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by mfer 6y ago
Android, in most setups, sends constant data to Google about what you do. Will this now happen with our cars? Google has an opportunity to collect even more data. This could help their data scrapping for surveillance capitalism. If you have
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by mfer 6y ago
I wonder if this means that all of the Ford calls will be regularly sending analytics back to Google, like they do with smartphones. Will someone need a Google account to use parts of their car? If their account is blocked by Google (as oft
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Ford, Google form 'strategic partnership' on cloud services, Android(detroitnews.com)
113 points by mfer 6y ago|188 comments
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by mfer 6y ago
Solid seems like a great technological idea. It empowers people to own their data and give others and apps access to it. This is empowering. But!!!! people want useful things. Things that help them solve problems so they want to pick up tho
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by mfer 6y ago
I have a linux Desktop, Windows, and Mac. I was recently trying to work out how I could do my media handling on the Linux Desktop (KDE). It didn't just work. I tried numerous apps and all of them failed to meet my expectations. My non-
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by mfer 6y ago
Are you suggesting that the stock market and investors are carcinogens?
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by mfer 6y ago
I've read that there are books composed in the form of text messages. People like the short style. The impact of this is that people who read that way end up with lower literacy. Full length books are hard for them to read. The shift i
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by mfer 6y ago
Bringing up moderation is a good point. But, it isn't so simple. Moderation isn't something that's changed. Forums and modern social media both moderate. They do it to varying degrees. Social media moderation comes in multipl
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by mfer 6y ago
Technology shapes conversations and changes in the way technology works has changed the way the conversations have happened. > 10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said &qu
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by mfer 6y ago
Publishers have been seeing their ad revenue decrease. This is why they complain. Companies like Google make billions on ads. A overwhelming majority of Googles income is from ads. It isn't just that Google served new markets or that p
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by mfer 6y ago
Part of this is about the middle men. The NY Times cut off ad exchanges in EU and found it didn't kill their ad business [1]. One thing it did do was cut out the middle companies doing the brokering. Google has made A LOT of money just
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by mfer 6y ago
We need apps built on this technology. It will go a long way to making it succeed and working out the nuances. Interesting tech is interesting. Something that's generally useful or solves a normal problem... that's something peopl
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by mfer 6y ago
With text messages (even though insecure) they cross provider, cross platform, distributed, and interface based so clients and servers could be written. With the new options they are single provider, centralized, and locked in. Matrix is an
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by mfer 6y ago
I can see it now... some companies providing a service where you can have an EU address to register a domain from the UK. These services already exist for other things.
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by mfer 6y ago
So, the issue is the time of day companies decide for their employees to work. Instead of shifting that time we should shift the way we handle time. It's interesting how we try to solve problems.
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by mfer 6y ago
> Oh, and older systems (like 5 year old ones)... surfing the web on an older system can be a pain now because of JS proliferation. This matters because of the poor, the elderly (on a fixed income), and those who aren't in first wor
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by mfer 6y ago
While it works with Rails... some of the parts are just JavaScript and will work with any underlying platform.
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by mfer 6y ago
> But... that's one of the pro's of not having to do the rending cycle on the server. Also caching of framework libraries off CDN's and such. This doesn't save battery life on a device. If someone downloads a few meg
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by mfer 6y ago
It's not just that things are too complicated... the JS being sent to browsers is large and a lot of work. That requires more bandwidth, processing, and power usage on client devices. This eats phone, tablet, and laptop batteries.
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Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration(reuters.com)
3 points by mfer 6y ago|1 comments
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by mfer 6y ago
A lot of people find work to be very satisfying. The issue isn’t one of work but one of many of the jobs we currently have.
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by mfer 6y ago
I think that misses part of the point. WASM meets their feature needs. WASM is at the core of it. But, they needed a widely accessible language to tell people to use. This helps with examples and guidance. They chose AssemblyScript due to t
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by mfer 6y ago
I was reading an article this summer about another possible find under the Great Lakes. The article talks about things submerged in the Great Lakes. From the article [1]... > John O'Shea, professor and curator of the Great Lakes Arc
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by mfer 6y ago
> That feels like an abrogation of responsibility. How often are people who deal with OS packages working on kernel level vulnerabilities or are dealing with microcode for CPUs? If someone is working on libc or libcurl are they supposed
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by mfer 6y ago
Is the docker/container model supposed to be all things to all people? I don't think so. Containers are a building block that let us handle one concern. They are a great tool for some things. But, to expect the app dev concern of
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by mfer 6y ago
> The timeframe in which there was such a thing as an "Ops engineer" is so brief it could be considered a fad I've been working in software since I was a kid. I remember working for an ISP in the dialup days. I saw the sep
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by mfer 6y ago
These are the exact same things and versions listed on the Red Hat managed and curated Operator Hub. I'll say that I poked a couple of them that matter to me to let them know about the security issues. They hadn't even noticed. Ic
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by mfer 6y ago
In the past you had developers who worked on their app code and ops people who are concerned with where it runs. Now, we're moving a bunch of that ops work over to be work of the app dev. That means more context switching and knowledge
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by mfer 6y ago
If I hear what you're saying right... you're saying that someone working in node.js should be concerned with the vulnerabilities in system libraries of the OS that node.js runs in. Bringing up Bazel to deal with system dependencie
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by mfer 6y ago
Since I started looking at images I've seen a lot of issues. Artifact Hub (which lets you find Helm charts, OLM operators, etc) will show scan details when it has enough information. If we look at the operators (and these are available

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