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landley

@landley@mstdn.jp

Rob does toybox and mkroot, writes linux docs, worked with j-core.org, long ago co-founded Penguicon and Linucon, wrote for Motley Fool, taught at ACC, etc. Trying to learn Japanese and make Android a self-hosting development environment.

He/him. Answers to "they/them" just fine.

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landley ,
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@molly0xfff Are they visualizing monks in monasteries with long scrolls of papyrus calculating SHA1 sums by hand?

Each new block on the master scroll illuminated in gold leaf?

landley , to random
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@pluralistic Another good enshittification example:

https://youtu.be/FDvUSCa7Puw

1:40-5:00 after eMotorworks was acquired by Enel X, an OTA update removed functionality from their electric vehicle charging stations installed in people's homes.

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I wish all the speculative capital being pumped into hyping AI and cryptocurrency could go somewhere useful instead—like grid-scale backup batteries, photovoltaic power farms, desalination plants, high speed passenger rail, and building car-optional cities. (With a portion reserved for maintenance and infrastructure, which are always neglected by cultists who worship economic "efficiency".)

landley ,
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@Madagascar_Sky @cstross The end is coming, in that the Boomers are dying. Who younger than Boomers still thinks capitalism is a good idea? Government shouldn't make a "profit" providing services the same way parents don't make a "profit" raising children. You don't meet friends for drinks because profit, that means you're not really friends.

True capitalsts are sociopaths who don't understand human relationships. They didn't understand libraries, SF conventions, wikipedia, linux...

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@Patrickoldhiker @Madagascar_Sky @cstross Taking the speaker into account, I can't decide whether you've spoken for or against my point.

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@wouterla @cstross @pluralistic @Patrickoldhiker @Madagascar_Sky He already did: https://craphound.com/news/2024/04/14/capitalists-hate-capitalism/

ala https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_465/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_465_-_Capitalists_Hate_Capitalism.mp3

Wadsworth constant 4 minutes.

landley , to random
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Technology doesn't advance when patents are granted, it advances when patents expire.

The first cell phone call was made April 3, 1973. Cell phones took off 20 years later when the patents expired.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/tech/cell-phone-turns-50/index.html

Steve Sasson created the first self-contained digital camera in 1975:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130121194248/http://pluggedin.kodak.com/pluggedin/post/?id=687843

20 years later, the patents expired...

landley , to random
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The ACLU is going after Mastercard's "policies on adult content".

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

Finally. This was from 3 years ago: https://thenib.com/payment-processors-vs-porn/

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The thing about Biden is he's been in Washington for 51 years, and knows how to work the system at "pinball wizard" levels. The man has a black belt in bureaucracy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/31/first-ecuador-now-greece-joe-biden-is-finding-more-and-more-countries-to-help-him-arm-ukraine/

An obscure law lets the president give away $500M of military surplus a year... but he gets to set the clearance price of that surplus. Instead of giving stuff directly to Ukraine, he has other countries declare their old Russian weapons worthless "scrap" which he trades for US replacements.

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Via Emptywheel:

Prince Bonesaw says he'll start jailing executives if they give American voters details about the terms of GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump's employment with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Jordan Fabian:

Saudi Arabia has threatened to imprison the bankers and consultants it works with if they cooperate with a probe by US lawmakers into the planned merger of the PGA Tour with LIV Golf

landley ,
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@GottaLaff I assume from the initials it's "Mr. Bone Saw". MBS.

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