Why owning your own content and syndicating it to external platforms is key. “Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site,” the company said in a notice to users. “Beginning October 28, you won’t be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed.” Continue reading →

Agree completely: “The speech began with a major tactical and factual error, in which Zuckerberg attempted to awkwardly retcon the founding of Facebook into a story about giving students a voice during the Iraq war. (“I remember feeling that if more people had a voice to share their experiences, maybe things would have gone differently.”) All previous reporting on the subject suggests that the truth was much, much hornier, and the fact that Zuckerberg’s speech began so disingenuously caused lots of the folks I read to tune out the rest… Continue reading →

Good that #Microdotblog made this call given how broken FB was for cross-posting: “Goodbye to Facebook cross-posting…Facebook & even Instagram are at odds with the principles of the open web.” www.manton.org/2019/10/1…

Amen: “The Internet Must Be More Than Facebook…If Big Tech becomes synonymous with the internet, we could lose free choice, democracy, and even the ability to imagine a different world.” onezero.medium.com/the-inter…

The web as originally designed is fundamentally antithetical to dictatorship. " According to Freedom On The Net, “Russian internet freedom has declined for the sixth year in a row, following government efforts to block the popular messaging app Telegram and numerous legislative proposals aimed at restricting online anonymity and increasing censorship.” And there are no signs of that getting any better any time soon." www.forbes.com/sites/zak… Continue reading →

Good quote: “We froze our social graph too soon, imho. My goal is to get the kind of discourse that happens on Twitter and Facebook to happen outside the silos, so a new generation of ‘coders’ can try out a billion new ideas about how humans can ideate and organize in a global network environment.” scripting.com/2019/09/2… Continue reading →

Political Animals #Mural #muralart @miketanoory

This is, as described: “100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE.” generated.photos

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency are converting capitalism directly into climate change. Cutting out the middle man. www.cell.com/joule/ful…30255-7

Get ready to upgrade every WiFi device. WiFi 6 arrives and worth the incremental device at a time update. “The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that oversees implementation of the Wi-Fi standard, is launching its official Wi-Fi 6 certification program…. All that said, this week’s biggest news for Wi-Fi 6 has no immediate connection to the Alliance: it’s that the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro go on sale, and both support Wi-Fi 6. Continue reading →

Rooted vines.

“Twitter’s doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions.” academic.oup.com/joc/artic…

After a week, this has been working flawlessly fo rme. Invisible and with no noticeable performance issues than any other VPN. Likely dumping NordVPN for this. nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/1…

That’s a milestone. apple.news/A8AxH58I6…

To my tech work friends: A good effort and a very good Tech Pledge. I just signed, you should think about signing too: www.techpledge.org #TechPledge

Rebel librarians are the best librarians. ✊ www.vice.com/en_us/art…

Everything old is new again. : [Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986] (https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781)

Crazy story: “My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy. I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up.” medium.com/@N/how-i-… Continue reading →

Good to see Test Pilot live again: via the Mozilla Blog: [Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta] (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/10/firefoxs-test-pilot-program-returns-with-firefox-private-network-beta/)

Good for them. Will hinder internet service providers (ISPs), government filtering, and about any other third-party that tries to intercept and sniff a user’s traffic.

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