Posts by KarlBode@masto.ai
(DIR) Post #AYAOCPJ4JpUeECOZHM by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-07-28T21:58:07Z
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no shit.good thing "tech journalists" wrote 75,000 articles about ithttps://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-cage-match-not-happening-1850686038
(DIR) Post #AYGWcu7uJo4NvR51Fo by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-07-31T20:54:21Z
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the dumb X building thing basically served its function: to distract the press from the fact elon coddled a right winger sharing child exploitation material, and his company lied for a decade about EV range, then gleefully undermined customer attempts to get helphttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/31/elon-musks-x-corp-seen-removing-giant-glowing-sign-in-san-francisco-.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
(DIR) Post #AYGWcvjWLRkcuNgZWK by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-07-31T20:56:01Z
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that reuters story about how musk created teams specifically dedicated to undermine users trying to schedule repair calls for intentionally misrepresented car mileage lasted all of thirty seconds in the media feedbut that dumb, non-existent cage match with Musk stayed perched in the news wires for weeks
(DIR) Post #AYpGc2g5imMHLgiU6q by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:25:56Z
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For more than a decade broadcast and cable TV executives tried to claim that cord cutting was either a complete and total fiction, or was a silly fad that would end once millennials started having kidshttps://www.axios.com/2023/08/16/broadcast-cable-less-than-50-percent-tv-usage-july
(DIR) Post #AYpVIiFOxJk1nMTQOm by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T16:50:32Z
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a new @pewresearch survey found that just 23 percent of folks know that the U.S. has failed utterly to pass a basic privacy law for the internet era. less than half could properly identify what two-factor authentication is.https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/08/17/what-americans-know-about-ai-cybersecurity-and-big-tech/
(DIR) Post #AYpVIkF7XKhlz4MEEq by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T16:53:20Z
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behold the impact of an ad-engagement based U.S. tech press that fixates endlessly on superficial bullshit like nonexistent billionaire manbaby cage fights
(DIR) Post #AYpVNgeYJKrsIYbrMW by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T17:45:10Z
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@markhurst amazing. It's been telling watching everybody (including major press outlets) hyperventilate about what tiktok is doing while simultaneously not paying much attention to the fact that largely unregulated data brokers, you know, exist
(DIR) Post #AYpW8lmH4kSnnnfk9o by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:47:35Z
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After 20 years of debating it, Palo Alto is finally building its own fiber network with an eye on offering everybody in the city affordable access to multi-gigabit fiber. A giant, long overdue middle finger to regional monopolies AT&T and Comcast:https://communitynets.org/content/after-decades-talk-palo-alto-drives-forward-municipal-fiber-build
(DIR) Post #AYpW8nX6Y7W9FKaen2 by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:48:18Z
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More than 800 towns/cities have grown tired of shitty monopoly broadband and have built community-owned broadband networks, either municipally owned, through their local utility, or via a cooperative. Data routinely shows these networks provide faster, better, cheaper service.https://www.vice.com/en/article/d345pv/harvard-study-shows-why-big-telecom-is-terrified-of-community-run-broadband
(DIR) Post #AYpW8pULHMUpJLJTlI by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:48:50Z
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Giant ISPs didn't like having their shitty regional monopolies disrupted by pissed off locals, so they passed laws in more than 17 states either banning or restricting your town from building its own broadband network.But that gambit isn't working out well for them either:https://www.techdirt.com/2021/04/15/washington-state-votes-to-kill-law-that-restricted-community-broadband/
(DIR) Post #AYpW8rLuLgwD5lNltQ by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:49:14Z
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Many of these fiber networks are "open access," meaning that multiple ISPs compete over the same network, letting locals switch ISPs in a matter of seconds with just a few clicks.It's a future AT&T and Comcast are absolutely terrified of:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-if-switching-fiber-isps-was-as-easy-as-clicking-a-mouse/
(DIR) Post #AYpW8t61rhQOV5y7Q8 by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-08-17T15:49:31Z
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The shitty broadband experiences people had during the peak Covid home education and telecommuting boom drove a massive renewed interest in these kinds of monopoly alternatives.And the infrastructure bill is driving billions of new dollars toward these alternatives.
(DIR) Post #Aa20GwynwqD9mINfc0 by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-09-22T14:52:33Z
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the enshittification of streaming video continues with Amazon's decision to charge people who already pay $140 a year for Amazon Prime an additional $3 to avoid video ads.How very innovative:https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date
(DIR) Post #AaQkM1HedFREGAaiBc by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-04T14:37:52Z
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Hello there! ICYMI, I talked with Chris Mitchell at the Institute For Local Self Reliance about net neutrality, feckless American regulators, and why the real problem with U.S. broadband is unchecked monopoly power:https://communitynets.org/content/net-neutrality-and-regulatory-theater-fcc-episode-571-community-broadband-bits-podcast
(DIR) Post #AbAbEOWoZATGeh8Bn6 by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-26T15:33:18Z
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haha remember when the GOP claimed it was "super serious about antitrust reform now" prompting numerous unskeptical journalists and pundits to write long stories about how we'd entered a "new bipartisan golden era for antitrust reform," only for nothing meaningful to change whatsoever?good times
(DIR) Post #AbAbERrq9S4X0lzWTo by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-26T15:35:26Z
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a rich brat tried to dress up his desire for unconstrained greed as some sophisticated and original ethos in a "manifesto," prompting an entire week of elaborate dissection that still somehow gives his inane thoughts gravitas they simply don't deservehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-reactionary-futurism.html
(DIR) Post #AbAbETdNaBh2UVF0DY by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-26T15:32:50Z
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my cat koda is a huge fan of the new bed below the monitor
(DIR) Post #AbAbEs5Yf4UgKqbqTI by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-26T15:33:56Z
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the blind spot from the cybertruck A pillar is absolutely comical
(DIR) Post #AbAbEtPnjIHSRv5WfA by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-10-26T15:33:36Z
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wrote about the impending collapse of yet another news empire ("The Messenger") and how the affluent brunchlords at the top of the media food chain are incapable of seeing the sector's real problems, making it impossible to implement real reform:https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/26/the-messenger-speed-runs-the-u-s-journalism-implosion-cycle-thanks-to-incompetent-billionaires-and-both-sides-clickbait-gibberish/
(DIR) Post #AmfgD1MA7S5Tbso8OW by KarlBode@masto.ai
2024-10-04T15:41:39Z
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if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end