Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)

@cwebber @eloquence Isn't there like... already this whole network free from billionaire control that half this list of people has already been on?

So Google and Facebook's "Jedi Blue" collusion contract is finally public, and they actually explicitly included a termination clause for "the law found out about the contract".

When you create a contract that you explicitly know is illegal and has to have such a clause, everyone involved needs to go to prison. #Google #Facebook #JediBlue #Antitrust

@Gargron I appreciate that Blu-rays can't be taken away from me, and their DRM is pretty suitably broken generally. so it preserves ownership at reasonable quality. But yeah playing on a PC is incredibly annoying, paid software is the most reliable way to do it, and 4K Blu-rays are no longer supported at all because the DRM relied on a deprecated processor feature.

The other day I was at an overstock/cheap discount stuff store... and I figured, hey, this is a good time to grab some nearly-worthless earbuds to replace the ones I got for free on an airplane flight ten years ago that finally just straight up broke. I prefer the ones I use at work to be as dumb as possible for hardware supply chain reasons.

All of the ones they had on sale were Bluetooth wireless AirPod knock-offs. All of them. It's that hard to get a dang headphone plug set now.

@GossiTheDog It's secure because it doesn't work.

@QasimRashid I can't wait to see how the Supreme Court contorts the law to somehow allow this.

@zens "macrame skittle" is an underrated descriptor more people should use.

In case any non-Americans want to know how it's going, our next President has selected a pedophile for attorney general.

#MattGaetz #NotKidding

@Gargron It baffles us here too. We're sorry.

@VeryBadLlama This is horrifying.

@WarnerCrocker Mine is coming today it looks like.

@mcc I wanted to argue with this. Like I like both MySQL and Virtualbox. But I also liked both of them before Oracle had anything to do with them... and I certainly couldn't pin anything Oracle did that actually made them *better* in any way.

I feel like something something their ERP platforms at a certain scale have to make *someone* happy? Right? Somehow?

@sam @BeAware From my understanding, a large portion of it is legal. The fediverse spews a lot of data in a lot of directions very casually, and a lot of the individuals who run servers can be kinda fast and loose about that... but to someone like Facebook that could be a multibillion dollar liability.

@BeAware This would be nice but it also requires a lot more forethought: The domain is the least important part of a server. It's direct access to everyone's data, being handed to someone the users did not entrust it to.

I sort of wish there was a trustworthy "service" one could hand-off an otherwise-shutting-down instance to in order to keep it alive with clear accountability or something, but if people didn't think about that up front... shutting down might be the "safest" choice.

@arose62 Mastodon doesn't assume anything about the posting language at all. When you are writing a post, you can specify what language you posted in. When your language and the language the poster claims their post was in differ, Mastodon offers the translate button.

Unfortunately, people often do not set the right language when they post.

@WarnerCrocker It's stunning people still believe Elon can commit to anything. He and Trump are truly alike in that.

@sindarina As a side benefit, Elon Musk is so mad about this he's leaving California!

@jik @ryanc Like... you've heard about this company called Google, right? That one that's under investigation for breaking the rules in basically every single country, over and over, and straight up cheesing regulators or paying them off?

Come on, man. Let's revoke Google first, then worry about Entrust. Oh wait, we can't, Google unilaterally controls the web.

@ryanc The problem is this entire exchange highlights what's wrong with PKI: Entrust demonstrates they are focused on functional, practical security that is stable enough for people to rely on. Google is looking for excuses to break everything on brown M&Ms. I know which company I think understands how to make security that actually works, and it's not the one bullying Entrust. (When Mozilla addresses their HSTS problem, they'll be worth talking about.)

@jik @ryanc Apart from some posturing by the root programs, it doesn't sound like their was any technical deficiencies on Entrust's part (when forced, they addressed the revocation promptly). They disagreed on the right approach, and Google, as a monopoly, has decided to punish them for it.