Posts by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #A4AgUvC3wOXt1d2J4y by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-02-11T15:34:03Z
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Instagram now censoring private conversations. It's almost like they are trying to convince everyone to get off centralized platforms for places like mastodon. https://reclaimthenet.org/instagram-hate-speech-private-dms/
(DIR) Post #A4Tc0Jq4xFoDQqvoqe by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-02-20T20:17:53Z
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I sincerely hope that Australia does not buckle to Facebook and Google and shows them that they are not above the law
(DIR) Post #A4ZFoSPSEPvMUlB08u by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-02-23T14:03:28Z
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I realize that the amazing success of the US was that it was the FOSS version of government. Federated and decentralized. The constant push to centralize everything to the federal government is the source of all its failures. Centralization fails in every field, not just software.
(DIR) Post #A4kiDW1yq59gQCUcmu by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-03-01T01:02:31Z
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Looking into VPNs and realizing that thinking about your ISP is spying on you seems almost quaint now. Its like that worry was started by the surveillance tech industry of Facebook, Google, Amazon to distract us from the inherent rotten core of their business model.
(DIR) Post #A4n9NaOkXho1wO5bjk by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-03-01T23:22:45Z
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Any suggestions for a good minimalist WordPress theme (free) for a blog?
(DIR) Post #A5RC3v7ZdasCJ3bjhw by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-03-21T13:32:39Z
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When you lose corporate media coming to your defense, you know you have a problemhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/03/20/stop-using-google-chrome-on-apple-iphone-12-pro-max-ipad-and-macbook-pro/?sh=522b3f024d08
(DIR) Post #A5fo9GB6LoRk8kILUO by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-03-28T14:23:27Z
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In case you needed yet one more reason to question the motives and objectives of Big Tech:https://protonvpn.com/blog/apple-blocks-app-updates/
(DIR) Post #A5gDiExNNiBhLEeSki by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-03-28T02:19:01Z
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Inspired by others on here with #100DaysToOffload I decided to install #wordpress on my self hosted server and fire up a blog: https://blog.sheftel.net/I even found out you can have a plug-in that published every post automatically to ActivityPub (here is mine: @rsheftel )Thanks for the motivation
(DIR) Post #A5t5rCGTJJQlf6yCi8 by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-04T00:31:25Z
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Its sad how far the ACLU has fallen to near irrelevance. No principals anymorehttps://fortune.com/2021/04/02/aclu-shares-data-facebook-third-parties-digital-privacy/
(DIR) Post #A69A3TvsxJ76HMoTei by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-11T19:42:04Z
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@fatboy as a business owner I could never imagine trusting google with business important tech. thier history of shutting down services is too vast, and the fact that their core business model is to take private data for their own use is disturbing as a private individual, but a fiduciary issue as a business
(DIR) Post #A6CgrUdWOQAMwrziVc by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-13T12:33:52Z
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@metalune blame the politicians who allow their abusive business model to exist
(DIR) Post #A6Cre4kWQboqOO4cOu by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-13T14:34:42Z
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@metalune think of this like a collective action problem, and the government is like a union to let your voice be heard. Read Upton Sinclar's The Jungle... you are the worked and Google is the abusive meat packing employer. You need a union to have your voice heard.
(DIR) Post #A6fgb4fKitnG6JrY4u by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-27T12:17:37Z
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@person I think it's a great platform for longer form discussion
(DIR) Post #A6iShCPU1jMNyOM5Fw by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-21T18:52:52Z
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I think they can all just stop now with the spying on citizens.https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html
(DIR) Post #A6iU9FPsXhztMMTjUG by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-04-28T20:42:15Z
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@unl0ckd This seems completely reasonable to me. Politics aside, institutions of great wealth and privilege, like universities should contribute back to the society that makes them possible. Also reasonable would be using the great wealth to rebate back to the students that are now mired in student loan debt.
(DIR) Post #A7DYEiGX8FEpzzj71U by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-05-13T20:22:14Z
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@urusan what in the world do they do with close to 9 billion dollars every year?!?!?
(DIR) Post #A8dyGiwkoBkfLu4moa by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-06-25T12:08:37Z
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@TheFuzzStone how so?
(DIR) Post #AAFKK1udcwYgliqLvU by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-06-25T12:06:29Z
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@jeroen @snikket_im @matrix one benefit of XMPP over Matrix (which is also excellent) is a much larger constellation of open source projects. While matrix is open source, the reality is that if the matrix corporation decides to change direction the protocol will cease being developed. Its open source via the benevolence of the matrix company. XMPP is truly public domain, no one ones it
(DIR) Post #ABOsHRZ9f7oJFIbyLY by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-09-15T22:06:55Z
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Mozilla consistently shows it is against free and open principals.https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/mozilla-vs-bitcoin
(DIR) Post #ABOspRKV30cmMHy2AS by rsheftel@fosstodon.org
2021-09-15T23:03:16Z
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@werwolf the amount of harm to the environment to protect dollar homogeny is far greater