Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Do you ever stop and think how lucky we are that the speed of light is just barely fast enough to not be a massive inconvenience on a planet of our specific size.

Remember Friends:

You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."

This is not possible.
Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.

End-to-end encryption protects us all,
we must fight to keep it ✊🔒

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

More gates

Dumas goes on to “update” and add to Follett’s illustration of the interweaving of multiple perspectives and expertise in design (in the lecture/chapter titled Co-Ordination):

"Michael was driving a car from a company that shows every private residence in the country. But it’s also a company that won’t let us show the car that takes those pictures. In fairness to them, it is their property. If you want to know what the company is, all you have to do is ‘something’ it."

Arrested Development Narrator

#SilentSunday

🎉🍾🕺
YES! FINALLY!
🎉🍾🕺

LTG Link 🇱🇹, Vivi 🇱🇻 and Elron 🇪🇪 are coordinating their timetables to mean you can travel Vilnius-Riga-Tallinn by train

And from 6 January!

#CrossBorderRail

https://www.vivi.lv/lv/izmainas-un-jaunumi/jaunumi/141/no-nakama-gada-pasazieru-vilcienu-satiksmes-savienojums-vilna-riga-tallina/

itch.io is reporting on bsky that their domain has been taken down due to ...well.

Americans hated Jews just as much as they hate Arabs and Mexicans.

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany on June 1936. How quick are we to forget.

Evidence of Crimes in #Syria Must be Protected [EN/AR] https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/evidence-crimes-syria-must-be-protected-enar

The End of the Assad Regime, 1970 to 2024.
Good riddance.

#syria

That’s an amazing overview of all the things that can and will go wrong in online PvP gaming. It covers the range from networking exploits to all the in-game ways that people try to grief or abuse others.

https://wirepair.org/2024/12/03/you-cant-get-more-adversarial-than-pvp-mmorpgs/

A Romanian court annulls the first round of the country’s presidential election after declassified intelligence alleged Russia organized an online campaign to promote the obscure far-right nationalist who won the first round. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/06/romanian-constitutional-court-blocks-presidential-run-off

There's an important lesson to be taken from this mornings killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO… the bicycle is the best mode of transportation in the city. If the killer had tried to escape by car they would have been caught by the police, or might not even have made it to the CEO's hotel on time in the first place! If you want to be on time, ride your bicycle.