Posts by mhartle@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #Ab1TvnFb79P4fZrXyC by mhartle@mastodon.online
       2023-10-22T08:29:10Z
       
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       @weltraumpirat This reminds me of the "Escalation" trap in Donella H. Meadows "Thinking in Systems", where actors in an overall system are locked in an ever-escalating, runaway cycle which is a hard, "policy-resistant" problem; negotiating a deescalation out or unilateral deescalation in the hope of breaking the cycle listed as approaches.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcCeeS7CHKSC8mWAee by mhartle@mastodon.online
       2023-11-26T12:12:56Z
       
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       I recently noticed I can no longer share the screen of my #Pixel6a smartphone with our #LG Smart TV with its inbuilt #Chromecast.I then made the mistake of installing #LGThinQ, setting up an account, granting fine-grained location access rights, enabling WiFi connectivity right next to the RJ45 cable network connectivity because the app needs the device to be on exactly the same network as the smartphone, preparing to register the TV and *then* reading these terms & conditions.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcCeeTIvrBR1pT13aK by mhartle@mastodon.online
       2023-11-26T12:20:44Z
       
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       Given that sharing the mobile screen on TV once worked perfectly without a hitch, having to install special apps trying to become my one-for-all dashboard, grant permissions like crazy, configure the living hell to accommodate shitty apps and agree to TOS of a surveillance capitalists wet dreams to basically pay rent for a feature I had already paid for, this is a prime example of #enshittification by #Google and #LG as explained by @pluralistic.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcCeeU4R0ZQsCnEzcu by mhartle@mastodon.online
       2023-11-26T12:29:52Z
       
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       Once one has learned about the #enshittification lifecycle of products and services, it shows up everywhere, and it is like trying to build stuff out of crumbling sand.I am *so* fed up to be handled as consumer cattle. I want to understand how cooperatives / non-profits can drive technology standards / libraries / stuff under a scheme that makes enshittification hard(er). I need to (re)read more Doctorow stuff.
       
 (DIR) Post #Acu2UjtE67bv9pidzk by mhartle@mastodon.online
       2023-12-17T14:14:16Z
       
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       @todayilearned "Ozone in the atmosphere isn’t all packed into a single layer at a certain altitude above the Earth’s surface; it’s dispersed. [...] Satellite sensors and other ozone-measuring devices measure the total ozone concentration for an entire column of the atmosphere. The Dobson Unit is a way to describe how much ozone there would be in the column if it were all squeezed into a single layer."