Nat Tuck @nat@ferrus.net
Apparently doing the obviously correct thing is politically difficult: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/
Nat Tuck
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Azure IP stack does not cover the FAT patents.
Microsoft is RIGHT NOW taking major legal actions against companies for selling digital cameras which implement FAT.
@kristina I think this may be rlevent to your interests. https://xkcd.com/2048/
Nat Tuck
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so now Cloudflare:
- hosts website's DNS
- reverse-proxies websites
- runs a DNS over HTTPS resolver
- runs an IPFS gateway
Is it just me, or are they positioning themselves to be able to MITM everything?
@marksherman You know about teaching. Are elementary school teachers really trying to teach reading by osmosis? https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read
More stories of irregular elections / ballot tampering in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXvLb_fhPY
After all the dumb things the EU has decided this week, at least they're getting one thing right: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680
Interesting thought: "Free will" is a bad model of the world, and targeted propaganda exposes the weaknesses of that model. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy
Here's an interesting discussion of how moving off centralized platforms in response to their reprehensible actions doesn't really work out:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/
I have a new mathematical model for evaluating investments. It says that mailing me cash in an envelope will give you the best returns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHs8SA1qpk
The UBI argument has been the same for 50 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZKKvG5rQQ
The "market based" health care system in the US costs an extra $6000/family/year for bureaucracy compared to the Canadian system.
re: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/21/countries-arent-businesses.html - Why do private financial firms get to earn interest as a side effect of government spending?
"This is a somewhat advanced, though hardly difficult, topic and is not covered further here."
I'm not sure this writer is clear on the concept of "documentation".
Nat Tuck
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now, before y'all think i'm just beating up on write.as for the purpose of picking winners and losers, consider this: if we embrace write.as, despite it being a proprietary service, what is to stop other vultures from engaging the fediverse community in the same way?
we must resist all proprietary services, especially ones which promise vaguely to be open source "someday", because "someday" will just keep being pushed down the road.
remember that most VCs cut a company's valuation if they embrace FOSS by at least 10%. i'm not saying that's fair or right, because it's not, but it is a practice they do. and, founders always follow the fucking money.
so when a proprietary service is openwashing from day 1, don't believe the hype.
yes, you'll be able to self-host a blog which is compatible with write.as someday, but it won't be their code that gets it done.
we must resist all proprietary services, especially ones which promise vaguely to be open source "someday", because "someday" will just keep being pushed down the road.
remember that most VCs cut a company's valuation if they embrace FOSS by at least 10%. i'm not saying that's fair or right, because it's not, but it is a practice they do. and, founders always follow the fucking money.
so when a proprietary service is openwashing from day 1, don't believe the hype.
yes, you'll be able to self-host a blog which is compatible with write.as someday, but it won't be their code that gets it done.
It's not clear that the US drug approval process exists primarily to serve the public good.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-approves-generic-epipen/story?id=57221884
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector#Market_development
If the US were even slightly interested in democracy, this would have passed by now: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2261
I claim to know something about computers, and I approve this message: https://xkcd.com/2030/
Alex Jones vs. Facebook, and the question of free speech in privately owned public forums: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/08/size-matters.html
