Thanks, Apple, for selling my location data to advertisers and turning my mobile phone/GPS into an advertising delivery device. #apple #enshittification
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mastodon 4.6.9Lawyer, photographer, and coffee lover. Antifascist above all else. MAGA = NAZI. 🇺🇦
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
I imagine the Pope’s prayer that night was something like “Thank you, Lord, for sending Marco Rubio so I wasn’t stuck talking to that asshole JD Vance all day.”
RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116561234076074072
This is the most brilliant idea in history.
A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. A lawyer who represents another lawyer has a pain in the ass for a client.
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so
Why is it hard to figure out why Americans are so unhappy? We’re living in a society where we’re being gouged out of every cent every minute of the day to make a few billionaires richer. We’re destroying the environment to make a few billionaires richer. Every minute of our lives and ever social interaction we have are surveilled and monetized to make a few billionaires richer.
And then economists tell us how great the economy is doing. What bullshit.
The answer to why American are so unhappy is simple: late stage capitalism.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
This is the United States of America in 2026.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” —George Orwell
Say you don’t know anything about internet security without saying you don’t know anything about internet security.
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
The official White House Android app:
1. Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser.
2. Has a full GPS tracking pipeline that polls every 4.5 minutes in foreground and 9.5 minutes in background, .
3. Loads JavaScript from a random person's GitHub Pages site for YouTube embeds.
4. Loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight (elfsightcdn.com/platform.js) with no sandboxing.
5. Sends email addresses to Mailchimp, images are served from Uploadcare, and a Truth Social embed is hardcoded with static CDN URLs.
6. Has no certificate pinning. Standard Android trust management.
7. Ships with dev artifacts in production.
8. Profiles users extensively.
Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you'd expect from an official government app? Probably not either.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-colbert-writing-lord-of-the-rings-movie-1236546504/ This sounds awesome. Happy to learn of this project and that Stephen Colbert is involved in it. #tolkien #lordoftherings
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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social Thanks! Nice to meet you as well.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116154746198243768
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social I just discovered you here on Mastodon. I really like your work!
RE: https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/116121461073771671
Those who do not realize they are in a prison will never escape from it.
Microsoft has NEVER succeeded by making good reliable software. Their market dominance has always been due to anti-competitive, monopolistic business practices. And since most of our corporate master (oops, I mean employers) think in the same terms, they don't recognize the problems with Microsoft software or its business practices.
I have been using computers for 30+ years and one thing I have found to be true is that the more software costs, the worse it is.
The 19th century typewriter never asks the user to wait. The 21st century laptop takes 5 minutes to boot into Windows 11. #Tech #technology #progress
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@annaecook@mastodon.social Yes. This is why they are pushing for AI slop to be considered art while real humans are doing the dishes.
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@mcelhearn@journa.host If Apple's upsell strategy annoys you, you're probably better off switching to #Linux and using #LibreOffice. Free to use is not the same thing as "free" as in freedom.
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@Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com No, I have not talked to my daughter about the dangers of the old forest. I have, however, warned her about the dangers of "Billionaire Island."
Happy birthday @georgetakei@universeodon.com !
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@mstarace@mastodon.social Yes but the dissenting opinions are going to ones for the ages.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I find @elementary@mastodon.social's Pantheon desktop really intuitive and user-friendly. It's very much like macOS when macOS was actually good (Snow Leopard 10.6, as you noted).
I saw this stupid shit posted on LinkedIn. I don't post political stuff on that site (and instantly unfollow anyone who does), so I'm posting my thought about this nonsense here. My response would be: a hell of a lot of people fled FASCIST regimes to seek a better future in a liberal democracy.
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@alexvoronov.bsky.social Zelenskyj is the hero of the 21st century.
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@jeremy@mapstodon.space Congrats on making it over the wall! I've been running elementaryos on my early 2014 MacBook Air for about the last year now and I'm very happy with it. Runs circles around my ten-years-newer work laptop running Windows 11.
Easter in Florida: the day when you say “Jesus H. Christ, is going to be this hot for the next six months?” #florida
I think my dog is watching too much TV. Does the American veterinary Association have any guidelines or anything like that?
I was typing out Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy when Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" came on on the TV show my family was watching. That can't bee a good omen…
Why the Rest of the World Thinks Americans Are Brainwashed
@mhoye@mastodon.social Mustn't upset the CEOs and corporate donors.
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@normative.bsky.social If it comes down to Puritans versus witches, I’m siding with the witches every time.
