realize. It doesn’t matter if you interact. All the other bullshit is intentionally published to distract, on media. Chat bots have a bias. They don’t exist to help you. They exist to control the responses.

Have you heard about Tor?

Hmmm that refreshing smell of holocaust trivialization in the morning…

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It’s bait

The commercial offerings already do that by themselves. The customer pleasing bias ensures their pointlessness

A “dip” is when the stock goes back up. This is a correction

To understand Musk/Trump investors, imagine the investment to be an NFT.

You can run your own IdP on your network

You can’t win, unless you delete their social media. There is nothing you can say or do that won’t be erased by their next Facebook visit. They are also co-dependent and will not divert from their course individualy

Even after 40, there’s no shortage of people calling you “young”. The actually young people don’t call you “old” the same way. Just be glad you’re alive.