Posts by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #A3isFOlCd88EIJnMFU by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2021-01-29T07:34:11Z
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Your occasional reminder that the stock markets are a collective delusion based on emotion which nevertheless have the power to destroy real world companies and jobs. ---RT @JamesSurowieckiSo it looks like Robinhood did not prohibit customers from buying GameStop or AMC as part of a conspiracy to protect short sellers. It did it because it literally couldn't afford to let them keep trading.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/tech…https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1355035563368321027
(DIR) Post #AJ8qsjSTUhRKWQfr9c by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-05-05T12:12:32Z
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There's something wrong with the fact that in the not-too-distant future it will be easier to run a forty year old Apple II programme than a four year old iOS one. Controlled and curated App Stores have their downsides.
(DIR) Post #AJDWZllPGqcAZLtBTM by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-05-07T18:28:38Z
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@stux Heresy
(DIR) Post #AJFdSxWCFycUzgOVNo by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-05-08T17:34:02Z
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This letter from Apple employees to their leadership counters all the points which Cook et al are using to insist on moving back to the office so well. https://appletogether.org/hotnews/thoughts-on-office-bound-work
(DIR) Post #AJFpF0NM2F1tFfN4BE by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-05-08T20:22:20Z
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@craiggrannell "Man who hasn't worked in an office in 15 years defends working in an office"
(DIR) Post #AK6ZFMVzp5ftGH3BRI by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-06-03T07:45:35Z
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@natalie Back in the 90s, we used to have after-work LAN parties playing Marathon 2 with a few beers. Good times!
(DIR) Post #AKseitTCsterduPCiG by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-06-26T11:58:17Z
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The thing about the endless parade of conspiracy theories is that all they do is distract people from the naked abuse of power by large corporations. Wittering on about chemtrails while 10 companies control everything that you eat? Narcissism.
(DIR) Post #AKssCUZBL4FaUse08m by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-06-26T09:45:37Z
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A reminder of how gay people were treated in the year of my birth. This is the world that the scum who have campaigned to overturn Roe vs Wade would like us to return to. CW: If this doesn’t upset and horrify you, you have no heart. https://mindsitenews.org/2022/06/24/when-gayness-was-a-crime-and-a-mental-illness-one-mans-journey-from-involuntary-confinement-to-pride/
(DIR) Post #ALooYQskPwmWoQ5AVU by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-07-23T21:49:33Z
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This is just an amazing story. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-huawei-china-defense-department-communications-nuclear/
(DIR) Post #ALztf7wGNsE78RddTc by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-07-29T22:17:44Z
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@leo Still the best Joni Mitchell album, and one of the best albums every recorded.
(DIR) Post #AMAL9FczoTbjbNgEAS by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-08-03T13:52:38Z
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Academic publishers have always hated the first sale doctrine. Now NFTs will allow them to avoid it, and extend their own rights https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/pearson-hopes-blockchain-will-make-it-money-every-time-its-e-books-change-hands
(DIR) Post #AMgiR2yGbZwq0eVCHg by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-08-19T07:47:03Z
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I'm so tired of the tech sites talking about Google's promotion of RCS as "solving" cross platform encryption. RCS doesn't include support for encryption. Google has built *proprietary* encryption on top of RCS. It only works with Google Messages and Google servers. https://ianbetteridge.com/2022/08/19/please-wont-someone-stop-the-bullshit-about-rcs/
(DIR) Post #ANtDkTFR8iuMCK87OK by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-09-24T11:03:59Z
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OK this is pretty cool: built-in translation is coming to Mastodon, funded by the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218
(DIR) Post #AOFzCwNIRQFN4OkE88 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-04T16:46:53Z
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Does my alien have a penis and other exciting things for today http://ianbetteridge.com/2022/10/04/does-my-alien-have-a-penis-and-other-interesting-things-for-today/
(DIR) Post #AOInGmmpPqcGW0dMSO by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-06T09:47:36Z
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Quick note to any companies thinking about this: if you pollute the sky in this way I will never, ever buy a product from you again and I will campaign hard to have as many people as possible boycott you. Thanks. https://www.designboom.com/technology/space-billboards-flash-commercials-in-the-sky-10-06-2022/
(DIR) Post #AOKplHyfH6u7UI1SMa by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T20:21:57Z
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We Hunted the Mammoth, the awesome site which has done a huge amount to expose the awfulness of men's rights activists, needs your help. Throw them some dollars if you can.https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2022/10/06/the-pledge-drive-is-going-badly-and-the-survival-of-this-blog-is-at-stake-please-help/
(DIR) Post #AOh94608IjQh6xDY4u by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-18T13:18:29Z
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I mean, that this is a headline should tell you quite how bad a situation she's in
(DIR) Post #AOxWwoKFpruzLUKHFw by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T11:14:27Z
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I wrote something on getting Scrivener to run on ubuntu, which is possibly the most niche but useful thing I've done for a while. http://ianbetteridge.com/2022/10/26/how-to-run-scrivener-on-linux/
(DIR) Post #AP1PydhgNRqXvy364e by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-22T08:26:41Z
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Oh good. An attack on machine learning models which forces them to adopt a particular point of view. That's great. Can't imagine how that would be used. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/adversarial-ml-attack-that-secretly-gives-a-language-model-a-point-of-view.html
(DIR) Post #AP3tTKTdCI4wGeNn3w by ianbetteridge@mastodon.social
2022-10-29T13:59:51Z
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Just a small reminder that Mastodon is free open-source software maintained by a non-profit. The same non-profit also runs mastodon.social. If you find it of value, you can donate monthly via Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon/about